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This after Ryuichi Sakamoto revealed he had stage 4 cancer. All very sad.

Morris from Taiwan 🇹🇼

She’s looking to move the show to NY, reports Variety.

Maybe he’s a rental car.

Terrible show.

Andrea from Italy 🇮🇹

Takes me back:

Rodney from Only Fools and Horses:

SO much cancer. Not just with the famous but in RL circles. Just wondering how much of it stems from people not being treated or delaying treatment during the pandemic.

People are leaving us:

I just think about how amazing that four-person NJ S3 reunion with Teresa, Kathy, Caroline, and Melissa was (the one in which Jacqueline was MIA). The one where Teresa did a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon maneuver on those ladies. Didn’t know how good we had it.

What happened with the last season of RHONY was a mix of lot of things, but I think Bravo misjudged the moment. They thought the show needed a “reckoning,” as if RHONY was *that* important. They also didn’t anticipate how much the conversation would change from when they filmed S13 and when it aired. It felt very much 2020, a really traumatic year for most people, and it aired in the middle of 2021. But at the end of the day, the OGs had gotten really stale. Like how many times can we watch them get sh*tfaced, get naked and hump each other, and fight over the same stuff? It wasn’t going anywhere.

Arturo in NYC 🇺🇸 Thighs like peanut butter: Thick and easy to spread.

2023 PGA Awards Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Avatar: The Way of Water The Banshees of Inisherin Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All At Once The Fabelmans Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Tár Top Gun: Maverick The Whale

Definitely not the same. And while folks have had this argument many times on this board, let’s be real: Eileen is Ashley. That hardness/harshness/almost-masculine vibe is who she is, and no one could thread that needle like her. Brenda could summon Ashley’s inner strength but, as an actress, she couldn’t cool her natural warmth. Bad writing really hurt Ashley when ED returned and a lot of people had gotten used to BE’s less abrasive portrayal even though who she was playing wasn’t really “Ashley” as we knew her to be.

Totally. It’s very confusing, but I wonder if they feel torn and know it would be a bad look in 2022-23 to not feature Sprina, so they’re a touch half-hearted about it. Playing both sides. Unless there’s some BTS issue we’re not privy to. They’ve really promoted Spencer’s relationships with his family and Ava, which is not a bad thing. But, for so long, Spencer and Trina barely had scenes, and they kept having reasons to not show them together. Very different from, say, the traditional tortured lovers who would share desperate glances across a room but know they can’t be together à la Craig/Sierra on ATWT (which happened constantly for months and months). Things have improved for Sprina more recently, I know, but it’s still odd. Even the most cautious writer would have had them kiss a lot sooner, if only to tease the audience. Still they went through the trouble of recasting Trina and continuing Sprina when Sydney Mikayla leaving for college could have given them an easy out.

The world has gone absolutely mad. I hope she pulls through.

That’s the thing. You can tell by the way they treat Portia/Curtis/Jordan that they prefer That Black Storyline vs. characters who can mingle and potentially become romantically involved with other non-black characters. (TJ/Willow feels very odd too.) But they put themselves in this mess by introducing Spencer to the canvas through Trina and having them flirt. Maybe they thought they’d pivot and make them besties, so that Trina could know her “place” on the canvas, but they continue to fuel the fire by keeping them connected yet… not. It’s absolutely clear that they’ve gone well beyond the Agnes Nixon ethos of “make ‘em wait.” There’s more going on. I guess they know they’ve created a monster, and they’re trying to kill it (death by a thousand cuts). Yeah, I started watching AW long after AH left and I thought PMV and Jensen were really good together. It’s interesting to watch AH and PMV in scenes. Ryan felt like a much looser, funnier character back then.