@realMaalouf Do a little Google search? Given how vast the internet is and how there are millions of different “facts” floating around, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Since you’re willing to stand ten toes down for the cause, how about educating us yourself ma’am? 🙄😒
@Ser_Hunts That’s what I’m saying. I do not trust HBO and think they’re gonna try to move it to spring and then move HOTD even further down the year. I thought D&E was supposed to be a filler for the years we didn’t have HOTD. 😭
@bmay She really does act like Ariel walking on land for the first time, like all of these things are new and exciting. She wasn’t in the royal bubble long enough to forget how to function in the real world. 🙃
@JayneRi71519628 @Honey_Bee_DC @hrrysgreysuit Yep, the nurses came in to readjust mine several times when they lost track of my son and I was barely shifting around at all. I had high BP they were trying to keep controlled as well and was NOT allowed out of bed to even sit on my prenatal ball, let alone dance around.
@AmericaPapaBear Can someone plainly explain why getting rid of the DOE won’t affect college loans, funding, grants, etc? I have a brother in college crashing out because he thinks his future is in jeopardy, and he’s refusing to speak to our family at this point. I don’t know what to tell him.
I am being told very interesting things about the @blakelively /@RyanReynolds /@justinbaldoni mess, and it's not from his camp, but from Lively's. I don't know how much of this is in the public arena, but I sincerely hope people like @megynkelly , @DanWootton, @PiersMorgan and @CandaceOwensPod take this further. Evidently Lively and Reynolds are not only looking at the destruction of their careers, but also their marriage. "I don't see how their marriage can survive," someone who knows the couple told me. "Not when you realise how this sorry mess came about."
Here's the story. Reynolds has form in hijacking movies from their originators and not only taking credit for them, but taking the profitability as well. When he and Lively realised that "It Starts With Us" was going to become a huge hit - and Baldoni, who was not only the male lead but also the brains behind the film, the producer, director, script writer and held the option to a sequel, had control of the project (he had bought the rights to the book and done the script) - they set about wresting control of the movie from him. "It is my view they would've kept him on - he was fantastic in all his roles - because they found it so EASY to manoeuvre him into a submissive position," I was told.
However, to achieve their objective of supplanting Baldoni, they had to obtain the rushes and edit the movie themselves. And that's where things derailed.
Evidently the rushes tell a tale which unsettled Reynolds, who was married to Scarlett Johansson when the siren unleashed her charms on him and lured him into her orbit. "She (Lively) DEMANDS to be adored and he has willingly adored her," I am told. "She is very good at push and pull, of turning the tables on people, men especially. She functions through variable reinforcement. One minute luring them in, the next withholding. She has perfected the art of being a mean girl, hot and heavy and charming when necessary but otherwise demanding, demanding, demanding. He is also very jealous and possessive, something Scarlett Johansson complained about. He WANTS to be an adoring husband, to WORSHIP at the altar of his wife whom he elevates to the stature of GODDESS. This was one of the problems with Scarlett. She didn't want to be a goddess. She wanted a husband who wanted a human being, not a goddess."
Well, you can imagine the consternation in the Lively/Reynolds household when the couple settled down to edit the footage they had managed to wrest from Baldoni. I am told Ryan Reynolds became increasingly unsettled (to be polite) when he witnessed the unbridled attraction his wife was displaying towards Baldoni. "He went ballistic. He felt threatened and must've wondered if she was going to lure Baldoni in the way she had lured him in."
So what does Lively do? Ever the pastmistress of deflection, she denies being attracted to Baldoni, spins her overt acts of attraction into victimhood, and blames her co-star for taking advantage of her. Reynolds, "as much to convince himself that he isn't in danger of losing his Goddess, as anything else", now has personal motivation for taking the fight to another level. It's no longer enough to detach Baldoni from HIS movie, to take control and credit, to humiliate Baldoni (he ended up relegated to a storage room with his family and friends during the premiere of the film), they must now ANNIHILATE the threat that exists, both professionally and personally, to their marriage.
Remember, at this point, neither Lively nor Reynolds appreciated that Baldoni had footage with sound which could disprove her accusations.
So they set about destroying the man who had the potential, without even knowing it, to destroy their careers and their marriage. This destruction they unleashed with a thoroughness that is frightening. They made an official complaint against poor Baldoni, whose greatest sin was not that he is a capable actor, writer, film-maker, but that the footage indicated that Blake Lively had a serious case of the hots for him - the very bond she deployed with her husband. Then she accused him of sexual harassment, which is as serious and devastating a claim as any woman can make against a man. "This is predicted on the deflections she made to RR as she denied what was plain for him to see," I am told. "Her predicament is she has to fight for her marriage by spinning the story so her plain attraction is explained away, now not only to her husband, but to the world."
I bet she bitterly albeit secretly regrets ever having sought to wrest control of the movie from Baldoni. Had she and Reynolds adhered to her contract and respected their respective roles, she as an actress and he as her husband, and not manoeuvred, manipulated and demanded the rushes, Ryan Reynolds would've been oblivious. There was never any prospect of any attraction being consummated: Baldoni has never been attracted to her.
But one has to ask: What nature of beast is prepared to destroy the life of a man - and several other people, aside from his family's - on such spurious grounds?
There is no doubt that both Lively and Reynolds know every trick in the book. Having called in favours from the @newyorktimes the WEEK before she filed her sexual harassment suit against Baldoni on December 23rd (photographs used by that publication prove that they were preparing the article on the 16th December), so that that formerly eminent publication would become the battering ram to tear down the edifice of Baldoni's reputation by publishing a lengthy, well-prepared and damning account of the suit the day AFTER filing (which proves that they were all complicit in using the press and court of public opinion to destroy Baldoni), and having precipitated the timely response which @BryanFreedman sensibly oversaw (any delay would have given Lively and Reynolds an irretrievable advantage and destroyed Baldoni's career and life irrevocably - look at what happened with @KevinSpacey), they now seek to accuse Baldoni of trying to try the case in the court of public opinion.
Off all I've heard, Lively and Reynolds deserve everything that is coming their way. They're in danger of making even Harry and Meghan and Amber Heard look good. But Baldoni can console himself with one thought: Whether Mr and Mrs Ryan Reynolds's marriage lasts, or collapses under the weight of their grotesqueries, justice will be coming his way. And if they remain together, the chains that bind them will be insufferable.
As the Jamaicans say, "If you spit in the sky, it will fall in your eye."
@Tinajam14043176 The premise of the show is to just look appealing. Pretty clothes, pretty surroundings, pretty guests, pretty food. Pretty beige stuff.
@TheFigen_ I’m just wondering where her pants are. She and the kids have coats on, insinuating that it’s cold outside, but it looks like she’s wearing a bodysuit without any bottoms. Huh?
@daegoesby@whotfisjovana Yep same here. I remember I bled all over the place for the first couple of years and had to use dark towels under me. After a while you really do learn to subconsciously hold it in.