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He's doing great today:

The bigger problem is Trump probably half-believes it himself.

Orson Welles' long-lost The Other Side of the Wind - reconstructed and slated to be released by Netflix - has been pulled from the Cannes Film Festival along with several major new films due to Cannes' ongoing nasty feud with Netflix. Beatrice Welles, Welles' oft-litigious daughter who fought the Wind restoration team for years, sent a letter to Netflix pleading for them to reconsider. I support Netflix boycotting Cannes until it agrees to give their films award consideration - there are some excellent ones, including Dee Rees' Mudbound (an Oscar contender this past year) and Bong Joon-ho's Okja. But with The Other Side of the Wind I'd make an exception. It was Orson Welles' final work and I believe it deserves to be first screened at Cannes. I certainly will be making an effort to see it theatrically assuming it screens locally.

Comey is not my highest priority either. I think what he did to Clinton for a mix of reasons - political pressure from the NY office, a compulsive need to grandstand and be seen as 'apolitical', and personal resentment - is unforgivable and had immense consequences for the nation. I also think he admits to some of that in part of the excerpts I've read. And I think the man is still a patriot who believes Trump is a clear and present danger and wanted to do the right thing - even though he helped get us here. Most people are more than one thing. Comey is a classic and perhaps tragic case of that. Will I ever buy his book? I don't know, probably not. But the excerpts are very compelling, and I feel I understand his very complicated and flawed mindset a little better.

I think some of them have started peeling off in the House expressing support for Mueller and maybe the Senate also, I can't recall. Do I think that'll mean anything for a bipartisan push in an election year? No. This has to happen another way.

I'd be amazed if that plan from Warner worked, lol.

He was just making things up to deny the tape. He also has occasionally claimed recently that the Access Hollywood tape doesn't sound like him - even though he already admitted it. He's deranged.

I think ODAAT has been a watercooler show for a certain segment online and on social media - I just don't think it's as popular, obviously, as some others. But certainly most of the same critics praise and spotlight all of the above.

I mean, I'm pretty sure people can like Stranger Things, The Crown and ODAAT. They've certainly all been popular with the same circles.

LMAO:

WEHT Charlie Rose?

Seth Abramson is a blowhard.

She's been vague but it's in many of her recent interviews. Part of it is what she alludes to in some press, that her original exit was probably not 100% peaceful. This has been mentioned before in other accounts not from her: Supposedly she told them she wanted to go to college full time and supposedly Roseanne told her she was either in or out, and Lecy chose out. The other issue is that, from everything I've heard, Season 8 was sold to the cast as the final year, which is why Lecy chose to return. John Goodman was also ready to be done and by all accounts (including his own) was deep into his alcoholism at the time. That whole penultimate year sounds very messy and full of tension, especially with the Beckys switching off, Disney taking over ABC and forcing a Disney World episode, and so on. Then Roseanne abruptly chose to do one more year, and Lecy left again and Goodman decided to do half the run. According to a report at the time, he tried to quit entirely but was convinced to do half the season - originally they feared he would only return for one episode to kill off Dan. More on Glenn Quinn:

I was one of maybe two people on the planet who liked Felicity La Fortune on AMC. She was beyond unpopular. But I think I only liked her on the show because she reminded me a lot of HBS/Nora on OLTL (and in fact, subbed for Hillary one day in the early 2000s).

ODAAT got renewed, so....

I hope this one was better than last week's, which I found truly painful and retrograde and definitely a boon for the conservatives. Except for the good scene with Sara Gilbert and Emma Kenney it was mostly Roseanne doing bad S8-S9 applause lines that you can easily see being used by right wingers. I get what they were going for with the parenting debate but I thought it was poorly done. I don't think the show is alt right at all, but it (and Roseanne's very stiff performance) didn't do the controversy over the show any favors. If it's true it was actually the second episode filmed, it explains why she looked much more at ease in the aired ep 2 focusing on Mark Jr. Anyway, I'll get to tonight's in a few hours. I am glad tonight's episode is apparently Becky-focused. I've been waiting for that since the first time Lecy left the show. She's been quite candid recently about how uncomfortable she found Season 8.

Lecy talks to Vulture and does her best to thread the needle. Not brilliantly, but I see her point. I can disagree and agree; I see both sides of the argument. I know very well the show isn't run by or an apologia for the right wing or Trump supporters, but it's still caught in a controversial and uneasy spot in a difficult moment and has no good answers. But maybe that's where it needs to be. It's also not incisive enough yet to really confront the issues, but it sounds like the opiates episode may do that.

She's been doing so well and I'm so proud!