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He's going directly to jail:

Robin Strasser, everyone:

Original series writer (and FWWM co-writer) Robert Engels talks TP. Another interview with longtime Lynch collaborator Charlotte Stewart (Betty Briggs). On Catherine Coulson and Jack Nance:

Netflix's new Orson Welles documentary, releasing alongside The Other Side of the Wind:

I don't trust Avenatti, who I think is out for himself first. I don't want him holding public office and I think he'll immolate himself if he tries. That being said: He's a street fighter, he's good at doing what a lot of Democratic politicians can't be seen doing, and he serves a useful purpose in situations like these if his ammunition is legit. if he has a real story - and he apparently is telling part of it on Maddow tonight - I welcome that, and I welcome him coming forward with it on Wednesday as promised. Sometimes you need guys like him.

After her stint on GH, Tonja Walker tested for Skye on AMC and Tina on OLTL before Paul Rauch created the role of Alex Olanov for her. Tangentially, Jill Larson got Ursula Blackwell at OLTL because Louise Sorel did a show with her on the NY stage. Sorel introduced her to Rauch, who was still dating LS at the time.

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Justina Machado is in the running for the supporting role of police office Renee Montoya in DC/WB's somehow-still-on-schedule Birds of Prey female superhero/villain film with Margot Robbie.

Kavanaugh was part of the ratfucker brigade for Starr during the Lewinsky scandal. He pushed for very explicit sexual questions and regularly did coordinated leaks to the press.

Yes, it's come to this:

That never stopped them before.

Whoops!

He and his wife are on Fox tonight. That'll do the job!

I woke up to the news that Rosenstein was 'assumed to be fired' and sensed it was another bullshit cry wolf moment for the media to get rooked by. Went to sleep for another hour, woke up again and I was right. As the Gabriel Sherman piece upthread indicates, Trump is scared and desperate. He knows he's in real danger now. Meanwhile:

I'm with Wendy. We have to fight and be loud. People want it and need it. Do we need more than that - absolutely. Otherwise you're just Bernie Sanders or scammers like the Krassenstein brothers. But anger is now necessary. I can't tell you how glad I am my immigrant grandparents are dead and didn't live through some of this vile shít in the last two years - Grandpa had enough trouble tolerating Bush.

Yeah, that's Avenatti. Unless he's got someone specific I'm holding my ammo.

I honestly thought Barbara Rhoades was pretty weak as Irene. Campy as hell but wooden, except when she returned as a very OTT ghost. I wish they'd gotten Liz Hubbard instead. My favorite part of the Two Todds was Todd asking everyone how they could ever have thought he would re-rape Marty. As a fan of the character since the '90s I turned on TSJ's Todd completely over the rapemance in 2008 - only a story like making that Todd an imposter could ever have brought me back to him. Todd is a relic now in the Me Too era and should be written off any future imaginary OLTL IMO - at least for a long time - but that meant a lot to me, undoing the rapemance.

The claim was that Todd had had plastic surgery to look like Walker. The real Walker - Walker Flynn - was a crime boss in Atlantic City. In the original story, Mitch's goons had beaten Todd to a pulp and destroyed his face before sealing him in Victor's sarcophagus in the Lord mausoleum. Todd survived but took Walker's identity (with Walker's permission) to get revenge on Mitch. In the retcon, Irene had the brainwashed Victor's face altered to fool Mitch and 'give Victor more time to become Todd.' I think as ludicrous as it was - and it was hilarious when it aired - it worked because the entire cast committed to it 100%. Further, the "Victor Jr." angle actually gave a payoff to all the random nonsense Malone was throwing around in 2003 before Howarth left - Todd's renewed obsession with his recently-'undead' father and Victor's mysterious signet ring, "Victor Sr." telling Todd he would've named him "Victor Jr." The ring and the name became key parts of the 2011 story. Speaking of the ridiculous backstory of the Laurence family, let's not even get into Miles - one of the most random and pointlessly convoluted characters ever and Mitch's second long-lost, presumed dead brother.

And now for something completely different, from Malone's second run. I'll never forget this crazy shît, but I will say the ending - with Dorian, Blair and Lindsay looming over the fallen Mitch - was a great antidote to the increasingly-misogynistic GH of 2003. KDP looked so good with the darker hair - IIRC, FV (who loved blondes) made her dye it light again.

A thread from Adam Jentleson to click through to, and commentary by Brian Fallon:

I honestly can't recall, there's been so many horrible profiles.

Jeremy Peters had a very reviled piece about the poor misunderstood Trump voters who dig in deeper because of mean liberals which he angrily defended to Slate (to the same interviewer who just buried Ian Buruma at the NY Review of Books, among others). I raged about it months ago.

Don't forget: