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1 hour ago, applcin said:
RIP Richard Moll.
I know he's most famous for Night Court but he did a rather poignant performance in a Halloween episode of "Doctor Quinn" that I really enjoyed.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/richard-moll-night-court-dead/index.html
The most famous Night Court ensemble continues to dwindle. Just Larroquette and Warfield left of that core group.
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3 hours ago, applcin said:
Another loss from CBS News NY. Arnold Diaz retired last year but I think he's like the 3rd death from CBS News NY this year, even though he had moved on to other networks. He did the "Shame On You" segment.
https://abc7ny.com/society/investigative-journalist-arnold-diaz-dies-at-74/13972978/
Same cancer that Christian LeBlanc has. So many untimely losses in the NYC news market this year.
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2 hours ago, 1974mdp said:
I personally think the show needs an Adam break. It's the same story over and over again. I would say rest the character and bring him back in a few years with a fresh perspective.
I actually think, of the two brothers, Nick needs the break more, although that’s a minority opinion. I feel like Adam’s return—a total “In Case of Emergency Break Glass” move that previous regimes had been avoiding—was in part to give Nick something to do, as he had been flailing for years.
Instead of dealing with the problem of defining Nick as an adult pillar of the show, no longer the dimpled studmuffin, they’ve defined him as the anti-Adam. He hasn’t quite worked in most of his romantic pairings, try as they might (aside from Sharon, which feels a bit lackluster). The Sally pairing is so painful that I regret having suggested that he hook up with Sally when she was beefing with Phyllis.
He’s not given opportunities to be a father to his young kids, and he seems more like an older brother to Noah than a dad. He does shine as Faith’s dad, but the show doesn’t feel committed to Faith either. In relation to Victor and NE, they can’t decide whether Nick is the vengeful son or the ambivalent outsider.
Whereas Adam is defined almost to a fault. Mark Grossman has chemistry with several people and Adam is an active, dynamic character who can drive more story. I’d love to see all the Newmans go, but I think oddly Adam has more potential on this low-budget version of Y&R.
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2 minutes ago, Jeff said:
I don't like this story at all. Alzheimer's/dementia is a horrible disease, and to fake it? Shame on the writers. I wonder if EB had any thoughts on doing this story.
Not that I’m defending the story, as it’s lame, but I think soaps have to allow people to do horrible things, even if they “set a bad example,” as these incidents surely happen IRL. Victor is a horrible person who had Phyllis raped, etc., so it wouldn’t surprise me if he pulled something like that. I think we’ve gone so far that mere dramatization of ghastly behavior is seen as endorsing it. Sometimes soaps cross the line into glamorizing horrible stuff (like the violence on GH), but that’s poor execution.
The other characters should be the ones taking Victor to task. The problem is after a week or so they’ll be back kissing his @ss, in the same way Phyllis has suffered few real consequences for faking her death. There’s no stakes because characters come through stories completely unfazed.
2 minutes ago, Antoyne said:Lord is Phyllis falling for Danny again?!
I’d be fine resting all of them except Nikki.
She’s been the one the show has considered most expendable until VERY recently. I suppose Audra and Claire Grace have given her new life.
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10 minutes ago, Antoyne said:
The Newmans are so tired to me. Victor is so bored now that he decided to fake dementia just to test his kids because he has nothing else to do. This is ridiculous. Does Abby even know anything is going on with her dad? She’s so isolated from the Newmans AND the Abbott’s somehow.
They keep covering the same ground. Mark Grossman is solid but if this is what they brought Adam back for, it wasn’t worth it. They need to move them off the hamster wheel or consider taking some of them off canvas if they can’t find other things for them to do. It’s boring.
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More of Nick:
Nick Bosa for Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS men's line. pic.twitter.com/l5dDd2vj8H
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 23, 20230 -
Monfils just won his first title (a 250) in a few years.
Meanwhile…
10. Fritz
— José Morgado (@josemorgado) October 22, 2023
12. Paul
14. Shelton
15. Tiafoe
The USA has now four ATP top 15 players for the first time since march 1997:
1. Sampras
3. Chang
13. Agassi
14. Martin
None of current US top 15 players were born that last time we had four Americans in the top 15.
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Choices were made re: fashions.
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I’m glad I’m able to just watch the Lois stuff because RS rules, and she has a great rapport with the actors she’s working with. The rest of the show? Zzzzz. If anyone else were playing Lois? Zzzzz.
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7 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
And at this very moment, I’m watching Step by Step on Freevee. RIP
https://pagesix.com/2023/10/15/suzanne-somers-dead-at-76-following-cancer-battle/amp/
Wow. That’s super sad. An icon of resilience and reinvention in a tough industry.
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My first experience with the great Piper Laurie (and I’m sure a lot of other Gen X/Xennials):
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29 minutes ago, 1974mdp said:
I feel like we've seen Nick and Adam fighting over the same woman waaay too many times. It would have been so much more interesting if it had been a Nick/Sally/NOAH triangle. I feel like Rory Gibson (not to mention the character of Allie) was never given a real chance. I think they keep trying to do "younger" stories with Nick and not letting the character mature, so there's not much of a place for Noah.
I’m almost feeling like there isn’t a place for Nick anymore. He’s been essentially drifting for the better part of 15 years. He’s never made sense at Newman. His bar and Dark Horse were massive failures. He hasn’t had a successful pairing since Phick 1.0 and the repairings with both GT and MS have all flopped. His kids have no place on the show except for Summer, whose relationship with her mom drives more story for her. He’s the dictionary definition of a character that’s coasted. Everyone just wants him back with Sharon. I personally think he’s taking up space and money on a show that could use more dynamism, especially in his age group.
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10 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:
Yeah, I'm with DaytimeFan. NuNYC is for the birds. Meanwhile, just think that on top of all the Housewives returning, plus Married to Medicine, we also get the NYC edition of RHUGT in December! Yippee!
I think I’m a bit off the Housewives train in general (has become a parody of a parody of a parody for me—I couldn’t even get into the revived Miami), but NuRHONY wasn’t hittin’ for me. I do like RHUGT for allowing the women to almost totally break the fourth wall and discuss themselves as “Housewives,” although Gizelle’s contrived fûckery last season ruined it. I’m also still drained and disillusioned from the last season of Vanderpump Rules, which was great but intense and ugly.
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11 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:
Ugh, I'm so glad I'm married.
And not poly? Haha.
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The gay viral hit of the fall. I’m sure most of you have seen this, but sharing it because it seems like it hit a nerve.0
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Grigor
Don't call it a cool down@GrigorDimitrov pic.twitter.com/dF8vrLclwM
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52 minutes ago, Darn said:
That entire promo should have been dedicated to Rena's return. It's been 27 YEARS! Don't nobody care about Nina's DCF case.
Agreed. That’s a huge event that might even grab some long lapsed viewers. I’m not a regular watcher and I’m certainly tuning in to see Lois.
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Yeah, Burton’s face looks really harsh there. He didn’t look quite as rough on GH. The lighting on DAYS might not be as forgiving or his appearance changed in his brief time away from soaps. In any case, a woman would never get away with looking like that, of course. No matter how banging their body is.
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Wow. Another shocker. Used to watch him all the time on Food Network. Was being treated for an allergic reaction and died from anaphylactic shock.
Michael Chiarello, Celebrity Chef and Former Food Network Star, Dies at 61 https://t.co/fTs1edb6Es
— Variety (@Variety) October 8, 2023I don’t know if I knew about his sexual harassment allegations. There have been so many cases.
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RIP: In Memoriam Thread
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Very sad. He just seemed so doomed.