Faulkner

Plus, working in a genre that has zero respect and didn’t even really have it when it was at its creative peak. You do really have to love it, it seems. Just a thankless job really, even when it was more lucrative, and burnout can happen so fast. Really makes you appreciate the dedication and seemingly endless creativity of the greats, who still had their share of rough patches and blunders.

We see it as lazy writing, but I wonder if Ron legit pitched his repetitive tropes as a formula for success to NBC/Sony/Corday. Like “I can do for DAYS what I did for OLTL/GH” and presented his list “From doppelgängers to masks.”

LMAO

T’Tao Taweechai, a personal trainer from Bangkok

Apparently the press were trying to goad Roger into some juicy statement about trying to reinstate Kermode, etc., and he didn’t take the bait.

Dr. Ibson Lyra from Brazil

I hadn’t looked into the economics of Kanopy, and yikes. NYCPL users get 10 streams a month, which is great, but that’s from the biggest public library system in the country.

I dig the Brazilian divas—Elis Regina, Daniela Mercury, Adriana Calcanhoto. And especially Marisa Monte. This is just gorgeous.

Forgive me if this has been posted, but I stumbled upon this 1956 TV clip of Helen Gallagher singing and dancing years before her Sweet Charity Tony nomination. Too bad the video quality gets a bit dodgy when she really starts breaking it down.

Yeah, I think LML found ranch-bound Nikki deeply retrograde and un-feminist. As fond as I am of MTS, and I’ll defend her as an actress without question, I too thought Nikki was getting a bit stale around that era, so she needed a jump start. Turning her a Hillary-clone senate candidate, complete with Hill hair, was a bit jarring, but she was game. I loved her little bitchy scenes with MS/Phyllis around that time.

LMAO at this Medvedev gif (after the Tsitsipas match at USO when his camp wasn’t cheering enough to his liking). He’s hilarious.

I’ll be That Guy and admit I enjoyed the Nikki Rodham Newman story, even though it was way OOC. I thought MTS had fun with it.

I love Novak, but Rafa on clay any day if my life is on the line.

Just saw Davidovich Fokina, who, due to his unexpected deep run in Estoril, would have missed his Madrid qualie matches, has received Berdych’s wild card into the main draw.

Wow, Davidovich Fokina is having the week of his career. And Berrettini toppled Kohlschreiber, who usually redlines in Munich. What a run *he’s* having!