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Now Borna Coric has tested positive:

I’m not into celebrity worship, because we don’t know any of these people personally, but I’m still a fan of Novak’s game. I love his tenacity on court, his relentlessness, his problem solving and intelligence. How he silences his detractors by just winning. And I was inclined to root for him early on because the media always laid it on so thick to prop up Federer and to a lesser extent Nadal. He clearly has fans (which has helped make him an extraordinarily wealthy man with sponsorships), and I can understand why Nolefam can appear to be a bit aggressive considering how his exceptional career achievements have often been downplayed. That said... These past few months have been bone-headed decision after bone-headed decision from Novak and the people around him. The fact he lives in his own bubble only becomes clearer and clearer. I can see why he chooses to insulate himself from the media, but he’s very out of touch with reality. That Serbia hadn’t been as adversely affected by COVID doesn’t mean you can just throw an international exhibition with unmasked fans packed into stands and players hugging each other. It only takes one asymptomatic positive person to cause a spike in infection. It’s just common sense at this point.

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My friend wrote this piece:

It’s funny: Patinkin has been notoriously a nightmare throughout his screen and stage career. But it feels like Homeland has successfully rehabilitated his image. The rot just feels like it ran deep on CM. That show is still under investigation for serious violations by the crew.

LMAO

I didn’t realize Scott Bryce’s son was a basketball prodigy. Pretty cool.

And yet Netflix has given her full rein to produce shows with abandon. I’m interested in seeing what materializes from that freedom. Will the cray-cray be that much more pronounced?

Yep. Her shows always go too far. I didn’t finish HTGAWM, but I find Shondaland series to be primarily shock value with good actors.

Yeah. There was a lot that I liked about it but

For me, it’s typical Shonda. Wonderful actors (and Audra and especially Caterina Scorsone are great), but goes waaaay off the rails. Worth watching, though.

I just wish the Djokovic family would be quiet. They’re not helping themselves. The media is just looking for reasons to hate on Novak, many of his own making but a lot of them not, and they’re just offering new ones on a silver platter.

Massive icons like Aretha Franklin or Donna Summer will certainly continue to get their own threads when they pass, but I figured it might be worth having a place to honor lesser-known celebrities who have left us, especially because we can’t see status updates (which is where a lot of those announcements were made on here previously). But the great actor Ian Holm has died at 88: