SFK

All that talk of ribs is making me so hungry. My friend who worked with Danny Davis described him as "a monster", direct quote.

I believe I said this somewhere upthread, but the minute I heard about RH D.C., I *knew* that famewhore Paul Wharton was going to wiggle his wormy-looking way onto the show... and SHO' nuff. I'm from the D.C. area so I've seen his hosting work on local TV after I'd first seen him on that model show that used to come on VH1 where he got into it with that bitchy yet highly entertaining British agent. He also maintained a super pretentious blog for our local CW affiliate though I will give him the benefit of the doubt somewhat b/c he was playing up to the "fabulous life" thing they were going for. At ANY rate, I say all this to say that he in ways redeemed himself for me as a viewer on that last episode. To their faces and to the camera in the confessional-type commentary, he called the ladies out for how easy it is for them to say that Michaele should go back to selling makeup at Nordstrom or slinging hash as they sat up in Lynda's condo at the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown which you know SHE didn't pay for... well, not entirely. A D.C. modeling agency isn't bringing her in all that dough. They want to see Michaele and Tareq go down, I get it, but it really is simple: just stop associating with them. And they have. You can't (legally) wipe someone off the face of the earth, their social circle/the world will deal with Michaele and Tareq accordingly. Personally, I found them quite entertaining and I don't want to see them go. Michaele is the type of "villain" soaps should try writing sometimes. The sweet, smiling, passive-aggressive innocent. Michaele never does anything, bad things jsut happen to and around her. I kind of loved watching her. However, my favorite character, the real voice of reason, has got to be Stacie's husband. He was cracking me up that last episode when Michaele and Tareq left out the back door.

Re: the list, David Tom was way too young and unbelievable for Joey after NF... they are forever trying to deage that guy.

"Nicholas Coster was originally slated to play CC on SB,but he was unavailable for the debut as he was still on contract to OLTL so he became Lionel" Not that it didn't work out for the best, but a situation like that seems so aggravating/annoying! Imagine if Susan Lucci was booked for a commercial or something and ended up playing Cathy Craig on One Life because they "still wanted her."

Kim Burrell

Ike Turner

Quinn

Oh man, I saw that months ago and she took it to church like only Aretha can do. I was dying at the "I Will Hunt You Down!! " part. Speaking of which, have you seen the version by that little boy who is *just as sweet as he can be* as the elders around my way would say? Oh, and there's a YouTube clip where Mariah does an Aretha impression that's pretty cute. Shoot, let me stop typing and start linking... <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xYvZOLjr_og?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xcc2550&amp;color2=0xe87a9f"></param><param'>http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xYvZOLjr_og?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xcc2550&amp;color2=0xe87a9f"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/xYvZOLjr_og?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xcc2550&amp;color2=0xe87a9f" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> "Secret ren-a-doos..." My favorite comment is, "Boy, where is your mom?" And if he shakes that hair ONE more time... I know he's just a kid, but don't you hate it when people make singing videos and preface it with, "I'm really tired/I have a bit of a cold"? Wellll, why don't you WAIT until you wake the eff up/feel better to make the daggone thing?? And... <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/9WnGudRTbdg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"></param><param'>http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/9WnGudRTbdg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/9WnGudRTbdg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Watchmen

Gil Scott Heron

Lard

Ollie

I thought the D.C. finale was actually pretty good. I didn't follow the Salahi mess in real time so having "gotten to know them a little" it was more interesting watching it play out. See, I thought they got the show BECAUSE they'd crashed the WH, I didn't realize that happened while they were already taping!

That picture of the Spauldings pretty much says it all.

I don't know what it is about JK, but she has always bugged the hell outta me. She and Marilu Henner. Just annoying.

Oh. My. God. Mr. Fuji and The Magnificent Muraco, I haven't thought of those names in years! Wow, what a flashback. Look at Lisa hammin' it up...

R.I.P. The Queen of Gospel, Albertina Walker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/albertina-walker-queen-of_n_756040.html <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/cgIJ095RFcI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"></param><param'>http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/cgIJ095RFcI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/cgIJ095RFcI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

I was never a big AW viewer, but on a superficial level, I am more taken by Cali T. as Paulina. She really looks like a lithe yet scrappy, gorgeous blonde princess that could be Mac's daughter and Iris' sister. Something about JE is a little more... "middle class" let's say.

I knew about Sydney's PH (actually, to be accurate, it was Tracy's PH at that point, they'd even redecorated it for Tracy like a month before the show went off the air) becoming The View's original set (even the dining room chairs) but I never read anything about the Alden mansion being the skeleton of that set, which makes total sense. The Alden mansion was a very nice, expensive set with an upper level so I can see how they pulled that one off. But beyond having an upper level, there was a MAJOR overhaul. I wish!

It's definitely out there, I saw it on WoST a few years back. Perhaps you want to check with the person who created this site: http://lovingpilot.tripod.com/actone.htm (oh, and click the headings in blue for pictures)

En Vogue

Milo

Butter

They definitely could have used at least one more year. Tracy was *just* starting to get things rolling, she's that bulldozer type of woman that folks associate with a strong New York broad. It kind of pisses me off in hindsight how they were so quick to ditch it and try something else that ultimately failed, especially looking at the current landscape of daytime.

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