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I had forgotten he wasn't on ATWT at that time. He seemed to know Melanie and Mary fairly well - I guess through other avenues.

Karen Gillan seems to enjoy picking eclectic projects.

Karen Attiah works for the Washington Post, which tells you - again - what a shitty paper that is, one that does not get the deserved criticism and scrutiny that NYT rightfully gets.

He was also a proxy of the Palins, who had been feuding with Murkowski for most of the '00s. Given the fealty to Trump and the increasingly insane far right who dominate the GOP, I am not really sure what will happen, but at this point Murkowski toes the party line when it counts anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter.

The hatemonger Trump is pushing to replace Lisa Murkowski:

That bit about Twitter Parlamentarians is especially typical of the smug Beltway, as, like someone said in the replies, Twitter Parlamentarians are as valid as the real one. They know Manchin is too much of a coward to end the filibuster. They love the GOP and would do anything to get them back in power. This is a very happy time for them.

Some like Matt Stoller, who unfortunately too often veers into hysteria about China which drowns out any positive points, have written a lot about the stupidity of the US moving the semiconductor industry out of the country, and how many of the supply chain issues that have slowed the recovery this year are down to the US moving so much overseas and relying on slave labor. Sadly I don't think this is likely to change - it is just going to get worse.

If they had a more famous moderator it might help, but I think with the pandemic over, and many of those appearing not really big names, they won't be likely to recover.

Yes. Mary Ellen seemed so eager to talk about the beach sequence, so they never went back.

He seemed to have more of a direct history with Melanie and Mary so I wonder if he was less restrained.

Yes.

In the interview she said she decided to leave the business to raise her son.

It was odd that no one (including Alan, of course) remembered another woman (Colleen McDermott) had played Emily not long before Melanie. I guess it's easy to forget unless you really look, as she wasn't very memorable.

It was a good time...a lot of personal mixed with some ATWT talk. I wish he'd asked more about ATWT stuff, but they got in more fan questions than I initially thought they would. Beyond the stuff about Beecroft (which Melanie has talked about before) and Rex Smith (which was new to me), Melanie also talked about her audition, which was a fun story. I had no idea that Melanie and Nancy McKeon are close friends...and they became close friends because they were in the same class or something and Nancy recognized her as Emily! She also said that's how Scott was cast on FoL - Nancy knew him as Craig. There are a few moments where Alan spins it around to himself a little too much, but overall it's worth watching. Mary and Melanie both look great. Melanie has barely aged, and if it's the Hollywood type age deterrent, then she's chosen well with said deterrents. They talked about wanting to do a musical together at some point. I doubt it will happen but it would be great seeing some alum together again in that style. Some poor person asked 500 times about Mary Ellen Stuart turning down the bully role in Carrie: The Musical. That question went unasked... I got the feeling Mary Ellen meant Rex Smith ad-libbed a lot rather than he didn't know his lines.

What a wonderful cast WKRP had - and such an underrated cast. Herb was a douchebag but a lot of fun to watch, thanks to how Frank Bonner played the part.

He was a paper thin candidate backed up by a cult who don't really exist outside of social media. Many of his big donors were conservative figures who seemed to jump to Eric Adams when he became a frontrunner. I'm tired of these cult figures. I saw a tweet earlier today literally comparing him with Jesus on the cross. In other SCOTUS news, as expected, the Catholic adoption charity in Philly that doesn't want to deal with lgbtq foster parents won. The ruling was unanimous, which was slightly more of a surprise, but was, as mentioned here, a hostage situation - Amy Covid Barrett and Kavanaugh both said they just want a better case to strike down the main law, and the other three hatemongers were already all for it.

The article mentions him saving someone on the roof of GH as his entrance. I had forgotten Sabrina even existed until I read the recap on Juan.

There was an SOD article around 1995 which even basically said Miguel had a memorable entrance and then got bogged down into nothing. The idea was meant to be, I guess, that things were now heating up for him with the Brenda pairing, but I don't remember that going anywhere either (and he then left for a tour, mostly forgotten aside from that pointless story with Mr. Becky Herbst).

This episode is listed as 1983. Dubbed, sadly, but still interesting to look through.

The usual hacks rushing to cradle their little baby was embarrassing beyond belief. She got what she wanted - a future show at Fox News - and the press get to tut-tut and wag their finger. They also got a quote the GOP will play to death from now on ("I'm not confident in anything"), and they exist to help Republicans at any cost.

Money is a factor, but it's also an ecosystem designed to believe Republicans, especially white male Republicans, are the ideal, are true thought leaders and noble warriors willing to talk tough. I remember the media being gleeful over being invited to gatherings by McCain, and by him remembering their favorite donut toppings. I remember a male reporter actually writing that even being in the same room with Mitt Romney sexually aroused him, because he was so masculine. More recently, there was endless media hype in alleged mainstream publications over the likes of Tim Pawlenty ("Sam's Club Republican"), Scott Walker, Josh Hawley (who was supposed to be the next Teddy Roosevelt), etc. Rand Paul got a glowing TIME cover story. Paul Ryan was supposed to cure poverty by...occasionally going to see poor people and looking sad (then cutting all their benefits). The vaccine situation has been so clouded and polarized, and the stimulus package will be over a year and half old by the time voting starts for the general midterm. I'm not going to downplay them, but I don't think they are going to be anywhere near enough. The only chance of breaking even in 2022 is to have decisions and leadership which I don't think we are seeing. That's nothing against people who call and volunteer and work their hardest. It's just when you have people like Kristen SInema, who seem to actively hate their base, or Joe Manchin, who would rather tell everyone how morally righteous they are than actually do anything, not to mention the other senators hiding behind these two, the power is out of their hands.