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pluckysidekick · 1 year
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Hello, Drewds! It’s been a while since Nancy Drew filming wrapped. Am I the only one who couldn’t have imagined being almost two full weeks into January and still not knowing when Season 4 of Nancy Drew was premiering? Me either.
In the meantime, some happenings:
The big headline is of course Kennedy McMann is starring in ABC’s massively popular ‘Good Doctor’ series’ spinoff The Good Lawyer as a young lawyer, Joni DeGroot, with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - which Kennedy herself suffers from - opposite Felicity Huffman.
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In the backdoor pilot airing March 13, we meet the “brilliant, funny and self-aware” young lawyer living with OCD, whose “attention to detail allows her to see cases through a different lens.” Sound familiar? Here’s to hoping Joni likes checked blazers and patterned scarves. If only her law firm also had a quirky tech guy…Congrats, Kennedy!
Speaking of Kennedy, she along with the writers and Riley came on Twitter to commiserate in solidarity with us on the lack of a premiere date, and to confirm that those fake episode titles (e.g. “The Whispers of the Grim” 😂) were bogus.
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We also got SEASON 4 EMOJIS, her favorite scenes (in Ep. 3 and 13 after some clarification), and assurance that we will cry hard at the end of the finale.
Besides Cupid’s arrow (hopefully NACE and not some alternate love interests we have to suffer through), looking forward to the Hardy Family Hannukah Dinner, Game Night! (see below), camping out in that cool Airstream, road trip (PLEASE LET IT BE NANCY AND ACE), BABY (Carson and Jean’s perhaps?), curse breaking via a spell book Bess finds perhaps, and FIRE (oh no). Also Nancy’s gonna give some more blood, but we knew that already. I wonder if Ace is the latest blood donor….
Speaking of Game Night, here’s a little seen BTS photo from DP Nick Thomas I never posted from back in late September - Game Night is ON at Icarus Hall, and probably in the same episode with the earth shattering Nace photo Kennedy posted the same week. Does anyone recognize what game they’re going to be playing?
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Next, the hit horror film M3GAN with the creepy life sized American Girl doll killer helped the CW pay the bills with a cross promo with ND that gave us a tiny bit of S4 footage.
We got to see Bess performing some kind of ritual? on Nancy with a weird contraption (mask? Ghost goggle type lens?) and Nancy vomiting black ick. They’re doing this in the in the Drew house, which is strange since Nancy seems to have moved into Icarus Hall. Ace’s voiceover where he questions Nancy’s eating habits has been debated to death of whether he’s actually in the scene or if it’s audio from the Tom Swift episode (inconclusive).
Based on Nancy and Nick’s (who’s behind Bess) wardrobe, and Kennedy’s mention of filming an episode with a ‘Burning Bride’ comedy vibe back in an early August podcast, I believe this scene is from Episode 2, and related to the cause of whatever humorous curse is going on in that episode. Anyway, Ew. But still nice to see actual S4 footage.
We also saw some of our actors on much deserved vacations, with Maddison and Leah both enjoying tropical vacations with their bfs (in Mexico and Costa Rica respectively).
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This will probably be my last marathon post for a while. I do still owe a breakdown of Riley’s post from the last day of filming in the Claw set with baby shower props (!). Also, I finally reached 100+ notes with a short post of just fantastic cast BTS photos.
I’ve been hard at work on Part 2 of No One Mourns the Wicked, my Secret Sleuth fic with a Season 1 AU where the crew put on a summer stock production of Wicked. It’s almost done and it’s a doozy. I will probably split it into multiple parts to make it easier to consume, as it sort of turned into a multi-chapter extravaganza. Whoops. Speaking of which, I’ll be jumping right back into The Space Between (S4 spec fic) as soon as I’m done - there’s still a lot of insanity planned for the crew post curse breaking. They still have a mystery to solve…
Thanks for sticking with me, waiting impatiently for the S4 premier date along with everyone else. Bye for now!
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god yeah <3 sometimes i think about nancy wheeler so much that it's embarrassing. if someone infiltrated my mind half of it would be her !!
so true !!!! if anything, the gun is more of a physical, blatant reminder to the people around her that she's a quick thinker but knows how to defend the people she loves in the case that they can't think their way out of things. i think that if things had played out differently, if barb was killed in an ordinary way/went missing, and there was no upside down, nancy would still end up on the journalism career path, just without her guns
oh god yeah time travel and time travel adjacent things,,, that would be so cool. and terrifyingly traumatizing for all of them, but they could Definitely Go That Route. "when they defeat it and she's able to shower off all the dirt and grit and put on a newly pressed outfit and fix her makeup but even with that veneer of normalcy she can't pretend to be regular or really exist outside of a state of terror" GOD. YEAH. ABSOLUTELY. YOUR MIND !!!! that's exactly what she's doing and it kills me to a) see that they hardly explore it in canon and b) note that the fandom is seriously lacking in nancy exploration deep dive psychoanalysis content. everything that you're saying,,, literally god tier. there was a line in a fic once that was talking about how some part of nancy feels like she's only of use when this supernatural danger comes knocking and. i can definitely see that playing out. nancy being untethered, trauma preventing her from moving on (for a while, preventing her from going out and actually getting anywhere in her relationship with steve, and eventually the stagnation builds up like a dam and everything she was trying so hard to ignore comes crashing down around her), and nancy completely surrendering herself to things. grades and partying and getting into her dream college and building a future with jonathan and interning at the post and becoming a journalist and whipping the school paper into pristine shape etc etc. point being ! the only time she feels alive anymore is when she lets herself be consumed by things and pulled along with the tide, and it's in no way healthy but. when she's making plans and knowing where everyone is, when she can plot out a course of action and know that everyone can work on the same wavelength as her, that's when she's most comfortable. it's a little backwards (a little upside down lmao). and you're so right, dw it does indeed make sense!! i would love to spend hours just,, observing nancy wheeler. picking her brain and whatnot
ROBIN CAMEOS IN THE SPINOFF UNTIL ONE EPISODE SHE BECOMES A REGULAR CHARACTER AND THEN NANCY'S LIKE WELL IT'S HONESTLY MORE CONVENIENT IF YOU JUST TRAVEL WITH ME YKNOW. RENT AND GAS MONEY AND PHONE BILLS AND ALL THAT. i gotta admit i haven't seen x files but i shall take your word for it !!!
A FAILFAMILY THAT. THAT SUMS THEM UP SO WELL. like a. like a goddamn snowglobe,, perfect picture family stuck in a world,,, shake them up and down,, drop it on the floor pick it up they're all broken,,, drowning in their own life,, combusts and dies actually.
byler ronance found family friends to lovers not actually unrequited love angst with a happy ending !!! all the best fanfic tropes and the funniest (not really) part of it all is that they're never gonna be canon and happy... but anyways yes. nancy "smh when will my brother realize he's in love with his childhood b(s)f" wheeler -> nancy "oh. oh my god i'm in love with MY friend" wheeler character arc
HSDFHKLJDSJF YEAHHHH. ngl their energy was kinda unmatched. the monster hunting trio is a better ship/friends-but-not-"just-friends"-friends-like-it's-just-sm-deeper-than-romance name than stoncy though. i'm sorry. monster hunting champage?? i do not know what you mean but absolutely i agree <3
MHM all of them really,, how can you possibly date someone who doesn't know about all the stuff they've had to go through how could you explain that your best friend was snatched by an interdimensionally travelling monster and in the same moment, your innocence and childhood were snatched from you (and oh actually. don't like stancy but the symbolism of nancy losing her virginity at the same time she without realizing it lost her childhood through losing her childhood best friend... that was quite literally the last time she had her full-on adolescence and purity i am. not okay) and try to cover it up as my best friend died because of a chemical leak and i feel guilty and like a fundamentally bad person because of it?? so yeah. nancy and robin should date lmao
YEAH. she's so fascinating and has so many different facets and depths and everything... the most character of all time
SAME !!! and it really does help to write down all these things so they don't just float around my head and eventually break off into dust particles. I LOVE YOU AND ALL OF YOUR REPLIES AND BRILLIANCE AND EVERYTHING YOU SAY,, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE MOST RIGHT PERSON EVER
LMFAO GOD REALLY SAW THE DISASTER THAT WAS THE WHEELER FAMILY AND WENT YEAH NO THAT HAS GOTTA END. sorry holly <3 perhaps you should begin considering reverse disowning and find a more normal family before it's too late...
yes gun metaphor!!!! nancy doesnt just own guns she IS the gun!!!! i totally agree, nancy had an inquisitive quality from the start and i think her dedication to justice and curiosity are such core tenants of her. barb was maybe an inciting incident that brought them to the surface more quickly and to a higher intensity but they would've come up no matter what!!!!
"the only time she feels alive anymore is when she lets herself be consumed by things and pulled along with the tide" SCREAMING AND CRYING AT EVERYTHING YOU SAID IT'S SO TRUE it's so true!!!!!! i honestly dont even have anything to add because you the hit the nail on the head so well....im just going to be rereading that paragraph and muttering "WOW" under my breath for weeks now
what do you mean ronance isn't going canon???? LOL jk. i wish there was some brave soul who would make a 300 slide presentation about why and how ronance will be canon. i would love to be delusional about them. but also!!!! them being real genuine friends before getting together is so special too....like they're friends now but i mean friends even when the world isn't ending. both of them realizing they want to spend every day together....robin dialing nancy's number without even thinking and when nancy answers she realizes she doesn't even know what to say, she just wanted to hear her voice. that kind of comfortability that you just accidentally fall into.
HONESTLY THE RONANCE SUPERNATURAL DETECTIVE AGENCY JUST WRITES ITSELF!!!! i dont know if the x files of it all works too much, but nancy's kinda skeptical and robin believes in bigfoot so!!!!! something of a dynamic going on there
THE WHEELER FAMILY ROTATES IN MY BRAIN ON AN ENDLESS LOOP for like the opposite reason that the byers-hopper lives in my brain forever lmao the wheeler suck so much <3333 they're literally. a haunted house with a picket fence yeah.....a broken snowglobe on the ground YEAH. i cant wait for the apocalypse to disrupt the HELL out of them.
OMG I WAS JUST REFERENCING THAT ONE POST that was like "when [some ship from legends of korra] becomes canon we're popping the biggest champagne bottles" and then they didnt become canon so someone made a post that was like "for sale: [ship] bottles. never popped" LOL it'sjust funny to me the way people were sooo hyped for stoncy only for like. nothing to come out of that (we were robbed!!!) but YES i totally agree i have been so on board with the idea of all of them as friends but like friends who are all extremely obsessed with each other and see each other constantly
LITERALLYYYYY yes everything so much. especially what you said about nancy literally losing her adolescence in every way that night. i think shared experience and "being in the know" is so pivotal to so much of stranger things but especially nancy. i know i'm just retreading everything but yeah she literally has no close friends at school or anywhere!!! even her family, even mike, who she knows understands at least a little bit, she can't talk to because he was never actually in the upside down and his best friend came back.
she's like a rubik's cube that is so impossible to solve and i love that about her!!! it's so real that she has contradictions and growth and isn't as perfect as she wants herself to be AHHHHH i love love love talking about her with you<33333
I NEED TO SEE THAT WHEELER HOUSE GET SUCKED UP INTO AN UPSIDE DOWN HOLE POLTERGEIST STYLE!!!!!!!!!
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bianchi2021 · 3 years
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voidsteffy · 2 years
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Nancy Drew has the 10 typical cliche CW tropes but does it way better (ft. The Vampire Diaries)
Note: This is not exclusive bashing of TVD, I did like to binge watch it but it isn't a secret the development of its storylines is monumentally problematic and sometimes racist. This is a comparison between the common CW tropes that the creators of TVD and Nancy Drew have shown albeit with varying stages of maturity.
1. The dead parent(s) trope:
Both TVD and ND start with the protagonist, a young girl in the age range of 17-18 losing either one (Nancy- Kate) or both parents (Elena- Grayson & Miranda). In TVD, the effect of the loss is downplayed to purple prose/angsty monologues/an excuse to visit the cemetary. We see no actual emotional vulnerability of losing a parent shining through, nor any financial consequences. In ND, we see the death of her mother making Nancy's life reel back, making her do things she never thought she could do (despise with her dad and his grieving methods, tank her grades, ditch her plans for Columbia). We also see Carson trying to deal with the bills later on throughout season 1 and 2 and also the aftereffects of the grief with his rebellious daughter: side storylines that exists to maintain the reality that a loss isn't always an emotional but a financial and a mental one as well.
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2. Person of colour treatment:
Bonnie Bennett is the resident witch of Mystic Falls, our favorite go-to for the residence of power. It was good that TVD creators 'gave' her that much power but it was barely consequential to the plot as her character plainly existed to be a magical power bank. Bonnie was undertreated, underrated, purposely given lines like "Can I say she's a tranny mess", made a supernatural racist (there's a difference between dislike for other supernatural species and constantly planning their demise because they are 'monsters'). Moreover, all black/brown people in TVD were either witchy sidekicks or killed inconsequentially. In ND, one of of the main characters is Nick whose storyline evolves to erase the myth of internal racism, the senseless 'I will judge you mercilessly because others judge me' trope. He is treated like any normal character, but the writers have been careful and true to the heritage by including plotlines that would make Nick stand out as (a) an individual character (b) a person of colour with the most heart touching and realistic behaviour. The same can be said about the Asian American character George Fan, who is a hero in her own right. Amanda Bobbsey is shown to have her own dreams out of the town and is currently in pursuit of them. Gil Bobbsey is a bad example, I know. The fact that he is stereotyped into all the preconceived notions about South Asian men is the only thing that irritates me. Fortunately, we're getting Tom Swift as the spinoff with Tian Richards playing the handsome lead.
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3. Antagonists who turn out to be morally grey and wronged in their past
TVD creator and executive producer has, on many occasions, boasted her syntax of giving every villain a tragic backstory to redeem them. Katherine Pierce, Klaus Mikaelson, Esther, Rebekah, Sybil etc. Sorry to break it to you but a tragic backstory doesn't redeem all the horrible evil things they've done, it just makes them more human while STILL committing the wrongs. Writing an evil character to stay evil, but as a humanised evil, is established in ND with the Aglaeca who is actually the soul of a French heiress turned into a sea monster. Odette Lamar was wronged by her husband, her life taken aboard a ship in a very brutal sequence of events and her fortune hijacked by her sailor husband Captain Marvin. The writers made sure to distinguish between the supernatural evil Aglaeca that Odette had become versus the still grieving human anger of Odette's ghost.
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4. Adoption storyline:
Elena Gilbert was John Gilbert and Isobel Flemming's daughter, raised by Grayson and Miranda Gilbert as their own after Isobel gave her up post partum. In TVD, Elena, once getting to know this news, doesn't express any humane emotion of being bereaved of an identity (which is the reaction expected). Though she tries to look for Isobel and vents on Damon when she gets to know of his relationship with her birth mother (still gross btw), she barely deals with it. The storyline would more or less remain the same if Elena wasn't Isobel and John's daughter (make Miranda a descendant of Katherine and boom). But in ND, Nancy finds out that she was adopted even when she doesn't ask for it. The fact doesn't come out of nowhere, the reasons and foreshadowing are laid out there like breadcrumbs from the moment the pilot's story begins. Nancy going through the loss of identity phase and the 'grieving someone I don't even know' phase is beautifully crafted. Nothing is added just for the drama, there is a meaning behind it.
5. Small towns, bonus- surrounded by woods:
Mystic Falls is supposed to be a souther small town larger than life, always hosting council parties that aspire to be the Virginian version of Gossip Girl. The writers just considered the town a backdrop but didn't venture at all into making it seem like a real-life community. In Horseshoe Bay, a coastal town in Maine that was filled with superstitions and gossip mongers, there is an effort to make some of the town events actually hold meaning to the plotline or to realize the image of the community itself - we have history buffs actually seen doing history research, archaeological digging, pageant queens having snobby rivalry, flower shops, cafes, indirect racism (which is more prevalent irl than you might think) etc. Even 3 season in, Horseshoe Bay of Nancy Drew is more fleshed out of a town than Mystic Falls ever was.
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6. Toxic men:
Okay, big setback for all Damon and Delena stans, but canon!Damon was toxic af. He made decisions for Elena, killed people for her and pretended he did her a favour and let's not even talk about the sire bond or the cure hunt or the killing Jeremy storyline. Elena actually got an endgame with such a personality, which is a supremely bad example. Because though Damon had turned over a new leaf after season 6, he had still been horrible to Elena while she was still alive and not in the coma. In ND, Gil Bobbsey is the toxic man. Manipulative even with his sister, desperate for attention, ready to bereave Nancy of her friends just to get her for himself, that kind of toxic. And because of this, it is extremely satisfying to see the toxic man NOT get the girl for once. Nancy dumps his ass when she realizes the effect his gaslighting had on her life. Go Nancy!
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7. The 'older men who want to show the girl all the world has to offer' trope:
There isn't a soul in the TVD fandom who hasn't smiled at Klaroline at least once. Klaus is the man who has lived longer than Caroline and exudes the wordly riches vibe. Caroline is a small town girl who dreams about all that the world has to offer. Klaus more than once propositions a getaway to all places like Paris to show her the taste of love and history and art. It would have been a good dynamic if only Klaus weren't a literal heart-wrenching, boyfriend-enslaving, mom-killing supernatural psychopath with anger and daddy issues. In ND, Nancy has Owen - a relatively older businessman (not too old, a human age gap) who enables Nancy's need to get away from her life in her town by offering her a trip to New York while they're dating. Owen's a pretty vanilla guy, and among his sole purposes was this.
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8. No one dies and when they do, they don't:
Bonnie Bennett is crying from hysterics at this. We've seen her die so many times and every time, Julie went 'Ha no that was just a test speed bump, Bonnie is actually alive lol'. After the first three times, it became as overlooked as Dean's deaths in Mystery Spot. Elena died thrice, Damon and Stefan too. Alaric and Matt are cackling. The thing is, the writers can kill off their characters and revive them as long as it has some meaning. Sometimes not everything exists to further the plot, it also needs its own air to breathe as a concept. In ND, George dies because of an impalement. But Nancy, in her desperation to save her friend, revives her with the shroud. This is indeed consequential to the plot and also to George as a character when she is challenged to share her mental space with the trauma of being revived as well as now sharing her body with a French lady's ghost.
9. Vintage cars (and beaten down trucks):
Damon and Stefan, both, are proud owners of old classic cars (Chevy Camaro and Porsche respectively). I'm going to make a very specific joke here and say they love their cars on fire. Though we often see Damon's possessive side over his car, I find Ace's relationship with Florence nore endearing and calm. After seeing Dean Winchester loving Baby more than his dad, and Damon and Stefan leveraging towns over their own cars, Ace's sweet talks to Florence makes my heart to plop. Nancy also has her mother's blue Mustang (book classic). Both Matt Donovan (TVD) and Nick (ND) have the same type and colour of truck too but Nick's holds a bit higher canon significance (what with them dying in it and all)
10. Whole town under mysterious hypnotic influencing:
I'll write this comparison after ND 3x04 or 3x05 comes out but I'm somehow sure that they're going to do it better than TVD season 5 Silas
(I haven't mentioned sexual representation as a point because TVD didn't have much diversified sexual representation to begin with and though lesbian relationships are a big strp from that in ND, I do wish there was more differences in sexualities written into the show)
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This Fcking Impeachment: Episode One, The Fire of Union
PLAIDDER: Hello and welcome to This Fucking Emergency’s exciting new spinoff: This Fucking Impeachment. With me in the studio today is the happiest imaginary man in the world. Please welcome the unpublished-fictional man, the very little-known myth, the only-to-the-select-few legend, Conn mac Emer!
CONN: WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
PLAIDDER: I see Conn has already started celebrating...and for the first but probably not the last time, please welcome to the show another imaginary politician, the Nation’s own Gill Nileton.
GILL: I thought Ideirens couldn’t drink.
CONN: We can’t.
GILL: You kind of SEEM like you’ve been--
CONN: The exalted mood you observe in me, friend, is not the artificial product of poisonous libations, but the exhilaration of LINN SHANGHLAIM! YEEEE HAAAAAA!!
GILL: I know you told me what that means, but--
PLAIDDER: It’s an Old Tongue phrase that sort of translates as “the fire of union.”
GILL: I still don’t know what that means.
PLAIDDER: As I understand it, linn shanghlaim is used by members of the Seated Leaders to describe the experience of spontaneously and rapidly coming together to support a single piece of legislation or course of action. 
GILL: Nothing’s spontaneous in politics.
CONN: Spoken like a man who’s lived all his life under a two-party system. The Seat doesn’t have parties. We have a bunch of people who each only care about what happens in their home district. BUT. Once in a while, something happens that’s so important, for reasons either venal or noble, that everyone puts that petty local tarbfnaa aside and comes together to deal with it. And that’s linn shanghlaim, and it is the reason I get up in the thurking morning. WOOOOOO!!!
GILL: I have literally never seen you this happy.
PLAIDDER: Well you have to understand, Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that they’ve launched an impeachment inquiry.
GILL: Impeachment. This is the thing that happened to this “Bill Clinton” that I’m supposed to have been based on.
PLAIDDER: Yes. But you see, it’s also a thing that ALMOST happened to a guy named Richard Nixon that neither of you have ever heard of.
GILL: I still don’t understand.
PLAIDDER: Our...president...has just admitted that he abused the power of his office to force a third party to dig up dirt on someone who was quite possibly going to be running against him for president. 
GILL: And?
PLAIDDER: And that’s Watergate. For 40 years now every political scandal has had “gate” attached to it, in honor of the Watergate scandal. But this is actually the only scandal since Watergate that actually deserves that suffix. Because this...president...has just done EXACTLY what the House was prepared to impeach Nixon for back in 1974, only in a MUCH WORSE way. All this time everyone’s known that this jackass should be impeached but they’ve been afraid to do it because so much of this stuff is unprecedented and because this...asshole...has been using his power to gaslight everyone into thinking well, maybe this ISN’T really an impeachable offense. But here is something that everyone knows, from history, actually IS an impeachable offense and furthermore is serious enough that the prospect of getting impeached for it forced that son of a bitch to resign.
CONN: And so as soon as that became clear...WHOOSH! The fire of union!
PLAIDDER: Because now, by impeaching him, they’re not repeating the Clinton impeachment, they’re repeating the Nixon one. That’s what Pelosi and friends have been worried about all this time. When the Republicans impeached...let’s say, your namesake...
GILL: This Clinton.
PLAIDDER: Yes. When they impeached him, it was over a single instance of perjury, in which he lied about the fact that he had drawn a 22 year old intern into a sexual relationship with him. 
GILL: I thought they impeached him over the sex.
PLAIDDER: No. Technically, the High Crime and Misdemeanor at stake there was his lying about it under oath.
GILL: But your president lies--
PLAIDDER: Exactly. Exactly. But, you see, the Clinton impeachment was clearly politically motivated. The Republicans wouldn’t accept the fact that they’d lost the White House, so they investigated Clinton until they turned up something they could use. This, by the way, is exactly what Buttercup’s defenders are always saying the Democrats are doing now.
GILL: Which they actually are.
PLAIDDER: The difference, Gill, is that Buttercup actually is unfit to hold this office in every measurable way. He’s constantly abusing his power--not just in this phone call, but in every action he takes as President. He lies like he breathes. He upended the FBI and the Department of Justice to try to stop the Mueller investigation. He fires everyone who displays a shred of integrity or an ounce of loyalty to anything other than himself. He encourages foreign governments to bribe him by using his hotel properties. He embezzles taxpayer money by directing government entities to use his hotel properties. I cannot even list all the ways in which he has proved that he acts always and only in his own interests, even when that goes against the interests of the country he supposedly governs. He illegally blocks money that Congress has appropriated for things he doesn’t want to do or redirects money that Congress appropriated for some other purpose. He refuses to obey the law whenever it contravenes his needs, desires, or even whims. He has corrupted the entire Department of Justice and turned the Attorney General of the United States into his personal defense lawyer. He accepted help from fucking Vladimir Putin in the 2016 election and NOW--as a fucking SITTING PRESIDENT--he is actively soliciting help from Zelensky in the upcoming 2020 election. And that’s just the illegal stuff. Do not get me STARTED on the profoundly immoral things he has done with this office and to this country. He is not a president. He is a mob boss. He richly deserves to be impeached, and now at last he will be.
CONN: Look at you, drawing up the articles of impeachment already!
PLAIDDER: Every right-minded citizen of this country has had their own personal articles of impeachment drawn up for at least a year now.
GILL: I feel your pain--
PLAIDDER: Please let me never hear you say that again--
GILL: --but this seems very risky to me. They’ve already released the transcript of the phone call; and they’re right, there’s no explicit quid pro quo.
CONN: Oh friend. Do you think a man as practiced in extortion and bullying as this gleachinai is would be stupid enough to use the if-then formula? He blocks their aid, then calls--
PLAIDDER: REGARDLESS! Holding up the aid that Congress had voted to the Ukraine--for ANY reason--was ILLEGAL! He doesn’t get to DECIDE whether he disburses that aid or not! He is supposed to EXECUTE the laws that Congress passes, that is why they call it the fucking EXECUTIVE branch. He is not supposed to LEGISLATE. That’s not how this works. THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS.
GILL: I think you should maybe go to commercial, stranger, you’re getting very excited.
CONN: Clearly, you’ve never watched a single episode of this show.
PLAIDDER: Fucking with that aid money is IN ITSELF an impeachable offense! We don’t even need to GET to the question of whether he did it as a quid pro quo. 
CONN: Right. Just like the fact that he asked a foreign head of state to go after his political opponent is impeachable in itself, whether or not he ALSO bribed or extorted him to do it.
PLAIDDER: Thank you. I only wish we’d done this sooner.
CONN: I don’t.
PLAIDDER: And now we come to it. You’re about to tell me that Pelosi has been playing seven-dimensional Dubh Solus all this time, aren’t you?
CONN: Yes I am.
PLAIDDER: Oh Lord.
CONN: I kept saying, not yet, not yet. And would you listen to me?
PLAIDDER: No.
CONN: No, you would not. Look. Your people don’t exactly have the concept of linn shanghlaim, but your Nancy Pelosi has been in politics all her life. She knows the fire of union when she sees it. And she also knows when she doesn’t see it. The Mueller investigation did not light that fire. Even if there hadn’t been all the chicanery around releasing the report, the fact that it was so inconclusive just threw water on everything. But she let him think he was winning. Because she knew that if he did, he’d do something worse and more dramatic. And now he has. 
PLAIDDER: But Conn...linn shanghlaim is supposed to include everybody. It’s supposed to cut across existing...well, you don’t have formal political parties, but let’s say factional divisions. But there are no Republicans on fire right now. It’s 199 Democrats and Justin Amash.
CONN: I know. We cannot expect miracles.
PLAIDDER: But Pelosi did! She kept saying she wouldn’t do this until she had bipartisan--
CONN: Friend, do you seriously believe that she ever thought for a moment that impeachment would have bipartisan support? She works with those people EVERY. DAY. 
PLAIDDER: Well then why--
CONN: Because waiting for this “bipartisan support” which was never going to appear allowed her to delay impeachment indefinitely UNTIL the right moment came along. Which is this one.
PLAIDDER: You can’t prove any of this.
CONN: Look at the results. Instead of dragging a bunch of reluctant, scared, misgiving-filled people behind her into an impeachment half of them don’t want, she’s barely one step ahead of a charging horde, all lit up with the fire of union. This is going to be unstoppable.
GILL: But isn’t thing going to play into your president’s hands? He’s supposed to love conflict, and drama, and his people are always saying impeachment is a political winner for them, and--
CONN: Gill. Friend. Stop. You’re embarrassing yourself.
GILL: I beg your--
CONN: LOOK AT THE RESULTS. For months now, Congress has been demanding documents and testimony and what have you and this administration’s response has been, sue me for it. Word gets out that impeachment is actually in motion and what’s the first thing that happens? The transcript of that call has been released. The whistleblower complaint is maybe going to come out tomorrow. What does that tell you?
GILL: That they’re scared.
CONN: Yes. It tells you that impeachment was the ONLY thing this crew ever took seriously. It’s the ONLY thing that was ever capable of forcing them to obey the law. They never wanted this. They feared it. That “it helps us politically” stuff was pure tarbhfnaa put out by his minions to stave it off. 
PLAIDDER: Pelosi also said that’s what he--
CONN: Because she was ALSO trying to stave it off. It was convenient for her to pretend to believe their tarbhfnaa as long as she didn’t think the time was right. But she never did. 
PLAIDDER: So she lied to us.
CONN: Friend, not all good women are shriias.
GILL: Now THAT’S the truth.
PLAIDDER: Oh boy.
CONN: Watch her and learn, Gill. Watch and learn.
PLAIDDER: Well, we’ll all be watching. It’s time to wrap up this episode of This Fucking Impeachment...but there will be more!
CONN: WOOOOHOOO! HYA GLEACH! HYA GLEACH! HYA GLEACH!!
GILL: Where in this studio can a man get a DRINK?
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Page 11: The Report -- AT&T’s shadow war resets as activist investors claim wins 
Page 12: Why Wall Street doesn’t mind cable’s “Dark” pay TV future 
Page 14: When movies shift over to streaming: Bonuses just go out the window, When will Netflix finally end its content cash burn? 
Page 16: $0 is magic number for new streamers: It’s About Scale, Wanna Boost Box Office -- host a Q&A 
Page 18: Box Office, Broadcast TV, Cable TV, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 
Page 20: Tribute to Robert Evans -- William Friedkin 
Page 21: Rose McGowan, Joe Eszterhas, Phillip Noyce, Christine Peters 
Page 22: Feinberg Forecast -- Nominations, Britannias and Oscar Prom in October -- Best Picture -- The Irishman, 1917, Actor -- Matt Damon, Actress -- Scarlett Johansson, Director -- Greta Gerwig, Original Screenplay -- Us 
Page 24: 7 Days of Deals -- How Endemol turns Banijay into a truly global TV powerhouse, It’s a Bird It’s a Plane It’s a lot more spinoffs, Rights Available -- Thumbs by Sean Lewis, Tiny Imperfections by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, Film -- Rachel Weisz, Bill Condon, Craig Mazin and Ted Elliot to develop a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot, Shia LaBeouf and Vanessa Kirby, Kelly Marie Tran 
Page 25: Justin Bieber, Television -- Dwyane Wade, Amy Poehler, Johnny Galecki and Anthony Del Broccolo, Alia Shawkat and Jeff Bridges, Digital -- Jared Harris and Lee Pace to star in Apple+ space drama Foundation, Beau Willimon, Freddie Prinze Jr., Joseph Mawle will play the main villain on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series, Rep Sheet -- Gwyneth Paltrow, Ozuna, Ross Mathews, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ayesha Curry, Next Big Thing -- Ana de la Reguera 
Page 27: Why Hollywood still doesn’t have a consensus presidential candidate 
Page 28: Long before #MeToo a showbiz secretary skewered Selznick 
Page 29: The unconventional path of Prince’s memoir -- Esther Newberg, Ian Schrager returns to the Sunset Strip 
Page 30: About Town -- Governors Awards -- Laura Dern and Isabella Rossellini and Kyle MacLachlan, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde, David Lynch, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino, Lina Wertmuller, Charlize Theron and John Lithgow and Regina King and Damon Lindelof, Wes Studi and Christian Bale, Geena Davis and Jim Gianopulos, Mark Twain Prize -- Elaine and Dave Chappelle, Tiffany Haddish, Morgan Freeman and Chris Tucker, Nancy Pelosi, Common and daughter Omoye Assata Lynn 
Page 31: Britannia Awards -- Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kerry Washington and Lupita Nyong’o, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton and Dexter Fletcher, Norman Lear, Jordan Peele and wife Chelsea Peretti, Michael Howells and wife Courtney Howells and Matthew Wiseman and wife Lisa, Jackie Chan and Vin Diesel, Steve Coogan and Chantal Rickards and Hilary Roberts, Lorne Michaels, Bradley Cooper with daughter Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, Michael Che and Colin Jost 
Page 32: Yes I Did Say That! Rachel Maddow, Bob Iger, Ted Mundorff, Tyler Perry, Kelly Bachman, Martha Stewart on Felicity Huffman, Amanda Knox on Lady Gaga, Kurt Sutter, Flashback -- Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2015 
Page 34: Rambling Reporter -- Josh Brolin avenges Santa Monica crime fighters, Strauss Zelnick goes topless in youth pill ad, how Koch went from Howard to Hawk, the day Taika Waititi made little Archie Yates cry 
Page 35: Hitched, Hatched, Hired, Power Dining -- Lenny Kravitz, Haim Saban, Maria Shriver and son Patrick Schwarzenegger, Lindsey Vonn, Bob Simonds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Andrew Garfield, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Joel Silver, Gary Gilbert, Natalie Portman and Ellen Pompeo double date, Jason Momoa, Lea Michele, Harrison Ford 
Page 36: The Business -- Mimi Leder 
Page 38: Who broke NDAs for Bombshell
Page 42: Who Wants to Take on Fox News? 
Page 44: My plea for a best blockbuster Oscar 
Page 45: Behind the Screen -- The sound of a de-aged De Niro 
Page 48: Style -- Ralph Lauren shares insights about his life and work on the eve of the HBO documentary Very Ralph 
Page 50: The “Shape Shifter” costumes of Harriet 
Page 52: Dan Aykroyd’s haunted hotspots 
Page 54: Cover Story -- The Executive Roundtable 
Page 62: Welcome to the Flim Flam Film Fest 
Page 66: Awards Season -- 42 movies in on Oscar 
Page 70: Making of Marriage Story 
Page 74: Reviews -- The Morning Show 
Page 75: Social Climbers -- Actors -- Zac Efron, Kristen Bell, Scripted TV -- Rick and Morty, TV Personalities -- Trevor Noah 
Page 77: Backlot -- Rob Riggle’s plans to play nice as awards show host 
Page 78: Dr. Mehmet Oz on his show’s health, past mistakes and his future 
Page 80: 90 Years of THR -- In 1984 Terminator arrived and (kept coming back) 
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tvrundown USA 2021.11.19
Friday, November 19th:
(exclusive): Good With Wood (DSC+, woodworking competition premiere, all 6 eps), Hellbound (netflix, Korean supernatural mystery mini-series, all 6 eps), Cowboy Bebop (netflix, live-action series premiere, all 10 eps), Blown Away (netflix, glassblowing competition "Christmas" spinoff, all 4 eps), "The Mind, Explained" (netflix, season 2 available, next 5 eps), Harriet the Spy (apple+, animated series premiere, first 5 eps only), "The Line" (apple+, war crimes docuseries premiere, all 4 parts), "Everybody Loves Natti" (amazon, Natti Natasha reality docuseries, all 6 parts), The Great (hulu, historical sitcom, season 2 available, all 10 eps), "Player vs. Player" with Trevor Noah (ROKU, video game sessions, all 8 eps)
(streaming movies, etc.): "King Richard" (HMax, tennis biopic feature premiere), "Extinct" (netflix, animated family film, 85mins), "Dhamaka" (netflix, Hindi journalist thriller, ~105mins), "Love Me Instead" (netflix, Turkish social drama, ~2hrs+), "tick, tick... BOOM!" (netflix, Jonathan Larson musical biopic, ~2hrs), "Procession" (netflix, Catholic abuse survivors documentary, ~2hrs), "Candy Coated Christmas" (DSC+, original movie by Food Network), "Oasis Knebworth 1996" (Para+, concert film doc premiere), "Prisoners of the Ghostland" (amazon|Shudder, horror Western)
(streaming weekly): The Wheel of Time (amazon, series premiere, first 3 eps), "Maradona, Blessed Dream" (amazon, penultimate), ----- Dr. Brain (apple+), The Shrink Next Door (apple+), Dickinson (apple+), Swagger (apple+), Invasion (apple+), Acapulco (apple+), Foundation (apple+, season 1 finale), The Morning Show (apple+, season 2 finale), ----- The Great British Baking Show (netflix, penultimate), Home Sweet Home (Peacock), The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock, primetime)
(original made-for-TV movies, etc.): "Dancing Through the Snow" (LIFE, 2hrs+), "Nantucket Noel" (HALL, ~2hrs), "Dying for a Good Grade" (LMN, 2hrs), "A House on the Bayou" (EPIX, a Blumhouse horror film), "Dean Martin: King of Cool" (TCM, documentary, 2hrs)
(also new): Teen Titans Go! (TOON, "A Doom Patrol Thanksgiving" special), "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team" (CMT, season 16 finale), The NYTimes Presents (FX|hulu, "Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson", ~95mins)
(hour 1): S.W.A.T. (CBS, repeat), Penn & Teller: Fool Us (theCW), Shark Tank (ABC), The Wall (NBC), Sydney to the Max (disney) /   / Gabby Duran & The Unsittables (disney)
(hour 2): Magnum P.I. (CBS), Nancy Drew (theCW)
(hour 3): Blue Bloods (CBS), Day of the Dead (SyFy), Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, season 19 finale), Tha God's Honest Truth (COM)
(hour 4 - latenight): The Graham Norton Show (BBCAm)
[note: Center Seat: "55 Years of Star Trek" (HIST) moves to Mondays.]
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Latinos thrive in radio and TV despite Trump
(CNN)While President Donald Trump was focusing on building a wall along our southern border, a sound barrier across the Western Hemisphere was being shattered by the Latin beat wafting across the airwaves.
Reigning on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1 is the Spanish-language song "Despacito (Remix)," featuring Justin Bieber and Puerto Rican- American singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. Not since "Macarena" dominated the coveted slot in 1996 has a Spanish language song soared and reached such crossover acceptance. "Despacito" was already a Spanish-language hit, but it was the remix with Bieber that hurled the song smack into the mainstream.
At a time when many US Latinos are feeling marginalized and under attack from political rhetoric on the right and ineffective representation on the left, Spanish pop songs that galvanize an American audience are a recognition that Latinos are part of the American landscape. In addition, a wellspring of Latino TV roles has begun to counter inflammatory images with contemporary Latino profiles.
After four seasons, Hulu's "East Los High" is ending its run. The teen drama, set in a predominantly Latino high school, became a hit in Atlanta with African-American millennials before it became must-watch TV in Los Angeles. Youth, regardless of race and ethnicity, responded to the series because of its authentic characters and relatable narratives.
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When Carlos Portugal and Kathleen Bedoya created the show, they gave actors Danielle Vega and Vanessa Vasquez a platform from which to both receive a 2015 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series, while breakout performances led Gabriel Chavarria to key roles in "Lowriders" and "War of the Planet of the Apes."
Another actor from "East Los High," J.D. Pardo, was cast in the principal role in FX's "Sons of Anarchy" spinoff "Mayans MC." The writers' room for "East Los High" included predominantly Latino and female writers, such as Evelina Fernandez, Charo Toledo, Luisa Leschin and Nancy De Los Santos.
Just as Showtime's "Resurrection Blvd." did 17 years earlier, a multiyear, Latino-themed show and cast yields experienced creators, writers, actors, producers and skilled tradecraft professionals.
Shows like ABC's "Cristela" and CW's "Jane the Virgin" laid the foundation for a predominantly Latina cast to reboot Norman Lear's "One Day at a Time" on Netflix. America Ferrera's no-nonsense comedic role in NBC's "Superstore" expanded the comedic range for Latinas by providing the yang to Sofia Vergara's over-the-top ying in ABC's "Modern Family."
Latino acting leads have grown substantively in the area of scripted dramas. Wilmer Valderrama's standout performance as the self-assured and cocky Nick Torres on the 14th season of CBS's "NCIS" the second-longest-running US prime-time television scripted series -- reflects the cumulative advancement that Latinx actors have made on many top-billed television shows across networks, cable and streaming services.
Last week, actress Elena Verdugo passed away at age 92 Many remember Verdugo for her role, from 1969 to 1976, as Consuelo Lopez on ABC's "Marcus Welby, M.D." It's hard to believe that, at the time, Elena's supporting role was the most visible and recognizable Latina character ever on seen American TV.
It would take 28 more years before another actress, Eva Longoria, would have that distinction, as Gabrielle Solis on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" -- although actresses Sonia Manzano, Rita Moreno, Lynda Carter, Constance Marie and Jessica Alba also had prominent TV roles during that time.
U.S. will be a lot more Latino by 2060
Although the struggle to include more Latinx characters and story lines to television content has long been documented, the solution has always been to create programming that affords emerging talent an opportunity to build their craft, either behind or in front of the camera.
At times, that opportunity has been the strongest when members of two different marginalized groups work together. Under John Ridley's -- a black screenwriter and film director -- leadership and direction, ABC's "American Crime" crafted complicated and multidimensionally inclusive characters.
Benito Martinez's Emmy-worthy performances in all three seasons -- but, in particular, the most recent one -- portrayed a Mexican middle-class bilingual dad who crosses the border without authorization to retrace his missing son's path to the US Ridley tackled immigration by juxtaposing hate and humanity. "American Crime's" final season accomplished what armies of political talk show pundits could not: It imagined immigration in an understandable and contextual media narrative.
Like Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's film "Amores Perros," "American Crime" developed overlapping and intersecting hot button and taboo topics that contrasted American lives trying to survive an unforeseen event.
Ridley showcased Latino actors by gifting their characters with integrity, compassion, courage, complexity, grit, determination, flaws and frailty. The show showcased Martinez's acting chops, as well as those of actors Richard Cabral, Elvis Nolasco and Johnny Ortiz, all of whom emerged as polished, experienced and in-demand actors. Ridley, like Norman Lear almost a half century before, mashed up contemporary content with diverse characters.
As English-language shows continue to be crafted to include Latinx, Spanish-language content on Univision ("La Candidata") and Telemundo ("El Seor de los Cielos") have upped the quality and made their telenovela content more appealing and relevant to US audiences. This comes on the heels of Netflix's sweeping and successful original Spanish programming and independent distribution that includes "Narcos," "Club de Cuervos," "Juana Ines," "Ingobernable," "Velvet," and "Gran Hotel."
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Cristela Alonzo (ABC's "The Gospel of Kevin"), John Leguizamo (ABC's "Salamander"), Ian Gomez (CBS' "Living Biblically") and Rosie Perez (NBC's "Rise") return to television's 2017 fall schedule. Critics are already calling ABC's "The Good Doctor," with Nicholas Gonzalez, a bona fide hit. And yet, new shows like" S.W.A.T.," set in Los Angeles, have no Latinx series regulars; similarly, Latinos, who represent 11% of the military, are not cast in CBS' show on US Navy SEALs.
As Justin Bieber sings "[p]asito a pasito," which means one step at a time, the TV doors have begun to swing open in the same manner. Now, if only film studios could follow the lead of music and networks.
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Save the Date: TV Premieres and Film Releases
The schedule of television premieres and film releases continues.  Below is a list of upcoming television shows and films that participated in New York State’s production and post-production tax credit programs with upcoming release/premiere dates.
Our Cartoon President – Season 2 – May 12 -- CBS Television Studios/Showtime This fresh, cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump's confidants and bon vivants - family, top associates, heads of government, golf pros and anyone else straying into his orbit - intrepidly exploring their histories and their psyches, revealing insights into what makes them so definitively Trumpian. Starring: Jeff Bergman, William Sadler, James Adoman (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
LA’s Finest – Season 1 – May 13 – Sony/NBC In the spinoff series of the Bad Boys films, L.A.'s Finest follows Sydney Burnett, who last was seen in Miami taking down a drug cartel. She now has left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna, a working mom with an equally complex past, Burnett is pushed to examine whether her unapologetic lifestyle might be masking a greater personal secret. These two women don’t agree on much, but they find common ground when it comes to taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles. Starring: Gabrielle Union, Zach Gilford, Jessica Alba (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
Life Like – May 14 – Lionsgate/Sprockefeller Pictures An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, lifelike robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever. Starring: Drew Van Acker, Addison Timlin, Steven Strait (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum – May 17 – Summit Entertainment Super-Assassin John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassin's guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head - he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
The Sun is Also a Star – May 17 – MGM/WarnerBros Natasha and her family have less than 24 hours before they are scheduled to be deported from New York to Jamaica. Further complications soon arise when Natasha meets and falls in love with Daniel, the son of Korean immigrants. Starring: Yara Shahidi (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
The Tomorrow Man – May 17 – Bleecker Street Films Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff. Starring: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production) 
Elementary – Season 7 – May 23 – CBS A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City. Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Aiden Quinn (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
She’s Gotta Have It – Season 2 – May 24 -- Netflix Nola Darling struggles to stay true to herself and her dreams while juggling three lovers in this Spike Lee series based on his breakout film. Starring: DeWanda Wise, Margot Bingham, Anthony Ramos (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
When They See Us – May 31 – Netflix Based on a true story that gripped the country, the limited series will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. Starring: Michael Kenneth Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Fear of the Walking Dead – Season 5 – June 2 – AMC A Walking Dead spin-off, set in Los Angeles, following two families who must band together to survive the undead apocalypse. In Season 5, the group’s mission is clear: locate survivors and help make what’s left of the world a slightly better place. Their mission of helping others will be put to the ultimate test when our group finds themselves in uncharted territory, one which will force them to face not just their pasts but also their fears. Starring: Coleman Domingo, Lennie James, Jenna Elfman (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
Late Night – June 7 – Amazon Studios A late-night talk show host suspects that she may soon be losing her long-running show and hires a female writer to help revitalize the program. Starring: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Tales of the City – Season 1 – June 7 – Netflix A middle-aged Mary Ann returns to San Francisco and reunites with the eccentric friends she left behind. Starring: Laura Linney, Ellen Page, Olympia Dukakis (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Pose – Season 2 – June 9 – Fox 21 Television Studios/FX Set in the 1980s, Pose is a dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene. Starring: MJ Rodriguez, Billy Porter, Dominique Jackson (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Younger – Season 6 – June 12 – Paramount After being mistaken for younger than she really is, a single mother decides to take the chance to reboot her career and her love life as a 26-year old. Starring: Sutton Foster, Debi Mazar, Hillary Duff (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
The Dead Don’t Die – June 14 – Focus Features The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead. Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
City on a Hill – June 16 - Showtime An assistant district attorney forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran; together, they take on criminals in a case that grows to involve and ultimately subvert Boston's entire criminal justice system. Starring: Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, Jill Hennessy (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Instinct – Season 2 -- June 16 – CBS A former CIA operative, who has since built a "normal" life as a gifted professor and writer, is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose. Starring: Alan Cumming, Bohana Novakovic, Daniel Ings (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
Child’s Play – June 21 – MGM/Orion A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Post Production)
The Loudest Voice – June 30 – Blumhouse Television/Showtime A look at the rise and fall of former Chairman and CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes. Starring: Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Seth MacFarlane (Participated in the New York State Film Tax Credit Program – Production)
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Actress Charlotte Rae, star of 'Facts of Life,' dead at 92
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Actress Charlotte Rae, star of 'Facts of Life,' dead at 92
(Reuters) – Charlotte Rae, the actress, singer and comedienne who won acclaim on Broadway and was best known for her starring role as a girls boarding school housemother on U.S. television’s “The Facts of Life” from 1979 to 1986, has died at the age of 92.
Rae died at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon surrounded by her family, her manager Paul Hilepo wrote in an email.
Rae earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1982 for her role as Edna Garrett on “The Facts of Life,” a series built around young actresses Lisa Whelchel, Nancy McKeon, Kim Fields and Mindy Cohn but held together by show business veteran Rae.
She originated the role in 1978 on another situation comedy, “Diff’rent Strokes,” and her character proved so popular that “The Facts of Life” was created as a spinoff for her, also on the NBC network.
Rae was a familiar face to TV viewers from her appearances on a variety of shows, including the 1960s police sitcom “Car 54, Where Are You?” She earned an Emmy nomination for her role in the 1975 CBS drama “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom.”
She also was well known on Broadway, picking up a Tony Award nomination in 1966 for the musical “Pickwick” and in 1969 for the play “Morning, Noon and Night.” In 1956, she originated the role of Mammy Yokum in the popular musical “Lil’ Abner.”
She was cast in “Diff’rent Strokes” in the role of a flighty but loving housekeeper for a white New York businessman, played by Conrad Bain, who adopts the two young black sons, played by Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges, of his late previous housekeeper.
Her character’s popularity paved the way for the creation of “The Facts of Life” in which she offered motherly guidance to the young characters at an all-girl boarding school.
Rae left the show, which sometimes dealt with topical issues such as drugs and sex, in 1986 after 146 episodes. It ran two more seasons with Cloris Leachman stepping in as a regular.
Rae said she enjoyed how TV viewers embraced her character on “Diff’rent Strokes” and “The Facts of Life.”
“When I walk down the street or I’m in the market or I’m in my car and there’s a truck driver next to me and they give me the thumbs-up sign and they say, ‘We love you,’ it’s so lovely. It’s just kind of a bonus,” she said in a 1984 interview. “Sometimes they’d come right over and hug me.”
She was born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky on April 22, 1926, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Russian immigrants. She dropped her last name for show business. After college, she worked in Chicago on TV and radio before moving to New York City, where she developed a nightclub act and broke into Broadway.
She survived a bout with pancreatic cancer in 2009. Rae divorced her husband in 1976 after having two sons.
FILE PHOTO: Actress Charlotte Rae (C) speaks with the cast of the television show “Facts of Life” during the 2011 TV Land Awards in New York April 10, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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Latinos thrive in radio and TV despite Trump
(CNN)While President Donald Trump was focusing on building a wall along our southern border, a sound barrier across the Western Hemisphere was being shattered by the Latin beat wafting across the airwaves.
Reigning on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1 is the Spanish-language song "Despacito (Remix)," featuring Justin Bieber and Puerto Rican- American singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. Not since "Macarena" dominated the coveted slot in 1996 has a Spanish language song soared and reached such crossover acceptance. "Despacito" was already a Spanish-language hit, but it was the remix with Bieber that hurled the song smack into the mainstream.
At a time when many US Latinos are feeling marginalized and under attack from political rhetoric on the right and ineffective representation on the left, Spanish pop songs that galvanize an American audience are a recognition that Latinos are part of the American landscape. In addition, a wellspring of Latino TV roles has begun to counter inflammatory images with contemporary Latino profiles.
After four seasons, Hulu's "East Los High" is ending its run. The teen drama, set in a predominantly Latino high school, became a hit in Atlanta with African-American millennials before it became must-watch TV in Los Angeles. Youth, regardless of race and ethnicity, responded to the series because of its authentic characters and relatable narratives.
Cuba's "Poor Film" festival goes Hollywood
When Carlos Portugal and Kathleen Bedoya created the show, they gave actors Danielle Vega and Vanessa Vasquez a platform from which to both receive a 2015 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series, while breakout performances led Gabriel Chavarria to key roles in "Lowriders" and "War of the Planet of the Apes."
Another actor from "East Los High," J.D. Pardo, was cast in the principal role in FX's "Sons of Anarchy" spinoff "Mayans MC." The writers' room for "East Los High" included predominantly Latino and female writers, such as Evelina Fernandez, Charo Toledo, Luisa Leschin and Nancy De Los Santos.
Just as Showtime's "Resurrection Blvd." did 17 years earlier, a multiyear, Latino-themed show and cast yields experienced creators, writers, actors, producers and skilled tradecraft professionals.
Shows like ABC's "Cristela" and CW's "Jane the Virgin" laid the foundation for a predominantly Latina cast to reboot Norman Lear's "One Day at a Time" on Netflix. America Ferrera's no-nonsense comedic role in NBC's "Superstore" expanded the comedic range for Latinas by providing the yang to Sofia Vergara's over-the-top ying in ABC's "Modern Family."
Latino acting leads have grown substantively in the area of scripted dramas. Wilmer Valderrama's standout performance as the self-assured and cocky Nick Torres on the 14th season of CBS's "NCIS" the second-longest-running US prime-time television scripted series -- reflects the cumulative advancement that Latinx actors have made on many top-billed television shows across networks, cable and streaming services.
Last week, actress Elena Verdugo passed away at age 92 Many remember Verdugo for her role, from 1969 to 1976, as Consuelo Lopez on ABC's "Marcus Welby, M.D." It's hard to believe that, at the time, Elena's supporting role was the most visible and recognizable Latina character ever on seen American TV.
It would take 28 more years before another actress, Eva Longoria, would have that distinction, as Gabrielle Solis on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" -- although actresses Sonia Manzano, Rita Moreno, Lynda Carter, Constance Marie and Jessica Alba also had prominent TV roles during that time.
U.S. will be a lot more Latino by 2060
Although the struggle to include more Latinx characters and story lines to television content has long been documented, the solution has always been to create programming that affords emerging talent an opportunity to build their craft, either behind or in front of the camera.
At times, that opportunity has been the strongest when members of two different marginalized groups work together. Under John Ridley's -- a black screenwriter and film director -- leadership and direction, ABC's "American Crime" crafted complicated and multidimensionally inclusive characters.
Benito Martinez's Emmy-worthy performances in all three seasons -- but, in particular, the most recent one -- portrayed a Mexican middle-class bilingual dad who crosses the border without authorization to retrace his missing son's path to the US Ridley tackled immigration by juxtaposing hate and humanity. "American Crime's" final season accomplished what armies of political talk show pundits could not: It imagined immigration in an understandable and contextual media narrative.
Like Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's film "Amores Perros," "American Crime" developed overlapping and intersecting hot button and taboo topics that contrasted American lives trying to survive an unforeseen event.
Ridley showcased Latino actors by gifting their characters with integrity, compassion, courage, complexity, grit, determination, flaws and frailty. The show showcased Martinez's acting chops, as well as those of actors Richard Cabral, Elvis Nolasco and Johnny Ortiz, all of whom emerged as polished, experienced and in-demand actors. Ridley, like Norman Lear almost a half century before, mashed up contemporary content with diverse characters.
As English-language shows continue to be crafted to include Latinx, Spanish-language content on Univision ("La Candidata") and Telemundo ("El Seor de los Cielos") have upped the quality and made their telenovela content more appealing and relevant to US audiences. This comes on the heels of Netflix's sweeping and successful original Spanish programming and independent distribution that includes "Narcos," "Club de Cuervos," "Juana Ines," "Ingobernable," "Velvet," and "Gran Hotel."
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Cristela Alonzo (ABC's "The Gospel of Kevin"), John Leguizamo (ABC's "Salamander"), Ian Gomez (CBS' "Living Biblically") and Rosie Perez (NBC's "Rise") return to television's 2017 fall schedule. Critics are already calling ABC's "The Good Doctor," with Nicholas Gonzalez, a bona fide hit. And yet, new shows like" S.W.A.T.," set in Los Angeles, have no Latinx series regulars; similarly, Latinos, who represent 11% of the military, are not cast in CBS' show on US Navy SEALs.
As Justin Bieber sings "[p]asito a pasito," which means one step at a time, the TV doors have begun to swing open in the same manner. Now, if only film studios could follow the lead of music and networks.
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(CNN)While President Donald Trump was focusing on building a wall along our southern border, a sound barrier across the Western Hemisphere was being shattered by the Latin beat wafting across the airwaves.
Reigning on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1 is the Spanish-language song “Despacito (Remix),” featuring Justin Bieber and Puerto Rican- American singers Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. Not since “Macarena” dominated the coveted slot in 1996 has a Spanish language song soared and reached such crossover acceptance. “Despacito” was already a Spanish-language hit, but it was the remix with Bieber that hurled the song smack into the mainstream.
At a time when many US Latinos are feeling marginalized and under attack from political rhetoric on the right and ineffective representation on the left, Spanish pop songs that galvanize an American audience are a recognition that Latinos are part of the American landscape. In addition, a wellspring of Latino TV roles has begun to counter inflammatory images with contemporary Latino profiles.
After four seasons, Hulu’s “East Los High” is ending its run. The teen drama, set in a predominantly Latino high school, became a hit in Atlanta with African-American millennials before it became must-watch TV in Los Angeles. Youth, regardless of race and ethnicity, responded to the series because of its authentic characters and relatable narratives.
Cuba’s “Poor Film” festival goes Hollywood
When Carlos Portugal and Kathleen Bedoya created the show, they gave actors Danielle Vega and Vanessa Vasquez a platform from which to both receive a 2015 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Performer in a New Approaches Drama Series, while breakout performances led Gabriel Chavarria to key roles in “Lowriders” and “War of the Planet of the Apes.”
Another actor from “East Los High,” J.D. Pardo, was cast in the principal role in FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” spinoff “Mayans MC.” The writers’ room for “East Los High” included predominantly Latino and female writers, such as Evelina Fernandez, Charo Toledo, Luisa Leschin and Nancy De Los Santos.
Just as Showtime’s “Resurrection Blvd.” did 17 years earlier, a multiyear, Latino-themed show and cast yields experienced creators, writers, actors, producers and skilled tradecraft professionals.
Shows like ABC’s “Cristela” and CW’s “Jane the Virgin” laid the foundation for a predominantly Latina cast to reboot Norman Lear’s “One Day at a Time” on Netflix. America Ferrera’s no-nonsense comedic role in NBC’s “Superstore” expanded the comedic range for Latinas by providing the yang to Sofia Vergara’s over-the-top ying in ABC’s “Modern Family.”
Latino acting leads have grown substantively in the area of scripted dramas. Wilmer Valderrama’s standout performance as the self-assured and cocky Nick Torres on the 14th season of CBS’s “NCIS” the second-longest-running US prime-time television scripted series — reflects the cumulative advancement that Latinx actors have made on many top-billed television shows across networks, cable and streaming services.
Last week, actress Elena Verdugo passed away at age 92 Many remember Verdugo for her role, from 1969 to 1976, as Consuelo Lopez on ABC’s “Marcus Welby, M.D.” It’s hard to believe that, at the time, Elena’s supporting role was the most visible and recognizable Latina character ever on seen American TV.
It would take 28 more years before another actress, Eva Longoria, would have that distinction, as Gabrielle Solis on ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” — although actresses Sonia Manzano, Rita Moreno, Lynda Carter, Constance Marie and Jessica Alba also had prominent TV roles during that time.
U.S. will be a lot more Latino by 2060
Although the struggle to include more Latinx characters and story lines to television content has long been documented, the solution has always been to create programming that affords emerging talent an opportunity to build their craft, either behind or in front of the camera.
At times, that opportunity has been the strongest when members of two different marginalized groups work together. Under John Ridley’s — a black screenwriter and film director — leadership and direction, ABC’s “American Crime” crafted complicated and multidimensionally inclusive characters.
Benito Martinez’s Emmy-worthy performances in all three seasons — but, in particular, the most recent one — portrayed a Mexican middle-class bilingual dad who crosses the border without authorization to retrace his missing son’s path to the US Ridley tackled immigration by juxtaposing hate and humanity. “American Crime’s” final season accomplished what armies of political talk show pundits could not: It imagined immigration in an understandable and contextual media narrative.
Like Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu’s film “Amores Perros,” “American Crime” developed overlapping and intersecting hot button and taboo topics that contrasted American lives trying to survive an unforeseen event.
Ridley showcased Latino actors by gifting their characters with integrity, compassion, courage, complexity, grit, determination, flaws and frailty. The show showcased Martinez’s acting chops, as well as those of actors Richard Cabral, Elvis Nolasco and Johnny Ortiz, all of whom emerged as polished, experienced and in-demand actors. Ridley, like Norman Lear almost a half century before, mashed up contemporary content with diverse characters.
As English-language shows continue to be crafted to include Latinx, Spanish-language content on Univision (“La Candidata”) and Telemundo (“El Seor de los Cielos”) have upped the quality and made their telenovela content more appealing and relevant to US audiences. This comes on the heels of Netflix’s sweeping and successful original Spanish programming and independent distribution that includes “Narcos,” “Club de Cuervos,” “Juana Ines,” “Ingobernable,” “Velvet,” and “Gran Hotel.”
Join us on Twitter and Facebook
Cristela Alonzo (ABC’s “The Gospel of Kevin”), John Leguizamo (ABC’s “Salamander”), Ian Gomez (CBS’ “Living Biblically”) and Rosie Perez (NBC’s “Rise”) return to television’s 2017 fall schedule. Critics are already calling ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” with Nicholas Gonzalez, a bona fide hit. And yet, new shows like” S.W.A.T.,” set in Los Angeles, have no Latinx series regulars; similarly, Latinos, who represent 11% of the military, are not cast in CBS’ show on US Navy SEALs.
As Justin Bieber sings “[p]asito a pasito,” which means one step at a time, the TV doors have begun to swing open in the same manner. Now, if only film studios could follow the lead of music and networks.
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*****Welcome to sexual assault awareness month.. Be vigilant and help your fellow man or woman!
*****Lady Gaga will replace Beyonce at Coachella
*****Will they ever air the Gary Cole episode of Law and Order SVU?
*****Things are heating up in the impeachment trial of Alabama’s Gov. Robert Bentley. His lawyer claims he was denied due process. The other side says that this is just delay.
*****Does ABC have a hacking problem? I can’t even remember how many times certain people start to talk on different programs and boom.. cuts ou, jammed or temporarily interrupted with something out of left field. Is it local.. Does this happen to everyone?
*****Madonna is adopting 4 year old twins.
*****Ten percent of the bidders for the border wall are Hispanic.
*****The second to last season of The Americans is rockin’!!
*****”We know he’s crazy, we have to start protecting ourselves.” This is just one of the lines from Dave Letterman in a New York magazine interview that centered mostly on Trump. He has no qualms about calling things out. “How is a white supremacist the chief advisor to our President?” “If we get a President sometime soon who does not have a mental disorder, twitter will be useful.” You must look it up, it is worth a read!
*****Rihanna received Harvard’s Humanitarian award.
*****Roger Stone, big supporter and surrogate for Trump tried to discredit the FBI over the Iraq war. Charlie Rose had to set him straight and tell him it was a CIA report that had revealed the possible weapons of mass destruction. The man, who has a Nixon tattoo that spans his shoulders, is also under investigation for collusion with the Russians.
*****The White house is talking about creating propaganda to whip up the anti- immigrant hysteria even more: VOICE: Victims of immigration crime engagement. Some call this racist and how genocide begins.
*****Dancing with the stars is back with Charo, Mr.T, Nancy Carrigan, Simone Biles and Chris Kattan.
*****Radio shows have come full circle to become podcasts. The more things change, the more they stay the same. We still seem to like to just listen to people talk. Check out Karina Longworth with You Must Remember This. With Feud (next up for Feud: Charles and Di) going strong on FX, it is a good time to listen to her Bette/Joan episode. With Manson in the news again, there is a 12 part episode on his part in Hollywood.
*****Ann- Margret is back with Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin in Going in Style.
*****Baskets has been given the greenlight for season 3!
*****Louis CK and Albert Brooks are bringing the animated The Cops to TBS.
*****Shemar Moore will be making an appearance on the season finale of Criminal Minds. His character will be bringing the team some info about ‘Scratch.” Shemar recently told ET that he wanted Morgan to call Penelope ‘Sugar tits’ instead of ‘baby girl” , but the writers wouldn’t go for that. He is also filming a CBS pilot reboot of S.W.A.T. The Criminal Minds finale airs on May 10.
*****Should we have to put up with Jeff Sessions and his lies about the Russian ambassador? We have direct evidence of deception. Comey made it official that the Trump camp is under investigation for possible collusion with the Russian involvement with the campaign. Funny that he always shot his mouth off about Hillary but was mum on this. The Republicans questioned Comey mostly about the leaks which is important but also a great distraction.  The FBI reveals that Russia did not even try to hide their tracks. It is possible they were just gathering and then when they dumped the info they went through an intermediary. **Sean Spicer claims that Paul Manafort, (who seems to have many ties to Russia and who ran the campaign for a time and ran the RNC) had a very limited role with the campaign.  The bugging of Trump tower was laid to rest but just not by scary clown and co. They seem to believe that GCHQ, British intelligence was involved as well. Why don’t the Republican Senators get some fucking balls and quit defending this freak? Let’s hone in on this Russian connection and get this freak out of there.**Ivanka is getting an office and top clearance? Is this an Edith Wilson situation? Does the family have to keep an eye on him? Is it time to face the sad fact that he may have dementia or a mental disorder? BTW Wendy Williams mentioned that she would rather be Tiffany than Ivanka because of all the responsibility and the whole wife and daughter thing going on. Tiffany gets to be out there living it up.  Love that!**Pence is no prize either, he is always behind Trump looking like a bobble head doll. Be aware if we end up with him!
*****Hillary B. Smith is on General Hospital for a stint. Oh how I missed ya, Nora!!
*****Everyone is giving backlash about cutting funding for PBS and meals on wheels. Mick Mulvaney, director of the office of management and budget tells us it is only a 3% cut but I am guessing we will now have 3% more hungry people. He explains that a lot of people do not want their tax dollars to fund the National endowment for the arts. I do not want mine to add millions to the military budget or Mar a Lago trips or Melania’s NY shutdown (the gossip is that Trump and the first lady are basically separated). They don’t seem to give a fuck about that.**It is so great that the ‘Trump health care plan’ fell apart but Pelosi and Hoyer et al. need to stop crowing and keep fighting against the rest of the crap the majority is trying to get by with and fix the things that need fine tuning on the ACA.
***** Does anybody else find Feud and The American’s Alison Wright absolutely irresistible?? She is so fabulous!!
*****It looks like Sears and Kmart may be in the verge of going out of business.
*****Jared Kushner’s role just gets bigger and bigger. He has been appointed to reconfigure the government and deal with the border wall and negotiate peace in the Middle East. One guy? OK!
***** CBS Sunday morning informed us about the wonders of Denmark. They do have the highest cancer rates and taxes but they have the highest wages and lowest poverty rates too. They live by the word Hygge which means live simply.
*****The White House did not even send an official rep to This Week, they just sent some old buddy of Trumps. Will they start to run out of new faces to defend them? ** Bret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal wrote, “The president clings to his assertions like a drunk to an empty gin bottle.” And Bill Moyers wrote,” There’s a smell of treason in the air.” Samantha Bee likens Trumps military spending to an insecure guy who tries to make his penis look bigger. Bill Maher wonders if constitutionalist Judge Gorsuch will wonder ‘What would the slaveholders do?’ Michael Moore wrote, “Historians in the near future will mark today,3-28-17, as the day the extinction of human life on earth began, thanks 2 Donald Trump.”** Donald Trump Jr. criticized the London Mayor after the attacks.
*****And just as Scary clown 45 signed the repeal to wipe out Obama’s climate change record, An inconvenient truth sequel Truth to Power is coming out.
*****The Rolling Stones are nominated for best blues act and best blues album in the Jazz FM awards.
*****There is no clean coal!
*****The Daytime Emmy’s were announced. The Talk and Ellen lead the pack with 8 nominations. There are 5 for the View and the announcement fucked up their names. I’ll be routing for CBS Sunday morning and CBS this morning. I can’t believe that The Pioneer woman was not nominated for outstanding culinary program. I guess I will route for Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. Days of our Lives was nominated for show, directing and writing. There was best actor noms for Billy Flynn (Chad) and Vincent Irizarry (Deimos). Kate Mansi (the old Abigail) was nominated for best supporting actress and John Aniston (Victor) for supporting actor. Go Days!!!
*****The small Illinois town of West Frankfurt stood up for Carlos Hernandez. Hernandez was picked up when the immigrant ban enforcers were looking for someone else. The town vouched for him and called this out as unfair.
*****The FDA has approved food to protect food. Edipeel is a spray made out of food that can put a thin shield on fruit and protect it 5 times longer than normal. It is edible and tasteless. It will be invaluable in places with no refrigeration and help with waste.
*****Patrick Stewart is applying for American citizenship to help with the fight we are having in here at home. Agitate..Agitate..Agitate.
*****Looks like NBC has given the greenlight to an Ellen DeGeneres game show.
*****Tom Hanks sent the White house press corps an espresso machine with a note that read: “Keep up the good fight for truth, justice and the American way. Especially for the truth part.” This is a tradition he started with the Bush administration.
*****Get ready for a Big band theory spinoff.
*****Steve Martin will teach an online comedy course. The cost is $90 on Masterclass. Others who have taught are Christina Aguilera, Kevin Spacey, James Patterson, Dustin Hoffman, Werner Herzog and Aaron Sorkin. They will soon be joined by Shonda Rhimes and Hans Zimmer.
***** Caterpillar was raided by the Feds which included the IRS, CID, Inspector General and export enforcement. Word is they may be indicted for tax evasion. This could be from a 2009 lawsuit alleging the company shifted profits overseas and to offshore shell companies to avoid paying more than 2 billion in taxes.
*****Hall and Oates and Tears for Fears are set to tour.
*****This time it’s real. You see warnings on the internet all the time about your privacy rights but this time look out! The Senate has voted to repeal a set of rules aimed at protecting online data. Once again the big companies win under this administration. This could let internet providers share info. New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. states “At a time when our personal data is more vulnerable than ever, it’s baffling that senate republicans would eliminate the few privacy protections Americans have today.” The word is that millions are pouring in for their votes. Ted Cruz reportedly got 2 mil. We will be paying the big cable giants to sell our info to the highest bidder and this could keep the FCC from ever again establishing similar consumer privacy protections. And this from a man who wants privacy with his taxes. Some of the wealthy are claiming they will buy all the info of those that voted to sold us down the river and release it to the public.
*****Robert Redford has me excited about 2 films. The first is out now about the afterlife called The Discovery. It also stars Riley Keough, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Segel and Rooney Mara. The other has distribution rights just coming together. The Old man and the gun is the true story of a thief with Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover and Casey Affleck.
*****A tribute to the music of Merle Haggard will be held in Nashville with Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Loretta Lynn, The Avett Brothers, Alison Krauss and Billy Gibbons.
*****Microfiber is causing great problems with water pollution. I knew I hated fleece.
*****There has been an official request for scary clown’s tax returns.
*****”These are not good times.” –John McCain. McCain is also very worried that North Korea’s leader is not rational and needs to be handled. It is kind of frightening when our own leader is not rational.
*****Look for the live album Charlie Watts meets Danish Radio Big Band. The music which includes Stones covers was recorded in 2010 and will drop on April 21.
*****As soon as the ACA was saved, the blame game started! Scary clown and his cohorts blamed Washington for cancelling the health care vote stating that “It’s a lot more rotten than we thought.” Trump said “I’m glad it’s behind me” and then tweeted blame to the republicans and the democrats and the very conservative republicans and it just goes on. He invited us to watch his beloved friend Judge Jeanine who minced no words in that Paul Ryan needs to step down. He is adamant that he does not blame Ryan. Ok. Jeanine scolded that we all knew a businessman would not know how to legislate but he made it clear during the election that he knew more than anybody. Is the world  laughing at our “art of the deal”  tough New Yorker president who was suckered by the Wisconsin dude. Trump is like the armchair quarterback who is finally thrown into the game and does not have a clue. **Bannon bullied and threatened the night before the “vote”, telling the house members that they had no choice but it seemed to work against him and wouldn’t that be the President’s job? ** The topper was Colbert using the schoolhouse rock song, “I’m just a bill” which ended with the bill blowing his brains out.
*****Some high school kids came up with We Dine Together for the new or loner kids to make some new friends. Look it up and help to open chapters locally!!
*****Zac Brown is coming out with new music.
*****Trump has now rescinded the order Obama signed requiring firms that do business with the federal government prove compliance with federal laws and executive orders. This makes Trump look like he’s doing the right thing by leaving one of Obama’s executive orders in place that prohibits the federal government from contracting with firms that discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity. People from the LGBT community would have to take steps to enforce it now.** College basketball in North Carolina sort of forced the repeal of the bathroom law but they leave a regulation of bathroom access solely to the control of the legislature. It prevents local government from passing or amending their own non -discrimination ordinances pertaining to private employment.
*****There is a growing number of the French who want President Obama to run for President of France. It is possible if he were so inclined. One only has to be a resident, not a natural born citizen to run for President in Great Britain, Israel, Germany, France, Canada and France.
*****The Mount Kushmore Wellness retreat tour is coming to 16 cities with Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Cypress Hill, Method Man and Redman.
*****Are all the Russians visiting Trump and his cohorts buying their vodka at Costco?
*****Apparently Beau Biden’s widow is dating his brother Hunter Biden.
*****This year’s Seattle Hemp fest runs August 18-20.
*****Who knew that Bryan Cranston dubbed a lot of the monster voices from Japanese to English for the original Power Rangers.
*****Dimitri Rybolovlev, a Russian fertilizer businessman bought a Trump home in Florida for twice what it was worth. This was the most expensive home sale in U.S. history.  He and the Presidents planes cross paths all the time though there have been many denials of this. A Russian ambassador was sitting in the front row of Trumps first press conference as President. Reports say that Scary clown went ballistic in the oval office when he discovered that Sessions recused himself. He left for Florida without his senior staff.** Now there is an inquiry about his business with an Iranian family known as the Corleoni’s of the Caspian.
*****Ben Carson called slaves immigrants and then walked it back.
*****Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep are making a film about The Pentagon Papers to be called The Post.
*****North Korea fired 5 missiles into the ocean.
*****Beef Products Inc. is suing ABC over a story they did on a meat product they called pink slime. The judge said the suit could move forward.
*****Rachel Maddow got some backlash for overdoing it on her big Trump taxes show. Some think the President himself put them out.
*****SNL’s Weekend Update is going prime time. They are also going live in all time zones on April 15th.
*****Mischa Barton has filed a lawsuit over a sex tape that was filmed without her consent.
*****A tweet from Mcdonald’s had some pretty bad things to say about our President. The tweet was taken down in 20 minutes and they claim they were compromised.
*****Days alert: Did we see Nicole on the run with that poor baby? She is more street smart than to be taken advantage of by a street hustler at the little hotel. C’mon! I hate it when characters I like leave and the way they write them off seems more exciting than when they were there. Like, I want to see Teresa’s character on her secret adventure right now. I am sick of Chad thinking about Gabby moments from his past, enough! And then bam!!,  Deimos hits him where it hurts. Since Roman has retired, are they putting him in charge of the Brady Pub? I think that is perfect, he wants to take it a little easier and everybody’s favorite meeting place in Salem needs the next generation to take over.** Everyone in this country was talking about health care but I think most soap characters must have great insurance. Especially lately on Days, transplants, cancer, poisoning.. the hospital has been full up.** Hooray.. Adrienne picked Lucas, it’s about fucking time!!
*****Ben Affleck is recently out of rehab.
*****It looks like they are talking about remaking ‘The Fly’.
*****Netflix has the global rights to Orson Welles unfinished final film ’The Other Side of the Wind’.
*****Robert Blake is getting married again. His third wife is Pam Hudak that he had dated back in 1991 and previously lived in his guest house.
*****Can we all vote by mail yet?? What is the problem??
*****Looks like Kyle Bush is a bit of a hot head. He went after Joey Lagano after a race.
*****The Japanese prime minister was telling us what happened in some meetings he had with the Pres. I guess we are getting official news by way of Japan now since scary clown tells us nothing of any real importance.
*****Will Scary Clown 45 bring war as a jobs program? Where are the jobs he promised? There are many empty offices in Washington right now that could be filled with employed workers. He has many jobs to give and he won’t do it and they are firing people left and right. Look at the money we spend on getting him to Mir a Lago and the delusional investigations he wants into wiretapping etc. Just think of what a poor family could do with that money. This administration is gutting the EPA and that is just the beginning. The only good news is the stock market is up. He really behaves more like a cult leader than a President. He talks only in front of the people who worship him. I’m sure he can’t believe his dumb luck that so many Americans are uninformed. He communicates in “facts” that only he seems to understand. He sends out his minions to spread HIS intellectual pollution back to their audience of one. Charles Manson is of ill health and perhaps is not long for this world so I guess scary clown 45 is the new evil, the deplorables are the new ‘family’.
*****The liberal rednecks of comedy make me wonder when those raised with hate and or narrow teachings will rebel against their parents and become liberals filled with acceptance.
*****What is all this touching on late night talk shows?
*****Climate March on March 29. Scientists March on April 22.
*****Charlie Rose is back.
*****”The level of complete corruption from the fossil fuel industry that marks this administration is like nothing we’ve ever seen.”- Environmentalist Bill Mckibben.
*****What kind of a person could actually believe that a ‘billionaire’ who has tried to buy up sanctuaries to put up more towers with his name on them would help the environment? Will these same people who allowed themselves to be whipped up into a frenzy of fear and anxiety love it when Yellowstone disappears? Well, they do seem to be on board with everything else so perhaps they don’t care. The pain of this election is unbearable but will some good come of it? Will he and friends who say no to everything that isn’t their idea or does not help the richest of us learn anything from this? Will their eyes be open to what it really feels like when they all get on top of you? I mean are they capable of seeing what it really fucking feels like? If they hate government so much, why do they want to be a part of it? Well, of course to tip the scales in their favor.
*****Arnold Schwarzenegger has quit Celebrity Apprentice.
*****The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Time will not attend White House briefings if other outlets (CNN, New York Times etc.) are not allowed in. Good for them but perhaps they need to keep working behind the scenes on digging for the truth about scary clown 45 but not reporting every little thing he distracts us with. For instance the ‘wiretap’ stuff is proven wrong so quit talking about it and move on!** Rex Tillerson told a reporter, “I didn’t want this job.” Sources say Tillerson shuffles in and out through back doors ignoring important diplomats and his minions are not allowed to look him in the eye. Tell me this is not true!
*****Sam Rodriguez Jr., who led a prayer at the Trump Inauguration is giving a safe haven to those worried about immigration raids. His New Season Christian Worship Center also gives shelter to victims of domestic violence.
*****A young intruder jumped the fence at the White House and 2 more followers have tried to get in too.
*****Trivia lovers: We have a new worst President!
*****The Brexit process began on March 29.
*****Beauty and the Beast set some records. It was the biggest March opening ever and the biggest PG opening ever.
*****The newest Monopoly tokens are a T. Rex, a rubber ducky and a penguin.
*****Thank you Martin Sheen for inspiring Malibu to become a sanctuary city.
*****Two stolen Van Gogh’s that were found last September were put on display again in Amsterdam.
*****The 9th season of RuPauls drag race is here!
*****Florida has a wheel of fugitives that spin to focus in on certain missing law breakers.
*****The new health care plan is loaded with massive tax cuts for the rich and no budget for it. The AMA and AARP do not support it. They kept a little of the good parts of Obamacare and changed wording on some things that Dems had wanted and they had previously refused. Estimates say that 60% of Trump voters will get their repeal of the ACA but it will cost them more for health care. Big drug companies get a healthy tax break and it is like a gift to insurance companies. All the Obama haters that wanted everything repealed sound a little mixed on the tax breaks for the rich. Did they not realize that the money was coming from somewhere? It is bad enough when I see people believe a story or two from the enquirer or wonder about a conspiracy theory but the things that pass for fact in the White House is delusional. The swamp is thriving just fine!
*****Lizzie Borden is coming to the big screen with Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart.
*****OMG.. The new Twin peaks has added Laura Dern, Michael Cera and Jennifer Jason Leigh!!!!
*****Way to go Ted Koppel for giving Sean Hannity a reality check. Somebody has to be the voice of reason.
*****We still don’t know much about season 7 of American Horror Story. The cast gathered at the Paley center to talk about last season. It looks like it may be about the 2016 election and we know that Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters are on board and that it will come back in the fall.
*****Funny or die is bringing us 10 episodes of Sarah Silverman’s,’ I love you America.’
*****George Conway (Kellyanne’s husband) has been nominated to lead the justice department.
*****There is a new Jack Cassidy (son of Patrick), who is joining the family in entertainment.
*****Scary Clown 45 says Obama released 122 prisoners from Gitmo when we know 113 of them were by Bush.
*****Rob Reiner, I am so glad you are out there fighting the good fight for us!
*****Hawaii has filed the first lawsuit on the new travel ban. Federal judges agree but the Trump supporters want to boycott Hawaii.
*****This is not Sean Spicer’s first time at the White house. He used to be the Easter bunny in the 2000’s.
*****A DC restaurant filed suit against the Trump hotel across the street.
*****The whole ‘Janet Jackson has a daughter’ thing is back in the news.
*****In Cold Blood killer Dick Hickock wrote his own manuscript, with some help from Kansas City journalist Mack Nations called The High Road to Hell and it has just now surfaced. Before Hickock was executed, it seems that Truman Capote would not have wanted it published. Random House had a deal with Capote and some digging has shown that he fought against the other publication.
*****The new Avatar land, Pandora in Florida looks like Summer camp and it will open around the same time at the end of May.
*****Conan tweets have been on fire lately.
*****Ski joring that mixes skiing with horses is becoming more popular. I expect to see my cousin Cat doing it real soon.
*****A study of 6,000 UK teens showed that high achieving students were 50% more likely to use Marijuana occasionally.
*****Worldwide poverty has been cut in half.
*****Tomi Lahren has been suspended from her show Tomi on The Blaze network. She told the ladies of The View that she is pro -choice. Glenn Beck has spoken out against her. The network tag line is ”a platform for a new generation of authentic and unfiltered voices.” Hmmm.
*****Can’t wait for The Pollinator from Blondie. The new LP drops on May 5 with some help from Joan Jett, Laurie Anderson and Dev Hynes.
***** So.. Obama could not even get his Supreme Court nominee looked at but a President who is under investigation expects his pick to sail right thru?
*****Studies show that Subway chicken is only 50% chicken.
*****How wonderful that Michael Moore is showing Taylor Hackford’s Hail Hail Rock ‘n Roll in his Michigan theatre to honor Chuck Berry.
***** Look for Michael Nesmith’s new book and cd,  Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical riffs!
*****R.I.P. Robert Osborne, Fred Weintraub, Joni Sledge, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Breslin, Chuck Barris. Robert James Walker, the victims of the London attack,
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