So with season 4, Jack Ryan comes to an end. In the end, the show has always struck me as a competent, enjoyable, espionage thriller with likable characters, but fairly by the numbers in terms of execution. There has never been anything that has stuck me as 'wow' about it, but I have always enjoyed it. I think Season 1 was probably still my favorite. I think Season 1 and Season 3 were the best seasons. Season 4 was good, but due to reduced episode count, it felt less fleshed out than previous seasons. I didn't quite completely understand the various intricacies of the criminal organization. Season 2 was the weakest because I think it fell into the tropes of Jack Ryan seeking revenge, and in general the story was the least interesting. I think the show benefited by a likable group of actors in key roles. John Krasinski was consistently strong. He is very innately likable and doesn't come off as a superhero. Wendell Pierce as Jack Greer was excellent throughout. Michael Kelly as Mike November was a standout for me. Betty Gabriel as Elizabeth Wright lent a formidable presence in the last 2 seasons. Michael Pena was a big boost for the show in the final season, as Domingo Chavez. Abbie Cornish had a relatively thankless role as Cathy Mueller but she also leaves a mark and she has good chemistry with John Krasinski and was able to be seamless reintegrated into the show, after being absent for seasons 2 and 3. All in all, I quite liked the show. I am glad it didn't overstretch its welcome, even though I would have enjoyed another season.
Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket - List of the Ladies!
As promised below is a full list of all 130 women in the Hot Vintage TV Women's Tournament! Thank you to everyone who submitted their favs!
Just a brief bit of cleanup before the list. Thank you for all the submissions. If your submission didn't make it into the bracket or some of your propaganda isn't used know that I still appreciated the submission even if we weren't able to use it. Some things got cut for being outside the bounds of the tournament, some things got cut because the links were broken, etc. Anything I wasn't sure about got brought to family and friends for a second opinion. I did my best to keep as much in as possible but some things just ended up leaning too far outside of our criteria. If you notice some stuff that seems outside the criteria slip by it's because I tried to be very generous so as long as something wasn't obviously outside of our time period or rules I usually gave it a pass.
Anyway, I am working on the bracket as we speak and apologize in advance cause I don't think there's any way to make round 1 completely painless, as you'll see we have a pretty stacked line-up so I'm excited to see how things work out! Enjoy and see you all on Monday April 15th for round one of the Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket!
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the dreaded Clanton and McLaury gangs.

Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
Wyatt Earp: Kevin Costner
Doc Holliday: Dennis Quaid
Nicholas Earp: Gene Hackman
James Earp: David Andrews
Morgan Earp: Linden Ashby
Ike Clanton: Jeff Fahey
Josie Marcus: Joanna Going
Sheriff Johnny Behan: Mark Harmon
Virgil Earp: Michael Madsen
Allie Earp: Catherine O’Hara
Ed Masterson: Bill Pullman
Big Nose Kate: Isabella Rossellini
Bat Masterson: Tom Sizemore
Bessie Earp: JoBeth Williams
Mattie Blaylock: Mare Winningham
Mr. Sutherland: James Gammon
Frank McLaury: Rex Linn
John Clum: Randle Mell
Tom McLaury: Adam Baldwin
Urilla Sutherland: Annabeth Gish
Curly Bill Brocius: Lewis Smith
Young Wyatt: Ian Bohen
Virginia Earp: Betty Buckley
Lou Earp: Alison Elliott
Sherm McMasters: Todd Allen
Francis O’Rourke: Mackenzie Astin
Warren Earp: Jim Caviezel
Mrs. Sutherland: Karen Grassle
Frank Stillwell: John Dennis Johnston
Sally: Téa Leoni
Ed Ross: Martin Kove
Bob Hatch: Jack Kehler
Pete Spence: Kirk Fox
Johnny Ringo: Norman Howell
Marshal Fred White: Boots Southerland
Indian Charlie: James ‘Scotty’ Augare
Billy Clanton: Gabriel Folse
Billy Claiborne: Kris Kamm
Judge Spicer: John Lawlor
John Shanssey: Michael McGrady
Dr. Seger: Ben Zeller
Stable Hand: Rockne Tarkington
Mayor Wilson: David Doty
Gyp Clements: Matt O’Toole
Saddle Tramp: Brett Cullen
Danny: Owen Roizman
Gambler: Lawrence Kasdan
McGee: Matt Beck
Film Crew:
Costume Design: Colleen Atwood
Original Music Composer: James Newton Howard
Producer: Kevin Costner
Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
Production Design: Ida Random
Producer: Lawrence Kasdan
Executive Producer: Charles Okun
Director of Photography: Owen Roizman
Producer: Jim Wilson
Casting: Jennifer Shull
Editor: Carol Littleton
Art Direction: Gary Wissner
Set Designer: Charlie Daboub
Key Costumer: Barry Francis Delaney
Set Designer: Barry Chusid
Music Editor: Jim Weidman
Supervising Sound Editor: Stu Bernstein
Camera Operator: Ian Fox
Executive Producer: Michael Grillo
Hair Supervisor: Marlene D. Williams
Assistant Art Director: Gershon Ginsburg
Executive Producer: Dan Gordon
Camera Operator: Bill Roe
Foley: John Murray
Script Supervisor: Anne Rapp
Second Unit Director of Photography: Richard Bowen
Set Designer: Tom Reta
Dialogue Editor: Lewis Goldstein
Executive Producer: Jon Slan
Makeup Artist: Francisco X. Pérez
Stunts: Gary McLarty
Visual Effects Producer: Robert Stadd
Chief Lighting Technician: Ian Kincaid
Still Photographer: Ben Glass
Dialogue Editor: James Matheny
Costume Supervisor: Cha Blevins
Foley: Dan O’Connell
Property Master: William A. Petrotta
Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Grieve
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Rick Kline
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell
Construction Coordinator: Greg John Callas
Boom Operator: Joel Shryack
ADR Supervisor: Jessica Gallavan
Hairstylist: Elle Elliott
Dialogue Editor: Alison Fisher
Key Makeup Artist: Gerald Quist
Makeup Supervisor: Michael Mills
ADR Editor: Joe Dorn
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Bobby Mackston
Key Costumer: Ruby K. Manis
Key Grip: Tim Ryan
Location Manager: Paul Hargrave
Key Hair Stylist: Dorothy D. Fox
Steadicam Operator: Rusty Geller
ADR Editor: Stephen Janisz
Rigging Gaffer: Kim Kono
Dolly Grip: David L. Merrill
Costume Supervisor: Le Dawson
Key Costumer: James M. George
Casting Associate: Phil Poulos
Casting Associate: Elizabeth Shull
Movie Reviews:
GenerationofSwine: Tombstone was a different beast, and that sort of overshadows this, given that one tries to be more accurate and the other goes for entertainment.
Take Wyatt Earp as a biopic and it is a superb and fair film. Compare it to Tombstone which was more of a Western and it’s lacking the flair.
However, it ends abruptly, and it is miscast. Cosner (and i am a fan) doesn’t really make a good Earp. Dennis Quaid who I am also a fan of, doesn’t make a good Doc. This was 1994, in the 80s I might have a dif...
CGI & VFX Breakdowns: "Jack Ryan Season 3" - by Goodbye Kansas | TheCGBros
Check out this revealing VFX Breakdown "Jack Ryan Season 3" - by Goodbye Kansas from the talented team at Goodbye Kansas. In season three, Jack Ryan is on the run from the CIA and those he is investigating. The season begins in Rome, where Ryan discovers the Sokol Project plot and goes on the run. Betty Gabriel joins the cast as Elizabeth Wright, the Chief of Station, who awards Jack and Greer medals of honor for averting nuclear war.
Here’s a look at the life of former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Birth date: January 29, 1970
Birth place: Janesville, Wisconsin
Birth name: Paul Davis Ryan
Father: Paul M. Ryan, an attorney
Mother: Elizabeth “Betty” (Hutter) Ryan Douglas
Marriage: Janna (Little) Ryan (December 2, 2000-present)
Children: Liza, Charlie, Sam
Education: Miami University (Ohio), B.A., 1992
Religion: Roman…
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CLOSURE — Augustus Dunne, Joe Keery, penned by J
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Betty White, the last member of the Golden Girls, died on December 31, 2021. Let’s look back with fondness on her time with the show, and what she brought to the character of Rose Nylund.
Back in St. Olaf...
Well, this is it, isn’t it? Our very own Stay Golden Sunday Very Special Episode. The great Betty White, last surviving member of the main cast of The Golden Girls, died on December 31. She was just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. It’s really, truly the end of an era and she will be missed so much by all of us.
The logical side of my brain has always known Betty White��s death would almost certainly happen before I reached the end of this column. I’m barely halfway through the second of seven seasons. But the emotional side of me was absolutely, irrationally hoping she would live forever. So I never prepared anything, and I’m writing this SGS mostly off the cuff.
It seems I wasn’t the only one, either. Her agent, Jeff Witjas, told People, “Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever.” One of my favorite memes is just a picture of her that says, “We need to start thinking about what kind of world we’re going to leave behind for Betty White.”
White was, by every single account I’ve been able to find, an exceptional human being -- an animal rights activist, an anti-racist crusader, a staunch LGBTQ+ ally (the latter two in times when being so was even more difficult and dangerous than it is now). She remained funny, sassy, and endearing right to the end, teasing Ryan Reynolds in one of her final interviews.
So instead of an episode recap this week, let’s take a look at the extraordinary life of Betty White, her role as Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls, and her most extraordinary moments on the show.
“The older you get, the better you get . . . unless you’re a banana.”
I wish I could go over all the specifics of Betty White’s extraordinary life and career, but I’ll stick to the basics. She was born on January 17, 1922 in Illinois, and lived in California during the Great Depression. In case you ever wonder how far back her animal activism goes, apparently she originally wanted to be a forest ranger. Sadly, it was not a career open to women at the time. She later served as a volunteer during World War II.
After discovering her interest in performing, she began her career on the radio and even appeared on an experimental transmission -- meaning she was on TV before it was even officially a “thing.” She eventually transitioned fully to TV with the show Life with Elizabeth. She apparently became the first woman to produce a sitcom with that show, as well as the first to have control both in front of and behind the camera, or at least according to Wikipedia. She beat even Lucille Ball in that regard, which is absolutely something worth remembering. The two were also good friends.
She later became regular panelist on popular game shows, and would become even more well-known on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She played Sue Ann Nivens, a cynical, man-eating parody of the sickly sweet homemaker women who appeared in other sitcoms. I think she’s probably best summarized by this clip.
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I swear this woman could make a marble statue laugh. She also, over the course of this time, had several iterations of her own show called, appropriately, The Betty White Show.
White met her third husband, Allen Ludden, at a filming of the game show Password in 1961. She frequently described Ludden as the love of her life, and remained with him until his death in 1981. She never remarried after that, as she said she’d already had her perfect love story. Reportedly, she kept a photo of Ludden on her bedside table and would blow him a kiss every morning.
Because this is a Golden Girls column, I’m going to focus on her role in the show and how she got it, but I seriously cannot overstate just how incredible this woman’s life and career is. Let’s be clear, we’re not just mourning the woman who played Rose Nylund. We’re mourning one of the most interesting pioneers in the history of television and entertainment. I also want to salute her for choosing to focus on said career over having children, even divorcing her second husband, Lane Allen, because he wanted kids and she didn’t. For the time period that was, if you’ll pardon the expression, pretty ballsy of her.
Anyway, White was approached originally to audition for the role of Blanche, as that character seemed the closest to her previous role as Sue Ann. Rue McClanahan, who was at the time best known for playing the ditzy Vivian on Maude, was shortlisted for the role of Rose. Neither woman was terribly enthused about their selected role, but they loved the script and wanted to be part of it. It was Jay Sandrich, the director of the pilot episode, who made possibly one of the greatest decisions in television history: He asked Rue and Betty to read for each other’s parts.
McClanahan loved the role of Blanche and had wanted to play her all along, but White had to be convinced that Rose was the role for her. Sandrich basically described Rose as the ultimate innocent, who takes everything literally and doesn’t have a devious bone in her body. According to White (via Golden Girls Forever), “And when he said that, it made sense for me... And Rue took Blanche and went with her where I never would have had the guts to go. So it just worked out beautifully.”
Not only was this a great decision for the two characters and actresses, apparently it was instrumental in getting Bea Arthur, the last to be added to the main cast, on board with the show. When Rue, who’d been asked by Susan Harris to help persuade her, called her, Bea said she had no interest in doing, “Maude and Vivian meet Sue Ann Nivens.” Rue responded, “That’s not the way we’re going to play it, Bea. I’m going to play the Sue Ann Nivens vamp, and Betty’s going to play the Vivian role.” That made Arthur take notice.
The pilot episode was filmed on April 17, 1985 in front of a live audience at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. Betty White, along with all her costars, captured the attention of the whole world that day. The pilot was filmed twice in front of two separate groups of people, but both times they got huge laughs and everyone immediately knew this was a hit.
“That moose not only raised Little Yiminiy -- he put him through medical school!”
Betty White as Rose Nylund is, hands down, one of the funniest performances ever aired on television. I mean, let’s completely bare our biases here: Every single character on The Golden Girls is easily in the top 10 of all TV characters (my personal top 4, honestly). They’re a perfect combination of well-cast actresses and excellent writers. But focusing on Rose specifically, there’s something truly special about her.
Rose is, for one, a character who’s unfailingly kind and lovely. She’s charitably minded, and has a nice word to say about almost everyone. She’s a comforting and warm presence, even when she’s only the tertiary character in the episode. She’s almost always the one interacting with animals on set (which I have to believe was something Betty insisted on), whether it be dogs, pigs or chickens.
It’s because of that caring nature that the few times Rose seriously loses her temper, or where she discards her scruples for whatever reason, are among the most memorable in the show’s history. The first time Rose showed there was more to her is in Season 1′s “The Triangle,” where she managed to trap a philanderer into a public confession with only seconds of planning. Most people remember Rose’s response to a question about her leaking roof:
DOROTHY: *seeing Rose come out of her room with buckets* Hi Rose. The ceiling in your room leaking too?
ROSE: No, Dorothy. I just finished milking the cow I keep in my closet. Gee, with only three hours’ sleep, I can be as bitchy as you.
Make no mistake, when Rose was done fucking around, Betty had an amazing way of riding the line between keeping true to the character while also giving her a glorious moment to shine. My favorite moment out of all of them is in Season 3, Episode 1, “Old Friends.”
I haven’t yet written my SGS about this episode, so I’ll keep a recap to a minimum, but suffice to say Rose’s teddy bear is mistakenly given to a girl, who uses the opportunity to try and milk the Girls for some blackmail money. At the end of the episode, Rose at first starts to say that perhaps it’s time she let her teddy go, and then shows the child in the best way just how little weight she has to throw around.
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Even Rose’s flaws were hilarious: For starters, she had a mean competitive streak that frequently put her at odds with the other Girls. It started in Season 1 with “The Competition,” when she showed her first sign of a darker side during a bowling tournament. Later she would somehow finagle her way into a coaching role around children -- perhaps not a good idea given her nature.
Another major flaw was her sometimes toxic positivity. Not everyone was comfortable being around someone so cheery, and at her worst Rose would not accept that she wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea. In Season 5, Episode 9, “Comedy of Errors,” she harasses a coworker who makes it clear he’d prefer that she leave him alone -- where we learn that Rose apparently puts on puppet shows at work. Because of course she does.
“You know the rules. I get the rose.”
But it’s not just the silly stuff for which we remember Rose. To be sure, Betty White was fantastic at that kind of comedy -- the wide-eyed innocence and the occasional flashes of deviousness and rage. But her best moments on the show were when things slowed down, and she got to show that she could absolutely make you cry.
I have a whole plethora of scenes I could use for this example, but I’ll use three just to keep this brief. First, the scene in Season 2′s “Piece of Cake,” when she recounts her final birthday in St. Olaf. Rose explains to her late husband Charlie that she’s decided to move away from Minnesota so she can move on with her life. Betty White said in interviews that she put a lot of her love for Allen Ludden into Rose’s love for Charlie. That moment at the end of the scene when she tells Charlie she loves him and misses him as her voice breaks . . . well, I refuse to believe anyone out there couldn’t be touched by the real love and devotion Betty is showing us at that moment.
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The second scene is Rose’s despair during the events of “Rose Fights Back.” I’m not exactly sure why (though I have theories) Rose was often saddled with episodes about societal problems, but she got no less than two episodes about ageism in the job market. When she hits her lowest moment, she describes seeing herself in the person of a local homeless woman. It’s one of those moments when Rose, for all her bubbly good nature, revealed she’s a lot more aware of the ills of the world than she generally communicates. She finishes with the line, “God, what am I going to do?” and, as someone who’s been without a job or prospects in my life, my heart breaks for her.
The third scene is in “Ebbtide’s Revenge,” after the death of Phil. Rose doesn’t play much of a part in the episode until the very end. That’s when she reminds everyone that she was a grief counselor, and within minutes manages to resolve the situation between Sophia and her daughter-in-law Angela. Granted, she does so with a rather tortured St. Olaf story, but she delivers some of the most compassionate, sensible, and intelligent lines on the show to Sophia, and it’s enough to finally break the emotional stalemate. Betty was excellent at portraying Rose’s smarter moments but, even more than that, she was excellent at showing how Rose was, at heart, just the best kind of a person.
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“I know no one wants to hear one of my stories right now.”
Let’s wrap this up with a compilation of some of Betty White’s best moments on the show.