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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.

Thanks for finding that! I see an election poster for Ed on the back wall of his scene so it must be from mid/late 1980?

I don't think the GOP will let Trump get close to that type of power. It's one thing to put up with him while he's doing what they want, and being scared of his fanbase, but I think his usefulness is coming to an end for them. I do think we are reaching a point where fascism will lead to elections being suspended, but likely with a more subtle and even more dangerous Republican than Trump. Before Obama I always thought the first black President would be a Republican, as I always thought that would be the case with a woman (I still do). Republicans have the media control and the sway to diffuse situations in order to get what they want (if Reagan - a Hollywood actor and a divorcee - had been a Democrat in 1980, he never would have been elected). They unleashed holy hell on Obama because of his race (you could see that a lot of the racism toward the Obama family was not some strategy but just unbridled bile retched up from centuries of fragile white egos and unearned exceptionalism) but also because he was a Democrat, so whipping up bigotry served their purposes. If Republicans had tried to stem the tide, I think, while the backlash would still have been bad, it wouldn't have been AS bad. But they didn't want to, so everyone is paying the price...including them. I think Obama was right to run when he did. While many Democrats could have probably won in 2008, Obama had to fight like hell in 2012, against a man the media had been pushing for a decade or more, with a Democratic Party that was increasingly weakened and divided. We got those 4 years because of him. And it is so difficult for a black candidate to have a chance. Look at how Jesse Jackson was treated in terms of respect or input from the party or the media compared to Bernie Sanders. Or the hostility toward Kamala Harris from the minute anyone talked about her running. Obama had a moment in time, and he was right to take it.

I think some of the people who upload those junctions likely have some episodes, but they never upload any shows from those channels.

Ryan is ditching the stunt vote on ICE. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/ryan-republicans-ice-immigration-abolish-725071