Faulkner

His duet with Amy Winehouse was great too. Really a bright spot in her dark last years: Just a fantastic old gent.

This line says so much about the state of affairs:

Wasn’t that uncommon in my generation.

The behind-the-scenes fückery surrounding GH only since the pandemic would be Primetime Emmy-worthy viewing. Certainly leagues better than the show that actually airs. The woman could be Haley Pullos’s mama.

Zverev abuse allegations back in the news as prosecutors in Berlin have applied to issue “a criminal order” against him:

I had the same thought about Jenna. She actually would have been a decent Ramona replacement. Erin might actually have fit in well with that group too, in spite of being much younger. She has an older vibe to me and was my favorite of the group. That said, I still think it was a smart idea to do a full reboot with a diverse cast of women with existing bonds and not attempt to shoehorn one or two women of color into a long-standing contingent of friends. And I can’t do another season of substance abuse as a joke. It was a low-key premiere, maybe even a little boring, but I liked it ok. I feel like I saw more of NYC in one episode than I did in a whole season of the OG version. NYC’s center of gravity is no longer Manhattan; it’s Brooklyn. If anything, this group of women might even still be slightly too Manhattan-centric.

Cindy Hsu is someone who wears her emotions on her sleeve, so I knew she’d be completely devastated. Just so heartbreaking.

I’m very sorry for your loss. I hope that AI might eventually find some use with these treatments.

That’s for sure. Thanks for the explanation.

Oh damn it. You know these Twitter accounts better than I do. I’ll replace. Thanks for flagging that. I usually try to check that. Had it been known that she’d been suffering from an illness? I was completely in the dark. It’s very sad. Lots of loss both in my family and of course in the soap world too—it has been a very trying year. I know Ruschell Boone from NY1 had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and was out for nine months, but she seems to be doing very well and is back on the air, last I checked.

Very sad news for viewers in the NYC markets @AbcNbc247. I watched her all the time on CBS2.

She’s younger than Linda Dano, which I don’t know if I realized. I guess Felicia didn’t have the burden of being a family matriarch, and Felicia had a younger, more stylish vibe, of course.

They still managed to squeeze the Barbie and Oppenheimer premieres and marketing campaigns under the gun, which feels a bit icky to me, given the extension of the deadline. I feel like both sides are fighting over the last scraps of a dying industry. The next decade is going to be rough with the exponential growth of new technologies, and a lot of careers will be obsolete (not just in Hollywood, of course). And there’s not much anyone can do about that. Many of these studios probably won’t even exist. That’s one reason I suspect this will be a protracted fight that will speed up the inevitable.

Sam at the end is a jump scare.

ABC’s Golden Bachelor:

This old thread has some good discussions about the trajectory of the show:

Some Y&R updates (both on Instagram, which sadly doesn’t embed properly anymore): Tristan Lake Leabu’s (ex-Reed) band has a soulful new song and Loren Lott (ex-Ana) is being cute af. Sad that Y&R couldn’t figure out how to capitalize on the promising young talent it wasted and let slip through its hands over the years.

I think Novak is still in the position to win more major titles, barring a serious injury that makes him take a step back like Rafa, Roger, and Serena. (Serena also took time off to have a kid and went through a challenging pregnancy during probably her last prime playing years and still made some finals upon her return.) Novak’s still relatively healthy, even with the stress of going deep into tournaments on his aging body, and I’m not sure there are players other than Carlos and maybe Medvedev who are knocking on the door to stringing seven best-of-five matches together imminently. We shall see CA inspires his peers to step up or even motivates older folks like Zverev and Tsitsipas, who both seem to have regressed a lot. I hope Eubanks can build on what he’s accomplished recently. Also, we will see if Carlos’s next few years are similar to Roger’s 2003-07, after Sampras retired and Agassi was winding down, when there was a dearth of all-time greats in the sport aside from Rafa on clay (CA’s play is very physical, so I wonder how much his body will hold up), but I think Novak might remain in the mix for at least another year, putting him in contention for 4-5+ more titles. No one knows what the future holds, of course…but that’s my thinking.

Novak has nothing to prove but man, that collapse in the 2nd set TB really put him in a bind. Congrats to Carlos! He’s only 20 and already has the most prestigious major title under his belt.