DramatistDreamer

OMG, this is so very sad and admittedly, a shock personally. Someone correctly made mention that we lost "Quint" and "Nola" in the same year.

The fact that Pound hasn't even seen the video just invalidates what he said. It's clear he could care less about Peng, just promoting Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Becker has 3 sons. Noah and Elias by his first wife Barbara Feltus and Amadeus (yup, that's his real name) by his second wife Lilly Sharlely Kerssenberg. And then there's the daughter Anna who people derisively refer to as the cupboard child.👀 Thanks for letting me know about Davis Cup, I can get on the app as well. From a few years ago but, 2nd wife is in the blue, first wife is in red and eldest son is next to her. Both are now exes, lol.

In tennis-adjacent news (sort of), this came up on my timeline: Elias Becker, the middle son of Boris Becker, gets a profile in The Times Of London.

Ironically, given today's and recent news events in America, I am smack dab in the middle of reading the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson which discusses such aspects as citizens' arrest and stand your ground as being outgrowth of slavery and Jim Crow laws, when slaveholders were allowed to apprehend, by force any Black man or women that they deemed runaways, even if the person they "caught" had free papers.

Oh no, Iva wasn't even on the canvas at that time. Russ was an antagonist to Steve and Betsy. I was only about eight or nine at that time but I was able to glean that from a piece of dialogue I heard during a re-watch of an episode from 1985. Russ was long gone by then.

This link is paywall-free. The former governor getting in the way of coordination between state and city health officials seems especially heinous, as well as slowing the accessibility of vital information that critically impacts people's health and lives. It's just worse than I even thought.

Even when I use the Playlist feature for From The Beginning, some videos are out of order chronologically and I have to go back and click on the next video, in order.

Yeah, that mugshot really caught me by surprise, especially since they used the real person. I don't think they were trying to malign her or anything, that's just the way it was, it was big news back then and it had a huge effect on the age eligibility rules going forward, so to somehow not mention it in a movie about young tennis phenoms would have been odd. Rick Macci was over the moon that he figured in the story in such a significant way.

Well, count me in as someone who had no idea that Hensley sang. The men on the show didn't often sing as much or as often as the women did. There were a few exceptions, like Bob's duet with Kim at their wedding reception. This seemed to be in contrast with some other '80s soaps that had seemed to have their fair share of singers (Michael Damian, Rick Springfield, Jack Wagner).

Many times in the past, I've criticized various tennis organizations but the WTA has really been standing by their convictions in this Peng Shuai situation, meanwhile the ATP is playing at the margins with anti-vaxxers and DV suspects as their standard bearers.

This is available in theaters too, so maybe people might have been looking in the movie section? Will was good in this but I have to admit that for most of this movie I was always aware that it was Will Smith playing a role, but Aujanue Ellis who played Brandy/Oracene was fantastic! Maybe because of their youth and kids pick up things with more ease than adults but I found the two actresses who portrayed Venus and Serena pretty convincing as up and coming tennis players. This was probably the first tennis themed movie that I have seen, that starred non-tennis players who came across looking like actual tennis players onscreen. These types of movies usually get it wrong. Saniyya Sidney, who played Venus, is playing another iconic person, Sasha Obama in another film with Viola Davis. Talk about a terrific start to a career. The actress who played Serena, Demi Singleton looks just Serena did at that age. When I watched the Red Table Talk with Will Smith and the Williams women, Serena mentioned being in tears every time young Yetunde appeared onscreen and I couldn't help but think about the gangbanger who was stalking her, and IRL, years down the road it would be a gangbanger who took her life, when as an innocent bystander, she got caught in gun crossfire while a passenger in a car. People are talking about how Capriati and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario can't be too pleased with their portrayals but they stuck fairly close to facts. That real life mugshot of Capriati though.👀 And surely Sanchez Vicario is already aware that she has annoyed people at various times during her oncourt career. I am curious about whether McEnroe and Sampras saw the movie. Andy Roddick and his brother get a mention, although only the actor portraying his brother John was shown onscreen. Overall, I found the movie to be moving. The scenes of Venus' first professional match and the real life images and video during the final credits surprised me by how emotional they made me feel. I still think Smith's best dramatic role was as Ali but he did a good job and he was backed up by a talented cast and crew and the story was fairly well done. I don't remember ever hearing Venus pronounce Wimbledon with a "T" in real life though but I guess that was a bit of dramatic license at play.

I'm not shocked, I never had the faith that it would go any other way. Honestly, I don't know what that says about me personally, but I never allowed myself to get invested in this trial because I have believed for years that this wouldn't stop at Trayvon Martin's murder, these self-appointed vigilantes would only become more brazen and eventually, it wouldn't be just Black and brown people who would be the victims of this violence. The law has been propping up these types for years, it was always going to happen that these violent types would extend themselves beyond the usual victims. Also, that jury make-up should've told you what you needed to know from the get-go.

Caroline has a job but she's only a trainee who has been shown at her office less than a handful of times. Brooke keeps telling Dave that she wants to get her career started before marriage but so far, we have yet to see her at an actual job. Since it's already November 1987, maybe what you have described happens in '88?

He raped four young women and the judge, who apparently prayed before handing down the sentence claimed that he felt that jail time would be "inappropriate".

Sometimes, from the tone of these articles it seems as though Western media seems disappointed by this.

Something that I just found out, at random. The reason why the actors who were on The Kids Of Degrassi Street who went on to Degrassi Junior High had different names was because...wait for it...they were asked whether they wanted to keep their character names or get new ones and all the kids said that they wanted new character names, (which, in effect, meant they'd be new characters). According to an interview with Neil Hope and Amanda Cook, Hope said he played a character called Griff on the previous series and when they decided to do Junior High, they asked him and he said he wanted a new character/name and so did all the kids! Such a monumental change to the show's history and subsequent legacy and such a simple reason behind it. I think this was possible because Hope and the other kids were part of a repertory, rather than an established cast/crew hierarchy like other shows which featured child actors. That was really progressive! Here is the clip. Those kids do not sound old enough to even be on the phone 🤣. I guess they must have had their parents' permission.

The first 10-11 months and the only women we really see working consistently are Beth, Margo and Kristen, although we occasionally see Donna overworked and tired from her job as a waitress. So far, Caroline was seen at the office, two, maybe three times. It will be refreshing when the show actually remembers that Brooke has career ambitions, other than riding Ridge. And Thorne wants to buy Caroline a "wedding trousseau"? Oh how 19th century! They act like Caroline doesn't already come from wealth and can't already get these things from her Daddy. It's good that there is a disclaimer in the description under these videos that some of the content in these classic episodes might contain outdated cultural depictions. No kidding.

Oh wow, how could I have forgotten about this telefilm?! So-called "Sorkinese" is a style unique to him (surprise,most talented writers can say the same) but it's hardly a technique, nor so I think that it should ever be emulated (because why?). From the movies of his that I have seen, I do think the Social Network is his best one, he understands the mentality of a Zuckerberg, and perhaps, on some level, may identify with him, based on some of his interviews. I'm not castigating him because of his privilege, but I do think he should own up to the fact that he has it. Throwing others who are lower on the hierarchy than he is just so disingenuous. I still maintain that the PBS Documentary is the best work out there about Ball and Arnaz. It also had the benefit of including interviews by the writers of I Love Lucy, while they were still alive. It was so well done.

Years ago, when the WTA head honchos seemed determined to become tie the financial fortunes of the Tour to China, I found that super worrying, given their human rights history. One or two tournaments was one thing but tying nearly the entire Asian swing to one country was always going to be dicey at best.

Call me skeptical but this statement doesn't quite do it for me.