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Martin Campbell! That's a shocker, I loved his work on the original Edge of Darkness and the Bond films.

I always thought that was Sharon Gless, myself. But it could well be Stefanie Kramer.

I said this the other day, but all this just makes me that much more curious how Diane English and Murphy Brown - which tapes only a few weeks ahead specifically so that it may take on current events, and which has intended to tackle #MeToo - will handle all this. They can't fail to.

I was just wondering how and why Linda Bloodworth-Thomason fell off so hard when she came up here not long ago. Now we know, and I should've known.

But it's the same story with women like Janet Jackson, like Annabella Sciorra as a rising movie star in the '90s. We know now what happened to them. These men happened to them.

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

in Huey Lewis' case this must have been around the time he was in Duets - he could have had a hit for CBS

That one was especially crazy.

Wow.

I don't think this is in any way some sort of double swerve to try to help the GOP - with the exception of Politico and some of the folks at the NYT, I don't think the media is interested in that so much as they get completely blinkered by Beltway thinking (which invariably leads to conservative sympathizing) and the horse race and treat things like a big game. Some journalists know it isn't. Some never will.

And I do think most of the media want the GOP out of control of the House if only to stopgap Trump - I think most major media personalities do believe the GOP is corrupt and out of control and need to be handicapped this year. That doesn't mean they'll ever stop criticizing Democrats first once it's done. Like what we now see at Facebook, it is about the press' constant fear of 'liberal bias' and a generational slant towards not only conservative thought, but more importantly overcorrecting and reporting the conservative viewpoint to prove they are not 'too liberal.' What they've never understood is the GOP will never stop calling them liberal.

I think the article is an accurate summation of the GOP's fears. Do I think they will lose the Senate? Probably not. But it is in play and I hope we can make it very close. 

Republicans have grown increasingly worried about losing control of the Senate.

"Shipwreck" was how one leading strategist described the situation, adding an expletive to underscore the severity of the party's problems. https://t.co/djdNqkiEec

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 12, 2018

A recent quote from TP producer Sabrina Sutherland, who is very close to Lynch:

Q: Personally, would you feel satisfied if The Return was the last glimpse we get into the world of Twin Peaks?

Sabrina: I definitely feel that it ended well. It has room for interpretation, and there’s more story, for me. So I like how it ended up, but I would absolutely love to have another season. Absolutely. But if it ends here, I’m totally satiated and feel like it was an experience, and a one-of-a-kind experience that’s so unique you can’t put your finger on it. And I think years from now, if there isn’t anything more, you can still go back to this and say, “wow, that’s a pretty incredible series”.

"I don't know how we move forward, if we at CBS, don't have full transparency about what we find." -- @GayleKing on sexual misconduct probe at CBS pic.twitter.com/SObLfkoO1M

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) September 11, 2018

Meanwhile, in 1990:

We knew the latter paragraph here long ago, but seeing it in print from Woodward's book, backed up by witnesses, still makes my blood run cold.

Quote

A senior White House official who spoke contemporaneously with participants in the meeting recorded this summary: “The president proceeded to lecture and insult the entire group about how they didn’t know anything when it came to defense or national security. It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views.”

 

[...]

 

All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump’s attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn’t pay us to be there, then we didn’t want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money. 

“Are you okay?” Cohn asked him. 

“He’s a fúcking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.

50's career would have been over (sooner) if that had happened, absolutely.

That being said: While I absolutely think there was a major racial element with what happened with Janet, I do think Moonves would've gone after Britney in the same situation if he felt she - or any woman - had failed to be properly deferential. His pattern suggests any woman who defies him is to be destroyed.

Kyle MacLachlan on Playing a Gay Man in ‘Giant Little Ones,’ His Emmy Snub, and the Future of Twin Peaks — TIFF https://t.co/oKLwokfJh9 via @indiewire

— Ivan (@underthefan113) September 10, 2018

7 hours ago, Khan said:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the longer she stays at CBS, the more toxic her presence will become.  Viewers (well, ENLIGHTENED viewers, anyway) will not tolerate on their screens a woman who chose to stand by her pig of a husband -- especially when it's no secret she only GOT the jobs because of him.  Either she cuts him loose and keeps her gigs at the network, or she gets the hell outta Dodge.  It's that simple.

I agree. And I think she's going to walk. I also don't think CBS will have her long even if she did cut him loose.

Full video at link:

For a deeply uncomfortable 10 minutes on Monday morning, the hosts CBS’ "The Talk" expressed support for their missing colleague Julie Chen, wife of ousted CEO Les Moonves https://t.co/mGKWRWeG4R

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 10, 2018

I thought Sharon Osbourne's statement was probably as blunt as it could be in their impossible situation - and very candid that they might all get canned.

TMZ has some of the video but I hate them so I'm not linking it, though I did watch it. This is a rundown. Apologies - I didn't realize the above link had more as well:

Julie Chen Takes a Break From #TheTalk in the Wake of Husband Les Moonves' Firing https://t.co/2Qo5EVLiww

— TVLine.com (@TVLine) September 10, 2018

LISTEN: MSNBC just played the rest of Omarosa's secret recording of an Oct '17 White House meeting. On it, Trump and his staff have a laugh discussing an ambush in Niger that left 4 US soldiers dead. pic.twitter.com/W1oe5YGhon

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 10, 2018

IIRC John Dunn, the first(?) Tad, left the show and memorably played a foul-mouthed teen who got mutilated in the horror classic Sleepaway Camp a year or something after exiting AMC. I had no idea the guy was on the show until I read up on the cast after rewatching it recently.

Convention Q&A:

Sherilyn Fenn apparently had no idea of Audrey's new backstory with Cooper until seeing it on TV. Harry Goaz has theories on the Audrey storyline. And more.

More:

Kimmy Robertson Discusses Returning to Twin Peaks and Michael Cera playing Her Son https://t.co/LSpKqDTnOB pic.twitter.com/4l9mtQRvVg

— Visit Twin Peaks (@VisitTwinPeaks) September 8, 2018

Kimmy Robertson talked about him without being asked and described how excited her and Harry Goaz were when they realised he'd be playing their son. Towards the start of filming there was a cast dinner and Cera was there, looking very nervous. "He was even whiter than usual"

— Kristen 🌸 (@kristendaly) September 3, 2018

later the panel discussed the best parts of S3, and Al Strobel said very seriously, well... nothing compares to episode 8! We all clapped and hollered and reflected on the majesty of the atomic bomb episode.

then, quietly, from Michael Horse: "my favourite part was Wally Brando"

— Kristen 🌸 (@kristendaly) September 3, 2018

14. Update per @RonanFarrow https://t.co/eHZPHrlSTa pic.twitter.com/2kq3Tk3KyO

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 9, 2018

15. But don’t be fooled by all these moves. Leslie remains a very powerful and wealthy man with many friends in the industry (unlike Weinstein who was largely abandoned). In the past 11 years he’s made over $600 million in compensation. People are not shunning him....yet.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 9, 2018

BREAKING: Amid reports that CBS CEO Leslie Moonves will be stepping down in the next 24 hours, sources tells CBS News that Moonves’ settlement package will be held back pending the results of an independent sexual misconduct investigation.

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) September 9, 2018

Gonna be a real interesting Monday on The Talk!

Not sure if it's been mentioned: The offender in question above, Steven Striegel, is actually DOOL's Steve Wilder (ex-Jack Devereaux #3, ex-Alex Bastian on Melrose Place).

I love Shane Black's work - he's a screenwriting god, and I loved his and Fred Dekker's script for The Predator upon reading it a year ago and look forward to the film. That said, while Black has apologized for hiring Wilder/Striegel and claims he was misled, the entire situation has been horribly mishandled by him and Fox. Olivia Munn did the right thing.

RSW has kind of talked out of both sides of his mouth about Courtney. He's alluded to her being high maintenance, etc. a few times, but I believe it was either in Jeff Giles' book or when she passed that he called her welcoming and kind to him as a newcomer to soaps. Either way, he was classy.

I may not know WTF I'm talking about as a later viewer, but based on the information and available episodes I often got the impression Stuart, etc. banked on making Jacquie Courtney and Pat the leading lady of the show for awhile. She got major failed stories post-Reinholt, and was tried with both Buchanan studs before they finally let Clint and Viki make it official, while Viki's time seemed to wax and wane for a year or two there. Erika's own commentary about this period has been respectful but muted. She did once say she knew she had job security once Joe Stuart left - as did the show's major interest in Jacquie Courtney.

I have nothing against JC - she's lovely in everything I've seen of her, including her OLTL stuff. But Pat ain't Viki Lord.