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Politico (which leans right) ran with a similar take yesterday - that Trump is unwell. It makes me wonder if a narrative is building.
Morning Joe apparently just spent half the morning basically saying Trump was crazy and mentally unwell. That's an interesting move for ol' Joe, who loves to keep his options open on Trump.
Andrew Lack, Brian Williams' savior who brought him along to MSNBC, is seeking to make the network more conservative with recent and potential future hires. You can see his work on the network, but I admire the stalwarts hanging in. I don't know why Lack thinks this is a good recipe for success, as Fox News is basically imploding in front of our eyes - following O'Reilly the notorious Bill Shine just got canned, Hannity is now threatening to walk. In fairness, I do think Williams has largely fit in on MSNBC. Politico on Trump's latest disastrous day - openly questioning his mental state.
Celebrities do a table read of Steve Bannon's unmade L.A. riots musical, a bizarre riff on Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Must be seen to be believed.
20 days away! I still can't believe this. I am trying to potentially finagle an invite to the premiere screening at the Ace Hotel on the 19th, but I doubt very much I'll get that lucky. I am not sure my heart or mind can handle 4 straight hours of new Twin Peaks after 25+ years without some sort of real trailer/teaser to prepare me emotionally, so I am hoping we get another with new footage this Friday. In the meantime, I am starting my umpteenth rewatch of the show and film this week - I've seen it a zillion times and know it by heart, but I want to be able to go into the new show with a very fresh recollection and see how it all knits together from then vs. now (or not). More articles. You can right click and read the larger articles in bigger images:
Stephen and Nancy Snyder's(?) son Ben Schnetzer is also very active in theater and film. He played gay rights activist Mark Ashton in the lovely little UK film Pride, about the alliance between the LGBT/miners' alliance against Margaret Thatcher's regime - I was fooled into believing he was actually Irish. I believe he also turned up in the World of Warcraft movie and Snowden. He's up and coming! And very cute.
Cady McClain continued to do terrible things to her hair right to the end of ATWT - even after ATWT finally made her look good when she first came to the show. Then she dyed it red, curled it; it was awful. I remember Dixie's 'ghost' on AMC showing up to take Palmer into the beyond with that same hair. Thank God that phase passed.
Yeah, I was pleased to hear about Helford.
Rumor of the day: The Criterion Collection will be re-releasing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Not sure what they can get for another Blu-Ray release beyond the full treatment it was given on the box set, but I'd kill for a commentary from Sheryl Lee or Robert Engels. That said, Lynch would have nothing to do with a commentary track, and I suspect he outlawed one for Criterion's release of Mulholland Drive - he also made sure all the recorded audio commentaries for the old TP Season 2 box set were stripped out, because he didn't care for the ones on the Season 1 set (done by various writers and directors). He just doesn't like audiences having that kind of narrative running with the film, I guess.
That's one of the worst things you've ever said.
Lecy better be back.
If Roseanne's self-destructive ego can be kept on a leash and the final season can be ignored, I'm all for it. Still one of the very best sitcoms ever made.
Politico on the 'education' of Trump. In which new WH staffers complain that "this shît is hard."
I will defend a lot of what Sheffer did, including his very controversial 'makeovers' of certain characters with marquee talent like Craig and Rosanna - at least at first. I thought the show was incredibly smart and compelling. It felt adult when I watched it, and when I would turn back to my beloved OLTL on ABC that show often felt like kiddie shït at the time. But I think the bloom came off the rose very fast. Without known soap commodities backstopping him in the writers' room Sheffer had a diminishing bag of tricks, and it can't be denied that those recast makeovers had fundamental problems which became systemic. I understood all the reasons people critiqued what was done with Craig - largely valid ones - and I think Scott Bryce should've been allowed to return to the role when Block left, especially since IMO Bryce is ultimately a much more layered and nuanced actor. Other characters, like Dusty, were fundamentally broken and I think the worm began to turn when they foolishly went after Roger Howarth for Paul, despite Scott Holroyd being a fan favorite. The Todd Lite angle never worked and the character never recovered. When they then tried to fully pair Howarth with Cady McClain due to their sparkling chemistry (which it must be said I felt he also had with Martha Byrne), they turned the characters into a collective vanilla smoothie by way of a terrible story. That was the last time he was remotely relevant. I think ATWT went to the dogs around '04 and never recovered. And Sheffer never did either - not at DAYS, certainly not at Y&R.
+1 Exactly. Trump's victory and America's role in it came from the same place on both the far right and the far left. The white far left had been seething about the same creeping sense of loss of agency and power since Obama took power in 2008. They'll never admit this but it is the truth, and it's what comes out in their current angle - a lot of angry white men whose clicks and circulation went down post-Bush (Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, etc), ginning rage up again against Democrats, 'sellouts' and focusing on the '60s white savior who can make them feel the most relevant and most importantly, back in control of the future American narrative. A black man took it from them, the world began to change, and a woman was not going to rob them again. In this sense they are not much different from the impotent rage and creeping fear of change that gave us the far right.Important Information
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