The Morning After: Meanwhile, in Non-Political Soap Operas...

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I'm back from vacation, and Gossip Girl has returned with me. I'm not sure what I'm more unsettled by: seeing Chuck as a quasi-sympathetic figure ("Damn that motherChucker!"), or seeing Jay McInerney as an actor. (Me: "Guy who wrote Bright Lights, Big City! Distracting!" Most of GG audience: "Ew, old guy! Distracting!")

I didn't get around, by the way, to properly reviewing TNT's Raising the Bar, which debuted last night, but I figure that if Steven Bochco can't be bothered to update 20-year-old cliches of lawyer dramas, I can't be bothered to interrupt my vacation to point that out. Your own thoughts welcomed.

And/or: Anyone catch the Jerry Lewis telethon? Or the Republican National Committee one?