Now he could be anybody’s grouchy grandpa: “Go Set a Watchman,” Harper Lee’s (apparently) long-withheld sequel to her beloved classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” arrived in Snohomish County bookstores Tuesday. In it, Atticus Finch, the Southern lawyer who was the personification of virtue in “Mockingbird,” turns into angry, bitter segregationist in his old age.
Spoiler alert: At one point in “Watchman,” Atticus tells Jean Louise to “get that bleeding heart liberal Gregory Peck off my TV set.”
Gag order: Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby’s most prominent public defender, dialed down her support for the disgraced comedian after hearing from a legal expert Tuesday on the daytime talk show “The View.”
The Buzz didn’t see the show, but we assume the legal advice pretty much boiled down to: “WHOOPI, STOP TALKING ABOUT COSBY. RIGHT NOW.”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was abolished, some 350 years after it was created.
The Inquisition’s longevity prompted a long-standing slogan: “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition … to ever go away.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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