Faulkner

Sascha got gagged with this return:

Don’t forget to do your squats and lunges:

Surprised that Margot Robbie didn’t get in for Best Actress but America Ferrera managed a Supporting Actress nod. I guess Best Actress was more competitive than people anticipated. Annette Bening is about to head into Glenn Close territory with unrewarded nominations.

It’s exciting. When was the last time we had a good regime change at a soap? Mal Young to Josh Griffith on Y&R? These shows have gotten so stale. Maybe it’ll inspire Y&R and DAYS to make some much-needed changes, but I doubt it. (If they do, their choices are likely to be dreadful.)

OK, now they have my attention. Patrick Mulcahey is a great get. At least the scripts will be better.

The great Norman Jewison has died at 97:

A very important message:

Dexter Scott King has died of cancer at 62:

Stuart on BH90210 is how I remember him best. The aborted wedding with Brenda, etc. Been so many deaths in my personal life as well as these premature losses in the soap community since the pandemic.

Michael Fortier

Not Jodie from Today’s Special?!? That really takes me waaaaay back. She was so warm and gorgeous.

Wow, with Pitchfork getting downsized and absorbed into GQ, the LA Times laying off workers, and now Sports Illustrated firing their entire staff, it’s been a brutal week for print media and online journalism:

Wow. Sad.

Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny have been cast as the Menendez parents opposite Nicholas Chavez (GH) in his Ryan Murphy miniseries. Some very A-list heft to work with the newbies: https://deadline.com/2024/01/monster-season-2-javier-bardem-chloe-sevigny-1235727311/ First teaser announcing the cast (no footage):

Emma Stone is already doing the “I don’t want this—Lily deserves it” routine that Cate Blanchett did last year when she collected a few of the precursors before Michelle Yeoh ultimately won: I do wonder, though: EEAAO was a juggernaut that got two other acting Oscars and I doubt KOTFM will have the same force.