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In case today wasn't going bad enough:

Mandy Moore, his ex, has backed up a lot of this.

The 25 Years Later fansite interviews Joy Nash (Senorita Dido). I may have posted this one before but it's worthwhile: A Kimmy Robertson interview.

I actually really liked the "confession" promos ABC did in '99-'00 - I can't remember which year, and I also can't remember if they were exclusive to OLTL. They were black and white monologues from various characters. The stories on OLTL sucked, but I loved the little showcases for Erika Slezak, etc. I can't find any now sadly.

Whither wall:

We have to find it!!

Russian Doll is great so far, but I'm only halfway through. Natasha Lyonne is a force of nature and it brings back so much of my years in NYC.

Until today where there's a lot of fun promos, I just never got Clarence. But again, I didn't grow up with them. He's genius compared to the bizarre staccato-delivery voice guy they have doing the DAYS promos though. I remember this and am now dying to see it again. I could swear it was actually the end tag of an episode? I thought @DRW50 linked it once. And I believe it was, of course, the Jill Farren Phelps era, where all male meat was hers to survey and judge.

I just always crack up at how it's like "WHAT!!! In the Name of Love" and then you can hear the dude going 'what!' occasionally throughout. The GL attempt at a "Hot Enough for You" Daniel Bedingfield promo featured an even less exciting couple which sadly cannot be embedded, so click here. I could not get through ten seconds of "Where The Boys Are". I love Cat Hickland but once I saw her bopping around singing I'm like nah I'm good, thanks. This is the same reason I avoided those awful SoapNet singing promos like the plague so PLEASE NO ONE BRING THEM BACK.

Yeah, the promo is better than the entire story in virtually all these cases. I find 90% of CBS campaigns in the '90s and 2000s to be horribly embarrassing tbh and always have. All the weird posing and vamping with cheesy music and poor Peter Bergman saying "get it on!" But then I didn't grow up with them, which may explain why I still have a perverse fondness for the incredibly silly and extremely '90s "What!!! In the Name of Love" campaign that was previously mentioned: Poor Hillary B. Smith!!! The crosshairs on the third to last promo!!

I forgot this promo:

Girl, keep up! The "I'm Not in Love" promos were for the first(?) PC novella arc, "Fate." Eve becomes involved with Ian and Kevin and Lucy reunite. I was feelin' it. I don't think later ABC ever had better promos than the "Escape" campaign with Natalie/Cris, the sadly-aborted Liz triangle on GH and I think Greenlee/Leo/Laura on AMC. I also always liked this campaign even if the story was bad:

As I expected, Bryan Singer's next project has basically been shelved.

Joel Crothers: A rugged heterosexual who can't get enough! God bless.

Some nice pix of the returning original(?) cast's upcoming episodes.

Oh dear.

NYT celebrates 2016 by kicking out the old Hillary smear jams with new female candidates, and gets roasted and ratio'd on Twitter for it:

Chandler Riggs' dad, who has a sketchy rep as a bit of a stage dad, is making more claims about Riggs' exit. I take anything from the dad with a big grain of salt given some of the stories about him, and given that to my knowledge Chandler has never commented on it and seems very content focusing on his electronic music atm. That said, it was a horrible mistake killing him off.

Reedus and Melissa McBride just signed long-term franchise deals. But tbh I ain't watched since early Season 7, I have no idea when I'll go back and watch more for completionists' sake. I will watch the standalone movies if it's guaranteed Danai and Andrew Lincoln are back.

Please be careful, Susan. My heart couldn't take something worse.

Still not watching, but Danai is finally tipping out:

I also think AOC has made better choices lately. I think she's got too much of a social media yen, but she's not Ilhan Omar. She's learning. We'll see how it plays out, especially going into 2020 with Bernie vs. everyone else. Do I mind a Green New Deal if it can be articulated via nuts and bolts, of course not. Meanwhile: