Doris Day is one of the last of a vanishing breed: A bona fide Movie Star of Hollywood's glistening era. A lot of folks probably don't know she's still alive because after she completed her TV series (1968-1973), she did a couple of TV specials and then retired. She has spent the time since working for causes that help animals and declining a stream of offers to act or accept awards. She will not appear on camera. She will not fly on an airplane. She has reportedly discouraged talk of an honorary Oscar (she never won a regular one) for the former reason and turned down a Kennedy Center recognition for both reasons. And for the last quarter-century, she has been interviewed infrequently enough to make J.D. Salinger look overexposed by comparison. She does about one — audio only — about every ten years.

This decade's is coming up this weekend. An hour (plus) long conversation about her singing career and her friendship with Frank Sinatra was recorded by phone in September by Jonathan Schwartz, host of the radio show, High Standards. He'll be playing it around 1:30 on his show which airs from Noon until 4 PM on Saturday and Sunday on WNYC in New York and at the same time on Sunday on Channel 73 on Sirius Satellite Radio, their Sinatra channel. If you don't have Sirius, you can hear it streaming on the WNYC website.

I was going to recommend her 1976 "autobiography" (clearly written by her co-author, A.E. Hotchner) but I see it's out of print. You can pick up a second-hand "collectible" copy for a hundred bucks or so…or a cheap reading copy for under five bucks if you search eBay or Amazon. It really is a remarkable life story of tragedy and triumph, with a lot more of the first. If you're ever in the mood for a Hollywood memoir by someone who really had a story to tell, this is the one. Or you could just wait to see if she talks more about herself in her next interview some time around the year 2020.

The other day here, we gave you the chance (for one day only) to buy all eight seasons of The Andy Griffith Show for $94. That deal's gone — it's back up to $145 — but here's an even better offer. Get all nine seasons of I Love Lucy on 34 DVDs for $85. That's like a quarter for each time Ricky or Lucy says of the other, "I'm going to teach him/her a lesson he/she will never forget!" You can't beat the price but you have to order today…which you can do by clicking this link. Don't dawdle.

Vanity Fair is offering an excerpt from Bill Carter's The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy, a copy of which may be ordered via this link. A friend of mine who's read the whole book thinks Leno comes off as kind of passive and almost naïve…and certainly not as the evil plotter that some believed him to be. Against that, O'Brien comes across as a guy who shouldn't have had The Tonight Show handed to him and shouldn't have had it taken away so abruptly. Both men were harmed by some bad decisions at the NBC executive level but both men also benefited…and I'll probably write more about this after I get my copy of the book.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA to you) summarizes the case for Climate Change (Global Warming to you).

Now I just know I'm going to get an e-mail from my friend Roger saying, "Hey, there's plenty of evidence that Global Warming is a hoax" and he'll link me to the website of a junior high school science teacher in Bayonne, New Jersey.

I have no idea what's going to happen with the election next week except that no matter how many contests Republicans win, they'll claim it's proof that America hates Obama and the Democrats and that both will be gone in one more election. They'll probably also claim that any election they lost by less than 5% was stolen via vote theft. In the meantime, Democrats will say, "It could have been worse" — and of course, it could have been worse. I mean, 9/11 could have been worse. My Uncle Nathan used to say that about every bad thing that ever happened. If you'd lost both arms and one leg in a car accident, Uncle Nathan would have told you to look on the bright side and focus on the limb you had left. I loved him but he was pretty useless in those moments when sympathy might have been appropriate.

I also expect Democrats to learn no cohesive lesson from anything that happens next Tuesday. The ones already inclined to move to the right will say, no matter how the vote goes, "This shows we need to move to the right." The ones who yearn to move to the left will head in that direction. And the Tea Party crowd will claim credit for every defeated Democrat and proclaim a new era and a giant step forward in taking back their country from that Muslim Commie in the White House. It'll be some time before any of them realize any candidates they help elect will either (a) link up with Republicans to push tax cuts for the wealthy and more corporate giveaways or will (b) accomplish absolutely nothing.

You get the feeling I'm not really rooting for anyone next week? Well, not really. I do like Jerry Brown, who looks to be our once and future governor in California. I always thought Brown was pretty annoying and arrogant in front of a camera but pretty good at managing a hard-to-manage state…and these days, I'll settle for that trade-off. I also thought he got a bum rap when people started calling him "Governor Moonbeam" for proposing some ideas that now, in hindsight, don't seem that bizarre…like the state launching its own communications satellite and leasing access to private industry. People acted like he was proposing we colonize Saturn. (The actual name "Governor Moonbeam" came from Chicago columnist Mike Royko, who was using it in a riff about how anyone in California had to be a bit of a mental space cadet. He wasn't criticizing Brown specifically and he eventually apologized for the nickname and asked people to stop using it.)

I guess the main thing I hope is that the election results teach the lesson that a candidate has to go out and give press interviews and answer tough questions instead of hiding from the media. Which ain't gonna happen. In fact, we'll probably see just the opposite — folks saying that the election shows that the way to win an election is to control the narrative around you and to only surround yourself with supporters and softball questions. That makes it a lot easier to lie. Ah, well. It's only the future of the country at stake…

Robert J. Elisberg welcomes back the man that both Democrats and Republicans would like to forget.

Kevin Drum lists five political memes that deserve to die because they ain't true. But that won't stop those who want to believe them from believing them.

Here's a one-day-only (I think) deal on Amazon: All eight seasons of The Andy Griffith Show on DVD for $94. Usually, it goes for more than twice that. In fact, tomorrow it'll go for more than twice that. So don't miss out, Goober! Click here to order.

Fred Kaplan bids a fond farewell to the Walkman. Many years ago, I attended a lecture by Akio Morita, its inventor and a very wise man, indeed. He explained that everyone had arguments why his idea of a personal cassette tape player was a bad idea and why all sorts of market research said it wouldn't work. The way he told the tale, he said, "Well, I think it's a good idea" and went ahead anyway. I'm not sure that's always a commendable way to do business but it sure paid off in this case.