#Kathleen McCormack

[pelagae]

Who wants to talk about Robert Durst? I just binged the Jinx since the new stuff came out recently. It's so wild.

Why, in the older and newer interviews, does everyone act like he's so charismatic and likable? He's very obviously neither of those things. How much was he paying them?

What the fuck is wrong with Debrah?

If he'd had a better disguise (than a deaf mute woman), would he have avoided confrontation with Morris Black? If he hadn't killed him, would he have successfully laid low enough to get away with the rest?

Does he think Coolsville sucks?

[zachciankowa]

The most satisfying thing about this new season and it's first episode is the fact that this bastard lived his last days in prison knowing that a carbon copy of the wife he killed is out there, witness to his fall. Chef's kiss.

[twwpress]

Weekly Press Briefing #61: August 20th - 26th

Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more! This briefing covers all things posted from August 20 - August 26, 2023! Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing! 

Challenges/Prompts:

The following is a roundup of open challenges/prompts. Do you have a challenge or event you’d like us to promote? Be sure to get in touch with us! Contact info is at the bottom of this briefing.

@callixton is hosting The West Wing Pride Week (@twwpride here on tumblr) September 17 - 23. More details here! 

Photos/Videos:

This was a huge week in TWW media. Before we get to the regular round-up, we’re going to start with a mini round up of all of the photos and videos from the August 22nd SAG-AFTRA picket line event: 

Amy Landecker posted an Insta reel of Bradley Whitford speaking.

Devika Parikh posted a slideshow of photos with the cast from the event. 

Janel Moloney posted a selfie with Bradley Whitford from the picket line. 

Josh Malina helped organize the TWW reunion aspect of the event and posted a number of videos and group photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Kathleen “Bird” York posted photos from the picket line: 1 | 2

Kim Webster posted a slideshow of photos from the picket line with throwback photos from the show’s glory days mixed in. 

Mary McCormack posted a group photo from the event. 

Peter James Smith posted a photo round-up from the picket line. 

Richard Schiff posted a video of himself and his son being picket line captains at the Paramount gate. 

Here’s the rest of what was posted from August 20 - 26:

Marlee Matlin posted a video on her birthday.

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself and her friend Liz Tannebaum in honor of Liz’s birthday. 

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself with her brother Eric and her sister-in-law Gloria in celebration of Gloria’s birthday. 

Melissa Fitzgerald posted a photo of herself with her dog for National Dog Day. 

Donna Moss Daily: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

Daily Josh Lyman: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

No Context BWhit: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

@twwarchive: August 20 | August 21 | August 22 | August 23 | August 24 | August 25 | August 26

Editors’ Choice: 

This week's cast reunion has got us thinking present day/future fic thoughts! We already did a future fic roundup in a previous briefing, but here are a few more present day/future day fics to satisfy all your where-are-they-now cravings!

everything I need is right here by my side by WitchyPrentiss for flowersinapril  | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete |  Post series JoshDonna - wholesome married people who love and support each other.

dancing in a snowglobe ('round and 'round) by JessBakesCakes | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete |  Tonight, they’re celebrating the Inauguration of their dear friend Sam Seaborn, the newest President of the United States. They’ve been married for fifteen years, they have three daughters who are getting ready in their own bedrooms, and it’s just Josh with a pile of snowballs at his feet, standing on the sidewalk of their home.

//Snowballs, 20 years later

Heavy Days In June by Lily_Padd_23 for supernatural_mondler (starzinoureyes) | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn | Complete |  A glimpse at an alternate summer 2020 with President Seaborn in the White House.

Takes the Biscuit by Nemainofthewater | Rated G | No Pairings Listed (Gen Fic) | Complete |  Three times Josh is amused at the Leader of the Free World. And one time he wants to straight up murder him.

all i gotta do is say your sweet name by hufflepuffhermione for mikaylawrites | Rated M | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete |  "You’re not going to come out and hear me speak?”

Josh kisses her cheek. “We’ll be waiting in the wings, and then I’m taking you home.”

“Home?”

“Well, to the hotel here. We have two rooms…” he says, wiggling an eyebrow.

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October 2022. While surprising Donna on the campaign trail, Josh reads an article and finds a new word to describe his wife.

It seems like the new normal is a word count limit on posts, so we'll keep reblogging with the week's fic updates after the Editors' Choice section each week. Stay tuned for this week's fics!

[indiejones]

THE 100 GREATEST SCREEN-PAIRS IN HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA (@INDIES)!

.RAJESH KHANNA - MUMTAZ

.WALTER PIDGEON – GREER GARSON

.HUMPHREY BOGART – INGRID BERGMAN

.RICHARD BURTON – ELIZABETH TAYLOR

.ETHAN HAWKE – JULIE DELPY

.CHARLES CHAPLIN – EDNA PURVIANCE

.HUGH GRANT – JULIA ROBERTS

.KEANU REEVES – CARRIE-ANN MOSS

.RICHARD GERE - JULIA ROBERTS

.REX HARRISON – AUDREY HEPBURN

.CHARLES FARRELL – JANET GAYNOR

.CLARK GABLE – VIVIEN LEIGH

.UTTAM KUMAR – SUCHITRA SEN

.ROBERT REDFORD – BARBRA STREISAND

.DEV ANAND – WAHEEDA REHMAN

.CARY GRANT – INGRID BERGMAN

.KEANU REEVES – SANDRA BULLOCK

.GARY COOPER – INGRID BERGMAN

.JOSEPH FIENNES – GWYNETH PALTROW

.CHARLES BOYER – INGRID BERGMAN

.CARY GRANT – KATHERINE HEPBURN

.GURU DUTT – WAHEEDA REHMAN

.RAJESH KHANNA - TANUJA

.DILIP KUMAR - MADHUBALA

.TOM HANKS – MEG RYAN

.RAJESH KHANNA – SHARMILA TAGORE

.HUGH GRANT – RENEE ZELLWEGER

.SPENCOR TRACY – KATHERINE HEPBURN

.AMITABH BACHCHAN – PARVEEN BABI

.MICHEL PICCOLI – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.WOODY ALLEN – DIANE KEATON

.RAJESH KHANNA – REKHA

.MICHAEL DOUGLAS – GLENN CLOSE

.ALAIN DELON – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.ROD STEIGER – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.SHAMMI KAPOOR – ASHA PAREKH

.MARCELO MASTROIANNI – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.YVES MONTAND – SIMONE SIGNORET

.ALAIN DELON – ANNIE GIRARDOT

.JOHNNY DEPP – JULIETTE BINOCHE

.LAURENCE OLIVIER – VIVIEN LEIGH

.CLARK GABLE – JOAN CRAWFORD

.TREVOR HOWARD – CELIA JOHNSON

.PATRICK SWAYZE – JENNIFER GREY

.PREM NAZIR - SHEELA

.VINCENT CASSEL – MONICA BELLUCCI

.CLARK GABLE – AVA GARDNER

.JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.JACK LEMMON – SHIRLEY MACLAINE

.HEATH LEDGER - JULIA STILES

.ANTHONY PERKINS – INGRID BERGMAN

.TOBEY MAGUIRE – KIRSTEN DUNST

.GREGORY PECK – AUDREY HEPBURN

.TOM CRUISE – RENEE ZELLWEGER

.AMITABH BACHCHAN - REKHA

.JAMES STEWART – MARGARET SULLAVAN

.RYAN GOSLING – RACHEL MCADAMS

.PRADEEP KUMAR – MEENA KUMARI

.ROBERT MONTGOMERY – ROSALIND RUSSELL

.JOHNNY DEPP – HELENA BONHAM CARTER

.BOBBY VERNON – GLORIA SWANSON

.DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. – LORETTA YOUNG

.CLARK GABLE – CLAUDETTE COLBERT

.RAJESH KHANNA – ZEENAT AMAN

.GLENN FORD – GERALDINE PAGE

.LEONARDO DI CAPRIO – KATE WINSLET

.RAJESH KHANNA – ASHA PAREKH

.MEL GIBSON – CATHERINE MCCORMACK

.RAJ KAPOOR - NARGIS

.BRAD PITT – ANGELINA JOLIE

.CHRISTOPHER REEVE – MARGOT KIDDER

.CARY GRANT – SOPHIA LOREN

.SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE – MADHABI MUKHERJEE

.HUMPHREY BOGART – AUDREY HEPBURN

.SALMAN KHAN – AISHWARYA RAI

.ANTONIA BANDERAS – CATHERINE ZETA JONES

.RYAN O’ NEAL – BARBRA STREISAND

.JOHNNY DEPP – GWYNETH PALTROW

.MICHAEL DOUGLAS – KATHLEEN TURNER

.JAMES STEWART – CLAUDETTE COLBERT

.LAURENT MALET – ANNIE GIRARDOT

.DICK POWELL – OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

.TOMMY STEELE – GERALDINE PAGE

.GEORGE BRENT – OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

.MAURICE RONET – BRIGITTE BARDOT

.RAJESH KHANNA - SRIDEVI

.WILLIAM POWELL – MYRNA LOY

.ANTHONY PERKINS – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.MICKEY ROONEY – JUDY GARLAND

.RAJESH KHANNA - RAAKHEE

.SHAH RUKH KHAN - KAJOL

.RAAJ KUMAR – MEENA KUMARI

.MAHIPAL – ANITA GUHA

.RALPH FIENNES – JULIETTE BINOCHE

.ERROL FLYNN – OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

.JOHN BOLES – BARBARA STANWYCK

.DHARMENDRA – MEENA KUMARI

.PETER FINCH – AUDREY HEPBURN

.MARLON BRANDO – KIM HUNTER

.MAURICE RONET – ROMY SCHNEIDER .

(P.S. - THE 2 PEOPLE WITH MOST ENTRIES IN THIS LIST, ARE-

RAJESH KHANNA OF INDIA WITH 8 ENTRIES, FOLLOWED BY ROMY SCHNEIDER OF AUSTRIA/FRANCE WITH 7 ENTRIES!)

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

I rewatched this serial on 27 May 2023. I chose the original TV version available as part of the blu-ray boxset.

We begin with Soviet soldiers rowing towards shore on a misty sea. Submerged below them are strange draconic shapes. Meanwhile, our heroes arrive at what is supposed to be a top secret naval base during World War 2. The Doctor is full of vim and verve, and marvellously constructs a forged letter allowing them access to the base in the time he and Ace introduce themselves to Alan Turing Dr Judson. I adore this serial for all the references to Britain’s secret war. While a lot of it had ceased to be secret by 1989, it wasn’t as well known as it is perhaps now. The story is great at ensuring that everyone knows the Nazis are evil and must be defeated, but questions just how brutal and inhumane the response should be.

I also adore the way in which a spot of international solidarity is weaved in… that’s true communism, comrades. There’s also a terrific strand about faith — specifically Christian (Rev Wainwright), but also in the communist cause (destroyed in the real world by Stalin and others), and in the trust Ace has placed with the Doctor.

We meet Kathleen Dudman, mother of Ace’s mother, Audrey. Kathleen’s husband is called Frank and Kathleen says he’s Audrey’s father. We learn he dies at sea. Ace’s emotions are all over the place in this story, which befits a teenager. In order of transmission, this is the second tale to really delve into her background and character. It’s often said that this is unusual for Dr Who. Having watched so much of the show, in order, and in a relatively short time, it’s actually not that unusual. It is far more pronounced, though, and the New Adventures explored it all even more.

Plus, there’s vampires.

I can recommend the Black Archive on this serial, written by Dr Una McCormack for loads of insights.

[ridenwithbiden]

Here's how atheist candidates fared in the 2022 elections

There are at least 15 nonreligious state senators.

This is a jump from 10 just two years ago. While they use different labels to describe themselves, these legislators show that you can represent people of faith even when you don’t believe in a Higher Power yourself.

Sen. Stanley Chang (HI)

Geoff Schroeder (ID)

Pinny Beebe-Center (NH)

Sen. William Brownsberger (MA)

Sen. Jeff Irwin (MI)

Sen. Jen McEwen (MN)

Sen. Megan Hunt (NE)

Sen. Andrew Zwicker (NJ) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Sen. William Peter Soules (NM) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Sen. Julie Mayfield (NC)

Nate Blouin (UT)

Rep. Rebecca White (VT)

Sen. Dick McCormack (VT)

Sen. Melissa Agard (WI) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Sen. Kelda Roys (WI) (wasn’t on the ballot)

Those whose races have not been called yet:

Jeanne Casteen (AZ)

Sen. Juan Mendez (AZ)

Brian Nash (CA)

Maria Peterson (IL)

You can see from the list that the senators include challengers, former state representatives, and incumbents whose open nonreligiosity wasn’t a dealbreaker for voters.

There are at least 44 nonreligious state representatives

With several races yet to be called, this is heading toward a record number of nonreligious State House members.

Jennifer Longdon (AZ)

Rep. Melody Hernandez (AZ)

Rep. Athena Salman (AZ)

Rep. Karen McCormick (CO)

Rep. Brianna Titone (CO)

Rep. Chris Kennedy (CO)

Rep. Judy Amabile (CO)

Rep. Cathy Kipp (CO)

Rep. Joshua Elliott (CT)

Rep. Roland J. Lemar (CT)

Rep. Paul Baumbach (DE)

Rep. Eric Morrison (DE)

Rep. Anna Eskamani (FL)

Elinor Levin (IA)

Rep. Lynne Williams (ME)

Rep. Lois Reckitt (ME)

Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr (MD)

Rep. David Moon (MD)

Rep. Jim Hawkins (MA)

Rep. Tram Nguyen (MA)

Rep. Mike Freiberg (MI)

Bob Carter (MT)

Rep. Rochelle Nguyen (NV)

Rep. Howard Watts III (NV)

Carry Spier (NH)

Rep. Sherry Dutzy (NH)

Rep. Amanda Bouldin (NH)

Rep. Kat McGhee (NH)

Rep. Jacqueline Chretien (NH)

Rep. Ellen Read (NH)

Rep. Harvey Epstein (NY)

Rep. Pam Marsh (OR)

Rep. Julie Fahey (OR)

Emily Kinkead (PA)

Mark Rozzi (PA)

Robert Ziegler (PA)

Rep. Chris Rabb (PA)

Rep. Jon Rosenthal (TX)

Rep. Robin Scheu (VT)

Rep. Kathleen James (VT)

Rep. Barbara Rachelson (VT)

Monique Priestley (VT)

Rep. Strom Peterson (WA)

Rep. Francesca Hong (WI)

Those whose races have not been called yet:

Sara Aminzadeh (CA)

Alex Lee (CA)

Stephanie Vigil (CO)

Jennifer Parenti (CO)

Brooke Grossman (MD)

Joey Andrews (MI)

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (NH)

Wendy Thomas (NH)

Holly Hillhouse (NH)

Melanie Renfrew-Hebert (NH)

Courtney Neron (OR)

Zach Hudson (OR)

Rep. Ashlee Matthews (UT)

Mike Rice (VT)

Jessica Wadhams (WA)

As you can see, there’s a mix of incumbents and challengers, including in several red states.

[muirneach]

song of all fucking time i dont care!!!

[lukeevansgirl22]

Borrowed Hearts is romantic and funny!

Borrowed Hearts is romantic and funny!

Hey guys! I’m here to review the movie “Borrowed Hearts!” I loved watching this movie because I love watching Roma Downey and Eric McCormack! The movie is about a woman, Kathleen, who’s a single mother working to buy a house for her daughter, Zoe. Sam is a businessman who must pretend to have a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo. He also owns the company that…

[automatismoateo]

Here’s how atheist candidates fared in the 2022 elections via /r/atheism

Here’s how atheist candidates fared in the 2022 elections

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/heres-how-atheist-candidates-fared-in-the-2022-elections/

There are now at least 16 nonreligious state senators:

Sen. Juan Mendez (AZ) Sen. Stanley Chang (HI) Geoff Schroeder (ID) Pinny Beebe-Center (ME) Sen. William Brownsberger (MA) Sen. Jeff Irwin (MI) Sen. Jen McEwen (MN) Sen. Megan Hunt (NE) Sen. Andrew Zwicker (NJ) (wasn’t on the ballot) Sen. William Peter Soules (NM) (wasn’t on the ballot) Sen. Julie Mayfield (NC) Nate Blouin (UT) Rep. Rebecca White (VT) Sen. Dick McCormack (VT) Sen. Melissa Agard (WI) (wasn’t on the ballot) Sen. Kelda Roys (WI) (wasn’t on the ballot)

There are also at least 53 nonreligious state representatives:

Jennifer Longdon (AZ) Rep. Melody Hernandez (AZ) Rep. Athena Salman (AZ) Alex Lee (CA) Rep. Karen McCormick (CO) Stephanie Vigil (CO) Jennifer Parenti (CO) Rep. Brianna Titone (CO) Rep. Chris Kennedy (CO) Rep. Judy Amabile (CO) Rep. Cathy Kipp (CO) Rep. Joshua Elliott (CT) Rep. Roland J. Lemar (CT) Rep. Paul Baumbach (DE) Rep. Eric Morrison (DE) Rep. Anna Eskamani (FL) Elinor Levin (IA) Rep. Lynne Williams (ME) Rep. Lois Reckitt (ME) Brooke Grossman (MD) Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr (MD) Rep. David Moon (MD) Rep. Jim Hawkins (MA) Rep. Tram Nguyen (MA) Joey Andrews (MI) Rep. Mike Freiberg (MI) Bob Carter (MT) Rep. Rochelle Nguyen (NV) Rep. Howard Watts III (NV) Carry Spier (NH) Rep. Sherry Dutzy (NH) Wendy Thomas (NH) Rep. Amanda Bouldin (NH) Rep. Kat McGhee (NH) Rep. Jacqueline Chretien (NH) Rep. Ellen Read (NH) Rep. Harvey Epstein (NY) Rep. Pam Marsh (OR) Rep. Julie Fahey (OR) Zach Hudson (OR) Emily Kinkead (PA) Mark Rozzi (PA) Robert Ziegler (PA) Rep. Chris Rabb (PA) Rep. Jon Rosenthal (TX) Rep. Ashlee Matthews (UT) Rep. Robin Scheu (VT) Rep. Kathleen James (VT) Mike Rice (VT) Rep. Barbara Rachelson (VT) Monique Priestley (VT) Rep. Strom Peterson (WA) Rep. Francesca Hong (WI)

Submitted November 15, 2022 at 03:44PM by ReligionIsForLosers (From Reddit https://ift.tt/C4Nr1EA)

[kellymagovern]

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015) dir. Andrew Jarecki

[donnajosh]

The West Wing cast wishing Richard Schiff a Happy Birthday - May 27, 2017

[cinema-tv-etc]

Here Are 7 Wild, Wacky, And Truly Unbelievable Things From "Inventing Anna" That Happened IRL, And 6 Things That Were Made Up For The Show The truth is honestly just as strange as fiction.

In case you're not watching, the show follows the legendary Anna Delvey, who claimed to be a German heiress with over $60 million in bank accounts overseas. Delvey (whose real last name is Sorokin) became a staple of the New York social scene, and was able to con businesses into loaning her massive amounts of money so she could start her own social club, only to have the whole scheme unravel.

The show is based on a 2018 article written by Jessica Pressler for The Cut, and while it nails a lot of the IRL details, showrunner Shonda Rhimes took some creative liberties in telling Anna's story.

I broke down which plot points are fact and which are fiction, and TBH, some of them might surprise you: Major spoilers ahead, so if you haven't finished the show yet, proceed with caution!

1. Fact: Yes, Anna really did steal a jet. If you've finished the show, you might recall that Anna (played by Julia Garner) "steals" a private jet when she charters it to take her to billionaire Warren Buffet's annual conference held in Omaha, Nebraska, and ends up never paying for it. As wild as it sounds, this did actually happen! Anna and Rob Wiesenthal, the CEO of Blade, a company that chartered private jets and helicopters, ran in similar social circles. When Anna chartered a $35,000 private jet from New Jersey to Omaha, Wiesenthal thought nothing of it. Anna sent the company a forged wire transfer confirmation, and the payment obviously never came."We’ve let people slide in the past, quite frankly, and they’ve paid," Kathleen McCormack, Blade's CFO testified during Anna's trial. Because Wiesenthal socially knew Anna and the types of people she hung out with, "we felt she was good for payment, so we booked her for the flight."

2. Fiction: Anna's boyfriend, Chase Sikorski, is technically not a real person. While the original magazine article mentions that Anna had a boyfriend, he is never mentioned by name. Instead, he is referred to as "a futurist on the TED-Talks circuit who’d been profiled in The New Yorker." In fact, Chase Sikorski (Saamer Usmani) is a completely made-up character. Last week,  Anna shared on her Instagram stories she would share the name of her ex-boyfriend with media outlets for $10,000, but friends beat her to it, revealing that Anna used to date Hunter Lee Soik, a tech entrepreneur. “Hunter is the person who got her into the scene,” a source told Page Six. “He is a social person globally. No one knew what he did, but he was always giving advice on how to climb the corporate ladder.”

3. Fact: Vivian Kent (aka Jessica Pressler) was pregnant while writing the article. Jessica Pressler, the journalist who the character of Vivian Kent (played by Anna Chlumsky) was based on, was actually pregnant while writing the article, but it wasn't quite as intense as the show made it seem. Instead of turning in the story while in labor, Pressler submitted her draft when she was eight months pregnant.

"It was not a thing where there was a towel on the floor of the office, but they did tell me she was going to be pregnant," Pressler told Vulture. "I think Shonda liked the idea of a woman being pregnant, and it was an interesting thing to show that you can live your life while being pregnant."

4. Fiction: Pressler's baby nursery was not actually covered in a web of pics of Anna. While the "murder wall" was a nice visual touch for the show, Pressler said that she didn't actually pin up pictures of Anna and her friends in her baby's nursery. Instead, she kept up with all of the people involved in a much more tech-friendly way.

"To be clear, there wasn’t a murder wall. I had a spreadsheet. But that’s not very visual. That would have been Google Docs: The Show," she joked to Vulture.

5. Fact: Anna really knew Billy MacFarland (of Fyre Festival fame), and Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli. t's only fitting that a bunch of convicted scammers were all friends, right?

Anna actually roomed with Billy MacFarland while he was in the throes of planning the Fyre Festival, which was notoriously disastrous. Sorokin lived at the headquarters of Magnises, MacFarland's now-shuttered credit card company for four months in 2013. In a very Anna-like twist, she asked to stay for a few days as a favor, and ended up living in the headquarters for months without paying rent.

“She had Balenciaga bags and clothes everywhere," an anonymous source told Page Six in 2018. "The company wound up moving into a townhouse. That’s the only way they got her out! She had been there for four months!”

You might also remember the character from the dinner party who played unreleased Lil Wayne tracks for the group. He's also a real person Anna was friends with. Martin Shkreli, also known as the "Pharma Bro", is currently in prison for fraud after making the price of an anti-malaria drug (that was also used to treat HIV) skyrocket by more than 4,000%. And as for the Lil Wayne songs? According to Anna's friend, Neff Davis, who was at the party, Shkreli played them the album nearly six months before it was set to release. Neff recalled that when she tweeted about hearing the album, Anna got angry with her. "I wanted everybody to know that I heard this album that the world is waiting on! But Anna was pretty mad," she told Pressler. "She didn't come down to my desk for maybe three days."

6. Fiction: Anna didn't get any special treatment in prison during her interviews. The show depicts Anna frequently pushing Vivian to schedule media visits in order to get a private room and special treatment. Once Vivian follows through on Anna's request, they end up in a private room, complete with tea and comfier chairs. Sorokin herself debunked this, telling the New York Times that there "def was no tea" at Rikers. She added that when she was sent to prison in upstate New York, there was a cash-only coffee machine visitors were welcome to use. She made sure to clarify that "it doesn’t come in porcelain cups,” so that detail was just a little bit of TV magic. Pressler has also said that she never brought Anna a fresh supply of underwear while in prison, as seen in the show. 

7. Fact: Jessica Pressler loaned Anna clothes for her trial. While Pressler didn't actually cover the trial, she did lend Anna clothes for her time in court, as depicted on the show.  In the show, Vivian struggles with the decision to loan Anna clothes once her husband questions how invested in the case she is. Pressler said that the actual situation wasn't as emotionally charged as portrayed. "It was more like this kind of screwball sequence of ridiculousness," Pressler said. As discussed in the show, defendants have to wear civilian clothes during trial. After a series of issues with getting the outfits approved by the court, and Anna's refusal to wear some of the clothes, Anna's lawyer Todd Spodek (played by Arian Moayed)asked Pressler to go to H&M to pick up a new outfit for Anna to wear. "That sort of opened the door for me to fill the gap whenever there was a 'wardrobe malfunction,' as the prosecutor put it," Pressler told Vulture. "I did throw in one of my dresses at one point, but it was black. I did not feel like it was a conflict at all. I felt like, 'This will be a funny story someday.'"

8. Fiction: Jessica Pressler didn't really attempt to break into Anna's family home in Germany, although she did visit to research for a potential book. Jessica Pressler did go to Germany to scope out the truth about Anna's family life, but she didn't actually snoop through Anna's family's windows like Vivian Kent does in the show.  Pressler said she decided to go in order to figure out the truth after hearing so many different stories about Anna's past.   "There were a lot of conspiracy theories going on, and I started to have so much material, I thought I would do a book of some kind," she told Vulture. "So I went, but it was not quite like that. There was a lot more laughing."

Pressler's book, Bad Influence: Money, Lies, Power, and the World that Created Anna Delvey, is set to release in June.

10. Fiction: Pressler's editors weren't that stubborn about allowing her to write the story.

Pressler admits that while writing a long feature about Anna, who at the time, was only known to members of New York's elite social scene wasn't a given, the reaction from her editors' wasn't quite as extreme as it was portrayed on the show.

"I think the show bosses are a stand-in for patriarchal offices in general. But this is a thing where fact is braided with fiction," she told Vulture. "It was not a no-brainer to do an 8,000-word story about a non-famous person. It might be now. They did want me to write a Wall Street Me Too story, and I did react in pretty much exactly that way — though not as articulately. I did have to sell the story, but it was definitely not exactly the way it was on the show."

Like Vivian in the show, Pressler was trying to rebound from a previous workplace misstep. In a "Reasons to Love New York" list, Pressler interviewed a high school senior who claimed he made $72 million on the stock marker. This turned out to b

12. Fiction: Jessica Pressler didn't help Anna's lawyer, Todd Spodek, during the case, but they do know each other.

While the show portrays Vivian Kent helping Todd Spodek out with parts of the case by assisting with the boxes of discovery materials from the District Attorney's office, Spodek is adamant that no journalist helped him in any way while prepping for the trial.

However, Pressler and Spodek do actually know each other, and even went out on the couples' dinner that was seen on the show.

"I had a conversation with Todd Spodek’s real wife recently," Pressler told Vulture. "I told her there are things that are true, but there’s a scene where we all go to dinner and talk about Anna the whole time, you and Vivian’s husband are rolling your eyes, and obviously that never happened. And she’s like, 'Oh, but that did happen.' But the restaurant was different!"

13. Fact: Julia Garner nailed Anna's accent, and even Anna herself had to give Garner some credit.

A lot of Julia Garner's preparation for playing Anna involved getting the Russian/German combo accent down. Garner first had to learn how to layer a Russian accent with a German accent. She told BuzzFeed that she also modeled Anna's English off of the way Europeans speak English. 

After moving to New York, Anna definitely picked up quite a few American speech patterns, which Garner also worked into her dialect.

"I almost wanted it to be like, if she went to Europe, then to her European friends she sounds American. Then in America, she sounds European. It's a hybrid of different accents."

So what did Anna think of Garner's interpretation?

"I don't think it's off," Sorokin told Insider in a recent interview. "I think she kind of falls in and out of it. Some of it she gets right – but not everything. ... I don't feel like I sound like that. It's like when you hear yourself on TV and it's not really the voice you hear in your head when you speak." 

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Weekly Press Briefing #52: June 18th - June 24th

Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more. This briefing covers all things posted from June 18 - June 24, 2023 and marks ONE ENTIRE YEAR of our briefings! 🥳 Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing.

Challenges/Prompts:

The following is a roundup of open challenges/prompts. Do you have a challenge or event you’d like us to promote? Be sure to get in touch with us! Contact info is at the bottom of this briefing.

We (@twwpress, the Weekly Press Briefing team) will be hosting a Wheel of Destiny drabble-writing prompt challenge on Saturday, July 1st on tumblr and Twitter in celebration of our first anniversary! Stay tuned for more details. The Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Josh/Donna prompt fest (hosted by @jessbakescakes and @thefinestmuffin) revealed on June 24th. Prompt claims and submissions are still open. Details here.

 Photos/Videos:

Here’s what was posted from June 18 - June 24. 

Allison Janney posted a photo of herself with her dad in honor of Father’s Day. 

Allison Janney posted a photo of herself thanking her hair and makeup artists. 

Amy Landecker posted a silly video of Brad along with a “for your consideration” message for the Emmys.

Amy Landecker posted some photos of herself and Brad by the ocean.

Amy Landecker posted a photo of her and Brad on a boat.

Bradley Whitford posted photos of himself and Amy attending the staged production of Transparent! at the Mark Taper Forum. 

Dule Hill posted a promo video for the second season of The Wonder Years, now streaming on Hulu. 

Josh Malina posted a photo of himself with his dad for Father’s Day. 

Kim Webster posted a funny video of herself “training” to do the Geena Davis trick shot she learned last week. 

Kim Webster posted a photo of herself the day after her birthday. 

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of her husband and a celebration of him for Father’s Day. 

Mary McCormack posted a TikTok of her daughter Rose singing an original song. 

Melissa Fitzgerald posted a photo of herself with her dad, along with a Father’s Day message. 

Rob Lowe posted a photo of himself and his son Johnny in bathrobes on a boat.

Rob Lowe posted a photo of his wife Sheryl along with a birthday wish.  

Peter James Smith posted a clip from Noël in memory of Paxton Whitehead, who played Bernard.

Richard Schiff posted a photo of himself with Robert Cardinal. 

Kathleen “Bird” York posted a photo of herself and Devika Parikh, who played Bonnie on The West Wing.

Donna Moss Daily: June 18 | June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 22 | June 23 | June 24

Daily Josh Lyman: June 18 | June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 22 | June 23 | June 24

No Context BWhit: June 18 | June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 23 | June 24

@twwarchive: June 18 | June 19 | June 20 | June 21 | June 22 | June 23 | June 24

 Edits/Artwork:

#CJTOBY: and we build it up to pull it down by @cjcreggswifey [VIDEO EDIT]

 Editors’ Choice: 

In honor of the one year anniversary of our briefing, we picked some of our favorite fics posted during this week in years past. Be sure to share your favorites we didn’t include!

and if you wonder about the spell i’m under (it’s your love) by mikaylawrites | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | “You don’t look so bad yourself,” she purrs, her fingers reaching out to unnecessarily adjust his belt buckle. “And I think you’re gonna win tonight.”

He groans, both because of where her hand is and because the superstitious side of him can’t tolerate that kind of talk. “I’m gonna need you to go outside and turn around and spit.”

“Don’t need to,” she tells him, “because I know I’m right.”

A night at the Academy of Country Music Awards with country music power couple Josh Lyman and Donna Moss.

 Friendship, Rings, and Heartstrings by JessBakesCakes | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Sam feels sort of like a whack-a-mole at the arcade with how quickly and intensely the epiphany hits him. Maybe this is it. Maybe they’ll finally get it together. Behind all the flirting and banter is an incredible devotion they have to each other; one that possesses them to eat only a bite of a granola bar for nearly twenty-four hours or to hop on an international flight with whatever nonsensical items would fit in a backpack. He’s seen it for years now; he’s just been waiting for them to see it too.

 Help Me Hold Onto You by jeaniecregg | Rated G | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | Complete | In which CJ has a bit of an existential crisis...

 Hell Is Other People (But Not You) by McKat | Rated T | Will Bailey/Sam Seaborn | Complete | Sam’s visiting the White House when they go into a Crash.

He and Will get stuck together.

Maybe there are worse places to be.

 Champagne by arborealstops | Rated G | C. J. Cregg/Kate Harper | Complete | “I got you a present.”

 please linger near the door by cmbing | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | They’re definitely not dating when there is a presidential dinner and they don’t think to invite dates. Instead, they assume they’ll go with each other. Him in a black tux, her in a red dress. Their arms are interlocked as they enter the ballroom, and Donna even goads Josh into dancing with her. It’s friendly, nothing more.

They’re just having sex. That’s it.

 the weight of love (in your arms) by joshllyman | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn | Complete | He steals a glance at Josh and sees that his face is carefully blank, intentionally wiped of all emotion.

“Just tired?” Sam asks quietly, and Josh looks up at him.

Josh shakes his head. “Something like that.”

   Misc:

Happy birthday to Kim Webster, who played Ginger! 

 Fics:

Presenting your weekly roundup of fics posted in the tag for The West Wing on Archive of Our Own. 

Josh/Donna

Errors and Omissions by Chinesepapercut | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

Wonderful in a Loathsome sort of Way by JayeReid1 | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

GOVT 3420: Campaigns and Elections by lunedecroissant | Not Rated | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

Balcony Break by TemperanceCain for thefinestmuffins | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

3pm on a Thursday by KindaTea for Chinesepapercut | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

can’t help falling by sam_writes_fics | Rated M |  Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

and i'll love you more than anybody can by JessBakesCakes | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

When it Rains, it Pours by onekisstotakewithme | Rated G |  Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

Fragments of Days Gone By… by JayeReid1 | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | In Progress

Children of Mortals… by JayeReid1 | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

she was a burst of colour, in his typically monochrome life. by katereadsandwrites | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete

 Sam/Ainsley

Adorable, Yet Ill Adored by HotchkissRoyale | Rated E | Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn | In Progress 

Sam and Ainsley Get Marriedby Hackney123 | Rated G | Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn | Complete

 C.J./Danny

Off the Record by  onekisstotakewithme for daylight_angel, miabicicletta, Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg, Luppiters, Zoey Bartlet/Charlie Young, hondagirll | Rated T | Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg2C Leo McGarry/Annabeth Schott | In Progress

12 Months by Jxjxjx |  Rated G | Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg | In Progress

 Other Pairings/Gen Fic

it started off with a kiss... now it ended up like this by imawkwardlysoc | Rated G | Sam Seaborn/Original Female Character | In Progress

Figures of Speech by Darsynia | Rated T | Toby Ziegler/Original Female Character | In Progress

Master of Improvisation by Antumbra | Rated G | Sam Seaborn, Jed Bartlet, C.J. Cregg (No Pairings Listed) | Complete

The Language of Tomorrow by silasfinch for justdreaming88 | Rated T | Ellie Bartlet/Original Female Character(s) | In Progress

Where The Hell…? by dumbchemist | Rated T | No Pairings Listed | In Progress

someone like you, a desperado like me by popmart (tambsi) for onekisstotakewithme | Rated G | Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn | Complete

 Multiple Pairings

Operation in the Desert by mlea7675, Helen Santos/Matt Santos, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn, Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg, C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler, Will Bailey/Kate Harper, Zoey Bartlet/Charlie Young, Leo McGarry/Annabeth Schott | Complete

Yes, You are better than my old boyfriend by Proportional Response | Rated E | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Dr. Freeride/Donna Moss | Complete

at the dark end of the street by hell_to_breakfast | Not Rated | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler, Danny Concannon/C. J. Cregg | Complete

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Feel free to let us know if we missed something, if you have an event you’d like us to promote, or if you have an item that you’d like included in the next briefing!

xx, What’s next?

[sleepysera]

Oct 22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

India & Nepal: More than 200 deaths reported following heavy rainfall and flooding (CNN)

“The death toll from flooding and landslides in Nepal rose to 104 on Friday after 27 more deaths were reported since Wednesday evening, Phanindra Mani Pokharel, a spokesperson for Nepal's ministry of home affairs, said on Friday morning. At least 201 deaths have been reported across Nepal and the Indian states of Kerala and Uttarakhand as of Friday.”

Ethiopia: Mekelle struck in Tigray conflict, residents flee Amhara as battle intensifies (CNN)

“The Ethiopian government launched an airstrike Friday on the capital of the northern Tigray region, and residents in a city in the neighboring Amhara region said people there were taking flight from intensifying fighting. Humanitarian sources and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the northern region, said the airstrike hit a university in the regional capital Mekelle.”

Russia: Gunpowder workshop explosion kills 17 (CNN)

“A deadly explosion at an ammunition disposal plant in Russia's western Ryazan province on Friday killed at least 17 people, Russia's official news agency TASS reported. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said a criminal investigation had been launched into the blast. According to Reuters, an entire shift of workers was at the site when the brick building was ripped apart.”

US NEWS

US Congress: Free community college expected to be cut from spending bill (AP)

“President Joe Biden’s long-sought goal of free community college appears to be a victim of cost-cutting in his social spending plan, dealing a major blow to his vision for a historic expansion of educational opportunity to all Americans. Biden acknowledged as much in a televised town hall on Thursday night, citing the political realities created by Democratic holdout Sen. Joe Manchin and “one other person.””

Alec Baldwin: ‘Heartbroken’ over fatal film set shooting (BBC)

“Actor Alec Baldwin has expressed his shock and sadness after fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set. He tweeted that he was in touch with her husband and had offered support. "My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna," he wrote. Ms Hutchins, 42, was shot on the set of the western Rust while working as director of photography.”

Robert Durst: Charged with murder of his former wife (CNN)

“Convicted killer Robert Durst, who was the subject of the HBO docuseries "The Jinx," has been charged with the murder of his former wife, according to the Westchester District Attorney's office. The complaint was filed in Lewisboro Town Court in New York on October 19, district attorney spokeswoman Jess Vecchiarelli said. Kathleen McCormack Durst was last seen in 1982 and declared legally dead in 2017. Her body has not been found. Durst is battling Covid-19.”

[tvmoviechristmas]

Borrowed Hearts, (CBS, 1997)

Putting people out of work must be exhausting.

Starring: Roma Downey, Eric McCormack, Hector Elizondo, Shawn Alex Thompson

Plot Synopsis:  Kathleen's a hard-working single mother, who's saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoe. Sam's a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo. Sam owns the company that Kathleen works for, and as her boss, manages to convince her to help him out. But Del Campo is more than he seems, and it just might be Zoe who's making the real deal to get a new home for herself, her mother, and Sam. (x)

In My Humble Opinion: When I was wrapping up the first year of the blog, I was deciding between two movies as my final review of the year. At the time, I was operating under the delusion that this blog was going to be a one year venture so it was an agonizing choice. One of the options for the final blog was A Christmas Romance, while the other was Borrowed Hearts. In the end, I decided to go with A Christmas Romance because it was a more seminal part in how I came to love made-for-TV Christmas movies so much (if you have ever interviewed me, I am sure you have heard me talk about it). 

I figured Borrowed Hearts could be my season-ender if I decided to do a second year of the blog, which quickly changed to “Borrowed Hearts will be my last ever review of the blog”. It was a promise I made to myself years ago, and while yes there are newer movies I could have reviewed in this slot instead... a promise is a promise. So here we are at the end of the line, and I give you my review of Borrowed Hearts.

As a kid, Borrowed Hearts never did much for me, even though I had many friends who swore by it. I understood that it was a genre-molder in its fake dating, fake family glory, but I found it to be more preachy than lively and more melodramatic than fun. I do not have a memory of what kind of star rating I was leaning towards giving it when I was nineteen, but I cannot imagine it would have garnered more than three stars.

Time has not been kind to Borrowed Hearts. Rewatching the movie in 2020, there are so many moments where I could not help myself from cringing. The entire premise hinges on the idea that the playboy male lead needs a fake family to impress a Mexican business owner who values old school families because he is from, and I quote, “the old country”. The male lead’s best friend just lists off a bunch of stereotypes as he implores him to get a fake family together and you want to cover your eyes.

In fact, everything about the male lead’s best friend is just the idea of comic relief gone wrong. He lists off a ton of off-color jokes that are classist and racist and fights with the precocious child character, and at no point does the narrative ever play this off as anything but fun. The male lead gets many lectures about the importance of family and the importance of keeping jobs in the United States, but the best friend is just there to be fun! Maybe that worked in 1997 and back then Borrowed Hearts was a huge hit, but 2020 is a different era.

In 1997, Borrowed Hearts was practically all there was for tropey, Christmas fun. In 2011, Borrowed Hearts was one of about a hundred or so films that existed in the genre. It’s 2020 now, and Borrowed Hearts feels like it should stay firmly in the past. Production companies make a hundred new films like these a year. So standards have to be slightly higher. In terms of political correctness, in terms of tropes. We can do better. We should do better. I hope the genre will keep striving to be better. Because it’s what viewers deserve.

They also deserve to see more movies where Oliva Newton-John helps a lamb give birth during a Christmas Eve blizzard, but that’s neither here nor there. It’s just true.

Watch If: You are not paid to have questions, if you bond with people over your dislike of broccoli or if you climb trees when you are in distress.

Skip If: You are an astronaut who loves their family, if your dad left you because you are “a butterfingers” or if you don’t see people, you see dollar signs.

Final Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

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Hi I'm Aditi (sun, moon, rising as Aries, Taurus and Virgo). I request you to do a tarot reading for me please. So my question is, who is my soulmate and when will I meet him? I feel I see him in my dreams but I'm not sure. I feel very stuck and lost as well. It is as if my life has been at a still for as long as I can remember. Thank you for your time. Take care❤

Hi! Thank you for your ask! I will be using my Psychic Tarot Oracle Deck by John Holland and my Tarot deck by Kathleen McCormack. I hope it helps!❤

Cards that came out:

Suffering in Silence (clarified by the ‘Page of Cups’ and the ‘Ace of Wands’)

The Waiting Game (clarified by the ‘Page of Pentacles’

Hope

Firstly, your soulmate is someone who struggles expressing themselves, I see them being quite an emotional person but who bottles their feelings up. I also see them being someone who isn’t afraid of change, instead they are ambitious and constantly looking to grow and move towards new positive experiences. They are not afraid to go out and make things happen for themselves. Not only are they constantly growing, but they are also always willing to learn and educate themselves. They are someone who works hard and may be very competitive.

I also see them being someone who is empathetic and someone who always want to help people, they may be seen as humanitarians as they are always looking to help and share their compassion. They may also be very optimistic and be filled with a lot of hope. They are someone who loves deeply and are seen by others as friendly and approachable.

As for when you will meet him, I got the cards:

Financial and Material Changes (Clarified by ‘The Wheel of Fortune’)

Stand Your Ground (‘10 of Swords’, and ‘7 of Wands’ and ‘Ace of Cups’)

Okay, so I see you meeting him at a time when you are in the height of either your career or when you have a big positive financial change. Luck will really be on your side with your finances and overall prosperity, this point in your life will bring you success, change and growth. Everything will almost be perfect for you. I feel like you will also be at a place where your self-acceptance and strength will be at a new high, you will be in a really good place, almost like you have been reborn and are feeling like a new you. At this time, when you’re full of strength and determination, you will then meet your soulmate. When you meet them I feel like you will feel the romantic connection from the start, and you will get along with them so well from the beginning.

As for seeing him in your dreams, I am not sure if the person you are seeing is him, however, I feel like the dreams you are having may be significant as there may be a message from your soulmate in there. I feel like you are spiritually connected, even though you have never met.

As for feeling still, I pulled the ‘6 of Cups’, so perhaps you need to try and get in touch with your inner child. When you are able to let your inner child out a bit, you are then able to connect more with your intuition and your authentic self. You could try playing your favourite childhood game, try being more spontaneous or being more creative!

Any feedback is much appreciated!✨

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