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The Washington Post has been killing it with this story. Smart that they've taken down the paywall for it. Maybe they'll get some new subscribers out of this.

I would have had more seeds, not fewer. Not sure why they did this.

I've seen The Royal Tenenbaums dozens of times, but I never made this connection:

Oh lord. Old Charlie too? The bullying behavior isn't surprising. My friend's boyfriend used to work for his Bloomberg/PBS show and has nothing good to say about him. He gets great guests, but he's a terrible interviewer. Always interrupting. Guess we're looking at an early retirement?

The Powers That Be (NBC, 1992-93). Amazing cast. John Forsythe, Holland Taylor, Peter MacNicol, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Robin Bartlett, Valerie Mahaffey, and David Hyde Pierce in a role that presaged Niles on Frasier. I was pissed when the show was cancelled, but in hindsight, it was a blessing, since almost everyone on the show went on to bigger and better things. And, of course, Looking, which a lot of people found boring. I loved it.

Petra Kvitova acknowledged her on Instagram:

Not a Hollywood story but...

This makes me so sad. I remember that loss to Steffi Graf in the Wimbledon final like it was yesterday.

Playmakers, the football drama that aired very briefly on ESPN. The shady fúcks in the NFL pressured ESPN to cancel it because its stories hit too close to home. But it was fantastic.

David Effin' Goffin, y'all. Plays Dimitrov or Jack Sock for the ATP title. This year is like the twilight zone.

This story has been making the rounds. It's long but a must-read. https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/rebecca-traister-on-the-post-weinstein-reckoning.html

I sort of understand. Sloane had the Herculean task of coming back from injury so to win the USO must have taken a lot out of her mentally. And she's certainly in good company given the other flops we've seen from players with big WTA titles this year (including Miss Thang herself Jo Konta, who started the year so strong). But maybe I'd pinned too many hopes on Sloane. Yeah, the ATP Next Gen was totally buzz-free aside from that opening draw debacle. I suppose the ATP simply wanted to test out the new rules and tech innovations. You'd think they would have licensed it to TC at least if they wanted it to be bigger.

WTF is wrong with Sloane Stephens? She loses in Fed Cup to friggin' Sabalenka? She's had a Mladenovic-like plummet since the USO. Sounds like the ATP Next Gen tournament was a disaster. They had a third-place match as they do in the Olympics. Coric pulled out, was Shapovalov, who subsequently pulled out himself, and the match was cancelled. Happy for Hyeon Chung, who won the final against Rublev and went undefeated. There were no ranking points at stake, which is BS, but he's the real deal. I'm always thrilled when players of color succeed in this very bigoted sport.

Yikes. Maybe I'm dense, but the implication is that Takei drugged the guy, Cosby-style, right?

Gotta come back to this tweet:

Yeah, I'm not sure what planet Tom Rothman over at Sony is living on. Plummer is an upgrade in every way and is actually age-appropriate for the role. I've seen a fall as steep and immediate as Kevin Spacey's, but it seems like Hollywood is happy to be rid of him for reasons far beyond his predilection for predation.

It's being reported that Plummer was Ridley's first choice to play Getty anyway, but the studio wanted "a bigger name," forcing Spacey on him. Funny how it all "worked out" in the end...the makeup job on Spacey for the role looked ridiculous.