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Jason has no feelings whatsoever for Liz on screen (and he shouldn't!!!!), at least in my eyes. He's all about Sam
And what a riveting portrayal of "all about" it is!
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So, in the few words I caught today of about six scenes I zoomed through, Nina kept saying "baby' and "Franco." Meanwhile, Franco and Liz are getting chummier by the week.
This show seems to treat Michelle Stafford as a big casting "get," so maybe they wouldn't do this. But do you suppose by May sweeps we'll be in the midst of some story where Nina has been driven insane with jealousy of a Liz/Franco relationship, because Liz has all these kids and Franco gets along with them, and she doesn't have kids, and if she only had a baby blah blah blah, but he's even less interested in her now that he has the Liz brood, and then...I don't know, Nina will be chasing Liz through the woods with a knife? Nina always reads "crazy" to me in the best of times, and it doesn't seem she's serving much of a purpose with what they're giving her. The Crimson stuff sure isn't much. Could she be the new Lisa Niles?
Then there could be some shit where Jason and Franco put their differences aside to work together by...going to the woods to save Liz from knife-wielding Nina. And Sam would be threatened but trying not to let on, all "I'll help you! I'm a private investigator!"
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Believe it or not, the real Darden's speech was apparently much, much worse.
Oh, I remember that vividly. He was absolutely roasted for it in the media. I remember some guys on TV asking that day, "What is this lightweight even doing on the case? How could the other prosecutors have let this go on so long?"
And yeah, he did stand up in court when Cochran was responding...and paced around in a circle!
Watching the series is bringing so many things back to me. I wanted to like real Christopher Darden. I believed in his sincerity and integrity. I feel that the actor is making the TV version of him extremely sympathetic too. But whether you are watching real Chris Darden or you're watching the TV version, it's hard to disagree with Toobin (in the book) that he was not one of the more talented lawyers in this case. Whatever else you can say about the personal character or the misjudgments of Bailey, Clark, Cochran, and Shapiro, they were qualified to be part of a case of this magnitude. Darden was not. He was a good guy to have on your team for his investigative ability, prepping witnesses, behind-the-scenes things like that, but in a courtroom, he was painful. Watching him get owned by Cochran over and over, and his petulant outbursts and body language, was no fun at all in real life (unless you were pro-OJ, I guess).
I don't want to "spoil" anything. I'll give him that he had one great cross, but his opponent was so inept that it wasn't exactly a fair fight.
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I’m getting a kick out of the African American woman on the defense who I don’t think has even had a line yet. She’s in nearly every defense team scene, and she manages to say a lot regardless of not having a line – her shifts of expression are wonderful. I'm hoping all these episodes of silence add up to some scene where she lets loose and tells them everything she's thinking.is the black defense attorney based on areal life person or a composite charachter?
I think that that is Angel Parker as Shawn Chapman (aka Shawn Chapman Holley), who was a real member of the team.
http://heavy.com/news/2013/01/shawn-holley-lindsay-lohan-lawyer-facts/
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One thing I learned from Jeffrey Toobin's book is that OJ, Bob Kardashian, and Cochran all three physically abused their wives, or at least were alleged to have done so.
Also, the scary 1994 poll that 40 percent of African-American women felt physical violence in a marriage was appropriate. I hope that that is lower now.
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Here's one: To me, "the Cassadines" (the ones we've met) are Helena, Stavros, Stefan, and Nikolas. That's it. Any talk of anyone with a more tenuous family connection "going Cassadine on" some enemy is lost on me. Alexis might quality if she were written that way, but to me she's never done any more diabolical baroque scheming than what any woman on a soap does. She doesn't identify with or live as a Cassadine. When people talk about freaking Sam, Kristina or Molly unleashing a ferocious "Cassadine" side...no. If it makes me sound like Helena, I'll live with it: by that point in the line, the gene pool has been severely watered down. They're Davises, McCalls, whatever.
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Here's the most damning statement I can make against Dullen. When Griffin asked Hayden if Tracy had any family she could call, and Hayden said, "I'll take care of it," I was running through a list of all these people in my mind and eliminating them as either dead or written off the canvas. The only relative I could think of that she would be contacting was Michael. When Dillon walked in, I was reminded of his existence.
Also, Tuesday's show had this highly energized acting from Kelly and Tyler:
Sam: I brought...um, Danny to visit Jake.
Nikolas: Yeah, I just saw them in the, uh, hospital playroom.
A woman who takes a few seconds to think of her son's name, and a guy who doesn't immediately know what room he just walked by. I think Tracy's condition is catching.
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Therefore, I'm pleased to announce that I've been accepted into the March 1, 2016 Orientation class for the barge (to be followed by the "every hour is happy hour" margarita party in the Lido deck lounge). I look forward to the Aqua Zumba classes in the barge pool, the monthly wine country tours and the "remember when" symposiums in the theater.
There will be cruise-ship-style musical entertainment by past cast members including Wally Kurth, Jack Wagner, and Jamie Ray Newman. Jonathan Jackson may come by for a song or two, but he's too busy to commit to a full show.
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Outside of LA I don't think anyone knew Shapiro or Cochran. The Michael Jackson trial was 10 years away.
I have to disagree with this. Cochran was a very popular "talking head" on television, so he was a recognizable face from that alone, about on the level of Gloria Allred. Also, his representation of Michael Jackson in the trial that was ten years away was not his first association with Jackson. He had represented him in the 1993 molestation suit too, the one Jackson ultimately settled. Cochran had also defended Todd Bridges. Shapiro had been on several high-profile cases involving celebrities or their relatives, such as Marlon Brando's son.
You can tell from her clothes that she wasn't particularly fashionable. I doubt she made a ton of money, either.Clark was doing pretty well financially. Toobin's book said she was making $90,000 per year before her most recent promotion prior to the Simpson case, which raised her to the six figures range. Admittedly, L.A. is an expensive place to live, but it was also more than 20 years ago.
I agree that fashion wasn't that important to her and that she wasn't stylish, though.
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I have always been haunted by Leslie Nielsen's quote about his Naked Gun co-star OJ. He said he was shooting a movie at the time the verdict was announced, and heard talk about reasonable doubt, and the only thing he reasonably doubted was that anyone other than OJ could have committed the murders. He said there were no winners in that whole story, just losers, and that OJ must be living a very strange life right now.
Leslie was "Frank," indeed!
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If I had lived through what the Goldmans lived through, and what Ron did not live through, I would never stop talking about it. Any time any media outlet made it clear that people were still listening, I would hold nothing back. It was horrible.
Right after the civil trial verdict, Fred Goldman told OJ he'd forgo all about the money from the judgement if OJ would admit his guilt.Thanks for the reminder of this. Blows out of the water the narrative some have tried to introduce over the years, which IMO is full of anti-Semitic dog whistling.
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I was confused; was Carly in the doctors lounge/shower room? (Do mob wives have those privileges?Just Sonny's wives?) Was the doctor trying to shower in the ladies room?
They haven't shown this set much since I've been back, but I think it was some kind of...hospital-personnel (maybe just doctors) locker room that has traditionally been unisex. Someone else can verify or shoot this down, but I think we've seen sexy fun times there involving Patrick, Lisa, Steven, and other medical types who are all off the show now. Carly got to go there to clean up because (1) Carly does whatever she pleases, and everyone will goddamned well like it, and (2) they wanted to throw the shirtless doctor up against her like a paint sample to see how he looks on her walls, and that wouldn't have been possible if she'd just used any old sink.
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Oh, look. The show both began and ended with mothers singing to their adult children who were gunshot victims. It's like "love in wartime." General Hospital is so artistic. I'm sure when the crew put this one together, they were thinking, "Now that's a Friday show."
Yeah, Carly's totally going to be sleeping with the new doctor for a while. He'll be the latest Sonny/Carly tenpin for her couple months of thinking that The Life is too dangerous. They tried this story with Steven Lars (the curly-haired one) about 11-12 years ago and it didn't really get off the ground.
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Poor day player nurse. I liked her and she seemed decent in the scene. Having another nurse would be a good thing; it's a shame they wrote her as kind of dumb.
It looks as though she's getting at least one more scene tomorrow, so maybe we'll see more of her. I really liked the actress too. It isn't her fault that she had to be introduced to us as someone so charmed by Bry-dawg that she'd undo a patient's restraints. Jesus. We'd hear about a lot more nurse injuries/murders if it were that easy.
Today, Snickers™ tried to muscle in on Shriners Hospitals for Children® for prominence.
I liked the theory above about why Genie was stuffing her face with a candy bar during the scene with Tyler, because she hadn't been able to get a break and she knew Frank wouldn't go to the trouble of reshooting it. If this had happened several years ago, I'd think it was a middle finger to JFP for allowing her to leave and filling her spot with younger, thinner Brittney Powell (not in the same role, but there was that whole embarrassing story of Luke and Lucky being drawn to the pseudo-Laura character, Summer, who was even giving "Laura" as her name for a time).
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Morgan starts ranting about his dad, Taylor Swift, the new Starbucks rewards program, the loss of the McDonald's menu, and circus animals.
All the lonely Starbucks lovers will tell you he's insane.
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I had to take a moment and say "wow" that I was watching Cheryl Ladd and John Travolta in 2016 playing spouses. That would have been such the hot ticket in 1979. Props to them for surviving a tough business all these years and still doing good work. She still looks really good.
If Faye's book took four months, she got on it very fast and it would still have to be "minus a couple weeks." The murders took place in June and Amazon has the publication date as October 1, 1994, which fits both my memory and OJ's comment in the episode about Halloween coming up soon.
Sarah Paulson is killing it as Marcia Clark every week, and the Fred Goldman actor made me cry for real. Perfect casting and acting with those two.
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Did anyone else see Frank's Tweet about Wednesday's show being "excellent from top to bottom"? (Well, yeah, Frank, but what above the horrible characters besides Lucas and Brad.) (Sorry.)
Now I'm going to await more emotional scenes from "the pit of Bryan."
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Oh, yes, between the Unintentional Comedy Gold and a little bit of the intentional (Dixon's bitchiness), I had the best time watching Wednesday's show.
I was expecting Dixon to say to Sam, no, you're obviously not his daughter because you're way too old, but it just hung in the air. Then again, we're supposed to believe she's William DeVry's daughter, which is even worse.
Unintentional hilarity from Carly re: the guns: "Look at them, Sonny! They're hideous!" It sounded as though Carly's problem was that the guns were aesthetically unappealing.
I have never been less happy that a character was rescued from drowning. The only way Lulu works for me over the last several months is if I believe she's either an idiot or she's severely emotionally disturbed, like "long stay at Shadybrook" territory. But since they aren't really playing it either way, she's become a waste of time.
"Passed cleaned through" is always the post-gunshot diagnosis when a show doesn't want to spend any time on a recovery. Nathan will be lifting coffee cups and file folders again in no time.
The Bry-dawg Emmy reel was entertaining.
I like Paul and Anna in scenes together. I can't help it.
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"Yeah, somebody said Jason and Elizabeth took Jake someplace in Philadelphia. What's that about?" If you need any more evidence that Maurice has all the clout at GH, look at the way he Arsenio Halled his way around the PSA. He facilitated it, but someone else got to do the heavy lifting.
Fortunately, Sam was there to pick up the slack and name-drop Shriners Hospitals for Children®.
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There is a funny mistake in Stephen Martines's IMDb. A bunch of individual episodes (but surely not all of them) are listed for the years he was on the show, and in all of them except one, he's credited correctly as Nikolas Cassadine. For a single episode in 2003, he's credited as Marcus Taggert. For that same episode, both Brittney Powell and Andrea C. Pearson (the second Gia Campbell) are credited with playing Summer Holloway.
The black people are so marginalized on General Hospital that even IMDb doesn't know who they are!
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Wow, rollerblade, thanks for that. I only started watching that season when the live shows were going on, so I missed all the group performances. That was really good. It was "tight," as they say. They had worked it out well. That's also about as free I ever saw Kris Allen seem to be on stage. I didn't hate him or anything, but I always thought he was kind of stiff in his performances.
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Sometimes when you look back at a previous winner, you see that the people at home were ordering comfort food. Nothing wrong with that, but it may not hold up well when the years go by. Good music isn't always about what's safe and easy.
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I straddle the middle on this issue. All the soaps do add families as they go along. There was a time when Days of our Lives had no Bradys, which you'd have to go way back with that show to remember. I think the late actor Macdonald Carey, who played the Horton patriarch, was very sour about that addition. He said in an interview that the show was never as good once they added the trashy Brady family (his characterization, not mine) and took focus away from the professional, upscale Hortons. But to most viewers of that show, the Bradys are very much part of the DOOL lore and it's impossible to think of DOOL without them.
I don't take pleasure in admitting it, but for most viewers of General Hospital, the Corinthoses and Cassadines are similar. They do have a lot of history by now. They're integral to the Port Charles universe.
I do think legacy characters should be handled with care. That's why it's bothered me to see AJ Quartermaine murdered more than once on screen. I have no doubt that he could be resurrected again (the third time?), because death means absolutely nothing on soap operas, but it should never have come to this. If the actor was leaving and they didn't want to recast, they could have rested AJ by sending him out of town or having him disappear under mysterious circumstances. To have him brutally murdered and have people mourning him is overkill, literally. Same with Georgie, even though I thought she was dull. And to have her be taken out by someone as inconsequential as fucking Diego?
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Good Lord, Jacob Young was so terrible on this show. But Sarah Brown is the only one of the Carlys who could make her part of this scene bearable. She's really good in her last line to Liz (which was, by the way, the SB Carly's last to Liz).
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S01.E05: The Race Card
in American Crime Story: S01 The People v. O.J Simpson
· Edited by Asp Burger
Sometimes memory is tricky as to what most people believed 20 years ago. Here's Gallup poll information covering the period right after the murders, right after the verdict announcement, and five years after the murders. A majority of Americans always has thought Simpson committed the murders. Maybe it is even higher now, but the "He did it" camp has always outnumbered the "He was framed" camp.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/3781/fifth-anniversary-nicole-brown-simpson-ron-goldman-murders-find.aspx
In the short term, of course, he only needed twelve people to believe he was framed, and he got them.