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Catherine O'Hara interview. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/05/catherine-ohara-the-queen-of-schitts-creek

Massachusetts has a veto-proof Dem majority so they will change that law.

So sorry to hear about Marnie. I think she did her best with what she was given. I hope she will get through.

@Vee I just made a comment on that right before I saw your post. Crazy timing. And one of the most bewildering, bird-brained attempts at clickbait I have ever seen. I don't even understand where that comes from. No wonder Atlantic is firing people. And that loser at CNN is another Matt Lauer asslicker.

If the rumors are true that Peter Simon refused a Nola/Ed pairing, it's like they just said "[!@#$%^&*] it" and didn't bother to have her with the Bauers much at all.

They certainly picked the right time to plead. If they had done so long ago they probably would have had a week or two at most. I do agree with those who are not thrilled, but I'm not even sure what would be appropriate in these circumstances.

They will be having 6 lockdown episodes, exploring quarantine life and I guess moving stories along, I don't know. It's a very compelling concept. I wish they had some different characters involved, but a few interest me (namely Sam/Lydia). https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/emmerdale-phases-back-filming-recording-lockdown-episodes

Nadine and Nola do have some similarities but I don't feel like they were intentional. I was happy to see Lisa back on soaps as I knew her as Iva - Nola's return didn't click, because they made her so bitter and the wackiness felt forced. I'm sorry she never got a chance to play her at a better time. Her material in her brief 2009 cameo was better than most of what she got from 95-98. I think I saw a photo of her on Twitter, taken from her hospital bed (a selfie). I just want to cry for her honestly.

Marland's material was mostly done by late 1993/early 1994 - I think some of the last was the outline for the Kasnoffs. I can't remember who the initial HWs were (Richard Backus? Juliet Law Packer?) but there was so much stuff I just found uninvolving and dispiriting - Holden obsessing over Lily, Shannon's return (just terrible writing that managed to alienate all fans), the endless Rosanna pity parties and the swill with Mike, Courtney the cop, etc. There are three stories that I care about - Janice worming her way into Kim's life, Pete's arrival and the money he and Julie steal, and Barbara faking her own stalking. If any fans at the time were not involved in any of this stuff they were SOL. I suppose it didn't help that P&G or whoever abandoned an entire planned story (burning down the Snyder farm) because the plot leaked to the press.

I don't know if I can stomach a lot of 1994 at the moment, but if you ever stumble onto the scene where Emma lays into Holden for being a deadbeat father, could you please post the link for me to see?

@Vee thank you for the warning. I am not going to act like Ronan Farrow is a saint - the Kavanaugh reporting (which is the thing that none of these pieces even seem to care about) had serious mistakes - but it's clear the news hacks has been lying in wait and are hoping if they push enough they can take him down, or seriously wound his credibility. They are so out of touch, because they are so used to enabling the worst of society. Last year there was an obvious attempt by the media to try to rehab Lauer (with him exploiting his daughter, no less) - it backfired. Here we are again. They are trying to get him a Brian Williams comeback, I bet.

That makes me want to vomit. What is that saying - the cruelty is the point? The apology just makes it even worse, as you know she doesn't mean a word.

It's blocked for me, but thanks for finding it.

@MissLlanviewPA @safe should know about this, if they still come here.

@Cat thank you for the extra details - beautifully stated, as always. I guess I can see why Bravo wanted to back away from such haunting material for something they could more easily control, but I think when they shifted more in the direction of Brandi, they went down the wrong road (especially when it got to the point where so much of the drama could not even be shown oncamera because of various restraining orders).

I watched this as I wanted to see where the cat meme came from and it is so much more raw than anything I see when I look at any clips on here. The Rinna and Dorit "don't talk about my daughters' event" contrivance with Sutton looks even more pathetic now. I don't know why production was so fine with promoting such transparent, badly acted phoniness.

I think people have said the transition was fairly quick, although moreso when he became a psycho at the end. I think Lauren Holly had been off for a while to film a movie (was it that Ford Fairlaine trash?) and only returned long enough to wrap up her story. Most of 84-89 seems to be a transition period... 1987 hit #1 in the ratings at one point (for the conclusion of the Damon Lazarre mess) and onscreen it feels to me like they really pulled a lot of things together, but I guess the show was just too bloated and the strike probably didn't help. It's a shame as for me the 1989 changes make the show more generic and it's never quite the same.

http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/parker_posey.shtml https://tv.avclub.com/parker-posey-1798227090 She goes into more detail in the second one (and also gives us another Colleen Zenk story...). As The World Turns (1991-1992)—“Tess Shelby” AVC: A soap opera must be the opposite experience, because you’re pushing through every shooting, right? PP: [Laughs.] They bring the kids in at the crack of dawn. We’ll be in a rehearsal hall at 6, and then around 7:30 you’re in the works. You’re in hair and makeup. I had a great time on that. That was great training. I remember sitting on a rock, or banging my foot against a rock on set, like on the lake, and it making a hollow sound. Like, “Oh, it’s not real.” Even the grass is plastic. Some of the directors were easy, kind of, “Camp it up and have fun with it,” and some of them took it really seriously. I remember when I first showed up on set, my first day, I took a nap in my dressing room and my [character’s] Aunt Barbara knocked on the door and she came in, and she was like, “Be careful what you say around here, because the walls have ears.” I thought that was so fabulously funny, especially since I was probably 21 years old. I just ran into her four or five years ago. Her name is Colleen Zenk. And she hadn’t aged a bit. She looked amazing. It was so good to see her. I remember learning lines and sitting on them. Unless [the actor] started screaming or cursing, that was what ended up on television. It was like, “That was great! Moving on.” You get two takes and you would move on, and you’re like, “What?” [Laughs.] It was just bad, like, “Wow, I’m doing really bad acting.” I was straight from drama school, so I was projecting. But I had fun. I did Dazed And Confused during that time. They wanted to give me a three-year contract, but I just got out of drama school and I told As The World Turns that I didn’t want to be anywhere for three years after being in school, so they gave me a year and a half. After a year, when they saw that I was getting a lot of independent work, the producer, Laurence Caso, came up to me—and I’ll never forget, it was so cold in the studio. It was like a meat locker. You’d put on your wardrobe and your pantyhose and everything else, and then I’d wear two robes and just walk around shivering, and go to the green room and talk on the phone. And he came up to me and he says, “Parker, if it’s all right with you, I’d like to get Holden in a coma before Labor Day. And that would have your contract be cut short. Is that all right?” I was like, “That’s amazing Laurence. Thank you so much.” He goes, “You’ll always have a place here if you ever want to come back. Just keep in touch.” And I cried. I thought he was so sweet. [Laughs.] “Holden needs to be in a coma by Labor Day.” So funny. I got my first couch and TV, and my first apartment that I lived in for 13 years, during my soap days. Then I did all those independent movies through the ’90s.

Now that Trump's numbers with seniors, the most reliable voting bloc, have cratered, and the various Biden smears have struggled to land, they are doubling down on their most successful attack - blatant racism and Obama hate. This will gin up older voters who would put hatred of black people above anything else, while the black vote is being killed (in many cases, literally).

I don't even want to link to it, but Ben Smith, who was involved in pushing the shiny object Steele dossier (which distracted from real issues and ultimately did Trump a favor) and heavily pushed the Tara Reade story, is now pushing a hit piece on Ronan Farrow in NYT that many of their reporters are retweeting and eating up. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Farrow passed on the Reade story, which has been debunked almost as many times as Reade has changed her story (she changed it again yesterday, while claiming Trump's people are in talks with her), and done a great deal to damage to credibility of the likes of his pals Rich McHugh and Ryan Grim.

@DramatistDreamer that is reprehensible. We're hearing about so many states playing these tricks in one way or another. The sad thing is even the states who are accurate end up with people ignoring the results because all they have to do is nod along with Trump that it's all a lie. So many people are so selfish and arrogant in their attitude toward masks, to the point of threatening and getting violent with people who wear them. I've read about store workers getting broken arms after trying to police masks, being told that they will be shot (and one man in Detroit was fatally shot). We have so many elements of our society that are like a dictatorship, but they are happy to let idiots kill themselves in situations like this - and kill the rest of us.

Little of that is around, but he was in a cancer story that received some praise I think.