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There’s this technique called “not answering the phone.” And blocking numbers.

Oh lord, don't get her started

She said talent-challenged, not talented!

Fun fact: we *are* experts, alas.

But we honestly didn’t know how it was transmitted at first; I saw my first of 100+ friends die in 1983. When guys showed up with Kaposi’s Sarcoma (skin spots) you knew it wouldn’t be long.

In my experience, “alcoholism” is a useless and undefinable term, often used as a weapon to manipulate. Also as a medical term for a largely corrupt rehab industry in order to harvest insurance and family $$. David Pour’s life is clearly affected by his booze intake, and he’d be wise to fix it, isn’t that enough?

There was a 2004 NYT article following 1994 Juilliard grads. It was depressing in 95% of the cases. Money down the drain for an unusable education and unemployability. I’m only still afloat as I returned to school for another four years. You bettah off.

I believe the poster was saying that people posting here who've been sexually abused as children are more aware of early warning signs because they've lived through it. And that she has seen it as a neutral third party because she worked in an office that prosecuted predators -- and therefore saw a pattern of early warning signs. Not to say that's definitely going on here, but that when it does happen, here are some early tactics many of those cases had in common. I think your comment -- and I'm not being critical at all -- illustrates this somewhat. I'm unfortunately in the "was molested" camp, Luis's behaviors of crossing boundaries make my very uncomfortable, in fact make my skin crawl. If you have not lived through it as a child, I can certainly see why it wouldn't ding the radar.

I think the younger girl is very smart and has figured out how to keep from being harmed. That is hardly being a "brat." She feels uncomfortable, has likely had no support, and has figured out how to keep herself safe all on her own. And that is very sad. She certainly did say "please." At least twice, maybe more, which is unusual for a 6-y-o. This child has learned how to stand up for herself as no one else is, and is hardly being bratty.

Annie can quietly disappear into the US, and I hope she does so.

Good lord, have any women in Elizabeth's family shampooed in the last two years? I've never seen such filthy, stringy hair! Do the TLC hairdressers have to try to style that unhygienic grossness?

Ironic that 50 percent of Evelyn's screen time is us watching her chew food.

So I married a very wealthy man 12 years ago -- except he falsified the marriage. I was a giant publicity stunt. What cracks me up now is that he gave me a $3,000 engagement ring (he makes well over $1m/year) and told everyone at his fancy parties that he had to get me such a tiny diamond because I had small hands. LMAO.

You win the Interwebs for today!

Indeed -- I was in no way snarking or minimizing (bad pun) her main business of hard-to-fit ladies, but since she has the skill and is friendly, I think drag and transgenders would feel welcome there. Also I believe she's able to custom-make garments.

S4 is rumored to be airing in early 2018.

Please know I was not discounting this in the least -- I know this is true. I hope your Mom is doing well. I was just pointing out this might be an extra business as she knows how to customize garments.

This apropos Carla, and I totally agree. Hey, I'm 57 and live at Venice Beach CA and enjoy running around a casual 'hood with silly pigtails and I bet she would too, but this is her profession. I would like to see her present a more refined persona (heads up, costume/hair team). She earned and deserves it.

There's a possibility an unmentioned part of her unmentionables is making lingerie for gentlemen. There is a niche for that, and I would assume these clients need custom sizes.

Berklee is AWESOME. I worked on Broadway in Wicked with its alums who went on to earn Tonys. They were very impressive. NEC would only train opera singers, to my knowledge. I'm older than your set. PM me.

I'm a performing artist, and I'm about to use a term that might be offensive. If so, please just delete it or the whole post. In the cabaret/acting world, straight women who love partying with/hanging with gay men were once upon a time called "fag hags." Back in the day (I'm an old fart) gay men in entertainment found the term and phenomenon funny and generally enjoyed being around women who accepted them -- which was fairly unusual 30 years ago. I realize times and terminology have changed, so apologies in advance, and again, just delete this if it's problematic. The characteristics of such a woman were generally 1. Hefty Hefty Hefty 2. Likes likker 3. Flamboyant 4. Appreciates the gay guys' fashion advice (which is undeniably great) 5. Likes the presence of well-groomed men 6. Cackles at jet-plane decibel level. Anyway, I'm wondering if her hard-to-fit bra shop might not cater to some particular gentlemen's unique needs. (Gay men would not be interested, but transgender and cross-dressing men, who are usually straight but have private playtime are.) I have a young relative who's come out as transgender (I changed his diaper 18 years ago so reasonably sure of the bio identity) and is a strapping individual, so I have recent acquaintance with shops catering to people larger than average women's sizes. Now THAT would be a show.

I'm a professional musician and music conservatory graduate (Juilliard School). The only Boston school that would train a pop singer is Berklee, and especially since it is unique in that way, it's *especially* competitive for pop musicians. To my knowledge, every other major conservatory in the US trains only classical and jazz musicians; in any case, she would need to be able to read music to even approach the audition -- and like people who can't be bothered taking 20 minutes to learn driving a stick shift, I can't imagine she'd deduct time from re-arranging her impressive closet of high fashion to do so. Fun fact: reading music is very easy and quick to learn, especially since she'd only need one octave (meow) of treble clef to clinch it. That should take a half hour, max.

I'm southern, and when a new classmate moved there from up north and was in the spelling bee, she wasn't sure if the word was "far," "fire," or "fair." (Coulda been "fur")

I generally like Clinton and think he does a great job of emceeing, which is a gift. There's a lot to Carla, but I wish she'd tone it down and that the hair/makeup/costume people would class up her look a bit and skip the Minnie Mouse in professor glasses thing. She has beautiful skin/face and a great figure, it's a shame to make her cartoonish. Michael and Mario are great on TV and endlessly entertaining (I hope they bring Michael's Ozzie dog on set one day). It seems the hyperkinetics of Carla and Clinton are trying to fill the hole left by having only 4 or 3 hosts, depending on who's out. It seems an additional host - this time one with a food background -- would give them a comfort zone.

I so don't get why she does this. I bet she has a tally sheet on whiteboard in her dressing room (which evidently doesn't involve any dressing outside the edible kind) and likely practices with a timer to try and rush another "wekkometodavu" in. It is always a relief when Joy is in the lead chair and just says it simply, as if we are adults who don't need a circus act. I think Sara would also do as the moderator. I have a journalism MA and have written for major world pubs...and think she is an excellent and smart journalist -- I think some people can't see past her friendly, bubbly personality, but I think that's a plus! Not sure when she's due, but I'm happy for her!