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André Braugher Dead: ‘Homicide’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Actor Was 61 – Deadline This is just awful news. Braugher was always the best part of Brooklyn Nine Nine, in spite of a strong cast - he was genuinely hilarious, had great chemistry with everyone (especially Andy Samberg), and it was refreshing to see an older gay couple on a show who weren't just treated as tokens. Homicide was where I first saw him, and without him I don't think the show would have lasted half as long as it did. He was electric to watch, and the show took great advantage of that, yet Braugher never let the character become just a conduit for melodrama. He played the everyday moments with Kyle Secor or Ami Brabson (Braugher's real life wife) just as well as the flashy monologues.

It's difficult to celebrate gay actors playing gay characters when those characters exist solely to prop up the eternal flop that is Leo. As shown with the trashing of Craig. Chandler Massey fans are actually lucky he's barely on as Leo/Will would be inevitable.

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Thanks for all the photos and trailers. I'd heard the Disney+ numbers aren't great, but I'm not that surprised as I don't think the show is that popular in the US these days.

Considering how many times Jack tried to freeze her out or blame her for his daughter's self-harm, I think he's lucky she even stayed with him. Jack has always cheated on his partners, no matter what they say or do. I just think this story makes Stacey look kind of pathetic, but then this whole year has been plot over character for her. I don't get the sense this regime understands her, or most complex characters. I'm glad if people found anything to enjoy in the Panesars. All of that is automatic skip for me as there's only one person in the family who can even act and I'm tired of toxic gay ships.

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I was trying to figure out if the blonde woman at the start of this is Brenda Brock.

He seems desperate every time I see him. The whole feels very cynical, especially the fans who are trashing her latest ex Joe Alwyn and praising him - you know he will be in the same spot in a year or two.

1929 Hungarian silent film recovered, remastered, to be screened in Budapest - Daily News Hungary

I still think this PR relationship with Travis Kelce was a mistake for her in the long run, although at least she has stopped going to his games.

That was so kind of you. I hope she got to see the letter. As almost all of Ellen Holly's time at OLTL is gone, if not for this place, I don't think I would have the fuller understanding or appreciation not just of what she represented, but of what she went through at the show, and the tones of the eras she was a part of. So I want to thank you, and so many others who are still here or are gone. I'm sorry Carla never had the resolution from the show that she or Ellen deserved, but I hope places like this will keep her memory alive forever.

I do think inflation and gas prices are something that have become so overused by the media that we almost forget they do have an effect. The heavy astorturfing and trying to con young voters and left wing voters into not voting for Democrats because of Palestine (huge efforts in Michigan in particular to brainwash voters on this topic) also make me wary. Longtime GOP operatives are getting the red carpet from the press and from the "progressive" left as they go around Dearborn saying to never support Biden. I also don't really feel like Biden should run again. Unfortunately I also don't think there is anyone else (I think Gavin Newsom has a glass jaw and Kamala Harris would lose as so many have a deep, irrational hatred of her rooting in so many flavors of sexism and racism), so I'm just gearing up to expect the worst next year, as I always do. I've been proven wrong before, so hopefully I will be again.

That's the problem for me. I don't need to hate Dean more. The show spent a year and a half with him as a serial rapist. The show has done almost nothing with Linda all year, then bring back her rapist to traumatize her even more for the sake of a "whodunit." It's the type of shock value writing and misogyny that makes the show so empty for me now.

This led to one of my favorite scenes - where Rachel iced a weeping, ashamed Liz out of the family. This didn't last very long (I can't even remember how much resolution it had onscreen), but you could see, one last time, Harding Lemay's Rachel in full form.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-had-a-love-fest-with-a-far-right-zionist-group Mike Johnson's virulently anti-lgbt screed in a fundraising letter earlier today is another example of how much his longstanding loathing and activism against queer people is present and thriving, no matter how many Beltway reports tell us how "easygoing" he is.

Yes. Attitudes is actually where I knew Linda from for quite a while - I watched a lot of the Lifetime lineup as a kid and didn't watch AW until its last few years on the air. I always remember her with Nancy Glass, or Dee Kelly, for some reason. I forgot to say Victoria Wyndham is also in this talking about obsessed fans - I think her interview was or is already up elsewhere on its own.

I didn't realize Attitudes lasted this long or that Linda had a male co-host (per Wiki Linda left not too long after this due to disagreement with the changes in tone). @DaytimeFan @SFK @Vee There is a brief clip of Linda Blair on Joe Bob Briggs' show early in this.

There were moments here and there, but I'm talking about what really set the cancellation in motion. And for me that was JFP. The show was extremely close to being taken off the air by 1995.

The recipe for GL's cancellation had been written around 1993, and even that is generous. That GL stayed on as long as it did is astonishing. This is like blaming a paper cut for Rasputin's death.

I think all of the P&G shows simultaneously lost their core yet maintained some of what was best about them to the end...although I do think that for all her many flaws, Wheeler brought back some of GL's best with decisions like having Vanessa as a recurring character after she was pretty much gone for good in the early '00s, minus a guest appearance. I think there were various points where GL bordered on completely barren, then would somewhat regroup. I'd say patches of 1994, and a lot of 2000-2001, and one of the main points of no return for me - Ben Reade's grotesque assassination. And going back to earlier years before I began watching, I'd also say a ton of 85-86 - honestly they were very lucky to still be on the air. Not even getting into Tom Pelphrey shouting all over my screen, which is the point where I stopped until I heard the show was likely to be canceled.

Thanks. A nice read. My favorite part was the story about the actress who wanted to give an emotional speech and he said it wasn't the best time. I do think he had to stretch to come up with OTT stories for the last years. The electricity story was a brief fantasy gimmick for a comic tie-in, and the menopause/pregnancy was, sadly, old hat for soaps. I think GL dialed down the more ludicrous fantasy sequences after the time travel story (that doesn't mean the stories were good, of course).

Jon Hensley likely announced around this time that he was leaving the show, which was probably a big factor.

Thanks. Very moving interview. I'm glad she and the other 90210 cast are in a better place now. Here's an interview she did in 1999. It starts around an hour and 37 minutes in. Amusingly, the host mistakes Alyssa Milano for Tori Spelling.