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  1. 19 hours ago, saoirse said:
    On 10/10/2023 at 9:27 AM, wonderwoman said:

    may have missed it, but has there been any mention of where joe saylor is? 

    Not sure where he was but he’s on tonight.

    ETA: Stephen brought up that he was touring in Japan. Stephen was excited to have the whole band back tonight for the first time in six months!

    noticed that he was back. meant to post but the day got away from me. i thought he was with the band when the show came back on 10/2. must have been a short trip to japan.

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  2. 9 hours ago, buttersister said:

    Well that was some magic wand! 

    I’ve heard there’s a season 9 in the works. Why?

    Seriouly, Geordie is saved and enlightened. I’m good.

    with you all the way! what a perfect series finale that would have been. will, bonie and the kids off in the sunset. geordie keeps his job - and a puppy. things are copacetic between leonard and daniel. why not. quit while they were ahead?

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  3. On 7/27/2023 at 5:22 PM, LakeGal said:

    I don't know if I can keep watching this

    feeling the same. but, will probably hate watch just to see how they write will out. 

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  4. finally! i’ve been saying this for years.

    from the ny times:

    ”In recent years, producers at late night shows had a perennial complaint: why on earth were they being forced into an Emmy competition with John Oliver whose HBO show, “Last Week Tonight,” did not resemble anything like theirs? 

    They did celebrity interviews, Oliver didn’t. His show was 30 minutes, theirs an hour. “Last Week Tonight” rolled out 30 episodes a year while their output was at least five times bigger. To make matters worse, Emmy voters adored Oliver’s show and gave him the best variety talk show Emmy seven years in a row, leaving them in the cold.

    No more. The Television Academy has moved Oliver’s show into a new category this year — outstanding scripted variety series. This gave an inside track to hosts like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers to win for best talk series for their current late night shows for the first time.”

    eta: last week tonight generally focuses on a single topic, so  the staff can take as long as they need to research. very different from addressing events of the day — sometimes even tearing up a monologue 5 minutes before air to include something that’s breaking.

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  5. i remember treat williams playing a retired football player with dementia on l&o svu — heartbreaking performance.  beth chamberin (guiding light) played his wife. andre braugher was his defense attorney.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, argrow said:
    5 minutes ago, wonderwoman said:

    any lip readers out there?

    According to captions, he said 'I'm a fa**ot with a Tony'

     

    2 minutes ago, ebk57 said:
    5 minutes ago, wonderwoman said:

    any lip readers out there?

    Growing up, they called me the f-word.  Now I'm a fa**ot  with a Tony!

    that’s what i figured. thanks, 

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  7. any lip readers out there?

    loved the opening number! i always hated the inane banter between the presenters in past tonys, so it’s orinic that the so far the show is actually better unscripted. hough i do wish they had included scenes from a couple of the plays along with the musicals.

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  8. hard to say for sure, but this episode has a possible series finale feel to it — bringing the kids back, along with jennifer esposito, the heavy foreshadowing of danny and baez — likely shot before the renewal was announced. 

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  9. 11 hours ago, MaryMitch said:
    11 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

    Like my "junior high" PE (physical education) teacher. ♥️

     

    It would've been about 1967 when a high school girl was disciplined (suspended for a day??) for wearing culottes (pants skirt). She was prettier than I, but from a less academically inclined family in a somewhat poorer neighborhood. The next day I (1st in my class and from a more upper middle class neighborhood) wore culottes too and nobody said a word.
    IRC, within a week, the administration had surrendered.

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    Same here! We girls weren't allowed to wear pants. One cold winter day a bunch of us got together and decided to wear pants the next day, figuring they couldn't send us all home. A couple hours into the day they announced over the intercom since it was so cold, during the winter girls would be allowed to wear pants. And they never pushed back when we just kept wearing them.

    also in 1967: i had a part-time job as a cashier in a huge supermarket. in the winter, every time the electric doors at either end of front of the store opened, there was a blast of arctic air and our legs froze — well, those of us who had to wear skirts. 

    we all hated it, but i was the only one who complained. of course, management didn’t give a shit. one day i had had enough. i realized that if we all wore pants on a saturday there was no way they could send all of us home — they would have had to close the store. 

    the part-timers were all high school students (as was i) and easy to convince; took a little longer with the full-time women, but eventually they came on board.

    it was my first collective action!

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  10. 7 minutes ago, greekmom said:

    All the adults are horrible, horrible people.  They are worse than the people in GG.  So obtuse.

    Why doesn't the Weissmans (and Midge) get a new maid?

    So Ethan doesn't have the Weissman genius gene but Esther does.  

     

    they are awful, which is why i’m not going to miss this show. i get that the audience has to suspend disbelief, but in the past, amy would take us to the edge. now she just pushes us over the edge.

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  11. loved trixie’s dress — think it looked far better with the pillbox than it would have with the tiara. 

    curious, though, about colette’s persistent nosebleed. don’t recall it being issue before and concerned that it could lead to something more serious. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, JudyObscure said:

    I try not to be mad at Lucille, but I am.  She married a man who worked in England, they've made a nice life together, they have their church friends where he is their pastor.  Seeing Cyril look so sad because she has chosen her mommy and a warm climate over him... I just don't know.

     

    52 minutes ago, Mermaid Under said:

    The Lucille character was generally popular (except for folks who thought that she was too good to be true).  The writers didn't give her a deadly disease, or just let her disappear without a word, as they have with other folks that left the show, but for some reason decided to assassinate her by having her behave in a way that seems completely unlike the Lucille character we came to know.  I guess they couldn't come up with another way to let her go and leave Cyril behind.

    i don’t think it was character assassination. depression is common after a miscarriage. and they kept trying, without success. so i get her being depressed and wanting to be with her family. given all that, what makes absolutely no sense is cutting the scene when he left to join her. i mean how long could it have been ffs?!

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  13. 28 minutes ago, One Tough Cookie said:
    47 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

    If Mark didn’t want his family to spy on his date, maybe don’t go to the family restaurant!!

    True enuff, but wouldn't a normal family give the kids time to get to know each other before they embarrass them?

    operative phrase here: “a normal family.”

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  14. just caught alex borstein’s prime video special that dropped last week — ‘corsets and clown suits’ — which shot on tmmm’s nightclub set before it was struck. 

    worth watching: vulgar (of course:), but very funny and often poignant. her marriage to jackson douglas ended in 2017, and she’s still processing. 

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  15. 2 hours ago, pasdetrois said:

    Apparently they financed some rock bands as well. I don't remember the details, but I read a story about Tommy James and the Shondells having to hide out from an angry loan shark.

    major story point in the neil diamond jukebox musical, “a beautiful noise.’

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  16. 44 minutes ago, BookThief said:
    1 hour ago, SG429 said:

    I'm hoping The News made it into tonight's taping. It should be festive!

    I'm guessing they had to scrap their original show and come up with a new one ASAP. I don't think they'd let this wait a day! 

    looks like the news broke @ 5:30. pretty sure they begin taping @ 5. hoping they had a heads up that it was coming down and held the audience while they rewrote the monologue. 

    much as i love john oliver and last week tonight, they do one topic a week and, what, 30 shows a year. i don’t begrudge lwt its emmys, but they’ve never delayed a taping while they rewrote the monologue. totally different animal from late night with sc. 

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  17. 6 hours ago, catrice2 said:

    The episode was ok, but if there are any Monk fans here it reminded me too much of when Monk took in a toddler that witnessed a crime.   Asking to take him in, the matching clothes....etc. 

    i loved that episode! also the one where he cares for a victim’s dog, as well. 

    sure, there are similarities between the two characters. but much as i love monk, in some ways, i’m finding myself liking will even more.

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