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If people want to act like Sydney Mikayla's Trina was somehow commanding every scene and dominating the canvas and not at the whims of story, like when Trina was drugged and framed while the white teens had a passionate love scene, they can do that. It's not accurate, though. The character is the same windmill she has been since her inception because GH will not allow Trina to supplant other preferred characters. That hasn't changed from actor to actor. Time will tell if Ali has some of the same fire despite those restrictions, but so far I have been pleased with her work and the depth of it.

She seems very impressive to me so far. The writing isn't on her (and neither Chavez nor Mikayla, while charismatic, were exactly Olivier or Sarah Bernhardt).

Watergate II. You can't make this up.

Nice to see Chalamet with Kyle MacLachlan (the other messiah of Dune):

2/10.

For those wondering, Janet Hubert took Will's side.

This is a very candid excerpt from Tyler Christopher's interview with MB, which basically confirms a lot of the stories we've all heard re: his release from GH and then DAYS. The full interview is here: I'm impressed with TC that he's being so open about his issues which have quietly known for a long time. I wish him well and I'd welcome him back to GH someday.

Didn't Michael do a few of those?

If he'd done it to a white dude he'd be in cuffs and there'd be someone burning crosses on the Smiths' block by nightfall. I do wish someone would clock Fallon though. Rena can really bring the hammer.

Grace Randolph is someone I do not understand the prevalence of. AFAIK the only reason she has any sway in certain corners of the Internet is because she's white and blonde. That's it. I was amazed there were even more entanglement jokes last night after Laverne Cox tried it to the Smiths' faces on the red carpet at another event a couple weeks back, which I thought was incredibly tacky.

I'm not blaming Jada for what happened (and I haven't weighed in for either man, nor do I think Rock's joke was alright). I'm just commenting on what Will said after in his speech. I think the whole thing is simply a mess.

His acceptance speech pretty much made it clear that this was because of the build-up of the last several years of jokes, memes and public (and perhaps private) ridicule over him and Jada.

It was absolutely not staged.

I also had no idea they cut Elaine May and Sam Jackson's awards but managed to make time for Twitter polls and Zack Snyder's Justice League. This whole year seems like a disaster.

Poor Liza. I didn't know she was in that rough shape these days. She was even more discombobulated than I remember, I suspect not all there, and Gaga was very kind to her. I don't know if Scorsese was there, but I imagine how he must feel seeing her like that - they were together for a time. Spielberg and other contemporaries who remember her heyday, too.

Apparently Bradley Cooper was the white dude hugging Will in the clip from the break (where he's with Denzel and Tyler Perry initially).

I have no particular hot takes to offer on all this nor should I, but the look on Denzel's face as Will spoke about him after Denzel took him aside during the break was touching.

The one time I skip the whole ceremony!!

I can't see this being the network's idea of a gripping story (and they've got to be pretty disinterested in the show as is). This feels personal to the writers to me due to their admiration of JT (who is talented but miscast). Anyway, we're OT.

Case in point: The Y&R writing team, ensconced in very financially comfortable positions, believing Jason Thompson monologuing about vague 'wellness' and self-actualization is a viable and compelling storyline just because they enjoy a) JT and b) podcasting about upper middle class problems.

Rey and Chelsea sounds more boring than I can imagine.

Cory Booker rejects Tuck Chodd's [sic] framing:

I think that's more about the constant fussing over 'inflation' and the just relentless negativity overall to try to handicap Dems. The specific tone is what got him down in numbers, while the polling reflected that no one actually gave a shít about the substance of leaving Afghanistan - something I vividly remember CNN or MSNBC grudgingly acknowledging on-air, admitting, to paraphrase, 'journalists have a different viewpoint than the public about this issue'.