DramatistDreamer

Was watching an episode from '85 and the scenes between Jay and Spree made me realize that Spree sort of reminds me of Didi Conn--the short dark hair, there's even something about the timbre of the voice that is reminiscent of Conn, though their voices don't sound alike.

There once was a time that the possible poisoning of Russia's biggest opposition figure (and his subsequent flight to another country for treatment) would have been big news but not in 2020. I'm a tea drinker but if I ever find myself anywhere near Russia, tea wouldn't be going anywhere near my lips.

6 minutes? I thought it was 90 seconds. Isn't that what some people were squawking about?

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Me, at that Phillip Michael Thomas throwback:

Thanks for posting these speeches in their entirely, @janea4old. Well, well, well, ahead of 'Indictment Fridays', Bannon gets taken into custody for fundraising fraud by, wait for it...U.S. Postal Service agents.

Both Alfre Woodard and Taraji P. Henson did narration. I noticed their voices right away. Last night was a night of powerful speeches and testimony. I appreciate how Kamala Harris kept including Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous communities, Indigenous tends to get left out of the discussion and sometimes Asian communities as well.

THIS! Million times THIS!!

I do like the aspect of Lucinda and John reconciling but Lucinda giving over the reins to Worldwide to Lily just doesn't quite ring true to the character. I agree with @Mitchthough that realistically, there would be a back and forth on who is running the company. I could see Lucinda, not meaning to undermine Lily but doing it nonetheless, until a struggle ensues over the direction of the company. Honestly, the show should've kept Lucinda's eldest grandchild alive so that he could be groomed to take over (even as Lily runs the company), that would've caused some friction, but alas.

I definitely don't miss the old roll call, it was really noisy, you could hardly hear what people were saying and tended to be overpopulated by obvious bigwigs overfull of bombast. There were quite a few touching vignettes during last night's roll call, which personalized the feature to the extent where you weren't just seeing a state but a collection of people's experiences.

Interesting article that made me wonder what does happen to those seasons of The Cosby Show? Also, the aspect of removing episodes driving a cult following and underground video culture reminds me of so much of what goes on with soap episodes nowadays.

Then Charlotte Kirk, I guess, is what I had always pictured Leanna Love becoming on Y&R, lol.

Did anyone see the pictures of that giant pool party in Wuhan, China? Admittedly, I'm dubious about the veracity of what that video and photo implies but otoh, the city of Wuhan did test millions of their residents.

Whew, right there with you on that one! Also, didn't help that the writing for these iterations of the character was just dreadful but I agree that the casting was wrong. Something I appreciated, when the writing was actually good, was that characters could seemingly be bitter rivals, sniping at each other one moment and demonstrating empathy and understanding in a different moment. Lisa and Lucinda did it when Lisa vowed to go after Lucinda with the Martin Guest mystery yet, didn't use it to hurt Lily, even when it would clearly be to Lisa's advantage to do so. This happened with Barbara and Margo a few times also.

IA. Fortunately, the success of Becoming proves that there are so many other things she is capable of doing and she still has the ability to connect with people.

@I Am A Swede I posted a little about this a week ago or so. IMO with Lukashenko being in office for damn near a quarter-century, the only person he can turn to, at this point, is Putin who has had 20 years in higher office in some capacity. Putin may not like it but, as you inferred, if Lukashenko goes down, it might raise hopes, particularly for those Russians in the Far East who have already been protesting.

LOL. I just cannot stand them and think Cubic Zirconium and Rayon are a better fit for names in which to call them by.

With all the construction noise on my street, I am having a hard time being productive so I decided to watch the GL reunion with Rick Hearst and Sonia Satra and Hearst mentioned doing a screen test for the role of Linc with Heather Rattray, who he complimented as a sweetheart that he got along with very well. It'd be nice if some reunion show could have Rattray and Lucy Deakins. Also, there needs to be a show with Lea Salonga and Ming-Na Wen.

Aren't Cubic Zirconium and Rayon engaged in some lawsuit against FNC or something?

There was a lot of cheering on my TL when that announcement was made. I'm trying to parse why. For most of the season, everyone's talking about the Slams and the bigger tournaments, while failing to paying attention to the smaller tournaments which seem to have little to no money for proper testing. This is disturbing to me.