In Such Good Company; Rewinding the '80s; The Bullet that Missed

I caught part of "Gone with the Wind" on TV one night, and afterwards they showed the hilarious sketch from Carol's show, the one where they spoof "GWTW" and she's wearing the curtain rod dress (if you haven't seen it, look it up). So I decided to read her book and it was a lot of fun. Plus now I'm watching "The Carol Burnett Show" on one of the million streaming services I subscribe to. Such a great show! I watched "Mama's Family" when I was a kid, and that came out of a sketch from her show. 

When I was younger I always got Carol and Vicki Lawrence mixed up and it's easy to see how. Vicki got her start on Carol's show at 18, fresh out of high school. They were looking to cast someone to play Carol's younger sister in some of the sketches and Vicki looked so much like a young Carol she was a perfect fit. The show had so many amazing guest stars: Tim Conway was a treasure, and Paul Lynde, Jonathan Winters, the list goes on and on. She obviously enjoyed working with so many funny, talented people. 

I was a bit trepidatious going into this one because so often the author makes it needlessly political, but Malahy didn't, which was refreshing. And it was a lot of fun to reminisce about the 1980s films. My parents didn't believe in watching kids' movies, so my sister and I saw a lot of these films as children: "Risky Business" was a favorite, as was "Beverly Hills Cop". I had no idea what was going on in "Risky Business", by the way, I just thought it was hysterical to watch Tom Cruise dancing to Bob Seger in his underwear and then running to catch that glass egg of his Mom's. The rest of it went over my head. This book brought back a lot of fond memories. 

 

Osman's third Thursday Murder Club, "The Bullet that Missed" was good. 

Joyce suggests that the club investigate a murder from a decade ago: Bethany Waits, who was a news broadcaster. She supposedly drove her car off a cliff but the body was never found. She was digging into a case of VAT fraud and about to expose the perpetrator. 

I can't really say too much more without giving it away, but the prime suspects in Bethany's murder start dying and members of the club are in danger.