DramatistDreamer

Oh, I agree...she's still beautiful. Perhaps her natural beauty is a bit too real for the remaining West Coast soaps.

There is a profile of her from a few years back on the popular Humans of New York blog/Facebook page. Unfortunately, I can't seem to embed the entry, probably because I'm not a member of Facebook but because the page is Public, I was able to read it. What she has to say is unsurprising but pretty interesting. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735/1415486905192072/?type=3&theater

Ironically, it seems that Mary Kay Adams' career has generally stayed away from movies. Does anybody know why?

There were definitely times when Bob's shortness of temperament reared its head in situations. I know that John Dixon was often a provocateur who could get under anybody's skin but there were a few instances when he would voice a genuine concern with Bob (although, in typical John fashion, he used neither diplomacy nor tact) and Bob would just go off on John, sometimes unprovoked. Bob could be very haughty, as he displayed with new resident Casey Perretti, even when Casey's ideas were in earnest (and yes, on occasion, Casey could rub people the wrong way with his abrupt manner). Then there is the way that Bob talked down to Kim when he found out that she wanted to have a career shortly after Christopher was born. Everyone talked about Steve Andropoulous' regressive views on married women (w/kids) in the workplace but no one mentioned Bob's, even after both Kim and Lisa challenged Bob on his out of step views. FWIW, I think various writing regimes tried to show just how imperfect and flawed Bob could be (in many ways) but a lot of viewers often built up a hagiography in their own minds, based upon those warm and wonderful Thanksgiving toasts and Christmas carols but Bob was still the man who cheated on two of his wives.

I was in my mid-30s when it struck me. I think I must have a high threshold for misery because it was bad, but I wouldn't say I was in terrible pain. It was miserable but thankfully came and went in about a week, sort of like the chickenpox that afflicted me many years before. Age 50 is at least a handful of years away but I wonder whether it's worth it to get the vaccine since I've already had it?

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.