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"The View": Week of 06/06/2016


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It makes me wonder if they're searching for a permanent Latina at the table (Lala Anthony, nee Alani Vazquez last week, Cristal Alonzo this week). Which is all fine and good, except I really miss the days when they cast for compatability, not demographics.

Yes, they had women of all ages, but now they seem to want to tick the boxes for all political viewpoints and all ethnicities. Not that I have an issue with that (I really don't want to see an all-WASP View), but they've done a great job of ticking those boxes without considering the chemistry. Rosie Perez, for one... a nice woman, a Latina (tick!), but a poor fit on the show. Raven looked like a good bet, I'm sure (tick! tick!t tick!), a triple threat (black, young, LGBT), but she's been another poor choice.

Maybe if they choose a cast looking first for intelligence and warmth, they'd have a good show again. I feel nowadays, they are looking first for two from column A, one from column B, etc. The original View managed to have diverse casting and chemistry. It can't be that hard.... can it?

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Lionel Ritchie. Now that man can sing and write his own songs. They can have the rap artists, give me his music any day.

12 hours ago, ChicagoCita said:

It makes me wonder if they're searching for a permanent Latina at the table (Lala Anthony, nee Alani Vazquez last week, Cristal Alonzo this week). Which is all fine and good, except I really miss the days when they cast for compatability, not demographics.

Yes, they had women of all ages, but now they seem to want to tick the boxes for all political viewpoints and all ethnicities. Not that I have an issue with that (I really don't want to see an all-WASP View), but they've done a great job of ticking those boxes without considering the chemistry. Rosie Perez, for one... a nice woman, a Latina (tick!), but a poor fit on the show. Raven looked like a good bet, I'm sure (tick! tick!t tick!), a triple threat (black, young, LGBT), but she's been another poor choice.

Maybe if they choose a cast looking first for intelligence and warmth, they'd have a good show again. I feel nowadays, they are looking first for two from column A, one from column B, etc. The original View managed to have diverse casting and chemistry. It can't be that hard.... can it?

They have Sunny. We all know she's part Latina since she tells us every time she's on.

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8 minutes ago, Fisher King said:

Naturally beautiful, I think she said.

 

9 minutes ago, GiveMeSpace said:

I am sorry-did Whoopi say that the Kardashians were all natural? I have not had coffee yet so maybe I misheard.

Pssh.  Whoopi's wearing her "Contrarian" hat today, folks! Hadn't seen it in a while, but it's back, and so is Whoopi!

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Michelle Collins abruptly fired from the show over the weekend & not a "we'll miss you" or "good luck" from her former co-hosts. Very insulting, IMO.

The article says

"Starting in January, Collins’ co-hosting duties shrank to just one or two appearances a week, and ABC executives recently made the decision not to renew her contract, according to two sources with knowledge of the talks. Collins, who is on vacation in Europe, is expected to stay on “The View” through the end of the summer."

She'll probably show up a few times before the end of the season and they will say good bye then. Now we have airhead Sara Haines in her place.

Haleth :If you're referring to CCB,  I say she lost that title, as well as the title of "Virtuous Christian Mother" on the show's"Karaoke Day," wearing an outfit more appropriate for a tween girl, suggestively snuggling up to Vanilla Ice while singing with him, mugging at the camera, shaking her boobs & butt.  Unfortunately, all of CCB's hard work was for nothing, as the judges declared Michelle Collin the winner of that day's competition. 

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Sara will have a faux BFF relationship with everyone on the show by the Fall. Sunny already has one with Paula.

8 hours ago, Foghorn Leghorn said:

Yep she played the contrary card with Joy about Ali using the N word, completely unnecessary as Miss Whoopi knew Joy couldn't use the word in the first place....stupid interruption just to be contrary!   And I hate hate hate it when she calls others baby like with Sarah!  

This, so much. I wish she'd smoke a joint, get laid, something as part of her pre-show prep so she'd stop being such a bitch all the time.

I was rolling my eyes 5 seconds into the show when they showed the clip they'd show us again later of Raven as a little girl being all cwute! with Muhammad Ali. Am I suppose to like her now? It's just as bad as when they show clips of Whoopi in one of her many acclaimed films like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Rat Race whenever someone dies, then cut to her smug face afterwards.

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Sara Superfluous.

Yeah, airhead Sara  Haines definitely is unnecessary.

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Sara will have a faux BFF relationship with everyone on the show by the Fall. Sunny already has one with Paula.

Oh, I think she will have that accomplished before the end of this season. She is on a mission. Wondering if she is maybe on the way out at GMA so gets The View as a consolation prize??

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11 hours ago, GiveMeSpace said:

I am sorry-did Whoopi say that the Kardashians were all natural? I have not had coffee yet so maybe I misheard.

I thought I heard that too although I admit I was laughing at her praising those reality show famewhores after years of trashing them.  But today Whoopi was going to contradict everything everyone said and take the final word while she was at it.  

9 hours ago, honeydo7 said:

Michelle Collins abruptly fired from the show over the weekend & not a "we'll miss you" or "good luck" from her former co-hosts. Very insulting, IMO.

Heh.  As others have pointed out it wasn't that abrupt but being insulting is what this show does best - they insult each other and/or us every day. 

8 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:

I hope so, BAB added so much depth and insight to the conversation.

LOL - as long as the conversation was about The Bible or Full House or her kids and really only two out of three of those.    

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The View producers are now claiming they had no choice but to fire MC, since they felt her stories about anti-semitism & how the Holocaust personally affected her family, were turning away viewers.......guess the network hopes the daily religious insights & ultra conservative political views of PF & CCB  will up the ratings by attracting all those stay-at-home, christian, cookie baking mothers.

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23 hours ago, pinkle6 said:

Also, was Paula wearing one of Raven's braids?

This is from Monday's show but yes, she was and I thought it looked stupid.  Still, was it really necessary for Whoopi to tell Paula, "I don't want to see you show up here looking like Raven again."  WTF?   The woman who always looks like a pile of laundry has some nerve talking to ANYONE about their appearance when just five minutes before she walked onstage wearing some ginormous sports bra over her shirt, LOL.  Besides, snarking on the co-host's wardrobe/hair/makeup choices is our job LOL.  

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22 minutes ago, honeydo7 said:

The View producers are now claiming they had no choice but to fire MC, since they felt her stories about anti-semitism & how the Holocaust personally affected her family, were turning away viewers.......guess the network hopes the daily religious insights & ultra conservative political views of PF & CCB  will up the ratings by attracting all those stay-at-home, christian, cookie baking mothers.

Yes, I hate when pesky, historical events are mentioned on this show.  You know, the kind of stuff that might teach me something.  I'd much rather hear about Kim Kardasian's huge, mountain like ass and spend time trying to make sense out of Raven's nonsense. 

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I thought Terry sounded pissed too. Boy, I bet the 4am guy is getting an earful from Joy right now.  As is the production assistant who brought up the theme music a couple minutes early.  Oops. 

 

The producers should be ashamed if they fired Michelle for bringing up the Holocaust.  I guess they expected the comedienne to stick to jokes. 

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It's Shonda, Whoopi - not ShondRa.

Sure, Terry McMillan, you've been successful enough that you can afford to turn your nose up at television. The truth is that the lines between film & television have blurred. Cable, Netflix & other streamers are making it even moreso.

6 minutes ago, Brooklynista said:

Terry has been angry since she divorced the original gay Al, Jonathan Plummer.

Bingo!

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16 minutes ago, Brooklynista said:

Terry has been angry since she divorced the original gay Al, Jonathan Plummer.

However,I thought Terry is bisexual at least..She seems to like to have alot of lesbian erotica in her novels. How can she not know about her own Al..lol I remember that they were on Oprah talking about their magical love..lol and Oprah was giving them the side eye....

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Did airhead Sara Haines say one word during the Hillary Clinton discussion? I swear she just sits there with that blank look on her face.

Paula didn't bother me too much when she first started. It think it will take a while until airhead Sara Haines annoys people. Right now, she just sits and watches most of the time. There is no great contribution from her.

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