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I felt like they were going to try to make her relationship with AJ real (what with the endless comparisons to Alan and Monica) if Hannah/Sonny hadn't bombed. She was written as being in love with Jason, but as much as they would try to write Jason as having feelings for Carly, Steve would usually do his best to push it back.

I think given the last time the recall happened, there was a lot of blame over a Democrat running a major campaign on the second ballot (even though I doubt that was the deciding factor), some of the concern was justified. Silver just made it too much of an absolute and came across as insufferably smug, yet again.

I don't even entirely disagree with Nate Silver about t he recall - not having a backup candidate was a very high-risk strategy - but you'd think an election forecaster would have better insights, and he has completely destroyed any credibility or goodwill.

That's great news. I wonder if this is what JLB was asked to return for a while back. I just hope they won't kill Leslie off. They are so lucky that Janice Lynde is still alive and well and willing to participate.

RSW wearing the beret would probably be one of his better moments. Let's have them recreate Brian and Ginger - leave and never be mentioned again.

@victoria foxton Thanks for sharing, but that photo really pisses me off. If you are going to cosplay an iconic soap-related magazine cover, then you should try to have two people who can at least act. That broken ab machine just looks constipated, as he has on all his soap work, and she just looks like she's trying to figure out what died on her head. I'm not sure if one image has better epitomized the death of this genre.

@Vee Thanks for mentioning Norm. As a lifelong fan of SNL, there end up being too many comedians I was simultaneously torn between finding talented and also being repulsed by some of what they said and did on the show. That was probably truer for Norm than most, as that whole era of the show is very ugly, but he was a brilliant sketch performer and impressionist and writer, and was always a searing, one of a kind presence at a time that really needed it. Stuff like the sketch where Bob Dole (Norm) goes to live in the Real World House still makes me laugh, many years later. I had not followed his career as much in more recent times, but saw him in some Youtube videos a year or two ago and didn't think he looked well. I had no idea he had cancer. I am glad he is now at peace. I was also glad to see Julia Sweeney (who was on SNL with him toward the end of her run and quit partially because of his behavior) say he apologized to her when they met for the 40th anniversary. This is a fitting farewell he wrote in his book:

This Politico man's replies are embarrassingly stupid. I don't know whether he is just that dumb or pretends to be, but it's enraging.

In the long run, this is just part of their plan to suppress all votes that don't go their way and declare elections null and void.

The most interesting results out of the California recall are the Orange County numbers, which isn't even very close right now. The GOP mostly just did this recall for fundraising, to push more voter fraud lies, and because they always need to keep the outrage machine going, but they still blew a real opportunity and ideally this will crush them there in 2022, especially the above two homophobes.

Gavin Newsom is crushing the recall, but a media that already had "liberal elite" sneerfests written out months ago will not be stopped.

Thank you for those @NadineC

Me too. Those first 3 or so seasons are great.

So many who died of AIDS would have given anything to survive, and rotting corpses like this pissed away their very easy chance. Good riddance.

I don't think Michele Lee's cosmetic surgery has fared well either. Donna is in a league of her own.

What interests me about Ashley's breakdown is she is acknowledging something soaps - and the soap press - often fail to acknowledge. Many times, what Rick (and to a degree, Blade) did to her would just be seen as hot, or fun, or soapy, or no big deal. Even relatively recently on Y&R, Malcolm taking advantage of Dru had gone the same route. I assume Bell did this mostly because he needed a reason to write Ashley out when Brenda quit, but it's still extremely rare - shocking, even - to hear a woman lay out the way she was violated, in language that is not sugarcoated.

The dangerous part is she has extremely devoted fans, already mentally ill in many cases, who attack anyone who dares to not worship her. She married a rapist and they still adore her. This will just end up connecting them with Qanon type groups. That someone with so much money and power spends their day tweeting this is embarrassing and also tells you how far gone we are:

The View has always been right wing trash. I still remember when they pushed ex-gay stuff on the show. A lot of people just don't care because they like hissing and clawing.

You will be...shocked to learn Wolski was a Bernie dead-ender. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-bernie-sanders-bridge-chicago-inc-20161011-story.html

Thanks!

I think there was an article here which suggested Marland created a dual role for Julianne Moore because P&G wasn't sure about her and he wanted to prove her talent. If that is the case, it would further explain why they didn't bother afterward. It's just a shame Sabrina lost most of her inner life after the recast.

I know Kathleen Turner said she played the role as a drunk. Did that come across oncamera? Most of her performances tend to come off that way, so it's hard to tell.