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On 5/30/2017 at 11:02 PM, SailorGirl said:
That orphan girl was adorable and Martha finally may have something in her life that is hers unconditionally -- too bad she had to betray her country to get it -- a single woman just cannot get a break! :-D
Question: Did anyone else think Elizabeth was rethinking leaving? She was looking at all the trappings of an American life (the tv, the nice kitchen, the closet full of clothes and awesome 80s boots). . . was she realizing she wouldn't have those things back in mother Russia and maybe thinking life in America . . not SO bad . . .
I thought Elizabeth was recognizing what she would be giving up, and more importantly, what the children would be giving up. I think all the Russia storylines were to show that things would be terrible for the family if they returned. Sure, they'd have access to the "good" grocery store, but Paige and Henry would be miserable, and Philip would probably be miserable too. Rampant corruption would bother Elizabeth; Philip doesn't seem to believe in anything anymore (knowing that the USSR weaponized the serum and used it in Afghanistan was devastating for him).
I'm sort of glad they seem to be moving to the idea that P&E don't return to the USSR; I never thought that was a realistic option for the family.
I thought the Martha scene incredibly sad. They were going to give her a child like it's a toy to make her happy.
Edited to add - I thought the interaction with Tuan was interesting (except the adoption). Useful advice from E; Tuan was very on-point for the Vietnamese by talking about "bourgeois" behavior by P&E.
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On 5/9/2017 at 11:48 AM, kassandra8286 said:
Wow, indeed! I forgot how much fucked up shit happened towards the end of S2. It's already May, woo hoo!
Oh, and John? I think you can officially retire the "we're not bad people, we just did a bad thing" line. Let's keep it real, you ARE bad people, lol.
No kidding! I didn't realize this was starting again so soon, thanks for the reminder. But I am glad this is the final season, Season 2 got off-kilter for me, and I think dragging the story out longer would be a mistake.
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Before we all get too angry about Watson's question of drug use, let's remember that he has relapsed since she met him. I didn't think it was odd or out of line.
I pegged the woman as a hallucination and as his mother, although for a brief time I figured she was real due to the text message. Odd that he would have gotten a new phone just to send the text..... And I thought he figured it was dementia or a mental illness, and that he went to the doctor to rule out any other medical issue.
I also never really understood Watson's obsession with Shinwell, though perhaps it goes back to her medical career and need to save people?
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On 4/18/2017 at 5:01 PM, Umbelina said:
Look what I found! Full movie of The Day After.
Can I just say how much I hated that movie? Everyone wanted to watch it, there were get togethers to do so. My friends and I found ourselves rooting for the town to be nuked, the people were assholes.
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On 5/17/2017 at 9:58 AM, qtpye said:
This season has been disappointing and a little ridiculous. Really, a kid from the local school paper is just wondering around the FBI with Stan? In my work, if anyone comes to visit for one second, I have to clear it with security, who will then issue the person a badge. Even if it is cleared, there are many places they would never have access.
Certainly you'd think the FBI would be different, but let's remember back in the 1980's there wasn't as much - if any - general building security. The only thing that would have stopped anyone from wandering around my office floor was the receptionist (who was useless at that - I found opposing counsel wandering around past my office one day; apparently she had given him directions to someone's office instead of calling them to come out to get him). So much of this office building security is post- 9/11 related. Which makes me question why E needed to stop at a security desk when she went into the psych's office.....
I'm trying to think back - I was a law clerk for Dept of Labor back in the last 1970's - I don't recall any security at all.
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On 5/17/2017 at 8:17 AM, SunnyBeBe said:
I agree that the story of the young girl who was forced to shoot soldiers was hard to swallow. I see that from post above, this never happened during that time. That whole story seemed too contrived to me AND I was frustrated by how P & E handled it. If they aren't sure that she is the actual woman, then grill her at a time and location where her husband would not have to be killed too. And to do it in the home....now their adult children's home has a marred memory of the brutal murder of both their parents. P & E could have done it elsewhere and made it appear to be an accident. Their approach was just stupid and needlessly cruel. I think I've turned the corner and from now on, will root for their take down. I've been understanding of them to this point, but, naaay. They need to go down.
I almost feel sorry for Stan. Regardless, of his explanation, the fact that he brought a family member of Russian spies into his office........there are no excuses.
This episode made it appear that Oleg and his partner aren't very competent. Are they really that ignorant?
Thanks to everyone with the history lesson - I hadn't realized the WWII story was such garbage. Lazy writing. I was not surprised that P couldn't pull the trigger but E did, though I was surprised she now wants to go home. She can't truly think they can bring the kids to the USSR, can she?
And of course if she did go home she would be severely disappointed in the corruption.
On Oleg and his partner - they can't be that ignorant.....Oleg is aware enough that the store his family shops at is not available to others that he offered to get his partner "in" so he could buy things otherwise unavailable to him. Or perhaps they can't make the leap to that the very fact the elite have special shops for better food IS corruption, and invites additional corruption? The secretary facing long hard time but being convinced it wasn't going to happen was sad - I can't decide if she's right, or if she's not bright enough to realize she's a small fish that would be sacrificed.
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14 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:
Unless you're planning to get the entire House, Senate, Supreme Court, POTUS and VPOTUS, and the Cabinet to have a special meeting for some inexplicable reason just below Hoover Dam.
Season 2?
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23 hours ago, oakville said:
It was probably easier to get a French Canadian actress in Canada. I think the show gets tax credits for filming in Canada, so they have to hire a certain percentage of Canadian Actors. Kiefer is Canadian & so is the White House Villain employee.
I guess the GOP majority in Congress would want her to resign as Speaker or not be VP.
I get the House might want her to resign. But she could have become a pretty well paid lobbyist or consultant. Instead, although the show hasn't shown her to be particularly interested in Education, she agrees to a pretty low level cabinet position? That I don't get.
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On 5/11/2017 at 9:22 AM, paigow said:
Yes. The ring definitely belonged to Atwood. Hannah recognized it immediately.
Which actually makes no sense. Why would she recognize a plain gold band? I always hate the Hannah and Atwood go it alone parts of the episodes. Jeez, get them some backup! And we were in "24" territory with being able to get Hannah and all the munitions out of the freighter, into a van, and drive from Baltimore to DC into the basement of the presumably very secure FBI headquarters in - what - one hour?
Why would the Speaker agree to become the Education Secretary? Didn't make sense to me.
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3 hours ago, Trooper York said:
Bynn can't even trust her mother to not steal her clothes. You know that she is tossing anything that Jason or his parents give her. She is a loving and thoughtful mother. That is why she is making of spectacle of it on a TV show with her pretend friend.
It is possible that the nanny or the assistants know which toys are important. That is why she was talking to the assistant about the toys.
Trooper York, you are terrible! Come, sit by me.
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On 5/10/2017 at 11:51 AM, Chaos Theory said:
I don't know my issue would be him breaking the seal of the confessional. I know there is a line but where is it? Would he rat me out for cheating? If I confessed to a hit an run in my teen years? I am not religious at all but I always thought that the confessional was one of those things that was sacred. I would see Pastor Tim informing on anyone as a betrayal.
He's not a Catholic priest (marriage?!), so no seal of confession. And Paige wasn't doing any formal "confession" anyway, nor is telling him about her parents a religious "confession." At least for Catholics, confession is only about your own sins/actions.
I loved the marriage scene, but I don't think P&E would be considered legally married in the US.
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On 5/7/2017 at 11:55 PM, BBHN said:
Isn't proper social media etiquette to give credit where it's due?
Sure, but how would Yolanda have known he took the photo?
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On 5/10/2017 at 9:36 AM, AttackTurtle said:
Everything stupid about Kelly is contained in the final quote:
I’m honored to have an amazing president. Whether it was Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, that’s not my concern.”
Carole - here's someone who clearly knows less about the election than you.
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On 4/21/2017 at 7:04 PM, Mojoker said:
Being "1%er" and being a socialite aren't necessarily the same thing. There are lots and lots and lots of very wealthy people who aren't socialites.
Did you read it?
If you don't consider having two books traditionally published, then you should give it a try. It's not quite the cakewalk you seem to think it is. And being a bestseller is even harder. I don't know Carole's social circle, nor do I know her hobbies. But I do know that Harper Lee only published one book in her life. I don't think that makes her an unaccomplished writer.
FYI - Harper Lee decided not to publish any other books, it wasn't that she couldn't have gotten the contracts.
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20 hours ago, BBHN said:
Good for her. Hopefully she won?
He tried to do the same thing in Scotland with the golf course. FYI - the US Supreme Court subsequently ruled, in a case in CT, that the govt could condemn private land for the building of other private property (as opposed to a govt use like a highway), as long as they decided the newly built property would be a benefit/improvement to the community.
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On 5/7/2017 at 7:40 PM, KungFuBunny said:
The reaction is good, understated but clearly on the "you are crazy" scale.
the delusion that she should be able to call the police in order to get back something she allegedly left at his house? Crazy. Nor do I buy that she didn't realize she couldn't be there and could be arrested. Presumably she had lawyers, who told her the terms of the protective order.
And I'm trying to understand how going back to NY is "getting her power" back. Sounds more like she needed a new/old town where folks didn't know every detail of her recent past.
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On 5/7/2017 at 3:06 AM, lunastartron said:
Here ya go.
There are actually others in which Carole indicts Melania's "pussy shots"; wonders why anyone would be interested in what "this woman has to say" because of whom she's married to (yet at the same time argues that Bill Clinton is totally separate from his wife because spouses shouldn't be judged by each other). This doesn't even touch upon the contradictory commentary about sexual assault as related to the election that she put forth.
Feminism for the win!
Compassion.
Not to totally beat a dead horse, it if we look at the beginning of this tweetstorm, it starts with a comment (by her great friend) about the hypocrisy of Melania saying she's concerned about cyber-bullying, when I think (?) most would agree she is married to one of the biggest twitter cyber-bullies out there. It was a one deaf comment (IMO one of many by folks supporting trump), and it screamed out for a response. Then add the incredibly racist things said about the First Lady, add in Trump's claims that his wife would be a "classy" First Lady (implicitly or explicitly versus the then current First Lady) and we get to questions about having the first First Lady to have nudie shots in the public domain.
Could Carole have commented on the racism without reference to Melanie? Sure, but it was not totally out of the blue for the series of tweets.
And thanks to the posters linking to 2 of the worst dancers in housewives history! The lack of recognition by both Ramona and Alex is awesome.
[Apologies everyone, I have no idea why I wrote fascism instead of racism in the second to last paragraph, it was not intentional. Corrected now.]
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6 hours ago, Martinigirl said:
She looks beautiful!
Dagnabit! I wonder what the cost of that new, less down time, laser treatment is?
What the heck happened to her eyebrows?
imwill say formtheNYHousewives, at least none of them do the black raccoon eyes. That looks horrible.
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6 hours ago, LIMOM said:
Honestly, Beth's lawyers have some blame in the way she handled her divorce.
Yes, she is a bitch but I can assure you that in NY, lawyers are very aggressive with her type of clients.
AFter all, the more she engage in bullshit, the more billable hours.
Same with her ex, although I admire him for keeping mum.
Hopefully, she grew and realized that she does not need/want a husband and is able to mother in a kind way(I have my reservation but time will tell).
B claims to be such a great businesswoman and so bright, I don't blame the lawyers. She seemed to want them to go after Jason, they did. Were they aggressive, sure, she had money she was willing to burn. Few lawyers will turn that down.
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19 hours ago, WireWrap said:
I suspect that she has those drawer refrigerators, at the far end of her kitchen, because she doesn't cook. If my memory is working correctly today (LOL), she had the kitchen redone before she met Adam and she went out to eat or ordered in every night.
I agree, when Ramona describes what she wants in a guy, she is describing Mario after the divorce, has his own money, married 1 time/divorced and with grown children. She is still in love with him/her idea of who he was when things were good between them.
That's what those are. I hate that kitchen, because it's too blindingly white and while I'm sure a designer would tell me the stripes make it look larger, I hate them. Some color would help. I was trying to figure out if she had an oven, and saw the 3 half size stainless steel thingies. I figured at least one was a dishwasher; a small fridge would make sense if she doesn't cook.
Ramona reminds me of an article by Richard Kirshenbaum (he writes columns for the NY Observer on the wealthy, someone on the former not-to-be-named site mentioned him once). One of his articles (which is in his book "Isn't it Rich?") talked about older UES divorcees, and how only the ones who are "realistic" find new men. The ones who basically want their husband but richer/cuter/nicer won't find that guy, because that guy is looking for a much younger woman. Ramona looks great, but she is 60; wealthy good looking 60 year old guys are taking 30 year olds.
PS - highly recommend his columns and book. Googling to remind myself of his name, just read a column about the "Brich" = rich and broke. Mostly about how divorce/step-parents/siblings/lifestyle kill an inheritance. All of the columns, and the book, are about the rich (mostly in NY), and while I can't relate at all to the cash, he's got a great writing style.
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On 5/3/2017 at 8:09 AM, Otherkate said:
I had the same question. I personally wouldn't count court testimony because that's your time to tell your side of the story (regardless of our personal opinions on whether or not it's true) and her comments on the show, in my opinion, have been vague at best. Not many people dealing with a divorce would not call it brutal at one time or another. My divorce was very amicable but it was, in no uncertain terms, also one of the most freaking brutal things I've ever dealt with.
I include that court testimony because it seemed very calculated - she was able to get in all the digs and complaints she wanted in the way she wanted, then suddenly before the cross-exam she settled the custody matter.
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2 hours ago, Alonzo Mosely FBI said:
There is nothing left that is authentic about Bethenny except her anger, calculated positioning of her business, and attention seeking bottomless pit of need. I don't want to watch a show of a "housewife" who is so calculating that they cannot express who they are honestly, 1) Beth isn't going on the record for the election because either way she alienates roughly 50% of America, her potential customers and 2) she's too rich for the election results to matter to her. Carole was brave to go on the record and be honest, and Dorinda handled it in a matter of fact way without being in your face about it. Everything Bethenny does if for the job, and calculated to promote herself.
When I think of how she dissed Kelly for what Bethenny perceived as Kelly's facetious shallow "hellos" when entering a room- Bethenny has morphed into that. She threw fake hellos at the garden party at Sonjas then last night when she came into Carole's party and RACED to Carole to start shit and wind Carole up. It was disturbing how much Bethenny was there to just stir things, not as an authentic friend.
If Carole thought she was going to sway conservative voters to "her" side in that Smurf Big bird leather leggings downtown NYC outfit in the more centrist PA suburbs while canvassing, she fulfills the stereotype of the uber liberal out of touch way left special snowflake. Be who you are and all that (I am as liberal if not more than Carole, full disclosure) but FFS dress for success and maybe think about people taking your message seriously as your #1 message and not attention for your hot outfit (I need to look young and hip!) as your #1 goal. Carole is such a doof.
I had the exact same thought about Carole's outfit! It screams "I have tons of money so that I can buy a coat I can only wear a couple of times." I've done canvassing (hated it!), and fitting in helps.
It was depressing as heck to watch the election night party, but at least learning B was co-host makes me less annoyed at Carole for leaving early. When I thought she was the only hostess I was thinking she needed to stay as long as there were guests present (or at some point shut the party/funeral down). I was in WI poll-watching on election day, got home to watch results and when the numbers guy on MSNBC said (though PA hadn't been called) that there weren't enough Philly votes to overcome the rest of the state, I went to bed knowing she'd lost. The next day I worked from home and found myself bursting into tears, sobbing actually. The following day I was sobbing with a co-worker in his office. I could have happily avoided re-living that night.
While I think it would have been appropriate for B to do a drive-by at Ramona's party (they are co-workers after all), but considering NYC traffic, that could have involved significant driving time. So, although for the wrong reason, she gets a pass from me.
Sonja needs to lay off Tinsley, but if Tinsley has $35MM, jeez girl get a short term rental and get off the show. You will never be the new 'it girl'. STAM to include the reference to the John Adams family? Jeez girl, you are not biologically related to ANY of these famous people.
What was up with B's dress at Sonja's tea party? That white sort of cape thing was attached to the back of the dress. Very odd, but then I often don't like her clothes. And considering what she was wearing, she could stop with the Lu dress bashing. It was totally appropriate for a tea party. Though, I will acknowledge my first thought was "that's a nice pattern for a quilt."
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On 5/2/2017 at 9:53 AM, Ki-in said:
This is why I can't stand Carole, she is the eternal hypocrite. She is now training for the NY marathon (an attempt to keep up with Adam perhaps) and is constantly posting pictures of her workouts but she has said this in the past :
"Honestly, I was never into going to gyms,” she told Elle. “I just don't like the culture. I never knew how to switch my clothes. Lugging around gym clothes and sneakers and stuff, I just could never.”
Sounds rude, elitist and a dig at people who actually enjoy the gym instead of laying around on a tattered couch not writing or doing much of anything except judging people who you don't think are informed.
If you never go to gyms then how do you know if you like the culture or not?
I wouldn't say rude or elitist, but what idiot doesn't know how to "switch my clothes"??? You put your gym clothes and shoes into a bag and carry it to the gym, simple!
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Again with the stupid Hannah stuff. She's investigating the most important conspiracy in recent memory, but has little to no back up and is staying at a cheap motel? On the second floor? Really?
And if that native terrorist group is all that interested in security, NO WAY they would all be at the landing site rather than leaving some folks behind to keep watch. Especially after Hannah and pal (why am I blanking on his name?) tried to get into the ranch? In fact, wouldn't they also avoid the town? Because it is strange when a bunch of out of state cars show up.
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Bethenny Frankel: Skinny Girl
in The Real Housewives Of New York City
The document was held invalid due a technical glitch, the Court did not find it was fraudulent. You don't need fraud to invalidate a document.
My hazy memory is that B had certainly come up with the Skinnygirl idea and the original drink before meeting Jason; but she wasn't making money off it. The money and real marketing came from Jim Beam, and she was married to or with Jason at that time. IIRC, he was arguing that the Skinnygirl money shouldn't be part of the pre-nup because of his involvement in getting the Jim Beam deal. Whether he was really instrumental, or helpful, I don't know. He wasn't just trying to invalidate a document he voluntarily signed (B - looking at you and the home), but felt the Skinnygirl deal should be held outside of it.
Someone above mentioned her inheritance from her father. Regardless of the marriage/pre-nup/whatever, that'd be her non-marital property (unless she somehow co-mingled it with family money).