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Fabio is very sexy but those oncourt antics are a big turnoff. He's probably charming as can be offcourt but he seems to be a big flirt. Hopefully he's faithful to Flavia, who seems like a genuinely nice person, unlike Vinci and Errani, both of whom I never could stand.

LOL, it's a song by Drake that became a major hit and inspired a dance challenge that went viral (In My Feelings). The chorus says "Hey KiKi...do you love me?" It's quite a catchy song. Is Fabio trying to get dumped with this look?

A brief anecdote: I had a brief freelance stint at a television show when I was fresh out of college in the late 90s and at the show where I worked (which fittingly, was located in the Fox building), I discovered that there was a known harasser (just a few desks away from me) who was in the midst of a sexual harassment trial and was blithely arriving and leaving each day, looking as if nothing was amiss in his world. Thinking of the look of smugness and entitlement on his face... galls me to this day. Looking at Lorimar's history--Moonves worked there from 1985-1993 and he was president at Lorimar from 1990-1993, which is why I mentioned Hunter because Lorimar produced that show. I think the actress mentioned that in 1995 when he landed at CBS, he told her that she should've f*cked him when she had the chance years ago when he made all those sexual overtures to her. Disgusting. Fager's part in this predatory culture is every bit as reprehensible. Leslie Stahl may not have felt this but many women and a few men who were in less prominent positions obviously felt this.

According to the article, Moonves has been at CBS for 24 years, so he would've gotten to the network in 1994. Not sure what his duties were and how much power he had to "greenlight" projects in his first years, but I am thankful that shows like Kate & Allie, Cagney & Lacey and Murphy Brown all preceded him. I just looked up C&L and interesting that Gless and the show's producer Rosenzweig have been married since 1991. Rosenzweig's wife Barbara Corday was one of the show's two original writers. Also Loretta Swit appeared as Cagney in the pilot. Ever since this story had hints of breaking, I've been saying that the culture of misogyny at CBS is so evident that it bleeds into their programming. As someone in the article said, CBS is an old company...and I agree that this includes their mores. Many are trying to fight those facts and what this means. CBS has so much work to do in order to clean house.

More than a third of the way through (I think) the New Yorker article about Moonves and for some reason, the account by the writer Janet Jones had me a bit choked up. I think it was the threats that she'd never work as a writer that truly got to me, after all she'd done to try to build a career. Also, I'm now reading the part about the unnamed actress "who played a police officer on a long-running CBS program" and trying to figure out who it is. For some reason, the actress who played the cop partner on the drama Hunter immediately sprang to mind. Then I remember that I used to watch Hunter on NBC. Hunter was produced by Lorimar though, where Moonves was working during the late 1980s. I remembered the actresses name although when I did a quick online search realized I had misspelled her first name, Stepfanie, not Stephanie as I had spelled it. Kramer, I always remembered. As a child, I was always reading the opening credits and sometimes, the closing credits too. It was Stepfanie Kramer who immediately sprang to mind. I'll try to make it through the rest of this article.

Wasn't Haberman the same person who claimed that she would be pulling back from using twitter? Hm. I guess it's different when one is pushing one's own output.

Still watching 2006 (with quite a bit of FF-ing) and Ph-eww! What a clusterf*ck! The sorry Slasher story barely finished before the Ice Storm side-story emerged, equal parts gimmick and filler. And every other commercial break during the Slasher story was a promo for the Ice Storm story. You would think they'd advertise at other hours to try to convince viewers who weren't already watching. 2006 definitely rates as one of, if not the most depressing year the show ever had, with how many deaths? Jennifer, Hal, multiple random kids who the show never bothered to allow the viewer to truly get to know or care about. Then there was the introduction of 'Creepy Craig' (Jeffrey Meeks is probably a nice guy in real life but gottdamn he creeped me out in these episodes!). What type of wizardy foolishness gets Tom to work for Creepy Craig?? I could see 80s Craig and Tom working together but this makes no sense. It just makes Tom look like a greedy shark. I've already mentioned (I think) wannabe thug Dusty. Dusty and Craig's rewritten characters during the last decade irked me to no end! How can a show be this frenetic yet this dull? Oh yay, the beginning of endless singing Gwen's recording career launch! Just a jumbled mess. Why couldn't they use the previous actor who played Adam Munson?

Although, it should come as no surprise that she's defending her husband but just an interesting use of language by Julie Chen in mentioning her husband's morality. Wasn't the ink barely dry on Moonves' divorce papers from his previous marriage when he married Chen?

I definitely believe this contributed to the derailment of her career, as it has to many women who have yet to get to where Douglas ever reached. This atmosphere is widespread to CBS. It is part and parcel of their corporate culture under Moonves, in particular. One only needs to look at their programming choices to realize this. The stock plunge was not only a reaction to the Moonves allegations, it is also an acknowledgement that the corporate culture that CBS has nurtured for decades no longer works. You know who might be doing a bit of a jig right now? Shari Redstone, who has been engaged in something in a bitter battle with Moonves over the future of CBS.

LOL. Nobody wants to play tennis these days!

It's what many of us feared would happen. I can't bring myself to read the article about a six year old being sexually assaulted. Americans really need to face up to the fact of what acts are being committed in the name of the USA.

I generally have no use for The Talk but boy, do I ever wish I was able to see the show today. Is Julie Chen on?

Oh, he's great as Trump's chief antagonist.

I had a feeling too @Vee. Just based on what I've read secondhand though. Is this part of the reason why CBS is so highly misogynistic in it's programming?

Serbia emerged from the war and strife in the Balkans (from collection of countries formerly known as Yugoslavia) as a relatively poor country. It is a lifetime away from Croatia, (another Balkan country that emerged from the war) which has been a well-known travel destination for at least a decade. Let's just put it this way-- I once saw a special on Frontline PBS where a man who had been held in a CIA "Black site" during the war in Afghanistan was released to Serbia and after months of being there he was crying to be sent to another country! Recently, I read that there was some real estate development that has been going on (which is displacing some residents) but yeah, life there is still tough for many and there is still a fair amount of crime there.

I just saw this! All those times when people used to wonder why he shielded his son's face from public view, my immediate thoughts were always that perhaps he wanted to protect his son from the possibility of being kidnapped. The threat is very real if he's in Serbia, although I know he lives in Monte Carlo but clearly he and is wife have family who still live there.

I always do this. The town where I currently live used to chuckle when I did this. I wonder if they think I'm being silly when I do this again before midterms. I think I just saw the video. Do most Americans truly stop and think of the cruelty that is being committed in their names?

It's so interesting that when Obama was president, deficits were practically all that mattered. So much so that when the Obama administration proposed a bigger stimulus that would include upgrading the electrical grid (making it a national priority), the Republicans squawked endlessly about exploding deficits, cowing even some Democrats to back down from supporting anything other than a modest stimulus. Consequently, it's now being discovered that the Russians have recently been hacking into various electrical authorities, causing various power outages.

I definitely don't want Avenatti to ever run for president. I am so tired of these guys who believe that fighting their 'cases' in the media means that they can do the hard work of governing. And similar to Trump, Avenatti believes himself to be a streetfighter who likely seems himself as being uniquely capable of 'getting the job done'. These types usually believe that only they are uniquely skilled to 'fix' the problem(s) alone. He's great as a foil to antagonize Trump but higher elected office? No thanks. I need the U.S. to get back to electing people who can be diplomats with a deft touch, not a wrecking ball. We've been discussing tax cuts and deficits and shockingly, there are still some folks out there who believe Trump's tax cuts to be having a positive effect. Well, this is for 'the people in the back' who still don't get it.

I've cut out on soaps when I felt that the writing just wasn't good. I'm not going to waste my time out of some misplaced sense of loyalty when the shows haven't earned it. That goes for any websoaps too. I've watched low budget fare online (particularly comedies) that was good and entertaining, so I don't care how high or low the production values are, if the writing is poor, even talented actors can't cover that and I will turn away from that. Something else that I just thought of with soaps on the web--they're not just competing with other soaps as they (mostly) did in their heyday, on the networks. Today's soaps on the web are competing against everything else on the web. And there is such an abundance of entertainment on the web that if a program doesn't either stand out above everything else, or be so excellent that they can't be ignored-- then they will struggle to capture an audience. Korean soaps and telenovelas have managed to find audiences by offering what no other genre can offer. Have American online soaps managed to do this? Do daytime dramas even know how to do this anymore?

When his game started to pick up, I figured Djokovic likely dumped that guru.

Oh boy, hold onto your re-boots.

@soapfan770 Speaking of the Grammars, I just saw this, LOL. Oh Lordy, why did I mention his success with this show...it's almost like speaking this into being!