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Anett Kontaveit is just on fire these days.

Big work projects occupied me the past few weeks but popping in:

Yeah. I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when Patrick was ripping them a new one. When he says “not very nice,” you know he went for the jugular.

He pinpoints Reign Edwards as an actress he loved. B&B did her dirty. She could have easily been a lead on that show. He says aspiring soap writers should hitch their wagons to serials being made for Amazon, YouTube, etc., as he’s not optimistic for the network shows. Pointed out EastSiders (with Van Hansis and Constance Wu) as an example, a show I really liked in its first season, but the second season lost me. He says he was “not very nice” to Anne Howard Bailey on SB and Richard Culliton on GH. What’s funny is that Alan actually showed *some* restraint in this interview, but still it’s like he has no intuition about interacting with people in interviews. LMAO. Patrick is kinda dragging Tony Geary (in a subtle way). When Patrick was talking about managing egos on GH, Alan interrupted him with a mention of the 40th anniversary of Luke and Laura. Gawd. Hilarious that he and his husband are both named Patrick Mulcahey (his husband is named Patrick and took PM’s last name).

This is a great interview, but the technical issues really mar it. And Alan’s inability to know when to shut the fûck up.

That’s a cool story.

This is Sara Al Madani. She seems like a spitfire and a rebel:

If Murray wants to get his ranking up and get some reps in, he might want to go the Agassi route and play the Challenger tour instead of living on WCs.

Sara Al Madani is Emirati and Nina Ali is Lebanese, which, if this is for real, indicates Bravo isn’t as foolish as I thought, and they did at least try to reflect the society in which the show is set.

Which would be lame af. Are we gonna have another gun pointed at Peter that doesn’t go off and hit its mark? Stop teasing us!

Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson—the next FX/Hulu/New York Times doc, Framing Britney Spears-style—premieres November 19. I suspect Justin Timberlake will have another bad few months ahead, as it charts the history behind their Super Bowl debacle and its fallout, including Les Moonves’s blacklisting of Janet. https://deadline.com/2021/11/janet-jackson-super-bowl-scandal-set-as-latest-new-york-times-doc-for-fx-hulu-1234865893/

Adele reigns for another week:

Quinn’s “crazy eyes” are back.

Unless they are really well done, it’s hard to get invested in these presumed-dead scenes anymore. Especially when you’ve been spoiled. Tricia Cast can break your heart, so I anticipate her scenes. There’s no there there with Ordway.

Therein lies the problem with a series set in Dubai. It’s incredibly tone deaf. A bunch of expat women (likely white) gallivanting and flashing the cash in a brown country with extremely oppressive laws? Seems like Bravo has learned nothing from the issues of recent years.

Is it just becoming a tradition that Chris Bassett and Michael Darby will fight during the RHOP finale? The Emirates are super anti-LGBTQ, yeah. It’s definitely a money city, so we’ll get real estate porn, but that’s possible elsewhere. I wonder if they will have multiple South Asian/Arab Muslim housewives because centering white women in Dubai would be a bad look.

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Thanks @victoria foxton. Love Diego.

More Halloween hotness

The Vevo ‘80s music channel on Pluto brought me back to these songs, which I hadn’t heard in a while: