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Did you get my PM?

I think it's too easy for him to have killed her. He also couldn't kill her when he tried before. I think she's hidden somewhere. I have enjoyed the show a bit more lately, although it's still not great. I'm happy to see Sam getting more to do in the spoilers... (I know he's not popular here)

Elizabeth Holtzman - I haven't heard that name in a long time. Oh look - more jobs lost under this wonderful economy. She was very deluded to think she would be able to keep that brand going. It will be a long time before that ever happens for her again.

The worst part is these bailouts won't even do anything to deal with the real long-term trends destroying farming in America, whether it be pesticides, or exploiting undocumented workers, or our terrible and unbalanced relationships with other countries/trading partners. And the amount of farmers killing themselves will only continue to increase.

Thank you for finding those. The first three are from early 1992 - the next one is a few months later I guess.

Thanks. That Brooke stuff sounds...interesting. I wish we could see it. Rick Thomas put up a bit of the closing credits for an episode (somebody in the comments said this was Aug 9 1971). @slick jones

@DramatistDreamer I admire your guts in watching anything of that period. My reaction to being asked to watch anything of the '00s would probably be:

She's the one whose material helped drive Victoria Rowell to quit. She was also there when they fired Davetta Sherwood and brought back CK. The main story for Neil then was that whole Carmen and her doppleganger mess.

I really wonder if anybody out there, beyond the true believers, actually thinks the tax cut helped anyone. I guess the GOP is still talking it up, but even some of them flat out said that Trump's trade war pissed all over it (admittedly they are just using that as an excuse when the cuts were likely going to fail anyway).

Rand Paul desperately posturing himself as Important (as the media, who have tried and failed to hype him up for a decade, pants along) when we all know he always caves in is as stomach-churning as ever. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/kavanaugh-rand-paul-supreme-court-confirmation-senate-734228 Speaking of desperate, the media attempts to make this new Sacha Baren Cohen show into some grand statement on America when it's really just a Y2K-era relic mostly doing the same old tricks and telling us nothing we don't already know seem downright incoherent. The only good thing I can say about it is that at least it is a reminder of how many genuinely terrible, soulless people are in the GOP and, miraculously, were there decades before Trump! https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a22486973/sacha-baron-cohen-this-is-america-episode-2-review/ Paul Ryan is still pushing these cuts to essential government services even as he heads to exit doors, and he still naively believes they will help us all. I don't know what is worse - this, or bimbo Kevin McCarthy, who will just be doing them for cold hard corporate greed, not because he thinks Ayn Rand will bless us all.

Genie. I also put a promo from 1984 I hadn't seen before.

Thanks for posting all those. Kimmy Robertson is a hoot. And that was nice of Lynch to say about fans (and Dale...).

Thanks! You're right. That's him. No wonder I had a vague memory - he used that same condescending tone with Laura...

That's him in the Tigress ad (I think) but I'm not sure about the Cybill one. Thanks though.

This is really, really wonderful, if you get a chance to watch it. Who is the man (we hear him and don't see him) talking to Cybill Shepherd (I think that's her) at 35 minutes? His voice sounds so familiar.

Is this Carole Shelley around 52 minutes?

Wasn't there a contractual obligation that they had to appear once a series? I guess that ran out.

@Cat that is very eloquent, as usual. I also think that so much time from season 3 or 4 on began to be focused so heavily on things that viewers can never see the full extent of oncamera (I guess it really started with Adrienne's stuff with Brandi, or before that, Taylor's marriage), and then the show began to focus excessively on one or two very limited story beats, almost like they didn't know what else to do. Carlton and Brandi hating Joyce, Brandi hating Lisa, everyone being out to get Lisa, Rinna vs Kim, Muncha Muncha Munchausen (oh wait...we never said that word, really, we never did) the panties, The Wrath of Erika Jayne, etc. Nothing has felt organic on the show in years. It just feels like a producer wandering the desert, finding a stone, and trying to squeeze the stone as hard as he can. Then a season later he goes to another desert and finds another stone. Rinse and repeat.

The little I've seen of Denise over the years, even at her peak, always looked trashy, and grimy - in her biggest movies she still looked like she needed a wash. I guess it fits what RHOBH is at its core, even though it doesn't want to be.

I had forgotten Karen McDougal was that other woman. I kept thinking this was tied to Whitewater...

I have no real use for Tony Blair, but his points at the end about populism are valid.

Time doesn't give a damn. It's all about sales. I'm biased against them ever since an anti-gay article they wrote about a decade ago, I will admit, but seeing them suck up so much media space for these cheap, Tina Brown-esque covers gets on my nerves. In other news, it's just one judge of many, but it shows the importance of a closely divided Senate with unified Democrats. And kudos to Tim Scott for sinking this nomination (no kudos to media darling Marco for bandwagoning as per usual). https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17592120/ryan-bounds-tim-scott-trump-court-nominee-racism

Thanks for finding that.

Thanks for figuring out the date.