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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

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    The family members keep complaining that no one was really helping Wendy when she was living in New York after she lived with Kevin in Florida, but why didn't family members go up to New York and live with her or in the area to take care of her? The niece was able to at least visit her. It seems they kept expecting Wendy to come back down to them in Florida

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    In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon

    in MGM+

    MGM+ 2 part doc series

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    MGM+, a premium linear channel and streaming service, announced it has acquired the two-part docuseries In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, which will premiere on the platform on March 17 and March 24, 2024 at 9 p.m. EDT/PDT. Directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney (Going Clear, The Inventor), this is the definitive musical biography of Paul Simon, one of the greatest songwriters (and performers) in the history of rock 'n roll. Granted unprecedented access to the making of a new album, the filmmakers also show never-before-seen footage of Simon's extraordinary career, from Simon & Garfunkel to the phenomenal global success of Simon's solo album Graceland.

    Just to reiterate, MGM+ is both a linear channel and streaming service, so the doc series will be shown on both

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    Queens - General Discussion

    in Queens

    National Geographic 7-part doc series

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    The wildest places on the planet have always been home to powerful leaders, but this a story of a new hero - fierce, smart, resilient and ... female. QUEENS features matriarchies and female leaders around the world to tell a story of sacrifice and resilience but also of friendship and love. These QUEENS aren't always kind or gentle, letting nothing come between them and the success and safety of their families. Guided by award-winning actress Angela Bassett's powerful narration, QUEENS brings the natural world into focus through the female lens for the very first time. Four years in the making and helmed by a female-led production team from around the world - groundbreaking in the natural history space - the seven-part series leverages cutting-edge technology to reveal surprising insights into how females in the natural world rise to power, often relying on cooperation and wisdom over brute strength to get ahead. The final episode of the series celebrates the women who have gone to the ends of the Earth and dedicated their lives to documenting and protecting animal queens. We don't call her Mother Nature for nothing. All hail ... the QUEENS.

    Episodes 1-3 will premiere on Monday March 4 from 8-11pm ET and episodes 4-7 will premiere on Monday March 11 from 8pm to midnight ET. The series will stream in full on Disney+ and Hulu on March 5

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    7 minutes ago, Straycat80 said:

    What you read is all true. This behavior is all part of her dementia. Throw in the alcohol and substance abuse and it gets worse. There was one scene in part two where she didn’t seem to know who Will was. And then later they filmed her apologizing to him saying ‘I didn’t know it was you’ . 
    I think she had diva behavior before like a lot of celebrities but I don’t know if she was that cantankerous toward her staff or other people. 

     

    She also called her brother by her son's name in the restaurant scene

    I look side-eye at Wanda and the others saying the family gets along though Wanda and her daughter seemed to also imply they weren't all in agreement and maybe some didn't behave as well as they should

    At least New York law requires the court to check on the conservatorship once a year. Wanda certainly didn't seem happy with it and even that author on conservatorships seemed to imply they don't work very well but wouldn't explicitly say that. Whatever happened early on with the conservatorship, it seems something changed and Wendy was sent to a months-long treatment center where she seemed to get better or at least got healthier

     

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    32 minutes ago, Yeah No said:

    I agree with you, but even if she was a little like that before she got sick she is likely 10 times worse now because of her illness and alcohol abuse.  And it feels very OTT and "off".  It's like seeing a grotesque caricature of the woman she once was.

    I haven't watched episode 3 yet but I am side eying just about everyone in this now.  Things aren't adding up.  This woman is mentally and physically ill and for them to parade her around on camera like in such a humiliating fashion when it's obvious that they're doing it for their own profit is unconscionable even if they rationalize it by claiming that this is what Wendy wants.  She may want the cameras on her but she is not able to understand the implications of letting this air.  What would people have said if I paraded my father around at 90 in his worst moments of cognitive decline, all for personal profit, even if he wanted me to do it?  

    Shawn is talking and acting like nothing is wrong with Wendy.  How could she possibly lie and enable her so obviously like that?  Like the world isn't going to see that and know better?  How much money makes it worth destroying your credibility with the world?  And that's not even mentioning what she is doing to Wendy that Wendy is unable to understand in her present mental state.

    AFAIK, guardians are set up to manage the money.  I'm not sure they manage or are in control of anything else.

    And I don't completely believe Wendy that she is without any access to her money.  Her necessary bills are paid by the guardian and she is probably given an allowance for spending but it's not enough to finance some of the excessive/unnecessary things she probably wants to throw her money away on and she's bitching about that.   And if anyone else had their hand in her money they were cut off too, even if she was OK with them doing it.

    In terms of why they would want people to see Wendy like that, it appears the documentary started out documenting Wendy’s return to media with a podcast and with Wendy’s cooperation but then at some point the producers realized issues were popping up and that something was really wrong with Wendy. Of course why they decided to continue filming after that is the mystery

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    Like Wendy’s sister, I do question where the court and guardian were when Wendy was under guardianship but she had hangers on and was struggling. But it seems things got much better once she was put in the medical facility for treatment. At the same time, perhaps the guardianship process shouldn’t be shutting the family out so much, but of course we don’t know what the court and guardian were seeing

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    This second part is a bigger train wreck than the first part and it’s all so sad.

    I’m surprised Shawn just took her to a meeting with NBC like it wasn’t a big deal that she was doing it. What an outrageous move. And I’m wondering if she had the NBC meeting already planned and just said Wendy wanted to go to LA out of the blue. I’m really surprised she wasn’t fired on the spot, but I guess she works directly for Wendy

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    · Edited by DanaK

    10 minutes in to the second night and it seemed like Alex is appropriately side-eying Shawn the publicist and the next minute she steps out of the room to complain about just that with the producer

    Her being told by the producer that there was no food in the fridge when there would be in the past ended up being more emotional than I expected

    Oh, Shawn took Wendy to LA behind everyone’s back. She in trouble

     

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    Wendy’s frequent denials that there are further things wrong with her, especially that she’s “not crazy” is not surprising. Most people probably don’t want to admit mental stuff or cognition problems

    I don’t fully understand her saying the 2 doctors are because Wells Fargo has her money or that they are working on that. She’s either meaning they are somehow dealing with the problem, or they were assigned to her by the court because she can’t afford it herself right now. Probably the second

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    16 minutes ago, Jst2Wld said:

    I had to Google TIito Puente. A now deceased American singer song writer and bandleader. Born in 1923 died in 2000. What the hell does he have to do with anything? Other than W was talking like a drunk. 

     

    And the Sasquatch boots too. And quit showing your thigh gap that you are so proud of. Yuck

    Please Wendy (and the myriad of her self proclaimed team that care about her) stop. This is not helping you. Somebody please get her in a dual diagnosis treatment center. Her brain needs to be evaluated. 

    I'm not sure on the timeline, but she is currently in some sort of a treatment center under her guardianship and her family cannot contact her but she can contact them. And she was evaluated hence the statement that was released just days before the doc premiered that she said she has aphasia and dementia, but apparently not before this documentary took place.

    According to Wikipedia, filming was from the cancellation of her talk show in August 2022 to April 2023, when production stopped due to Wendy's health. It was supposed to document Wendy starting a podcast but as we've seen, things took a turn

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    5 minutes ago, Jst2Wld said:

    I'm not sure I saw anything new about Wendy's story. Lots of old videos of Wendy looking crazy, Wendy looking somewhat ok, Wendy drunk. 

    It almost appears these documentaries were done with the purpose of her family and her "personal" assistants to make THEM look innocent to the public. One assistant lets W drink. The other one throws her booze out (like that's going to stop her!) They enable her. Take her to vape shops, liquor stores. Fine restaurants where she thinks she's famous. Let Wendy figure out her life without enablers. If she blows thru her money all on her own maybe she will wake up. Doubt it but she's going to go through her money one way or another. 

    Wendy is mean and disrespectful to everyone. Telling her public relations (?) assistant to get lipo before they go to Los Angeles, the disgusting comment she made about her personal assistant (don't know exactly who she was referencing but it was a male) that he can get f'd long and hard. Asking the producer if he wanted to see her breasts. And she wonders why she has no friends? And why are these people even working for her? She must be paying them a lot to put up with her abuse. Employees with no dignity. 

    And who knew she has pets? I feel sad for them, living in all of that chaos, turmoil and mayhem. I doubt those pets are cared for. At all.

    This documentary series has made me dislike her more AND her family. And her staff. 

     

     

    Wendy was definitely verbally abusing people in this doc, I was kind of shocked at some of the things she said, especially when she says it so casually. The thing is, if her mind is going plus the effects of alcohol abuse, she probably can't completely control what she says at this point. And how much money does she have at this point (of the doc) if Wells Fargo was keeping her from her money? I think given her condition, it might be better to have some empathy and compassion for her; I have little doubt it's going to get worse in the next few years. Of course, I have little empathy for the hangers-on, including some of her family members. I feel for anyone who ends up taking care of her now, even if they are professional caregivers used to that

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    I’m really unclear on the timeline here, in terms of when the court-appointed guardian came in. If the guardian came in at some point during this first night’s footage, I don’t understand why Will and the publicist lady were allowed to be around her and try to get her work or why it seemed like Will was the only one around to help her and was overwhelmed. I guess this was before the court and guardian decided to put Wendy in a treatment facility that kept her away from her family and any hangers-on, but where was the guardian before this?

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    · Edited by DanaK

    So, my late father had dementia, diagnosed about 6 years before he died. Some stuff we saw in this first part did match some of my dad’s issues, including the emotional outbursts, though there wasn’t a lot of repetition of the same questions that he did that I can recall. Of course some of Wendy’s issues presented here are probably due to excessive drinking. I think if it hadn’t already been announced that Wendy had aphasia and dementia, I would probably have suspected something with cognition was up. Some kudos at least to the documentary crew for being concerned that there were issues and bringing them up to Will and others. I’m bothered that Will and the publicist kept trying to get Wendy some promo stuff and work when it was apparent there were problems. But continuing to film even when they realized there were issues does feel exploitive

    My late mom had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma for the last 15 years of her life and had to deal with numbness in her feet probably due to chemo so I really felt for Wendy with her problems with fluid and resulting numbness in her legs and feet

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    27 minutes ago, patty1h said:

    Watching now...  the first 5 minutes are incredibly cringy, sad and depressing.   This is gonna be a hard watch. 

    Back later.

    I’m watching it but I’m torn about whether I should be watching it

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    Where Is Wendy Williams?

    in Lifetime

    · Edited by DanaK

    Lifetime announced the doc series will air as planned this weekend. The press release didn’t mention why it needed to announce that, but I read something earlier that sounded like family members wanted to stop its showing (ETA: Ah, there was a post about it earlier in the thread)

    The press release also indicated the doc series will repeat in full on both March 1 and 2

    http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2024/02/23/lifetimes-highly-anticipated-documentary-where-is-wendy-williams-will-air-this-weekend-as-planned-607120/20240223lifetime01/

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    S14.E03: Fear No Evil

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    Frank grapples with the personal loss of his best friend and how best to help Tess Ross (Simone Policano), the daughter of his best friend, when she lands in jail. Also, Jaime and his nephew, Joe Hill (Will Hochman), race against the clock to reunite a trafficking victim with her sister; and Danny and Erin clash when she goes behind Danny's back to use his criminal informant in an investigation, on BLUE BLOODS, Friday, March 1 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+

     

    S02.E03: See You Next Apocalypse

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    When a family refuses to evacuate their property during a massive wildfire that is escalating quickly, Jake is faced with a heartbreaking decision, on FIRE COUNTRY, Friday, March 1 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+

     

    S07.E03: Good For Nothing

    in S.W.A.T.

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    20-Squad must leap into action when Yakuza assassins descend on L.A., targeting a number of mysterious Japanese ex-pats. Meanwhile, Nichelle finds her job on the line at the inspector general's office when a colleague accuses her of taking bribes, on S.W.A.T., Friday, March 1 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+

     

    S02.E03: The Queen Of Courts

    in So Help Me Todd

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    Margaret and Todd defend the "Queen of Hearts" (Sandra Bernhard), a notoriously unscrupulous lawyer accused of orchestrating a fraudulent accident that resulted in the death of a "fake victim," on the CBS Original drama SO HELP ME TODD, Thursday, Feb. 29 (9:01-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+

     

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