Faulkner

It’s a tough one. Gimelstob had been an advocate for getting better prize money for lower-ranked players, which was one of Djokovic’s initiatives. I’m certainly not a JG fan, and he needed to go, which I think Novak knew.

A.J. Ellison from Kansas City, MO

Roger Snipes

Alex Chee from Malaysia

Nam Thanh Vo of Frankfurt, Germany

Timothy Joel Wright in Los Angeles (partnered with actor Sachin Bhatt)

I thought, who is this chic Latina in my IG feed? Meanwhile, Cirstea beats Madison, yet I’ve heard zilch about any disciplinary actions against her for putting hands on an official, aside from this unconfirmed report. But journalists will only press the issue around big names who will get them clicks and $$$$.

Lower back injury given as reason.

Federico Diaz from Miami

Ron tried to do the atmospheric thing with Abby/Gabby, but it was such a snooze and often laughable. Reilly’s DOOL was so weird because they could give Vivian and Kate such witty, marvelous lines (at least from what I remember), but everyone else sounded like they were in elementary school. He was also into that Seinfeldian repetition of phrases. Like Austin’s “I love you, Carrie, and I’m going to spend the rest of my life showing you how much.” I might have heard that line 50 times.

Razi from Tel Aviv

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.