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Tuesdays at my house are dubbed "Hughsdays," and we make pizza and desserts to enjoy while we watch Hugh Laurie and the rest of the Fox drama's cast tackle their latest medical mysteries.
Until "American Idol" season, that is. Then "House" gets shoved aside by the network, leaving its millions of devoted fans empty and frustrated. Even when I was an "Idol" enthusiast, I still got grumpy with Fox for bumping such a great show. And I'm amazed it still has any viewers at all, given how erratically it's aired. On again, off again. It wasn't on tonight, for example, so I don't have a happy "House" tape to go home to.
That's okay, though -- this one time -- because instead of a "Hughsday," we have a "Date with Kate" night.
I've mentioned before that we're Kate Winslet fans. But we couldn't bring ourselves to see "The Holiday" in the theater because not even our ardent fandom could overcome our chagrin at the presence of the obnoxious Cameron Diaz and Jude Law in this film. There are going to be Diaz-Law sex scenes, ew. Add to that the reviews I'd read of Diaz' "spastic" performance and, well, we just couldn't do it.
It came out on DVD today, though, and we're going to give it a try. There's no "House" this evening, and it's a Kate Winslet flick, and besides -- there's always fast-forward if it gets really annoying.