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Now deleted from the NYT story but still relevant:

I also lived in NYC ten years. They will.

Can't wait for Maggie Haberman to explain that demanding people not murder Democratic politicians will only make Trump stronger with his base.

Michael Bolton! I'm tired, y'all.

Fate is cruel to me - a 1991 Dark Shadows alum, Ely Pouget (who played the Bohemian spiritualist revamp of Maggie Evans, a character change and actor I really liked), is doing GH as (sigh) Liz Hendrickson's mom. Why God?

Also, from the man who put Maggie Haberman once again on the prickly defensive this morning:

A thread to add to marceline's stuff:

He also became infamous for tearing up and crying on-air after Trump's first State of the Union(?) last year and saying "this is the moment Trump became president!" That's what lost me completely. It's sad because he used to do good work.

My understanding of the 'purple wave' reports (especially the NBC one) is that they are skewed to traditionally Republican-leaning areas and/or older voters - not an accurate reflection of the full picture, which still leans heavily blue. It's just another way for media to pump up the beloved 'horse race' narrative while eliding the facts. But we shouldn't get complacent.

Van Jones is officially a joke.

If they don't use the old Sci-Fi Channel bumpers it doesn't count!!

I have always wanted to see her on a soap again. But I know she's got much bigger things to do.

From a recent USA Today piece:

Barbara Crampton is extremely busy in horror films these days, to her credit. I wouldn't blame her for not being interested, though she still speaks very fondly of the soaps. (She is also featured on the latest series of SyFy's excellent horror anthology Channel Zero.)

I like prematurely aged Broderick for Jackie and I won't hear a word against it! I wonder if he replaced the previously-announced Steve Zahn.

I honestly love that idea for Jackie. Broderick also projects older than both Gilbert and Goranson to me.

She did - they weren't always great hires, but she did. One hire allegedly led to the infamous "Who Jackie?" meme Norm Macdonald spawned years ago which... I am not linking to, but good luck down that rabbit hole. And I'm not excusing that awful behavior. She was a terror to deal with. But she also, for better or worse behavior, made the show what it became. Her attention to detail, even her mania over it often helped the legitimacy of the scripts and characters. Until it didn't and became toxic.

I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying, Khan, but in fairness Roseanne usually was the de facto female showrunner at the old show. Her word was law at the show above all, and she dumped countless EPs. She also did employ a lot of women and yes, a fair few minorities in the writers' room - not enough, but more than was the norm I believe for the late '80s through the early-mid '90s on a hit network sitcom not belonging to FOX. I also felt that for the first 4-5 years the minority presence on the show was pretty solid - again, for the times and a show of that era. James Pickens, Adilah Barnes, etc. all recurred often. Was it perfect? Absolutely not. But it also sure wasn't Full House or Friends or Coach - or even Cheers.

Lecy talks her reaction to what happened with Roseanne - 'we're screwed': I understand her conflict on Roseanne (who she's known since childhood) and not wanting to believe that woman is a racist while acknowledging the vile racism of her statement - I don't agree with it, but I get it. I personally think Roseanne has become a racist for a variety of reasons while still holding many contradictory ideas in her mind, and I think it's sad. And I'm not surprised that they haven't spoken since.