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Alex Winter, known from the Bill & Ted films with Keanu Reeves, reveals he was sexually abused as a child star in the ‘70s: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-ted-star-alex-winter-says-he-was-sexually-abused-as-a-child-star-1081204

The Pitchfork review really hammers the album. A 3.8. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/justin-timberlake-man-of-the-woods/ EDIT: Just finished the review. It is savage.

Counting down the hours...

My first CD, Green Day’s Dookie, was released 24 years ago today. Man.

I don’t think they’d find many takers for 7,000 to 12,000 episodes of series that would still need to be reviewed for rights, digitized, edited, and tagged. (Even a long series like Gunsmoke had fewer than 650 episodes in its entire 20-year run, which wouldn’t have covered three years of a daytime drama.) The big streamers like Netflix and Hulu don’t have a ton of interest in classic content of any kind (old films, TV shows - this article explains why, and it rings true to my experience), much less something as culturally frowned-upon as daytime soaps, so they’d need to figure out some kind of niche service à la Britbox for British classics or Filmstruck for arthouse/Criterion films. It just sounds like a lot of work with not very much return on the investment. Reboots sound more plausible, but I think they’d go for something that skewed younger/hipper than the P&G soaps (like AMC) or has a longtime cult audience like Dark Shadows.

Charlie Walk, president of Republic Records, has been fired from his judging role alongside Meghan Trainor, DJ Khaled, and Diddy on the Fox talent-competition series “The Four” in light of sexual misconduct allegations: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/charlie-walk-fired-from-the-four-on-leave-at-republic-w516196

Reviews are coming in, and they are... begrudgingly positive to mixed.

Mark Salling has died of an apparent suicide. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mark-salling-dead-glee-actor-dies-at-35-1080090

I saw that. Lady doesn’t age.

ALIVE AND KICKIIIIIING...

Just a bit of Eric Steinberg (Ji Min, Y&R) and others:

The Hollywood Reporter is pointing out all the male hip hop and R&B artists who didn’t wear white roses at the Grammys in solidarity with the #metoo movement. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rick-ross-big-sean-dont-wear-white-roses-at-grammys-1079330?facebook_2018128

Yikes, Alec Baldwin mounts an even stronger defense of Woody Allen, maligns Dylan Farrow: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alec-bladwin-compares-dylan-farrow-character-who-lied-her-rape-kill-a-mockingbird-1079172

I missed this article from last year, and its conclusions aren’t exactly surprising, but the median age of all viewers of men’s tennis is now above 60, only surpassed by PGA golf among the major sports. WTA tennis skews slightly younger at 55 median age. (NHL viewers are aging the quickliest while the NBA has maintained its youthful demo over the past 18 years.) http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2017/06/05/Research-and-Ratings/Viewership-trends.aspx?

The writers at SNL watch a LOT of Real Housewives, clearly:

Watched the XTC documentary on Showtime and now obsessed.

Didn’t watch, but by the scoreline, it looks like Marin at least put up an admirable fight, which is an improvement over Wimbledon where he was in distress. I think Fed’s body will break down sooner rather than later, but as long as the other top players are injured, he’s going to be the favorite for everything not on clay. Nadal has completely lost his edge over Roger; he simply folds every time they play these days. Roger is clearly phenomenal, but he has benefited greatly from weaker eras, and, yes, having an economical style of play. I suppose we were spoiled by the years of the Big Four, but this is just... boring.

I thought that was going to be a remake of the XTC song.

Three more women come forward about Jeremy Piven: https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/jeremy-piven-sexual-misconduct-allegations-follow-up?utm_term=.ddwb4qb6w#.feK16k1bE