Faulkner

This point.

And this!

And Nishioka beat RBA. So sad I’m missing the tournament this year.

Meanwhile...

And this is nice...

She plays Danielle Collins next. (Kiki had beaten her in Dubai.)

And this. A big win for Gunneswaran.  

3 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

I never thought Vee would win this.  I figured Petra would beat her badly in straights.  

 

Wow!  Great job Venus!!!!!

Just saw that they’ve never had a straight-sets match.

Check out the roar of a celebration!

Venus just beat Kvitova, y’all.

Karlovic beat Coric in the all-Croatian match. Seems like Borna hasn’t been as sharp this year. 

I’m missing the Venus/Kvitova match, which just went to a third. And Gunneswaran is a set up on Basilashvili.

Somehow I knew this would happen. 

55 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Her co-star, Chris O'Dowd, who was replaced by Richard E. Grant, talked about the fact that he was replaced and he was disappointed but was very complimentary and diplomatic toward Grant.  Grant even mentioned it during awards season, before the Academy Awards so I don't think that it was some big secret.  Entertainment reports were likely dancing around the topic and Moore had other movies to promote like Bel Canto. I just don't expect entertainment reporters to ask the probing questions, especially when they defer so much to the studios and agencies for access. 

It's cool that Andy Cohen allowed the caller to pose that question but it wasn't breaking news.  I just think the entertainment reporters likely didn't want to touch it and were happy to move onto other stories like the one about the movie in which she portrays Gloria Steinem. 

Everybody knew that that movie's production history was very messy, lol.

I’ve been in that side of the business, so I know how hesitant certain reporters can be to dig. But the bigger outlets (like the NYT) usually do ask those questions. They might not get the answers, but they usually ask and note a lack of candor. Everyone knew something went down, and Holofcener left the project right after JM did, so I thought maybe someone pulling the purse strings could have forced them out. For Julianne to be as blunt as to say she was fired by Holofcener  (and to add she hadn’t seen the film), while not earth-shaking, is decently big news, especially for someone of JM’s caliber. 

Anyway, I feel like I’ve veered far away from my original point, which is that Andy gets decent scoops from time to time, even inadvertently.

9 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

And another difference is the other two didn't cheat on their spouses but he did......

 

 

Perhaps. I don’t know any of them personally so....

Not saying Andy Cohen is Barbara Walters (he wishes), but the looser format of his show sometimes allows for scoops about stories that had been glossed over. If no one dared to ask her about what actually went down on “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” before that random caller, that’s crazy. Now if she’d been asked previously and deflected so as not to steal any thunder from the film and Melissa during awards season, that’s different. Maybe she only now felt comfortable to say something.

2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

 

Julianne Moore talks about being fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me and why she still hasn't seen the movie.  The write-up is in Vanity Fair.

Julianne Moore Says She Was Fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me?

 

 

I wondered what went down with that, with Julianne and Nicole Holofcener both off that movie. Every interview I’ve read with Melissa McCarthy about how she came to replace JM talks around that whole ordeal. Say what one will about Andy, but he gets the scoop. 

I can’t watch soaps or tennis atm, but I heard Serena/Vika was a barn burner. Vika can be grating with all her shrieking (and her antics, like in the Sloane match in Melbourne years ago, with that BS MTO), but she’s a fighter, and I’ve always appreciated that.

11 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

For people my age and younger, we don't even remember a life without Alex Trebek and Jeopardy! God bless him and his family in this fight. ❤

I’ve literally watched him my whole life, save for my years in college when time was scarce. I don’t think I could say the same for any other TV personality. I watched Jeopardy every weekday as a kid, and it’s been pretty much a weekday after-work ritual in my adult years. It’s totally sad. I, too, hope he beats it. I remember when Valerie Harper was given months to live after a terminal diagnosis, and she’s still alive and kicking years later. The odds are not great for Alex, but who knows?

SMILF has been cancelled at Showtime due to Frankie Shaw’s misconduct allegations. (Not sexual harassment in the sense we normally see, but one of the allegations was that she reportedly demanded that video monitors be turned on during a closed-set sex scene, which was in breach of an actress’s contract.)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/smilf-canceled-by-showtime-probe-creator-frankie-shaws-alleged-misconduct-1177459

Has Paul Annacone had a successful partnership with someone not named Sampras or Federer aka people who’d likely be successful without his coaching?

Giiiirl, Kasatkina.

These folks have been breaking a lot of the Jussie stories, and they are pissed they’re not getting credit.

Meanwhile...

1 hour ago, Bright Eyes said:

I can’t listen to her for too long because she makes me forget to breathe. 

She’s definitely got a coked-up cadence.