DramatistDreamer

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more sickening. Are there no safe spaces where a woman may work unmolested??

Chickenpox puts you in direct line to one day have the possibility of contracting shingles. Yay! As someone who had the shingles, I don't know anyone who would want someone to be at risk of that, especially when there is a vaccine that can now prevent it.

I didn't know that Phil Lewis was directing now! I recognize him from the ton of sitcom work that he has done.

Last week it was Michelle Obama. Roseanne is still blaming everybody but herself. People were making it out to be an act of pettiness but I can see why Joyce DeWitt had cut Somers out of her life for decades. As a kid I always preferred Janet anyway.

This reminds of that scene in As The World Turns where Margo (HBS) impatiently says "Am I speaking Serbo-Croatian?!" I wish I could find that clip.

Looks like Big Sascha will be doing coaching consult for Kiki Mladenovic, er, or at least Kiki's mother. I wonder if they communicate in Serbian as Kiki's family are originally from Serbia and Sascha, though born in Germany, is of Serbian origin as well.

This goes without saying but that Kentucky governor is clearly a dumba*s. How professional is Individual 1's administration!

Netflix's contracts will likely cause creatives to think twice about signing on the dotted line with them in the future. Just because this contract model has worked in the past, doesn't mean it will continue to work. So far, money has allowed Netflix to enforce their standard of placing a moratorium on most series that streamed on their platform (even the author claims that ODAAT might be an exception) Creatives value their freedom and will be side-eyeing these agreements going forward, some may even bypass Netflix and their big $$$ in favor of more freedom with their projects. One aspect that I don't like about that Deadline article is that there are still many unknowns presented in the way that Netflix does its business. "I hear" and "as far as I have heard" is cited a lot in this article, which tells me virtually nothing as it offers no concrete proof that this is actually the way Netflix does their business. I like to go on facts before I go off on Netflix or HBO or any company, for that matter, lol.

Speaking of anti-vaxxers in political office.

No wheelchair, no stretcher? Why call the ball boy, what's he supposed to do...with a towel?

Like Stacy Abrams, Andrew Gillum is also launching a voter registration initiative.

The main stadium court, that's the temporary one, right?

Netflix is trying to pull an Amazon, in terms of trying to gobble up market share but entertainment is not like warehousing stuff to sell, so we'll see how/whether this strategy works. I have my own ideas on the matter but I'm just going to observe for now to see what becomes of all this.

Except Netflix is also doing movies that compete with those in the movie theaters, while HBO is not. I would think that, for that reason alone, the Hollywood establishment regards HBO much more favorably than Netflix. As great at HBO has been over decades, they are not going to compete directly with the movie theaters. HBO is disruptive, but there is a limit to that level of disruption. What HBO is doing is not threatening to the movie theater industry, while Netflix is clearly intent on going there.

One of the courts is named Butch Buchholz Court, there's the Grandstand Court and Stadium Court. On ESPN3 livestream all the courts are listed. I think the courts look good on the livestream, not really sure how they play yet because I know various things like temperature and wear on the court can affect the courts over time and I haven't really watched enough matches to hazard much of a guess. One observation: it looks like players might be hitting a heavy ball by the way the balls are travelling through the air, perhaps that is also being affected by the conditions?

Was it a qualifying match or Main Draw?

What a mess of an administration. I've never seen anything like this!

One of the moments that is seared in my memory is the bitter disappointment I felt when I read about the vote to go to war by invading Iraq.

Private Number was always the first song that came to mind for me when I thought of the The Jets but after I watched that episode, Rocket 2 U was in my head several times yesterday, LOL. I had no clue what that song was about when that song debuted, I was too young. It's a shame that one faction of the family sued the other, and the parents encouraged this?? They really need to rebuild the original lineup, the tour would be more stronger if they did this. The younger Jets can form their own spinoff group where they always be an opening act for performances. The time is now, while the Unsung episode is still fresh and they are on people's minds. There have been quite a few musicians who have re-launched their careers in the wake of their Unsung episodes. If the likes of The Cover Girls and Exposé can get themselves on some type of tour, The Jets, who are far more talented should be able to, especially if they can get on a double bill with another musical act that was also popular around the time period that they were popular. New Edition, New Kids On The Block and BoyzIIMen were very successful when they all toured together for awhile. 1980s and 90s nostalgia is big right now, The Jets could really have another chance at musical success (maybe not at the levels they were in the 80s but a nice career as performers) if done well. That manager really did them dirty. His absence from the documentary spoke volumes. Someone on Twitter asked whether Bruno Mars could've been influenced by The Jets. There were some who responded yes and some no, stating that Bruno Mars is Puerto Rican and Hawaiian (I'm not sure why this would rule him out as being influenced by The Jets since Hawaiians are technically Polynesian/Pacific Islanders, as are Tongans). I'd love for someone to actually ask Bruno about this, I think it's a good question. Anyway, I thought the episode was fun (well except for the health and family crises) and it sent me looking for other performances on YouTube. By the way, anyone who hasn't seen it and wants to- https://tvone.tv/video/unsung-the-jets/ I would recommend watching it on Firefox browser and I cannot guarantee that the link will be active forever so...watch it while you can.

Dana Delaney! This episode was quite enjoyable, imo. The cat and mouse interplay between John Dixon and James Stenbeck is very compelling. It's nice to see Justin Deas (as Tom Hughes) give a performance that isn't hammy. To see Margo arguing with Lyla and being very much invested in a relationship with James is quite interesting to see. Those scenes between Brad and Eric Hollister were...uh, interesting. I was mostly interested in their discussion about Hayley and it was kind of weird to see that Brad was thinking about the possibilities of a relationship with either Lisa or Dee Stewart, two very different women. Also, I liked this actor who played Rick Ryan. In the later iteration of Rick, the character was much more obvious as a menace, very oily but this Rick is a bit more complex, almost wears two faces, one that appears earnest but underneath, lies a mercenary. I would love to see more episodes from these storylines. The video quality is excellent too, I'm guessing it's from one of the SoapClassics collections.

Apparently, someone from IMG, which owns the Miami Open, referred to the tournament as the new U.S. Open (the U.S. has roofs, though!).

Some of tweets of Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota are being exposed and it is not a good look. At all.

Miami Open owner and organizers were boasting about all that damn luxury of their new venue, etc. but couldn't spend the coin on a damn roof?? Their first day is an entire washout.