Faulkner

For theater fans. I remember seeing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway (with David Hyde Pierce and Billy Magnussen of ATWT fame) years ago:

Yeah, it never had a real raison d’etre other than they thought they had to get in the same game as a competitor. The Sara/Aisha/Sharon/Sheryl/Julie group had the best chemistry (even though the conversation often felt canned and “acted” instead of spontaneous), but, of course, it all imploded spectacularly. COVID exposed the lack of production value (The View managed to remain professional-looking while The Talk looked like a Zoom call on dial-up modems). Trying to bring heft to the show post-George Floyd was a disaster. Seeing Elaine Welteroth try to engage in extremely ham-fisted political conversations with a panel who weren’t prepared to engage with such weighty issues was embarrassing. Had they tried to a do a light-hearted, mixed-gender panel from the start, they may have stood a chance IMO. Anyway, other than Akbar’s fine ass, I won’t be sad to see it go.

Long life but still it’s sad. I remember her as Nola Orsini on AMC. Saw this:

🐣 🥚 🐣

Thanks! Very interested to see what Moffat has up his sleeve after all these years.

I’m glad MVJ is leading this project. She was a writer on B&B during some of the most offensive, one-dimensional storytelling about Black characters the genre has ever seen. Who knows if she complained about an impotent Eric whoring Quinn out to Carter, for example? But, obviously, if she did, Bradley could (and did) overrule her. It’s one thing to have Black writers in the room but if they’re not empowered, it’s all for nothing. The NAACP involvement could be a blessing or a curse. Black folks aren’t a monolithic group who all share the same experiences. I don’t want to see storytelling hemmed in by respectability politics (or the unsubtle, repetitive Black trauma porn that’s become so commonplace in recent years) nor do I want the stereotypes that Tyler Perry and his ilk trot out. The burden of representation is real.

Grigor won Cincinnati in 2017, beating Kyrgios in the final:

Aw. And his cousin is Robert Gossett, a.k.a. Marshall Ashford on GH. He’s such a bold, politically incorrect presence in An Officer and a Gentleman. He’s been in so much that it’s hard to know where to start. He beat some heavy hitters that year. He looked so nervous: