Try It, You'll Like it

We discuss Peter Jackson's "The Frighteners" and Elna Baker's memoir The New York Mormon Singles Halloween Dance.

Under discussion: QUEEN OF VERSAILLES and SCRUPLES. With guest host Diane Trap.

We're back! This week, with special guest Becca Gross, we talked about College. The movie was 2002's Drumline and the novel was Pamela Dean's.

Also discussed:

Amy's been enjoying NCIS, NCIS: LA and Person of Interest as part of her summer of procedurals.

Joseph was really into the new movie Turbo Kid.

Becca is into the return of Drunk History and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Also mentioned this week: Brokenwood Mysteries, Centerstage and 106 & Park.

Next episode: Conspicuous Consumption. The movie is The Queen Of Versailles, streaming on Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon and the novel is Judith Krantz's Scruples.

Into Music: "Buckeye Battle Cry"

Outro Music: "Tam Lin" by Fairport Convention, off of the album Liege & Lief

Joe befuddles Amy and Randy with questions about fictional towns and cities in movies, books and TV.

This week's show is "courtroom" dramas so we're watching THE LINCOLN LAWYER and reading Dominick Dunne's ANOTHER CITY, NOT MY OWN.

It's stories of mothers and daughters this week as we watched "The Joy Luck Club" (1993) and read "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" (2012).

Also discussed:

"The Royal We," Alabama Shakes "Sound & Color," "Spring" (2014), TED Talks and "One For The Money".

Opening music: Mr. T, "Treat Your Mother Right".

Closing Music: Taylor Swift, "The Best Day".

If only they'd had a cell phone... From the horrors of ROOM by Emma Donoghue to the silliness of teen film "Can't Hardly Wait"

It's True Crime Week as we talk the Susan Orlean book "The Orchid Thief" and the 1988 movie "The Thin Blue Line." We also talk Mad Men, The Americans and superhero TV.

It's a grab bag of trivia relating, in one way or another, to Amy's birthday. (She made the quiz.) Sir Elton John, who shares Amy's birthday, is but one of the categories.