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I think Conn was good in a secondary female lead role, which Katie was for many years. Putting her in the top tier later on was a mistake, and her RL relationship with Austin Peck made them both pretty insufferable though they clicked onscreen initially. She didn't start out cold IMO, but she became cold as the frontburner grind wore her down. And she was too old - or at least, came off too old and hard - to be playing the unnecessarily elongated role they gave her on OLTL.
Jon & Ygritte Tie The Knot!
Lynch talks to the Guardian: It's not a terrible piece but also, I feel, aims to be a bit negative in places, trying for snide re: Season 3 in spots. As for Lynch, we know his views on politics, relationships, etc. are a bit devoid of immediate or instantly emotional context. He's not pro-Trump in his commentary (though sites are already running with that misleading clickbait quote), and his relationships with his wives and lovers have always been hot and cold. He has admitted many times to being innately selfish. Yet none of them have come out hating him that I know of (Isabella Rossellini was just at his last big Festival of Disruption IIRC) and his children love him. It's a strange and dangerous balance but it works for him.
Yes, John, that was my point.
I heard a slightly different story: She committed to doing at least a solid 10-20 minutes of material as Frannie (which is a lot for a guest star celebrity on a 42-minute soap opera) , but Goutman then proceeded to take this as implicit permission to write her into several shows. Julianne's management freaked out and demanded her time then be cut down. It was Goutman that messed it up.
Tonight in 2018 a.k.a. "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" - Tom Arnold!
She's dead. It's no big secret.
Roseanne's ensemble is several cuts above anything on The Hogan Family.
I assume if they've got Kenney they have all the others. Though I would hardly blame Jayden Rey's parents for wanting her out of it.
My suspicion is Darlene. I'm actually thrilled Laurie will still be there. I hope the loss of Roseanne will force the show to ease Jackie back into her earlier-season character (although Season 10's Jackie was fairly improved from what I saw so far).
I'm glad to hear it. I doubt it'll have the ratings or staying power of the last season, but I am glad this cast and that creative team get a chance to continue. I'll be there. Good to know all the originals are signed. I hope they'll be able to keep the kids, specifically Ames McNamara (Mark) and Jayden Rey (Mary).
Chozick has a lot of other shít to answer for. I'm not giving her too much credit. A telling new profile:
Well, that's what I'm talking about. Old, lazy narratives that need to be slowly broken, and the compulsive need for a horse race is what good journalists and otherwise decent people are always working with or against - and sometimes both for and against without realizing the cognitive dissonance. Our media is complicit in a lot of ways. But that doesn't change the fact that there are also a lot of people doing good work in compromised institutions, and we need them because we have no viable alternative that can reach the most people. Further, it's sometimes the laziest personalities, shows or networks that reach the laziest or most ambivalent audiences in the middle of America when they get outraged about something like the camps. That is important, no matter the delivery system or the personality. The result is what matters. And they never will. To me waiting for it is a waste of time. The Morning Joe crew have a multitude of sins to answer for, but they'd still never cosign putting people into camps. They are human beings with some core of decency, however blinkered or hypocritical. More importantly, from a cold and pragmatic standpoint, they serve an important function, as I indicated above - they are an access point to the lazy Beltway media and bureaucracy. Everyone in Washington, in media or on Capitol Hill, knows about, watches or goes on that show and others like it. If people like that crew turn on Trump vehemently and often and speak to their human outrage - however hypocritical given their past sins - that trickles down to the rest of the lazy, cushioned Beltway class, bit by bit. It is using their own people to galvanize them. Their own tribe is what they understand. I don't have to forgive them to favor that usage.
Daytime's own speaks again: I don't think the entire media leans GOP as it did in the 2000s. I do think it is still partial to easy narratives like 'both sides' and 'Democrats in disarray/are wimps', and a willful ignorance about more complex procedural issues. I think that comes from the top, from a lot of owners, producers, managers, etc. who are older and still entrenched in the mindsets of the Reagan '80s and the Clinton era. But I see a lot of good journalists on TV and in print working hard and speaking truth in spite of those cross-currents and frustrating recurring narratives. The media has a long, long way to go to get its [!@#$%^&*] together - and answer for - but it's definitely not 2003 anymore. I certainly don't think their reasoning for hammering the GOP in 2018 is to do some sort of insane double reversal so they can blame Democrats in the next cycle for GOP problems. Like Trump, this is not some clever ploy or conspiracy. It's human nature and illogic. I think most of these people are just mortified by the GOP right now, period, and rightly so - and in the case of many of those journalists (or white people), simply failing to see or acknowledge their own complicity with the problems that led us here.
Cute. I hope Bob Woods is well. I heard worrisome stories but this would seem to put the lie to that.
Stephen Miller got doxxed, to which I say: Good.
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