Movie stars, criminals and tuna salad.

Attention classic movie fans … December is William Powell Month on TCM and I’m so excited I could jump out of my skin! They’ll be showing nonstop William Powell films every Thursday all month long, and the list includes dozens of my all-time favorites — i.e., Love Crazy and Life with Father — plus a bunch of rarely-seen titles, such as: The Key (1934), The Road to Singapore (1931; NOT one of the Hope/Crosby pictures), Lawyer Man (1932), Sherlock Holmes (1922 silent with John Barrymore), High Pressure (1932), The Emperor’s Candlesticks (1937) and a Thin Man marathon on December 22. Click here for all the details so you can program your DVR.

This is seriously better than a Doris Day festival because Sam enjoys William Powell as much as I do. He has no use for Doris Day movies whatsoever.

In other news, I’m pleased to report that the former governor of Illinois, mop-top sleazebag Rod Blagojevich, pictured below, will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Zagel on Tuesday, December 6.

Most of you may already know that Blagojevich was convicted by a Federal court back in June on 17 of 20 corruption and racketeering charges, but sentencing apparently was postponed while his partners in crime were on trial. The last, William Cellini, was just sentenced to 10 years in prison. With any luck Blago will receive even more and I won’t have to look at his screwy face for the rest of my life. Hold a good thought, okay?

And now I think I’ll smoosh up a pile of tuna salad for an early dinner, which is a smart move on my part because I’ve got a wonderful OXO food mill (see below) that I don’t use often enough and a big container of hard-boiled eggs in the fridge. The two best features of a food mill are: 1) it’s easier to clean than a food processor; and 2) it weighs less than a Volkswagen. You can buy your own on Amazon.com or Zappos.com.

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