Blergh

I wonder if with Miss Parton will look him up or vice versa so she can trade tales with him about the time she entered (and LOST) a look-alike contest for herself.

The other day, I went into the bank to get some spending cash, and the teller actually said that they were worried something had happened to me since I hadn't been there in X number of weeks. I explained that I'd been on vacation AND had some left over 'mad money' that I had cashed from my credit union account (which I never otherwise touch) so I hadn't needed any spending money for those weeks up to then. Well, anyway, it was touching to know that the teller not only remembered who I am but also cared enough to be concerned via my not having been there in X weeks (though I still ALWAYS use my driver's license to prove my ID at the bank).

A nephew of Michael Jackson (who may have been financially dependent on his uncle) claimed his uncle was framed via the magazine's reporting, what a surprise. .

OK, I believe you now. However, having others not give one the benefit of the doubt that one DOES know to differentiate between performer/s and the character/s they've enacted is but but one reason one should AVOID terming performer/s by said character/'s' name/s. More serious than than though is how much more easily a performer will either be sanctified or vilified by the character's fans/phobes due to the likability/hatred of the actions of the character via being termed by said character rather than via their positive or otherwise actions. I mean, I have to admit that sometimes it has been a chore to differentiate between the actions of a beloved/loathed character and their performer's actions but calling performers BY their character's names just makes it that much more difficult to give kudos/place blame on actions the performer does offscreen. (e.g. I often have found myself actively hating the actions of onscreen actions Nellie Oleson and being happy when she'd get her just desserts. However, I've been careful NOT to term Alison Arngrim as 'Nellie' due to the many good works and important activism she's done down the decades- not to mention that she seems to be a friendly and fun person to interact with if one has reason to do so). Anyway, all the above said, I do hope Mr. Levi somehow finds his peace and maybe even sees the error of his ways.

I don't disagree but ML had the capacity to stick with ONE narrative instead of hopscotching all over the map with clashing ones.

I remember watching it on TV when it was first broadcast in 1975 and I will never forget Mama literally bursting into tears in front of me over this. Yes, we warmed up to Colonel Potter (and I was relieved that he had the backbone Col. Blake had lacked) however Mama always had a soft spot for Col. Blake for the rest of the show's time.

It's each poster's call to like or dislike whoever one may choose to. However, please keep in mind that the performer played a character named Chuck from 2012-2019 but Mr. Levi himself is NOT the scripted fictional character offcamera - and that virtually every sentient individual adult has the capacity to be nice to at least X amount of folks of their choosing but that doesn't erase those times when a person hasn't been nice. .or has shouted fire in crowded theaters.

@Palimelon Actually, Rosalind's fatal misstep was not seeing that it wasn't coming. .

One unexplained mystery re the Olesons: Harriet's cousin who wanted to adopt Alicia Sanderson solo was wealthy, Nels's cousin the widower with the young son who'd never learned how to swim was wealthy, Harriet's niece who Doc Baker courted appeared to have been wealthy.. ..so where WERE all these rich folks when the Olesons' store went belly up due to the monsoon ruining the farmland and the railroad playing games?

One moment that came out if nowhere that wound up a total shocker:Rosalind getting the shaft in L.A. Law. She had gone from being the firm's nemesis to being the senior partner Leland's companion but just as the two were on the verge of breaking up ,she stepped through the open elevator door to hop on the elevator she assumed was waiting for her- only to plummet down said empty shaft. No I sure didn't see that one coming!

If nothing else, they sure picked a performer who could have passed for having been Harriet's niece! I wonder if Doc Baker might have considered who his aunt-in-law would have been and that might have been at least a contributing factor re why he insisted on giving her up so she could be free to be courted by someone closer to her age?

What was especially tragic about Mr. Ely's twilight years is that in 2019, his wife Valerie was stabbed to death- evidently by their son Cameron who was supposedly in such an alarming state that he wound up being killed by police who had been summoned to the home over 'a family disturbance'. The elder Mr. Ely had been home throughout the whole horrific ordeal and would later attempt to unsuccessfully challenge his son's death as having been a justifiable homicide. It was also found out via autopsy that the son had been in the early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Mr. Ely seemed to have been cared by a surviving daughter so I hope that brought him at least some peace in the last part of his life even though I can't imagine that he could have ever recovered from the loss of his wife and son. RIP, Mr. Ely.

For me, it was Kramer's pirate shirt inaudible girlfriend because she reminded me of in a having been in a choir with three girl singers who together barely sounded like a single voice which I had a hard time hearing even being on the same stage so I felt bad for the audience trying to hear anything from them!

Maybe Charles used up his 'younger daughters' bedroom' mad money fund for those items.

At age 78 [!?!], Cher has DONE it! She's gotten into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and put out a good rendition of 'If I Could Turn Back Time' before giving an acceptance speech paying tribute to her late mother who pressed for her to never give up)! Need I say more?! Way to GO,Cher!

Sara Delano Roosevelt (1854-1941) was an heiress to a large fortune that she'd use to help boost her husband James's (1828-1900)estate and holdings while the two jointly raised their only child Franklin (1882-1945) .By all accounts, while both Sara were very active and fit until the last parts of their respective lives, they were doting to James in his own twilight years. James repaid the favor by declaring Sara his executrix AND spelling out in his will that she was to have the sole legal guardianship of their son [by no means automatic for widowed mothers back then]. Anyway, the only conflict Sara would have with their son would be in wanting to marry his 5th cousin Eleanor who happened to be President Theodore Roosevelt's paternal niece and would even take him on a lengthy voyage to try to persuade her son to drop the idea. However Franklin persisted and Sara (who held the family purse strings) eventually gave her blessing and the two would be married in 1905 with President Theodore Roosevelt himself giving his orphaned niece away and in May of 1906, they welcomed their firstborn child (and only daughter) Anna whom Sara immediately eagerly cherished while Eleanor herself was still somewhat insecure as a parent. Then, in June of 1906, all of New York City and soon the rest of the nation was rocked by the news of the murder of the renowned architect Standford White in Madison Square Garden by Henry Thaw- the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit. The former Miss Nesbit had been a stunning beauty but born in a destitute family who had done her best to support her widowed mother via being a model. However, it soon came to light by the murder trial of Mr. Thaw that Mr. White had been part of a group of jaded wealthy men who took advantage of desperate young girls and that he had insisted on Miss Nesbit riding on a red velvet swing in his own secret bachelor pad for his pleasure before he did less printable things to her. Anyway, Mr. White himself HAD been married at the time but what the newspapers ignored (or were ignorant of) was before their respective marriages, he'd courted the tall, stunning Sara Delano herself only to have her father Warren dismiss him as 'the redheaded trial' after which she opted to marry the much older, widowed James and contented herself as a patrician's wife with, by all accounts, a mutually monogamous bond. However, one has to wonder if the widowed new grandmother Sara, upon reading the news of Mr. White's murder then with his blatant shadowside exposed to the world, may have been belatedly grateful to her late father for his role in sparing her from all that. It should be noted that Miss Nesbit had more than a passing resemblance to the young Sara! Regardless of all the above, the elder Mrs. Roosevelt would make history in 1932 by becoming the first mother of US President not only to live to see her son become President but to actually have been able to have personally VOTED for her son which she would proudly do three times before her death at age 86 with Franklin at her side. Also, it needs to mentioned that just a few minutes after Mrs. Roosevelt breathed her last, the largest oak tree on her Hyde Park Estate collapsed- despite it having been a calm windless day!

Yes, I agree that it was wrong for the show to insist that one HAD to 'love' even an unquestionably abusive DNA Donor- or one was irrefutably a malevolent sociopath(or at the very least an irredeemably bad person). I mean, the way this got depicted, it seemed as though the show was trying to make the case that if one STAYED 'unloving', then one would be doomed to become a male Lizzie Borden. I also think agree that Caroline showed a bit of naivete in thinking that Todd would have had had the SAME bond with his grandfather as someone who'd have been raised by and/or known them their entire lives. Although, it was unquestionably wrong for Todd to be ANYone up (including almost certainly his mother Edna) but especially an old, frail man who had (at most) verbally annoyed him rather than physically accosted him. I suppose Edna may have thought that her TWO parents would somehow not be as easily overwhelmed by Todd as she had been solo but his grandmother was in no shape to begin to defend her abused husband much less herself against Todd (and I don't blame them for letting Charles try to see if he could be 'reasoned' with- much less being skittish being in Todd's presence thereafter). I think it would have FAR healthier had Todd's breakdown consisted of him saying that he wished his male DNA Donor had been more like Charles or his maternal grandfather and he was sorry that the male DNA Donor had wasted his life having been an abuser instead of having even tried to love Todd and Edna for how they were (and he was going to do all HE could to atone for his past abuse of Edna and his poor grandfather THEN strive to be a worthy person before he'd consider starting his own family). I also think it would have been better to try to learn to let go of the angst over the past and not letting it spoil one's current life or future then work to consider an abuser with indifference rather than insist on forgiving them. I also agree that there should had been some kind of 'update' on his poor grandparents even just having Harriet or Reverend Alden ask about Todd's status at the Mercantile or church would have worked (although I'd have preferred for the episode ending with him doing some good mea culpas re physical abuse of his grandfather and, at the very least, mental abuse of his mother).

I'm old enough to first recall Miss Curtin as the one original SNL player who stood up to Belushi,etc. and stayed the likable voice of reason amongst the zanies whereas I first recall Miss St. James playing Sally McMillan alongside (of all people) Rock Hudson when they starred in the 1970's detective series McMillan and Wife which had occasional 'lighter comedic' moments among the whodunits but nowhere close to being a sitcom. Therefore, I had wound up being rather pleasantly surprised when Miss Curtin and Miss St. James wound up not only doing a good job helming their own sitcom but also that they had undeniable platonic chemistry that helped make it more fun. I only wish they had waited until the series finale for either of them to remarry instead of the awkward deal of Allie having a 'weekend only' new husband while inviting the still single empty nester Kate to live in their abode for the last wobbly season. In any case, Miss Coben is to be commended for having brought us a fun show with these two when it was fun. RIP, Miss Cobin!

Obviously since I've never met either Mr. Chingvinstev or Miss Garcia, I have no idea what 'really' went on in their abode re themselves and/or their offspring. However, the ONLY possible positive MO for the judge to have quashed the restraining order and ordered joint custody may have been that the judge had carefully considered both sets of claims and had found evidence that Mr. Chinginstev had NOT been abusive in spite of Miss Garcia's claims. I stress that I don't know what went on in their abode nor do I have inside track into that judge's reasoning. However, strictly for the child's sake, I hope that somehow joint custory will be a more positive outcome than before. All the above said, if there is evidence that that judge either was totally incompetent re considering both sides and/or had a bias against Miss Garcia, then I would agree that those two rulings were horrific and would need to be overturned.

Did anyone else watch 'The Angry Heart' and wonder why, after her abusive husband's murder, Todd's mother Edna didn't relocate back to her nice parents's Walnut Grove abode? I mean, I fail to see why she opted to stay in a mean city tenement when it seemed obvious that they'd have happily welcomed her and their then-preteen son into their home! All I can think of is that Edna had false pride and didn't want to admit to them (or herself) that she couldn't make it on her own re raising her son until he himself became a hulking abusive teen. Of course, the question is how was she able to get him OUT of her home also went unanswered- and even when her parents realized that their once cute child grandson had morphed into a dangerous teen thus, they had nothing but sympathy for their daughter realizing that it was a virtual certainty that he HAD abused her the very same way he had beaten up his elderly grandfather for the having had the audacity to wake Todd early to help with the farm chores! Yeah, I know there'd have been no story had Edna and Todd moved to Walnut Grove ASAP (and Todd likely would have emulated his kindly grandfather's character instead of his abusive male parent's character). Of course, since they ALSO seemed to have thought highly of their late son-in-law (and didn't give the slightest hint of having known of him being an abuser), it's likely that Edna had ALSO kept that a big secret from them.

Just letting folks know that I got up in the wee hours and Early Voted ! I managed to be the very first in a long line at the polling place when the doors opened but alas due to the clerk needing to be taught step-by-step by the manager how to operate the online registry, I wound up being the 8th or 9th actual voter.Oh well. Still, I'm very happy it's DONE!

IMO, it doesn't matter how Miss Kunis's surface appears as long as she keeps having an ugly 'tude re wanting to keep company and abet irrefutably known convicted SA' ers. Maybe one day she'll wake up and smell the toxicity she's kept herself in re bonding with Mr. Kutcher (and start prioritizing protecting instead of publicizing her offspring) . However, unless or until that happens, her bones beneath the surface skin will stay ugly.

Although the active volcano Mauna Loa ['Long Mountain' in Hawaiian] is the more famous of the prominent mountains on the Big Island of Hawaii, at 13,679 feet (4169 meters), it's actually dwarfed by the dormant volcano Mauna Kea ['White Mountain'] at 13,803 feet (4207 meters). In fact, Mauna Kea, if one were to measure from its ultimate base on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean floor just under 20,000 below sea level, Mauna Kea would actually be the tallest mountain in the world- yes, even taller than Mt. Everest! However, it's not just the height that make Mauna Kea something remarkable, for six months of the year, its peak is covered with snow which is why the Ancient Hawaiians bestowed the name they did on it (and it appears to have been covered in glaciers during the last Ice Age). Oh, but amazingly enough, just a few hundred feet below the summit, it has its own alpine lake just over an acre in dimension called Lake Waiau which not only is the highest lake in the Pacific basin but also was one of only two natural freshwater lakes on the Big Island (the other Ka Wai Pele got destroyed by a lava flow from Kilauea in 2018 despite having supposedly been a favorite spot of the Hawaiian volcano goddess called Madame Pele). Not surprisingly, the Polynesian settlers were rather impressed by the phenomon of snow which Mauna Kea was virtually unique in their corner of the world and they considered Mauna Kea to be sacred with its upper elevations only permissible for noble and warrior classes. They would often take the placentas of their firstborn sons and dip them in the waters of Lake Waiau to give their heirs protection. Oh, and Mauna Kea had its own deity, the snow goddess Poli ahu who was considered the enemy of the volcano goddess Madame Pele. Anyway, according to one Hawaiian legend, the two goddesses found themselves in (of all contests) a wooden sled race which wound up with Madame Pele opening lava streams to try to win while Poli ahu threw snow. Anyway, as per this legend, it was due to this contest that Madame Pele got to have dominion on the active volcanoes of Mauna Loa and Kilauea while Poli ahu got dominion of Mauna Kea and barred Madame Pele.

I guess this may be as good a time as any to mention this but even though Ethel Skakel Kennedy was widowed when she was forty and in the family way with her 11th and last child, there were indications that she did at least . ..enjoy the company of two well-known performers and entertainers over the next few years. She evidently had been a close friend (alongside her late husband Robert, Sr. ) with the singer Andy Williams (1927-2012) who even had his newborn son by his then-wife Claudine Longet named Bobby in Senator Kennedy's honor in 1969 and would escort Mrs. Kennedy to events in the early 1970s. However, whatever the nature of the bond Mr. Wiliams may have had with Mrs. Kennedy, he would stay wed to Miss Longet until 1975 but there would be no marriage between himself and Mrs. Kennedy after his divorce. It was also known that Mrs. Kennedy became at least platonic friends with the football player turned sportscaster Frank Gifford (1930-2015) sometime in the mid 1970's. Yet, when Mr. Gifford became legally single, this did not result in marriage between the two. Whether Mrs. Kennedy didn't believe that her faith would allow her to wed a divorced man or whether she didn't want to give up whatever extra clout she may have had being Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. or he wasn't interested in marrying her is conjecture. However their dealings with each other may have gone, Mr. Gifford and Mrs. Kennedy would be bonded together for the rest of his life via the marriage of his daughter Victoria with her son Michael. Yes, even though that union was in the process of being dissolved at the time of the younger Mr. Kennedy's sudden 1997 death, the two of them DID provide Mr. Gifford and Mrs. Kennedy with three mutual grandchildren.

I agree with all the above. However, I think it's possible that the cast and/or news programs may have decided to hold back the . ..most extreme cases from the main narrative in order not to show all one's cards at once so as to be able to hold those in reserve in case the the questionable management attempted to downplay or discredit what has been presented. Still, I have to admit that it was brave of AA, Mr. Butler and Miss Bob to at least put forth as much as they did to minimize any misunderstandings that at least some of the show's fans may have had over what had happened.