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I think even calling it a good run is generous on your part. The whole show is hollowed out and ugly. At least you tried.

The Oral History of 'Looking', HBO's Short-Lived, Groundbreaking Gay Series | GQ This is such a lovely photo; it makes me a little emotional looking at it:

Anything involving Ryan Murphy is sick fetish material, and a poisoned chalice because it typecasts those involved. He was never staying on GH for long anyway but I hope he finds some better role beyond that filth peddler.

Donald Trump is asked to pay millions to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her : NPR Even if she won't see a dime of this money (and I imagine she knows that), I hope it at least helps her peace of mind. It's sad we live in a country where this verdict will just make his supporters - and the media who would die for him - even more fervent in their love for him.

NeighboursFans ran a poll for the most popular 40 characters on the show since it has returned. The results are interesting. https://www.backtothebay.net/news/2024/01/25/neighbours-most-popular-character-of-the-revived-show-revealed/

The same ugly scene happened when Biden went to the church where Dylann Roof targeted and killed black parishioners. One woman who had lost her aunt to that scum spoke about how much their behavior upset her. The response of many on the left was, as usual, mockery, and thinly veiled racism.

Always nice to see you on here @Ben . I keep meaning to share my thoughts on Neighbours but I'd love to see yours.

One of the dead-end leftists who was dragged out of UAW's Biden endorsement ceremony - sure enough there are several tweets of her praising Trump. Here's one. So many on the left cherish Trump as their ideal because he says everything they want to say.

The media has been relentlessly attacking Biden on this subject since the '20 primary, while presenting Trump as sharp, brave, and witty beyond human understanding. You can sense just how unhappy they are to have to admit that he is in real decline...so of course it has to be "both sides bad." SNL also made sure to start the last Weekend Update off with a torturous segment along these lines. What's going to make this whole con job even more desperate is that they can no longer brag they are getting any ratings boost out of their Trump obsession. The interest is not there this time around. It's just flat out carrying water for the moneymen. (I know it's Semafor, sorry) https://www.semafor.com/article/01/21/2024/inside-the-collapsing-us-political-media-industrial-complex

That was over a week ago (I think I may have posted a link at the time but I don't post as much as I used to in here so maybe not) - it's good news but I'm not sure why they waited so long to talk about it, especially since Republicans can now just say well we won a seat in New Hampshire last night. Then again, it's MSNBC, what can you expect.

Between this and the long puff piece in Politico about Charlamagne and his latest disillusionment with Democrats, the game here isn't very subtle.

At the time there was some notice because he was a playwright (whether he was a respected one, I had no idea). I think he may have been responsible for the Fifth Street Fire which was supposed to rejuvenate the show (spoiler: it didn't). If he'd had more time he might have had an impact though.

A rare artist who had a sweet spirit alongside a real bite. I love "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)." When people do retrospectives on music of that era I never feel like Melanie gets her due.

Didn't he also want to pair David and Bridget romantically, which was vetoed, or was that someone else? GL had a real revolving door of headwriters at this point. Soon after this was when Douglas Anderson took over briefly (someone should probably write more about him too).

Oh I forgot about all that. Sorry. Thanks.

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She did a lot of campaigning during the voting period, and I guess also benefited from the category only having two sure nominations. I do wonder if part of their reason was strategic - people look worse when they decry the lack of nominations for Margot and Greta and don't mention her. It plays into "white feminism" discourse (not helped by Hillary tweeting today...).

Given the complaints I've seen people make about the Killers screenplay, that's interesting. A few days ago, in one of the Oscars prediction videos, one of the 'experts' was talking about how Margot and Greta stood a good chance of not being nominated because the Oscar voters do not want to reward this type of film, they don't take this type of movie seriously. Given the history of the Academy, that would seem to be true. The nomination for Annette Bening is much more of what they want to see from actresses, along with that cookie cutter long-suffering wife role from Carey Mulligan. I feel bad for America Ferrera as she's gotten so much backlash for her nomination, with people saying in one breath it's due to her being Latino and in another saying she's not Latino enough, saying it's just "woke" voters due to her speech, other people acting like it's an outrage that she got in compared to someone like Penelope Cruz or Rosamund Pike (who is certainly entertaining to watch but whose work in Saltburn I've seen too many times to count). There was also a viral tweet saying she's just like Jamie Lee Curtis. It feels like people are just jumping on her as an easy target, even though she isn't even going to win. I saw a tweet from Stephen King about how out of touch the Oscars were with the public, which confused me, as the most popular movies of last year got a lot of nominations. Maybe he's a big fan of Super Mario Brothers, GOTG3 or Wonka?

I'm sorry to hear about Gary. I haven't watched Alien Nation in a long time but he gave such an energetic performance that always kept you interested and was a perfect contrast to Eric Pierpoint. @jam6242 Sorry to hear about Charles Osgood. I thought he was already passed.

He was, yes. I was mostly bringing up the HW stint as a more direct comparison.

Mulcahey is definitely a legend, and some of the posts here have made me more excited about his return (I don't hold his GL HW run against him - the show had been stomped into the ground by that point and JFP was just doing whatever to make her pets viable). I do feel like he either won't last long, or we are in a situation comparable to Lorraine Broderick returning to send AMC off.

Their response is often "well if they are the same I just won't vote for either of them!" and then they claim, as many on the dead end left often do, that Trump can be molded and is more of a potential socialist hero than Biden will ever be. So much of this is posturing and optics, egged on by social media. Face the Nation, arming up the pro-Trump propaganda, had a focus group of Democrats who will not vote for Biden because of this issue, and one woman made sure to let us know what a big martyr she was by saying she won't vote based on protecting her reproductive rights because women in Palestine have no rights either. (one of the other panelists works for CAIR, which they decided not to mention) This type of self-loathing on reproductive or lgbt rights is also why so many of that crowd happily support Hamas, or Putin, even though they would be literally torn apart by their heroes.

That was a good read and expresses one of the reasons I don't have a good feeling about November - so many younger voters have just given up or are embracing fatalism by supporting Trump and claiming he will be better than Biden on Israel/Palestine - the one thing that matters for many of these voters. I do wish they hadn't included David Axelrod, who seems to be credited as some kind of impartial observer even though he's been critical of pretty much all aspects of Biden for years now. I do think Biden governed differently over the last few years, although part of that is down to Democrats losing the House (the other part is probably his new chief of staff).

This one really bums me out. His work in Dawn of the Dead is just fantastic - so many tropes that can feel forced, the angsty screwed-up wannabe alpha - but instead you get so much heart. And I thought he was just breathtakingly beautiful in that film.