DramatistDreamer

The NYT wrote an obituary on James Karen, including a clip of George Clooney telling a funny anecdote at the AFI awards. James Karen, Veteran Actor and ‘Pathmark Man,’ Dies at 94

I posted that Niecey Nash video on Tuesday. https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/28724-the-politics-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1590367

Is its relatively short run (for a soap opera) the reason why Dark Shadows gets rerun so frequently?

@Soapsuds I saw it last night on social media. Some are claiming that it is already starting to grow back. I hope so, for his sake.

You're welcome @~bl~. To those who might still be fuzzy, here's a screenshot with a scene from The Golden Girls where he played Raymond, the boyfriend who couldn't get alone time with Dorothy because Sophia was always tagging along.

Are people going to act as if this is the worst it's ever been? This country has reports of children being bombed in churches during the 1960s. Back then, I wonder whether people could've ever conceived of a Barack Obama. Meanwhile, I'm sparing a thought for the people who have to deliver the mail. Having a job with the Post Office used to be considered a good job with steady benefits but with all we have seen in the last decade or so, with how the USPS is languishing and then there is the inherent dangers of possible explosives being sent in the mail, those post office jobs don't look so great, after all. I feel for the people who must deliver the mail. Surely, they're not being paid nearly enough to have to deal with this sort of thing.

I really hope he's not still a "thing" in the next year.

The markets are not about the ordinary person but about shareholders. Remember that distinction between Wall Street and Main Street? This is about Wall Street and Wall Street does not like volatility and from everything I've read over the years, neither do they like a Bear market, which is what this is threatening to become (if it isn't already there). Financial pain will eventually trickle down to the masses when things get bad enough (or if it's in an industry that affects consumers like the housing market) but the gains on Wall Street are rarely felt by the masses, and these subsequent shake ups are acutely felt by Wall Street, and K Street, by extension.

Also, I'm watching to see how long the financial markets continue their downward slide. The S&P 500 has already lost all the gains it made in 2018. I wonder how much sustained support and complicity Trump Inc. can expect if they continue to tank financial markets? Especially through Election Day?

Also, aren't Tsitsipas and Medvedev's families friendly with each other? Tsitsipas' mother is Russian. In fact, from what I remember, both players' mothers completely blew off the incident, claiming that both guys actually get along well off-court.

People who are dismissively calling these "hoax bombs" are missing the entire point. Whether the devices cause carnage or not, the intent is to terrorize people and upend their lives, which is why the media needs to grow a backbone and call it what it is...domestic terrorism.

At this time of political chaos, let's not forget about the everyday corruption that still occurs on a daily basis.

James Karen had such an impressive body of work (his final project is still in production), I'm pretty sure everyone on this board knows him from somewhere. I remember him from an episode of The Golden Girls and who can forget his turn as the racist man who George saves on The Jeffersons?? His time on ATWT was before I was born but it sure would be nice is there was a clip out there somewhere that could be uploaded to YouTube by someone. CBS, remarkably produced a bunch of pristine clips of classic ATWT before the show was cancelled and I see some rare episodes from the 60s up there, so I hope one of him on this show can be found...somehow. As a child, growing up in the NYC tri-state area, I also remember him as Mr. Pathmark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcIrNPcknpk Don't these YouTube videos embed anymore?

OMG.

Russia probably demanded that Trump use an unsecured line, better for them to listen in. The Chinese were not going to let a good unsecured line go to waste.

Speaking of Borna, this is a nice thing for him to do.

Yeah, I think José was saying Grigor landing outside the Top 20 was likely, not inevitable. I don't know what to say about Grigor's new look. I was envisioning a buzz cut like Borna Coric but I'm now guessing it's more extreme. I'm afraid to look now. Serena's going to be onstage for a talk with her ex. LOL.

I've heard people talking about Grigor's hair but I haven't seen it because I have yet to see one of his matches in about two weeks now. CoCo Vandeghwe's ranking is also going to have a severe drop as well.

He didn't have to, someone said that someone on Fox Newschannel has proposed that Hillary sent the package to herself. I knew some right-winger would get around to doing this.

According to CNN, the devices were "rudimentary but functional", which makes me think that they were very basic in construction but they were capable of a good amount of destruction.

Yet Trump is still scheduled to go on one of his Dumpster dive rallies where he's likely ramble on about how each of these people sent it to themselves to spite him.

Who misspells Florida on the return address of a package?? Although frankly, I have an idea of the type of person who would do that.

And sadly, a good portion of those mailroom people tend to be long-term temporary workers who don't even get the full and proper benefits of a permanent employee.