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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

17 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Seems like Chung kept his head, self-belief and focus. I'm happy for him too. The finals was basically the only match I saw out of the entire tournament.

The NextGenATP even didn't get much chatter online overall.

It seemed like Coric threw in the towel once he lost that semifinal but I had heard that Shapovalov had injured himself.   I'm not sure whether that is true or not though.

 

Sloane's gonna Sloane. 

I didn't see any of today's Fed Cup rubbers but I saw some pictures of Sloane with a wrapped thigh or knee.

 

I know that lots of other players have won matches, even tournaments while their thighs or arms were wrapped, so I'm getting the same feeling about Sloane that I had when she was in Asia-- that basically she was ready to shut down her season after the the U.S. Open.

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:

48 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

 

For God's sake, Hollywood!  In what universe is Kevin Spacey a bigger name than Christopher [!@#$%^&*] Plummer?

 

In my wildest dream, this film not only premieres to boffo reviews and box office, but Plummer lands another Oscar (or at least a nomination) as well.  I want the latter to happen, if only to hear what Plummer would have to say if/when he makes his way to the podium to accept his award.

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.

11 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

I've rarely heard of anything like this. Wow. Has this happened before?

 

This movie was getting a big push for Oscar hype so I guess that's one of the reasons why they're going this route (and Ridley's had a few flops lately so that's another reason).

 

Christopher Plummer is a good choice.

 

Now Jeffrey Tambor is being investigated:

 

http://deadline.com/2017/11/jeffrey-tambor-sexual-harassment-claims-amazon-1202204220/

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.

Another insane twist to the Kevin Spacey fallout.

Ridley Scott plans to completely cut Spacey out of the already finished "All the Money in the World," recast him with Christopher Plummer, and completely reshoot all of his scenes.

The film is set for a December 22 release, and Scott is determined to have the film finished and ready for that date. Which is CRAZY.

http://deadline.com/2017/11/kevin-spacey-dropped-all-in-the-money-in-the-world-christopher-plummer-ridley-scott-j-paul-getty-1202204437/

It's worth noting that Heather Unruh's claims preceded the Rapp article so people can't claim she was jumping on the bandwagon.

Also, her lawyer Mitchell Garabedian is known for representing victims of sex abuse from clergy members, and he was famously played by Stanley Tucci in Spotlight.

Former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh has given a press conference outlining allegations that Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her 18-year-old son in Nantucket last summer after plying him with alcohol. They are pursuing criminal charges.

5 hours ago, Hunk Chandler Massey said:

Anyone watching the Nextgen year end tourney?

I'm not watching but apparently you can only watch on Amazon Prime? TC has been hyping this all year, and you can't even watch on their network? #MajorATPFail

Jack Sock has a Masters 1000 singles title.

Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know about the state of the ATP?

Slightly OT, but Cecily Strong just skewered Erika Jayne aka "Candice" on tonight's SNL.

There's no daytime world left to rock, and Paul Rauch has been dead for half a decade.

Yikes, and now Richard Dreyfuss's son Harry has written an article for BuzzFeed in which he claims Kevin Spacey groped him *while his FATHER was IN THE ROOM*:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/harrydreyfuss2/actor-harry-dreyfuss-when-i-was-18-kevin-spacey-groped-me

1 hour ago, dragonflies said:

THIS right here is what's wrong with Hollywood

 

 

Not that Hollywood is blameless, but I don't think there was any such award. I think this person was referencing a mistranslation from a Spanish-language website.

Spacey sounds absolutely unhinged. That journalist's story of KS screaming at him is just astonishing.

By the way, the executive who groped Terry Crews has been identified as Adam Venit of WME. He's the agent for Emma Stone, Diane Keaton, Adam Sandler, and, notably, Dustin Hoffman and Brett Ratner, among others. He's now on a leave of absence.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/adam-venit-terry-crews-sexual-harassment-1202605857/