#Agent Benanti

[shannyfishwriter]

Supergirl: “Displaced” 08

Title: Displaced Rating: T Summary: Alex is displaced.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Present

It was peaceful.

There was pain, but then...there wasn't.  

Alex knew what this was.  The drugs that were trying to keep her comfortable weren't masking the reality of the situation.  She'd likely been out for some time.  The beeping of the machines monitoring her condition sounded so loud when she focused on them.  The Norsoi Virus was still in her system, it was still killing her...she'd finally gotten home only to die.  Alex knew that her mother would be doing everything that she could to save her, but Alex knew that it was useless (or at least it very much seemed that way to her).  She felt so heavy, it was from the drugs she knew...she had a weird headache...and she couldn't manage to open her eyes.  It was almost overwhelming, Alex hated to lose control (especially of herself).  With all of that, she tried to focus on what had given her the feeling of peace.  Drawing in a breath, she pushed it out slowly (or at least that's what it felt like she was doing in her mind).  

A voice.

"We are never lost, never afraid, for we shrink not under the sun of righteousness."

Kara.

It wasn't even the voice or the words, but it was feeling...she could feel her sister there.  The love and hope emanating from her sister.  Kara had lost so much when she was so small...and all Alex could think in that moment was that she hoped that J'onn would explain everything to her mother and to Kara.  She knew that Kara could teach Ayrdaen so much, not just about Earth but also about hope.  

"Rao binds us to those we love, he gives us strength when we have none."

Listening to her sister's words, Alex just imagined Kara standing there.  There was something soothing about the prayer even if Alex didn't worship Rao.  Maybe it was Kara's voice, her presence, or maybe it was even the words she was speaking…  

"And in the darkest places, he guides us...for Rao sees all, feels all, his love eternal."

Focusing on her breathing, slow and steady, she just listened.  Alex allowed herself to enjoy that moment.  Kara was holding her hand and though all Alex wanted to do was squeeze it, she couldn't manage it...but she so wanted to just let her sister know that she could hear her.

"Rao protect us, so that we might protect others…"

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"So, I don't want you to worry about things…  Kara's been saving people still, though, I don't know that I've ever actually seen her tired...it's weird."  The was a pause.  "But don't worry...J'onn did that whole space dad thing and ordered her to go take a nap...and eat something."

Since Winn had come to work at the DEO, they'd become closer.  Winn had become a friend to her, he wasn't just Kara's friend...and he genuinely felt like part of their family.  He was like the brother that she and Kara had never wanted, but fell in love with just the same.  They were all so good for each other and Alex was glad that they had Winn...he was even good for J'onn (though she doubted he would ever admit it).

"And J'onn's grumpy...but that's because you're still asleep...and like he and Eliza keep arguing...but that's because they're both concerned about you.  They both want you to be okay...and of course, they're not the only ones…"

She could hear tapping.  Alex knew that he probably had a tablet with him or maybe his phone.  It was better to listen to than focusing on the sounds of the medical equipment, less stressful.  She appreciated noise that was different and even wished she was strong enough to ask Winn to put on music for her (she didn't even care what was on).  

"You know, that kid, Ayrdaen...she's a funny girl...she tried to pass herself off as Kryptonian.  I bought it, but then I realized one of the reasons Kara didn't…  She knows a lot of the basic things, but she doesn't know the language…not enough of it.  Kara just got upset until J'onn showed up and pulled them apart."

Ayrdaen had tried to do what Alex had told her to do.  She was only a child, Alex knew that there was only so much she could do.  Kara had to already be upset about Alex being unconscious and about the fact that she didn't have long to live (even if they prolonged her life).  At least it sounded like J'onn had been there to intervene.  Him knowing about Ayrdaen made her feel a little less weighted.

"I still think she's impressive.  I mean, she's like five or six or something...or maybe she's just short and looks young."  Winn paused again.  "Look, I don't know who she exactly is...or why you had her with you.  All I know is that we're going to keep her safe because that's what you were trying to do...that's what you would want."  He pause again, a sigh filling the air.  "And you know, she's just going to have to deal with J'onn being a grumpy space dad...with a heavy side of grumpy…  I'm sure she's tough and can deal with it.  I mean, the rest of us are doing it."

Even though Winn's voice sounded light and even cheerful about everything he was telling her, she wondered if J'onn was really able to continue with the burden she'd placed on him.  It had never been the plan.  She shouldn't have been released from the pod early...she and Ayrdaen should have been kept there until there was a cure for the Norsoi Virus.  Alex thought that maybe if she could wake up, maybe she could convince them to put her and Ayrdaen back into the pod...if it still worked properly.  

"I think Benanti's trying to keep morale high, she's been bringing double donuts, so you know things are serious around here..."  A beat passed.  "Just...get better.  I don't care if it's science or alien tech...or even a miracle.  Just wake up and be better, Alex.  We all need you."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Alex felt like her head was a whirl of her life on Earth and the last two years on Thoron.  It was the medication, she knew that.  Her head wasn't right.  If it wasn't the medication, then it was the virus.  Either way, she felt like time was slipping away.  

Alex.

J'onn was in her head.  It was a welcome visit.  She almost wished that it was like when Kara had been attacked by the Black Mercy and Alex had gone into her sister's head.  If only they could communicate in that way.  So, she just tried to concentrate on what she wanted J'onn to know and hoped that he'd understand...that he'd hear her.  She concentrated on Ayrdaen, keeping her image in her head, and thought about keeping her safe.  

We're here, Alex.  

And somehow she knew that he meant that it was him and Ayrdaen, they were together there with her.  Alex wondered if that meant that J'onn was keeping her close in order to keep her out of trouble with Kara and to keep a close eye on her.  Though, there was also a possibility that he'd brought in M'yrnn to help with Ayrdaen, maybe another Green Martian would be easier than explaining it to her mother and sister.  

This isn't right.

And this time, it wasn't J'onn...it was Ayrdaen…

All of the sudden, Alex found herself pulled on a ride through memories that were hers...but not quite yet hers…  

They were Ayrdaen's memories of when she was smaller...of from before Alex met her in the future.  They were on Thoron, Alex immediately recognized that...in a park that she'd taken Ayrdaen to on several occasions.  Her future self had longer hair that was braided off to the side, a tiny Ayrdaen was sitting in her arms as she sat on the blanket, M'gann was dishing up food, and J'onn was talking about something that was making them all laugh the most contagious laugh...even Ayrdaen.  It was like the most precious bottled moment of happiness, even without the context of the laughter...it was something to treasure.  

Home.

And Alex felt like there was so much more behind Ayrdaen's meaning.  It felt like it meant that home was that moment for the girl, not just Thoron and those were her parents.  Though, Alex was certain that Ayrdaen was much rather be on Thoron with J'onn and M'gann.  But maybe Ayrdaen was understanding that home didn't have to be a specific place...or even specific people…  When Alex was younger, home for her was always the happy memories of her family all together right before her father 'died'.  

Home was always important.

So was family.

She'd always tried to tell Ayrdaen stories about Kara and J'onn...and adventures she and Kara had when they were little.  She talked about her parents, the good times and the rocky times.  Alex had thought it was important to tell Ayrdaen all about the family she'd never know...if nothing else, maybe it would teach her more about her human side and Earth.  

Focusing on a memory of her own, Alex hoped that it was how you shared something with Green Martians.  She thought about a time right before she'd thought she'd lost her father.  She and Kara were actually getting along and her parents were happy together.  They were in Midvale, it was a perfect sunny warm day, nice enough to go to the beach together...something that they didn't do enough.  Her parents had packed a picnic and it had been a rare day where they'd just spent the entire day together smiling and laughing.  

Home, she thought.

But Alex pushed another thought into her mind.  Another memory.  Something that she needed to share, to show Ayrdaen.  She chose a more current memory, one that took place in National City.  It was a night that she, Kara, J'onn, Winn, and James were all together at the alien bar.  It wasn't anything special, they were just drinking and eating together.  That moment, though, they were happy and together and that's all that mattered.

Home, she thought again.

Home and family could be more than one place...more than one group of people.  Alex felt like it was so important for Ayrdaen to know that.  Even if she was gone, she could have a home...she could have a family there in that timeline with J'onn, Kara, her mother, Winn, and...well, anyone that J'onn felt would help keep her safe.  She was going to die and the future that Ayrdaen came from was never going to happen.

Don't give up.  Not yet.

J'onn's voice in her head was the last thing she heard before she slipped back into the dark void.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Are you supposed to be in here?"

"Have a donut, Vasquez."

"A donut isn't going to change things if we're supposed to be letting her rest."

Alex could clearly hear that Vasquez had snagged a donut from Benanti's box.  She wished that she could wake up and have one, she'd have to tell Benanti that she owed her one (or a whole box) if she ever woke up and felt like she could actually eat one again.  No matter how much she wished she could have a donut now, it was nice to have a variety of visitors even if she wasn't good company.  It made her feel a little more like she got to see everyone again (even if she technically wasn't).  

"What are you two doing in here?"

If she could have smiled, she would have in that moment.  Adler was there now.  She'd probably been looking for her wife and probably hadn't expected to find her hanging out with Vasquez at her bedside.  

"Keeping Danvers up to date on what's going on," Vasquez said.

Now Benanti was speaking, with what sounded like her mouth full (probably of donut).  "As morale officer--"

"You're not the morale officer," Adler countered her wife.

A beat passed.

"As morale officer," Benanti started again, this time her voice sounded clear.  "It is my job to check in on Agent Danvers and obviously...to remind her that she's not allowed to have some deadly virus because that makes the boss and Supergirl far too cranky...and they're no fun to deal with when they're cranky.  I think I've gained ten pounds because of all the extra donuts in the last couple of weeks."

Weeks.

Had it been that long?

No wonder she felt like she had no strength.

Whatever they were doing had to be barely keeping her tethered to the world...to life.

"C'mon you two," Adler said.  "Let her rest.  The boss is probably wondering where we went off to anyways, we need to get ready for that op."

And then they were gone and she was alone.

Weeks...

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"I wish they'd stored the research you'd done on the virus in that pod with you," she heard her mother say.

Alex thought that if her mother only knew how long she'd worked on it (and how long her future self had...and her future mother...and who knew who else had also worked on it) that maybe she would have realized how futile it was.  Nonetheless, she didn't mind listening to her mother talk in that moment.  She'd missed it.  

"I'm going to figure it out."

She wouldn't.

"I need help, though…"

And there was something in her mother's voice that made Alex worry.  

"It's never right for a parent to lose a child...and I won't lose you."  

There was so much pain and fear in her mother's voice as it broke.  She could feel her mother's hand on her face and then her lips as she kissed her forehead.  Alex so wished that things could be different, but so many had tried...and so many had failed...and died.

"I tried to explain to J'onn and Kara, but they don't understand...and you probably wouldn't either, but I have to try to do whatever I can, Alex.  I won't lose you."

And she wished she could make her death easier on her mother...on her family, but death was not an easy thing.  Death was cruel, even when it seemed merciful.  Alex just wanted to spare those she loved pain and to understand that it was okay to let her go.  Maybe if Ayrdaen had been closer to her, then maybe it would be easier for everyone...because her mother and Kara would have Ayrdaen to focus and love with her gone.  There was so much, though, that felt wrong and made Alex worry about how people would be after they finally let her go.

"All I've ever wanted since the moment I knew I was pregnant with you, Alex, was to keep you safe...to protect you...and I promised myself I'd do anything to do that.  J'onn's trained you to take care of yourself...but right now...right now I'm going to do what I think I need to in order to save you...and I hope you forgive me."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

It had been quiet and she'd been in and out of the half consciousness she'd been in.  She was still too weak to move or open her eyes.  Alex had been pulled closer to consciousness, though, when it sounded like all hell was breaking out in the DEO.  Instinct made her try to wake up and get into gear to help...but she couldn't do anything but listen and hope that everything was okay.  

"Hurry!"

It was her mother's voice.

But it was the weapon's fire that caught her attention and made her heart race.  There was nothing Alex could do, but listen...listen and hope that her mother was safe.  She could hear the monitors echoing her upset and fear, the beeping that she'd drowned out before was quick and in sync with the pounding in her ears.  

"We have to hurry," her mother said to someone else who was in the room.  Alex hadn't heard another voice, but had assumed that it was one of the other DEO agents that was securing the medical bay.  "I'm afraid if they stop us that we'll really lose her…"

"That's not going to happen."

And she immediately recognized the other voice.  It wasn't a DEO agent...it wasn't anyone who should have been in the DEO and she immediately understood why there was so much chaos going on.  Her mother had voiced her wanting to do anything to save her and she'd certainly gone to the last person that Alex would have asked for help when it came to the virus.

"This is going to work."

He sounded so confidant and Alex was just flat out terrified.  Not for what was going on in that room, but that her mother had gone to such lengths and had to have used a sample of the virus to replicate anything that might fight it.  The timeline that had originally existed had to have certainly been altered, which was something that M'gann had been concerned about, though she was fairly sure that J'onn would have preferred that they had been able to combat the virus when Cadmus first developed it.  What if this was how it came into Cadmus' hands?  Some weird timey whimey swap?  

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" she heard Kara shout before the sound of glass shattering added to the chaos.

Alex was overwhelmed, but she didn't miss the burning sensation that had to be coming from an IV because it travelled from her hand upward.  It didn't hurt, but it wasn't comfortable.  It reminded her of a sedation drug she'd had in the past.  

"What have you done?!" Kara demanded.

"What we had to do."

"Kara, please!" her mother pleaded.  "You have to understand!"

Kara wouldn't.

"Someone get a medical team in here!" she heard J'onn yell next.

Alex started to choke and that was when her eyes flipped wide open to the dimmed bay lights over head.  She couldn't breathe, her whole body fought to survive.  Concerned faces were immediately hovering over her and when she turned her head to the side she saw the medical team running in and J'onn in the doorway.  But it was Kara, her mother, and her father who were looking down at her.  

Her father.

It still didn't make it right, even if he'd been able to combat the virus.

"Relax, Alex," Jeremiah coached.  "The tube is helping you breathe right now, let it."

She felt her mother squeeze her hand and she just felt an overwhelming rush of anger and relief and shock.  Alex struggled for a few seconds longer before making herself relax enough that the machine could do its job.  

"You need to get back," Doctor Hamilton instructed them both and pushed past them, but didn't make Kara move.  Alex watched as the doctor immediately started to check her vitals.  "Agent Danvers, I need you to stay as calm as you can, okay?"

Alex nodded ever so weakly.  

"I don't want to remove any equipment until we better understand what was given to you and how that's affecting you, so I need you to be patient with us," Hamilton said.  

"Lock them up," she heard J'onn say and she knew who he was referring to.  J'onn would be detaining her parents and would likely deal with them after things were straightened out (or until he needed information from her father about what she'd been given).

"Let's run labs," Hamilton said to one of the nurses.

They seemed to be moving to one area so that Kara could stand closer, taking a hand that was free.  Kara held it to her chest, both of her hands wrapped over Alex's, their eyes meeting.  "I'm here…  We're going to figure this out…"

For better or worse...

Read at AO3 or ff.net

[wapwani]

My brain has obvs not been at its best the last few months. I have only just realised that SG is again pairing a Danvers sister with an Olsen sibling. Huh.

[elliothier]

Laura Benanti in The Detour  - 3x02: The Stop

Edie attempts to spy on Nate Parker, but unfortunately she’s just not a very good spy. Time for plan B.

[terrorbitch]

open to: f/nb

suggested connections: agent, older costar, director, producer, choreographer, best friend who comes on set with him, gf of costar, or any kind of age cap tbh, ect.

     after booking his first role on broadway, there were people begging for him to be in other things. as much as he loved the stage and performing, he knew that there was a reason why laura benanti went and did some television roles. the money… it was amazing. and the people around him were a little scary, but he was being treated like a prince on set so he didn’t really mind. but there was a pretty obvious crush that he was always asked about. he was constantly questioned about working with her and the boy would gush about her. she had to know, too… because he wasn’t very subtle. he was a very expressive person. but he managed to keep it professional whenever they were around… until they walked into his trailer without knocking. gunner reached forward quickly and slammed his laptop shut, swallowing hard and trying to cover up the fact that he was definitely j*rking off on his down time. “woah—woah… hey, i’m sorry—uh, do you… mind closing your eyes for a second? i need—i need to deal with… i just need to find my pants…” he nervously chuckled, squatting down and groaning a little.

[shikaramelssay]

Final Season Bingo!

Or drinking game, you choose based on your level of Pandemic-ness.

So let’s try to have some fun.  Choose a square (add your own if you like) for what is likely to happen in this final season.

Mon-el comes back is the center square. It’s a free space. Let’s be real, people. No need to be coy and think that this is a ‘maybe, well, it depends’.  

Kara gets her necklace back.

Alex gets the necklace back for her.

Alex ditches the baby storyline.

CW leans into the baby storyline in a heavy handed fashion in a misguided  attempt to give Alex’s character “closure” while including Kelly into a storyline finally - two lesbians with one stone.’

Wigs

Bad Wigs

Male characters who are performative whenever talking about female empowerment issues including the need to respect boundaries.

Someone associated with the show gets cancelled online for being problematic.

Ali Adler returns and it is awesome.

Laura Benanti returns and it is awkward because of “New Alura”.

Superman appears for like, a third of the episodes.

Bizarro

Cat Grant

Musical Episode

Bodyswap episode

Fever dream episode where Helen Slater plays an older version of Kara.

We find out Kara is in fact, good at science.

Maggie returns and there is a Girl Fight between her and Kelly.

James, Winn, Mon-el and Agent Liberty all make ‘special appearances’ in their own designated episodes just to piss of the fans without advancing any of the plot.

Mansplaining happens.

Someone gets a dog.

[lonelyfeel]

open to: f/nb/m (more partial to f/nb) | suggested connections: agent, older costar, director, producer, choreographer, or any kind of age cap tbh, ect.

      after booking his first role on broadway, there were people begging for him to be in other things. as much as he loved the stage and performing, he knew that there was a reason why laura benanti went and did some television roles. the money… it was amazing. and the people around him were a little scary, but he was being treated like a prince on set so he didn’t really mind. but there was a pretty obvious crush that he was always asked about. he was constantly questioned about working with her and the boy would gush about her. she had to know, too… because he wasn’t very subtle. he was a very expressive person. but he managed to keep it professional whenever they were around… until they walked into his trailer without knocking. gunner reached forward quickly and slammed his laptop shut, swallowing hard and trying to cover up the fact that he was definitely jerking off on his down time. “woah—woah… hey, i’m sorry—uh, do you… mind closing your eyes for a second? i need—i need to deal with… i just need to find my pants…” he nervously chuckled, squatting down and groaning a little.

[thebryanandsilvergarbage]

The Silver Garbage Awards: Worst of the Decade

Like with the Bryan Awards, I went back and picked my worst of the decade.  Please note, the nominees were nominated as the way they were placed when I originally did these awards.  Apologies in advance to anyone that may be offended by certain category placements.

- Eligibility Period is January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2019; which means anything that aired over the Summer or Fall is ineligible. - Sharknado is being entered for ALL of their movies as one. - Lead and Supporting Actor and Actress will be regardless of Comedy and Drama, and if an actor was nominated for multiple shows in that category, they will be nominated for ALL of the shows in that category over the course of the last ten years. - “Winners” will be announced by Friday, as I pick the “Bottom 2″.

And the Unlucky Nominees Are (I archived everything this decade, unlike the 2000s, where a few years suddenly disappeared off the face of the Earth due to the technology I had back then)...

Silver Garbage Awards - The WORST of the Decade

Eligibility Period: January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2019

Worst Comedy Series of the Decade: Animal Practice (NBC) Camping (HBO) Kevin Can Wait (CBS) Living Biblically (CBS) The McCarthys (CBS) Mulaney (Fox) The Muppets (ABC) Son of Zorn (Fox) White Famous (Showtime) Work It (ABC) Worst Drama Series of the Decade: Doubt (CBS) Here and Now (HBO) Ironside (NBC) Lone Star (Fox) Made in Jersey (CBS) Magnum P.I. (CBS) The Mysteries of Laura (NBC) The Playboy Club (NBC) Roadies (Showtime) 24: Legacy (Fox)

Worst Actor in a Series of the Decade: Eddie Cibrian - The Playboy Club (NBC) Andrew Dice Clay - Dice (Showtime) Corey Hawkins - 24: Legacy (Fox) Kevin James - Kevin Can Wait (CBS) Justin Kirk - APB (Fox) & Animal Practice (NBC) Ashton Kutcher - The Ranch (Netflix) & Two and a Half Men (CBS) John Mulaney - Mulaney (Fox) Charlie Sheen - Anger Management (FXX) & Two and a Half Men (CBS) Blair Underwood - Ironside (NBC) James Wolk - Lone Star (Fox) 

Worst Actress in a Series of the Decade:

Jenna Elfman - Accidentally on Purpose (CBS) & Imaginary Mary (ABC)

Jennifer Garner - Camping (HBO)

Amber Heard - The Playboy Club (NBC)

Katherine Heigl - Doubt (CBS)

Ben Koldyke - Work It (ABC)

Debra Messing - The Mysteries of Laura (NBC)

Janet Montgomery - Made in Jersey (CBS)

Adrianne Palicki - Lone Star (Fox)

Leah Remini - Kevin Can Wait (CBS) & Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E)

Frankie Shaw - SMILF (Showtime)

Worst Supporting Actor in a Series of the Decade:

Elliott Gould - Doubt (CBS)

David Keith - Lone Star (Fox)

Ben Koldyke - Mr. Robinson (NBC)

David Krumholtz - Living Biblically (CBS) & The Playboy Club (NBC)

Josh Lucas - Mysteries of Laura (NBC)

Kyle MacLachlan - Made in Jersey (CBS)

Amaury Nolasco - Deception (ABC) and Telenovela (NBC)

Stephen Tobolowsky - Californication (Showtime) & White Famous (Showtime)

Jon Voight - Lone Star (Fox) 

Daniel Zovatto - Here and Now (HBO)

Worst Supporting Actress in a Series of the Decade:

Sosie Bacon - Here and Now (HBO)

Laura Benanti - The Playboy Club (NBC)

Crystal the Monkey - Animal Practice (NBC)

Spencer Grammer - Ironside (NBC)

Natasha Leggero - Dice (Showtime) & Free Agents (NBC)

Juliette Lewis - Camping (HBO)

Amaury Nolasco - Work It (ABC)

Rosie O’Donnell - SMILF (Showtime)

Nasim Pedrad - Mulaney (Fox)

Perdita Weeks - Magnum P.I. (CBS)

Worst Special Class Program of the Decade:

A Christmas Story LIVE! (Fox)

The Bad Seed (Lifetime)

CBS News Presents the Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly (CBS)

The Decision (ESPN)

Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Flowers in the Attic/Petals In the Wind (Lifetime)

The Maya Rudolph Show (NBC)

The Passion (Fox)

Sharknado: ALL of Them (SyFy)

True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

Worst Reality Program of the Decade:

Chrisley Knows Best (USA)

Dating Naked (VH1)

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

Jersey Shore (MTV)

The Job (CBS)

Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!)

Kocktails with Khloe (FYI)

Million Dollar Mile (CBS)

3 (CBS)

Utopia (Fox)

Worst Special Class Actor of the Decade:

Woody Allen - Crisis in Six Scenes (Netflix)

Johnny Depp - Funny or Die Presents Donald Trump: The Art of the Deal (Netflix)

Colin Farrell - True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

LeBron James - The Decision (ESPN)

R. Kelly - CBS News Presents The Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly (CBS)

Rob Lowe - The Bad Seed & Beautiful & Twisted (both Lifetime)

Navi - Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland (Lifetime)

Tyler Perry - The Passion (Fox) 

Colt Prattes - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Ian Ziering - Sharknado (SyFy)

Worst Special Class Actress of the Decade:

Natasha Bassett - Britney Ever After (Lifetime)

Abigail Breslin - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Agnes Bruckner - The Anna Nicole Story (Lifetime)

Ashley Jones - The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom (Lifetime)

Lindsay Lohan - Liz & Dick (Lifetime)

Rachel McAdams - True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

Tara Reid - Sharknado (SyFy)

Maya Rudolph - A Christmas Story LIVE (Fox) & The Maya Rudolph Show (NBC)

Zoe Saldana - Rosemary’s Baby (NBC)

Paz Vega - Beautiful & Twisted (Lifetime)

Worst Special Class Supporting Actor of the Decade:

Fred Armisen - The Maya Rudolph Show (NBC)

Chris Daughtry - The Passion (Fox)

Chris Diamantapoulos - A Christmas Story: LIVE! (Fox)

James Franco - Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? (Netflix)

Bruce Greenwood - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

David Hasselhoff - Sharknado (SyFy) 

Taylor Kitsch - True Detective: Season 2 (HBO)

Matt Lauer - Leaving Neverland (HBO)

Seal - The Passion (Fox)

Christopher Walken - Peter Pan LIVE (NBC)

Worst Special Class Supporting Actress of the Decade:

Ellen Burstyn - Flowers in the Attic/Petals On the Wind (Lifetime)

Miley Cyrus - Crisis in Six Scenes (Amazon Prime), A Very Murray Christmas (Netflix), & 2013 MTV VMA Awards (MTV)

Heather Graham - Flowers in the Attic/Petals On the Wind (Lifetime)

Carla Hall - The Passion (Fox)

Kylie Jenner - Michael Buble’s Christmas In Hollywood (NBC)

Debra Messing - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Nicole Scherzinger - Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Tori Spelling - Sharknado: The Last One (SyFy)

Jillian Walchuck - Britney Ever After (Lifetime)

Trisha Yearwood - The Passion (Fox)

Worst Ensemble of the Decade:

Dirty Dancing (ABC)

Doubt (CBS)

Here and Now (HBO)

Ironside (NBC)

Jersey Shore (MTV)

Lone Star (Fox)

The Muppets (ABC)

Mulaney (Fox)

The Passion (Fox)

The Playboy Club (NBC)

Worst Screen Duo of the Decade:

Animal Practice - Justin Kirk & Crystal the Monkey (NBC)

Charlie’s Angels - Any TWO or More Angels (ABC)

Flowers In the Attic - Kiernan Shipka & Mason Dye (Lifetime)

Free Agents - Hank Azaria & Kathryn Hahn (NBC)

The Muppets - Kermit the Frog and either Miss Piggy or Denise (ABC)

Petals On The Wind - Rose McIver & Wyatt Nash (Lifetime)

The Playboy Club - Any TWO Bunnies or Mobsters (NBC)

The T.Ocho Show - Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson & Terrell Owens (Versus)

Two and a Half Men - Jon Cryer & Ashton Kutcher/Charlie Sheen (CBS)

Work It - Ben Koldyke & Amaury Nolasco (ABC)

Worst Remake, Sequel, or Spin-Off of the Decade:

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (Lifetime) - Remake/Sequel of 1980 Film

Dirty Dancing (ABC) - Remake of 1987 Film

Heroes: Reborn (NBC) - Spin-Off of the 2000s Action Series

Ironside (NBC) - Remake of 1960s/1970s Raymond Burr Cop Show

Jersey Shore: Family Reunion (MTV) - Spin-Off of the 2010s Reality Show Jersey Shore

Mockingbird Lane (NBC) - Remake of 1960s Sitcom The Munsters

The Muppets (ABC) - Spin-Off of the 1970s Variety Sketch Series

Murphy Brown (CBS) - Revival of 1990s Sitcom

24: Legacy (Fox) - Spin-Off of 2010s Action Show

Work It (ABC) - Rip-Off of 1980s Sitcom Bosom Buddies

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'Younger's Best Author Parodies, From Quinn Tyler To Edward L.L. Moore

New York media has been the backdrop for what feels like millions of TV shows about women chasing their dreams. But so few get it right. (I’ll never forget the series in which a magazine editor berates a writer, “You didn’t even leave space in this story for ads!” Which, for the uninitiated, is something an editor would never be concerned with.) But despite Younger’s outlandish premise — a rom-com about a 40-year-old woman passing for 26 — it’s become perhaps the most authentic show ever about the world of book publishing. Through seven seasons, it’s delivered plots that lived and died by the peculiar inner workings of publishing — and managed to make dishy twists out of inside-baseball stuff like bulk sales and imprint/parent company dynamics. Don’t tell anyone who worked on my own novel, but the jargon I tossed off in conversation? Hilary Duff taught me all of it.

The best part of Younger’s evolution into an industry love letter is its prescient author characters, who always feel ripped from the splashiest book world conversations. See: this season’s Greta Thunberg dupe, played to yellow-slickered perfection by Nadia Alexander. “She has our favorite name from Season 7,” writer and executive producer Dottie Zicklin tells Bustle. “Füpa Grünhoff. Her name wouldn’t clear [with the show’s lawyers] until the umlauts were added!”

Füpa is just the latest in the show’s list of standout faux scribes, whose spot-on plotlines were in part the work of the show’s anonymous publishing consultant, who helped guide the staff on the industry’s trends and conversations. We still can’t reveal his or her identity, but we did get to talk to the consultant — along with Younger creator Darren Star, Dottie Zicklin, and fellow executive producer and writer Eric Zicklin — to get the stories behind how the show’s most iconic fake authors came to life.

Season 1: Jane Krakowski as Annabelle Bancroft

Bancroft, played with nightmare-diva energy by the 30 Rock star, was based on Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell. Star famously made the series based on that book, so an homage to Bushnell — in the form of Bancroft’s iconic scenester who spends her book launch party smoking indoors and fixating on the size of the crowd — felt like a safe place to start testing author parodies. “I thought Jane was hilarious playing [a version] of my friend Candace,” Star says. “She really made me laugh.” Writer and executive producer Eric Zicklin adds: “We loved her double-bounce off the glass door most of all.” (Bancroft runs into the door while chasing her coke dealer. Twice.)

Season 2: Kobi Libii as Rob Olive

This caricature of John Green — complete with a soulful leather necklace — hit just as I realized I was reading books about dying teen lovers almost exclusively. Libii is perfectly troubled and self-serious as the bestseller workshopping a Fault in Our Stars-style YA romance with Hilary Duff’s Kelsey at lunch. (Ever the brilliant brainstormer, it’s Kelsey who comes up with the idea for a hospice prom.) “We learned the term ‘sick lit,’ and the genre seemed natural for Millennial Press’ readers,” Dottie Zicklin says. “Trying to say John Green” — aka the author of Fault — “without using the words ‘John’ or ‘Green’ led to a great name.” Long live Rob Olive.

Season 2: Justine Lupe as Jade Winslow

With Lupe’s flaky influencer character, Younger dipped into the hazards of traditional publishing chasing Instagram sensations — Winslow gets a huge memoir advance, then fails to deliver a single page of work. (Liza has to cobble together a draft from the girl’s Instagram captions.) “The younger Younger writers brought up Cat Marnell as inspiration,” Eric Zicklin says. Marnell, a former beauty editor and socialite, wrote the smash 2017 memoir How to Murder Your Lifeabout her drug addiction and magazine-world adventures. “That story led Kelsey and Liza into learning about the balance between hype and substance.”

Season 2: Richard Masur as Edward L.L. Moore

Between his aggressive rascalling around the office and his misogyny, the show’s George R.R. Martin homage became its best work in terms of authentic publishing tension holding up plotlines. Martin’s Crown of Kings fantasy series is key to Empirical staying afloat, so he gets away with — well, not murder, but making Liza wear a fur bikini in Times Square might actually be worse? It takes Empirical far too long to do the right thing and drop the author. (Right around the time Moore debuted on the show, publishing was scrambling to reckon with its own legacy of harassment.) And when they do, Moore strikes back, outing Liza as the 40-something she is. The writers didn’t know when they started writing the character’s arc that he would unpin the show’s central secret. “We had no idea how instrumental he would become in exposing Liza,” Star says. “But Richard Masur was so hilarious that I wanted to bring him back and back and back.”

Season 3: Jay Wilkison as Colin McNichol

Remember the guy who asked Kelsey at the end of their first date to take a look at his novel? Or did you try to forget you ever heard the chilling invitation, “Come on in, I’ll print you out a copy”? Ah, the perils of being a single girl presiding over New York’s hottest imprint. Kelsey actually dates Colin for a while anyway — his 600-page epic turns out to be good, by her measure — but it doesn’t stop the character from feeling It-Boy insufferable all the way through his arc. (Which includes Netflix jumping on the option for his book, naturally.) As for the trend that inspired Colin? The big-money debut epic that seemed to dominate publishing years ago — see books that scored massive paydays like The Art of Fielding or City on Fire — has subsided somewhat. But Younger’s publishing consultant says it’s never really gone. “I think there was a moment where books like that were happening more often, but it could still happen,” the consultant says. “Everyone knows attention spans are shrinking, but people still want to find that ‘It Book’ of the year.”

Season 4: Kristin Chenoweth as Marylynne Keller

Younger’s first episode in the post-Trump era featured Chenoweth as a Kellyanne Conway sendup who declares the world post-facts and claims that “Truth is a four-letter word.” (When Charles corrects her math, saying truth has five letters, she purrs: “Not the way I spell it.”) One trillion bonus points to costume design for the jacket that mirrors Conway’s inauguration outfit. “Not to say the show was ahead of the culture,” Dottie Zicklin jokes, “but when the national conversation became about Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer cajoling the truth, we felt like we were already on that topic. Liza was living it from episode one.”

Season 5: Gina Gershon as Chrissie Hart

If you had Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless on your rockstar memoir shelf, you were so ready for this plotline starring Gershon in heavy bangs and week-old eyeliner. She plays Chrissie Hart, a famous singer whose memoir Charles and Liza chase to Shelter Island. (Obviously, Chrissie Hart doesn’t email drafts, because the internet is suspect.) The head of a major publisher personally retrieving a manuscript, messenger-style? Zany but plausible, the show’s consultant confirms. “If anyone’s ever worked on celebrity books, they are their own beasts — totally fun and awful and amazing,” the consultant says. “You know what you’re in for, and yet we can’t help ourselves because they sell and they’re glamorous to work on.”

Season 6: Willa Fitzgerald as Audrey Colbert

Fitzgerald, um, kills it in this tribute to wink-wink-did-I-murder-someone-or-not books. Her character goes around shopping a memoir meant to refute her villain status on a Serial-like podcast; she’s chaperoned by Michael Urie’s Redmond. (The only lit agent in New York, according to Younger, but would I want Urie sharing screen time? I would not.) Fitzgerald’s dead-eyed smize is what gives this character her hall of fame status. As Dottie Zicklin says, “Willa was able to give that staredown that says ‘beware’ and ‘I might have sex with you right now.’” Eventually, though, a press outcry kills the project — totally realistic, according to the show’s consultant. “If you are dealing with someone who the public believes to be guilty, or unworthy of a book deal, that can bring a major backlash,” the consultant says. “See Jonathan Mattingly or Josh Hawley — and, years ago, O.J. Simpson.” Yeah, remember If I Did It? Unlike Beaufort Books, the shop behind that one, Empirical eventually declined to publish Colbert’s book.

Season 6-7: Laura Benanti as Quinn Tyler

Quinn is the one Younger author who’s transcended cameo status. Once a Sheryl Sandberg parody in a wiggle dress, she’s become a prolonged meditation on the subject of women doing it all. “To us, the key to Quinn was understanding that she’s just as smart and successful and impulsive, and just as tone-deaf, as any male billionaire,” Eric Zicklin says. This season, Quinn becomes much more than a villain with an endless font of ice-queen comebacks — proof that Younger is well versed in publishing’s golden rule: Never judge a book by its cover.

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open to: f/nb/m (more partial to f/nb) | suggested connections: agent, older costar, director, producer, choreographer, any kind of age cap tbh, ect.

       after booking his first role on broadway, there were people begging for him to be in other things. as much as he loved the stage and performing, he knew that there was a reason why laura benanti went and did some television roles. the money… it was amazing. and the people around him were a little scary, but he was being treated like a prince on set so he didn’t really mind. but there was a pretty obvious crush that he was always asked about. he was constantly questioned about working with her and the boy would gush about her. she had to know, too… because he wasn’t very subtle. he was a very expressive person. but he managed to keep it professional whenever they were around… until they walked into his trailer without knocking. gunner reached forward quickly and slammed his laptop shut, swallowing hard and trying to cover up the fact that he was definitely jerking off on his down time. “woah—woah… hey, i’m sorry—uh, do you… mind closing your eyes for a second? i need—i need to deal with… i just need to find my pants…” he nervously chuckled, squatting down and groaning a little.

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Agent Benanti

“Don’t you have running to do?”

“I’m going to spar with Danvers when we get in.”

Lara now peeked out from under the covers to glare at her.  "But if you went out and did the running thing, then I’d get to lie here in bed for at least twenty more minutes.“

"How is it that you were a Marine and you can’t ever stick to a schedule?” Alice asked with a smile and slight frustration coupled with amusement.

“I can stick to a schedule, I will just lie in bed until the very moment before it will take me to get dressed and throw my hair back…”

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West Week Ever: Pop Culture In Review - 7/14/17

So, I saw Spider-Man: Homecoming. Unlike most of you, I didn’t love it. I really liked it, but didn’t love it. Part of the issue stems from the legacy of Spider-Man films. I kinda hate how every star has delivered a great performance as Spider-Man, yet the minute the roll is recast, fans with short memories start saying the last guy was “shit”. People love ragging on Tobey Maguire, especially after Spider-Man 3, but he was really good in those first two movies. There’s a Spider-Man for every generation, and he was the Spider-Man we needed in 2002. Sure, he wouldn’t work so well now, but to compare his movies to Homecoming is basically apples to oranges. I also kinda hate when people say “They finally got Spider-Man right!” Um, Tobey already got him right. Andrew Garfield, in his own way, got him right. And Holland is getting him right. For now. They’ve all brought something special and unique to the table, and I think it’s unfair to discount that because there’s some new, shiny thing to take your attention.

All that’s to say that I liked Homecoming, but it didn’t really offer anything new to me. I felt the same wide-eyed wonder seeing Holland do the ferry rescue as I did when Maguire did the same thing with the train in Spider-Man 2. Some might call that an homage, but it just felt…familiar.

What did I love? I loved Tony being there. I felt like there was just enough Tony Stark without the film becoming Iron Man 3.5. It’s always good to see Happy, and this movie did more with him than most of the Iron Man films ever did. I especially love movie Happy since comic Happy is no longer with us (sad trombone). I loved sexy, younger Aunt May, but I’ve loved Marisa Tomei ever since she filled out her college application wrong and ended up at that Black college. I loved the running joke of all the guys commenting on how hot she was. It’s a new concept for May, but it works. I loved the Miles Morales Easter egg (I won’t spoil it here if you didn’t catch it). I loved Not-Ganke (For those not in the know, Ganke is the name of Miles Morales Spider-Man’s best friend, who looks EXACTLY like actor Jacob Batalon), even if I don’t know why they insisted on calling him “Ned Leeds”. I loved that Damage Control was officially revealed. Keaton was great, even if he’s not an Adrian Toomes that I recognize. The Liz Allen swerve was cool, ’cause I really didn’t see that coming.

OK, now for the things I didn’t like. They introduced a good swath of Spidey’s rogue (Mac Gargan, Shocker), all at once as Vulture’s gang, only to be relegated to ancillary characters and henchmen. I know the MCU has a “Villain Problem” of wasting their villains, but this just takes the cake.

Now, this is gonna sound stupid, but I spent a good amount of time trying to reconcile the MCU timeline in my head. The movie starts immediately after Avengers, jumps 8 years to Captain America: Civil War, and then to the present day, which is shortly after the airport battle where Spidey debuted. Now, a big part of Act 3 is the fact that Vulture wants to steal a bunch of Avengers/Stark Tech on Moving Day – when everything was being moved from Avengers Tower to the upstate facility. Now, Tony’s rich, so it’s not like he can’t own multiple properties, but why is Moving Day happening NOW? I mean, the upstate facility debuted at the end of Age of Ultron, we saw it again in Ant-Man, and everyone seemed to be pretty moved in by Civil War. So, why the delay in moving everything up there? Does Homecoming maybe not take place when we think it does? Well, we know it’s post-Civil War because Cap’s hilariously referred to as a war criminal by gym teacher Hannibal Buress. If it were just a thrown away reference, I wouldn’t care, but the whole final action piece is based on this Moving Day concept. Anyway, I think it’s fair to say I probably wasn’t in the right headspace for this movie if that’s where my brain was going.

Oh, and the thing I hated most: that effing MJ reveal! First of all, it accomplished nothing. It was corny, and it was executed just as poorly as when The Dark Knight Rises did it. Secondly, at the end of the day, her name is MICHELLE, not MARY. You can call her “MJ”, but that does not make her Mary Jane. And to be honest, the movie would’ve been fine without her character. While she was funny, it seems like she was woven into the movie solely to make that hamfisted name reveal at the end.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll watch this movie a bunch more once it hits the premium channels, but I just didn’t fall in love with it as much as a lot of you did. I’m really sorry about that, too, ’cause I really wanted to love it. Something just didn’t work for me entirely, and I can’t put my finger on it exactly.

Things were heating up in the news world this week. Back when NBC announced they had hired Megyn Kelly from Fox News, Today co-anchor Tamron Hall abruptly quit, reportedly because her contract was about to expire. Industry insiders, however, believe it was because it was rumored that Kelly would be given the third hour of Today – where Hall was currently the co-anchor of Today’s Take. Well, that’s somewhat true, as this week it was revealed that Kelly’s show will premiere September 25th, and will feature a live studio audience, like a traditional talk show. It will, in fact, occupy the third hour of Today, sandwiched between the regular Today and the Kathie Lee & Hoda hour of Today. Not to be outdone, it was also announced that Tamron Hall is developing a daytime talk show with Weinstein Television. It’s also believed that, in several major markets, this talk show will go head to head with Kelly’s daytime show. Now the race is on to see which one of them earns the coveted “Fake News” label first!

In other television news, CBS announced an upcoming animated special called Michael Jackson’s Halloween, which sounds kinda sketchy. Apparently, it’s about two Millennials (there’s THAT buzzword), which is basically to say “two shits too young to appreciate the King of Pop’s music”. Anyway, they meet at a party, end up at a weird hotel, and crazy stuff happens – all capped off by a dance number by an animated Michael. If you ask me, he already contributed his greatest gift to the Halloween industry: “Thriller”! Unless this is just a one-hour animated version of “Thriller”, I don’t think the world needs this. Somebody tell his mama to stop letting his estate make crap like this.

Things You Might Have Missed This Week

John Cho joins Fox’s The Exorcist next season. While some are all, “Yay, representation!”, I’m like “Why the F is Sulu doing television?!” Well, I guess since Kumar’s already doing television…

In a move that’s somewhat baffling to me, Lucy Liu will direct the season 2 premiere of Netflix’s Luke Cage

Speaking of Netflix, Bojack Horseman season 4 will premiere on September 8th.

Fresh of the Boat dad Randall Park has been cast as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jimmy Woo in Ant-Man & The Wasp

Netflix has also renewed the Castlevania animated series for a second season

Jeremy Renner essentially broke both arms while filming the movie Tag, though it’s not expected to affect production on Avengers: Infinity War.

Smallville‘s Lois Lane, Erica Durance, is taking over the role of Alura from Laura Benanti on Supergirl.

Despite flopping in North America, the Baywatch film is on track to make $100 million overseas

Showtime is planning a sequel to the hit lesbian series The L Word. If it were up to me, it’d be called The K Word, and it would be about non-binary gender Millennials as they make their way through NYC, but nobody pays me for these ideas, so…

After 27 years of voicing Kermit the Frog, it was revealed that Steve Whitmire was fired back in October, and it currently lobbying to get his job back. Apparently, it’s not east being Steve.

In probably the biggest TV news this week (at least for the geek set), it was announced that AT&T Lily herself, Milana Vayntrub, has been cast as Squirrel Girl in Marvel’s New Warriors on Freeform. I cared NOTHING about this show until that announcement. It still doesn’t really inspire any confidence for me, as I don’t know if the superhero comedy genre works on television (see Powerless), but I’m definitely more inclined to check it out than I had been prior to the announcement. I mean, who doesn’t love that chick?! I love her in the commercials, I loved her in Other Space, and I even loved her as a bitchy ex-girlfriend in Love. Here’s hoping this leads to the big break she deserves. It was a slow entertainment news week so, ya know what, Milana Vayntrub had the Breas…I mean West Week Ever.

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Laura Benanti in The Detour  - 3x04: The Goal

Edie gets close to Nate and ends up not just falling for him, but becoming completely obsessed with him, true Edie style. Not even rejection can faze her.

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oh no, any fandom that comes to mind/is relevant! just like hearing why people like what they like and that's an interesting context to frame it in. :)

for supergirl, bc i’m a masochist:

3. Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?

ahahahahaha yes omg so many people.  i think i’ve unfollowed about 25 blogs since s2 started.

8. Have you received anon hate? What about?

oh.  yeah.  at one point i got like a boatload of it back in the glee fandom bc not ending a fwb fic with quinn and santana getting married meant people thought it was really important to tell me to jump off a cliff.  also, more recently, someone apparently decided i was homophobic bc i was being critical of the maggie/alex ship.  so.  that’s a thing.

then there’s also the jackasses who decided to send anon hate to some of my friends one a few separate occasions.  there’s a special place in hell reserved for those folks, i’m pretty sure.

9.  Most disliked character(s)? Why?hmmm.  i mean, max lord, obviously, was the worst and didn’t even have the modicum of charm that mon-el sometimes stumbled onto.  s2 james is a ragingly arrogant asshole, which is a thing i very specifically and personally hate, even if i can’t honestly ever bring myself to hate james olsen.  i’m very obviously not a fan of maggie sawyer, either, as much as i want to be.  :/  i was also unfortunately not a huge fan of astra, as much as i wanted to be, not least bc i adore laura benanti; she just didn’t click for me as a character.  

11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?while i wouldn’t go so far as to say that i LIKE him, my contrary nature has made me hate mon-el significantly less the more the fandom hates him.  to be very clear: i don’t like mon-el.  however, i also don’t think that mon-el is The Actual Worse Thing To Ever Happen On Television, which sometimes feels like i’m a fan of him.  and i DO enjoy the bro-chemistry that he and supergirl have (pls note the bro part of that), because they really, really had that going for them.  mon-el as kara’s useless layabout roommate who slept with literally 68% of the DEO agents would have been THE BEST STORYLINE and obviously millions of miles better than the garbage redundant “woman must teach manchild to be good man-man instead of selfish manchild” story we got.

tl;dr i actually did find chris woods as mon-el rather charming, taken in a vacuum, even though the storyline was obviously not existing in a vacuum, and fandom is melodramatic trash that can’t tell its ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to offering legitimate criticism of a storyline, so i feel weirdly defensive of mon-el purely out of spite.

21. What are your thoughts on crack ships? 

in general? i mean i love them?  mostly?? obviously there are caveats to that but for the most part they make me laugh extensively and bring me great joy, so.  always here for it.

specifically regarding supergirl….i dunno, what even are crackships in supergirl?  the only ones i’ve seen pop up on my dash have been lucy/alura (wtffff) and i guess alex/astra could maybe count?  i’m not a fan of either of those bc they fall into one of the caveats (aka, significant age and/or power differences make me Very Sad), and also they just don’t make a whole lot of sense to me, so.  maybe i don’t like crack ships as much as i think.  hard to tell.

22. Popular character you hate? 

i mean, see above.  i don’t hate james or maggie, even though i dislike them significantly at this point.  i know that my feelings about the character of maggie sawyer are pretty unpopular, and at least one person has yelled at my extensively and angrily for my criticism of james olsen in s2.  so.  that’s a thing, clearly.  i also was never super a fan of astra? :/

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Music tag thing

Tagged by the amazing @the-queen-of-the-light (thank you!!! ❤) So basically imma put my phone on shuffle and list the first 10 songs 1. Story Of Chess - Chess 2. Fast In My Car - Paramore 3. There Is Life Outside Your Apartment - Avenue Q 4. Nag - Joan Jett 5. Manchester England- Hair (2009) 6. Overture - Chicago 7. Black Boys - Hair (movie) 8. He Comes For Conversation (Live) - Laura Benanti 9. You Ok Honey? - RENT 10. Totally Fucked Spring Awakening Wow I'm surprised there was no Lady Gaga... Anyway here is who I'm tagging!! Do it if ya want :) @kendrickhier @agentalex @agent-alex-danvers @egg666

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36 Famous Actors Who’ve Guest-Starred on ‘The Good Wife’

By Rebecca Strassberg | Posted Oct. 16, 2014,

36 Famous Actors Who’ve Guest-Starred on ‘The Good Wife’ Photo Source: Craig Blankenhorn/CBS

Starring Julianna Margulies, Matt Czuchry, Christine Baranski, and others, “The Good Wife” has been one of the smartest, most well-crafted shows on network television since 2009.

While several famous actors have appeared in small roles on the show (Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane among them), we’re looking at the actors who’ve surprised us with their roles as lawyers, criminals, judges, and the likes.

Who’s been your favorite “Good Wife” guest star? (If you don’t have one, that’s fine. But if you don’t have one because you don’t watch “The Good Wife,” call in sick tomorrow and get started!)

Matthew Perry The “Friends” star had a small arc during the show’s third and fourth seasons as Mike Kresteva, who runs again Peter (Chris Noth) for Illinois governor, and who Peter epically punches in the face.

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Jonathan Groff The former Backstage cover star and “Looking” actor graced “The Good Wife” on the Season 3 episode “Live from Damascus.” Jonathan Groff plays Jimmy Fellner, the brother of a girl who was captured while studying Arabic in Syria.

Laura Benanti On the Season 5 episode “Tying the Knot,” Tony winner Laura Benanti plays Renata Ellard, the most recent lover of “The Good Wife’s” most devious killer, Colin Sweeney. When Alicia (Julianna Margulies) stops by the lovebirds’ engagement party to get legal papers signed, she finds herself at a murder scene again, and Benanti is not as sweet and innocent as she seems.

Martha Plimpton Though Martha Plimpton is a recurring character, she’s just too hysterical to ignore. As defense attorney Patti Nyholm, Plimpton uses her character’s pregnancy and motherhood as a tactic for delaying hearings, being late, etc. Plimpton took home an Emmy in 2009 for outstanding guest actress in a drama series for the role.

Rita Wilson Rita Wilson pops up every once in a while as Viola Walsh, a competing defense lawyer and acquaintance of Diane’s (Christine Baranski). And when Walsh’s character comes into town from California, you know there’s gonna be trouble.

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Kelli Giddish The “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” actor guest stars on four episodes of the show as Sophia Russo, a private sector investigator who’s romantically involved with Kalinda (Archie Panjabi).

Nestor Carbonell In the Season 5 episode “The Deep Web,” Nestor Carbonell plays a flirtatious juror with whom Alicia later goes out to lunch.

Aaron Tveit The “Graceland” actor took his turn on “The Good Wife,” as lawyer Spencer Zschau in the Season 3 episode “Executive Order 13224.”

Audra McDonald Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald play Liz Lawrence on the Season 4 episode “Runnin’ with the Devil.” As Alicia’s law school nemesis, McDonald’s character goes up against her in a case involving Lemond Bishop (Mike Colter).

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Linda Emond This two-time Tony nominee appears in three episodes of “The Good Wife” (thus far) as Judge Leora Kuhn, a military judge whom Alicia argues in front of, and later helps on a case.

Kate Burton The “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor portrays Chief Justice of Illinois Victoria Adler who respects Diane deeply and tries to help her become a judge, though she later retracts the offer.

America Ferrera The actor formerly known as Ugly Betty appears in four episodes as Natalie Flores, a college student who worked for Peter’s state’s attorney opponent Wendy Scott-Carr (Anika Noni Rose). When Eli (Alan Cumming) tries to expose her as an illegal immigrant, he finds something attractive in her instead. The whole unrequited love situation brings out the surprisingly endearing side of Eli.

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Parker Posey Parker Posey plays Eli’s ex-wife for three episodes throughout Season 3. The “House of Yes” actor is a perfect match to Eli, making us wish the two would rekindle their love.

Amy Sedaris Amy Sedaris licks whipped cream off of Alan Cumming’s fingers. And yes, you read that correctly. Sedaris plays Stacie Hall for three episodes during Season 3, a lobbyist who appears to be Eli’s match. However, when she becomes his ex-wife’s campaign manager, her manipulative (and sexual) tricks are too powerful for Eli to fight.

Bebe Neuwirth What kind of show would “The Good Wife” be without a Bebe Neuwirth guest role? The two-time Emmy winner plays one of the many judges we see our favorite defense attorneys argue in front of.

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F. Murray Abraham Most recently seen in Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and on “Homeland,” F. Murray Abraham plays Burl Preston on “The Good Wife,” a big shot lawyer from Los Angeles.

Lisa Edelstein The “House” actor appears in three episodes of “The Good Wife” including “Get a Room,” “Feed the Rat,” and “Marthas and Caitlins.”

Eric Bogosian Eric Bogosian spends three episodes on the show in Season 5 as an agent with the Office of Public integrity who’s determined to prove someone rigged Peter’s election for governor of Illinois.

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Gillian Jacobs The “Community” star guest-starred on “The Good Wife” before the Emmy noms and critical acclaim. Gillian Jacobs plays Sonia on the pilot episode!

Jerry Stiller The “King of Queens” actor made an appearance as one of the show’s many judges. (Among them are Denise O’Hare, David Paymer, Peter Riegert, and Jeffrey Tambor, to name a few.) Stiller plays Judge Felix Afterman on the Season 2 episode “Silver Bullet.”

Christina Ricci In the Season 4 episode “Anatomy of a Joke,” Christina Ricci plays Therese Dodd, a vulgar comedian who never apologizes for anything. When she gets sued for taking her top off on live TV (supposedly to perform a breast exam), the network decides to sue her for damages. However, the case is only made more difficult for Alicia and Cary (Matt Czuchry) when she can’t keep her potty mouth closed.

Sarah Silverman Most recently with a guest-starring role on “Masters of Sex,” Sarah Silverman was a “Good Wife” guest star as well. In a part so perfectly fitting with her unapologetic/often sexual stand-up routines, Silverman plays Stephanie Engler, a woman who runs a website that allows users to have affairs with random matches.

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Lily Rabe The “American Horror Story” actor has a teeny, tiny role on “The Good Wife.” As Petra Moritz, a reporter first appearing in the show’s second season, Rabe’s role is the kind of quick take that makes you say, “Is that Lily Rabe?!?!”

Matt Letscher Currently recurring on “Castle” and “Boardwalk Empire,” Matt Letscher guest-starred on “The Good Wife” on the Season 2 episode “Two Courts.” Letscher plays former campaign manager Adam Boras who attempts to go over Eli’s head and bring Peter big cash donors to his cash-poor campaign.

Hunter Parrish In the Season 5 episode “Dramatics, Your Honor,’ Hunter Parrish plays…I…I can’t. This one’s too painful for any fan of the show to discuss. See why here.

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Richard Kind Currently on Fox’s “Gotham,” Richard Kind first guest-starred in one of the most pivotal and nail-biting episodes of “The Good Wife” as Judge Alan Davies on the Season 5 episode, “The Next Day”; it’s the one after the shit hits the fan, as any “Good Wife” fan remembers.

Tracy Thoms Known for playing Joanne in “Rent,” Tracy Thoms appears on one episode of the show (Season 4’s “Runnin’ with the Devil”) as Lemond Bishop’s sister, Judy.

Corey Stoll Most recently seen in “This Is Where I Leave You,” the “House of Cards” actor plays Collin Grant in the second episode of “The Good Wife.”

Wallace Shawn Every so often, Wallace Shawn (“Toy Story”) pops up as Lemond Bishop’s (the biggest drug dealer in Chicago) personal (and most definitely crooked) attorney. Courtesy of CBS

Kyle MacLachlan In two Season 4 episodes, Kyle MacLachlan (“Twin Peaks” is coming back!) play Josh Perotti who has Eli on tape committing a felony regarding political donations. He and David LaGuardia (Hamish Linklater) offer to make Eli a deal if he wears a wire and gets Peter confessing to the crime as well.

Kristin Chenoweth As Peggy Byrne in two Season 4 episodes, this Tony winner is a political reporter who gets a bit too personal with her questions but is quick to quiet reporters when they dig into her personal life.

Jason Biggs Before his epic “Orange Is the New Black” comeback, Jason Biggs appeared on two episodes of “The Good Wife” as Dylan Stack in Seasons 3 and 4. He first posed as the lawyer for the creator of online currency Bitcoin, but it’s later discovered that he’s one of its three inventors.

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Miranda Cosgrove On the Season 2 episode “Bad Girls,” the actor formerly known as Carly Shay (“iCarly”), plays Alicia’s pop star client Sloan Burchfield who’s accused of attempted murder after allegedly driving drunk.

Tamara Tunie Amidst her 14 years playing Dr. Melinda Warner on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Tamara Tunie guest-starred on one Season 4 episode of the hit CBS show as Serafina Norvy where the lawyers battle a West Nile Virus case.

Bryce Pinkham Tony nominee for “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” Bryce Pinkham plays Dr. Hanson on the Season 1 episode “Unplugged,” about a case involving the wife of a comatose musician.

Pablo Schreiber The “Orange Is the New Black” villain appears on the Season 2 episode “Ham Sandwich” as Gregory Mars. The episode follows Lemond Bishop’s divorce, Kalinda’s grand jury subpoena, and Peter’s campaign (The first one!).

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Joe Masteroff, story writer for the musical ‘Cabaret,’ dies

NEW YORK — Joe Masteroff, the Tony Award-winning story writer of the brilliant, edgy musical “Cabaret” and the touching, romantic “She Loves Me,” has died. He was 98.

Masteroff died Friday at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, said The Roundabout Theatre Company, which produced recent revivals of his best-loved shows.

“Today we deeply mourn the loss of our friend Joe Masteroff, one of the 20th century’s masters of the Great American Musical. His ‘She Loves Me’ and ‘Cabaret’ helped shape our theatre, and we were honoured to present them both on Broadway,” said Todd Haimes, artistic director and CEO of the Roundabout Theatre Company.

“Joe was a close collaborator, a legendary wit, and a dear friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family.”

Masteroff was never prolific but made a profound mark on the theatre with two shows seemingly at opposite ends of the spectrum — one considered by many to be the most charming musical ever written and the other a ferociously dark musical with ominous Nazis.

“I’ve had a limited career, but it’s been OK,” he told The Associated Press in a 2015 interview as another national tour of “Cabaret” was kicking off.

The Philadelphia-born Masteroff hoped as a young man to write plays and after serving in World War II took a course for playwriting. He hadn’t found much success until his 1959 comedy play “The Warm Peninsula” made it to Broadway starring Julie Harris.

“One day my agent called and said ‘Joe, I’ve got wonderful news. Julie Harris wants to do your play.’ I said, ‘Which play?’ He told me and said, ‘Not only that, she wants to tour for a year throughout the United States and then bring it to New York.’ That day my life changed.”

The show only managed 86 Broadway performances but got Masteroff noticed. He was asked to write the book for “She Loves Me” with songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. It was produced by the legendary Hal Prince.

“She Loves Me,” a case of mistaken identity set in a 1930’s European perfumery, was nominated for five Tonys in 1964 and the 1993 Broadway revival won the Olivier Award for best musical revival.

A 2016 Tony-nominated revival on Broadway starred Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski and Zachary Levi. The story has been adapted into the films “The Shop Around the Corner” with James Stewart and “You’ve Got Mail” with Tom Hanks.

It was Prince who next asked him to write the libretto for a musical that took a look at a seamy slice of life in Germany just before the Nazi takeover. Masteroff compressed Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories” and John van Druten’s play “I Am a Camera.” The songs were provided by composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb.

The show is set in 1920s Berlin where a sleazy nightclub becomes a metaphor for a world slowly going mad and drifting toward world war. The musical was first called “Welcome to Berlin,” a name that was dropped after Masteroff suggested “Cabaret.”

In the show, cabaret numbers are interspersed with two love stories — one between free spirit Sally Bowles and an American writer named Cliff Bradshaw and a second between a German landlady and her Jewish tenant.

It debuted in Boston in 1966 and was a sensation — audiences were not used to going to shows that mixed call girl characters and Nazis, lasciviousness, alcoholism and abortions.

“I always thought that this show was very iffy. We had done so many things that nobody in their right mind would have done. That it worked was a pleasant surprise,” Masteroff said in 2015.

“At the first performances — maybe the first three or four days — people kept walking out. In numbers. And the reason, quite obviously, was they went to see a musical called ‘Cabaret’ and there was something wrong with this show. Some people were very disappointed. Once the reviews came out, that ended.”

The original production — starring Jill Haworth as Sally, Bert Convy as Clifford and Joel Grey as the Master of Ceremonies — was one of the most influential musicals of the 1960s. It won the best musical Tony in 1967.

It was one of the first of the so-called “concept” musicals, in which book, music, lyrics, scenery, costumes and lighting worked together to get across the show’s idea. A 1972 film version was directed by Bob Fosse and starred Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Grey.

A Broadway “Cabaret” revival by director Sam Mendes and choreographer Rob Marshall starring Alan Cumming won the best revival Tony in 1998 and it was revived again in 2014 with Cumming aboard and actresses including Michelle Williams, Emma Stone and Sienna Miller playing Sally.

Both “She Loves You” and “Cabaret” made numerous appearances on Broadway and regionally over the years. Masteroff only helped write one other adaptation to make it to Broadway — “70, Girls, 70” in 1971, which lasted only 35 performances — but his career was set.

“I wrote a few shows after that but mostly for my own amusement,” he said. “I haven’t had a big career, you might say. I’m not that anxious. If I’m doing all right, I’ll settle for that.”

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