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I've been meaning to watch the longer, even stranger director's cut of The Counselor, McCarthy's film with Ridley Scott. One of the single most insane moviegoing experiences I have ever had in my life, seemingly written, directed and performed by coked-up Martians, but absolutely spellbinding. And the DC is supposed to be even weirder. I'll be doing that very soon. The boldness it took by all parties (particularly Scott, who can write his own ticket and is never afraid to fail or alienate people used to his more conventional blockbusters, and McCarthy, who never sacrificed an inch of his character or style for anyone). RIP.

People still go to those sites?

She's getting roasted for it too. I'm not sure how long it will be before Politico and Semafor inevitably eat each other and become one being, but I cannot wait for the years when this entire access journalism complex implodes on itself like the streaming boom. Since it was tweeted by the odious David Sirota I won't repost the reveal that Politico hosted some sort of disgusting pitch by the American Bankers Association for more deregulation of bank mergers which Politico posted as a news item (the ABA is one of their many corrupt key sponsors they regularly host online and at events with zero daylight between their news arm) - only for their latest ex-Republican admin hire to angrily protest that no, no, it was a 'newsletter item'. Classic Politico. Since Punchbowl is basically Politico with a new hat like Malibu Stacey on The Simpsons, I also won't miss Jake Sherman's daddy hero worship of any savvy Republican who comes by, or in the case of guys like McCarthy just the latest Republican who can give him access and macho cred despite being an idiot or a monster. As for Tapper, the other Jake has always been complicated. He was a surprisingly forthright voice a lot of times in the last decade, but he's as prone to the same dumb errors as many very on-air people, and he is still responsible for angrily crusading for Fox to keep their access in the Obama era. Some of these people are flawed but have decency; others are simply craven sociopaths. Even Rachel Maddow, who I like a lot despite her longwinded rambling build-ups on air, had the truly idiotic pitch for "make Trump promise not to run and then pardon him" the other day. Give me a break. In any event, MSNBC won the day's ratings and also came out very forcefully against Trump.

Revoke their press credentials. Enough. Meanwhile, while I think relatively little of both of these people, they go which way they think the wind is blowing and this is decent work:

Both the Riegels (Eden and her brother Sam) have long gotten steady VA work in games and anime, etc. I am a little staggered to have learned Eden voiced a major character in the revamp version of Persona 4 which I played years ago - that would've taken a lot of getting used to for me.

What's crazy to me is how long they tried to keep things going off and on over the years with Audrey being caught between Steve and Tom Baldwin, apparently (and a couple other men?). I don't think she and Steve got properly together til the mid '70s IIRC, and then they brought Tom back around one more time to play spoiler again trying to push her to get back with him by kidnapping Tom Jr. or something? And this was like five years after he raped her. I'll never forget the amazing work Rachel Ames did in those scenes where Audrey told Liz about her marital rape in the late '90s. So good. I wonder if it was the Meg recast that led to them making her so unstable, or if that started before.

Johnny is there to be a pair of twink titties for Ron and the gang. That is his character arc.

LOL:

So talented and handsome. And deeply, deeply underrated for his excellent work in Sidney Lumet's underseen epic/spiritual Serpico sequel Prince of the City with Jerry Orbach.

I remember this. It was well laid out.

More of Lindsey rambling.

Bless La Hubbard, but yes she seems to have been hypercritical of everything she ever played. It's been noted more than once.

In fairness, everyone and their nephew in the business has claimed they were 'supposed to be there that night.'

I believe she can be forcibly removed regardless.

According to legal experts she is likely to be challenged by DOJ and either forced to recuse or if she doesn't do that, dismissed by a higher court.

He lied to his lawyers and the DOJ about not having the documents, then instructed his staff to move them.

More Bonnie, filming right now! I guess it's time for me to revisit Mel's debut and Paradise Towers/Delta and the Bannerman, like I keep promising @DRW50.