Shirley Temple News

After the film's release, critic and novelist Graham Greene wrote a scathing review of Temple, suggesting that her popularity stemmed from her pedophilic appeal.

Well at least Sally doesn't have an eating disorder! All of her ice-cream-refusing in previous episodes was just a protracted set-up for the momentous Sally food events of "At the Codfish Ball": She first refuses Megan's sole, demanding a heap of unsauced spaghetti; later, at the party where she sees her charming "date" getting a blow job from her ... (more)

"Mad Men's" episode for this coming Sunday night is called "At the Codfish Ball." What this is in reference to is just about anyone's guess, but "At the Codfish Ball" is a song from an old Shirley Temple movie about a poor orphan who finds out she's really a rich kid.

PERHAPS there are indeed some product tie-ins. Cute little chimp dolls - the same as got the world's most famous primatologist interested in the darling apes in the first place when she was a little girl in England in the 1940s.

In 1616, English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare, 52, died on what has been traditionally regarded as the anniversary of his birth in 1564.