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Not that I don't think she can do comedy, but I've seen bits of that and it still weirds me out.

It Had To Be You, 1993. To this day I don't understand who thought Faye Dunaway could headline a romcom sitcom. IIRC they retooled the show with like, Robin Bartlett?

IIRC Carson said flat out he was fired, but I could be wrong. My suspicion is Erika Alexander, who is pretty busy with other projects including TV and film lately. I do hope it happens someday.

This is actually a big, big deal - everything lately indicates he is prepared to pass HR1 and reform the filibuster in major ways even if that means not killing it outright for now: Jentleson knows his shít. I despise many things about Joe Manchin and his behavior in the last week, but he's not stupid. And this is what we will need his vote for, however scummy.

That reminds me - Hulu has all of Living Single. I should rewatch. I wonder what happened to the mooted revival discussed by the cast not long back. I remember one of them (Kim Coles, I believe) saying one actor was holding it up bc of "legitimate concerns" and that it was 'not who people thought'.

I'm pretty sure we'd all have remembered or heard about film legend Harry Dean Stanton on OLTL by now.

Harry Dean Stanton on OLTL - we should've been so blessed, lol.

I think the shít Manchin tried to pull re: anti-trans bathroom bills is reprehensible. That being said, he has signaled an investment in passing the Voting Rights Act recently which will require killing the filibuster. Between that and this, it's a lot to think about. I despise a lot of his behavior but I understand why we need his vote.

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(^ Not an endorsement from me)

That truly shocked me. And it was worth firing him for, unlike what allegedly actually did (Hope blowing Stefano away in cold blood, something anyone in town should've done years ago IMO). You occasionally see glimpses of the old Griffith in some of his latter-day bad work - the weird, byzantine story in which Jigsaw turned out to be John's dad, etc. all sorts of other gothic stuff - but when he goes there the entire show gets both so dark and also not very well-written or made. It was different at OLTL when he and the florid, OTT romantic Michael Malone generally balanced each other out in their best years. I wouldn't put him in a position of real power anywhere today beyond maybe an occasional consultant were OLTL still around. His runs at Y&R and DAYS have been pathetic. He burnt out long ago.

It won't make much of a difference to the final bill. The sturm and drang doesn't make me happy but that's the Senate, it's been pissing me off since high school. As for the actual bill, on balance a lot of it's pretty good and should be trumpeted on its merits. There's a number of concessions I don't care for, but most of them aren't that massive in the grand scheme of things. Both economically and politically we're going to need this bill, poor people are going to need this bill, and Dems are going to need the effects of this bill trumpeted out loudly in public to continue to get things done in '22 and beyond. When we pass decent legislation I generally opt for cussing out the Senate, grumbling about their foibles and then moving on and trumpeting the good stuff, and prepping for the next Senate fight. That's just how stuff often gets done and that's how I stay sane. The Senate is stupid, but we can and do still do good work.

He got his pointless concession at least. That's the Senate for you.

Thread: Psaki had to contend with a similar GOP-spin moment from lazy WH Press Corps members yesterday. She's very good at this.

House of M sucked.

I am amazed Weijia Jiang (from CBS) attempted to do a Trump-style "many people are saying" ploy. She was clearly flustered that she got called on it.