Hottest blonde in the town deserves his own thread.

Phylicia Rashad was criminally underappreciated. A white woman would have shelves of Emmys.

So re-boot it. Call it "The Huxtables". Or "Claire".

Was he considered a hunk in his day? Did you have a crush on him? Is he now considered to be a DILF? Please tell me all about him.

Decent actor? Much scandal?

I had a CAT Scan last Tuesday of my lung, followed the next day with an MRI of my upper spine. After the MRI, I noticed that my hazel eyes were immediately thereafter bright green, though back to a more brownish color, now.

When I got home, I also found I no longer can use my distance vision for the TV. I don’t need them anymore. I still need my glasses for reading my iPad, though.

What gives?

What are they?

The August 2 episode will feature her unique brand of cuntiness.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,” a successful and insightful TV veteran said to me.“

A very capable senior producer once said: “Our viewers don’t really consider us the news. They come to us for comfort.”

Just got my copy of the book! Grabbed a bottle of wine, told my spouse not to bother me for the next 10 hours, and settled into my reading chair. This is mandatory reading, DLers! I’m 2 pages in and beyond delighted.

The I'd sit alone and watch your light.

My only friend through teenage nights

And everything I had to know,

I heard it on my radio.

My radio was a huge desktop set that sat next to my bed and had AM & FM, but also short wave and God knows what else. It took 5 minutes for the tubes to warm up and start functioning. It picked up all the local college stations where I learned about the Hindi Kali (strife) Yuga (ages). They taught me that if the world didn’t end by 2003, it would be around another 20 years longer. On a good night, from my bedroom in Connecticut, I could hear Key West.

That’s also where I learned about The Who and how spooky their music was when it was novel. Of course, my eldest brother sold the radio for magic beans. He collects gold now, “just in case”; eschews the internet, even to write family; and has a bug-out bag.

I once told him he should have bought turnips instead of gold. He asked sincerely, “Why?” I told him, “just in case”, I will sell him my turnips for all his gold.

Freddie had something going with the first half of this song. Radio, someone still loves you.

I expected a lot of flouncing around, everyone drinking girl drinks, and shirtless muscle guys.

No flouncing. Tons of Bud Light. But there were a few in-shape guys.

I guess it’s going go be Harris.

Fine.

What has he been up to? Has he left Hollywood?

I've always had the hots for him.

So sexy in Fright Night and Minority Report.

Last I saw though, he was looking like a DILF. But I'd still hit it!

So much eye candy, so little time

But the mouse outsmarted him and got him to eat the cheese instead.

My question is, is it OK at the funeral if I tell everyone he died of Covid?

You know you'd fuck him...

Not a good look.

This moron.

Sorry if dupe, I searched

With hypocrisy?

She has admitted that Regis never spoke to her again after he left since I guess he felt she betrayed him and didn't help him not get pushed out of the job.

Has anyone watched this? I couldn't find a thread.

Please help me Datalounge. I have finished binge watching ' Schitt's creek ' last week and for the first time in my life I understand marriage. He is single still. Please help before he hooks up with mr Wrong

My pup is nearly one year old. We live in a tiny apt because that is all I can afford right now. I also have an inside cat. The two of them love to play and my dog loves to bark. Besides short pee walks, twice every day my dog and I go to a huge dog park (over 12 acres) where she runs and plays like crazy. But she still yaps at the cat when we are home.

She sleeps with me every night and I feed her expensive, high-quality food. I work from home so the pup is almost never alone. She barks when I leave so I end up taking her everywhere with me, even the doctor. I leave her in the car with the A/C running.

Yes, other tenants have complained about the barking and I don't blame them. I've tried a soft muzzle, but she ate through it. I need this barking to stop. Are the shock collars effective and humane enough?

They are caving from a theatrical release and putting it on Disney+. But even if you subscribe you need to cough up 30 bucks to watch it.

What? Why?

Police identify German suspect.

The new suspect is a 43-year-old German man, authorities from both countries said. The suspect has previously been convicted for sexually abusing children, German State Prosecutor's office of Braunschweig, State of Lower-Saxony said in a statement on Wednesday, which added that he is currently serving a "long" jail sentence "for an unrelated matter."

He is now being investigated for "possible murder" in connection with McCann, the office said.

The suspect had lived in Portugal's Algarve region from 1995 to 2007, and also resided in a house in Praia de Luz, the resort from which McCann disappeared, according to the prosecutor's office.

The FDA says you probably need to chuck your onions in the bin. A recall of the delicious tear-inducing vegetable is happening over a "multistate outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections."

The FDA has tracked the outbreak back to Thomson International, Inc. in California, but if you're like me, the onions in your kitchen don't have a label on them. In that case, the FDA says you should throw them out. "If you cannot tell if your onion is part of the recall, or your food product contains recalled onions, you should not eat, sell, or serve it, and should throw it out," the FDA says in its announcement.

The initial recall was on red onions, which are believed to be the source of the problem. However, the recall has expanded to include red, yellow, white, and sweet yellow onions due to the potential for cross-contamination. Currently, the CDC is reporting cases of Salmonella in 34 states with 396 reported illnesses and 59 hospitalizations.

The name of the company may not be familiar, but the products have been distributed in all 50 states and Canada, where there is also a recall. Anything from Thomson shipped since May 1, 2020, is part of the recall.

"The onions were distributed... under the brand names Thomson Premium, TLC Thomson International, Tender Loving Care, El Competitor, Hartley’s Best, Onions 52, Majestic, Imperial Fresh, Kroger, Utah Onions, and Food Lion," the recall states. You can find a list of label images in the FDA recall. There are a whole lot of varieties of the recalled packaging.

So, check the kitchen and don't risk it.

I'm in my thirties and I've never moisturized. Is it too late to save what's left of my looks? What should I use, how often, and when?

Help me, DL. You're my only hope.

For Mexican there are Taco Bell, Qdoba and Chipotle.

For cajun there is Popeye's. Well it's kinda sorta cajun.

For Italian there is Olive Garden (DL fave).

So why are there no fast food or fast casual restaurants for Chinese or Thai?

And yes, the obligatory "fat whores rejoice!" would be very appropriate if someone stepped up to the plate and filled this void.

Is Sandra Bullock going to get the 100%? Or 50/50 with Reese?

I didn't know Jane and Gina dated in the early days of the band.

Ellen is a nutcase.

It's a charming show. I'm nearly through Season 3 and it's interesting because it's unlike any other sitcom I've ever seen. Don and Ann actually experience real emotions. There's very little slapstick, it's quite unusual for an American sitcom.

One question though: was the hair real? That thick black hair with the famous flip? Very pretty but can't figure out if it's real or not. Anyway, I'm really enjoying the show. I'm going to watch all the seasons. It's interesting seeing how it's evolving.

Hail Mary pass.

Premieres Sunday night (July 19) on TNT.

Starring Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning.

It was a smash hit with Dataloungers last year. Will you be watching?

Let’s share some cute/funny/interesting animal videos!

Commenting!!!

Do you know of any?

I was reading through the Lake of the Ozarks thread, and saw two interesting comments:

[quote] That area is very pretty but Southern Missouri gives me bad juju vibes. It gives me the creeps in a way few places do

[quote] Bad juju doesn’t begin to cover it. Born and raised in Central Missouri. I occasionally accompany my mom to visit a friend on Table Rock Lake and I can’t even really describe the feeling I get in that area.

Interesting, because I felt the same way about the Tennessee Tri-Cities area. Every time I go there, I get a dark sense of foreboding.

Are there any other areas of the U.S. that have this dark aura?

The U.S. has some pretty spooky places.

It only lasted one season, 24 episodes. Ellen's short-lived sitcom, "The Ellen Show" only lasted one season, 18 episodes, and that show got the DVD treatment. Surely, "The Golden Palace" has an audience. Lifetime replayed the series a few years ago. Do you think Disney, or whomever owns the rights currently, will bank on the success of the original "Golden Girls" series? Betty White would surely promote it. BTW, Bea Arthur came back for two episodes of "The Golden Palace," and every season of "The Golden Girls" was released on DVD.

The veteran Hollywood actor was 83.

But Mona was the only reason to watch the show and she dead.

I reluctantly had to take the subway to a doctor appointment today. The car only had 12 people most of the way and when someone boarded the first thing they did was to scan and search out an open area. There certainly won't be enough room for social distancing if the trains are filled to even 1/4 capacity. Further, encountering homeless people that are coming right up to you on the train and in your face, like I encountered today, is a bad situation that will not be tenable as it may have been previously. This really could be NYC's Achilles heel, if people won't ride the subway to commute.

Any content directors for Netflix or HULU on Datalounge? Buy Veronica’s Closet!

Can anything beat The Song of Bernadette?

I’ve been trying for years and at 40, I still haven’t found love or a stable relationship so I think I give up. I can’t keep putting energy into something that hasn’t come to fruition after two decades of trying.

[QUOTE]Stan Greenberg urged Hillary Clinton to pick Elizabeth Warren as her Vice President. He thinks Clinton would be in the White House had she listened. Now he’s urging Joe Biden to do the same.

I mean I was Valedictorian in high school and I have a BFA degree in musical theater from a top school so I should be smart. But when I see so many people going crazy over something like Hamilton, I don't think they're stupid. I think I might be. Also- sometimes Broadway shows take a couple viewings before I like them which again makes me think that I'm not smart enough to comprehend greatness right away. Examples: Rent, The Book of Mormon, and Urinetown. I hated those shows on first viewing but LOVE them now. Once I watched them a couple more times, it clicked. I wonder if I'm just slow and Hamilton will click in a couple years. Thoughts?

If only.....

It was going to be outdoors on a covered porch, but I asked how many people would be there, and when the hostess said twelve I told her that was too many for me (I am at high risk if I get COVID), and that I would try to see her by herself later in the week.

She just texted me back and says she wants to have the guests come in shifts (a few at a time) which she will space out. That sounds really weird to me. Will I give offense if I just say "I'll just see you later this week when you're more free"? It's her 40th birthday, but I just don't think people should be having parties right now.

This is part 1. Will post part 2 inside. She gets instant karma.

This show looks like it could be the hottest mess of all! Premieres June 3 on TLC.

At least in the US, these people could lead normal lives.

If they move to another country, it will be hell!

The Qatari guy IS hot, though.

Everyone knows he is GAY. Your opinions? Forever in the closet?

One bathhouse (Spa Excess) have listed all their new rules and regulations on their website to make the bathhouse experience SAFE and enjoyable - Read below

Staff will wear masks and gloves.

Staff have access to hand sanitizer and need to wash hands often.

Staff will disinfect each room after use (doorknobs inside and out, light switch, table, and locker inside and out).

Staff will disinfect washrooms (toilets, sinks).

Staff will disinfect railings on the stairs and patio lounge chairs, tables and chairs in the lounge.

Staff will disinfect key sets after each use.

Staff will disinfect locker room lockers before each use.

Staff will use UV light on debit/credit machines.

Staff will hand out condoms.

Staff will be tested for temperature and oxygen levels.

Food handling requires new gloves each time.

Food will be served on disposable dishes and glasses/cups

Tables and chairs in lounge and patio spaced to allow for social distancing.

Swing lids from garbage pails have been removed to eliminate touching.

Dry sauna and steam room will be closed.

Signatures on entry receipts not required during the pandemic.

All guests must submit to a temperature scan prior to final entry. Anyone displaying COVID-19 symptoms will be denied entry.

Randomly, customers may be asked to take a test for oxygen levels via an oximeter. This is to test for Invisible Hypoxia which can be present in asymptomatic people. If the reading is below 90 the customer will be asked if they have asthma or COPD to determine if that condition may be the cause of the low reading. The oximeters will be disinfected after each use. The test is random as we only have 3 oximeters.

Hand sanitizers are available at the front desk, exit, dark areas, locker room and second floor hallway, basement area, and all washrooms.

All guests using the gym equipment must wipe down the equipment after each use.

We encourage customers to use tap debit or credit.

All special events have been cancelled.

Signs are installed in each washroom reminding customers that washing with soap kills the virus. Wash genital and pubic areas well after sex.

MASKS will be provided to every customer on entry and must be worn in all common areas.

No group sex. (minimize your contacts).

As required by the Toronto Department of Health, we require first name, and either telephone # or email.

Is it all over for sad alcoholic Ellen?

Sort of mind-blowing to see them all listed out.

He puts his hands into his pants

It happens

One day, in the foothills of the Carolinas, there will be a fabulous amusement park that will rival Dollywood.

Let's be the scenery, sounds, rides, dining, shows, shops, costumes, hosts, guest entertainers, visitors, etc., featured at Lindseyland.

For evening adult entertainment, I offer Lá Sènatrice's cat and mouse game.

I’m over here being cooked alive and they’re in the mid-70’s all week! I’d kill to have mild summers like that. I’ve never seen another place with such perfect year-round weather.

Great fun!

I know there have been genealogy threads in the past, but I can't find them now. I ordered a DNA kit from Ancestry. I haven't recieved it yet, but I have started working on my family tree. The app and the desktop version appear not to know what the other is doing. Am I getting senile or is this program fucking ridiculously complicated?

Is the program itself written by Mormons? It feels so 1990s unnecessarily complicated, like a punishment. Should I get my DNA and take it to a other website? Ancestry sucks donkey balls!

New research sheds new light on how man juices work after 350 years of fooling people into thinking it is a swimmer...

He's too busy with his career to date

He's married to his job

He's a confirmed bachelor

I can't take much more

How long did it take for people to start to comment on its "unnatural" quality?

What did YOU think when you first saw it?

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden will soon announce his pick for vice president ahead of the election in November - and he's already pledged it will be a woman.

Continue the discussion here.

My high school math teacher went to high school with Linda McCartney.

I've heard that's why she doesn't want to step aside at age 93. Charles seems priggish and boring, but definitely stable and capable of being a figurehead.

Her badly burned body was found in the parking lot of a state recreation area

What happened to her?

I fucking love you.

He then suggested everyone overthrow the government instead. Of course he hasn't made his way to participating in any protests, choosing instead to tweet his rebellion from such cushy locations as the Cayman Islands or his Beverly Hills mansion.

Donald Sutherland’s snub for Ordinary People was particularly egregious. Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton received most of the attention, but Sutherland is heartbreaking and really just perfect in the role.

Let’s get the real tea!

Carry on my wayward sons.

You're going to lead the CW's Fall lineup!

Tom Daley: 'I always knew I was attracted to guys'

After London 2012, the Olympic diver reached a low. Then he travelled the world, fell in love, came out (on his own terms) – and hit the form of his life

Welcome to the new and improved Monday Morning Moo! We’re working overtime to improve your barnyard experience. Your moos are important to us. Let us know how we’re doing!

At the link, some deadly cows. Told you we were hardcore!

Feel away.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 nominees:

Pat Benatar Dave Matthews Band Depeche Mode The Doobie Brothers Judas Priest Kraftwerk MC5 Motorhead Nine Inch Nails Notorious B.I.G. Rufus featuring Chaka Khan Soundgarden T. Rex Thin Lizzy Todd Rundgren Whitney Houston

Who are your votes going for?

(I searched for another HoF thread, you queens so if you come at me for a duplicate post, your beef is with Muriel.)

I am incredibly confused by Dorothy Zbornak's income. She is a substitute teacher. How does she afford to live? Meanwhile Stan is a failed novelty salesman!

Help me identify them.

Slim Brazilian hoe

Bloomingdale's? Hotel Pennsylvania?

The most shocking was one of the first I discovered as suburban teenager: downstair's Men's Room off the Waiting Room at Grand Central.

They’re screaming that he was a criminal, he was a robber, held a gun at a pregnant woman, etc.

Drinking soda.

Saying f**k all the time

Smoking

Kobach's anti-immigrant with ties to white supremacists. Yuck. Why doesn't he spend his $$$ helping people instead of funding right-wing nuts?

I've looked at love from both sides now…from up and down…and sideways…and in threesomes.

You might think, "Well, if her vagina could talk…" Well, mine CAN! And for a lot of the 60s and 70s, it said, "Sorry, occupied."

I mean, look at the list: James Taylor. Leonard Cohen. Jaco Pastorius. Tom Scott. And one ENTIRE BAND (though not at the same time): Crosby, Stills, Nash AND Young!

I may have fit Tony Orlando AND Dawn in there at some point but I can't remember.

In fact, years of smoking 4 packs of unfiltered cigarettes have made me forget all of the visitors to my vagina. Were you there?

No regrets, coyote….

oh boy this is a real packed trailer. They don't show exactly what Monique does to Candiace in the footage below but we get a glimpse of the before and after with a producer holding her back.

The whole cast from last season returns with a new housewife, Wendy.

Relationship drama galore! Robyn/Juan, Gizelle/ex hubby Jamal, Karen/Ray and Ashley/Michael who is caught with strippers??????

this season looks amazing

trailer below. I like the cast photo

Please don't post pictures of scary plastic surgery.

Well?

Far, far away from heterosexuals.

They've invaded our bars, and our vacations spots, and even our culture.

We can't even go to Provincetown, Key West, or Fire Island in peace. And forget about San Francisco.

Everywhere we go, they follow. Then prices go up astronomically, forcing us to relocate.

So where can we move next, to live fun, freely, and cheap? That is of course, until they invade us again.

Box Office : From 1942 to 1950 she was the most popular female star of Hollywood, ranked highly in Quigley's lists. In terms of box office pull, her only rival during that time was Betty Grable but Grable wasnt revered or respected as an actress. Bergman was arguably the most popular woman in the United States during her peak years. So popular that her extra marital affair was brought up and denounced on the floor of United States Senate.

Iconic roles : Casablanca is one of the most popular and greatest movies of all time. It became an American cultural icon with its legendary dialogues and mesmerizing leads. Bergman's Notorious and Spellbound are also considered some of the greatest movies of all time. Rest of her filmography is equally iconic.

Longevity : Except for a brief period in 1950s when she disappeared from the US, Bergman was considered an A-list superstar from early 1940s to mid 70s. Except for Hepburn, you will hardly find another actress with such longevity. Sorry, Bette Davis doesn't count.

Acclaim : She received 3 Academy awards for acting. That's more than anyone but Kate, the great. Two for best actress and one for best supporting actress.

Beauty : Bergman's famous nordic looks were legendary. She was often considered as the most ideal woman that men'd want to take home. Her minimalist and no make up looks set her apart from her contemporaries.

Reputation/Controversies : Bergman was hugely respected and revered among her peers. Her comeback at the Oscars in the 50s was met with a huge standing ovation. Except for one overblown extra marital affair, she lived her life with dignity and no controversy.

Is there any other actress whose career is comparable to Ingrid's ?

How many mg should I take to help me sleep? TIA.

Finding Freedom Kills Prince Harry And Meghan Markles Chances Of Returning To Royal Life

I thought it used to be considered a high end salon product, but now I see it in all the 99 cent stores.

So dust off your bikini, make some artichoke dip, and come join the fun!

It's another episode of The Young & the Restless, and social distancing is not practiced here.

You're bound to get in someone's face!

Y&R

Well, I called my congressman and he said, 'Quote':

"I'd like to help you son, but you're too poor to vote"

What’s his deal I get some vibes from him. Apparently Tom Cruise “paid “‘to give him private flight lessons on the Top Gun movie?!

As production gears up to cautiously resume, how would we like to see the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic approached? Work it into the storylines in such a way that reflects life as we currently know it, or keep Port Chuck as a sort of fantasy island unto itself, away from the strife and madness of the real world?

Rich people create the disparities in wealth that drive such horrible outcomes for disadvantaged populations. It doesn't make sense for a Dem to be seen to be nearly "begging" them to come back.

But if I was a rich man, why would I come back to New York now? It seems like most things can be done remotely, even if imperfectly. And - at least from what we seen on the news - there's nothing really going on in NYC anyway. No shows. No conventions. Nada.

The last one was paywalled.

I’m watching Suspiria by Luca Guadagnino. Tilda Swnton is a great witch. Weird movie, and good.

An Optometrist, Youtuber and Actor.

He’s fucking phenomenal and gorgeous. 🔥🔥🔥

Has anyone seen it? I'm on episode 2 and flabbergasted that a fire department, hospital and townsfolk are seemingly unaware and unequipped for an emergency. Firemen going to a fire at a reactor without proper gear? A hospital and reactor with no radiation shower thingies?

Were russians stupid or what?

Cucumber and dill salad

Shannyn Sossamon

Claire Forlani

Monica Potter

Gretchen Moll

She hadn't been involved in show business or made a movie in years, her husband had been dead for 40 years, and she lived in France. Living up to the ripe old age of 104 how did she get money to live on?

is any medicine as useful as helping to mask the signs of a misspent youth?

i have abreva tubes in every bathroom, every travel kit, in my office at work, and in our cars.

I read his tweets a few times. It's deff possible CBS just kicked him to the curb because he wouldn't keep his mouth shut. But, he worded it wierd about being healthy. I feel like he may have HAD corona and now he doesn't.

Are they finally reunited? 🍁

Hello Polly

Complains about bad reception of his operas.

Life is so cruel.

Jealous, bitches?

I'm envious of her delusion - it's fun and under control. I like the way men dressed in the 50s, maybe I'll start being the male version of her.

Several people I know are not having their cleaning lady come over. I can't imagine taking away from her income but more importantly I can't imagine cleaning my own apartment and doing my own laundry. I just cant. My current gal has been with me for 12 years and the one before that was with me for 7 so that means I've not cleaned or done laundry for 19 years. I can't see myself doing the cleaning and laundry but I also can't see myself taking away from someone's income. I'd have to at least pay her still. What is everyone else doing?

Electoral-vote shows Dems will pick up 5 seats, more than the 4 needed even if Trump DOES win re-election.

Plus two, other seats are tied/ too close to call. Plus, Democrats are kicking Republican Senators' asses in fundraising.

The polls have shown this consistently for 2 years — the pandemic and Republican ineptitude is just giving the Democrats a bigger margin of victory.

So don't let the "43% chance" Fake News Troll fool you. Republicans are going STRAIGHT DOWN THE SHITTER in 2020.

Can someone explain her success? Is scienthology that powerful? I just saw The Invisible Mam and , though i liked it, how horrible she looked constantly took me out ofthe movie. Her hair looked like she hadn’t washed it for days after taking her McDonalds hat. She has bug eyes, no neck and the body of a pillow. Except for constantly looking miserable , there is nothing going for her. How does she gets these roles?

Is he as big a prick as he seems?

lol!

One of Lance Bass's ex-boyfriends is opening up about the musician, and claims that he's a little bitter about the success that Justin Timberlake has had since *NSYNC had split up.

Cedric Martinez, who appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, spoke out in a podcast about his relationship with Lance, and hinted that Lance was very bitter and maybe jealous of Justin.

“[He] said they are not close,” Cedric told Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef about Lance's relationships with the members of *NSYNC.

He added that “the only person that kept coming up within the conversation was Justin Timberlake.”

“I don’t know what the situation is now, but I think at the time he felt a bit burned and disappointed that the friendship had kind of fizzled out or something, you know? So I think that Lance felt, you know, Justin had a big head and he thought it was a star. And so there was a hint of bitterness. But hey, I mean, I would have been maybe feeling the same...I think there was a bit of animosity there.”

Cedric continued, saying that "Justin kept coming up more than other members" and that he didn't even know the names of the other members of the group.

“Just Lance and Justin!” he said. “So the other guys, I have no idea what they are. But something must have happened. He never went into the details. But he did not like the fact that Justin was acting and seemed to be doing everything and you know, and Lance was trying to restart a career."

Developing: Former king of Spain Juan Carlos goes into exile after corruption allegations about him had surfaced in recent weeks.

Shortages make a comeback.

I started them last night (there are two volumes) — even though they're often discursive, his prose still is sharp as hell. On page one, he reveals that on his half-sister's wedding day, then-Jackie Bouvier demonstrated for her how to do a thorough douche with one foot in the tub and the other on the floor.

Later he says that he was the only member of his family who didn't condemn Jackie for marrying Onassis because he once accepted $10 from a man who gave him a blowjob, and it was the same principle.

Does this patrician bitch have any fans on Datalounge?

What is roni?

Yep, Republicans are behind his bullshit presidential campaign

first 2 are now payrolled

link to last one

He's being paid to talk about Pokemon Go.

Just what is so disgusting, exactly? Just because you're aroused by someone who has the same genitals that you yourself have? That you touch, lick, and whatever someone who also has the same naughty parts? Can we dissect this, please?

The last thread is fast approaching 600 posts and is taking forever to open on phones.

Keep on posting about our favorite and not-so-favorite personalities, our erotic fantasies (fiddlin' David Gura is my favorite), technical mishaps, etc.

Why is this insanely hot man dating this TikTok twink? His name is Brady Potter. He had an OnlyFans before but apparently never posted full nudes.

He came out at bisexual shortly before revealing he is dating Larray, a gay youtuber who has a huge following.

Brady is insanely out of his league.

I just don't see it. Maybe he really is bi, but gotta be a fake relationship. Thoughts?

Underworld by Don DeLillo. I've owned it for over almost 25 years and have lugged the thing to about seven apartments in three states, and have yet to crack it open. What's collected dust on your shelves?

Never enough...

The song, the direction, the acting...whatever contributes to making it the worst rock/pop video of all time. We need a new thread for this, so post your contributions here.

I'll start with this 1983 gem from Yes

I’m sure all of you guys went to their concerts. Bonus points if you tell us what you wore.

They're very popular in foreign countries.

I think that’s what it is. It’s white stuff and it gets all over the scrotum and the fabric of my underwear gets trapped in it.

I don’t shower regularly because I’m depressed and in pain. Today I finally forced myself to take a shower and it was bad. I thought I had washed good down there, but when I got out of the shower I still noticed there was a lot there and became so frustrated.

Yet another problem that’s giving me more anxiety and depression that I don’t need.

It's a harmless grass snake.

When I drive into my garage or open the walk-in door to get to my car it hurriedly hides behind stuff I store in there, you know, out door Christmas ornaments, lawn-care implements, boxes...

A couple of times, It took a ride on the garage door when I use my door opener. I thought it was paper hanging down. Then it moved.

But, it's not paying me rent.

How do I evict it? How would you evict it?

Can't wait to hear his defense of the Axios interview with Swan!

He of the tight t-shirts and big biceps. What do we know?

We'd we be very different in what we talk & obsess about?

Statistics are easy to gloss over until it they get real in your own experience. Feel free to reply with details.

(This poll is addressing actual personal acquaintances; not just well known people you’ve heard of.)

Let’s use this thread for all “Lil” related deaths.

Also... Hayden was good in Episode 2 (not 3) and Jar Jar wasn’t completely unlikable.

Earlier this week I decided to begin rewatching all of the Star Wars movies again, in Chronological order, and I just finished Episode III Revenge of the Sith.

I used to loath the prequel series, but rewatching it I enjoyed them very much. They aren’t as bad as everyone says, especially after watching the new Trilogy, which I felt were TERRIBLE minus The Force Awakens.

Episode I was fine, but yes, it was made for kids and to sell toys. It’s very obvious that Lucas had merchandise in mind when he made it and had a kid as one of the main characters (even in the battle) and Jar Jar Binks (who I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t make him TOO much of a cartoon, falling all over and making error after error). Many will disagree with me, but this one was the weakest of this Trilogy. I did love how youthful and handsome Ewan McGregor looked though.

Episode 2 was actually really good! Hayden Christensen gets so much shit for his performance in this series, but he was actually good in this one! I loved the scene on that sand planet where he finds his mother and starts killing all those fuckers. He was Badass in this, and oh so handsome. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of him!!!! I found him even more beautiful now than I did when I was a teen seeing this in the theaters.

The battle scenes are better in this one than Episode 1, the story less contrived and the acting overall better. Also, McGregor is far better as the Head Master with Hayden his trainee than Neeson was with McGregor as his trainee. I did hate how rushed the relationship with Padme and Anakin was.

Episode 3... ugh. I liked it. It’s a lot of brainless fun. The issue is it is far more brainless than the previous one, and at times felt too rushed. Anakin going to the dark side felt too easy. Palpatine literally spoke to him a couple of times and boom, he switches. Also, Hayden is TERRIBLE in this one. Wow, he was bad.

Also, where was Jar Jar in this? I do know that they cut his role down significantly in the second film because of how much parents hated him, but to cut him from this one completely? Seems fucked up. No one even mentions him.

Also, why was Portman’s role so small in this one. She was barely in the film!!! The film actually could have used a little more of her presence. Also, that death scene with her giving birth was so ridiculous. Ugh.

With that said, I would take ANY of these over The Last Jedi or Rise or Skywalker. Those two are complete blasphemy and aren’t even real Star Wars movies. They feel like Disney cartoons.

Also, I know Rogue One and Solo both take place before A New Hope... or am I wrong? I’ve never seen either. I wanna watch them in 100% chronological order.

Jordan Torres

Glad someone called him on his BS

Dear lord, is anyone watching this on TLC?

The worst has to be the 58 year old closet case from Maryland with the 19 year old fiancee from the Philippines, who looks like a transexual. And they got married!

I can't believe that there are so many American suckers, falling for these foreigners who are just looking to become citizens.

The gay Mormon boy from Idaho, marrying the Russian girl from Prague? The Jamaican guy who wants to send all of his income to his family back home, while his gf in Pennsylvania pays all the bills?

Forget the fucking wall. Close the K-1 Visa!

I do have to admit, though. Alexei from Israel is super hot!

An anonymous anthropology professor remained outspoken about fairness in academia even as she suffered for months with coronavirus.

“This person was a scientist who got Covid because they’d been forced to teach,” said Michael Eisen, a fly geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who had interacted on Twitter with the professor for years. “It wasn’t the first person I knew who got Covid — but for a lot of people it was one of the first people they knew who got it.”

He said that he had continued to exchange messages with the person running the account through June and that this person frequently discussed a difficult recovery.

Then BethAnn McLaughlin, another Twitter connection, announced on July 31 that the anonymous professor had died from complications of the virus.

Just a few days later, both the account of the anonymous professor and of Ms. McLaughlin were suspended for Twitter policies that, among other things, bar the coordination of fake accounts.

The same day, Gerardo Gonzalez, a spokesman for Arizona State University, where the anonymous Twitter user was supposedly a professor, described the anonymous account as a “hoax.”

The account had posted inaccurate information about the school, he said. “We also have had no one, such as a family member or friend, report a death to anyone at the university,” he added.

Among scientists and academics, the shock of mourning was already laced with suspicion. Enough of them had unpleasant interactions with the combative account and were troubled by its inconsistencies and seeming about-turns.

“You have these internal alarms that are like, ‘Oh, I don’t trust you,’” said Julie Libarkin, the head of the Geocognition Research Laboratory at Michigan State University. “Kind of the same as when I worked with BethAnn.”

WTF?

Don’t explain why. Go again!

He’s incredibly sexy but he has to be gay right? Any confirmations

Or what are some of your favorite paintings, if you can't choose just one? It seems like there was some interest in continuing this topic.

I'll start:

[italic]Salutat[/italic], Thomas Eakins

Kylie's not messing around. And she's not being remotely subtle. Her new album, apparently titled 'DISCO' is due out later this year. The first single, 'Say Something' is out THIS Thursday. The country pop excursion on her last album, Golden, was fun, but I'm so happy to see her returning to all-out, unapolgetic, campy disco sheen.

She is their ideal vision of a “black” girl, and she is sick of it!

This is a supplement to the ongoing ‘Post Puctures of GORGEOUS Gay Guys’.

HOT Gay Guys is more all-embracing and all-inclusive: they are likely to be unconventionally handsome; not Picture Perfect, but nonetheless HOT AF.

Starting off is Hot Spaniard Adrian @this.is.adrian.c:

Continuing the jutting tradition!

Jealous, bitches?

For dinner, I think I'm going to make steak au poivre with a side of haricot verts sauteed in butter and garlic.

Even more jealous, bitches?

Ellen DeGeneres broke her silence about alleged workplace toxicity at the Ellen DeGeneres Show. In a staff letter obtained by the Hollywood Reporter, the 30-time Emmy winner said she takes “responsibility” as the program bears her name and said changes are forthcoming.

“Hey everybody — it’s Ellen. On day one of our show, I told everyone in our first meeting that The Ellen DeGeneres Show would be a place of happiness — no one would ever raise their voice, and everyone would be treated with respect. Obviously, something changed, and I am disappointed to learn that this has not been the case,” she began. “And for that, I am sorry. Anyone who knows me knows it’s the opposite of what I believe and what I hoped for our show.”

In a Buzzfeed report published earlier this month, one current and 10 former employees claimed the workplace environment was one one of racism, fear and intimidation. They largely pointed the finger at the program’s three executive producers — Ed Glavin, Mary Connelly and Andy Lassner — but noted the responsibility ultimately falls on the talk show host. This week, Variety reported the show was under internal investigation by WarnerMedia.

“I could not have the success I’ve had without all of your contributions. My name is on the show and everything we do and I take responsibility for that,” DeGeneres acknowledged. “Alongside Warner Bros., we immediately began an internal investigation and we are taking steps, together, to correct the issues. As we’ve grown exponentially, I’ve not been able to stay on top of everything and relied on others to do their jobs as they knew I’d want them done. Clearly some didn’t. That will now change and I’m committed to ensuring this does not happen again.”

DeGeneres continued, “I’m also learning that people who work with me and for me are speaking on my behalf and misrepresenting who I am and that has to stop. As someone who was judged and nearly lost everything for just being who I am, I truly understand and have deep compassion for those being looked at differently, or treated unfairly, not equal, or — worse — disregarded. To think that any one of you felt that way is awful to me.”

The 62-year-old comedian promised to do her part moving forward.

“It’s been way too long, but we’re finally having conversations about fairness and justice. We all have to be more mindful about the way our words and actions affect others, and I’m glad the issues at our show were brought to my attention. I promise to do my part in continuing to push myself and everyone around me to learn and grow,” she says. “It’s important to me and to Warner Bros. that everyone who has something to say can speak up and feels safe doing so.

“I am so proud of the work we do and the fun and joy we all help put out in the world. I want everyone at home to love our show and I want everyone who makes it to love working on it,” DeGeneres concludes. “Again, I’m so sorry to anyone who didn’t have that experience. If not for COVID, I’d have done this in person, and I can’t wait to be back on our stage and see you all then.”

The Hollywood Reporter claims the internal investigation is largely complete, although what will happen is unclear. The report cites two sources who claim that executive producer Glavin is one of the employees who will be fired.

“Once he’s out, it will be like a new day,” a source close to the show told THR. The insider also alleged DeGeneres was “largely kept shielded from Glavin’s day-to-day handling or mishandling of the staff. Others are expected to be out as well.”

All three EP’s named in Buzzfeed’s report issued a joint statement earlier this month: “Over the course of nearly two decades, 3,000 episodes, and employing over 1,000 staff members, we have strived to create an open, safe, and inclusive work environment. We are truly heartbroken and sorry to learn that even one person in our production family has had a negative experience. It’s not who we are and not who we strive to be, and not the mission Ellen has set for us.”

Say pre-1955

Every third thread here is about some current actor who gets roles and then someone says "How can they keep getting them, they suck."

So apply that to the old time actors say before the studio system really fell apart in the mid 50s

Mine would be the rather forthright sometimes battle Ann Kelsey played by the brilliant Jill Eikenberry. She seemed the most idealistic of the characters yet paradoxically also the most real and grounded. To me Susan Deys character was often a little monochrome ,didnt have the sparkle of Ann who I found so watchable.

Has anyone in media or notable on social media been this explicit about blackmail? The Chairman of the Democratic Coalition, Jon Cooper, and MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle just were in the span of a few days.

On Sunday, Cooper tweeted

[quote]A Republican just told me that he doubts @LindseyGrahamSC is kowtowing to Trump (and indirectly Putin) because he’s being blackmailed over his sexual orientation (an open secret) or even financial corruption. Rather, he thinks it probably involves some pretty serious sexual kink.

[quote]By the way, as an openly gay man myself, I couldn’t care less about Lindsey Graham's sex life (gay, straight or otherwise). However, Graham is the Senate Judiciary Chair and there’s a strong likelihood that he's being blackmailed by the Russians. If so, that needs to be revealed.

Then, on Tuesday Ruhle suggested

[quote]it could be that Donald Trump or somebody knows something pretty extreme about Lindsey Graham,' Ruhle replied with a smirk. 'We're gonna have to leave it there.'

do you think gif functionality will be restored?

and why isn't working in the first place?

it loses something when the gif is posted but you have to click through to see it.

I’m gonna make JJ BBQ ribs for dinner tomorrow night y’all! I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for a month but I always forget to buy ribs at the store! What should I serve with them?

Rumors abound about this teeny tiny actor. Allegedly he fathered a baby with his girlfriend about a year or two ago but there have been so any stories about SCOTT, his temper and his alleged boyfriends What is your take ?

Continued Discussion.

Next time won't you Treason with me?

Are these men known to date the MTF, or even marry them?

Fine as hell, looks better than he ever has.

I realize that he is Canadian, but what part of plantation did he not get in 2012?

" Ryan Reynolds says he regrets having his wedding at Boone Hall.

Reynolds and Blake Lively got married at the plantation in Mount Pleasant in 2012.

In a recent interview with the magazine Fast Company, Reynolds said it’s something they he will always be “deeply and unreservedly sorry for.”

According to the article, Reynolds had posted a tweet praising the Black Panther movie in 2018 which sparked a viral response accusing him of hypocrisy due to holding his wedding at Boone Hall Plantation whose past includes the use of slaves.

Reynolds told Fast Company that he is still pained by the hurt the wedding caused as well as his own lack of judgement.

“It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” he said.

The couple has since donated millions of dollars to civil rights organizations."

[quote] Critics have asked who is funding the site, since ad revenue alone wouldn’t be enough to sustain its staff of 14 and political websites often rely on wealthy donors for support. The Federalist has not disclosed its supporters, leading to criticism that it is not being transparent about its agenda. But according to two people with knowledge of its finances, one of its major backers is Dick Uihlein.

Is Meghan gagged from having any civilized discourse because her husband's patron also pays for Louie Gohmert, Jody Hice, Kelly Loeffler, Ben Shapiro, and many other on the far right? (From a linked June 2018 article):

[quote] Mr. Uihlein also gave more than $7 million to PACs affiliated with Club for Growth, an anti-tax group that supported conservatives in 13 recent races nationwide.

[quote] He has backed Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s governor, supporting his 2016 presidential bid before rallying behind Senator Ted Cruz’s. The Uihleins were among the top donors recruited by Reince Priebus, then the Republican National Committee chairman, to close ranks behind Mr. Trump. Mrs. Uihlein took on a prominent fund-raising role; Mr. Uihlein was at the White House the day the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey delivered his Senate testimony last year.

Will they give tampons out with loans?

After serving 50 years for the LaBianca murders.

I know this will be a controversial decision, but she's no danger to society and I think 50 years is long enough.

President Donald Trump told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the US.

“As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said.

Remini wrote a chapter about Cruise for her book 'Troublemaker' but her publisher thought everyone would only focus on him so they didn't include it in the book. Now Remini believes Tom Cruise helped cancel her latest show “Scientology: Black Ops” because it revealed some info about him so she decided to release said chapter @Tony Ortega's website:

“I think it’s time for people to start waking up to the real facts here. Tom has for years manipulated his image to be the good guy, and although I believe there was a time when Tom was a decent and kindhearted person, he has morphed himself into David Miscavige and is completely dedicated to Scientology’s mission to ‘Clear’ planet Earth — which means making 80 percent of the world’s population into Scientologists,” Leah says.

“Tom has for years used Scientology and its staff to do his dirty work. Tom has used Scientology and its thugs in suits, like Tommy Davis, to break up with his former Scientologist girlfriend. He used Tommy’s ex-wife Jessica to give his girlfriend sex advice on how Tom likes it. Davis has used confidential Scientology counseling confessions to break up two Scientologists so Tom could date one of them, used confidential Scientology counseling sessions to bring a wedge between Tom and his wife Nicole because Nicole didn’t want to do Scientology anymore. And David Miscavige, through Marty Rathbun, got rid of Nicole to get Tom closer to Scientology. Tom has for years used his church to torture his employees by sending them in for interrogations at their expense, causing a woman I know to go bankrupt simply because the hours she worked for Tom made it impossible for her to raise her family. She was interrogated and punished by her church for years, causing her to lose her home. These are some of the things Tom has done that never get talked about, and I think it’s time to change that.”

Isn't that what he is?

Prince Harry felt like a third wheel — and even like “a gooseberry” — when he carried out official engagements alongside brother Prince William and Kate Middleton, according to one royal expert.

“Harry felt very much like a spare wheel,” Katie Nicholl, told “Entertainment Tonight”, citing excerpts she has read from the upcoming tell-all biography, “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family.”

The book says Harry was unhappy for some time, Nicholl said.

Is it me or does he look like he has a touch of the downs? He has to be, hands down, one of the dumbest porn stars out there. Watching him outdo Dave’s Wavey as far as tard value? I didn’t think that could ever have happened.

I want to vomit any time I see someone put the refrigerator next to the wall oven(s). BAD BAD BAD!

What else drives you crazy?

The homo gene is strong in that family.

For the past few years I’ve had dessert or something sweet every night! There are some evenings I try to abstain and not have any dessert at all. But it’s difficult to do. Something keeps nagging my brain until I get something sweet. Sometimes it’s bad and I have a whole pint of ice cream! Or a piece of cake! Even if I have something simple like strawberries I put sugar on them! How do I break out of this cycle?

She talks about being bipolar, Harvey Weinstein, Julia Roberts, River Phoenix and more. I’ve always liked her.

Do straight men care about a vagina's size? I know breast size plays into this all too, but how?

Anyone see this doc? I really only know her from Blue Bayou and Ooh Baby Baby. Then I bought Mad Love her venture into more punk influenced new wave in 1980 and I was sold.

She had an amazing voice and was fearless...always trying new things and challenging herself. The doc really gives texture to her career. I didn't realize how huge she was?

I’m addicted to these juicy exploding candies. I’m eating sour brite blasts as we speak! Yum yum 😋

I’m surprised they listed it publicly. Is it true it’s the largest mansion in the UES? It’s an architectural treasure. I don’t think this place will ever be clean or cleansed to be fit to be lived in.

Why don’t the young people in rural areas who are so miserable and bored just move? They could get some kind of job in a city.

because the North will not subsidise the South indefinitely.

The Riddle of Dorothy's Prom" edition.

As the coronavirus saga soldiers on, I have found myself with the time to re-watch all seven seasons of The Golden Girls in the span of about two weeks. The incalculable inconsistencies are so much more glaring when you binge an entire seasons in two days. I googled "Golden Girls inconsistencies" because I was feeling so agitated and confused at how very, very many inconsistencies were allowed to happen on the show. Up popped a Datalounge thread of over 700 posts dating from 2007 to 2009. I have now read every post. And while I am impressed with the degree of cross-referencing of the minutiae of GG that was lovingly compiled on that thread, the matter of DOROTHY'S EVER-CHANGING PROM STORIES has not been thoroughly examined to my satisfaction.

As far as I can tell, these are all the versions of her prom story:

1. Dorothy went to the prom with Stan and WAS impregnated on prom night (she may or may not have been black-out drunk when they had sex).

2. She went to prom with Stan (and helped him tie his tie) but Dorothy did NOT get pregnant that night--she got pregnant during a drive-in movie makeout session. (Here, too, she may or may not have been black-out drunk when they had sex).

3. Dorothy went to the prom with her brother Phil.

4. Dorothy was supposed to go to the prom with badboy John Neuretti, but Sophia turned him away. Dorothy thought she had been stood up, and she stayed home.

5. Dorothy never went to her prom because no one even asked her. This is the butt of a joke on one episode.

BONUS PROM INCONSISTENCIES:

*Dorothy went to the prom in her "tennis whites" because of a practical joke that "her frenemy Trudy played on her.

*Conversely, Dorothy looked so beautiful coming down the stairs on her way to the prom, that Sophia told her it was the most special mother/daughter memory of their lives.

*If she DID go to the prom with Stanley, due to his being defined in an early episode as 65 to Dorothy's mid-50s, (so let's say a 10 year age gap) then Stan would have been 27 or 28 at her senior prom. THERE IS NO WAY IN SICILIAN HELL that Sophia and Sal Petrillo would have let Dorothy go to her senior prom with an almost 30 year old man. He would have been fitted for cement shoes before that would happen.

*Then there are the pregnancy age discrepancies, which would impact all the prom scenarios above. Because if Dorothy truly got "knocked up" while still in high school, then honestly--would she have gone to the prom with Stan? Pregnant? Or even more implausible....as a new mother with milky bosoms??

*Also, surely Johnny Neuretti would not have asked Dorothy to prom if she was already carrying Stan's child, or even weirder, was a nursing teen mother planning a shotgun wedding?

It's all so convoluted and crazy. The creators invented a wonderful series, wrote a strong, compelling character called Dorothy Zbornak, cast Bea Fucking Arthur to brilliantly embody this three-dimensional character so brilliantly. And then they fucked it all up by forcing the viewer out of this deliciously wrought universe every episode as we strain to connect the unconnectable dots of Dorothy's backstory--a backstory that runs strong and deep through every season, and which literally shaped her entire adult life.

Sandy called her Hanner in the first two minutes.

Vegan and vegetarian people I'd say.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a coronavirus press conference Monday and highlighted some good news. He also issued a warning about the state’s future with respect to COVID-19.

Newsom announced a total of 5,719 new coronavirus cases in the state for a total of 514,901 confirmed cases since the pandemic began. That’s a much lower daily number than some of the record-setting totals seen last week.

“The overall trend…is showing a decrease from where we were over a week ago,” said Newsom. “But one week does not make the kind of trend that gives us confidence to generate headlines. We are looking forward to that and need to see another few weeks of this kind of data to come in to feel more confident about where we are as a state.”

The rate of positive tests over the last 14 days is 7.0 percent. That’s down from 7.4 about two weeks ago.

On Monday, there were 6,383 coronavirus patients in hospitals. That’s down from more than 8,800 on July 21. Likewise ICU beds; the number now occupied by COVID-19 patients has fallen below 2,000.

“The good news is we do feel confident about our critical care capacity,” pointed out the governor.

Newsom announced 32 new deaths, resulting in a total of 9,388 people lost to the pandemic. “Thirty-two is a lower number than in the past…but we’re likely to see those numbers remain stubbornly high over the next few days and weeks.”

“These are just a few days” worth of results, warned the governor.

“We’ve seen some stabilization in most parts of the state,” said Newsom. “At the same time, we can quickly find ourselves back to where we were just a few weeks ago, a month ago, with significant increases if we do not maintain our vigilance.”

“This virus is not going away,” he warned. “It’s not just going to take Labor Day off. It’s not going to take Halloween off. Or the holidays off.”

“Until we have quality therapeutics, until we have a vaccine, we are going to be living with this virus,” predicted Newsom.

“We anticipate the second wave in the fall,” he said. “And that second wave also challenged by…flu season on top of COVID-19.”

Today it is Ken Cuccinelli.

Economists at Yale University found no evidence that the $600 weekly jobless benefits Congress authorized in March reduced employment. A study from the Chicago Fed had similar findings. The studies' results directly challenge a claim frequently made by Republican lawmakers and members of the Trump administration that the extra unemployment payments decreased people's desire to reenter the workforce. The expanded benefits from the CARES Act, a $2.2 trillion stimulus package passed in March, are set to expire on July 31.

Screwed up the title in my other post - sorry guys!

Dangerous Liaisons: superb cast except for Keanu, who sticks out like a sore thumb and was rather obviously a cynical casting ploy to get younger asses in seats. It’s especially galling that Uma Thurman, who I think was consistently underrated, gave one of her better performances opposite him (and looked completely correct for the period).

Rules of Attraction: note-perfect work from a cast that isn’t otherwise particularly note-worthy – save for Kip Pardue, who delivers such a wooden scene with co-star Shannyn Sossamon near the end that her reaction seems to be less to his dialogue and more to his bad acting.

Gosford Park: Stephen Fry is misdirected here, but the real clunker is Trent Ford, who can barely recite his lines. It’s thrown into glaring relief due to the fact that Ford’s character, Mr. Blond (that name!), only makes any kind of sense if he’s Lord Rupert Standish’s lover – although his actions in the film seem conclusively to show that he’s not.

If not, did you like Push It? That song is still a BOP years later. Or any of their songs?

What was the talk about them when they came out?

Starting a new thread because the previous one was Muriel'd.

I'm rewatching early Sheffer era ATWT. I'm into early 2001 now. Summer 2000 was just so delicious with the long-awaited end of the Lily/Rose storyline and Rose getting revealed and then Holden catching Lily making out with Simon on an island. It was all so well done. Bringing back Iva to retcon Rose into Lily's twin just worked for me for some reason. I also love the whole Endicott Awards with Katie finally getting revealed as faking her own stalking to steal Molly's job and knowing about the Lily/Rose switch all along. That material is all dynamite, and pretty much from July 2000 - September 2000, ATWT is firing on all cylinders (for what would be the last time?)

By fall 2000, I started to notice some of Sheffer's more annoying tics start to pop up. In his effort to "give the men their balls back," Jack and Hal become complete assholes. The storylines aren't exactly anything to write home about either -- Craig selling illegal microchips or whatever and Hal trying to nail him on it is all pretty lame. Molly being visited by [italic]Another World's[/italic] Vicky Hudson (in ghost form) shouldn't work at all. And yet, it's clear that Sheffer has earned incredible good will among the writing staff and the actors. The day to day episodes are quite good, even when the storylines shouldn't work. I noticed a particularly witty script, and sure enough, it was a Marie Masters script. And the actors are playing the heck out of the material. Colleen Zenk-Pinter is clearly loving the breakdown of Barbara's marriage, and Barbara has become a TOTAL bitch (lol), but she's clearly enjoying the first material she could sink her teeth into in a long time. I know it's going to get ridiculous eventually after she gets burnt and they eventually have her jumping out of courthouses, but for now, the darker Barbara is just great. Hunt Block was a decent Craig recast for the first few months. Yes, a little darker than Scott Bryce's take on the character, but I can see a through line. But it's starting to go south as he becomes more mustache-twirling.

I'm up thru January 2001. For now I'll keep going. I know it's going to get ridiculous and over-the-top at some point. But it's quite good. I saw Lauren Martin's last episode as Camille for probably the first time since it aired 20 years ago. She had very little to do her last year or so there, but her last episode with her saying goodbye to John at the train station was quite a tearjerker! Surprised no other soap ever picked her up. She was very beautiful. I saw Andy leave. It was sold as just a temporary leave as Andy went to rehab, but that's it.... Andy never appeared again for the next 10 years. At least we never had to deal with an awful recast. Can you imagine Steve Burton or some other ABC actor as a "hunkier" Andy Dixon? Our beloved Scott DeFreitas was the HEART and SOUL of ATWT.

Saw an ad for GL at the end of an ATWT episode... Prince Richard is not the legitimate Prince of San Cristobal. As much as I loved this period of ATWT, I remember this as an awful period for GL. I stuck by GL for the clone, stuck by for the Nursery Rhyme Stalker, but once it became 100% mafia/San Cristobal, I stopped watching. I didn't come back to GL until Millee Taggart's tenure in 2002 (and by then, I remember thinking ATWT had gone south again. They could never both be good at the same time.)

Anyway, sorry for rambling. There is nobody else I can talk about this with outside of DL, lol.

The numbers are becoming non-existent for the network now. The word is that it's now officially facing the ax. I never saw the show. Is it that bad? People said that after the first episode, it was all down hill from there.

Here’s your first look at Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched in Ryan Murphy‘s Ratched!

The show is a prequel of sorts to the iconic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest villainess.

Here’s a synopsis: Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning and as she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies a growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that true monsters are made, not born.

The cast also includes Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover, Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson, Charlie Carver as Huck, Alice Englert as Dolly, Amanda Plummer as Louise, Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gov. George Wilburn.

All eight episodes will premiere on Netflix on September 18.

[Quote]David Muir was in the list of People’s Sexiest Man alive in 2014 with the likes of Chris Hemsworth. One year later, he was rumored to be in a relationship with his fellow journalist Gio Benitez. This news broke the heart of Muir’s fangirls all around the globe. Media spotted and pictured both of them together several times hanging out at gay clubs. Many assumptions were made, but any of them neither confirmed nor denied any of those rumors.

A 3-bedtoom, 3-bath apartment in a handsome building. An excellent plan and simple, classic detailing (and nice metal casement windows.) The only complaints a 9'4" ceiling height which is baseline luxury, and a $6k monthly fee which likely holds the price down to what otherwise seems reasonable.

Hunter College surrounds it to the north and east, two blocks west across Park Ave to Central Park.

Was it the stepfather who molested her as a teen and when Ellen reported the abuse to her mom, her mom refused to believe her? And instead of raging on her mom and stepfather, she projects her anger and feelings of childhood powerlessness onto her employees?

What about her natural father? Obviously, he also failed to protect her. He died in 2018.

What's your theory?

He’s quite a vain little thing isn’t he?

“Oh happy Pride, here’s a picture of me pouting and looking off thoughtfully into the distance with my sexy hair.,. I added a rainbow filter to gay it up...”

Oh, who are we kidding? Back to the Winter Garden we go...

They have crossed the line time after time by bringing back shows that were crap to begin with and bombed in syndication and on DVD. That should send the message that WE DO NOT WANT THEM BACK BECAUSE WE DID NOT WANT THEM THE FIRST TIME!

Anyone have any idea why this guy never wears shoes?

Now that Aaron has "broken up" with Manica and the other thread has been paywall locked, let's continue the discussion here.

The entertainment, travel, and hospitality industries are going to be devastated.

We heard about CAA today.

Airlines are next, as soon as their CARES act rules expire.

Vegas Casinos already gave notice of WARN, before they start laying off employees in August.

Restaurants are closing left and right.

Who's next? We are in for a world of hurt.

Obesity is not defined by one’s weight or size, but by whether a person’s body fat impairs their health, according to new clinical guidelines for managing the condition.

The guidelines, developed by the Obesity Canada and the Canadian Association of Bariatric Physicians and Surgeons, describe obesity as a complex chronic disease, one that cannot simply be resolved by eating less and exercising more. And while obesity is traditionally defined as having a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or more, the authors offer a new definition.

“It’s not about the amount of body fat, it’s not about where the body fat is. It’s not about the type of body fat,” said Arya Sharma, scientific director of Obesity Canada and one of the more than 60 authors. “It’s just a very, very simple question. And that is: Does this person’s body fat or excess body fat affect their health? If it does, we’ve got obesity. If it doesn’t, we just have a large person with a lot of body fat.”

If you have money app Venmo you can search Aaron Schock and see who he has had some transactions with. It’s all workout and food related. He clearly doesn’t do transactions with his clients on there, where it’s public who he is sending to or who is sending to him.

Pretty fun though.

Do you find him attractive?

I don't. His head is too round.

He looks like a cabbage.

Armie Hammer

I choose Maurice from Bewitched

It looks like it has nothing to do with the source material but aside from that it seems like it could be an interesting watch.

Katy Perry said she and Orlando Bloom are bound by 'spiritual evolution': 'He gets up at 7 a.m. and chants for an hour'

In an interview with The Times of London, Perry said that she was unaware Bloom was on a self-imposed six-month sex ban when she met him in 2016.

"I had no idea that was the case. I met him in 2016, we were both on a different journey," Perry said.

"He's very sensitive. Very emotionally evolved. He gets up at 7 a.m. and chants for an hour. One of the things that binds us is our desire to be more spiritually evolved? And our desire to investigate that realm? One of our main love languages is the spiritual evolution," Perry said.

"We love mysticism, conspiracies, aliens, all that stuff. We love an adventure of the mind. That's definitely something we are bound by."

Perry has previously spoken about spiritually before in an interview with Vogue India in which she called Bloom "sage."

"When we first met, he said we would pull the poison out of each other, and we really do," Perry told Vogue India.

"It's exhausting, but we really hold each other accountable. I've never had a partner who was willing to go on an emotional and spiritual journey like Orlando. It's challenging, because you're facing all the things you don't like about yourself. It's like a never-ending cleanse."

Perry and Bloom were together for a year before splitting in February 2017, but then reconciled in February 2018 and became engaged in February 2019. In March 2020, Perry announced via a music video that she and Bloom were expecting their first child together.

Bloom has a nine-year-old son called Flynn with his ex-wife Miranda Kerr, who Perry said she is close with. "She's got three boys, so I ask her for all the tips," Perry told The Times.

He's going to enjoy prison, thugs with BBC.

Billy Joe enjoyed being raped by an older man. So he kills himself because of the guilt?

This bullshit is absurd.

last thread just got payrolled after only 21 days

a number of top foreign players have pulled out of the USO

given the problems we're seeing in baseball, this looks like it's going to be a real shitshow

last thread linked below

Cate Blanchett in The Aviator

Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody

Goop in Shakespeare in Love

I watched one of my camp favorites last night, the deliciously awful "The Fan" with Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and a young and pretty Michael Biehn. Musical numbers, lots of smoking, and slashed throats add up to one of the gayest thrillers ever! I read Bacall didn't realize it was going to be slasher schlock and did minimal press for it. The first hour actually starts off as a decent thriller but in the end, it turns into a typical 1980s horror film. Still, I love it and Garner and Biehn are both hot AF. I'm wondering how a first-time director got Bacall, Garner, and Maureen Stapleton to do this. Was it just for the paycheck for the actors? The book has a different ending and I'm sure Bacall said HELL NO to it.

What are some of your favorite horror films featuring older stars doing it for the money? (Yes, I realize Joan owns this thread...)

My dad was a child of the Depression. He loved headcheese, pickled eggs, and Spam. I never saw him eat a salad. If he had to eat fruit it was a banana, left on the counter until it turned black and gnats were hovering. Then according to dad it was just about ripe.

“What’s your favorite scary movie?” used to be an innocent inquiry until the Scream franchise took the question to horrific territory. Wes Craven’s 1996 horror film became an instant classic the moment we saw ‘90s darling, Drew Barrymore, get the axe within the first fifteen minutes. Barrymore’s epic chase and death scene would be cemented as one of the most shocking turn of events in cinema. Barrymore, who graced the film poster and was pumped in press and media as the star eventually made way for three horror superheroes in Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette who would go on to become the series’ “final girls”. If you’re a horror fanatic, you already know Scream combined the slasher genre with a whodunit murder mystery which captivated audiences and is probably the best horror film of the iconic ‘90s. Fast forward to modern day: We’ve had four sequels to Scream and were due to get a fifth. Unfortunately, the passing of Craven and Cox and Arquette divorcing cockblocked us from the next series in the franchise. Instead, we got a meek, straight-to-MTV episodic series that didn’t live up to the hype and isn’t looped into the series’ cannon. Unfortunately, we’ll never get to see Campbell’s Sydney Prescott unmask another villain, but we haven’t seen the last of the ever-changing Ghostface.

According to Variety, Spyglass Media Group is rebooting Scream with directors Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who helmed the horror box-office surprise, Ready or Not. That’s it – that’s literally all we know so far. But, now horror fans alike can start speculating on the who, what, where, and why! A reboot could mean two things: A, the old cast is coming back to continue the franchise or B, we’re getting an entirely new cast and story. It’s widely known Cox doesn’t want to return to the series, so our best bet may be that we’re going to start anew. However, Blumhouse did just essentially reboot the Halloween AKA Michael Myers franchise with the return of just Jamie Lee Curtis, so perhaps all we need is to see Campbell strutting her scream queenness on screen to jump right back into Woodsboro, California with our favorite character. Some fresh faces, quality-diverse characters, and a solid story can definitely put a modern Scream on the ultimate pedestal. This reboot should definitely be a thumbs up to any horror fan.

While every horror fan is geeking out with excitement, we can’t help but remember that Scream is where Rose McGowan first interacted with the repulsive Harvey Weinstein. Maybe it would be a progressive move to offer her a role in the film as a full three-sixty? Weinstein’s company, at the time, was behind the horror standout. Since that fool’s company has been abolished, Spyglass’ heavyweights Gary Barber, Andy Mitchell, and Milos Brajovic were able to take control of the franchise rights. Horror aficionados will be familiar with Spyglass’ work if you’ve read a previous article I wrote telling you to watch the mind-blowing horror film, Southbound, on Hulu. While reboots are often frowned up and panned by critics and fans – these guys are students of horror and leave no room for us to doubt their ability to deliver a solid piece of slasher cinema.

There’s no word yet on who will lead the film, but you can trust and believe we’ll all find out soon enough! In the meantime, Scream and it’s sequels are available to stream on Netflix – in case you’re wanting to binge on some horror during your Corona-quarantine. But, in the meantime – relive the nostalgia with the original trailer below:

Or am I the only one who finds it sexy? I love tan lines. Turns me on for some reason.

CHICAGO (AP) — She's too ambitious. She's not apologetic enough. She should smile more.

The debate over Joe Biden's running mate has recently ticked through a familiar list of stereotypes about women in politics as the Democratic presidential candidate and his allies stumble through a search they had hoped would stand out for its inclusion and diversity.

Instead, the vice presidential vetting has resurfaced internal party divisions between the old-guard establishment and a younger generation that's more attuned to gender and racial biases and willing to speak out. Some contend it's just more evidence of why Biden needs a woman on his ticket.

“The fact is that although we’ve come really far in the last 100 years, we haven’t come far enough for women candidates to be treated with the same level of decency as the male candidates are," said Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee chair.

Biden, the presumptive nominee, has said he will pick a woman as his number two and he would probably reach a decision this week, though a formal announcement could come later.

The scrutiny of his choices has intensified in recent weeks, while allies have weighed in, sometimes in ways that feed the tensions.

On Monday, Ed Rendell, a former Democratic Party chair and a Biden ally, was quoted in The Washington Post noting that there has been recent buzz about former national security adviser Susan Rice. He observed that Rice was smiling during a TV appearance, “something that she doesn’t do all that readily,” and that she was “actually somewhat charming.”

Rendell, 76, has commented on another candidate's demeanor, too, telling CNN last week that California Sen. Kamala Harris can “rub people the wrong way.”

Some see that sort of commentary — docking women for being aggressive and rewarding them for intangibles such as likability — as the sort of bias they say has dogged women in politics for decades.

Rendell said in a phone interview Monday that any suggestions his comment about Rice was sexist were “ludicrous." He said it was a compliment, a description of a good candidate, no different from when people commented on Richard Nixon smiling more on the comeback trail.

“This country is so nuts,” he said of criticism of his choice of words, blaming it partly on the media. “We’re going crazy.”

Politico recently reported that former Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, the co-chair of Biden's vetting committee, was concerned that Harris, a former presidential candidate, was not sufficiently regretful about attacking Biden during a primary debate. Others have criticized Harris, who is considered a top prospect, as too ambitious.

Stacey Abrams, the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and 2018 governor candidate, was similarly criticized for touting her credentials for the VP job. She pushed back, saying it would be a disservice to women of color and “women of ambition" to not be forthright.

She said Sunday on MSNBC, “When you do something different, when you meet the standards that are normative for men with a behavior that they don’t expect from you, either as a woman or person of color, then you’re going to get critiqued.”

Rice is Black. Harris’ parents are both immigrants, her father from Jamaica, her mother from India.

That some comments and criticism are coming from older, white men with longtime relationships with the 77-year-old, white Biden has been noted.

Glynda Carr, president of Higher Heights for America, a group that aims to help increase Black women’s political power, said she believes it’s a reaction — conscious or subconscious — from male leaders who “may feel their type of leadership will be hard to maintain” with today’s electorate.

Carr compared them, without naming names, to “dinosaurs in extinction.” She urged the Biden campaign to wrap the process up soon.

“I do think the longer we go there are diminishing returns because everybody feels they need to chime in,” she said.

This is so gay

Yeah, she's not coming back from this. Scientology? All her credibility just went out the window.

Duckworth is emerging as the obvious choice at this point.

Private Ivy- Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Univ of Penn, Princeton, & Yale.

Public Ivy- William & Mary, Miami Univ, Univ of California, Univ of Michigan, UNC, UT Austin, Univ of Vermont, & Univ of Virginia.

Why anyone would pick Cornell over the Public Ivy's is an absolute idiot.

Agree or Disagree?

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, previously said the announcement of his running mate would be in the first week of August.

But that announcement has been pushed back.

A source familiar with the process said that an announcement isn't likely next week. According to the New York Times and CNN, the announcement will come the week before the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled for Aug. 17 to 20.

Three candidates, Karen Bass of California, Sen. Kamala Harris of California and former national security advisor Susan Rice, have emerged as the top contenders for Biden's running mate, according to the reports from the Times and CNN.

Harris, who ran for president in the 2020 primary, emerged as an early favorite to be Biden's vice presidential pick. However, over the past several weeks, Bass has been moving up Biden's list along with Rice, according to CNBC.

After Biden in March committed to choosing a woman as his running mate, around a dozen women were initially part of the former vice president's shortlist.

Biden has faced pressure from Democrat to pick either a Black woman or woman of color as his running mate.

In July, the group She The People, which advocates for women of color, outlined concerns about Biden's outreach to women of color, particularly in battleground states. One way to help gain support among the crucial voting bloc was for Biden to pick a woman of color as his running mate, the She the People memo stated.

Biden in a July 20 interview with MSNBC's Joy Reid said four Black women are under consideration, but he declined to name them.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Grocery shelves won't be fully stocked with Clorox's disinfecting wipes until next year, CEO Benno Dorer told Reuters on Monday, as the world's biggest cleaning products maker struggles with overwhelming pandemic-led demand for its top product.

Since the start of global lockdowns, makers of hygiene goods have seen a sustained boom in sales. While California-based Clorox typically holds aside excess supply for flu seasons, it says it has been unable to keep up with a six-fold increase in demand for many of its disinfectants.

The company is currently understocked across much of its portfolio, which includes Glad trash bags and Burt's Bees lip balm. Supply for most products, like liquid bleach, will improve dramatically over the next four to six months - but not wipes, Dorer said.

Clorox products are used in Uber vehicles and United Airlines planes, and are sold by major retailers like Walmart, Amazon and Kroger.

"Disinfecting wipes, which are the hottest commodity in the business right now, will probably take longer because it's a very complex supply chain to make them," Dorer said. Many wipes are made from polyester spunlace, a material currently in short supply as it is also used to make personal protective equipment like masks, medical gowns and medical wipes.

"That entire supply chain is stressed. ... We feel like it's probably going to take until 2021 before we're able to meet all the demand that we have," Dorer said.

Dorer had said in May that Clorox expected to see shelves stocked with wipes by this summer.

Since then, Clorox has made "major" capital investments so it can ramp up output each quarter, including simplifying its disinfectant product line-up at factories that run 24/7 every day of the year. Clorox began outsourcing some manufacturing this year to 10 third-party supplies, and plans to keep looking for more.

On Monday, Clorox reported fourth-quarter sales and earnings that widely topped analysts' expectations, driven by a 33% increase in revenue from its health and wellness business, which makes cleaning products and accounts for more than 40% of total sales.

Where is Aaron right now?

Still in Mexico?

His BFF Eliad Cohen is still living it up in Miami.

I counted at least 14 previous threads, including the one cancelled by Muriel yesterday.

I'm not talking about stand-up comedians or comedic actresses or strictly writers. There are plenty of good -- even excellent comedic actresses and comedians working today -- especially on TV. I'm talking about showbiz BROADS. Personalities. Those women of a certain age who are natural born entertainers -- the ones who made brilliant talk show guests, who gave the funniest speeches at events like AFI tributes, who had a little edge, a little vinegar in them, who were eminently quotable. They may have in fact been actresses and/or writers, but they could shine just as themselves, without a "project". From Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Rivers, Debbie Reynolds, to Nora Ephron to Elaine Stritch. Is there anyone like that left?

Jerry Falwell Jr., the head of Liberty University and a leading voice for evangelical Christians, shared and then deleted a strange picture of himself with his pants open.

The image appears to be from a party on a yacht themed to the cult-comedy TV show “Trailer Park Boys,” with Falwell dressed as the hard-drinking character Julian.

Houston Chronicle religion reporter Robert Downen shared the image.

On the show, Julian – played by John Paul Tremblay ― is just about always seen with a rum and Coke in hand, although Falwell’s caption insisted the drink, in this case, was just “black water.”

Falwell deleted the image from his Instagram and left a close-up photo in place showing him in the same costume.

The Pulpit & Pen website also found video from the event.

A video of “Trailer Park Boys” fans having fun in costume would generally not arouse much attention, but the show is known for its off-color humor centered around sex, drugs, alcohol and foul language. Former Liberty students said the school’s strict code would forbid a gathering such as the one Falwell attended, and some shared stories about being disciplined for wearing yoga pants to a yoga class.

One critic tried to calculate the potential punishments a student in such a video could incur:

[quote] We back. Here are all of the Liberty Way violations and penalties from Jerry Falwell’s 43-second yacht video: $9k. 900 hours service. 40 counts of possible expulsion. — Jonah Schmucker (@JonahSchmucker) August 3, 2020

Others were quick to point out the hypocrisy, especially given that this wasn’t the first time Falwell had surfaced in photos engaging in conduct that wouldn’t fly at Liberty.

Simon and Schuster’s CEO says some have compared her runaway bestseller to “The Godfather.”

Too Much Is Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man sold an estimated 1.35 million copies its first week, per a statement from publisher Simon & Schuster. The tell-all also debuted at the top of bestseller lists in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Ireland.

Go on. 👀

Though it is mostly considered a paragon of high-quality films, there are definitely some glaring head-scratchers scattered throughout. I know it was one of their very early DVD releases, but "Armageddon" is still a baffling entry to me.

It's Back!

She took over the music, fashion, and beauty industries like a typhoon. This year, she is on the cover of all September issues of Harper’s Bazaar from across the globe.

Ya know if any Democratic President said this, Fox News would be ALL OVER IT

Only about two miles from the Las Vegas strip, an ordinary-looking house sits on top of a 15,000-square-foot bomb shelter. The massive doomsday bunker is listed for $18 million, including a 5,000-square-foot home furnished in full 1970s style, plus murals throughout.

Realtor Stephan LaForge told Business Insider that the real draw of the listing is the massive underground property, though the I-beams and underground features are harder to represent in photos than the house's interior. LaForge told Realtor.com that the price reflects the impossibility of creating a structure like this today. It last sold for $1.15 million in 2015.

The house itself is a unique draw and has become somewhat famous. It has five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and a pool, plus a small guesthouse that sits aboveground. It was built in 1978 as a bomb shelter, although it isn't actually protective against a nuclear disaster. Current owners, the Society for the Preservation of Near Extinct Species, added period-appropriate furniture and other improvements that might make the house more livable to potential buyers.

3970 Spencer Street is listed with Stephan LaForge with Berkshire Hathaway Nevada Properties.

From the outside, only the small townhouse is visible.

The underground house is accessible through a staircase from the lower level.

It isn't easily mistaken for the real thing, but the lighting does create day and night effects.

Inside, the home is filled with '70s furniture.

All furniture is included in the price of the house.

The house is actually cooled by eight air conditioning units installed by a previous owner, which ensure good air circulation underground.

It also has more recent additions of repeaters for cell phone reception and Internet.

Lighting changes based on the time of day.

The outdoor-themed area has a six-foot-deep pool and two hot tubs...

Let's speculate on how Mommie Dearest would be different if it was about Ellen Degeneres. I'll begin:

'Portia, bring me the ax.'

Punk would never touch a maskless Florida Karen.

WTF is UP with this butt-ugly turtle face shilling every other second for some Medicare advantage plan on television!? Is he THAT desperate for money?!

Will you be watching?

Am I the only one who ho gets turned on being pounded by a guy who I know is taken?

I'm in Rhode Island and it's tearing things up! There's a rip in one of my screens! What's the damage where you are?

Peter Nicholas writes at The Atlantic:

“We have to be true to ourselves and acknowledge that Biden is a mediocre, milquetoast, neoliberal centrist that we’ve been fighting against in the Democratic establishment,” Cornel West, the Harvard University professor and a Bernie Sanders supporter, told me.

If Sanders’s primary voters stay home on Election Day out of pique, that could damage Biden’s chances, especially in must-win swing states.

Nina Turner, a co-chair of the Sanders campaign, told me she has no appetite for the choice she faces: “It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl of shit in front of you, and all you’ve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing.’ It’s still shit.”

Sophia Loren is a Grand Dame of Italian cooking, for example and her recipes are held in high regard.

Who else?

A gay senator in Ireland has put his social media accounts on private after he was subjected to “blatantly homophobic” abuse from a right-wing political party.

Socially conservative political party Aontú, which was formed in 2019 and has just one elected representative, shared a photograph of gay Sinn Féin senator Fintan Warfield, which was taken from his personal Instagram account. The photo showed Warfield wearing a Speedo along with a t-shirt bearing a picture of Pope Francis.

“Why is a Sinn Féin senator purposely seeking to offend people’s religious beliefs?” the tweet said.

Aontú deleted the tweet on 31 July following a barrage of criticism, with many accusing the party of targeting Warfield because of his sexuality.

[QUOTE] The surveys conducted over the past month put Biden in an enviable position. He has a greater advantage over the incumbent going into the final few months of the campaign than any challenger since Bill Clinton in the summer of 1992.

The gay ecstasy of the Village People

In our latest essay in which a critic reflects on culture that brings them joy, Jack King explains why, for all their cheesy reputation, the YMCA hitmakers fire him up like few others.

Dozens of exhibits related to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were unsealed on Thursday evening, providing insight into allegations against the financier and his purported 'madam,' as well as other high-profile individuals, including Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and several other people whose names one can only guess (and the internet has).

The documents, related to a 2015 civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, were ordered to be released on July 23 by US District Judge Loretta Preska - which also included flight logs from Epstein's private jets, as well as police reports from the multiple locations where Epstein maintained residences.

Among the findings:

Bill Clinton was allegedly on pedo island with '2 young girls'

I mean it wasn't like he was playing Superman or James Bond.

She’s really rude and arrogant. She was nasty to Judy Woodruff, of all people, in an interview tonight.

It couldn't happen here, right?

UK eldergays tell us what is going on.

Is it better in Ireland and elsewhere where you have to obtain a license from the gubmint to keep a tv?

In your opinions? I would say this is the first thing that always comes to my mind.

I never knew this was out there..... it takes a few takes to get going..... but she was amazing...even in a screen test.

Still happening

Because part one is almost full yet the dumpster fire continues

What a brilliant speech.

This is why you don't buttfuck dead: bodies

Who’s The Boss is getting a revival series!

Alyssa Milano and Tony Danza are set to reunite and star in a sequel series to the original 1980s show that they starred in as father and daughter duo Tony and Samantha Micelli.

Deadline reports that the sequel is in development at Sony Pictures Television and will take place 30 years after the original series.

The new show will now be about Samantha, who is a single mom living in the same house.

The sire also reports that Judith Light and Danny Pintauro, who played Angela and Jonathan on the show, are supportive of the revival and there is hope that their characters could find a way to bring them back as well.

Alyssa and Tony will also serve as executive producers, alongside Norman Lear.

Burger King employee shot over order taking too long.

I mean the manuals back and forth was like a fucking script.

Just in case the convo wants to be continued about new DL Fav Harrison.

Who is it?

Take my poll

I hope she gets custody.

The actress took a shower at the beach after sunbathing in cropped black bralette top with yellow bikini bottoms with her female friend during vacation.

Just watched him on Dave Rubin. I always hoped he was family but on the other hand I did like what he had to say about how we should focus on not only improving both parties from within, but also in the necessity of reaching out and communicating with people you disagree with. Although he admits that he believes that white privilege exists, he doesn't believe it's institutional and doesn't believe that the government is actively trying to suppress people. If I were Rubin, I would have asked what institutional laws need to be passed knowing that institutional protections do not protect from unconscious bias. He also says that whe will carry a concealed weapon when he becomes an adult, which shocked me. He also says that even though he's pro gun control, he disagrees with a lot of the messaging from the movement he helped start and that he and Hogg don't necessarily see eye to eye.

He also appeared on Ben Shapiro's show knowing that he would be criticized just for that alone. He sounds very mature for his age and admits to not knowing everything, which is refreshing to hear. As someone who doesn't identify with either political party, watching him being interviewed gave me a lot of hope for future generations.

The previous thread is now paywalled, and was almost at 600 posts anyway. So, here's a new one.

Poll Troll, please continue to bring us good news.

New polls this morning from CBS News / YouGov:

NORTH CAROLINA:

Biden 48%, Trump 44% (Biden +4)

GEORGIA:

Biden 46%, Trump 45% (Biden +1)

I would worship that all day.

I swear straight men have the best asses.

By losing it I mean any act that made you feel you were no longer a virgin. When I was 21 I met a Marine at a bar in San Diego. I took him home and we fucked for hours.

Well?

According to a former member of the Royal guard who worked on Prince Andrew’s security detail, The London Metropolitan Police have destroyed evidence that could have revealed where Prince Andrew was on the night that he is accused of having sex with a teenager that was being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The night in question is March 10th, 2011, as well as the morning hours of March 11. Virginia Giuffre, who was known by the name Virginia Roberts at the time, says that she was taken to London by Epstein and Maxwell and was expected to have sex with Prince Andrew.

Giuffre says that she was just 17-years-old at the time and remembers being taken to the “Tramp” nightclub in London, as well as one of Maxwell’s homes in the city.

Andrew was questioned about Giuffre’s accusations during an interview with BBC, and he made numerous mistakes and fumbles that brought his credibility into question.

In the interview, Andrew vehemently denied knowing Giuffre and insisted that he was not at that nightclub on March 10th.

Man: "It's my penis."

Cop: "It's your penis, alright..."

Love her, but damn, she's got an Adams Apple...,

Bigger than mine... And I’m a top!!! What gives???

One of my favorites! Anyone else love this movie? I feel like it was very ahead of it's time and it's very funny. Love Whoopi! Great Christmas in NYC Movie!

This Brazilian trans woman must have money coming out the Wazoo! Who can afford this vanity without a sugar Daddy. Wow. I remember when she was Rodrigo and he looked a bit off to me back then.

Your favorite melodramas, mine is Dark Victory, in spite of George Brent.

Post clips if you can.

So young and pretty. Love this pic of her and Mark

Reacting to the report, Joe Biden slammed Trump’s record of “deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin.”

Buckle-up, bitches! The first thoroughly developed documentary about the Golden State Killer after his arrest and positive I.D. debuts tonight on H.B.O.

Comedian Patton Oswalt's late wife Michelle McNamara spent years investigating the decades-long unsolved murders of this serial killer from California. McNamara never lived to see her book published or the killer I.D.'d and apprehended on the eve of his sentencing ‚— Joseph D'Angelo is expected to plead "guilty" to 13 murders tomorrow.

H.B.O.'s documentary series looks to be as much about McNamara as D'Angelo, for better or for worse. But it's getting good reviews and it's just one of the MANY movies and docs you will see in the future about this absolutely frightening, cunning and gruesome serial killer.

Starts at 10 p.m. E.T.

Americas are the most selfish asshole cunts in the world!

The world is on the edge of its seat in anticipation.

She would have been an heiress and an authoress.

Hi, I am really curious what Americans think about German/Bavarian food, culture, men and the language! What have been your experiences in Germany or with German food and language? I am dying to know!

Also, what do you think are misconceptions (some) Americans have about Germany or Bavaria? Maybe some you kow from personal experience from friends, relatives, etc.

I am excited for answers.

I'll start

Plastic Carpet Runners/Protectors everywhere

Next....

"First they came for the blacks and I said nothing..."

What do you think Ghislaine is doing right now? Do you think the girls have 'piped the new baby' yet?

What are some bad acting traits in your opinion?

Actors and actresses overemphasizing the f word in a sentence. Not doing that feels like acting 101 - yet I see it all the time.

...but now find them embarrassing

I'll start: Mariah Carey

Yet again we've been paywalled.

Ben is fugging out big time and is looking more and more like Phil but we're getting plenty of tepid Ballum action as Bowden and the other one try to make their snogging sessions look convincing. They should take lessons from the Skam actors.

A restaurant owner is drawing waves of online praise with his response to the “selfish” influencers who ask him for free food.

The man, who goes by the username UnBassador on Twitter, explained that his family owns a restaurant on the Greek island of Kos.

Kos, known for its sandy beaches, is a popular tourist destination. As a result, UnBassaador said on Twitter that he receives “dozens” of messages from social media influencers each year.

In a now-viral post, UnBassador revealed how his family handles those messages, which almost always involve a request for free food.

UnBassador shared an example of a request from an influencer, who said they’d promote his business in exchange for free food.

The restaurant owner replied by explaining that he does not offer food in exchange for “promotion.” Instead, he charges influencers full price, then donates an equal amount of food to charity.

“Thank you very much, however our restaurant has a policy,” UnBassador wrote in a Reddit post expanding on his story. “We charge every influencer who wants to eat here normally, however we offer food of equal value to people in need instead.”

The restauranteur went on to tell the influencer that, by paying for their meal, they’d essentially be buying one for someone in need.

“In that way, we gain publicity from your posts, and you improve your brand by showing that you return something to the community,” he told the influencer.

Unfortunately, UnBassador said no one has ever taken him up on his deal. He added that they often don’t even respond to his message.

“Dear influencers: You are just making a fool of yourselves by trying to create a fake cosmopolitan lifestyle based on begging,” he added on Reddit.

The post drew thousands of responses on both Twitter and Reddit, with many praising UnBassador’s solution. Many users also slammed the “selfish” influencers who reject his deal.

“Wow. Really shows how the influencer culture is full of utterly selfish narcissists. These people really think that because they have an arbitrary amount of followers on social media, they’re so important that places will give them free s***? My god, it’s mind-numbingly pathetic,” one Reddit user wrote.

“Wow perfect response to this toxic vanity problem,” another added.

For months now I've been tingling weak legs, lightheaded, dizziness, nausea and headaches. I've lost close to 50 pounds and generally feel like shit.

I've had acid reflux for 13 years and it's become worse lately.

I saw a cardiologist who gave me an ECG, a heart echo, a 24 hour Halter monitor, a 24 hour blood pressure cuff and a stress test. All test were normal.

I went to a dentist for tooth pain which turned out to be a gum infection and she prescribed antibiotics which have helped.

I'm still having these episodes of dizziness, lightheadeness, nausea, headaches and fatigue.

My doctor refused to send me for a CT scan saying there's no reason for it and when I asked for more blood work he said my blood tests from March were fine therefore he didn't need to see another set of tests.

My doctor wants me to tart taking Paxil 10mg once per day.

I don't think I'm having anxiety since the episodes come out of nowhere. I'm not hyper ventilating, I don't have a racing heart or any of the traditional anxiety or panic symptoms.

I still believe this is all related to my acid reflux, but my Prevacid isn't doing a good job anymore. Taking two Prevaid made the symptoms worse.

I'm not sure what to do but I sure as hell don't want to start taking Paxil because I've read nothing but bad things about it.

Anyone else rooting for this woman?

Celeste, the young woman in this video, has Turner Syndrome, which is the deletion or partial deletion of an X chromosome in someone with XX chromosomes. She reminds me sooo much of Big Brother's Nakomis from Season 5 with the DNA twist. Her half-brother, Cowboy, was on the show too in case that helps casual viewers remember who I'm talking about. BB fans, do you see any resemblance? I sometimes saw a resemblance to Lily Tomlin here too. Makes me wonder if either of them have it.

It’s their one album I can play from start to finish and never wanna skip a song.

They just released the “Super Deluxe Edition” this past Friday and I am listening to it and it’s such a wonderful album. So many great songs and classics, and even some non classics that are brilliant!

“Something” is my favorite.

I miss seeing some hotties out and about and admiring their beauty, and in some cases befriending them or more.

GOD I MISS IT. I think I’m having an emotional breakdown.

Agatha Christie has been subject to countless and continuing adaptations. That , in itself, is intriguing. But what is your favourite? For all the several attempts, I don’t think there is a consensus on the definitive adaptation.

On the poll i tried to include the most famous ones. Excluded the latest Murder on the Orient Express as I-think nobody liked it much.

My favorites are: And there were none (2015), Five Little Pigs (David Suchet), A Murcer is Announced (both tv versions are great), A Murder On Tne Orient Express (1974, for the scary intro and the boarding and Ingrid Bergman) and Evil Under the Sun (for Nicholas Clay’s bathing suit).

I didn't know this story about when she did "Wildcat" after "I Love Lucy." I always assumed "Wildcat" was a hit since it produced at least one standard, "Hey Look Me Over."

This is material from a new book about Lucille Ball that comes out next week, "The Queen of Tuesday." Its author Darin Strauss is a serious novelist, and it's in part a memoir of his grandfather's entanglement with Ball.

still runnin' against the wind

Last thread was closed out without a link to Part 2. Yes, I searched--didn't find Part 2. If there is already an active Part 2, happy to ignore this one. If not, nerd out here on books you are reading.

You like to nest. We are good at choosing drapes and cleaning. You suck. We can give you children. Help you wax your mustache. Please your conservative parents. Go to company picnics with you and give you hetero respectability. We shine up good. We can help you dress so you're presentable. The advantages are immense. Well?

It's always fascinating when a B-list star equals, or even surpasses, the fame of their A-list rival as they get older. They accomplish this through hard work and/or landing a prime role later in their careers. Here are some examples:

Barbra Streisand will always remain the superior star because of her legendary early career, but Bette Midler and Cher have surpassed her in success in the last 20 years. Both of them are prolific workhorses while Barbra has become lazy and increasingly neurotic with her work habits. If you don't keep your face in front of the public, they quickly forget about you no matter how big a star you are.

Joan Collins is a bigger star today than Elizabeth Taylor was at the time of her death. Even though Taylor's early career was vastly superior to Collins's C-list early career, that all changed when Joan landed the role of Alexis on Dynasty. She literally became Taylor's equal overnight. Collins's death will probably be a bigger deal than Taylor's was.

Joan Rivers became a bigger star than Johnny Carson. Carson was mostly forgotten when he died, but Joan was still beloved and famous. Her death was a much bigger deal than Carson's.

Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury did Mame together on Broadway and were lifelong friends. Bea became a huge TV star when she starred in Maude and later on in Golden Girls. However, Lansbury became the bigger and more beloved star when she starred in Murder, She Wrote.

The most shocking example would be Betty White and Mary Tyler Moore. Who would have ever guessed that Betty would become a much bigger star than Mary? Betty is much, much bigger than MTM was at the time of her death. You can also add Valerie Harper into the equation.

General discussion thread. Anything related to spirituality can be discussed here. Tarot and oracle cards, pendulums, dowsing, readings, healing, Reiki, dreams, shamanism, energy, light work, spirits, meditation etc.

Questions or experiences, share them here!

Wilford Brimley -- an iconic actor who was the face of Quaker Oats for years, as well as a spokesperson for diabetes education -- has died ... a rep tells TMZ.

We're told Brimley passed away Saturday morning at his home in Utah. Sources with direct knowledge of Wilford's health tell us he was in an ICU wing of a hospital on dialysis, and very sick for days.

Wilford had a lengthy career on camera, dating back to the 1970s with over 70 acting credits. He's perhaps most known for roles in cult classic films like 'Cocoon,' 'The Natural,' 'The Thing,' 'Hard Target,' and countless other memorable onscreen appearances, big and small.

Brimley started out as mostly a TV actor, landing one-time roles on TV series like 'How the West Was Won,' 'Kung Fu,' 'The Oregon Trail,' and then eventually ... a recurring part on 'The Waltons.' He went on to star in a bunch of TV movies, such as 'The Wild Wild West Revisited,' 'Amber Waves,' 'Roughnecks,' 'Rodeo Girl,' 'The Big Black Pill,' and so on.

In the '80s, he started breaking out into more traditional films, appearing in flicks like 'High Road to China,' '10 to Midnight,' 'Tough Enough,' 'Jackals,' 'End of the Line,' and a bunch of other B-movies where he'd often play an authority figure or a grandfatherly figure with his deep, comforting Southern accent. One of the best character actors without a doubt.

He went on to star in countless other movies and shows, notably on 'Our House,' in which he starred in over 40 episodes, as well one-off appearances in hit series like 'Walker: Texas Ranger,' 'Seinfeld,' and so many others.

Folks might remember Wilford more for commercials though over the years -- specifically, his campaigns with Quaker Oats through the '80s and '90s, and maybe even more memorable ... his classic diabetes ads for Liberty Medical -- which was often spoofed, but also beloved.

Wilford was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus in 1979, and managed the disease ever since then -- obviously, he was very open about it. The American Diabetes Association honored him for his lifetime of advocacy in 2008.

A rep for Wilford tells TMZ, one of his favorite quotes was from a sign at a blacksmith's shop. It read, "There is nothing made, sold, or done that can't be made, sold, or done cheaper. If price is your only concern, please do business with my competitor."

He's survived by his wife, Beverly, and his three children.

Wilford was 85. RIP

Eldergay here and I don’t get it. Make me understand.

Oh no! Mulan was my favorite when I was a child.

I think it's one of DL's "pet movies," based on mentions here over the years. I've finally seen it... and I have more questions than answers!

Explain the whole Burt Reynolds mystique, please! (My mom was a fan.) I guess he's attractive in a caveman kinda way, he has a cute giggle--but he seems bored with his obnoxious character. I know I am.

I liked Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman, but why has she been styled like a developmentally-challenged person? I mean, for reals. In the knit hats that look very "special ed." She also seems cranky most of the time. Did cranky = funny in 1979?

Candice Bergen looks hot in her slutty boho-disco clothes. Her bad songs are fun, but she doesn't get much else to do.

How was this movie a monster hit? It felt like it lasted 4 hours.

It's a stupid title, I know, but I guess I'm trying to insert some comedy into a subject that freaks me out.

I've had problems with reflux for about two and a half years, and at first I thought it was stress-related (things were very stressful and I was eating very irregularly). I would take Tums as needed, but they were clearly just a temporary solution. I was prescribed Pantoprazole and have been taking it now for a good six months or so, but I've never had to be on a long-term medication and this scares me. I don't want kidney damage. I've tried varying my diet and the times of day I eat, but if I don't have the medication, within 48 hours I'm burping hardcore acid up my esophagus. I still burp even with the medication, it's just thankfully not fiery acid from hell.

My biopsy has finally been scheduled so they're going to go down my throat and see what's up, but I'm scared as hell. Have any of you come out the other side of having reflux problems cured? Have any of you used Panto or other medications? Tell me please that I can live a life again where I can eat without having to take drugs to do it...

My ginnie is tingling with this news!

Like, I find Colin Farrell to be always mussy juice inducing. Your nomination?

The victim is always someone who "lit up the room" whenever they walked in.

The crime "shook the community to its core."

New evidence "turned the case upside down."

The perp is a "monster" according to an angry, teary-eyed family member of the victim.

Who’s power is out? Where are you?

He’s to sexy to be single and apparently still is. I’ve never really seen a female on his IG feed, in stories or pics. He always takes pics of his dogs and there is always a male normally taking his videos. Anyone know his story?

Neil Young just went after President Trump's campaign in court for using his songs at rallies ... and the rocker isn't pulling any punches.

In his lawsuit, Neil claims the President's campaign is still playing his classics "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Devil's Sidewalk" at rallies. According to the docs, Neil says he "in good conscience cannot allow his music to be used as a ‘theme song’ for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate."

He's made no secret of the fact he's no Trump supporter, but does say in the lawsuit he's not trying to disrespect people who are.

He alleges the campaign did not have a license or permission to play his songs at any of Trump's public events. And, Young says it's not like this is anything new, either.

Neil's been pissed at Trump's campaign, and warned it to stop doing this when he was a candidate back in 2015. Neil's joined a long list of artists who are telling Trump's team to cut the BS. Tom Petty and The Rolling Stones are just some of the other acts who've gone after the campaign.

Neil wants damages and an injunction to ban him from playing it at campaign rallies.

The longtime mayor of Luray, Virginia (population 4,895) is facing calls for his resignation. Barry Presgraves has been the town’s mayor since 2008.

For whatever reason, Presgraves thought it would be funny to throw another name into the mix.

“Joe Biden has just announced Aunt Jemima as his VP pick,” he wrote in a Facebook post...

I was browsing on a film forum recently and read a post by someone who, after having viewed all of the films in the Criterion Collection's "Dietrich & von Sternberg" set, was surprised by "how limited of an actress" Dietrich was. The von Sternberg films she starred in are the ones I am most familiar with, but I never thought she was any more limited than most actresses of the period—she was dazzling onscreen, and her performances in those films always registered as strong but understated to me. What do you think?

Doesn't one?

Help me out DL!

More of our beloved and sexy senior men.

I can't get enough of them.

That is the coolest name ever. Why have I never heard of it before?

If I had a kid, I'd change his name to Isaias.

If I were king I'd make everyone change their name to Isaias.

A couple of us would prank a mean old lady who lived in the neighborhood. She would blow a whistle, threaten to call the cops, cuss up a storm and tell us to quit calling her "household" and threaten to kill us "kiddies". Three way tricks were great if you timed them right, 3 people on the phone all had to have three way calling and two would call a different person at the same time. If they managed to get into a fight over who called who, we considered the call a success.

This old lady fights with herself, John Wayne, Dr. Phil and Richard Simmons.

I live in my mom's basement and work sporadically. I just got fired as a barista, but I have an interview at 7-Eleven tomorrow. My real career is my smartphone.

Past or present. Top or bottom daddies.

I would braid my sister's doll's hair when they showed me how to do the 3-way braid.

Did your parents tell you to stop?

Wow! He makes me so hard. Want to pound him and give him all my loving (and seed lol)!

Who knew? Looking good in the Hamptons.

I haven’t heard much about this Pretty Little Liars in a pretty long time. He seems to have been doing smaller roles since PLL. Any gossip, girls? Thoughts on his looks and persona please.

Why are you so eager to do it? I understand getting a blow job, it's sweet. Mutual handjobs. Fucking or getting fucked. 69 oral pleasure.

But what's great about merely giving a blow job? The only way to cum from it is to use your own hand, and you can use your own hand any time you want without the hassle?

The last thread got paywalled. Any new gossip, or blind items which might be about cast members? I haven't come across much recently, other than the things about the Richard Madden/Froy Gutierrez relationship which other members have documented in their threads, and the news about Sophie Turner having a baby with Joe Jonas. Alfie Allen seems to have broken up with another girlfriend (the artist he was dating most of last year) but haven't heard any details on what happened. Any signs of cast members quarantining with each other, or meeting up despite lockdown?

Enjoy

If these two crazy kids can’t make it, what about us? True love no longer exists 😞

Still not sure why celebrities pay big bucks to interior designers to make their living rooms look like high end Pottery Barn cast offs though

Let's discuss the girls, eh.

Inspired by the latest Silvo Horta news that meth addiction was a serious factor in his life/career imploding.

It seems like every person who uses meth ends up destroying their lives.

Does anyone ever escape unscathed?

Why does anyone try it anymore?

Brought to you by rising media star, the handsome 6'1 26 year old Omar Jimenez!

Some tweets are gone, as he deleted his account a while ago when people first started finding his deplorable shit, but some people screenshot a few. He’s human trash.

Tell me what it’s like to collect a pension?

Continue discussing DL's favorite Canadian and his boyfriend here

So... today, they are connecting the CEO of Wayfair to Jizzlane, claiming that Tom Hanks is running a Pedo ring through Wayfair by posting SKU codes and trying to make out Trump to be a long-time FBI informant, who is a wholesome family man out to get child abusers. See this woman’s Instagram for a condensed version. These people are beyond insane!

Greitens had been charged with a felony in 2018 connected to allegations of violent sexual misconduct. Though the charge was ultimately dropped, the Navy wasn’t ready to welcome the former governor back at a time when the military was facing intense criticism over its response to sexual assault in its ranks.

It was after the intervention of Vice President Mike Pence’s office that Greitens was allowed to return as a reservist, the documents show.

Horrible story.

The 36,000-acre property, Whitney Park, is being sold by John Hendrickson, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hendrickson is the widower of Saratoga Springs philanthropist, socialite and thoroughbred racing owner Marylou Whitney. He inherited the estate after Whitney’s death last year.

Whitney Park has 80 miles of roads, 22 lakes, a timber operation, a trapper’s cabin from the 1800s and an Adirondack great camp, according to the Journal. The great camp, Deerlands, has 17 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. Its two-story boathouse on Little Forked Lake has a collection of antique guideboats and 25 canoes, which Hendrickson told the Journal he plans to sell with the estate.

Whitney Park was established by William C. Whitney in 1897, according to Adirondack Life magazine. Whitney consolidated 80,000 acres at the time for $1.50 per acre.

Marylou Whitney inherited the property after her previous husband Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney died in 1992, according to the Journal.

In 1997 under the Gov. George Pataki administration, the state of New York purchased nearly 15,000 acres of wilderness from Whitney for $17.1 million — with $10 million from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund and help from the Nature Conservancy in negotiating the deal. The move was hailed by environmentalists at the time. The land is now part of the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, which includes 20 miles of trails and several bodies of water, including Little Tupper Lake and Lake Lila, which the state bought in 1979.

Hendrickson told the Journal, for a story published Wednesday, that he planned to sell the property because the estate needs a family to enjoy it and care for it.

“It’s bittersweet that I’ve decided to sell,” he told the newspaper, “but it’s too overwhelming for one man and I don’t really want to be an owner of a country. You can fit 70 Monacos in there.

I'm the best case scenario, managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

I know Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize Theron report EVERY single negative comment on Daily Mail to their PRs. Do you know anybody else that reads online comments whether it be on Instagram, Twitter, Daily Mail, etc?

I know, I know, I sound like QAnon, I must be Boris, etc etc. But with everything that's been going on lately I can't help but notice the growing animosity between black people and white people. It's no longer an individual thing either, it's literally becoming skin color vs skin color. Do you think a race war is on the horizon? And if so when do you think it'll come? I'm curious and I love theorizing about stuff like this.

I'm looking after my neighbors' tabby and flowers while they're away on holiday this week. I barely know the people but they obviously thought I'm trustworthy enough to be left with the key of their home for some reason. I'd love to snoop around the place a bit but I'm paranoid they have secret cams or something like that hidden somewhere and I sure wouldn't want to be recorded sniffing their dad's underwear (yeah, he's pretty hot) or reading mom's secret diaries. Should I do it or not?

I'm Emily Watson's in bed, just had an orgasm voice.

I'm MOST intriguing.

I'm the disclaimer that I am just here for friends and fun as I'm already engaged to my best friend and the love of my life. I can't host.

In the sense of "issues further chipping away at gay history". Trans destroyed Stonewall, our birth moment, and stripped away the story of our fight for our rights. Now, when it comes to AIDS, our holocaust, a narrative is beginning to go around that it only really affected black trans women and black people in general.

I wonder what's next in the "let's erase white gays" lineup?

Also posts that he's addicted to "fetishes." Hmmm, wonder what Archie's fetishes are??

September 16th. Apparently given a hard R rating due to "graphic nudity". Many people think this will be Tom Holland's first nude role. The full cast is also announced here.

Tornado winds!

I'm capable of...ANYTHING.

I believe that televised awards shows are not a forum for public mourning. However, I have not objected when fellow performers have worn black to express their sorrow. My choice is to NOT wear black.

Soap Opera Digest readers should know that mourning a former coworker is no longer entirely voluntary. Those who began by offering black armbands and black veils now resort to extreme tactics in pursuit of their express goal of 100 percent conformity. When performers arrive at an award show, individuals who attempt to force accoutrements of mourning on them accost them. A performer who declines may be accosted at the pre-show reception, again while waiting backstage and again at the press conference after the show.

Offering a "Rest In Power Wilfred" hand fan to celebrities was, in my view, a benign and pro-social act. On the other hand, aggressively badgering performers to compel the wearing of a widow's veil is not only demeaning to those who worked with Wilford, and to the desperate need for performative sorrow across the world, but an offense to those of us who can no longer move our face to display expressions.

By attempting to force 100 percent conformity, these activists are no attempting to make mourning a visible litmus test for separating those individuals who cared about Wilford from those of us who did not. This is a misguided and dangerous notion.

First, it misguidedly politicizes human tragedy. These face masks provide a means by which public figures can appear to make a 'politically correct' statement to mourn a person they barely knew.. Second, any attempt to force conformity to a single social agenda attacks the freedom of expression. The extreme activities that resort to harassment to compel actors and actresses to give a fuck about an 85 year old man are practicing a '90s brand of McCarthyism and their behavior is deplorable. Our community was devastated by political extremists in the 1950s and again became a target during the last presidential campaign. It surpasses belief that men and women in the entertainment field would resort to shameful practices that the enemies of artistic freedom have used against us.

Sadly, it falls to some of us who ardently support mourning for people we care about to resist these tactics by personal example. Believe me, the easy way out would be to wear the vail and keep silent. But I won't, because I don't want these appalling tactics to succeed.

Because he refuted the claim that there are more than two sexes.

This is what gay advocacy orgs spend their money on instead of us.

...and the boy looks good.

If you look at Twitter, everybody is into astrology today, especially millennials, Gen Z and celebrities. It's even bigger than Christianity among younger people.

Do you think there's any science behind astrology? It seems kind of fanciful, but I don't know enough about it to make a conclusive judgment. I will say that I exhibit ALL of the traits assigned to my zodiac sign. It's uncanny how accurate it is in my case. How does it know me so well? There must be something to it, right?

Do you believe in it?

Continue discussing out gay Brockhampton rapper and his boyfriend Jaden

It’s official: Joy Reid will fill Chris Matthews’s 7 p.m. slot on MSNBC, making her cable’s first Black female primetime anchor.

Reid has been named host of The ReidOut, according to a statement by MSNBC. The Washington, D.C.-based show, which is set to premiere on July 20, “will feature one-on-one conversations with politicians and newsmakers while addressing provocative political issues both inside and outside of the beltway.”

“I’m thrilled to have Joy on five nights a week,” said MSNBC President Phil Griffin. “She’s thoughtful and brings so much depth to her reporting. She’s made for this moment.”

The political pundit has hosted the weekend program AM Joy on the network since 2016. She previously served as a correspondent and hosted the MSNBC afternoon show the Reid Report.

“I’m honored and thankful for this opportunity,” said Reid. “I’ll always be proud of the work we did on AM Joy by pushing the envelope and tackling pragmatic conversations. I’m eager to carry that same energy into the 7 p.m. hour where we can continue to build on bringing in diverse, smart, and accomplished voices to the table on topics that are important to our viewers.”

The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news on June 24 that Reid was in talks for the anchor spot, reported that a start date and title is still to be determined; however, the show will continue to be a daily news and opinion program.

Chris Matthews, the longtime anchor of Hardball, abruptly resigned in March following a string of controversial comments and allegations that he had previously made inappropriate remarks to women. During his last show, Matthews said it was time to let a younger generation “take the reins.” MSNBC has rotated hosts in his absence with Reid being one of the regular people to fill in.

Reid isn’t without some controversial remarks of her own. In 2018, the author apologized for old homophobic and inappropriate remarks that had been unearthed.

“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted, have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me,” she said. “For that, I am truly, truly sorry.”

I want him in me, deeply.

Live on the scene!!! Right now! Neighborhood drama.

dumb DL won't post IG links anymore so go to his IG

summary:

-Talks about going in rehab and therapy for alcoholism

-Doesn't want his children to suffer because of his alcoholism

-Says losing the race for Governor caused him not to talk about issues because it was a reminder of failure. -Wanted to suppress his depression.

-Losing made him feel like everything he worked to become was gone so he suppressed.

-Wore a mask and suffered in silence so he forced himself to become busy and pretend he was living his best life.

-Put on an image of perfection and having it all together

-He is on a journey to be whole

-As a result of his actions many rumors came out, some false, some true :disdain

-Says people need to forget about shame and get rid of shame

-Starts talking about Black Lives Matter

-Thanks his "life partner" his wife that is everything he is not and chooses to love him anyway. Thanks her for standing by him and encouraging him.

- He couldn't be the things his community needed him to be because he needs to be better for himself.

Well he’s nude on a beach. So I don’t think it was a private situation

And what would I call the brother of my great-grandfather ?

Giovanni Cianci, music producer of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” since 2017, has been let go from the company after a woman accused him of sexual misconduct in a 2010 incident, Variety has learned.

“Gio is no longer employed by the show,” says a source with knowledge of the situation. Variety has reached out to Cianci and the show’s network, CBSViacom, for comment.

His exit follows a social media post from musician Paige Stark, who also spoke with Variety about the matter, alleging that an incident took place while Cianci was working at Lookout Management, where he was employed from 2002 through 2014. He had expressed interest in her band and the two met during the CMJ Music Marathon conference in 2010. She says he made advances toward her when the two were alone in an elevator, attempted to kiss her and when she resisted, pinned her against the wall. Stark said his aggressive behavior did not stop after she left the elevator and he continued to follow her and a bandmate to a bar, where a male friend she had called met them and eventually forcefully convinced Cianci to leave. She said he continued to “harass” her on Facebook and via text for several months.

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Stark says she kept quiet for nearly a decade because she was “too scared to come forward publicly.” She said in 2017 she emailed Cianci’s former boss at Lookout — and included a screen shot of the email in her Instagram post — but received no reply.

For me it’s watching Match Game repeats from the 70s on GSN everyday at noon.

Those Californians and their crazy food trends.

My condo board, after many years, has decided to stop providing expanded basic cable through our HOA fees. Something about the bulk package getting too expensive. In exchange, we are getting higher speed internet. I have had the luxury of paying less than $60 for every channel Comcast/Xfinity provides (except Cinemax, which I never cared about anyways.) I just checked, and to maintain my current programming, it will cost well over $200.

I've decided to switch over to a streaming service. This will make my Tivo (yeah, I know, I'm old...but I love the old girl) unnecessary. This leaves me with around an $80 budget for TV. I also just cancelled Apple TV and CBS All Access ($15 a month total) from a lack of use, so that gives me a little wiggle room.

The main contenders right now are Hulu+ and YouTubeTV. Hulu is a little cheaper, but I'll need the expanded DVR (9.99 extra) and there is no access to VH1 (which I require) YouTubeTV has VH1, but no Lifetime (shut up, I like it.) It's also more expensive, but includes an unlimited DVR. Unfortunately, the DVR only allows one to keep programs for a specific amount of time (9 months?)

Philo is much cheaper, but includes no local channels.

Anyone else gone this route? Experiences? Advice? Ideas?

And please fuck the whole way off if you are planning on telling me not to watch TV.

You have started 10 threads which have received 105 replies. You have received 4138 WW votes and have posted 2290 replies to threads.

That appears under my account, and it's WRONG! Can someone assume your account credentials and start threads under your account?

What do DLers think of this classic 90s gay film? I imagine some might dismiss it as a "frau film", but I think it's lovely. I adore 90s films and this one is particularly enjoyable. It's directed by Nicholas Hytner, a gay man, and has a very moving performance by fellow gay Nigel Hawthorne. Plus Paul Rudd is adorable in it.

Was it deleted?

I’ll start with mine:

“Thou”

This isn’t about cancel culture, of which I’m totally against. This is a case of YT channels and videos which purport to be about stray animal rescues, but in fact are animals being tortured for the purpose of getting views and subsequent $$$ from those views.

Many people including myself have been trying to get these sick fucks and their sick videos off YT, including myself. You will see that many commenters on these videos are frustrated at how transparently these “rescues” are faked. There are no follow-ups after “rescues” and the YTer just always happens to be there to film dying or injured animals. More often than not these channels are based outside the US. I’d notice channels from Southeast and South Asian countries are into “animal rescues” for views.

This channel appears to be based in Vietnam or I suspect it is. Please if you love cats or other animals, report this video and this channel to YT. Maybe if more people complain this sick fuck will be kicked off the platform and others like him will get the memo to not torture stray animals for money making purposes.

Has anyone gone to get their haircut at a barbershop or salon since COVID-19? If so, how did they take precautions? And if you wear a mask while getting a haircut, how do they get around the band of the mask?

I find him VERY sexy. My friend said “ew”. I will come for his ass later.

What do you think of him?

I’m the bad feelings caused by Jane Curtin’s well-deserved Emmys.

What a lucky bitch that seat is

He is sooooo.....Donald. lol

Well, there you go, folks.

What's his deal? Any gossip?

Finally going to catch this but I am curious if the Directors Cut is better..

Cohen began serving a three-year prison sentence last year for financial crimes and lying to Congress. But when the pandemic hit, he was released in May as part of a nationwide program allowing federal inmates to be transferred to other prisons or confined to their homes. He said that because of his condition — age 53 and with a history of high blood pressure and respiratory problems — continued incarceration at Otisville, where the infection was rampant, would jeopardize his health.

"I've never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people," federal District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said. "How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory?"

A week after tweeting that he was finishing a tell-all book about Trump, Cohen was told by a probation officer that he would have to agree to a complete ban on speaking in public, including by publishing a book, as a condition of continued home confinement, according to court documents. He was asked to sign a form that included this provision: "No engagement of any kind with the media, including print, tv, film, books, or any other form of media/news. Prohibition from all social media platforms."

The form said it was intended "to avoid glamorizing or bringing publicity to your status as a sentenced inmate serving a custodial term in the community."

"I've never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people," U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein said. "How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory?"

Cohen's lawyers said when they asked if that provision could be modified, they were told that the officers would need to discuss it with their superiors. But a short time later, Cohen was placed in handcuffs and shackles and sent back to Otisville.

Trump was under investigation for money laundering and deeply in debt. Three executives died in a helicopter crash. He then tried to seek damages from the manufacturer of a helicopter in which three top Trump executives were killed. Trump filed a wrongful death lawsuit to recover unspecified expenses paid to the families of the executives. All very suspicious.

I discovered these little earwax cleaners/exfoliators/scratchers and I'm crazy hooked on them!

I have a weird obsession about keeping the inside of my ears clean and I always feel like I have wax buildup or that something's blocking them. That isn't the case but these little silicone exfoliators rake-out (or "scoop") wax and are perfect... (PERFECT!) for those insane ear-itching episodes. Truly one of those little discoveries I'm glad I made. They're also made in the U.S. which is a plus. I've never recommended any item or product on DL but I'd suggested you guys order a box of these.

What are some of the products you're loving right now?

Fuck.

It looks ghastly.

My eyes! They burn!

last thread got payrolled

here we go again

It's on Hulu, and I'm watching it for the first time in 20 years. I know everyone knows it is homoerotic, but that is an understatement. This shit is flaming! But surely it was not made that way for a gay audience.

What's the deal with this movie, and why doesn't DL ever at least mock it?

My only brother (age 55) makes bad decision after bad decision and only survives financially on handouts from me and our mother. Of course he rejects any and all advice about how to make smarter life decisions, and has a tantrum if he feels like he has been criticized. Every month or so, I get very close to cutting him off but can’t do it.

Please share stories about other, useless family members here. I am praying I’m not the only one.

As the lockdown ends, royals across Europe are beginning to creep out of their palaces.

Kate and William have emerged, Camilla and Charles have emerged . . .

And today new photos of the recently born heir to the Luxembourg throne, Prince Charles, were posted. His parents, Princess Stephanie and Prince Guillaume, look ecstatic, and the Princess appears to have put on quite a bit of baby weight. Unfortunately, from what is visible, the boy looks like his father. Of course, he's not two months old, so . . .

The priceless Point de Vue et de Gotha magazine has lots of photos up.

One of the happiest royal marriages appears to be that of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden to the self-effacing husband, Prince Daniel. They recently celebrated an anniversary and Point de Vue's headline was, 'In love as on the first day . . ."

I think she adores him. She looks like a nice woman. Her father, King Carl Gustav, was outraged when his second child, the son, was not allowed to be the Heir, despite not being born first, and was open about his feeling that his son had been deprived of his birthright by modern foolishness.

But the thing is, ironically, I think Victoria would have been happier, especially in her earlier days when she suffered from eating disorders and came close to a breakdown, if the throne HAD gone to her younger brother.

Why?

I know there have been a million threads with hot shirtless guys, but I'd love to see a thread with hot photos, short videos or GIFs of guys as they flex.

Hot biceps and hot pits!

Largely Maronite Christian, it's capital Beirut was once known as "the Paris of the Middle East". A long decline seems to be reaching a low-point.

The most iconic time in pop culture?

It was film mostly from her home due to Covid.

Fab!

Do you think he has some sort of hormonal issues? If not that, what do you think caused him to have such an odd body?

Dirk's Twitter account seems to be suspended.

Meanwhile, Jesse has the following cryptic post: "Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm taking a short break from social media to deal with a family matter -- hence why I've been quiet lately. I'll be back… in the meantime, keep fighting the good fight!!"

Ultimate in White privilege. How did it happen?

Would you live here?

Because part three is almost full.

37% Chalamet 19% Cumberbatch

This is what I'm getting off twitter.

Post: She was a bit over the top. Response: Wow. You. Are. Racist.

Post: She was unprofessional. Response: I found her enthusiasm delightful. You. Are. A. Racist.

Post: Too much energy for the morning. Response: Wow. You are racist.

OPINION: Trump’s proposed TikTok ban would silence Black Lives Matter movement, young voices

From 1992.

Is it some kind of mental illness? Do they feel a void when they don't have a baby growing inside them?

Apple Inc. soared 10% Friday after a blowout earnings report, adding $171 billion to its market capitalization, making it the world's most valuable company, at $1.817 trillion (surpassing Saudi Aramco). Despite positive earnings during coronavirus lockdowns, Apple has requested UK retail store landlords to slash rent by as much as 50%.

The Sunday Times reports Apple is pushing for substantial rent reductions across 38 of its UK retail stores and asking for a "rent-free period." In return, the iPhone maker is expected to extend leases by a couple of years, something desperate landlords might have to agree too, considering the implosion of CRE.

Young people are being asked to choose having sex online or over the phone to stop the spread of Covid-19.

It says people should consider masturbating or having 'phone sex' or 'internet sex' to avoid close contact as the country continues to battle against the spread of the coronavirus.

See all you Dataloungers were Irish patriotic and didn't know it.

20. Jennifer Lopez Earns $1,192 per word spoken in every film

19. Sigourney Weaver Earns $1,402 per word spoken in every film

18. Jennifer Lawrence Earns $1,869 per word spoken in every film

17. Neve Campbell Earns $2,010 per word spoken in every film.

16. Nicole Kidman Earns $2,308 per word spoken in every film

15. Halle Berry Earns $2,405 per word spoken in every film.

14. Julia Roberts Earns $2,415 per word spoken in every film

13. Brad Pitt Earns $3,058 per word spoken in every film.

12. Tom Hanks Earns $3,150 per word spoken in every film

11. Jodie Foster Earns $3,265 per word spoken in every film

10. Arnold Schwarzenegger Earns $3,447 per word spoken in every film.

9. Courteney Cox Earns $3,528 per word spoken in every film.

8 Keanu Reeves Earns $3,643 per word spoken in every film.

7. Bruce Willis Earns $4,080 per word spoken in every film

6. Leonardo DiCaprio Earns $4,326 per word spoken in every film

5. Denzel Washington Earns $4,581 per word spoken in every film

4. Cameron Diaz Earns $4,637 per word spoken in every film.

3. Johnny Depp Earns $4,877 per word spoken in every film

2. Kurt Russell Earns $5,682 per word spoken in every film

1. Tom Cruise Earns $7,091 per word spoken in every film.

Casumo, who conducted this study, is explaining, "Over the course of his career, Tom Cruise has earned $7,091 for every word he’s spoken onscreen. Cruise has earned a percentage of profits for each of the Mission Impossible installments, netting him over $200m in total. As for the highest-paid actress, Cameron Diaz took a comparatively meager $1m upfront salary for Bad Teacher in exchange for a percentage of the film’s profits – a decision that awarded her $42m."

Please continue the soothsaying!

Sabotage of a munitions warehouse?

Actor Rory Cochrane is Half Indian (Asian) and Half Irish

Nicki Minaj is Half Indian

Beach resorts along France’s Atlantic coast, picturesque promenades on the Loire River, farmers markets in the Alps — they’re among scores of spots around France where everyone is now required to wear a mask outdoors.

The outdoor mask rules taking effect Monday are on top of a nationwide decree last month requiring people to wear masks in all stores and other indoor public places. Pressure is growing on the government to mandate outdoor mask use on a national level, too.

So handsome.

Such promise,

An Oscar and then *POOF* gone.

Titled "Christmas Set-up"

Hugo, a New York corporate lawyer and his best friend Madelyn head to Milwaukee to spend the holidays with his mom Kate, who is also in charge of the local Christmas celebrations. Ever the matchmaker, Kate arranges for Hugo to run into Patrick, Hugo’s high school friend and secret crush, who has recently returned after a successful stint in Silicon Valley. As they enjoy the local holiday festivities together, Hugo and Patrick’s attraction to each other is undeniable and it looks as though Kate’s well-intentioned Santa-style matchmaking is a success. But as Hugo receives word of a big promotion requiring a move to London, he must decide what is most important to him

Casting is underway - HOWEVER if Lifetime mandate is "Television for WOMEN" why are they doing this movie about gay men? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to do a Lesbian love-story as lesbians are women, hence the mandate for Lifetime is about WOMEN

Years ago, my parents overseas transferred me 62K for house down payment, but in 2019, since I still have not decided on a house yet, I made a foreign transfer back home because my mom fell and could use some money for her treatment. Of course, like a dumb whore, I realize just now that it will be seen as a gift by the IRS and I will have to file form 709. Today, I called the IRS helpline. The guy said since I am only resident alien (green cad holder), the Federal Gift Tax Lifetime Exemptions of 11.4 Mil does not apply to me. Is it true? Did I dig myself into a 10K hole without a way out? Ohh hold me DL, I'm in pain.

Pics appreciated.

Those are exceptionally beautiful breasts.

If he picks Elizabeth Warren, don't get all up in his face about him not picking a black woman. He's been vetting them. She might be the firebrand he needs to go after Pence and the Republicans. If he picks a black woman, but not the one you want, suck it up. You don't think the Republicans aren't going to read what some of you might write? So he'll pick some of the also-rans for VP for his cabinet. We've go to come together and get that asswipe Trump out come November. There are too many articles right now about who Biden should pick. I mean, whoever he picks, the Republicans are going to start picking her apart, so let's get together yeah yeah yeah!

Joe Biden leads President Trump in the polls, and if Biden wins, there’s maybe a 50% chance Democrats will retake the Senate and control both houses of Congress. If that happens, what would the Democrats’ top priorities be in 2021?

Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York addressed that question in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, and said the first priority if Democrats control government next year will be stimulus measures meant to address the coronavirus pandemic that Democrats can’t get passed this year. “I think we’re going to still be in the middle of Covid,” Gillibrand says. “Whatever Mitch McConnell is not willing to let us do, we can pass hopefully as one of the first bills” in 2021.

McConnell, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, has drafted a coronavirus stimulus bill that lacks many things in a separate bill House Democrats passed in May. The Democratic bill includes $3.4 trillion in new spending, while the McConnell bill comes in at $1.1 trillion. The biggest gap is aid to states and cities that might have to slash millions of jobs without it. Democrats allotted $915 billion in aid for states and cities. There’s no such aid in the Republican package.

Democrats also want hundreds of billions in housing and food assistance, hazard pay for essential workers, child-care assistance, Medicaid expansion and other safety-net programs. The Republican plan allots little to those causes. And Democrats want to continue paying $600 per week in extra unemployment insurance to workers who lost their jobs, through next January. Republicans support just $200 per week, with an earlier phase-out.

The two parties are still negotiating the latest stimulus bill, and Republicans will probably have to give Democrats some of what they want. A final compromise bill could total $1.3 trillion to $1.7 trillion, with substantial aid to states and cities. But it nonetheless falls far short of the Democratic wish-list passed in May.

Biden favors higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy, part of his economic plan that has gotten a lot of attention. But don’t expect Democrats to make tax hikes one of their first big moves. It could happen, Gillibrand says, but only to pay for new benefits that have broad support: “Congress would certainly debate issues of taxes to see what makes sense. But I think where we would really want to focus our attention is on access to health care, improving our education system, job training. That's where the common ground lies in this country: health care, education, and jobs.”

Biden would raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, raise income taxes on people earning more than $400,000, and impose other new taxes on businesses and the wealthy. Those are supposed to pay for new measures such as improving the Affordable Care Act, covering college costs for lower-income students, expanding housing aid and other things. So the tax hikes would probably come as revenue raises in legislation to provide those benefits, rather than standalone legislation making it look like Democrats were raising taxes just because they could.

When Democrats won back the House in 2018, they passed House Resolution 1—the “For the People Act”—a sweeping plan to expand voting rights and election security, limit the role of money in political campaigns and limit corporate influence on policymaking. HR 1 was considered symbolic at the time, since there was no chance of the Republican-controlled Senate taking up the legislation. But HR 1 could make a comeback if Democrats seize full control of Congress—which will test just how committed they are to reforming practices that benefit their party just as they do Republicans.

It started with money, as it so often does in New York. A crisp $100 bill slipped across the smooth surface of the mid-century-inspired concierge desk at 11 Howard, the sleek new boutique hotel in Soho. Looking up, Neffatari Davis, the 25-year-old concierge, who goes by “Neff,” was surprised to see the cash had come from a young woman who seemed to be around her age. She had a heart-shaped face and pouty lips surrounded by a wild tangle of red hair, her eyes framed by incongruously chunky black glasses that Neff, an aspiring cinematographer with an eye for detail, identified as Céline. She was looking, she said in an accent that sounded European, for “the best food in Soho.”

I’m the blur filter applied to the ageing leads’ baggy undereyes which occasionally drops out, revealing the dark, wrinkled mess beneath.

Former pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign instead of ruling for life, is seriously ill, a German newspaper reported on Monday.

The newspaper, Passauer Neue Presse, cited Benedict's biographer, German author Peter Seewald, who met the 93-year-old pope emeritus at the Vatican on Saturday.

A Vatican spokesperson had no comment on the report and the former pope's personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, did not immediately return a call asking for comment.

Seewald said Benedict, who has been in frail health for some time, was now suffering from shingles, a viral infection that causes painful rashes and is common among older people.

Seewald said Benedict's voice is barely audible — echoing something other visitors have said for months — and that the former pope told him he might pick up writing again if he regains his strength.

The Vatican, responding to the report hours later, said it was "not particularly worrying" and that the former pope was overcoming the acute phase of a painful but not grave ailment.

In June, Benedict, who lives in a former convent in the Vatican gardens, left Italy for the first time since his resignation in 2013 for an emotional farewell visit to his older brother Georg in their native Bavaria.

Benedict insisted resignation was due to health reasons.

Benedict, who was elected in 2005 to succeed the widely popular Pope John Paul II after a reign of nearly 27 years, shocked the world and even his closest aides on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced in Latin he was stepping down.

He told a gathering of cardinals that he was too old and frail to lead an institution with more than 1.3 billion members.

At the time of Benedict's resignation the Vatican was mired in a raft of financial woes, sexual abuse scandals, and infighting among bureaucrats that led to leaks of important documents.

Benedict said his resignation was due exclusively to health reasons.

Hardline conservatives in the Roman Catholic Church who have been alarmed by Pope Francis's progressive moves have looked to Benedict as their standard bearer. This forced the former pope on several occasions to remind them that there is only one pope — Francis.

July 31!

The frau-iest of drinks! It's the new Zima. Guys who drink it are totally without testosterone.

Be honest.

.....

“My father ignored medical expertise and now he has COVID,” wrote the daughter of the anti-mask Texas Republican, who tested positive last”

Hasn’t he had it for a while? Is he still in the hospital?

Discuss!

The son of a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, has been shot and killed, and her husband shot and injured in an attack at the family's home, according to law enforcement sources.

The judge, Esther Salas, was not hurt.

Francis "Mac" Womack, the mayor of North Brunswick, New Jersey, tells ABC News that the judge's son has died.

The condition of husband was not immediately known, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone told ABC News.

The judge's son opened the door to the family's North Brunswick home at about 5 p.m. Sunday and was immediately shot, sources said.

"He was shot through the heart," Womack said. The son was a freshman at Catholic University.

The judge's husband was then shot multiple times, according to sources.

A suspect "remains at-large," a law enforcement official said.

Investigators have preliminary information that the shootings were carried out by someone dressed as a FedEx driver, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

The mayor said investigators are now "trying to get a hard make on the vehicle" to try and track the suspect.

"As a judge, she had threats from time to time, but everyone is saying that recently there had not been any," said Womack, who is personal friends with the judge and her husband.

In a statement, the FBI Newark office said, "The FBI is investigating a shooting that occurred at the home of Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey earlier this evening, July 19. We are looking for one subject and ask that anyone who thinks they may have relevant information please call FBI Newark at 973-792-3001. We are working closely with our state and local partners and will provide additional updates when available."

The New Jersey State Police, the North Brunswick Police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office are also involved in the investigation. The U.S. Marshals have been called to provide the judge with a security detail, according to a law enforcement official.

Judge Salas had received threats in the past, the sources said.

Authorities are investigating whether there is any connection between those prior threats and the shooting, or whether it possibly involved the husband's work as a criminal defense attorney.

"I know Judge Salas and her husband well, and was proud to recommend her to President Obama for nomination to New Jersey's federal bench," New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said in a statement. "My prayers are with Judge Salas and her family, and that those responsible for this horrendous act are swiftly apprehended and brought to justice."

Salas is the first Latina to serve on the federal bench in New Jersey.

I’ll start:

Leslie Uggams

Mickey Rooney

Perry Como

Shirley Jones

Dinah Shore

Oliver Reed

Welcome!

Hats off to the classiest old whore in the business!

This is why he is holding up the $600.

They kept saying yesterday it's cloudy and we'd expect thunder storms in Manhattan. So I didn't go out.

It was bright and sunny all day. They kept reporting that forecast. They report from the next neighborhood in Manhattan from where I live. How can they be so wrong?

Well?

I'm starting this thread with this Yashar tweet because he's absolutely right. Not a single politician in this country is more reviled on all sides of the spectrum and so unanimously as Bill de Blasio. He has failed time and time again and people in New York City are absolutely fed up with him. This past week alone, his staff walked off the job to protest him, his police commissioner and chief of department nearly quit, a senior advisor resigned, thousands have gathered outside in front of Gracie Mansion calling for him to resign for days on end and his administration is crumbling before our very eyes. It's only a matter of time before he's shown the door. The question is when? Thoughts?

Has anyone messaged him on his alleged new twitter?

@geminiman81

A 30-year-old transgender woman who was arrested earlier this month for allegedly threatening to kill a gay man outside the D.C. gay bar Larry’s Lounge on June 9 after he refused her request for money has been targeting bar and restaurant patrons for assault and harassment in the 17th Street and 18th Street business corridors near Dupont Circle for the past several months, according to several sources familiar with the incidents.

New stud on the circuit. He seems tall and he's blandly attractive with an almost sweet face. He has a gigantic bent torpedo dick. And when he's filmed from the rear (which is not often) you get flashes of the edges of his butt implants showing through his skin.

Rita was walked beside her new lover while they were on the way to a restaurant. Rita Ora wore a deeply plunging gold crop top with a satin blue skirt and was barefooted.

Brought to you by Greg Berlanti and DC Comics, "Doom Patrol" is a whole new live action portrayal of this classic comic featuring:

James Bond in a Wheelchair! (Timothy Dalton), A Self Loathing Closeted Gay Pilot! (Matt Bomer), A Woman With 64 Personalities! (Diane Guerrero from Orange is the New Black), A Vain Movie star! (April Bowlby), A Man Missing Part of His Face! (Alan Tudyk), Brendan Fraser's Naked Butt! (As Itself), Cyborg! (Joivan Wade)

And lots of blood and excitement!

Discuss!

I was raised Catholic, atheist/agnostic now, but I've always been a little fascinated by the Orthodox Churches. I absolutely love Russian Orthodox music (the attached is possibly the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard; its opening bars move me to tears -- yes I know, MARY!!!! -- but so much of the music has a sublime, enteral quality. A friend, raised Greek Orthodox, tells me the music is the one thing she still loves about the faith.

I remember being told many years ago that the Orthodox Churches tend to be more mystical (while Catholicism is more intellectual), which I found to be an interesting dichotomy. Can anybody else weigh in? Was anyone raised Orthodox?

MY OH MY!!!!!!

LOOK AT ME!!!!!

There have been rumors for years that McConnell is gay and that he was kicked out of the military after getting caught having sex with another soldier so why doesn't talk about it or look into it if the Republicans in KY believed he was a fag they'd abandon him instantly.

Is it too much for the DL?

I'm not sure that what Trump is doing has really hit anyone yet. He has basically announced that he will dispute the election results if he loses. Does anyone know what actions Trump could take if/when he loses? Sue the states?

Bette Midler’s Stella at link. Any others?

She had an opportunity over the last month or so to drop the hammer on her racist employer.

Instead, she cashed her huge paycheck and turns her back on fellow Americans and her children who have to live in this racist country.

She, as well as Ben Carson, Tim Scott etc.. need to be held accountable. Where is BLM on the race-baiting set?

Have they gone after Diamond and silk?

COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s 2020 U.S. Senate race is neck-and-neck with just three months to go until Election Day, as Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison’s well-funded campaign appears to have significantly narrowed the gap against Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

Graham led Harrison by just a single percentage point, 44 percent to 43 percent, in the poll conducted by data intelligence firm Morning Consult, well within the survey’s 3.5 percent margin of error.

Republican President Donald Trump, by comparison, holds a five-point lead in the historically red state over Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, 49 percent to 44 percent — though Morning Consult’s tracking data shows Trump’s margin has shrunk from around 15 percent in early June.

Writing “Morning #BearAttack!”

I raised my three boys to be gay, but lately something’s been buggin me. My middle boy Packer just entered high school and got hisself a boyfriend. I think they’ve been foolin round in the basement but when I done asked him if he used rubbers my boy said that he was raw only. His boyfriend’s a senior and has been puttin loads of cum and piss in him regular. I don’t know if it’s a good idea to get a 15 year old boy on PREP but my husbear and me is thinkin of it. We is both poz and we’ve told our boys that it’s ok if they wants to get pozzed too but only when they is old enough to understand the consequences. What should I do?

Cute twink with great assets and a large collection of older men.

What do we know about this Bad Boy from the Badlands? Bae was mentioned in the most attractive politicians thread.

That’s his new nickname. He was discharged from the army for committing sodomy with another male soldier.

This is just ridiculous. Do men like this? I can’t imagine being ok with my partner doing this.

The tide is turning:

We can continue yakking about the old days here... if we so puhlease.

Do you think luxury brands will still be a thing post-pandemic?

I need a man!

It's a supernatural thing based on a series of stories by Joe Hill, Stephen King's kid. It had promise but as the second season has droned on, the unbelievably campy, horrible acting of Zachary Quinto is refulgent. There is no way of ignoring it.

I suppose some of it's the writing, but he controls the character's general traits. I know nothing of Quinto and have only seen him on Star Trek and one of the American Horror Story seasons. He seemed okay then, but this hammy schlock he's doing combined with the obviousness of them trying to stretch and drag the story to make a certain number of episodes may end his career for the foreseeable future. It's really that bad.

Which is better, and why?

“Andrew Cuomo is to Coronavirus what Rudy Giuliani was to 9/11. In a crisis, his authoritarian tendencies get retconned as leadership and their destructive impacts on people forgotten. When it comes time for the next phase of his ambition, there’ll be bewilderment re his behavior.”

Discuss.

He is so hot. That ass is a 10/10. It needs my dick and seed 💦

Bluenjy, the Insta-famous and talented dog, has endeared the masses by eating with chopsticks, gorging on burritos and gnawing on carrots — all by using his paws.

When Sunny Oshan, Bluenjy’s owner adopted the dog, it took her some time to realize he’s deaf. Eventually, she put it all together. This had to be the explanation for his strange behavior: Bluenjy liked to grab everything with his paws.

“When I would hold him, he would grab my hands,” Oshan said according to Tree Hugger. “I thought that was strange.”

Then she realized Bluenjy could actually use his paws to grasp things.

“I was kind of shocked in the beginning. I didn’t know what he wanted. He kept grabbing my hands. I thought maybe I should give him something to eat,” Oshan says. “I think it was a banana the first time. And he held it and ate it.”

Oshan believes that because Bluenjy is deaf, the dog wants to touch and taste more. It’s unusual, sure, but it’s a part of the dog’s charm. That’s why a video of the dog eating watermelon with his “dad” Evan Oshan scored over 157,000 views on Instagram.

In The Know Adorable, deaf French bulldog eats food with his paws like a human Emerald Pellot July 30, 2020, 7:06 AM

Bluenjy, the Insta-famous and talented dog, has endeared the masses by eating with chopsticks, gorging on burritos and gnawing on carrots — all by using his paws.

When Sunny Oshan, Bluenjy’s owner adopted the dog, it took her some time to realize he’s deaf. Eventually, she put it all together. This had to be the explanation for his strange behavior: Bluenjy liked to grab everything with his paws.

“When I would hold him, he would grab my hands,” Oshan said according to Tree Hugger. “I thought that was strange.”

Then she realized Bluenjy could actually use his paws to grasp things.

“I was kind of shocked in the beginning. I didn’t know what he wanted. He kept grabbing my hands. I thought maybe I should give him something to eat,” Oshan says. “I think it was a banana the first time. And he held it and ate it.”

Oshan believes that because Bluenjy is deaf, the dog wants to touch and taste more. It’s unusual, sure, but it’s a part of the dog’s charm. That’s why a video of the dog eating watermelon with his “dad” Evan Oshan scored over 157,000 views on Instagram.

In the clip, Bluenjy and Evan wear matching blue shirts. Evan is upright in the chair and Bluenjy is cuddling right next to him. The Frenchie holds a slice of watermelon between his paws and nibbles at it, just like his dad.

“This little buddy is so cute!” one Instagram user said.

“I am in love with this dog!!!” another wrote.

“It literally never gets old. He’s so cute and I don’t know how he never drops anything,” someone added.

“Honestly, I don’t know. Since all of this has come down, I’ve kind of just watched it go down. He’s living in Wyoming,” Caitlyn said when asked about Kanye. “I wish him well. He’s a really good guy.”

She went on, “He’s been the most kind, loving human being and so good to be throughout the years and he’s been the best friend,” Caitlyn continued. “He’s extremely supportive.”

And Caitlyn was also asked if Kanye would make a good president and she responded, “I can’t even go there – we’re living in such a political environment. I don’t even want to talk about politics anymore.”

Damn damn damn

Silicone Valley needs to start paying us for our data and they need to be more careful of it.

If they have to pay for it maybe they will protect it better.

Be honest.

Post only the last name of someone so famous that people will recognize who it is.

Winfrey

Is this why the Netherlands is sinking?

You will be hearing about this in the coming days or weeks. Rich Juzwiak, who pretends he owns the gay community and preaches to others about being "woke" is facing accusations of sexual harassment from four former Gawker Media and Univision employees. Three of them are men of color. All of them claim they lost their jobs when confronting Rich or human resources. I guess karma is real.

[italic]Hi,

I started working when I was 19 and have been saving half of my salary since my mid-20s. Now at 52, I am tired of both the rat race and workplace politics. With the virus, it feels even worse. I have saved about $800,000 in trading, $800,000 in my 401(k) and $300,000 in a house. I also have six months worth of emergency funds. I don’t have any debt and I own my vehicles, too.

I can easily live on a $60,000 budget (including taxes) but often it is less than that. No one in my family has ever survived beyond 80 years old. Thinking of the remaining days, I wonder should I just retire, do some one-off gig work or learn a language that I always wanted to learn? I just wonder if it is prudent to do so. Or should I keep on slogging another 10 years?

What do you think?

Wondering in Alamo.[/italic]

Dear Wondering in Alamo,

You bring up a question I think a lot of people have been asking themselves lately. The coronavirus crisis has certainly shaken up the way people live, and some of us have been wondering if this is the time to make a big change. But before you do, it’s important that you think about all of the potential consequences on your finances and lifestyle.

Because there are a few personal details missing from your question, it was hard for financial advisers and I to tailor this answer specifically to you. We’d have to know if you’re married, have any dependents, what your salary is roughly, where about in the country you live (I looked it up and there are a few cities named Alamo in the U.S.!) and if you’d have access to health care if you were to leave the workforce. We also weren’t sure what exactly you had included in your $60,000 budget, except for your taxes. Still, the following may help you — and others who are wondering if now is the time to “get out of the rat race.”

Health insurance is probably one of the most crucial — if not the most crucial — consideration you’ll need to make before you leave your job. You’re 52, which means you have 13 years until you qualify for Medicare. Private health insurance can be quite expensive, so if you don’t have a spouse whose insurance can cover you, the premiums alone could take quite a large chunk of your annual budget.

“He is going to have exorbitant rates until Medicare kicks in,” said Michelle Gessner, founder of Gessner Wealth Strategies. The pandemic may also affect how high those rates go in the foreseeable future, especially as hospitals and other medical institutions try to recover from the crisis, said George Gagliardi, a financial adviser at Coromandel Wealth Management.

Even if rates don’t jump because of COVID-19, health care expenses tend to rise, year after year. A single man retiring at 65 years old in 2019 would need $135,000 to spend on health care alone for the rest of his life, according to Fidelity Investment’s 2019 annual Retiree Health Care Cost estimate. That calculation is based on Medicare coverage and does not include long-term care insurance. Between 2002 and 2018, the estimate for health care costs jumped 75%, according to Fidelity’s analysis.

If you would end up needing private coverage because you left the workforce, do your research so that you get the most for your money. Look at the health insurance marketplace, set a budget for yourself, and use comparison sites — being careful to review what is and is not included in the plan so that you are not without services and prescriptions you will need.

I know you said people in your family tend not to live past 80 years old, but you may still want to consider long-term care insurance, Gessner said. It’s not unheard of for nursing homes to cost somewhere around $90,000 a year (or more), and if toward the end of your life you should need some sort of facility like that, you could wind up dwindling your nest egg down to nothing. “He is thinking, ‘Oh I’ll die by 80,’ but that is not a given,” Gagliardi said. Your estimated budget of $60,000 most likely would not be enough to clear your everyday expenses and medical expenses.

“Mama Don’t Preach” by Lourdes Leon

Who are they?

Tom Hiddleston

Colin Farrell

Dylan O'Brien

Ansel Elgort

Anyone else?

Itzik Avneri, the owner of the boat that was docked next to where the attack took place, tried hold back the attackers and even pushed one into the water.

In his testimony, Avneri said: “I have a tour boat in the port, and there was the holiday [Eid al-Adha] for the past few days when a lot of Muslims come to the port to have a good time and take a cruise.

“Two guys got on the boat to go sailing and when it ended, they got off and sat on the dock next to each other. Other people saw them and spat at them.”

He said he asked one of the people why they spat at the couple, and said they responded: “Because we’re Arabs and they’re gays, and there won’t be gays among the Arabs, it gives Arabs a bad name.”

Itzik Avneri, the owner of the boat that was docked next to where the attack took place, tried hold back the attackers and even pushed one into the water.

In his testimony, Avneri said: “I have a tour boat in the port, and there was the holiday [Eid al-Adha] for the past few days when a lot of Muslims come to the port to have a good time and take a cruise.

“Two guys got on the boat to go sailing and when it ended, they got off and sat on the dock next to each other. Other people saw them and spat at them.”

He said he asked one of the people why they spat at the couple, and said they responded: “Because we’re Arabs and they’re gays, and there won’t be gays among the Arabs, it gives Arabs a bad name.”

Democracy is an endangered species in America.

She's fucking nuts. I love her. She has a meltdown every other day.

Words cannot express its unique qualities. Enjoy!

The shirt.

What was her cause of death?

There's no way that such a hot guy factory of a film series didn't have casting couch dynamics behind the scenes of the casting process. I find it hard to believe that most of those guys, if not all, didn't have to either suck cock or bend over to get to play a superhero. So, who are some likely candidates for the marvel casting couch? My money's on Tom Holland. I find it hard to believe that he got such a desired roll so quickly despite being a nobody. He definetly had to do some "favors".

She wore a fantastic see-through velvet mini-dress as she put a busty display as the couple listened to a Fall Out Boy’s song: “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” on their way to a romantic dinner at Malibu hotspot Nobu.

- Retired German national player Thomas Hitzlsperger (came out shortly after retiring) - Ronaldo, obviously

There are dozens I SUPPOSE are gay but don't have much proof for.

Wasn't it that they were "too mean"? I mean, judging by the stories about Ellen now, that seems ridiculous. Was she protecting her famous friends or is she threatened by other female comedians?

Yes, watching the fall of Ellen Degeneris has been done its best to fill the gossip void, but don't forget the thing about being held to a higher standard.

Anyone LGBT, anyone of color, any immigrant, any female, anyone with a poor education or low social class, any one of *us* who makes it to a high-level job or actual circles of power, will even today be treated a bit differently than straight white well-born well-educated man. They'll always be the new kid, the outsider, the test case, and as such they'll be judged more harshly and forgiven less. Yeah, Ellen got away with a hell of a lot for a long time, but not as much as she thought she could.

First - this guy says he's straight?

Second - how does he afford a $250K watch?

You in danger, girl.

And other such DL memes.

How are you prepping for Isaias, northeasterners?

Dave Annable and Odette Annable have announced they are separating after nine years of marriage.

The longtime couple got married back in October 2010 and they are parents of a three-year-old daughter named Charlie.

“It’s with heavy hearts that we have come to the mutual decision to separate at this time,” the couple said in a joint statement to People. “Our daughter is our primary concern and we remain committed to co-parenting her together. We ask that you please respect our family’s privacy at this time.”

Dave, 40, is best known for his work on the series Brothers & Sisters and he most recently appeared in the Netflix series What/If. Odette, 34, stars on The CW's Supergirl and will be seen in the upcoming season of CBS All Access' Tell Me A Story.

wtf. Baby’s due within the next couple of days and they said she would get a bed (they suggested she go) if available but none available. She was supposed to go today. I’m having so much anxiety

Are they really that intense? Please post your experiences either as recipients or not.

Are a brewing scandal. Who gets to grieve?

The little people are starting to talk...

Everyone talks about Paul Lynde but no one mentions Charles Nelson Riley. He was funny.

And now I won't be able to sleep tonight.

Do you expect a Census worker at your door? Will you answer it?

I think it’s a bad idea to have strangers demand answers to personal questions by pounding on my door during a pandemic. If I didn’t fill out the Census, I won’t fucking respond to pushy desperate assholes at my door. Nobody but a creep would want that job.

Knock knock knock!

When I was out walking earlier this morning( my timing was impeccable, buckets of rain), I was wondering if certain weather conditions affected coming into contact with the Corona virus. Does rain wash some/all/none of it to the ground and eventually into sewers, storm drains, ditches, etc.? Will a strong wind blow more or fewer virus particles my way? What sort of a wake(like a ship or airplane creates), possibly chockfull of microbes, do passers-by make as come abreast and eventually walk in front of me? Does atmospheric pressure enter into this at all? And what about snow?

I'm asking for meteorologists, virologists, geographers, epidemiologists, public health and safety people et al. to chime in. Armchair types of the above professions are welcome also.

It's all been an act. They were both using each other, but she's not doing so well with it now that her career is flopping.

It sounds like LA-based Aussie actress Elizabeth Debicki has no interest in returning to live in her home country.

In a new interview, the 29-year-old came out swinging against her countrymen, musing that tall poppy syndrome holds Aussies back from being “too ambitious” and declaring that the Australian way of life is “too comfortable” for her liking.

Debicki, who has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Mick Jagger and Robert Pattinson theorised to British newspaper The Observer that being Australian-based holds actors back from “being too ambitious, not too provocative or transgressive” in their careers.

She also said she feels local actors are treated as though they shouldn’t be outwardly proud of their craft, and must remain self-deprecating.

Debicki, who was born in France and raised in Melbourne, seemed to boil her issues with Australia down to “tall poppy syndrome”, a term referring to the idea poppies should grow at the same rate and any plant that gets too tall should be cut down.

Debicki, who has roles in The Great Gatsby and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2under her belt already, and is set to appear in Christopher Nolan project Tenet, told the publication tall poppy syndrome was the reason talented Australians “often have to leave the pool and collect experience, collect people, and then come back to it. Or, they just sort of leave – and they don’t necessarily go back.”

“If you’re an actor, you mustn’t get any ideas about your craft. In Australia, you’re barely allowed to say this is a job,” Debicki said.

“You’re supposed to be like, I don’t know, sometimes I just do this thing, the camera rolls, then like, I go home! You can’t own any of it, they’ll just knock you down.”

My gmail is hacked today, It changed the password, recovery phone number and email!!! I can't loging, access my account and my Youtube channel linked to it. When I click on a link of one of my videos. It shows this "null If the owner of this video has granted you access, please sign in."

What can I do, I reported the gmail hacking to Google but it said wait 3-5 days for a response! What else can I do?!

Goodbye

Obviously he had to have an IV when he was taken to the hospital recently. Major bruise on the top of his hand. He was trying to hide it with all those newspapers (when has that fat lazy bastard ever carried anything for himself?).

And my God, he looks like a 2 legged walrus there.

continue to spill that tea.......

Bums.

~Datalounger

Switched from $25 order to $35 order to get free delivery.

Fuck that, especially because they won’t sell cat food or disinfectant wipes online.

With an election three months away in which Republicans very well may lose the White House and Senate — even as the 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is battling cancer yet again — the question has arisen anew: What if a Supreme Court seat becomes open between now and the election?

Or even more pointedly, what if a vacancy occurs after an election Republicans lose, but before the new Democratic Senate and president take office? Would Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ram through another conservative justice as a last grab at right-wing judicial supremacy?

In May 2019, McConnell was asked what he would do if a seat became open in the last year of President Trump’s term. “We’d fill it,” he said with a smirk, surprising no one. The reason people in the room laughed knowingly was that when Republicans refused to allow President Barack Obama to fill a vacant seat in 2016, they claimed to be following a new principle, that no president should fill a seat in the final year of a term.

Subject Line: Patriots Wear Face Masks

I know how difficult the past few months have been. Your unwavering support during this time has not gone unnoticed.

I am writing to you now, not to ask for a contribution, but to ask for your help.

We are all in this together, and while I know there has been some confusion surrounding the usage of face masks, I think it’s something we should all try to do when we are not able to be socially distanced from others.

I don’t love wearing them either. Masks may be good, they may be just okay, or they may be great. They can possibly help us get back to our American way of life that so many of us rightfully cherished before we were so terribly impacted by the China Virus.

My feeling is, we have nothing to lose, and possibly everything to gain, including the next chapter to our country, and to keep things open whether it be schools or businesses.

I recently tweeted that many view wearing a mask as a patriotic act, and there is no one more patriotic than me and you. Why not give it a shot!

We're now seeing rain and lightening. Hold me, David. What should I do?

Robert Downey Jr.: Charmingly Arrogant Asshole

David Hyde Nipple Pierce

How will it end for Madge?

First China murder hornets tearing apart our beehives and now Chinese seeds arriving on our shores. Just curious if a lot came over. And how come they can’t tell what kind of seeds they are?

Is anyone else a fan of this French musical comedy? I have attached the trailer.

This is the official 2020 Christmas thread.

What do you think? Will Santa be impacted by Covid-19? Will he wear a mask? Will Rudolph and the others have to social distance to pull the sled?

Make your predictions and we'll bump this thread in the week leading to Christmas.

The fall and winter of 2020 is about to get real folks. Shit is REALLY going to hit the fan. Unemployment, , mass evictions and homelessness, at rates no one has seen in their lifetime. To make matters worse, no vaccine is in sight. Thanks, Rethugs! 🙄

And ears everywhere are still paying the price.

Once the model of containment for the world, Australia's outbreak now grows.

Across the US Sun Belt, the number of coronavirus cases reported daily has continued to decline, but the outbreak is intensifying across Europe, and - most alarmingly - in Melbourne, which is becoming a new global symbol of SARS-CoV-2's intransigence, as one of the most restrictive lockdowns in the world has failed to squelch the latest outbreak.

Although the alarmism peddled in some corners of the media probably isn't warranted, Melbourne has seen its daily confirmed totals climb to new records day after day. With the public pressure mounting three weeks after the new lockdown began (with no progress having been made), state officials have tightened restrictions and declared a state of disaster on Sunday.

The decision comes as Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews announced 671 new cases in the past 24 hours with seven deaths. More than 380 people were being treated in the hospital, with 38 in intensive care.

Andrews' state of disaster will begin at 6pm Sunday, and allow police the added powers to enforce social distancing restrictions.

Metropolitan Melbourne will be under a curfew limiting movement between 8 pm and 5 am. These new restrictions will be in place for (at least) six weeks.

Australia has recorded about 17,000 infections and ~200 deaths so far, with the majority of these in Victoria.

Lisa Vanderpump is facing yet another class action lawsuit from a former employee of SUR.

Olivia Beverly Hanson filed the lawsuit on behalf July 31 on behalf of herself and others who worked at Vanderpump's West Hollywood, Calif. restaurant, which is featured on Vanderpump Rules. According to the documents obtained by E! News, Hanson is accusing Vanderpump and her husband, fellow restaurateur Ken Todd, of breaking multiple California labor laws.

The filing claims that for at least the past one to four years, Vanderpump and Todd failed to pay workers minimum and overtime wages, provide proper meal and rest breaks, provide accurate wage statements or provide workers with pay stubs at the end of their employment.

Hanson claims she worked at SUR from Oct. 2019 to Jan. 2020. Her responsibilities at the upscale eatery included "seating patrons, confirming reservations and answering phones," the lawsuit states.

She is requesting a jury trial and is seeking damages for all wages earned and owed, including minimum and overtime wages, damages for unpaid premium wages from missed meal and rest periods, and damaged for gratuities earned but not received, among related reparations.

In Jan. 2020, another former employee of SUR and the couple's other restaurants, Tom Tom and Pump, filed a class action lawsuit against Vanderpump and Todd. The suit, which is still ongoing, also alleged the violation of labor laws.

A source told E! News at the time, "These were two disgruntled ex-employees that had been written up with many warnings by management and subsequently let go. Lisa and Ken do not tolerate anyone that may be abusive to their staff or to patrons."

E! News has reached out to Vanderpump's attorney for comment, but have not heard back.

Kiribati

Marshall Islands

Micronesia

Nauru

Palau

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

Both Turkmenistan and North Korea have also claimed to have no Covid-19 cases. North Korea was the first country to seal all their borders and their quarantines can last up to two months, so it might be possible for them to have none, but it's unlikely. Turkmenistan's lack of Covid-19 is also doubtful.

What'll I does with my BUD?

She was still pissed he left Live! when he did. What a bitch.

The woman is not his wife.

I think this needs to be recognized. Madam Speaker has been flawless in this regard, as we might expect from her pre-pandemic aesthetic.

She has quite a collection. Sometimes they're perfect matches, like the pink mask she wore today in the same tone as her blush suit. Sometimes they're accented patterns that still manage to perfectly fit what she's wearing.

Does she have a dedicated mask gay to pick these out for her, or does she commission a mask couturier? I'm unemployed and still don't have time to hunt down anything that looks good.

James Corden might 'in line' to replace Ellen Degeneres: report

I'm a child of the 80s and early 90s and feel like I might have missed out on a lot of hotness in 70s cinema. CINEMA, not porn, boys. Sure, plenty of cinematic classics of the 70s were regularly played on TV or available at video stores, but many more are probably lost to time. For instance, I'd never even heard of actor Nicholas Clay until I saw him referenced in a random Agatha Christie adaptations thread and then looked up his 1971 film The Night Digger. What a hot ass. And he had that hot British 70s guy with shaggy hair and lean swimmer's build thing down pat. So, share some of your favorite obscure 70s cinematic hotness with us. No super famous widely seen films. This is for the films/actors/or scenes that AREN'T considered cinematic classics and would be forgotten if it weren't for pervy historians like us.

The Showstopper Hearts Not Diamonds!

He IG’d his tit.

Minneapolis Fed President (as well as former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability under the Bush and Obama administrations, former PIMCO and former Goldman Sachs employee) Neel Kashkari said the only way to save American lives from COVID-19 is to fully lock down the entire nation and all of its inhabitants.

“That’s the only way we’re really going to have a real robust economic recovery,” the American banker told CBS’s Face the Nation. “Otherwise, we’re going to have flare-ups, lockdowns, and a very halting recovery with many more job losses and many more bankruptcies for an extended period of time, unfortunately.”

Kashkari said that the path of the economy would hinge on success in getting the pandemic under control, and suggested that while very unpopular, a stringent economic lockdown might be the lesser of two evils to more quickly restore growth and hiring, rather than waiting for the eventual arrival of a vaccine.

Part 2 got Murieled [after 334 posts].

Please continue to discuss the various Permutations of this jetsetting Travel Editor’s Polymorphous domestic arrangement.

Angelina Jolie Heads Out to Pick Up Supplies with Son Knox

... because they're all terrible.

My mother, unprompted, bought me a "MyPillow" too (yes, I know the CEO is a Trump-loving cult member) and it is just a foam-filled pillow, nothing special. Clearly the brand is marketing only.

I am trying to find a good pillow. Foam-filled pillows are too hot. Several of my current pillows are so flat and floppy and scrunched they may as well not be there. But they are cooler than the foam pillows, by far. Last night I kept flipping my pillows because they were soaked in sweat. And I had the air conditioning set to 64!

Does anyone know a GOOD PILLOW that is 1) cooling 2) does not lose shape easily 3) Medium or Firm density? Hypoallergenic and antimicrobial as well.

Muriel murieled Part 20, so here's Justin Clynes for Gorgeous Gay Men, Part 21.

David Foster is keeping tight-lipped about what led to his divorce from Yolanda Hadid.

In the new Netflix documentary David Foster: Off the Record, which premiered on Wednesday, the Grammy winner, 70, opens up about both his professional and personal life, including his 2015 split from Hadid, his fourth wife.

At the time, Hadid was battling a Lyme disease diagnosis, however, Foster said her health was not the cause of their ending marriage.

"How can I leave a sick woman?" said Foster in the documentary. "The fact of the matter is that was not the reason I left. It was for a different reason — which I will never disclose — that had nothing to do with her being sick."

Foster, who recently celebrated his one-year wedding anniversary with Katharine McPhee, also mentioned his disdain for appearing on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills beginning in 2012.

"My wife at the time wanted to do the show," he said. "I didn't want to be the guy to say no."

Announcing their divorce in December 2015, Foster and Hadid told PEOPLE in a joint statement that they'd decided to "go our separate ways." The pair tied the knot in November 2011.

"We've shared nine beautiful and joyous years together. During that time we experienced love, friendship and the inevitable challenges that come with managing a marriage, careers, blended families and health issues," read the statement at the time.

"We are grateful for the years we've spent together and believe wholeheartedly that we did our best," the couple's statement continued. "I hope that we can pave the road ahead of us with all we've learned and with the love and respect we will always have for one another."

Hadid, 56, is now dating boyfriend Joseph Jingoli, whom she said she said she is "very much in love with" when speaking with Bravo's The Daily Dish in May.

In a 2016 episode of RHOBH, Hadid explained that "divorce is almost like a death," adding that "if you stop making each other happy, then you shouldn’t be together." She said at the time: “It’s shocking. David was my life partner. My best friend. And I miss my best friend.”

Detailing his new documentary, Foster recently told PEOPLE that the film gives a never-before-seen look at his life.

"I never have been one to expose the vulnerable side of me, and I don't really ever talk about what makes me tick or the ups and downs of my life — the good, the bad and the ugly," Foster said. "But to [director Barry Avrich's] credit, he kept pushing."

"Although parts of it are tough for me to watch, I knew trying to censor him would be wrong on every level," he added. "So, I put my trust and faith in him, uncomfortable at times, but I have no regrets."

The other night, a guy messaged me and said “do you want to watch me jack off”?

Who am I to turn down such a sweet request?

In exchange, all he wanted was for me to hold my hand up in front of the cam and wiggle my fingers.

He said he had a hand fetish.

You learn something new every day.

A video of a confrontation between a woman and a moose in Colorado shows why you shouldn't try to pet wildlife, no matter how friendly they look.

In the video, shot by professional photographer Anna Stonehouse, a woman walks up to a moose by the side of the road in Breckenridge. She reaches out to touch it while all around her, people shout warnings to run away.

The moose turns around and tries to kick her.

"I thought I was going to witness her getting stomped to death!" Stonehouse wrote on Facebook.

When the unidentified woman finally left the moose alone, it wandered over to a bush to nibble some leaves in peace.

The woman received a ticket for harassing wildlife, according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Twitter account.

"Oh, do we sound like a broken record? Sorry but we're not sorry. LEAVE WILDLIFE WILD. DO NOT FEED OR PET," the organization wrote.

That guidance is especially important when it comes to moose.

"Each year, more people are attacked by moose than by any other species of wildlife," District Wildlife Manager Elissa Slezak said in a video on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website.

The agency explained that curious moose often visit mountain towns and suburbs in Colorado. While other animals typically run away when humans approach, moose will stand their ground and charge if they feel threatened.

Especially if humans get in the way of a crunchy snack.

Matt Damon is showing off his shirtless body during a beach day!

The 49-year-old Oscar nominee (and winner back in 1998 for Good Will Hunting‘s screenplay) hit up the beach in Malibu, California with his family, including wife Luciana, as well as a group of pals. See the pics in the gallery!

You may be surprised to learn that Matt and his family actually did not quarantine in the United States for the first several months of lockdowns. Find out where Matt and his family were staying as quarantines across the world first began.

Check out the photos of Matt Damon showing off his shirtless body on the beach while hanging out with his family…

Well? Did he take his money from films, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken and go hide in a cave somewhere? I'm worried about little Scott Evil!

They really turn me on.

And there's something so attractive about boots.

Anyone else?

I couldn't find another thread on it yet, but the search function is messed up.

I was really impressed. it's much more like Raymond Chandler than Erle Stanley Gardner, but it was terrific. A first-class recreation of 1931 Los Angeles that looked both believable yet not too ugly and dark colored (the common mistake with contemporary movies and shows set during the Depression). The kidnapped baby's mutilation with the threads in its eyelids was memorably horrifying in an age when it's hard to horrify anymore, and Matthew Rhys might be the best male actor working in television today. So far the only thing I don't like is the obnoxious and unattractive fat aviatrix girlfriend (I like that she's a Latina character, but why can't he fuck someone reasonably attractive?).

Apparently flashing your tits and pussy makes for a powerful statement and helps in the fight against racism. Who does she think she is? Madonna?

It’d be odd to refer to your boyfriend’s mother as your mother-in-law if you weren’t married.

I am clearing old songs off my computer and I cannot believe how terrible most of her solo songs are, especially all the crap on Medusa. Her songs are like Madonna's. Filled with cliches and tired tropes. Not the most adventurous girl. My favorite album of Eurythmics is Savage. No crap on that.

Harry is quarantined with Jeff in LA in this grave time of plague. Will he do a live concert from home, as Post Malone did last night?

I am here for the first time in my life. I know the city center has some swank to it, but most of it is really downtrodden. I know there are other cities just as sad, which makes me feel as if the American Dream is deader than a doorknob. There’s not enough industry left to employ people. Driving around I saw tons of poor people with little rug rats, tats, and no masks. It was like all of West Virginia compressed into a few blocks. Anyone on DL from Syracuse?

Oof! And he's a brunette to boot.

Count the in-flight cocktail, a tradition dating to the beginning of modern air travel, among the ways of life disrupted by COVID-19: Many airlines have cut back on in-flight alcohol service as part of a larger effort to reduce contact between flight attendants and passengers.

That has pushed some thirsty passengers to take another route, bringing miniature bottles of booze on board in their carry-on, and drinking those — no contact needed. But airlines aren't too happy about it, and not just because they can't overcharge you for a tiny bottle of Jameson.

Carriers like Southwest and American have seen an uptick in reports of passengers drinking their own alcoholic beverages during flights, according to USA Today. It's enough of an increase that Southwest is adding a line saying you can't drink your own booze to its pre-flight safety announcements, the paper reported.

In theory, bringing your own bottles on board is a sound idea. TSA regulations allow liquids in carry-on luggage as long as they're 3.4 ounces or smaller. The typical nip, or miniature liquor bottle, is half that.

However, FAA regulations forbid passengers from consuming any alcohol onboard an aircraft that was not served by the airline. This is partly to ensure that passengers can't get too drunk during a flight — airlines are prohibited from serving more booze to passengers who "appears to be intoxicated."

That doesn't mean that passengers have to pay, however.

The rules stipulate that an airline must serve the alcohol. Like having a waiter uncork and pour the bottle of wine you brought to a BYOB restaurant, you can bring your own liquor aboard — provided you have a flight attendant serve it to you. This allows flight attendants to keep an eye on consumption and avoid any messy, potentially dangerous problems.

The catch is that airlines are under no obligation to serve a passenger their own alcohol, even if they won't sell you a drink, either.

"Airlines are not obligated to allow passengers to consume their own alcohol, and may enact policies that prohibits this activity," an FAA spokesperson said.

Most airlines do not have a clear policy, leaving it to the flight attendant's discretion. (JetBlue said in 2017 that it would allow BYOB; American Airlines doesn't.)

Your best bet if you want to bring your own drinks on board (without skirting the rules) is to ask the airline in advance whether that's allowed. Just don't be surprised if a flight attendant won't serve you in the middle of a pandemic — and be prepared to wait for that drink until you're back on the ground.

Gavin Newsom

It sometimes gets noted as one of the best albums of the 90s or one of the best albums by a female solo artist, but I don't think those qualifiers are necessary. Now, nearly 30 years later, I think it stands the test of time as a truly great album. The Sophie Muller directed series of videos take it over the top. Most of them are so simple, but Annie is such a compelling on screen presence that she's really all you need. She'd probably have been a great silent screen actress if she'd been born in another age. MARY! (I know!)

I used to watch a lot of TV but have worked 2nd shift for two years. On the rare occasion I flip through the channels all I see are reality shows, games shows or cop shows.

Okay, I surrender - you guys infected me with the royal bug. I got inspired by the BRF jewels discussion in the neighbouring thread and spent an embarrassing amount of time looking up tiaras. One of my favourites is the Luxembourg Vine Leaves Tiara, worn by Princess Claire on her wedding day. It was created in the 1850s for the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and is made of diamonds, silver and gold.

Which are your favourite royal tiaras and crowns and what are their fascinating stories?

I have a couple of cashmere sweaters. I've never owned furniture upholstered in cashmere. I'm thinking of getting a set of Saarinen Tulip Upholstered Armchairs from NJModern, upholstered in cashmere. Okay, they're not TRUE Saarinen Tulip chairs from Knoll. These ones are less than $500/chair. The true ones from Knoll, fully upholstered like this are $3-4,000/chair. That's a bit too rich for me. And these look like very good knock-offs.

But, anyway, any thoughts on cashmere upholstery? Is it a bad idea? Is it difficult to keep clean? Does it catch a lot of lint?

Most famous for Hyacinth on Keeping Up Appearances, but only until recently did I see more of her work. Incredible acrtress at both drama and comedy. I like Judi Dench and Maggie Smith but watching Patricia Routledge's body of work, I don't think they compare. I don't know if Keeping Up Appearances was too broad or too comedy her to be taken seriously but in this monologue is brilliant.

Has anyone read this book? It's written by a black law professor, who grew up passing for white until his father's mixed heritage was discovered and he lost his business. From then on, he lived with his black family in segregated Cincinnati. I believe his story was featured on Oprah.

If this were you, would you have stayed with your black relatives, or would you have moved to another town and assume a white identity?

It's so sad they're no longer with us. Aretha looked radiant here.

I’ve got the jimmy legs bad these last few days, always in the evenings.

What are the thoughts of the Datalounge on this lovely actress?