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Even after all this time I still see Screech when I hear about Dustin, and all the problems he had. I imagine that is one of the reasons he spiraled the way he did. I'm glad that at least his pain is over.

Someone asked me about Rick's parentage and why he was put up for adoption and I still never can remember. Can someone remind me?

So basically Donny's dear leader helped cost him his job. Oh my.

I thought it was another dig at Peter Bergman...

Or a cult leader. Thank you for these @jam6242. Very kind of you. I am always fascinated by this period of the time where styles (especially for men) are still clinging to the more traditional look but are about to pop. Poor Joe Gallison looks as sickly as I've ever seen him. Bad angle.

A moving article about Tony Bennett's journey with Alzheimer's. https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2021/tony-bennett-alzheimers.html

What gets me is these dead-enders regularly blast CNN as the worst of the worst (after their archnemesis MSNBC anyway). Yet they came running. When the best of the three is the guy who retweeted the rape of a young man in Salo to jab at Pete Buttigieg, it is a sad day.

I saw that Stelter tweeted out that they were the "real liberal media." I have no idea if he was just trolling or if he really is that dumb. I imagine Brie Brie was seething.

Marc was also on the last season of In Living Color.

I really can't stand this man.

The saddest part is he's right. It doesn't matter what he says or does, they won't convict.

The GOP are doing what they always do with extremists - they are taking Marjorie Taylor Greene's money and harnessing her following, while going to the media to pretend they are concerned. And the media, which always needs to believe the best of them, nods along. Speaking of that, I still keep wondering if Manchin and Sinema will force some kind of bare bones "bipartisan" package and refuse to do anything else. I know a lot of people hate AOC, feel she is overdramatic, attention-seeking, etc. but I'm glad she shut down Ted Cruz's naked attempt to pivot to, "Look, everyone can agree, so forget the riot Ted Cruz helped foment ever happened!" Ted Cruz thrives on being a partisan, and no amount of phony "can't we all just get along" posturing should ever erase the damage he has done over the last decade. If he weren't so embarrassingly and obviously self-loathing and eager for approval, I can't imagine how much worse his effects would have been on this country.

Today the Washington Post has a gushing profile on Mitt Romney's unfortunate (in every single way) former niece. The Beltway will do anything to make us love these monsters.

An NYT "reporter" taking a break from whining about school renamings to promote lies from a white nationalist account.

How do they not just sink in their own bile and dysfunction? Over and over the worst is rewarded.

Cicely was such a legend...I feel like she was somewhat forgotten for a number of years. I'm glad she was with us long enough for her to get more of the showcases she deserved. I really need to go back and watch East Side/West Side.

I don't know if it ever got close to cancelation but they were clearly in a panic mode at ABC, with expensive hires, phasing out the social issues and some longtime characters, etc. That's why I don't really blame the Buchanans for the end of this more "pure" OLTL - I feel like it had already been deemed as a no-go by ABC before they arrived.

Thank you @slick jones and thank you to @jam6242for providing them. I really should listen to this more - what is available, anyway.

I just don't really know whether to go near anything involving Asia at this point. When I saw some of the posts from Hammer's other Instagram they were genuinely frightening. He needs a lot of help, at the very least.

Unless there is a preemption, next week's Vintage SNL (Saturday, 10 PM Eastern) will be Harvey Keitel/Madonna from early 1993. They usually only show one musical performance but it may end up being higher quality than most of the footage around. Madonna is also in the cold open for that episode, which was controversial at the time (Hillary Clinton supposedly wrote a letter to NBC because the sketch involved someone playing her daughter, Chelsea).

Thank you @rsclassicfanforever . That is a wonderful service for fans. And such high quality.

Not much of a goodbye...

What a busy time for "the paper of record!"