Quote of the Day (Bob Newhart, on a Psychic Incompetent at Her Job)

“I was in New York to do Letterman and I got in the town car and was taking it from the airport. Coming up Sixth Avenue, I look up at a window and there’s this sign that says, ‘Psychic,’ and there’s a made-up sign that says, ‘Lost our lease.’ Now, if you’re a true psychic, you know you’re going to lose your lease. I questioned how good a psychic she was.”—Actor and stand-up comic Bob Newhart quoted in Jim Sullivan, “As Long As He's Able, Comedian Bob Newhart Says It's His 'Obligation'To Do Stand-Up,” www.wbur.org (Boston’s NPR news station), Nov. 3, 2016

This photograph of Bob Newhart, Flickr: Comedian Bob Newhart, was taken Nov. 5, 2004, by Jim Wallace (Smithsonian Institution)

Quote of the Day (Helena Bonham Carter, on Her Unusual Consultation for ‘The Crown’)

“She [the late Princess Margaret, through a psychic] said, apparently, she was glad it was me. My main thing when you play someone who is real, you kind of want their blessing because you have a responsibility.

“So I asked her: ‘Are you OK with me playing you?’ and she said: ‘You’re better than the other actress’ … that they were thinking of. They will not admit who it was. It was me and somebody else.”—Actress Helena Bonham Carter, relating to the Cheltenham literature festival how she sought the best possible authority for playing the late royal in The Crown, quoted in Mark Brown, “Helena Bonham Carter Sought Princess Margaret's Blessing Through Psychic,” The Guardian (UK), Oct. 6, 2019

I guess Ms. Carter really got to believe in magic after her appearance in the “Harry Potter” films…

(Photo of Helena Bonham Carter taken at the press conference for "Toast" at the Berlin Film Festival, June 27, 2011.)

TV Quote of the Day (‘Frasier,’ In Which He Encounters a New Moon in Seattle)

(Daphne Moon, interviewing for a position as home health aide for Frasier’s father Martin, guesses that he’s a former policeman. She says she knows this because she is “a bit psychic.”)

Daphne [played by Jane Leeves] [turning to Frasier]: “Wait a minute! I'm getting something on you - you're a florist!”

Frasier [played by Kelsey Grammer]: “No, I'm a psychiatrist.”

Daphne: “Oh, well, it comes and goes. Usually it's strongest around my time of the month [giggling]... so I guess I let a little secret out there.”

Frasier: “It's safe with us. Well, Miss Moon, I think we've learned everything we need to about you, and a dash extra!”

Daphne: [turning to Martin's pet Eddie] “You're a dog, aren't you?”—Frasier, Season 1, Episode 1, “The Good Son,” original air date Sept. 16, 1993, teleplay by David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee, directed by James Burrows