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Joshua Malina Tweeted a little while ago that they should have a new batch of podcast lapel pins in about 4 weeks. Check the Tweet to see if he mentioned pre-ordering (if you're interested); I think he did, but I don't wanna commit myself & be wrong. https://mobile.twitter.com/WestWingWeekly/status/759852706202808320?p=v

Cool. Thanks for that info. It was long enough ago I couldn't remember exactly how they wrote Nana Visitor's (I even remembered her real name this time) real pregnancy into the show, though I remembered they did & it somehow involved a surrogate type pregnancy. By the way, according to the weekly blog about the show that's published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser this past Saturday (yesterday) the first name of Governor Mahoe, the new Hawaii Governor character being played this season by character actress Rosalind Chao, is... Keiko (She's played a lot of Keikos; I guess casting directors think she looks like a Keiko). This was mentioned at the end; the main part of the blog was about Chi McBride's character, (Captain) Lou Grover.

Joshua addressed that on his Twitter last night, by which point they were running out. He said they ARE ordering more pins, but it'll take awhile to get them. https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshMalina/status/758103575771815937 https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshMalina/status/758323483738648576 https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshMalina/status/758355248381440000

Josh Malina Tweeted yesterday (Eastern US Time) that there's now a lapel pin for his & Hrishi's podcast available through the website for the podcast. It looks like the kind a politician might wear representing, like, their state seal or something similar. It appears to be intended to help defray podcast production costs. Anyway... In case someone might want 1, the info is in this Tweet & at The West Wing Weekly's website. https://mobile.twitter.com/JoshMalina/status/758057331116474368

As far as I know, they do practice rounds--like celebs with each other & civilians with each other since potential partners aren't supposed to meet before the actual game. The week Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg were on, ABC Tweeted this link from the show's Twitter & it's described, by them, as a practice round. I've watched it more than once; it's fun.

@wings707: I don't remember seeing the lump you spoke of on Garry Marshall's cheek, but I'm also not saying he didn't have 1. The official cause of death, as it was reported the night his death was announced, was complications of pneumonia following a stroke he apparently had on Tuesday of last week.

Yeah! I forgot she was O'Brien's wife on TNG & DS9 too (that was how they wrote in when Alexander Siddig & his then-wife, who played Kira[?] Nerys, were having their real-life son--there was some sort of accident onscreen & Keiko became their gestational carrier... Or maybe vice-versa). I've always liked her, since I first remember seeing her, & the more stuff I'm reminded of her having been in (that I liked), the more excited I am that she's even a recurring part of the show's ohana for at least this season.

Between Wo Fat or Gabriel returning as a/the "big bad", I'd put more money on Gabriel than Wo Fat. As I remember, everybody walked out past Wo Fat's body, dead on the floor, when Steve got rescued by the team at the end of Ep 507. Even though I think Lenkov & everybody else is swearing Gabriel died this past season, we never saw his dead body/his funeral. I think Chin just told Steve he had died in surgery at 1 of the local hospitals. Something to look forward to: Episode 707 (I think they're filming Ep 702 now, & Scott Caan seems to be in both 701 & 702, based on recent social media pics from the set including him) will be #150 for this version of the series.

1 of @mtlchick's posts fairly close upthread (I think) has a link to an Entertainment Weekly/EW.com article that's a "behind the scenes" look at the taping of this week's ep (a writer for them attended it), which says it was done on June 30th--shortly after the first ep aired. Just in case you missed it. It's an interesting read.

I call some BS on Bobby (I think it was him, anyway) calling Ana's Irish food bland as a slam, then eliminating her for it. For 1 thing he's of Irish descent, as I remember, which should point to some even basic knowledge of Irish cuisine. For another thing, I distinctly remember FN doing a special years ago now, which aired as part of a St. Patrick's Day-themed weekend of programming, where Bobby went/was sent to Ireland to sample/talk about authentic Irish cuisine served in Irish pubs, etc. So, again, he should have had prior knowledge the Irish cuisine can be bland. I Googled the special. It was Bobby's Ireland, which aired on FN in 2011. Here's the link to the FN site description for the special which can still be found via Google. http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/food-network-specials/all-specials/bobbys-ireland.html @orangekit: The guest judges were actress & Cooking Channel Host Tia Mowry & the guy (whose name I forget now) who's Co-Hosting the upcoming Kids' Food Network Star show with her. @bluepiano: Not all of the guest judges have been white. The aforementioned Tia Mowry, 1 of last night's guest judges, is half-Caucasian, half-African-American. There may have been others I'm not remembering right now, as well (or may be others in the remaining ep).

My most recent pet peeve--which I might've mentioned before & forgotten--is criminals who either kill themselves or "commit suicide by cop" to avoid paying for their crimes.

Atomationage, I was just coming to post about the video you edited into your post--from a The View interview today with Anton's Star Trek film Co-Stars Zoe Saldana (Uhura) & Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty (as a Co-Writer of the newest film in the franchise, Simon Pegg recently took some heat from George Takei, the now openly-gay actor who played Sulu in the original NBC series--who wasn't "out", for many reasons, until long after the original ST ended--for "suddenly" making the current films' Sulu a gay, married, father in the newest film though there were never any indications he was any of those things in any previous incarnation of the character [Pegg & his Co-Writer stated the "revelation" about Sulu's sexuality/personal life in the newest film was meant as an homage to Takei, the now openly-gay creator of the role]; this is also addressed in The View's interview). My ancient iPhone crashed as I started my post & you edited it into your post while I was returning from the crash, so thank you for posting it. I wasn't sure it was online yet. Of any of the Hosts of The View who could've asked cast members of Star Trek Beyond about Anton Yelchin's untimely passing, I'm glad it was the 1 with ties to the Star Trek TV franchise, Whoopi Goldberg (who played Guinan, who ran Ten-Forward, the bar/lounge on the Enterprise, in Star Trek: The Next Generation). As Simon Pegg had to gather himself at some points in his answer, & I think he actually spoke on behalf of himself & Zoe Saldana (&, by extension, their fellow surviving cast members), it was clear his/their feelings on the subject were still "raw" (as they have a right to be this soon after it happened) & that they loved working with Anton very much.

The parents of current Star Trek film franchise actor Anton Yelchin (he played Chekhov in the 2 or 3, I forget which, newest of the franchise films including the soon-to-open Star Trek Beyond) took out an (I think touching & worth reading) ad in The Hollywood Reporter recently, which was reported on/reposted by Entertainment Weekly's EW.com website at the link below, thanking Anton's fans for all the love & support they've been shown by them, & the gifts they've received from them, since his extremely untimely passing. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/17/anton-yelchin-parents-thank-you-tribute?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter As you may remember from upthread--where his death was discussed after it happened--Anton was killed in a freak accident, not even a month ago as I remember, when he was pinned between his car & a (as I remember) concrete post at his home. At the time he was killed, his make & model of car was under a safety recall for an issue where drivers may be falsely led to believe their vehicles were in Park when they weren't/"roll aways", but his specific car either hadn't been repaired or it isn't known if it had or hadn't been at the time he died. A $5 Million Class Action lawsuit has been filed by owners of the car involved against Chrysler-Fiat, the manufacturer/seller of the car, over the recall, since Anton Yelchin's death/as a direct result of it.

I've always wondered why, in the "I'm a.. (blogger, country girl, etc.)" introduction to her show, the 1 thing Ree's never said she is is "a wife".

Leslie Jones, for those who don't know, is also in the cast of the current film reboot of Ghostbusters where the genders of at least the Ghostbusters (she's 1 of them) & their secretary have been swapped from the original films.

And, as at least as I remember some thought--though I don't think he's been in the Co-Host seat since Michael left--Rob Lowe's not getting the job. About a week ago, I think, he joined the cast of CBS' Code Black (the low-rated medical show starring Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden). He & the rest of the cast are currently (or recently have been) in "medical boot camp" (learning how to do procedures reasonably accurately for fictional medical show purposes) in preparation for the show's second season.

I also have to say Damiano complaining about what he has to make in a challenge, or anything else, is nothing new. He did the same thing about themes, ingredients, etc., when he was on The Holiday Baking Championship (& I bitched about it... [laughs]). Really, he's been in the US at least 2 years (as long as I think they've said he & his brother have had their LA-area bakery), he should be familiar with a lot of US-centric, as opposed to Italian-centric, cooking/baking methods, etc., by now. I think his "stereotype" is just "the crotchety foreign-born baker/pastry chef too set in his ways to bake in the ways of his new homeland than his birthplace."

Let me say that I like both Trisha Yearwood's & Garth Brooks' (her current husband's) music (though I do find it odd that he tends to call her "Miss Yearwood", as opposed to "Trisha", when talking about her in a public forum, like interviews or social media type videos, etc.); I even like, & watch, her Food Network show when I find it on the TV schedule. But I agree with the assessment she's not an "innocent country girl", which the quoted poster was responding to. Especially not since Garth is her third husband (& TY his second wife), & talk (that I've heard) is that they were in love with each other, & romantically involved with each other despite being married to others at the time, long before they finally married. Just saying. As long as Garth, his ex, & their daughters are happy with it, though, I do like that she claims Garth & Sandy Brooks' daughters as though they're her own since she & Garth married.

I suppose sometimes they do & sometimes they don't. Which really doesn't make it right. I mean, once they get the screener tapes/DVDs, it's up to the voters to watch them on the "honor" system. I think Alison's being overlooked could be attributed to at least 2 things, as I said earlier either upthread or in a different thread: Either the strength of the competition in the category she was probably up for nomination in (presumably Supporting Actress in a Drama Series), not to mention the Emmy voters' tendency to vote for the same actors repeatedly, even when the work put up for a nomination is only a 2-minute scene in 1 episode over the entire season (which won Margo Martindale her 2nd Guest Actress in a Drama Emmy for the series last season, so I'm not really knocking it as it would sound), most of the time they don't vote for new shows or actors until something they've previously "shown a lot of love to" ends on its own or gets canceled & is no longer eligible (like Mad Men for this season); OR the fact that maybe Alison doesn't have as "recognizable" a name with the Emmy voters as either her competition does or even as Keri & Matthew do (Keri's career going as far back as at least the Mickey Mouse Club reboot in I don't remember when, which also originally gave us Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake, to Felicity, more recently, before playing Elizabeth Jennings on The Americans; & Matthew being known as "the gay brother", Kevin, on ABC's Emmy-nominated (& Emmy-winning, for Sally Field as the family matriarch either once or twice, as I remember) Brothers & Sisters before taking the role of Philip Jennings on The Americans). Again, none of the reasons I cited as to why Alison may have been overlooked make it right. They're just, having read about the entertainment industry & having watched the Emmys for years, the reasons I can come up with for why she was overlooked.

I have a small correction from yesterday's post. Bradley's newest Emmy nomination as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy is for playing a recurring character named Magnus Hirschfeld (apparently a real person) in the most recent season of Amazon's Transparent; it's not for playing the characters of Mark & Marcy in Transparent, for which he won the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Emmy last year.

Matthew's reaction on Twitter late last night/early this morning. https://mobile.twitter.com/MatthewRhys/status/753786500349890560?p=v Matthew's also among the newest Emmy nominees giving reactions to The Hollywood Reporter today. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/emmys-nominees-reactions-2016-announcement-911036/item/emmy-noms-2016-ellie-kemper-911273

Congratulations to Allison Janney & Bradley Whitford on their Emmy nominations for this past season's TV work. Allison is nominated--again--for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her current series, CBS' Mom. She's won at least once before for this role. She is also nominated again as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama for her role in Showtime's Masters of Sex. As for Bradley, he was nominated again as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy for his recurring role in Transparent, which streams on Amazon.com's Prime Video. He won this award for this role last year.

Yep. He guest hosted the day, or second day, after it was announced he's leaving the Miami Heat for the Chicago Bulls. That was the first thing Kelly asked about after they sat down.

The actress Ken Jeong played opposite also currently co-stars with him in Dr. Ken, an ABC Friday night sitcom based on Ken Jeong's real life, pre-fame, & about to go into its second season.

OK... The showrunners reaction article interviewed Joel & Joe--not "the Joels" as I said (the creators, at least, are Joe & 2 Joels as I remember). So apologies for that error. Here's an article from USA Today with Keri's reaction (& Matthew's, by proxy) to all the nominations. It's cute. It also says they start filming S5 in October & gives a potential spoiler at the end. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/07/14/keri-russell-new-emmy-love-so-long-underdog-status/87097882/