If you remember either, you have to remember both, and to do that you’d need to be a card-carrying member of Medicare. But in their time, the age of the studio star system, everyone who was anyone in American movies read their columns before anything else. They were the Queens of Gossip, malicious and malign.

Believe me, I have no intention of joining that journalistic genre. So when I pass along overlooked or obscure happenings at The Glasshouse in the City All About Algae, I’m after truly newsworthy items.

So here’s a hot tip: we’re getting closer to a major opinion.

Judge Courtney D. (“CD”) Jones is lining up exhibits and briefings in Marc Lore and Carolyn Lore, Docket No. 8259-23, filed 7/9/26. You remember Marc’s famous Squawkbox moment with Walmart Pres and CEO Doug McMillon (a/k/a Doug McBillion). What, no? Then see my blogpost “Let’s Go to The Videotape,” 6/3/25.

Briefing done by end of November. As I noted back a year ago June, this must be quite a deal. “Seems the deficiencies for the two years at issue come to $15,656,849 and $6,946,309 respectively.”