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People will go easy on Sascha.  I mean, it's not like Nick said it, right?

10 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

Thanks! I know I need to get on it eventually.

You're welcome.  My brother has a Fire stick but he's a Prime member but I'm not.

1 hour ago, Juliajms said:

I can't believe these f*ckers are going to march in D.C.  I just heard about it, which is one of the negatives about not having live TV any more, not that I can watch news with my kids around anyway.  I hope no one gets killed this time.

With the Roku box, there are some live news channels.  NewsOn in particular, has a few local news options, depending on where you are.   

30 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Yes! The 80's had alot of underrated gems of shows. Another is "Double Trouble" with Patricia Richardson 

It absolutely blew my mind when I discovered that the twins and Katy Segal were all sisters, lol.

And this opening is so hopelessly '80s, I can't help but love it!

And I loved Rags To Riches too.

I'll always remember the chorus of that theme song! 

Also, IAL was the first show I remember really seeing Sheryl Lee Ralph in.  I realize she was on Silver Spoons but for some reason, I didn't associate the two characters with the same actress.

The 80s was really good to sitcoms.  They didn't all have to be blockbusters ratings-wise but you could find quite a few good and entertaining little comedies.  I always enjoyed IAL.

Someone on my TL referred to Tsitsipas as her "little baklava".

49 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

Well, time changes things. What did he do to piss them off? I had no idea they weren't speaking to him. But to be fair, he could still reboot Frasier without them. Not that I wouldn't want the rest back.

I don't see David Hyde Pierce and/or Jane Leeves being receptive to his right-wing views.  When Frasier was on the air, he was muted about his politics but after the show left the air became increasingly vocal, to the point of being obnoxious.  

I had no problem with him being open about his conservative views, especially since he couched them in his advocacy for victims rights, especially given the tragedies that happened to his father and his sister, which I was highly sympathetic to (even before I personally lost two family members through the tragedy of violence).  Over the last few years though, he's become downright Eastwoodsian about his conservative views.  

JMO, but if Frasier is to be revived without any of the original supporting cast, any reboot will need a very strong supporting cast because I no longer believe Grammer can successfully carry any show on his own (if I ever did).  

Does anyone remember 'Back To You' where he co-starred with Patricia Heaton? Given their respective resumes, that show should've worked but it was a dry, dull, vapid mess.

Most of Grammer's shows post-Frasier have been underwhelming at best.  Boss was pretty good but had the benefit of a compelling cast of co-stars.

Not for nothing, but David Hyde Pierce won as many awards for Frasier as Kelsey Grammer did. 

It would be interesting to see how the show gets along without Niles. 

They'd better get a darn good supporting cast if they do reboot the show.

Are David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves and Peri Gilpin even still talking to Grammar?

19 minutes ago, John said:

And Billy Mangussen

Yeah, I noticed him right away but I was only mentioning Grammar as a response to @Khan cringing at Wolk. 

All three actors have appeared on ATWT in the last decade when there was quite a lot of cringe-inducing writing.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Oh, no.  James Wolk.

Also, Spencer Grammar.

7 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

 

I'm on the fence here because in tennis this happens.  Baseball has doubleheaders and some of the same players have to get out there and give it all they have.  Because Venus is 38, it's going to be harder AND she has an injury.  Not sure the rules need to be changed here.  

I'm not talking just about Venus and tournaments' schedules.  Washington D.C. had the same issue.  Andy Murray was the most vocal (for obvious reasons) and was criticized for it but a bunch of players just decided to withdraw or lose quickly just so they could move onto the next tournament.  This included plenty of much younger players.

Montreal handled the rains much better than Washington but my point is, that we can expect tournaments to get backed up, especially those that don't have roofs and run on consecutive days. 

There were quite a few lower level tournaments this year and last year that were totally washed out due to chaotic weather events.  Everyone had better get used to this and have a plan in place for how to deal with it.  Also, I've heard from people who attend tournaments that they'd rather know in advance what the cut-off time for the last match is.  They don't want to be sitting around in the damp after 9pm wondering whether they're going to see tennis.

I didn't mean to connect the issue of Venus' health with all of this.  They are two separate issues but it all came out in one abbreviated stream of consciousness.

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— Kim Cattrall (@KimCattrall) August 10, 2018

5 hours ago, Vee said:

Marnie Schulenberg was awful as Alison, came off middle-aged and frumpy. I didn't recognize the character. That said she was surprisingly great in her guest role on OLTL 2.0 as Jo Sullivan, a reality TV producer. Unrecognizable again from her ATWT work. (I also felt Howarth gave his last good performances on OLTL and GH in 2011-2013 but that's me. He was awful as Paul - I loved Holroyd.)

It was a role where she got to create her own personality and you can see the energy and excitement she brought to it.  She was sort of in the mold of a Judith Clayton, but Judith Clayton on steroids!  

On ATWT, Schulenberg was shoved into trying to pick up where Dunphy had left off.  Whereas Dunphy had chemistry with both Agim Kaba and Jesse Lee Soffer, Schulenberg had chemistry with neither (of course the poor writing and direction likely contributed to this), which is why TPTB ended up shoving Alison and Casey together (tbh, I didn't see a whole lot of chemistry between Schulenberg and Billy Magnussen either but I guess it was the least terribly awkward of the three choices).   

Had Dunphy continued on with the role, I could've seen her becoming an interloper in the relationship between Will and Gwen.

And yes, Howarth was awful as Paul, that's not open for debate, LOL.  I was put off by the fact that ATWT got rid of Holroyd, especially for a notorious scene chewer.

Avenatti is another that needs to stay in his lane.  Don't get a Giuliani complex, thinking you can coast to the presidency based on your prosecutorial/legal reputation.

So this Kavanaugh man looks to have been entrenched in some of the worst aspects of Republican political actions in the late 20th century.  The Kenneth Starr panel and now the team that prepared John Ashcroft on how to handle terrorism detainee issues like racial profiling, monitoring attorney-client conversations and military tribunals.  Apparently Kavanaugh had offered to help on the monitoring of attorney-client conversations issue.  It seems like he has been trying to obscure his involvement in this.

Funny how much Trump bellowed how different he was supposed to be from other Republicans, especially Bush but he can't grab the leftovers from W.'s administration fast enough.

Two matches in one day for a 38 year old told me all I needed to about how that match would turn out.   These tournaments need to construct a plan for how they will deal with climate change because these types of weather patterns are here to stay and they will continue to affect tournaments.

Honestly, I've been trying to avoid looking at why her name was trending but curiosity got the better of me in this instance.  SMH.

Lindsay Lohan believes some of the women who have come forward are simply seeking attention: "You have these girls who come out, who don’t even know who they are, who do it for the attention. That is taking away from the fact that it happened" https://t.co/y3wItGZdvT

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 9, 2018

1 hour ago, JaneAusten said:

I think it's interesting how left so many of these Bernie folks are but were they involved in Missouri getting right to work overturned in Mo. Actions like that will have real impact not stumping and yammering on and on and doing nothing. Michigan activists also got that anti gerrymandering referendum on the ballot in Nov also.

I'm glad you mentioned that because I read about that yesterday and think that it is pretty notable, yet I wonder whether it is being discussed in broadcast news.

Yeah, I saw the video of her stumbling and flailing for words when asked about Pelosi.  Instead of stumping as if she's running for president, she should have just stayed local and continued to meet with her potential constituents and fellow NYers, that's where her priorities should have been.

She's become a cautionary tale of what happens when a woman and in particular a WOC hitches her wagon to Berners, while the irony is that Sanders never even bothered to endorse her.

5 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

^ I don't think that's cynical at all. It's the clear reality. 

I'm glad it's not just me that's been seeing this.

1 hour ago, marceline said:

Plus the GOP had to pour millions of dollars into defending what should've been a sure thing.

 

Half the reason Tiberi quit was because he wasn't concerned about the GOP losing the seat.

And just think...these same candidates will be facing off again in the general election!

46 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

A huge ICE raid happened in Nebraska.  133 people were taken and several people were arrested for a range of crimes involving exploiting immigrants.  At the very least, we need a guest worker program so that employers can't take advantage of people.

https://www.omaha.com/news/courts/raids-rattle-o-neill-workers-detained-as-feds-target-alleged/article_df881c1a-e399-523e-86b2-36bf614b3351.html

Call me cynical but imo, many of the very same people screaming against DACA and immigration reform prefer that there is no proper guest worker program and/or path to legalization so that they can continue to exploit undocumented workers, especially seeing that so many are afraid to come forward to report abuses like wage theft and exploitation.

26 minutes ago, Darn said:

At the time I loved Rose, I was drawn into the show by the spa storyline, but looking at clips now I find Martha Byrne 1000% obnoxious. With that accent, that hair, those clothes. I can't imagine how long time viewers felt about all that.

 

That said, I loved her with Scott Holroyd's Paul. I see he was only on the show for 2 years. Why'd they let him go? He was great. Roger Howarth was seriously miscast and frankly he hasn't given a good performance since 1998.

 

Speaking of bad recast, I don't even know the actress' name but whoever they cast as Alison after Jessica Dunphy was a mistake. JD was green but super earnest in the role and made a pretty underwritten part into someone you could root for. I loved her and Aaron. I don't understand ANY of the choices they made with that character when they had her and Amber being cam girls or whatever in order to make Daniel cheat on Lily with porn. WTF was that even.

I don't understand any of the choices ATWT made the entire final decade they were on the air.  It seemed as if as soon as they hooked onto something that could work and be reasonably entertaining, they would ruin it just as quickly.

Although I eventually got used to Marnie Schulenberg as Alison, I disliked the pairing of Alison and Casey. I got used to the recasts of both Alison and Casey somewhat but neither were as charismatic as the previous actors in those roles.

Worse still, ATWT took a hacksaw to the stories and characterizations of their young adult set of characters.  It wasn't pretty.

The recasts of Craig and Paul and Adam were all pretty bad that decade.  There was no good reason to recast Scott Holroyd.  They also made Dusty, (a character who was once accepted to Harvard) into a low-rent gangster wannabe.  Don't get me started on some of the storyline choices!

The big mistake that ATWT and Y&R and many of the other daytime dramas made was that they didn't bother to look for fresh talent for their writing rooms (and with ATWT being in NYC where you had Columbia University and NYU, and that is unforgivable). 

The "cam girls" was likely some middle age dude's idea of a relevant storyline.  Perhaps had Alison and Amber been living in Eastern Europe in the late 1990s, then sure it could've been relevant.

I tried to binge-watch a bunch of episodes between 2005-2007 after having spent months watching episodes from the 1980s and early '90s and boy the contrast in quality of everything was depressing.

22 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

It’s not that difficult to get the facts right about a player’s history. (His ATP profile has the info. Wikipedia isn’t always correct, but it’s right there in the first paragraph of Frances’s entry.) In all likelihood, the announcer himself didn’t do the research, but still it’s unprofessional that it wasn’t caught. That was Frances’s first ATP title, so I can imagine he was touchy about it. 

 

Obviously, Frances didn’t sweat it, as he came out and won his match.

 

Meanwhile, Fognini and Shapovalov are battling verbally on the changeover. Wow.

And really, it's the announcer's job.  Then again, tennis loves to use volunteers so I'm not sure if the announcer is being paid enough to care.

That was a good, mature match from Tiafoe.  Any number of things could've been his undoing in this match (playing a Canadian in his home tournament, rain delay, etc.) but he didn't let it get the best of him.  I hope he keeps going forward.

Probably not disrespectful.  Unprofessional. Personally, I could do without the announcer cataloging the players tournament history during the warmup, the announcers usually don't get it right anway.  Save that for the player compendium or something.

I'm very confused by this. Why is Peng Shuai suspended? Also this means Ons Jabeur is without a coach till November. pic.twitter.com/y37jzIddae

— Reem Abulleil (@ReemAbulleil) August 8, 2018

1 minute ago, Faulkner said:

Wow, Cornet knocked out Kerber.

Not surprised, tbh. Kerber always seems to struggle in the wake of her biggest successes.