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Last time I posted about soap actor Steve Burton it was to discuss him getting fired from General Hospital over refusal to follow COVID mandates. But Burton is back now because he and his wife of 23 years, Sheree Burton, are divorcing, even though she’s pregnant for the fourth time.

I guess since Burton worked on a soap opera, his life is a little like a soap opera, and he released a statement about the end of his marriage:

“I wanted to clear something  up. Sheree and I are separated. She recently announced she’s expecting her fourth child. The child is not mine.”

Ouch.

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It’s kinda sad when you try to reboot a once-beloved TV show and all anyone can talk about is the one actor, and character, who didn’t come back, but that’s all the Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That is about: Samantha and Kim Cattrall.

Kim didn’t make the TV reboot because when she was asked to be part of a third SATC movie she gave a firm ‘Not interested’:

“Everything in me went, ‘I’m done.’ That’s a no. It’s powerful to say no. It’s a great wisdom to know when enough is enough. I also didn’t want to compromise what the show was to me. The way forward seemed clear.”

And then we had to listen to Sarah Jessica Parker and show creator Michael Patrick King go on and on and on about how much they loved Cattrall and her character, but she wasn’t coming back to the show anyway, anywhere, anytime, ever.

Cut to Cattrall going, Duh. I told y’all that three years ago.

And since SJP and MPK keep talking about Kim and Samantha, Cattrall did a recent interview with Variety to promote Peacock’s reimagining of Queer as Folk and her role as the narrator on How I Met Your Father and discussed the show:

“I was never asked to be part of the reboot. I made my feelings clear after the possible third movie, so I found out about it like everyone else did—on social media.”

But one thing she has never discussed is why she refused to come back, and on this one, I am, still and always, #TeamKim. See, her story in the third film was to be about Miranda’s son sending her dick pics, and Kim thought that a lazy stupid storyline and so she passed, though she did offer her own thoughts:

“Why can’t Samantha, who owns her PR company – maybe she had to sell it because of financial woes? 2008 was tough. Some people are still recovering. She had to sell it to some guy who’s wearing a hoodie, and that’s the dilemma she has. I mean that’s a scenario that was kind of off the top of one of my reps’ heads, and I thought that’s a great idea. That’s a conflict. Instead of an underage boy’s … “

Cattrall revealed the original script o the third film was to be about Big’s death and brought a little shade:

“The [new] series is basically the third movie. That’s how creative it was.”

Ouch. And as for SJP making it known that she would not be okay with Kim coming back to the show, Kim says she never heard that so she has no comment. And she has no comment about the reboot because she, like a great many people, has never watched it.

“I’ve come to the conclusion that really the greatest compliment I could have as an actor is to be missed. And as difficult as it was, and as scary as it is to stand up and not be bullied by the press or the fans or whomever—to just say, ‘I’m good. I’m on this track. It was so great working with you. I so enjoyed it, but I’m over here.’”

And that’s how you do it.

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Oh, talk about self-involved and delusional.

At the start of COVID, the world was locked down for months, but we slowly came outside to see what the new world was like but one  person didn’t; she continued to stay home.

Oprah Winfrey recently revealed that she locked herself in  her house, well, I imagine it was several of her houses, for almost a year, because of the pandemic.

But let’s say it was just one home, most likely her home in Montecito, California. Yes, she stayed locked up with her companion Steadman Graham and a full staff of maids and cooks and gardeners to take care of her 23,000 square foot house with an Olympic-sized pool, a movie theater, six bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a gourmet kitchen and wine cellar, library, theater, and 10 fireplaces.

Oh, poor Oprah.

Try being one of the millions of folks out of work during the pandemic and struggling to pay rent on their one-bedroom apartment and buy food and just plain survive while you lounged by the pool and walked the gardens and picked a wine from the cellar for dinner,

And then kindly fuck all the way off.

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Picture Romancing the Stone without Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner; picture their amazing chemistry that “almost” led to an affair and did lead to a couple of other movies together. Now, picture Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and … Debra Winger.

Back in the 80s, Winger was the ‘It’ girl after roles in An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, so she was considered for the role in Romancing the Stone. Douglas and director Robert Zemeckis set up a dinner meeting with Winger and that’s when things went weird and Debra’s name was scratched off the list of co-stars.

According to Douglas, he and Zemeckis met Winger at a Mexican restaurant in Texas while she was shooting “Terms of Endearment” hoping to cast her as Joan, but the dinner didn’t go as planned:

“She comes out for us to have a dinner one night and we all have dinner together and we are talking and knocking back some tequilas and this and that. We walk out and, just as you would kind of go, ‘Oh you!’ and give someone a little punch in the arm, you know, like a joke-around, she goes, ‘Oh you!’ and she reaches over and she bites me—on my arm.”

Douglas said he screamed in pain.

“She’s like jokey and I’m looking at her, ‘I don’t know, man’—I’m thinking ‘this could be rough’ and she seems interested and I go back and she’s broken the skin. I break down in tears and say, ‘I can’t go to the jungle with her—she bit me in the arm!’ I said, ‘I can’t do it!'”

And studio executives agreed not to cast Winger but come on, he cried? He cried? Now I wanna know from Winger if Douglas tasted like chicken cuz it sure sounds like it.

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