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Does Andy like Lion-O enough to allow her to skate from appearing at the reunion?

Still chaps my ass the way that Guza pissed all over this couple.

Doing way too much...SMH @ I'm mad that C/Kordell is annoying me enough for me to find Papa Smurf tolerable. Haven't finished watching BH yet, but I really hope that this reunion is the reunion that Kyle finally gets verbally strung up instead of skating on by like she's been doing for 3 seasons.

Does anyone know why the writer (not sure if this was Doug Marland) decided to have Luke rape Laura - as opposed to him seducing her as they later retconned it to be - in the first place? A lot of trouble would've been avoided, IMO, if it'd have just been that instead of having that unnecessary sordid element to their love story - even if it did provide family angst for my JJ Lucky years later.

I don't care how many daggers Camille was throwing around the dinner table - I need her back in my RH life on a permanent basis. And while Yolanda's lovely, I'd gladly have her switch places with Camille so that she can be on recurring while Camille returns to the bitchy form that I adored about her in Season 1.

Finally saw the Cissy interview and, well, I'm siding with STK on her disapproval of Whitney's (alleged) sexuality. I don't agree with her a bit, but I don't have the heart to condemn her - especially since the loss of her only daughter has taken a serious toll on her spirit and her heart.

No one - though I did like Danielle's batshit crazy ass at one point. These days, I watch for the pure fuckery.

Nope, you're not in the minority in hating Crouching Hairline Hidden Forehead because I can't stand her or her greasy goiter of a husband.

The morally corrupt Faye Resnick is either a biracial Black woman or the product of 2 black parents (as I initial said/thought).

I've only seen a small photo of her pre-bleached self, so I can't agree or disagree. What I do know is that I was shocked as sh!t to find out that she was, in fact, Black because she sure fooled me during the OJ trial.

Thanks for the background on the whole James Cleveland mess... As for this past episode, I'm mad that the Midnight Star episode hadn't made a reference to Curious, as I do love that song. That said, I had no idea that the guys that sang "I Wanna Be Rich" were in Midnight Star (for some reason, I thought they were affiliated with Timex Social Club/Foster & McElroy/Club Nouveau). Good to know. Can't wait for the EPMD episode, as I hope that they address the full details of their breakup (as well as Erick Sermon's [alleged] suicide attempt).

Poor Faye - all that skin-bleaching and denial of Blackness for acceptance in Beverly Hills society, only to get clowned on national TV by Grande Dame, Lisa Vanderpump. How dreadful.

I actually think that Sherry would've been a better choice to launch a fitness video (if she had any inclination to put in actual work into building some sort of HW-influenced career instead of chasing after her cockeyed ex for child support checks). Say what you will about her ways, but her body was always on-point.

Not sure if this was posted yet:

An EW article from 1991:

^5 In what cartoon world is Jill a "fan favorite"?

So, I decided to look up that scene of Holly finding Ross and Blake together and wanted to know - was Holly right for being mad at those two for getting together behind her back? Or did she need to sit her ass down and get over it? From how that scene played, it could be taken as either Holly overreacting over a man that wasn't even hers (as JVD played it), Ross being a callous assh0le for sleeping with the daughter of the woman that he was seeing (as MG was playing it), or Blake tiring of her mother's selfish and overdramatic behavior and standing up for herself (as SS played it).

Thanks for clarifying.

I'm late to the ATL party, but I'm more than ready for the pet gays (that'd be Derek J and Lawrence) to go now. Their original 'benefactors', Sherry and Wig, have moved on so there's no real reason for them to be on the show.

I'd rather she didn't, as I thought that she said all that she needed to say in her eulogy in Esquire (or was it their website?).

Do you know if the Sylvester's church's clergyman had any connection to Rev. Cleveland? Or was the (alleged) nature of Sylvester's relationship with both merely coincidental? The whole Billy Preston story saddened me precisely because he wasn't able to truly recognize and conquer those demons that he'd acted out in self-destructive and abusive behavior. I was under the impression that the Reverend only had "nephews"/"sons". Have his "nieces" ever spoken out about any (alleged) abuse? Furthermore, is his daughter still affiliated with (what's left) of his congregation? Whatever happened to that case with Christopher Harris, anyway? I know it was written sometime in the (mid?) 90s, so I don't know how it was resolved in court (if it even got there). The more I read (though I confess that I can't put faces to many names since I'm really out of the loop when it comes to gospel acts - past and present), the more I'm starting to agree with CH about a doc/factional biopic about this needing to happen.

The whole (alleged) sordid, yet tragic, story made me livid and heartbroken at the same time, CH. I'm not sure what was worse - Rev. Cleveland's (alleged) self-hatred manifesting into a continuing cycle of (alleged) abuse that was (allegedly) passed on down to another generation or the fact that damn near everyone in his congregation (allegedly) chose to turn a blind eye to it all.

Was it a new episode? For some reason, I thought that they were rerunning an earlier episode from last year or before. If it is new, then I'll catch it at some point. Re: Cissy's aversion to Whitney's (alleged) homosexuality. I can't say that I'm surprised that she'd say that, as she never struck me as the kind of woman that'd have a live and let live outlook when it came to this. I'm not sure how I feel about the claim (as per what I'd read in the Jezebel comment section) that she had a long history of being homophobic, though....

Re: the Miki Howard episode - it just seemed as if that tidbit dropped from the sky and never expounded upon ("Oh, my mother was a gospel singer who just happened to be a lesbian...so, then after that, I moved to LA") and it was odd. Admittedly, I know the bare minimum about gospel and even less about the behind-the-scenes gossip, so I was pretty surprised to hear that gospel singers had to contend with rumors about their sexuality just like secular singers. Hearing that every member of the group that Miki's mother was a part of dodging gay rumors adds a whole other dimension to that tidbit that I wished were explored in some capacity via some form of media (whether it'd be TV, print, or online). As for James Cleveland, all I know of him was that he was a gospel singer/pastor who'd molested plenty of young boys/men for decades and (allegedly) died of AIDS (though barely anyone in the gospel industry/church wants to touch that with a ten-foot pole). I also read on another message board that Billy Preston's Unsung touched on it (without naming him) when they'd mentioned that he'd been abused by an elder statesman in the church as a boy, though I'm not sure if this is baseless speculation or an unspoken fact.