DramatistDreamer

Interesting article written by Wesley Morris (who has a pretty good podcast called Still Processing with Jenna Wortham) about the types of 1980s movies and culture (during judge Kavanaugh's heyday) that prized the sexual exploits of young white men at the expense of women. In ’80s Comedies, Boys Had It Made. Girls Were the Joke.

Hopefully the people of Maine will vote Collins out at the first opportunity.

I thought about you when I read this article. I learned about this in a Black Studies course I took in college but I realize that the majority of Americans don't know anything about this event. It ties into my thoughts earlier this week when I read an article about the abysmally low voting rates in the U.S. and how it used to be much higher until 1900 when the rates fell. I thought about the fact that the Reconstruction period was a time of high voter engagement among blacks, when many ran for and were voted into public office and how this resulted in economic success for blacks who created areas like 'Black Wall Street' and how it was destroyed by terrorists, who the government did nothing to stop and actively helped. The legacy of that terror was voter suppression tactics and a subsequent disengagement of black voters who had been terrorized. That is a part of the legacy that has feed into 'voter apathy' that continues today. It's a subject that never gets discussed-- the fact that blacks in this country were once active participants of electoral politics, as voters and as candidates for public office. More people should know about events such as this.

Except, at least with Nixon, the majority of people who've waited on her are more likely to have a satisfying ending. Can't say the same for these folks. They're the Carlivatis and Mal Youngs of the world. Making people hang on (those who haven't yet cut bait and given up), only to leave people flat, bewildered, if not out and out alienated and angry. Good at what they do, they are not.

Final vote is tomorrow. Susan Collins is every bit as irritating to me as Flakey Flake.

Perhaps he became the man who knew too much?

When I saw that Garcia won the first set, I immediately thought to myself "Garcia had better win in straights, because if it goes to a third set, Garcia will get messy and I have a hard time imagining her winning". I was right. Why does she do this? This is bad form.

Even though I read the Der Spiegel article over the weekend, I admit that I really haven't much kept up to do with the world of international football, with the exception of The World Cup, so I only heard about this over the weekend and read the article immediately after. For me, when I hear the name Ronaldo, I still think of the now retired Brazilian football star, not the Portuguese one. On topic, it looks as if the rape allegations against the Portuguese footballer are being re-examined as a case is being reopened.

This is not so much a "Where Are They Now?" but 'Where They Were, Way Back When" but if you want to see a very young, pre-ATWT Brian Bloom (Dusty Donovan, ATWT), Netflix is streaming Once Upon A Time In America. The film was shot between 1982-1983 and Bloom started as Dusty in April 1983, so he likely went from the film set to set of ATWT in spring 1983.

The FBI only interviewed seven people.

Thanks for that tip, I put myself on the Waiting List (yes, there is one).

Warning: You can feel the anguish in this essay. It is visceral. The details are graphic.

I really loved the section where Rouverol talks about the importance of subtext in writing dramas for daytime. Subtext is essentially the difference between screenwriting and playwriting and back then daytime dramas and those classic TV dramas of the golden age hewed closer to playwriting standards than screenwriting standards. That has somewhat changed today but it's so interesting to hear her talk about why she initially struggled with the transition from screenwriting to writing daytime drama. For me, personally, it was the reverse where it took me longer to be able to write a TV sitcom script because I am far more at ease writing scripts for the stage. TV scripts, subtext can be deadly, simply because there's not enough time to reveal beyond words. A thirty minute situation comedy script, you have to be more blunt, unless you are carrying out a story over a series of episodes, you don't have time to deal with 'what is not being said'. On classic soap, what's not said was almost everything. I love to hear from writers on these specific aspects of writing for their respective genres.

Thanks @Limenade! I'll try to watch this at some point later in the day.

Trump's EPA now declares that some radiation is actually good for you.

The Swiss, the Germans and the U.S. look pretty formidable. Of course, the French are a wildcard, if ever I've seen one.

Deadspin has the rundown of the dustup between Sloane and Pavs, complete with the actual video that the WTA tried to delete. Sloane Stephens Feuds With Opponent: "[!@#$%^&*] Bitch Tried To Hit Me"