DramatistDreamer

Apparently the ATP has concluded its investigation of the abuse allegations against Zverev and has declared insufficient evidence regarding the allegations made by Sharypova, neither confirming nor denying her accusations. After all this time, the ATP acted exactly as we predicted.

Did they beg Mishael to get dressed up and take a cast photo on her way out?👀 I have my thoughts but I am going to keep it classy.

I don’t intend to ever watch that video. It has become a gruesome parade of abuse and vicious violence to the death of black bodies, a digital “Strange Fruit” that America appears to feast on with absolutely no real change for the better, just more snuff videos. If anything, it is desensitizing America to black pain and Black Death. And people making the color of the police officers an issue, like it’s some big difference- it makes absolutely zero difference when the training itself promotes the dehumanizing of black people who are stopped by the police. I just do not see the purpose of watching people being killed on camera, especially when it will change nothing. Sadly, George Floyd’s murder didn’t offer a sustained change in the system, mainly many platitudes and performative displays. Can someone please explain how watching this video will change anything? I am genuinely asking. Maybe, as a Black person, I am not the intended audience?

The Conversation is a great film!

So disrespectful. And the production companies and executives behind the genre tolerate it by continually undervaluing and discounting their own creative properties. It’s like that SNL spoof of Southwest Airlines where the staff tells customers, “If you don’t respect yourselves, how do you expect us to respect you?” The people who produce these shows over the last 25 years have consistently undermined their creative products, so how do they expect people outside the genre to value it. It’s their own fault.

Danggit Cindy Williams is gone? Who is left of the cast of Laverne & Shirley? Michael McKean?

Tracey very diplomatically talking about the rabid Lily and Cane fan base trying to come for her because she was doing her job in creating some kind of drama on the Locher Room podcast. Wished Locher would have asked her about working with Jim Storm and even Terry Lester when asking her about the male costars.

It sure does seem like the hits keep coming. One thing that could be said for sure, Loring really did resemble her onscreen family.

Even I knew he wouldn’t get a set and I slept through the entire match.

Okay, the consensus is that it was a classy speech. I am interested to see what the ratings on ESPN were though.

Did he really say that??! 🤔😑 I missed the match and the post match ceremony. Now I am curious because the trophy presentation ceremony sounded like a mess.🙃

I liked his monologue and how it ended with a full circle moment where he repeated a part of dialogue from his AMC days.

I will admit, that I do laugh every time I have watched that scene, there is something so slapstick about it.

Someone posted this and when I saw it the other day it really sent me! Those were the days of personality and power and the women being cocky AF!

Big Lenka finally captured a major championship title, huh? I didn’t see the match but congratulations to her at getting over that hurdle.

Some folks were musing about the early millennium WTA stars and how many had the personality, the game and were cocky AF back then. I don’t see a return to that era, tennis as an industry is wholly different, an industry that seems to disregard the aspect of sports as entertainment and promotes the suffering mentality and would have us believe that the more agonizing and torturous a match is, the more epic it will be. The ATP wasn’t any better either. They really promote the torturous match and slap a “warrior” label on it. I sure as hell wasn’t paying for an ESPN+ subscription to watch that!

Even as a little girl that had just been gaining an interest in soaps (beyond recording them for my mom), this promo grabbed my attention that entire summer and seemingly never let go.

Watching now. It’s too bad that the confrontation between Maureen and Lillian was not included. The part where Maureen yelled at Lillian for her and Ed reducing them all to a ridiculous suburban joke and how Maureen resented them for this. I think that was part of Ellen Parker’s Emmy award reel.

That image was used in a CBS Daytime promo, with rock band Powerstation’s Some Like It Hot. It was indeed iconic, even at the time. More so now.

I still have memories of pitched battles between Serbians and Bosnians outside of RLA at least a decade ago.

Of course, from the way that they are known to operate, you can’t put anything past them. And the fact that still, a high number of Americans insist on voting against their own best interests.

Not to mention the “responsible gun owners” who buy semiautomatic weapons for their teenage kids before they can even legally drink. What about the other 67 spree shootings? That’s such a narrow focus to make it about only two shootings. It’s so unfortunate that most Americans seem to look at these shootings in such narrow terms, instead of as part of a larger problem.

I was just reading an article talking about the rise of copycat shooting sprees. The Half Moon Bay shootings are being described as a being the result of a “workplace” grievance. It’s really the result of the wide availability of guns. So much gun violence that, by reports, there have already been 69 spree shootings this year (we are still in the first month of the year) and about half are regarded as mass shootings, most of which don’t make the national news. It’s worrying, wearying and tragic. Americans comprise 5% of the population yet hold almost half of the world’s firearms. So many people fail to see cause and effect. Deeply disturbing. Right-wingers are trying to diminish the seriousness of the shootings at the dance studio and the farms in California because the shooter and victims shared the same ethnicity is callous and absurd, also because they love to mock California, which is said to have some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, which tbh, isn’t all that strict compared to, say, New Zealand or Japan, just stricter than Virginia or Florida, where anything goes. And if you are one of the states that border Virginia, or a short car ride from the state, regardless of whether you live in a state that has relatively strict gun control laws, there is always the risk of someone smuggling guns along the I-95 and distributing smuggled firearms that will eventually wreak havoc in your state.

Blanchette is a powerhouse but Tár has been very divisive among critics, I wonder if that will spill over into other as aspects, in terms of the films chances, or her chances, for that matter. Then again, Blonde has been almost universally reviled yet de Armas still got a nomination.