DramatistDreamer

WTA was truly a stronger product when it had at least a few events on network broadcast TV in America. Well, maybe after Les Moonves tanks CBS with his ever growing scandals, there might be room for better negotiations to begin to bring some matches back to network TV. Who knows? In terms of Serena's loss, in her interview, she stated that she tried her best and her opponent played well. She also said she had too many things on her mind right now to be pressed about this loss. The press is suddenly shy about bringing up this personal situation likely, after badgering Venus about the tragic car accident last year.

Looks like more people than received the tax cut in the first place. By all means, Trumpists and GOP tax bill apologists, explain how this is not because of Trump's silly tax policy. Enjoy the mess. Hey, just as long as those corporate behemoths and wealthy 10%ers get their slice, that's all that matters...right?

Something clearly wasn't right, either physically or mentally. I did wonder whether this news item played into her state in this match though.

His surrogates have already tried (remember the "shut up and dribble" remark?). It hasn't worked. James is unlikely to back down anyway.

For the past decade or so, I've only had a passing interest in NBA, tbh but I think what LeBron James has elected to do with his public school (yes, a public school) is truly great, especially when you look at all the initiatives that are being launched out of that school.

I guess the bar is that a perpetrator must have out and out brutally raped several people to be prosecuted for a criminal act that hasn't happened recently. I cannot say that I'm surprised in this or CBS.

Well, KiKi's sometime doubles partner doesn't love her right now since KiKi is being smashed in San Diego right now.

23 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

And Business Insider is definitely NOT a left-wing publication. Far from it.

May CBS' stock continue to drop. When it comes down to it, it is money not ethics, that speaks to these corporations. As for The Talk and Chen. I've only seen about 2 or 3 episodes (and not even complete ones) since the talk show has been on the air. Though I no longer watch The View, and haven't for about a decade, at least The View had some cultural impact at one time. The Talk is a superficial chat show pretending to be impactful. I don't expect Chen to demonstrate any ethical sense, it's clear she has no ethics.

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?