DramatistDreamer

Yes, metro but no longer residing in the actual city anymore.

There needs to be a better way. Vaccination is very important but making high-quality masks available is still also very important. Yeah, I haven't tried to buy N95 because I know it's important for healthcare and frontline workers to have ready access to the N95 masks-- I don't want to be a maskhole. Two years later, and we're still having these kinds of issues gives inconsistent mask wearers cover to only sometimes wear masks. Fortunately, where I live, at least, masks are required in all public indoor spaces.

After having just placed an order for KN95 masks for myself and family members, the realization that as of next month, it will be two full years since the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has entered humanity and upended all our lives. It's somewhat hard not to feel a bit depressed about this. Also, after two years, shouldn't production of masks be widespread enough that N95 masks are available to the general population, in addition to hospital, healthcare and frontline workers? Instead, supply chain issues appear to have just gotten worse (there have been new warnings about toilet paper shortages). Shouldn't all those overpaid technocrats have already solved this problem?

Look, I am not trying to be condescending, nor do I want an argument, but there needs to be a bit more discernment when posting tweets directly from politicians' social media feed (and even some journalists, unfortunately). Not that I haven't had my issues with Fauci, but he isn't the entire organization.

Those two accidental gun discharges prior to the fatal one this week though, might come back to haunt the producers.

I agree. I found myself giggling when Donna accused Rocco of being a "capitalist". That Donna would have been more relevant today. I wish they had kept some of those characteristics as time went by. At least this Donna seems like she had something going on in her brain, rather than being a blonde bimbo. Nancy Sloane was affable enough but the writing wasn't there for Katie...at all. The actress did what she could, given the limitations of the role. As my mother would say "You cannot get blood from a stone". Storm's romance with Alex actually made me think for a moment that there was some possibility for the character to have some possibility but there was no genuine development of the character beyond obvious plot point. The most interesting aspect of his relationship with that Alex character is that IRL, the actress who played her is a right-winger who was a part of the T*ump administration.

Thanks for posting @Faulkner. A lot of issues are work here, some recent and others long-simmering. As I mentioned up thread, there are union members that expressed deep dissatisfaction with the proposed IATSE agreement, mainly because they believe it to be a bad deal. This on set tragedy may cause more union members to join the ranks of the dissatisfied. There is also the issue of the pandemic pushing back production schedules and film production companies and investors rushing to catch up to amended release dates ("haste makes waste" is not just an empty aphorism). Tie this in with the long-running issue of having all these venture capitalists investing in movies, with expectations of quick profits (which is not generally the way it works), a "time is money" mentality and multiple production companies, half a dozen or more on one film project, which is often seen as spreading the risk of investment in an artistic enterprise (i.e. money losing) can also have a "too many cooks" effect on a project. One can only hope that there would be some soul searching in the industry, but this is Hollywood and the movie business not the theater, where they at least pretend to be thoughtful about where they can do better.

The U.K., from what I have read, had dropped many of their COVID mitigation measures several months ago, and so it appears, everyone is now living with the results.

I only watched a couple seasons of So You Think You Can Dance and he struck me somewhat odd, even from a distance. He reminds me of a certain type of theater and performing arts person who is so overconfident in his/her/their abilities and importance that they freely "take liberties", even when it infringes on other people's boundaries, as they have no real boundaries themselves-they've never been to taught to have any regard for boundaries, as they've been told how massively talented they are--all their lives. I have both had to perform and work with these types. Better late than never, I guess.

Union members walked off the set of Rust, hours before the fatal shooting. The crew members cited working conditions as the reason they walked out. I also heard that the person in charge of the munitions (weapons/gun), it was her first time on the job.

According to what I read, only hours before this shooting incident, some unionized crew members walked off the set over working conditions. So far, I've only heard that the crew members' complaint was about being promised hotel rooms close to the set, but having to drive 50 miles each day to the set.

One thing this look back has afforded me is the opportunity to realize that people like Brenda Epperson appeared on soaps before her stint on Y&R. I guess that's how she entered the Bell soaps universe.

Geez, Peter Scolari?! Oh, how sad. RIP.

Your idea of hell is similar to mine, only with P&G. And with boosters of certain a ATWT former executive producer and HW from that era of the show, they'd likely be the loudest cheerleaders and get heard first.

I guess hometown hopeful Andrey Rublev had some company getting booted out of the tournament. The guaranteed money was probably very high.

Hutchins started in journalism and transitioned into film. Imagine, the possibilities of escaping potentially dangerous situations and then dying on the set of a movie. So sad and preventable.

Even her cadence is off to me, so I didn't even need to see her face. I have seen some 'stills' from the film and wasn't liking what I saw there either. I did see a bit of Bardem and am skeptical of him as well. The story is not just about Lucille Ball, it's about both Ball and Desi Arnaz. Hollywood today is not really about giving chances to anyone, let alone new actors. Making money supersedes everything, Hollywood wants the "sure thing". In the old studio system in the days of Louis B. Mayer, etc. under the old Hollywood boss hierarchy, actors were contracted to a studio, where they'd keep a so-called stable of talent in reserve for projects, including "fresh faces". That wasn't a very good system either because it wasn't very humane. Some actors would be fortunate enough to get meaningful work and breakout success, while others would practically languish waiting for their opportunity to be in a starring or even good supporting role. In the meantime, the studio practically "owned" them, which means they were tethered to that studio and had to refuse work if it emerged from elsewhere, unless an even more powerful studio boss could extract them out of their contract. Even Leigh herself would go on to have problems with depression and many have speculated much of that depression (the part that didn't have to do with personal and romantic difficulties) had to do with feeling the constraints of that studio system. But I digress (a lot, sorry). If nothing else, I wish the casting call would have been more "open". It's obvious to me that Kidman and Bardem had their names practically tattooed on the title roles. What a shame.

This was the chance to cast two under-the-radar actors who could truly transform themselves and melt into their roles in the way that Halle Berry (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge), Judy Davis (Judy Garland), Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Jonathan Rhys Myers (Elvis Presley) did with the real life people they portrayed but instead, they chose to go with two stars who will have viewers trying hard to forget that it's Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem playing Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I'm not sure I would have cared for Debra Messing either (been there, done that). I get it, people think big stars and Oscar winners are a slam dunk but why not have an open call or again, actors who are still under the radar, who won't make viewers strain during the entire movie to forget who they are IRL?

The newest trailer for King Richard.

When I first heard about this, I was skeptical. Looking at them side by side, though... And if Harrier is capable of actually inhabiting Givens' mannerisms and aura, they don't have to look that much alike anyway.

You're welcome. I know you work very hard and deserve a lot better pay.

It still really bothers me that Procter And Gamble productions didn't extend the licensing agreement with the SoapClassics people to stream and sell DVDs from some of their classic soaps.

This! On the subject of Pluto, last year I watched a marathon of Hunter episodes, so that was kind of fun.

I'm hearing that some people are unhappy with the agreement and a few are threatening to reject it. How many? Stay tuned, I guess?