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I took such a long break from the show, I only taped the first episode, not knowing if I'd want to watch the whole season... one episode in and I'm hooked again. 😂 It helps to not have social media teams or anyone who is obviously trying to be a personality (yet). It feels more like the TAR I found so charming when I first started watching. The number of camera people at the start was hilarious. I know it was because they were going to quickly split off to follow each team, but it was still funny to me. All the teams who started by running to ask directions from people with phones were LAME. I wish I liked the eliminated couple more but starting with this and then showing very little competence in the race... it was almost too obvious that they were going to be out first. I don't have rankings yet but I liked the military brothers at first. I'm sorry; I'm biased towards competence. The way he busted through that ice block was so clean... it wasn't just about having muscles. But navigation will get to the best teams. I liked the fire fighter... he hacked at the ice like he was trying to break down the door of a burning building and he was encouraging and pretty positive but I was getting some KF from his dancer wife. The twins have a very compelling story. I hope they stick around. We didn't see a lot of them but I liked the father daughter team. Glenda and Lumumba seem like a cute couple. I hope they don't get KF. I didn't get much of a read on team Big Brother I feel like the tasks were relatively simple for the first episode. Not easy but not super challenging for the level of physical fitness you'd expect from people to get through the whole race. The barrels (Roll) seemed a little unwieldly for some but I think that also had to do with how tired you were going into the task. And the logs (Saw) were challenging if you tried to power through them rather than working smarter, not harder. The father daughter team figured this out. Also, I liked the bald judge at the Roll task. He maintained the same level of enthusiasm the whole time.

https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/elizabeth-chambers-angling-for-comeback-armie-hammer-divorce

This is purely speculation, but from the statements so far it seems like Haddish and Spears were incredibly irresponsible but not predatory or malicious. This is why we have things like intimacy coordinators. I've been watching old episodes of Cold Case... sometimes with child actors. With some of the topics they're made to engage with you think, 'God, I hope someone is on set explaining things to these child actors, making sure they understand everything and they're safe and comfortable with the process and they want to be there the whole time.' And whether or not they actually found the experience traumatic, the children and their mother knew what had happened was wrong. I do think by drumming up media attention, they received some financial compensation to drop the case.

On that note... https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/adam-levine-crushed-under-avalanche-of-his-own-stupid-dms

https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/tiffany-haddish-grooming-lawsuit-instagram-aries-spears.html

https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/instagram-model-sumner-stroh-alleges-affair-with-adam-levine

I was watching On Stage... the trailers haven't been released yet but the press/promo footage from A Beautiful Noise and &Juliet makes them look very fun. Who knows what the actual shows are like but A+ on filming them to look amazing.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/inside-ezra-millers-dark-spiral-messiah-delusions So... I'm getting why he was accused of starting a cult... Also, here's the enabling... And perhaps a sign this is not new behavior...

I never intended to watch this but I saw Johnny on something else and... it's kind of a charming show. I don't really need the peanut gallery on the side (did they really make them sit there for 8 hours!?!) and the host is a lot but it has some vibes of Food Network before it got too unbearable. It is nice that there are apparently no eliminations. For the first test I guessed either the fried chicken sandwich or the drink. Based on their portfolio photos, Hemu seemed like the one to beat. She did the most detailed, realistic work. Sam's work looked okay but her painting gave it away in all of the photos. Johnny's style looked good for a novice baker but I couldn't get much of a read on him. Johnny had the most personality of the three highlighted in the first episode but it wasn't annoying like the people, even on Nailed It, who seem to think they're going to be famous. Final cakes: The tomato was bad on Sam's burger but it helped that the judges were standing far back and the decoy buns looked kind of weird and had other elements that seemed off. Hemu's breakfast croissant was a little dark (almost burnt) but pretty solid. The thickness of bread on the bottom was suspicious because there's no way those would be the two halves of a croissant you cut in half. Again, I felt the decoys were helpful. Johnny was smart to put the fake jelly tomatoes in the decoy (I guess there was nothing in the rules about messing with the decoys) though he also did a solid job with his cake.

Whatever replaces it, I hope they do actual renovations on the theater before they move another show in. Remember Ben Crawford talking about the heat this summer? That was unacceptable. https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/w4gjv5/ben_crawford_aka_phantom_posts_about_the/

I'm on record against social media and age gap relationships so it's no surprise I hate this https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/a-collection-of-casey-afflecks-comments-on-his-24-year-old-gfs-instagram-caylee-cowan

I don't think she woke up and chose to insult the bodies of Christina's dancers that day. But she's always centering herself. More than self-victimization, it's prioritizing her point of view to the exclusion of anything else. You know, "I am the main character" and all that.

This is what I pieced together from that choppy Buzzfeed "article." The original Rodney Dangerfield quote (assuming it's correctly attributed) is fine. Whether or not you find it funny, it's barely offensive. The problem is the apparent captions she wrote with it and the way she specifically spoke about Christina and her dancers. Britney's point seems to be that her family intentionally exacerbated her insecurities by choosing dancers (and possibly nannies?) who were thinner than she was and made her feel worse by comparison. I continue to feel no one should really be rambling on social media but if you aren't particularly good at articulating your thoughts... No wonder this keeps going poorly.

Option 1: Don't make the movie. I was prepared for the discourse to be bad. The character is also gay. https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-whale-discourse-is-going-to-be-terrible-brendan-fraser-darren-aronofsky I don't have any personal feelings about it because I haven't seen it and I don't know the playwright's other work.

I am jealous that he can bleach it like that without damage.

Halle has an incredible voice. But it's yet another reason to be sad that Howard Ashman is no longer with us. Imagine the performance he could have gotten out of her. I actually like it less hearing the whole audio. She's emphasizing weird words. A better director would have given her more... direction.

https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/zac-efron-my-fucked-up-face-is-all-natural-baby Would you have a granite fountain in your house?

https://playbill.com/article/plane-crash-takes-lives-of-megan-hiltys-sister-and-her-family

https://deadline.com/2022/09/lea-michele-funny-girl-broadway-ovations-jonathan-groff-1235109696/

https://www.gawker.com/culture/harry-styles-just-says-whatever This article says it better than I could. I think he's a bit dim, but he's in his fashion/acting phase where he's pretending to be deep, but just as thick as ever.

I would almost say the press/art teams are finally doing something right but in that photo with the big yellow flower, it looks like that same hideous costume they put Beanie in. Soon we shall see what, if anything, they've changed. (Besides adding I'd Rather Be Blue Over You.) https://ew.com/theater/lea-michele-as-fanny-brice-funny-girl-first-look/

If I had any big complaint about this revival of Into the Woods it would be that a lot of the seriousness (Witch/Rapunzel relationship, Baker/Baker's wife relationship, Baker's character journey, Jack and Red as coming of age metaphors, etc.) was underplayed or disregarded to focus on the humor. Some of it was actually played for laughs. I think that was a valid choice for this production but there were parts of the text that were not fully illuminated and I didn't think NPH or BDJ really nailed the Baker. I'm curious how Montego will play the Witch as Heather and Patina both had their strong points but for me neither one wrapped her arms around the full character. I did think Ann Harada was stronger than her replacement with making you feel some of the darkness that is there. I came away pretty much only thinking that the Steward was an ass. They could have made some characters more unlikable, leaned into more complexity... but I had a very good time at both productions regardless. I agree the complaints about scale didn't bother me. If anything, I would have changed some of the costumes, but I didn't need a fancier set.

I love that because Alex pronounces Houston (haus-ton) like Houston, Texas, Keith doesn't realize they're talking about New York.

The bit for these videos is that one guy knows the lyrics and the other has to improvise his way through. I know Pomatter still compares Jenna to the waitress he knew, but honestly, this makes a solid point about why they replaced the song. Baby thief has big Cop Rock energy