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Cate won the year before; that year was Julianne Moore's overdue coronation, so Gwyneth would not have won her second. She still has not been nominated since she won, although if it were Cate that year it would've been sweet revenge since Gwyneth beat her. I'm very intrigued by the idea of her as Amazing Amy. I'd really like to see her back in a big, juicy role worthy of her talents like that. Those Marvel paychecks must be nice though. I really love how Reese has reinvented herself as a mega TV producer that everyone (read: women of a certain age) are flocking to work with. She also has more acting TV projects in the works now (BLL, the two-season morning tv show series with Jennifer Aniston, Little Fires Everywhere with Kerry Washington) than film.

Meryl and Charlie went to the Oscars before DWTS. :) Ashley went to the Oscars after Sochi too (and brought Adam as her date). DWTS will definitely look at 2018 Olympians first, so I only see Ashley on the show if Mirai, Shibs, Adam et al pass and they go to her as a last resort because, for some reason, they really want a figure skater. But even then, I think they'd first ask Tonya Harding or Michelle Kwan, who has said she's been asked multiple times but always had scheduling conflicts. Tom Bergeron also tweeted this story last week, so they won't have a problem filling the Olympian quota.

I'm curious how many Olympians DWTS will go with since it is an all-athletes season. In regular post-Olympics seasons, they cast just one "star" from the preceding games, except for Meryl and Charlie, but they're technically one team and the whole narrative was that they'd be competing against each other, and Laurie Hernandez and Ryan Lochte after Rio, but we all know why Lochte was cast. And the one Olympian has almost always been a newly minted Olympic gold medalist (Misty May-Treanor, Shawn Johnson, Evan Lysacek, Aly Raisman, Meryl and Charlie, Laurie, Ryan, Simone Biles). The only one who wasn't was Lolo Jones, but she's another controversial figure. Mirai has been campaigning hard for it and I feel like they'll offer it to her, but I'm not sure if they'll go for more skaters; it's a shortened season, so I don't think they'll wanna OD on one sport. I could see them going after Chloe Kim.

I think Red was just having fun. Slope is his best event (obviously) and he knew he was unlikely to podium unless all the heavy hitters fell on all of their runs since he doesn't have the same degree-of-difficulty tricks... yet. I loved how excited he was for Kyle. I felt bad for Max. He's dominated X Games big air the past few years but couldn't put it down here.

At least Kaetlyn's PCS were higher than Zag's.

There used to be days off for all the disciplines, but the team event condensed the schedule so only the women have a day off now. I laughed at Bradie putting on her credential to get ready to leave the room before Myahara got her scores.

Yikes, Gabby

I am wide awake now. What a game! Love that Lamoureux's game winner is called Oops! I Did It Again. She completely ruined Szabados.

Yeah, it was mostly the latter. She was cheery and laughing with Goggia and a bunch of people earlier right after her run and was upbeat when she gave her first interview to NBC, which was a few minutes after she finished. I think it hit her as the competition winded down that this was it. I LOLed when Dan Hicks said she chose bib No. 7 because she wanted to go after Goggia, who had been going after Lindsey at other races, and didn't want to give her an edge.

Yeah, it's not new. Like Dots And Stripes said, they do that because there are fewer events in the Winter Olympics. In Salt Lake, they had mini concerts at each night's medal ceremony (I remember 'N Sync, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies were some of them) and NBC would show them. All the full nightly programs are on NBCOlympics.com.

Adam and Nathan train together and are really close. Everyone pretty much keeps to themselves while the competition is still going on, regardless if you've skated or not. Nathan and Vincent looked weird, but I wouldn't read too much into it. They probably didn't want to be captured too much on camera since you never know when they're going live, and they were probably both wondering if/how well their scores would hold up.

Women's slope was tough to sit through, but major props to Jamie -- first woman to win multiple golds in snowboarding. I think they just didn't wanna postpone the event anymore since it was already postponed from yesterday Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant they canceled/postponed events in other sports that day because of the rain, not that other snowboarding disciplines were canceled altogether and not held. Snowboard cross was added in 2006; Ross won the giant slalom, which was discontinued after Nagano.

It's up there with the X Games and the US Open, which is the oldest snowboarding competition, but I think snowboarding is more important to the Olympics than the Olympics is to snowboarders. A lot of the old guard of snowboarding scoffed at the Olympics adding snowboarding in 1998 because they felt like they were just doing it to attract younger viewers, which they were, and Terje Haakonsen, aka the godfather of snowboarding, refused to compete in Nagano because he didn't like that they had snowboarding under the ski federation instead of the snowboarding federation (snowboarding used to be banned at ski resorts, so this was a touchy subject). The Nagano debut was also a disaster because there was a rainstorm and they canceled all other events except the halfpipe, so snowboarders felt disrespected. But the organizers were better in Salt Lake and we did very well there -- Kelly Clark won the first U.S. gold of those games and the men swept the halfpipe podium -- and snowboarding and action sports were taking off more during that time. We did even better in Torino with seven medals, including Shaun White's first gold, and that was when the sport really crossed over into mainstream, and it's now one of the most popular Olympic sports. Younger snowboarders and the new generation have embraced the Olympics more, and I think they recognize the magnitude of the Olympics and what a boon it can be to your career (sponsorships, etc) and growing the sport in general. But it's not the end-all-be-all for them like it is for athletes in some other sports, like in figure skating or alpine skiing or gymnastics or swimming where you need to be known for winning the Olympics. I think that's partially why they're so chill when you see them in the games. I mean, they're always chill, but there's no super intensity or "no talking to your rival" like in some other sports.

The swallow noise for Brandi had me rolling. I'm also dying at the way Omarosa lounges in the DR. Half the cast was on the Dancing with the Stars and the other half was on Celebrity Apprentice! http://www.goldderby.com/article/2018/celebrity-big-brother-cast-dancing-with-the-stars-celebrity-apprentice-alums/ Ariadna and Ross are the only ones who haven't been on either.

TV Guide (appropriately enough) did an oral history for the 20th (!) anniversary of "The One with the Embryos": http://www.tvguide.com/news/friends-oral-history-trivia-game-embryos-episode/ The origin story of Miss Chanandler Bong is pretty great.

Yeah, their interactions at the Oscars and the Globes were perfectly normal. It wasn't Julia "I Love My Life" Roberts effusiveness, but it's far from the iciness all the gossip would have you expect. People are only over-analyzing it because of the allegations against Casey. They interacted more than Leo and Emma did (Leo also didn't clap because he, like Brie, was holding the Oscar and the envelope). The only Brie awards presentation that made me go WTF that everyone seems to forget/ignore (maybe because it doesn't fit the anti-Casey #narrative) was ironically at the SAGs: She left the award on the podium and randomly patted Denzel on the shoulder while walking away. Anyway, Mayim Bialik tried to explain/defend her op-ed today.

Still dead at Kevin's goodbye message to Matt.

Excellent podcast interview with Ryan Murphy about his career. He talks about Feud in the last 15 minutes, including Olivia de Havilland's lawsuit, how saddened he was by it because he's such a huge fan and did the show from a place of love, and how most of the public doesn't realize the extensive vetting productions go through for historically based dramatizations. Fox's 15 lawyers have told him she has no claim.

Jessica's answer as to why they isolated themselves was beyond dumb. For someone who claims to have watched the show since she was a little girl, she sure has no idea that lying and adapting to fluid circumstances are part of it. I LOLed at her calling out Paul. Girl, you were HOH, won POV, and Paul's safety was up. What did you do? You didn't touch him.

Did Jessica forget she left Paul in the game too?

Matthew will be fine. He's in a low period right now, but he's been doing a varied array of projects; a lot of them have just turned out meh or were barely blips on the radar. He got some good notices for Gold last year, but no one paid attention to that movie. Hey, maybe he'll come back to TV to get that Emmy he never won for True Detective. I prefer Ben as a director than as an actor (Casey is by far the best actor in the family), but Live By Night was a total vanity project. Now that he's no longer directing The Batman, the next thing he's slated to direct and star in is the Witness for the Prosecution remake, though there doesn't seem to have been any update since it first broke last August. His card is thin otherwise outside of the DCEU stuff and the Accountant sequel, and he recently dropped out of Triple Frontier to spend time with his family/new girlfriend. I agree his stint as Batman feels precarious, no matter the happy line he fed everyone at Comic-Con. I don't think he's terrible as Batman, but the films he's been in have done him no favors, and Justice League sounds like a hot mess. I'll be curious to see what his next non-Batman, non-sequel film is. Related: Jennifer Garner is going back to her Alias roots with Peppermint. I was not surprised at all by Anna and Chris' split. There have long been rumors of other factors besides his busy schedule, and her being locked down for like nine months out of the year on Mom makes it even tougher. Meanwhile, Chris is tripling down on IPs/franchises.

John Owen (the one on the right) played Zadak on The Grinder, so he's probably following in Rob's footsteps. Matthew is currently in law school and is probably less interested in showbiz. Rob has said the show is basically a ploy to hang out with his sons and they had to shoot the episodes on the weekends because his sons were in school. I watched the premiere and it's ridiculous and I loved every second of it.

Agreed. I love that Steve was not a "damsel in distress" but a well-rounded character who had his own goals, was essential to the story and was a great partner for Diana. If anything, his portrayal is an indictment of the "damsel in distress" roles female love interests have had in male-fronted superhero films and a call to do better.

She says so in the interview.

Interview with Erica Messer about the finale and next season: http://www.tvguide.com/news/criminal-minds-season-12-finale-postmortem/ They might stretch Scratch out until the Season 14 (!) premiere, which would be the 300th episode.