Faulkner

Wawrinka lost in R1 to Garcia-Lopez, and his ranking has plummeted to 256. He’ll get tons of wild cards, though. Sevastova lost to Duque-Mariño. I can only imagine the drama on-court. Saw that Baghdatis was up 6-4, 4-3 on Giraldo but got injured and had to retire. Really awful luck.

I remember Omarosa sort of dragging Bethenny on BF’s failed talk show. Predicted (correctly) that her show wouldn’t survive the year (not that it wasn’t obvious to everyone). Bethenny gets flustered when someone comes at her in calm, methodical, imperious way.

I watched the Haase match, and he was very upset that the match wasn’t suspended due to darkness during the fourth set, which he was losing. (He was up two sets to one, but Goffin had all the momentum.) Haase was even more incensed when they decided to move forward with a fifth set and, during the changeover, he called for the trainer, who made the call that Haase wasn’t actually injured. I think most observers figured he was just acting and stalling for time to show his displeasure (and perhaps delay the match so it would legitimately be suspended). Goffin proceeded to bagel Haase in that fifth set. I used to dislike Ostapenko (especially after how obnoxious she was after Kasatkina beat her in Charleston), but I was pleasantly surprised how gracious she was in losing to Sloane in the Miami final. She just hits hard with no margin, which is dangerous when she’s on and disastrous when she’s not. Kozlova obviously has her number as she’s beaten Ostapenko every time they’ve played.

Yeah, Venus wasn’t coming in with any momentum at her weakest major, so I wasn’t that surprised she had trouble. Konta has never won a match here, so that wasn’t a shocker either. Goffin is down two-sets-to-love to Haase, so that’s an upset alert. So sad to see Nishioka cramping up at the end of the marathon match with Verdasco. Fernando was nice to hop the net to console Yoshi, who was obviously devastated. I know TC and NBC probably aren’t coordinating which matches they are covering, but it’s annoying that they are simultaneously airing the Fritz-Andreozzi match when so many other matches are being played.

Defending champ Ostapenko out in R1 (to Kozlova).

Always sad to see injuries derail a promising career. Marton Fucsovics is serving for his first ATP title. Good-looking guy, but that pornstache! 😂 Saw that Gilles Simon is choking away a possible victory over Thiem. Not sure why Dominic needed to play a tune-up...

That’s a cute little girl.

Man.

Not to harp on the Arrested Development stuff, which I’m sure everyone is sick of/bored with, but David Cross has just done a Gothamist interview that is pretty revealing about the dynamics of that NYT interview and the AD set. Sounds like Tambor’s outburst at Jessica Walter was just awful (and Walter had a lesser outburst at Portia de Rossi’s stand-in, which Walter apologized for). http://gothamist.com/2018/05/24/david_cross_arrested_development.php

Roland Garros draws are out, and Rafa’s draw is a joke. May as well hand him his 11th title now. Oy, but Fucsovics demolished him today. The way back can be long indeed.

Not a huge Carole fan, but glad she at least stood her ground with Queen Bethenny.

I feel like he was hiding in plain sight given all the weird news stories about him over the years, but it’s still surprising. There are few stars with more respect than Morgan Freeman. I’m sure Jason Bateman is breathing a sigh of relief that the news cycle has so quickly moved on from his plight.

A somewhat uncomfortable NYT interview with most of the Arrested Development cast in which Jessica Walter tearfully confirms that Jeffrey Tambor verbally abused her on set. Tambor takes his licks, and Jason Bateman, David Cross, and Tony Hale come to his defense, which isn’t going over well on social media. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/arts/television/arrested-development-netflix-interview-jeffrey-tambor.html Looks like Jason Bateman is having his Matt Damon moment. Also, Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen and alleges some very alarming physical and emotional abuse from Mia Farrow. I realize his assertions aren’t new, but these are the first I’ve read in this level of harrowing detail. http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html?m=1

Whoa.

^That hair tho.

I had been wondering why he’d been severely underperforming this past clay season, and this may explain the utterly lackluster performance against Isner in Miami.

He is getting dragged up and down the street for this. This clip is hard to watch because I don’t think there are two more obnoxious people than Andy and Jenny McCarthy.

I was reminded of that absolutely epic Bronson Pinchot interview with AV Club years ago in which he goes IN on Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. But he spoke a lot about his time on PS and how rough it was, how his relationship with Mark-Linn Baker was initially rocky but became a very deep bond. It is one of the most honest interviews I’ve certainly ever read from a celebrity. https://www.avclub.com/bronson-pinchot-1798218088

It sort of serves Sascha right to have his match unravel due to a rain delay today. It was ridiculous that he didn’t get a time warning and racquet abuse violation during the Goffin match. Halep is the also-ran again this year. Svitolina has looked amazing, but how many times has she looked “amazing” only to tank in Slams?

Thank you, Simona Halep!