DramatistDreamer

Hiding casualty numbers has become the M.O. of the Trump administration, so I tend to believe this is the case. They've stopped reporting deaths in Syria and Iraq. Todd Chuck is getting dragged again on social media, just reminds me to question how he still has a job on TV. I haven't watched MTP in ages but I've seen him enough times in press conference to know that he's awful.

I wish I hadn't looked at those pictures that were taken just moments before. When the pilot states that he was following orders despite the conditions, the fault really does lie with Landis who was insistent on the helicopter pilot flying closer to the action, which was where the actors were. Also, if it hadn't been for his skirting child labor rules, those two kids would not have even been on set that day. Just horrid! Has his reputation actually impaired his ability to work as a director or a producer? Despite social media comments, it just seems like he's still been able to have a career in the industry and his connections seem to have allowed his terrible son to carve out a place in the industry--at least up to now.

Every now and then, I'm reminded that John Landis directed Coming To America and other movies but only last week when this news started to break open publicly, did I read about people suggesting that the elder Landis was known to bully people on set. I wish I hadn't looked at Wikipedia because I started to read about those horrific deaths on the set of the Twilight Zone movie, of which I vaguely remember watching some E! Channel docu-show about Hollywood's most horrific incidents but this time around, reading about it in clearer detail, it made me shudder. Landis never seemed to take full ownership of the horrific events that happened on that set.

1 hour ago, Vee said: I think it's a bit more complicated. He seemed lovely going in with that beautiful family and a lot of great ideas, but we all mocked him after he took office because he became incredibly inept and tone-deaf. That crossed a lot of class lines, at least in terms of the perception of him. Meanwhile, in the UK, a modest proposal:

The fact that I had no awareness who this person was until recently, goes to show how much of a 'theatre-head' I truly am. While he went along raping women and using his familial connections to build his career.

It's been several years since I left NYC but I have noticed that DeBlasio gets the lionshare of criticisms from mainly from one group of NYers, so it's not surprising that there is such a disparity among racial and economic lines in how he is viewed. So to read this was interesting but not surprising. This is separate from my total bafflement as to why he's running for president.

You ever had the experience of coming across something intriguing but totally unrelated to what you were researching in the first place? This seems to happen to me quite a bit. Or maybe I'm just being easily distracted lately. I'd never heard of this show until today but then again, I haven't watched HGTV since 2010, which would be the same year this show began. Anybody ever seen this reality series or this episode? Apparently, Ellen Dolan and her husband were looking to sell their house, probably around the time ATWT was canceled. https://watch.hgtv.com/tv-shows/selling-new-york/full-episodes/smells-like-a-deal Smells Like a Deal/Selling New York The Ellen Dolan segment begins around 8:45

Good Lord...and to think, there are other children and families enduring something similar, albeit older children...like toddlers. Just inexcusable for any society that prides itself on respecting civil rights and civil liberties.

This is probably the reason why Harris didn't attend the BEA forum.

Those worthless tax cuts.

Grass courts haven't been true grass courts in about a decade and pretty much, everybody and their mamas play baseline tennis, which doesn't make for very interesting on a grass court. There has been a distinct lack of surface diversity in regards to court surface construction and speeds. Sure it might make the transition from one surface to another a bit less chaotic but it can make for some dull tennis overall.

Caroline got married earlier in Italy.

Alan and Alexandra Spaulding (as played by Chris Bernau and Beverly McKinsey) had to be one of, (if not the) most richly complex and intriguing sibling relationships in the history of daytime drama. When they're so combative, soap siblings are usually written as having one sibling portrayed as being the dominant one, while the other sibling is usually written as the more submissive one but Alex and Alan were on equal terms when it came to being aggressive and driven. Each was equal parts ruthless and cunning, they'd practically take turns undermining and outmaneuvering each other for control of Spaulding Enterprises. Each person was totally convinced that they were justified in their actions, even at their most ruthless. Yet Bernau and McKinsey were so good that they could still convince viewers that bubbling underneath all that Machiavellian maneuvering, there was an inextricable bond that looked a lot like love. I thought it was really interesting that in that scene, even in the midst of Alan becoming completely undone and Alex obviously having the upper hand, she talked about their sons running the company together one day and meaning it. *It's a bit unsettling to think of the fact that less than a decade down the road, Alan-Michael would lose Spaulding due to the most imbecilic of actions (temporarily surrendering the Spaulding corporation and the estate to Jenna Bradshaw) and that Alan-Michael and Nick McHenry would be running a fledgling newspaper in an economically tenuous part of town...but I digress*. A bit of stunning drama, that scene between Alan and Alexandra was.

The tennis industry (as well as some tennis fans) chooses to focus on the wrong things. Instead of focusing on stupid things like conference rooms for post-match press conferences and who took a (missed) swipe at blades of grass on a tennis court, why won't tennis focus at the rule bending and match-fixing issues that are eating away at the game? Tennis has some definite issues with corruption and malfeasance. How the hell else can you explain Justin Gimelstob being allowed to linger at the game's highest administrative echelon while on trial for felony assault?

Folks continue to treat comedians as if they are journalists and I don't get it. Then again, I didn't get how Larry Wilmore got that Comedy Central late night talk show in the first place. Writing off-color jokes are his forté, not political punditry. Anita Hill has repeatedly saying what she said about Joe Biden, so if folks are just now hearing it then they're being brand new. I'd rather wait to see how candidates do in the actual debates. Folks forget that Trump was at 1% (if that) at the very beginning of the GOP primary season in 2016. We all see how that turned out.

The Gulf of Tonkin was trending on Twitter yesterday, which, from my recollection of social studies and history was said to be the conflict (many would say, manufactured conflict) that was used to justify the U.S. going into Vietnam. Seeing it trending yesterday was certainly unsettling. And I agree, it means there have been no lessons learned from past/disastrous military interventions by the U.S. in Southeast Asia (Vietnam), Central Asia (Afghanistan) and the Middle East.

Speaking of trash in the WH, wasn't she supposed to have left already?

If I ever saw this Y&R promo, I don't remember it. Then again, this was during a very hectic period of time for me.

So he goes from sitting at John Singleton's bedside keeping vigil to this???

What was bizarre was that I didn't see any tweets other than from his account discussing the matter. Maybe his tweets were getting many retweets but usually when a topic is trending, the tweets are being generated from numerous accounts, not just one. It just looked bizarre to me.

Surprised that this one hasn't been posted yet. I guess by this time, I was only watching soaps during the summer since I had no time to watch TV during the school year. This style of half animation, half realistic was an interesting way to present the promo.

I noticed that Sanders was trending today but when I checked to see why, it was basically Bernie firing off a rash of tweets (i.e. a tweet-storm) with almost no engagement from anyone else. I figured that perhaps he was doing it to try to get his name back in the spotlight somehow. It was probably a campaign decision-- likely as a result of them being rattled by Warren's policy discussions being in the news and her poll ratings rising. It was bizarre how I just saw a string of tweets from Sanders' twitter and no one else.

Watching some May 1993 episodes that include Frank & Eleni's wedding. I've just thought of the possibility that with the raucous, block party-like atmosphere on Fifth Street, Frank & Eleni just may have had the original Big, Fat Greek Wedding (both families were Greek). (Steve & Betsy on ATWT had a Greek wedding nearly a decade before. Theirs was highly traditional, albeit beautiful ceremony, while Frank & Eleni's had a more celebratory feel).