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Joe asked for some chicks who are dicks and we gave him Veronica Mars (from her eponymous movie) and Isabel Spellman (from The Spellman Files)

Joseph delivers a devilish quiz where he gives Randy and Amy the names of two characters and asks them to guess the actor who played both. It's completely unfair!

Episode 31 and we have a guest host! Amy's off galivanting in Europe so we brought in previous guest host Becca Gross. She chose the theme of Hollywood Scandals, giving us a chance to revel in the dirt of Hollywood past.

Joe's chosen "The Cat's Meow" as the movie, which is a "semi-true story" about a murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

Randy's picked Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers with Lionel Friedman. It's a dishy account of one man's sexual adventures, and the others he helped arrange, in the Hollywood of the 40s, 50s, and 60s.

We're discussing the movie "The Blue Gardenia" and the book, "Later, at the Bar"

It's a wordy challenge this time, with movie titles all mixed up. (And with some new movie plots that Hollywood should seriously consider.)

Randy challenged Joe and Amy to find works with nonlinear narratives (think Pulp Fiction, Memento, etc.)

Joe subjected us to JCVD and we didn't come close to hating it! Amy had us reading Michael Cunningham's The Hours and we didn't hate it either! Banner week at TIYLI HQ.

Finally, a new episode! Randy's on vacation, so we have the most excellent guest host in this week to chat with us about Shirley's Jackson's "We Have Always Lived In The Castle" and the 1995 movie of Persuasion.

This week we look at alternate histories; Amy chose The Arcanum for the novel and Randy chose Inglorious Basterds for the movie.

Also discussed: 6 Feet Under, Bomb Girls, Manhattan, Mad Men, Gods of Gotham and Arthur & George.

It's Randy's turn to bedevil us as he breaks our brains with a quiz involving chapter titles.

It's Mystery Week! We plumb into the shadowy figures and devilish plots behind the 1998 movie Zero Effect and the 1997 novel Garnethill. We also discuss what we've been enjoying and look forward to next time when we'll be talking Alternate History.