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I loved Valerie in The Powers That Be and on Northern Exposure. Never have seen her on The Doctors.

https://slate.com/culture/2021/02/expanse-season-5-finale-cas-anvar-sexual-misconduct.html (spoilers for The Expanse)

Do you know how much they are being cut? I can't keep track of this anymore. Any time I hear about it they are cutting more. What I don't understand is why they had people going around saying 2K, saying adult dependents would get money, etc. when none of this seems likely to happen. I feel like they were so stunned they actually got 50 seats in the Senate they lost all message discipline.

I remember 3-4 years ago, a Buzzfeed writer had a long piece detailing the many attempts by Hollywood to "make him happen," to no avail. He called her out on Twitter, which led to a lot of backlash. I found her writing to be insufferable and phony (she had also written lengthy pieces trying to claim Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck had been career failures and disappointments and also had one of those "if you don't like the Kardashians you just hate women" type think pieces that have aged horribly given how deeply toxic that family is), but now I see it as another sign of his irrationality and inability to keep control. I'm amazed he was able to hold it together publicly as long as he did, based on the way he has spiraled this past year. Some of the photos from his private Instagram that were put in an article about him are still stuck in my head. Really fucked up stuff.

Sadly her last scenes (with Stuart at the boarding house I think) were preempted because of the Monica Lewinsky bullshit, but Gloria's last few weeks on the show were a wonderful surprise - they really covered many angles of the character and gave her a proper goodbye, unlike many around this point who started just disappearing. I suppose it helped the McTavish likely created Gloria, and was probably fond of her. As a fan of Gloria's, I was glad she got to leave on a high note after a lot of drudgery.

I noticed that AWHP now just has Ray Liotta as playing Joey Perrini. Didn't Paul Perri initially play him (and did so again briefly in 1981)?

From reading the replies, looks like it was originally just said once and the uploaded repeated it a second time as a joke.

The main problem with the Daniel story was that not only was he a generic closet case murderer, but the only other gay character on the show was made to be his piece of ass and then shipped out as soon as the story was over. And there were no other gay characters on the show from that point on for years.

I guess Newsmax or OANN await, unless he's too old and haggard for their taste.

I think Ice Cube is very good at self-publicity. That's about as far as that will likely go.

Cindy Parker on AMC and Dawn Rollo on AW (both straight women) had stories running around the same time - Cindy's ran much longer and was given more prominence. This was late 1987. Loving had AIDS research references in 1983 and 1984 - not sure if any patients were shown. I think that Jessica's story on Y&R started around the same time as Hank's arrival in Oakdale, although I don't know if Bill Bell always intended her to have AIDS. She always had a secret and was always desperate to reunite with Cricket, though. HIV-positive gay men who were occasionally seen friends of women named Lucy debuted on GH in 1994 and GL in 1995. The one soap that I remember letting viewers see a gay man onscreen actually dying of AIDS, in the hospital, grieving and frightened, was a man Julia cared for on AMC in 1995. It didn't really get much mention - I didn't even know about it until I saw the episodes.

Yes, Hank never had a personality. I would guess Marland never really intended for Hank to have a personality. He was there to try to encourage acceptance of homosexuality and nothing else was going to be allowed in that era. Hank having a lover who was dying of AIDS, and last being seen holding his hand was as far as they would be able to go. In the 1991 or 1992 AIDS Ball, a letter is read from Hank, praising the late David Stewart for his AIDS research, and obliquely references how special David was compared to many other people who treated AIDS and people who had died of AIDS in the early years (ie, queer men) as bad and wrong. That was the most aggressive I can ever remember Marland's social issue plotting ever being...I can imagine all the friends or lovers he thought of in those moments.

Faux News has been pushing that too. Not that there's much difference between them and the AP these days.

I know all the legends who have passed recently lived very long lives, and this is the time of year many older people pass away, but it is starting to feel eerie. I'm sure Christopher Plummer wouldn't want to be remembered for Sound of Music, but I will always have words of appreciation for the way he played the Captain slowly beginning to allow himself to be affectionate with his children, and falling in love with Maria. The little shrug of pride he gives Maria after he finishes singing feels so real in a way movies of this kind often do not.

Van Jones was chummy with the Trumps, going to events with Ivanka and Jared and working closely with them, praising Trump for "becoming President" after he bombed Syria, and most reprehensible of all, working on a bare bones police reform plan for Trump then going on CNN and trying to sell it before it became known he was involved in the plan. Yet he still constantly paints himself as some crusader of progressive values, he cried on air over Biden's win, and so forth.

This has went viral today, I guess because it fits all the beloved cliches of local British councils being hotbeds of chaos, and there are some fun moments around.

Yes, but it was done differently in those years than more recent variants. That - and the GL fan fiction of those years (which was mainly centered on Fletcher and Holly but had a lot of other characters) would release episodes 2-3 times a week, and try to write in a script format, used character photos, etc. It helped add a more authentic experience. Sadly all that was wiped long ago. (by the way when I said secretly, I meant Andy was still closeted to his family back in Oakdale, rather than an affair type storyline)

Speaking of Hank, many, many years ago, I'd say mid '90s, there used to be a websoap of ATWT which had living in New York, secretly lovers with Andy. (I think Jeff had also divorced Annie and had had a fling with Hank before Hank got involved with Andy...but it's been an eternity so I may be wrong) The show never would have gone there, of course, but it was an interesting concept.

Here is Nancy Mace, yet another media darling breathlessly hyped as Reasonable and The Future, peddling into the increasingly sick and dangerous hatred the GOP has for AOC. No matter how many times people tell you that Republicans in Congress can be good and pure, it's a lie. They will kick you just as hard as Matt Gaetz or Louis Gohmert or any of that ilk. The only difference is they will wait to do it 5 minutes later and half-heartedly try to make a sad face.

A lot of spin seems to be focusing on how the GOP is not that extreme because they did not boot Liz Cheney, and how the Democrats are going too far and now Republicans will boot progressives from committees if they win the House back. And "unity" talk. Media spin 101. Hopefully people don't buy it. MTG is so repulsive, and lacking in any of Trump's brand of toxic charisma, I am not sure if she will be made into as big a celebrity/martyr as some are claiming, but they will certainly try.