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  1. I loved every minute of the tournament - Ken's hosting, the camaraderie of the contestants, the hugs and handshakes, the upbeat mood of the audience - it all felt so lighthearted, but also important to the players. A pleasure to watch.
  2. Yes. And in the end, she's the wife waiting in the car; a wife looking for a way to make herself fit. What a brutal ending for Shiv, who always thought she mattered.
  3. I got a million questions! Here's two: How is Jason and Brynn's relationship these days? And when was their last father-daughter outing?
  4. Couple of weeks ago, Skinny Girl graced us with yet another one of her mighty insights - this time re: eating disorders (while clutching a prop ice cream carton as an accessory). In Bethenny Frankel's world, only tweenagers are susceptible to pressure to have "perfect" bodies, not middle-aged women; "Bethenny Frankel doesn’t believe Gwyneth Paltrow can promote disordered eating with a “middle-aged mom” audience. “When people are talking about eating disorders … her base isn’t tweens,” Frankel, 52, said while holding a carton of ice cream she promised to eat “soon.” https://pagesix.com/2023/03/17/bethenny-frankel-denies-gwyneth-paltrow-promotes-disordered-eating/ She's obviously kissing Paltrow's ass (in hopes of getting her on the podcast, probably) but what a fucking stupid thing to say - esp. since she claimed, back in the day, to have had food issues herself (while insisting that's over, and she "never diets or exercises to lose weight" now. Sure, Jan).
  5. Amen! I'm beyond bummed it's going on this long. (I made an extremely childish and very snotty noise when I saw the schedule - I'm showing way less maturity than these contestants did as teenagers, back in the day ; )
  6. Me, too. She was a delight. But if Patty had to go, at least she was beaten by somebody with an accent suitable to Pemberley ; )
  7. That was such a fun win. A personable contestant + she (almost) bet it all, baby! +unexpected win = me and mr film noire spontaneously applauding. Go, Patti, Go!
  8. I take your point, but in the end, I think they're very different couples - Edward gave up being King, Harry gave up being the spare (and in the system he believes contributed to the emotional alienation and death of his mother). As well, Edward and Wallis frittered away their lives; unlike Harry and Meghan, they had no drive to do good in the world, no children to love, and unsavoury political leanings (Nazism). They were a couple without family, children, or valuable work to be done together. A lifetime of cocktails and gossip and golf. @Welshman in Ca I take Meghan & Harry at their word that remaining in that institution was not a safe option for them - and given that Diana was also driven to the brink of suicide while living within the same institution, I did not find Meghan's despair, or the danger it posed to her life, at all hard to accept. I wonder if either M & H will eventually turn up on The View, to promote any of their current projects? (It would have to be on a non-Ana day ; )
  9. They were extraordinary - and they tipped their hat to (enter the ladies!) Eleanor Powell as one of the most gifted dancers ever: “Eleanor Powell was one of the very greatest, period, bar none,” said Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers dance team, who understood greatness. “Not one of the greatest woman—one of the greatest, period.” Dynamic and versatile, Powell danced with a melodist’s sensitivity to the essential musicality of tap. “She was a musician,” Nicholas said, using the word tap dancers tend to reserve for their highest praise. https://newrepublic.com/article/110438/remembering-eleanor-powell-the-dancer-too-good-fred-astaire I'm enjoying Cris's run - his skill aside (a big aside!) I like the smile that fleetingly appears when Ken announces his running total at the end of the game (his serious face briefly dissolves into a delighted grin - as if Cris can't help himself upon hearing the amount - then returns to neutral).
  10. Because remaining was not possible - which tells me exactly how unbearable that life must have been, since defending against death threats as private citizens felt safer than remaining in that world.
  11. I think the biggest financial driver is the exorbitant cost of protection, 24 hours a day. There are still ongoing violent threats against Meghan, Harry and the children - and Harry (as recently as 2018, when they were newlyweds) faced such dire threats from the Taliban, the country residence he and Meghan shared was turned into a fortress to defend against Islamic terrorism: "While the couple are already well protected at their normal home at Kensington Palace, their countryside home has been transformed into a fortress, with the same level of anti-terrorist security provided at Buckingham Palace and that protects UK Prime Minister Theresa May and spy bases. Motion sensors and cameras are said to have been strategically placed on the property in a bid to catch any intruders. It has also been included on a list of properties where members of the public risk being jailed for six months if they are found trespassing. Villagers near the country pad in Cotswolds, in south central England, have reportedly been stopped and questioned by heavily-armed, specially trained officers. They are believed to patrol the estate on foot and in unmarked 4WDs." https://punchng.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-heavily-guarded-amidst-taliban-threat/ The estimates I've seen are 2 - 3 million a year, minimum, so the amount you need to earn, pre-tax, to cover that post-tax cost is pretty high. Harry inherited 10 million from Diana on his 25th birthday (presumably that's grown well over time) but even that sum - princely in an ordinary life - is nowhere near enough to fund 24 hour a day protection for a family of four, over the next forty years of their lives. They need to make a lot of money just to stay safe.
  12. It wasn't hearsay or gossip. It was openly posted on Twitter. A famous BBC Broadcaster (Danny Baker) posted a picture of a chimp with the caption "Royal Baby Leaves Hospital." It's beyond frustrating nobody on The View seemed to have any real clue as to why Meghan and Harry refuse to shut up about the impact of racism on their lives - I'm a white woman from Canada, and it's no mystery to me - the former British counterterrorism police chief stated just this week that the threats against Meghan were horrifying (kidnapping, dismemberment, gang rape) and that some threats were so severe, people were prosecuted. (Hey, Ana? Think those violent racist threats are part of why Meghan and Harry keep talking about, you know, violent racist threats?) Sunny mentioned William's godmother (who was forced to resign her position at Court this week due to her foul & bigoted treatment of a Black woman) but not that this awful woman was also put in charge of ushering Meghan into royal life (yet another strong motivation to keep M & H on the topic of handling racism in the palace! And since the royals are exempt from British law re: equal employment, and are allowed to discriminate based on race and sex when hiring, I'm guessing that's one more part of 'royal life' M & H find horrifying, and will hopefully dicuss in the Netflix doc). And even though I usually find Joy entertaining, she annoyed me in her wrap-up of the segment (jesus, woman - yes, many people actually do care about the royals, esp. any person of colour living in Britain or the Commonwealth - so stop acting as if they're some obscure group living on the fringes of civilization that only a handful of people care about).
  13. I'm surprised Jenna Lyons is joining RHONY - she's in her mid-fifties, crazy accomplished, rolling in dough, and has no need for this shit show - plus, she has a genuinely (as in not-Carole) offbeat sensibility that isn't the standard go-to when casting RHoNY. She had an interesting path to her career, imo - she was bullied as a kid (she has incontinentia pigmenti, a genetic disorder which scarred her skin, made her hair fall out in patches and caused her teeth to be malformed) and ended up as the woman who was labeled (when leading J Crew) as "the woman who dresses America". I'll watch the first episode if only in hopes of seeing more of her apartment (dear god, the munny, hunny: love or hate her design style, her home screams casually-worn-wealth curated with an eye for what she loves, not what will impress others). Pandemic tour (2020) here:
  14. Exactly - and overall, I'm sure phones have had an impact as 'delivery systems' for what used to be pushed by fashion magazines/television/movies/music videos (I think the updated version of Saving Ophelia addresses phones) but it's not The One Big Truth I Discovered! dude thought it was. There's years of research showing that same dynamic, pre-phones.
  15. RE: phones/2012: Girls have long suffered horrific turnarounds at near-puberty. Back in 1994, "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Teenage Girls" noted the sudden onset of eating disoders, body dysmorphia, depression, etc in girls turning that age (but that book was written by some chick doctor of philosophy - who literally got there twenty-five years before the dude mansplaining a topic wth decades of research already in place, pre-2012 - so of course, Maher don't give a shit.) RE: Maher's use of a cheap pull-quote to turn Barbara Fried's philosophically-minded essay into a witless anti-responsiblity tract: No surprise there (given how lazy-minded Maher has become, his once-sharp insights dulled by anti-woke-rage and inordinate self-satisfaction) but the essay actually deals with failed mass incarceration policies in the U.S., and how differently people are treated in the justice system based on their circumstances (so of course, Maher don't give a shit about that, either - let the little people rot in jail under "three strikes out"). Here's a quote that makes her core position clear VS the crap Maher peddled last night: "There are tools of social control that are directed specifically at harm reduction. The point of such tools is not to coddle criminals, or to deny their accountability or volitional capacities. It is to reduce future harm at a tolerable cost to all of us, wrongdoers included, by influencing wrongdoers’ future choices through rehabilitation, more carefully calibrated deterrence, and, when necessary, isolation from society." And in this Fried quote, I'm hard-pressed to differentiate between Fried's words, and dozens of Maher's drug rants over the years: "Our schools are broken, a new generation of kids has been lost, our prisons are crammed with petty offenders whose lives we have ruined in the name of a war on drugs that has been a total failure." It's a festival of petard-hoisting! Maher mocked a legal scholar calling for harm reduction in drug laws back in 2013 - one of his longest standing pet causes - proving himself to be completely out of touch with even his own agenda (but of course, Maher don't give a shit about that, either: he'll just get legally stoned, courtesy of legal minds like Fried arguing in defense of harm reduction laws). Fried's full article here: https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/barbara-fried-beyond-blame-moral-responsibility-philosophy-law/
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