Thursday, August 8, 2019

BH90210

First off, last night I wrote about "Mae West" and, if you missed it, Ruth wrote about "Bette Davis."  Be sure to check that out.  We didn't plan it.  We were both just going through old stuff that had been posted to FLICKR for THE THIRD ESTATE SUNDAY REVIEW.  Second, Ann's going to see "The Art of Racing in the Rain" because her son wants to see it.  I'm sure that her daughter will go as well.  It's so weird to think of Ann and Cedric with two kids now.  I can remember when they got married and it seems like yesterday but it's more like a decade ago.  Ann and I do a yearly look at film so if she ends up liking the film, I'll make a point to see it.  Otherwise I'm probably filmed out for the summer with the exception of Cate Blanchett's film later this month.  If my girlfriend wants to see something, I'll gladly go but this has been a very underwhelming summer, sorry. 

Okay, "90210," what did you think?

It's BH90210, I believe. 

I was disappointed.  The first scene where they were on the plane, Tori and Jenny, I thought Jenny flubbed her line and called Tori "Tori" by mistake.

I thought they were going to be playing their characters.

Instead, they're playing spoof versions of themselves.

Tori has always been a good sport and she can do comedy (she was wonderful in the romantic comedy TRICK) so she succeeds and does a good job.  I like what' his name playing her husband Dean -- Ivan Sergei.  He's a good actor and should be a good foil for her -- especially when they have all these bills do and he's turning down work.

Jenny can do comedy, we all saw her do it very well on that sitcom with Amanda Bynes. 

My big concern was Gabrielle.  Can she do comedy?

I still don't know.

But she more than earned a spot at the table for her scene with a fan who was a lesbian and for spoof Gabrielle's not shutting the door on that possibility.  (In real life, Gabrielle is straight and has been married since the 90s.)

Good for Gabrielle.  It's a shame no one else wants to go there.

Brian Austin Greene, for example, could go there as his spoof character.  It wouldn't hurt him at all, everyone knows who he is married to in real life and he's such an energetic guy (he's like a big puppy) that it could make for some cute and nice scenes.

Instead, they've married him off.  I like his wife and thank goodness the White show has her because she's the only person of color.

Brian was good throughout.  He is a talented actor.  Before he was David on 90210, he was Abby's son on KNOT'S LANDING.  He was brilliant in THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES, he was great on ANGER MANAGEMENT. 

He's easily the best male actor on the show.  And he's a big puppy which makes you root for him.

Ian was surprisingly effective. 

Shannen?  They really didn't use her very well and I can see why she was leery about this.  I didn't get that it was a spoof, again, I thought they'd be playing their characters from 90210.  So I didn't understand why Shannen had reservations about playing Brenda.  Because she's not playing Brenda.

She didn't interact with the others this episode.  She showed up at the big 90210 reunion via satellite and, while she spoke, Jason Priestly and Gabrielle Carteis gave nasty looks.  I didn't get that but whatever.

I didn't get Jason at all.

He's the weakest part.

A) He really can't act.  Never could.  Not even on SISTER KATE or whatever that sitcom was that he did before 90210.  B) He is a stick in the mud. 

He just bores the hell out of you.

They should have made him gay.  They should have given him something.

Jenny Garth? They really didn't give her any great story (she's losing a husband again) but she doesn't need it.  She can play likable.  And does.

Jason always makes every scene awful as he tries to play 'serious artist.'  He's not a serious artist.  He's not a good actor.  He needed a story to make him compelling and being a bad director who punched out an actor doesn't really qualify.

For the spoof to work, everyone has to use a light touch but Jason has no gift for comedy and his acting is always heavy handed.

He dragged every moment he was in down.


Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

 
Thursday, September 8, 2019.  Tulsi continues her vanity campaign, a man dies in Iraq because the US deported him (that's on us, let's stop pretending it's Donald Trump -- our Congress could've stopped him, our courts could have stopped him, this is our tragedy, our crime), and much more.



US House Rep Tulsi Gabbard continues her vanity campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She'll never get the nomination and her continued 1% polling is an embarrassment.  As she continues her vanity campaign, more catch on that she's not anti-war.  As Kyle Anzalo observed this week on FOREIGN POLICY FOCUS "There's plenty of war that Tulsi is in support of."

We're so desperate for an anti-war figure that we're willing to applaud someone who'd continue The Drone War?  Tulsi is a fake.  Last week, as Kyle notes, she voted to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.  BDS attempts to do what the anti-apartheid movement did to South Africa.

So basically Tulsi's condemning Dusty Springfield.  Considering Tulsi's anti-LGBTQ past, that's not surprising.  Dusty, for those who don't know, didn't just sing "The Look Of Love," "Son Of A Preacher Man," "Wishin' and Hopin'," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and countless other hits.  Dusty also stood up and was counted.

Do people not know this?  You won't find it in her CRAPAPEDIA entry -- no surprise there, sexism will always reign at CRAPAPAEDIA -- but Dusty stood up.  If this is news to you, you can stream a BBC report here about the 1964 tour in South Africa where Dusty refused to play to White only audiences.  She was a huge pop star and 25-years-old and when the South African government tried to force her to play to White only audiences, she pointed out that the contract she signed legally guaranteed mixed audiences.

The BDS movement needs support, not condemnation.  We discuss it when we speak to campus audiences.

I'm disgusted with Tulsi but she's a reactionary.  She's on the wrong side of history and she should pay for it.

I was part of the anti-apartheid movement -- a tiny part -- and was ridiculed for it by a number people when I was in college.  The campus paper waged a war on me when I countered the remarks of an idiot White person from South Africa who told the campus paper how wonderful life was for Blacks in South Africa.  For defending the rights of the persecuted, the campus paper attempted to ridicule me for months.  All it did was create sympathy for me and raise the issue more.  I still see those idiots from time to time today, pretending to be so left and liberal but we both know that they are racists to their core.  They only 'changed' because the times did.  If they had their way, they'd still support apartheid.

I can think of one woman who spearheaded the campaign -- and is a public person today -- and how she now pretends to be so lfet and so loving but she's not.  Not only was she in favor of apartheid back then, as late as the 90s she was marrying a known racist who she had to make promise not to use the N-word in front of the press.  There are a lot of fake asses out there.

People like her, they didn't grow, they were just shamed into silence and that's what appears to happen with Tulsi over and over.  She didn't really grow on the LGBTQ issue, she was shamed into silence.  If she'd grown, she'd have some story to share about it.  But she has none.  And blaming her beliefs on her father?  She's as ridiculous as Joe Biden.  Or did we all miss her tribute to homophobe father on Father's Day?

Tulsi needs to go.  She's not anti-war.  She's repeatedly on the wrong side of history and she never learns, she just retreats into silence.


Tulsi and others who voted for atrocious anti-Palestinian resolution HR 246 are feeling heat and that’s good. But this is a pathetic attempt to justify a wrong and indefensible vote that attacks and smears nonviolent BDS movement because “two-state solution something or other.”
 
 

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I've muted about 5 people who scold me whenever I dare to criticize—no matter how tepid said criticism is—our lord and savior, Tulsi Gabbard. You guys literally were rationalizing why BDS is bad after her vote. You lack the mental capacity to fight past that cognitive dissonance.
 
 



Again, people are catching on to Tulsi.


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is pro-peace? opposed H.Con.Res55 Rep.Jim McGovern’s (D-MA)resolution which directed the President to withdraw U.S.troops from Iraq/Syria who were deployed on or after August 7,2014 THAT'S WAGING PEACE? THINK!
 
 
If is Pro-peace HOWCOME OPPOSED H.Amdt.1215 to H.R.5293 Rep. Jim McGovern’s(D-MA) amendment,which would have prohibited funds from being used for the engagement of U.S.Armed Forces in any combat operation in Iraq/Syria RECORD VS SPIN IS THAT'S WAGING PEACE?
 
 


 Last week at the debates, Tulsi was an embarrassment.  Jay Inslee and Bill de Blasio tried to talk about the Iraq War and war on Iran, not Tulsi.


While I was in Congress, I cast many votes that I was proud of. I voted against and vocally opposed the Iraq War. And I know we cannot allow the Trump administration to thrust us into another disastrous war in the Middle East today.
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Tulsi didn't want a serious conversation in the debates.  She wasn't the only one, the Sally Jessy of cable 'news,' Don Lemon, didn't want a real discussion either (see Ava and my "TV: Swindling the audience").


In other news . . .

PLEASE READ. THIS IS HORRIBLE. "A 41-year-old diabetic man who grew up in Detroit died Tuesday after being deported to Iraq, the...
 
 



U.S. Deported a Detroit Man to Iraq, Where He’d Never Been and Didn’t Speak the Language. He Died on the Streets.
 
 
Immigrant rights advocates say diabetic man died after being deported to Iraq | TheHill
 
 

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ICE deported a guy to Iraq who was not born there, never lived there, spoke no Arabic, and HAD TYPE 1 DIABETES. he died
 
 
  • Jimmy Aldaoud, a 41-year-old Detroit man who had spent most of his life in the U.S. and was deported to Iraq in June by the Trump admin, has died. The death appeared to be linked to the man's inability to obtain insulin in Baghdad to treat his diabetes.
     
     
    41-year old Jimmy Aldaoud was deported to Iraq by the Trump administration in June after living in the US ever since he was a child. He died on the streets of Iraq yesterday.
     
     








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