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And the really galling thing is that it's not even "reformed" Regina as Adam and Eddie claim she is now -- it's full-on Season 1 Evil Queen Regina. Seriously, Adam and Eddie? That is so two years ago!

Yeah, it's a good thing my boss is out of the office today -- she'd think I was out of my mind the way I cracked up at that "translation."

Camera One, if I could, I'd marry your post, have sex with it repeatedly every day, and have its babies!

Just tell me that Alison Grodner got hit by a bus or something and will not therefore be in charge of this trainwreck this year.

No, that was very definitely established in the episode where the Jabberwocky is messing with Anastasia's mind in order to get her to crack and use the three wishes that she got from Will. The Jabberwocky specifically taunts Anastasia with what might have been "if your stepsister hadn't married the Prince." That scene confirmed an earlier episode where it was hinted that Anastasia left the Enchanted Forest with Will in part to get away from her domineering, disapproving mother, Lady Tremayne (Cinderella's stepmother) and the later episode where Cora is teaching Anastasia how to use magic by zeroing in on Anastasia's insecurities fueled by Lady Tremayne's rejection of her.

It's the look in his eyes in the first photo (where he's looking up from his tablet) that gets me. Colin is the only man I know who can do "fuck me" eyes without even trying. I think it's got to be his particular eye color -- he just has a way of making me feel as though he knows exactly what I'm thinking, and I'm cringing out of embarrassment that he does!

It's also what happened with Meghan Ory and Ruby/Red. Meghan was specifically promoted to series regular for the second season, and Red was supposed to have a much bigger story arc than she actually did (possibly including a bit of Frankenwolf), but the writers got so hung up on PLOT PLOT PLOT regarding Our Lady of Perpetual Woobification (that's Regina to you) that they forgot all about Red until Meghan finally asked Adam and Eddie point-blank what was going on and whether she needed to be looking for another job. THAT really pissed her fans off, especially since Red's absence in scenes that she should logically should have been a part of was never explained.

I see what you're saying, but the larger point is that teens simply wouldn't be fazed by that sight anyway because they would never believe that it could -- or would -- happen to them. That's all I was really saying. You've got that right. It's the whole reason that I dread election years (and 2016 is really going to be cringeworthy -- somebody just wake me on January 1, 2017!). What's really bad now is that you can't even escape political ads on the Internet -- YouTube is crawling with them during election season, especially the local ads (which are somehow even worse and more offensive to me than the national ads!).

No, they wouldn't. Teens tend to think that they're immortal and invulnerable and that the bad stuff can never happen to them. It's an attitude that they don't really outgrow until they hit about 40 or so, unfortunately (which is why they balk at buying catastrophic health insurance that they're sure they'll never need) -- and that's because the bad stuff DOES start happening to them after that age.

That's assuming that you can ignore the fact that Dorothy's kids are about ten years too young for the ages they're supposed to be (Michael should be at least 38, since the reason Dorothy married Stan in the first place was that she was pregnant with Michael, and Kate should be around 36 or so). It's the one area where Casting really screwed up by hiring actors who were too young to play Michael and Kate, but my theory has always been that the reason they went with younger actors was that having a 38-year-old Michael with Peter Pan Syndrome would make him just another pathetic clone of Stan, so they made him about 28 instead, and Kate at 36 wouldn't be so quick to take her cheating husband back -- after all, she should have learned something from her parents' disaster of a marriage in order to avoid making the same mistake herself. At 26, it would make sense (sort of) for her to keep the blinders on -- at 36, not so much.

What a shame that Drunk Ed wouldn't be there, too. It'd be funny to see which one could humiliate himself worse.

You should have seen him when he did the Ukrainian version of The Bachelor a few years ago. He took the Final 3 back to his old neighborhood in Ukraine for his hometown dates, and I could see that he was really moved seeing the house he lived in and the school where he first studied dancing through adult eyes. He said that it was the first time in his life that he really understood what life was like for his parents and why his father finally made the difficult decision to uproot the family and move to the US for a better life. By the way, you can still catch the episodes of his season of Ukrainian Bachelor on YouTube starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnvMojyj9Js It's in Russian, but there is a full translation in the Comments section -- or at least there was. Comments seem to be disabled now, darn it!

On the brighter side, I do have to say that I like the name Oliver Finlay Dallas. It somehow seems very appropriate for the son of two actors who play fairy-tale characters for a living.

That's just disgusting. I know celebrities understand that creepy stuff like that comes with the territory, but I would like to think that they're still entitled to some respect for their privacy. Thankfully, I'm sure that most of their fans understand that.

And three men from Andi's season will be on. Now I'm going to have fun trying to figure out which three it would be (does anyone else think Eric might have been one of them if he were still alive?).

Yeah, she's toast.

Except for when it doesn't.

Thank you, Cindy. It's been almost seven years, though (we actually lost him in October 2007 after he got sick with pneumonia in August and just never recovered from it), so the actual grieving pretty much ran its course for me a long time ago. My mother is the one I think a lot more about this time of year, since June 14 was his birthday and he had lived at home his entire life (she was, in fact, the one who discovered him the morning of his passing -- I can't even begin to imagine what that must have been like for her!). Well, they have been trying to safeguard their privacy where the baby's concerned -- and I don't blame them. I'm sure they're feeling just a bit overwhelmed at the moment (to say nothing of dead exhausted), so I can see why they might be subliminally trying to kill the computers of anyone who's trying to glean information about their little prince! ;-)

Don't apologize -- just link to the pics (sorry -- gay man here)!

It WAS a big deal. That was Pepe's cue to use his alternate audition for Julliard (a variation on Shylock's famous rant from The Merchant of Venice) because he failed his original audition.

OK, that makes more sense, and that much of it I can relate to. I simply missed what he said because for some reason, he spoke a little too quietly when he was talking about it with Andi.

Seriously? Those damn shippers just don't know when to let it go, do they?

What I'm still not clear on was why Eric left the Church he had grown up in for 26 years. What was his explanation for that? In case you can't tell, I was raised in the same faith as Eric, and even though I don't always see eye-to-eye with the Church, I just can't fathom completely abandoning it the way he did.

The actor/model is actually a pretty cool dude himself. His name is Andy McDermott, and I follow him on Twitter. He is a former professional soccer player and real-life cop who went into acting back around 2009 -- where he usually plays cops! -- and he also is a certified personal trainer who does training videos on his YouTube channel. Alas, he's also straight, happily married, and the proud father of four kids who all share his passion for fitness. It's amazing how much you can learn about someone in only 140 characters.

Maybe she was trying to show that she's not racist.