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That song always bored me to tears. Preferred Ship to Shore and Don't Pay The Ferryman.

That song always bored me to tears. Preferred Ship to Shore and Don't Pay The Ferryman.

Don't forget his 9/11 themed cleats: Many of the Mets were seen taking the field on Wednesday night against the D-backs wearing custom cleats that honored those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001, including the first responders. All of this was orchestrated by the Mets' rookie, who came up with the idea for the team to honor 9/11 victims on the tragedy's 18th anniversary. Though he initially wanted to create custom hats, he pivoted to cleats to avoid what he called "red tape" from Major League Baseball. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/see-it-pete-alonso-orders-mets-custom-cleats-honoring-911-victims/310677192

Don't forget his 9/11 themed cleats: Many of the Mets were seen taking the field on Wednesday night against the D-backs wearing custom cleats that honored those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001, including the first responders. All of this was orchestrated by the Mets' rookie, who came up with the idea for the team to honor 9/11 victims on the tragedy's 18th anniversary. Though he initially wanted to create custom hats, he pivoted to cleats to avoid what he called "red tape" from Major League Baseball. https://www.sny.tv/mets/news/see-it-pete-alonso-orders-mets-custom-cleats-honoring-911-victims/310677192

I've settled on Big Whoop.

I've settled on Big Whoop.

I'm sensing a trend here. This song doesn't make me horny, but the memory of it being used during the opening credits of GREASE MONKEYS as Lee Marlin, Kip Noll, & Nick Rodgers walked in tight jeans does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggBX1xMfxv4

Antetokounmpo hasn't been shy in his pursuit of greatness. In fact, during Milwaukee's Nov. 18 win at Chicago, with Jordan's No. 23 and Scottie Pippen's 33 dangling from the rafters of the United Center, he told ESPN: "I definitely want to be one of the best players to ever play. At age 25, Antetokounmpo is entering his prime and seemingly in the running to win a second straight MVP award. Milwaukee GM Jon Horst is keeping that in mind while studying Jordan's career. Jordan didn't win his first title until age 28, during the 1990-91 campaign. Antetokounmpo wasn't even born until Dec. 6, 1994. "You look at championship teams, and they have an average age of like close to 30, and then they have an average age of like 26, 27, 28 when they get to a conference finals," Horst said. "You have guys like Michael Jordan, who I don't think actually ended up getting to the NBA Finals until he was [28] years old. So I think for our guys, for our organization and for fans in general just to watch kind of the evolution of a championship organization -- not just a single championship year or a team that had a great run, but a team that figures out how to become great and then sustains it over a long period of time and does some really special things. I think it's really an interesting story for people to watch." The Bucks currently hold an NBA-best 53-12 record. Through 65 games of Jordan's 1997-98 championship team, the Bulls were 48-17. The Bucks have won a league-high 36 games by double figures and 19 games by at least 20. Despite playing only 65 games, that's already more games than the Bulls won by double figures (34) or 20-plus points (10).

It’s been quite a week for live news blunders. On Thursday, Tampa Bay meteorologist Paul Dellegatto wasinterrupted mid-weather broadcast by his dog, who didn’t seem very concerned about the humidity levels across Southern Florida. Despite Dellegatto’s best efforts, he couldn’t get his golden retriever to calm down, and for the next minute and a half, he was forced to analyze the radar maps with a large puppy on his lap. More dog quarantine content, please! Yesterday, FOX 13 chief meteorologist Paul Dellegato experienced some dog-induced technical difficulties in the middle of his at-home broadcast when Brody, his golden retriever, ran into his computer. “The maps aren’t going to move because he just whacked the computer with his head,” said the weatherman, as he attempted to explain the change in dew point across Florida. “So, let me just verbalize the forecast,” said Dellegato. Turning to Brody, he added, “That wasn’t very smart.” The Tampa Bay weatherman attempted to run through the weekly forecast, but the puppy just wasn’t interested, and he repeatedly yawned as his owner worked through the daily highs and lows. “Didn’t mean to keep you up,” said Dellegato, after one particularly dramatic dog yawn. “Next time, Buddy. We’re going to eat after this.” When Dellegato moved Brody off his lap, the dog discovered something even more exciting: the man behind the camera. After a few Brody-free seconds, the outline of his head suddenly popped up from the bottom of the screen. “Oh, boy,” said Dellegato. “He’s jumping up looking for Craig outside the window.” Dellegato explained that Craig is a producer standing on the porch holding “a blanket up so that the reflection” doesn’t mess up the shot. “And now he can’t see Craig so he’s going crazy trying to find Craig behind the blanket,” he said. “Don’t take this the wrong way, Paul, but this is amazing and great. I love it,” said one of Dellegato’s co-anchors. “We don’t need to see that forecast map. We’ll just look at Brody.” Hard agree.

God bless them. I'm sure their families are proud of them, but I wonder if those families really wanted them to come here. I wouldn't have. A 66 year old paramedic from Aurora, Colorado contracted the virus & died. The city will make a memorial to him. Now, a nurse who flew up from Florida to pitch in at New York City’s overwhelmed hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic was thanked by Gotham’s worst — when she was mugged in a practically abandoned Times Square. Stacy Coco and her friend, a fellow Florida nurse, had just gotten off their 12-hour overnight shift at Jacobi Medical Center and an hour-long commute on the subway Sunday morning when they were walking through the famed tourist spot. It was Coco’s first time in the Big Apple. The pair had flown up a week earlier for an eight-week contract with the city and were put up in the Millennium Hotel. “We heard nurses were getting sick and some were dying. We thought if we came up here, we could help. I know it sounds corny … but when you have that in your heart, that’s what you want to do for people,” Coco said. It was around 8:30 a.m. She stood awestruck in front of the “Good Morning America” set in Times Square and stopped to snap a photo. But then, out of nowhere, a thug pushed Coco down and ran off with her cellphone. “I don’t even know where he came from,” Coco recalled. “It’s got pictures and voicemail of my mother on there that died a year ago, December 2018 … and that’s all I have of her.” Her friend, Kimberly Allen, wanted to chase after the thief. “She wanted to chase after the criminal but she didn’t want to get shot,” Coco said. A distraught Coco and her friend went to the nearby NYPD precinct house after tracking the iPhone — but were met by a rude cop, apparently unwilling to help. “We can’t put you in the back seat in the car and go find that phone, it’s a pandemic,” Coco recalled of the exchange. Yet that’s exactly what a police captain did when he overheard the nurse’s story. The supervisor ordered two NYPD officers to drive the nurses around the city for more than two hours to find the thief. “Every time we got close to it would move,” Coco said in frustration. “These two police officers gave us so much of their time,” she recalled, saying the two didn’t want to stop. She never found the thief. “I cried for two days and got a new phone,” she said. “When I called in to work that evening, all the person in the staffing could do is laugh, ‘I’m so sorry, you gotta keep everything close to you in New York,'” she remembered them saying. “This isn’t Florida,” Coco said jokingly.

I guess nobody's in a sad mood today.

Why, kind sir, you DO make me blush!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eonNhJVle_U

I know Prince was considered a musical genius, but there wasn't one song of his I liked even a little. Granted, I only knew what was played on the radio. And I absolutely LOATHED (This Is What It Smells Like) When Doves Fry. I always found Jim Carrey's schtick as entertaining as Prince's vocals. Ricky Gervais is smug and overbearing. Tracy Morgan must have a lot of dirt on a lot of people to have had the career he's had. Chris Rock can be a little funny and entertaining. very little.

I don't know whether to say Mazel Tov or Big Whoop. My emotions are all over the place tonight.

Yeah, I know it's about pot... It would be such a happy tune if they replaced one of the names with Donald: Great song to ponder suicide to: Karen's favorite Carpenters song:

I remember at school the day after he died one of my classmates didn't know who he was:

She paid $15,000 for mom’s final arrangements — and now worries Brooklyn funeral home stored remains on unrefrigerated U-Haul truck A Brooklyn woman says that weeks ago she paid a funeral home $15,000 to handle her mother’s final arrangements — and now wonders if she was one of the rotting corpses police found in unrefrigerated U-Haul trucks. Tamisha Covington had questions Thursday for the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in Flatlands. “What’ve you all been doing to our mom? The whole time, she’s just been sitting in a truck?” Covington said she’d like to ask. “How do we know? We don’t know,” Covington said. State health department officials have opened a probe into the “unacceptable conditions” at the funeral home, located on Utica Ave. and Ave. M. Cops on Wednesday found dozens of coprses stacked in two U-Haul trucks and a U-Haul van, along with several more bodies in two refrigerated trucks. Mayor de Blasio on Thursday blasted the funeral parlor’s treatment of bodies amid a wave of deaths in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic. “This horrible situation that occurred with the funeral home in Brooklyn — absolutely unacceptable,” de Blasio said during a briefing Thursday. The home “shouldn’t have let it happen.” Covington, who showed up at the funeral home Thursday demanding answers, the situation wasn’t just unacceptable — it was heartbreaking. Her mother, Deborah Harris, 60, died of a heart attack, possibly from coronavirus complications, in her Brooklyn home April 7. The funeral home took her body on April 9. After two weeks of ducking her calls, she said, someone from the funeral home called her sister earlier in the week and gave her a funeral date, May 12. Covington said she would have understood if the funeral home staff had told her they couldn’t handle the overflow and that a viewing wouldn’t be possible. Instead, she said, the funeral home stayed mum. “Be a little respectful for us. We’re mourning. We’re grieving," Covington said. "Have a little courtesy for the dead,” she added. “And don’t be robbing us, cause we’re getting robbed. "Why are we paying $15,000? Nobody can explain that. Can somebody tell us why they’re ripping us off instead of helping us, and now they got our loved ones in U-Hauls?” The city said last week that bodies of some coronavirus victims will be temporarily frozen to reduce strain on hospitals and funeral homes with limited space to preserve the dead. Somehow the effort didn’t cover the Andrew T. Cleckley home. On Wednesday, people walking by the trucks saw leakage and smelled the odor of death from one of them, said law enforcement sources. “I saw 15 bodies in the U-Haul box truck stacked up on one another, and more in the other,” one officer at the scene told The News. Other witnesses said they’d been watching corpses loaded onto the trucks for days. De Blasio said Thursday what happened was “unconscionable” and that he was “very disappointed” the funeral home didn’t contact the city or state or reach out to the NYPD for help. “I’m sorry, it’s not hard to figure out. If nothing else is working, call the NYPD,” the mayor said. “It was an emergency situation.” The state Health Department, which regulates funeral homes, hasn’t determined what penalty the funeral home owner may face. The home’s operator, Andrew Cleckley, could be fined, be temporarily suspended from the business, or have his license revoked, , state officials said. The bodies found in the trucks are being brought to a morgue in Brooklyn, officials said. Cleckley, who refers to himself as “The Undertaker" on his Facebook page, did not return messages seeking comment Thursday. A woman answering the door at a relative’s Queens home yelled, "He’s not here, do not come here, he’s not here!” Families and funeral homes who can’t immediately collect and handle bodies can ask the city medical examiner’s office to temporarily store the dead until arrangements are made. Coronavirus victims will only be buried at the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island if they cannot be identified or next of kin hasn’t been reached about 15 days after death. During the pandemic, the city is transferring some victims’ bodies from morgues and refrigerated trailers to freezer trucks to ensure they don’t decompose. But once a funeral home collects remains, they can’t be returned to the medical examiner’s office. Asked if funeral homes should be able to send bodies back to the medical examiner if they run out of space and take on too many remains, de Blasio said he didn’t know the details about the city’s handling of the situation. But the mayor said funeral homes have an “obligation to the people they serve to treat them with dignity.” De Blasio said the city should organize a bereavement committee as proposed by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The committee would include representatives of the medical examiner’s office and the city’s funeral homes. Adams said the idea is to help funeral home directors overwhelmed in the pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis has forced many businesses to close – factories, warehouses, businesses that employ hundreds if not thousands of workers. A few businesses, including Ricas Pupusas Y Mas, a Salvadorian style restaurant in Woodside, Queens on 47th Street, have been able to maintain some operations. But business has slowed to a trickle, so they are only open four days a week, as there isn’t enough foot traffic to justify staying open. Irma Vargas, an immigrant of El Salvatore runs Ricas Pupusas Y Mas with her husband Daniel, and her two daughters Amy and Abagail. The business is only a year and a half old, finally becoming established and popular with workers from those warehouses and factories. On a normal day, they make hundreds of tortillas, tamales and tacos for her fans. Their great food has even been featured in The New York Times and other major food columns and websites. But with self-quarantine orders in place and businesses closed, Vargas’ eatery has suffered mightily. “Monday through Wednesday, we are closed because there is no business at all,” Vargas said. “So now we are open Thursday through Sunday. Some days we make $50-$75, and we might as well stay home. It’s difficult now because people were laid off, there are no jobs here and people can’t buy prepared foods. There were a lot of immigrants here, but they aren’t working now so what do we do?” Vargas says they do delivery, and they are working with Seamless, Uber Eats and call in orders. But even delivery business is sparse and they can’t pay their bills. The restaurant applied for SBA loans but were denied. Because they are a family run business, she says, they’re not eligible for relief under the Payroll Protection Program. They are now borrowing money from friends, and they haven’t yet paid this month’s rent. “The landlord doesn’t want to negotiate. When we asked for a break, he said, ‘no, I want the whole rent,’” Vargas sighed. “We don’t know what to do. We are trying hard to stay open. We were doing well, but now nobody is coming. Nobody is helping us.” Not far from Vargas is Phil Am Grocery on the border of Woodside and Jackson Heights, Queens. Joe Costillo and his father Emanuel run the 40-year-old ethnic Filipino grocery store on 70th Street only 20-blocks from Elmhurst Hospital. The problem for Phil Am was not that they were mandated to close, but they were forced to close as so many were dying in their community from coronavirus. “We closed our store out of an abundance of caution for staff and customers – we saw early on that the area was lit up and was a hot-bed of coronavirus,” Costillo said. “We saw this first hand and people were getting sick left and right incuding some employees. There was high anxiety so we had to close.” The Queens immigrant community has had a much higher number of people infected with Covid-19 because residents live in more crowded homes, share quarters and are forced to go to work when others had the luxury of staying home. But last week, Costillo re-opened, taking phone orders and keeping customers at bay through a small window where they hand groceries out the cubby hole and limit exposure to people. That business is starting to pick up slowly, but they are under the financial gun to pay vendors, taxes, insurance – luckily, they own the building so we don’t worry about paying rent.” Costillo is just trying to keep his head above water and keep up with bills, and he continues to pay employees, but “we are reaching the end of our rope.” He worries even more for neighbors who must stay closed, mostly ethnic restaurants that he would patronize that might have to be shuttered because they can’t open and won’t make their rent. That would leave many stores around him vacant and damage the community, he says. “Some folks who have to make their rent and make money are in real trouble,” Costillo said. “We are doing things we didn’t do before, including creating a website that my father didn’t think we needed. People come to us because it is familiar to them – comfort food. But for others like the restaurants, they are just trying to hold on as long as they could and they are hemorrhaging money – some will choose to close – we can only hope they will recover.”

One death that (maybe) could have been avoided: Coronavirus patient dead after medical residents set ventilator too high A New York coronavirus patient died after inexperienced medical residents rushed to the front line of the pandemic set her ventilator too high, according to a report. The patient, who was in her 60s, was being cared for on an overnight shift at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx last month by family medicine residents, who were not properly trained in how to use the respiratory support machine, according to the Wall Street Journal. Medical residents are doctors-in-training who have graduated from medical school but are training for a specialty under the supervision of a senior physician. As family medicine residents, the young doctors typically wouldn’t work in an intensive care unit on critically ill patients — but as hospitals became overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, they were thrust into roles they weren’t prepared for. So when the patient’s illness worsened dramatically overnight and the residents hooked her up to a ventilator, they accidentally turned the device up too high — stopping her heart, according to the paper. When a critical care physician rushed to the room, the doctors-in-training admitted they didn’t know how to properly work the settings on the ventilator. The disturbing incident is just one of several reported by the Wall Street Journal. Other residents — such as those training to be dentists, ophthalmologists, podiatrists and psychiatrists — have also been pushed to the front line because the city’s doctors are stretched desperately thin. At Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, anesthesiology residents were sent to work as respiratory therapists — a licensed job that requires at least two years of training — after just one Zoom session and a Google document that instructed them to call an attending physician if they needed help, according to the paper. And at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, a resident admitted to being afraid that patients were being treated like “guinea pigs.” Hospital officials contacted by the paper said the coronavirus crisis has created extraordinary conditions for all staff members, prompting an all-hands-on-deck response. “Our mission is to save lives, and our heroic health care workers are on the front lines … navigating unprecedented challenges under enormous pressure,” a spokesperson for the institution formally known as NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center told the Wall Street Journal. “We are constantly working to give them the support and resources they need.” Montefiore Medical Center didn’t return a request for comment, according to the paper. MORE ON: CORONAVIRUS Soccer diehards fill empty stadium with cardboard-cutouts of fans

We’ve all been spending a lot of time at home these days. But thanks to the wonders of technology, we can also take trips to Twin Peaks, Wisteria Lane or California’s most famous zip code, among other notable TV locales. Since the days of self-quarantine began earlier this spring, dozens of stars from long-gone television shows have reunited virtually. By way of nostalgia-filled Zoom calls, short-form YouTube series and Instagram Live videos, the casts of nearly two dozen shows have come together to reminisce, including stars from “Friday Night Lights,” “The Office,” “Glee,” “Melrose Place” and other series. We’ve rounded up all of the virtual reunions that have happened thus far, with handy links to the videos. And be sure to bookmark this page, which will be updated with future gatherings — including the pandemic-themed “Parks and Recreation” special set for Thursday, April 30, on NBC. “90210” In a video on April 22, Shenae Grimes reunited with co-stars Jessica Lowndes (Adrianna), AnnaLynne McCord (Naomi), Michael Steger (Navid), Josh Zuckerman (Max), Jessica Stroup (Silver), Matt Lanter (Liam), Tristan Wilds (Dixon) and Dustin Milligan (Ethan) for a 27-minute look back at their time on the CW series. But if the reunion below doesn’t spill enough “90210” tea for your liking, there wasanother get-together between Grimes, Lanter and McCord posted earlier in the month, in which the trio revisited the show’s series finale. (The latter video was actually filmed in 2018 but posted in April, lest you worry they’re breaking the rules of social distancing on that couch.) “Chuck” Hosted by EW.com, this reunion gathered 12 cast members — including Zachary Levi (Chuck) and Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah) — as well as co-creators Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz for a virtual table read of Season 3’s “Chuck Versus the Beard.” “Desperate Housewives” As part of “Stars in the House” (a daily live-streamed YouTube series that benefits the Actors Fund charity), “Desperate Housewives” alumni Eva Longoria (Gabrielle), Marcia Cross (Bree), Brenda Strong (Mary Alice), Dana Delany (Katherine) and Vanessa Williams (Renee) sat down for an hour-plus-long discussion of the show. “Difficult People” Julie Klausner (Julie), Billy Eichner (Billy), Andrea Martin (Marilyn) and James Urbaniak (Arthur) were among the stars of Hulu’s three-season comedy to reunite — technical difficulties and all — via “Stars in the House.” “Entourage” In a virtual reunion facilitated by Cameo, stars Jeremy Piven (Ari), Emmanuelle Chriqui (Sloan), Constance Zimmer (Dana) and Perrey Reeves (Mrs. Ari) reflected on memorable moments from the HBO series. ( .) “Frasier” Various stars of the NBC sitcom — including Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), David Hyde Pierce (Niles), Jane Leeves (Daphne) and Peri Gilpin (Roz), among others — joined forces for a “Stars in the House” get-together. “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” On a recent episode of his Snapchat series “Will From Home,” Will Smith was joined by former castmates Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton), Tatyana Ali (Ashley), Karyn Parsons (Hilary), Daphne Maxwell Reid (Aunt Viv), Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey) and DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jazz) for a look back at the ’90s sitcom. “Friday Night Lights” As part of Global Citizen’s “One World: Together at Home” concert, cast members from the beloved football drama — including Aimee Teegarden (Julie), Adrianne Palicki (Tyra), Scott Porter (Street), Gaius Charles (Smash), Derek Phillips (Billy) and Brad Leland (Buddy) — screened the pilot episode together. “Glee” Another “Stars in the House” episode, embedded below, featured “Glee” alumni such as Matthew Morrison (Will), Jane Lynch (Sue), Darren Criss (Blaine), Chris Colfer (Kurt), Amber Riley (Mercedes), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina) and Kevin McHale (Artie). Trust us: It’s for a glimpse at Colfer’s “Glee” audition. “Hannah Montana” On the March 24 episode of her Instagram Live series “Bright Minded,” Miley Cyrus was joined by “Hannah Montana” co-star Emily Osment for a little stroll down memory lane. “Jessie” Speaking of Disney Channel reunions, the cast of “Jessie” also stopped by “Stars in the House” for an hour-long chat about their favorite episodes, what they’ve been up to in quarantine, and more. Participants included Debby Ryan (Jessie), Peyton List (Emma), Karan Brar (Ravi), Skai Jackson (Zuri) and Kevin Chamberlin (Bertram). “The Last Man on Earth” In a two-hour (!) Zoom chat, cast members Will Forte (Phil), Kristen Schaal (Carol), January Jones (Melissa), Mary Steenburgen (Gail) and Cleopatra Coleman (Erica) were joined by EPs Phil Lord and Chris Miller and director Payman Benz for a chat about the Fox comedy’s four seasons … and what would have happened in Season 5. “Melrose Place” Marcia Cross (Kimberly), Daphne Zuniga (Jo), Courtney Thorne-Smith (Alison), Thomas Calabro (Michael), Grant Show (Jake), Heather Locklear (Amanda) and more stars came together in an April 28 installment of “Stars in the House,” where they relived the highs and lows of Melrose Place‘s seven-season run. (Watch it here.) “The Nanny” The sitcom’s original stars — including Fran Drescher (Fran), Charles Shaughnessy (Maxwell), Daniel Davis (Niles), Lauren Lane (C. C.), Nicholle Tom (Maggie), Benjamin Salisbury (Brighton), Madeline Zima (Grace) and Renee Taylor (Sylvia) — assembled for a virtual table read of the show’s 1993 pilot episode. (Watch it here.) “The Office” In one of the quarantine’s most pleasant surprises, “The Office” vet John Krasinskiwelcomed onetime co-star Steve Carell to his “Some Good News” YouTube series, in which they revisited some of their favorite moments from fictional life in Scranton, Pa. (Carell’s interview begins at 5:40 in the video below.) But if you need another dose of Dunder Mifflin, “Office” alums Brian Baumgartner (Kevin), Melora Hardin (Jan), Oscar Nuñez (Oscar) and Kate Flannery (Meredith) also reunited for a conversation moderated by “Parks and Recreation”‘s Jim O’Heir. “Outsourced” Cast members and producers of NBC’s one-and-done comedy — 15 people in all! — logged on for a virtual table read of the pilot episode, which originally aired on Sept. 23, 2010. “Scandal” In a three-minute Instagram video on April 7, “Scandal”‘s Kerry Washington was joined by former on-screen love Tony Goldwyn to discuss — what else? — the 2020 census! “[MEDIA=instagram]B-s6ieqnWzx[/MEDIA] “SCTV” Four alumni from the Canadian sketch comedy series — Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Andrea Martin and Martin Short — appeared on “Stars in the House” to reminisce about their time on the show. “Sonny With a Chance/So Random!” Demi Lovato (Sonny), Tiffany Thornton (Tawni), Allisyn Snyder (Zora), Doug Brochu (Grady), Shayne Topp (Shayne), Sterling Knight (Chad), Matthew Scott Montgomery (Matthew), Audrey Whitby (Audrey) and Damien C. Haas (Damien) got together for a candid conversation about their Disney Channel series. “Taxi” Rounding out the “Stars in the House” reunions (thus far) was a gathering of “Taxi” alumni, including Judd Hirsch (Alex), Danny DeVito (Louie), Marilu Henner (Elaine), Christopher Lloyd (Reverend Jim) and Carol Kane (Simka). “Twin Peaks” While sipping on some damn fine cups of coffee, Kyle MacLachlan and Mädchen Amick celebrated the 30th anniversary of Twin Peaks‘ premiere by answering fan questions in an Instagram Live video. “Victorious” And finally, the cast of “Victorious” — including Ariana Grande! — reunited virtually in honor of the Nickelodeon sitcom’s 10-year anniversary. Link to the article and many video clips: https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/24-virtual-cast-reunions-from-parks-and-recreation-glee-scandal-the-office-and-more/

Nick Cordero has holes in ‘severely damaged’ lungs due to coronavirus The wife of Broadway star Nick Cordero has revealed there are holes in his “severely damaged” lungs amid his ongoing battle with coronavirus. Amanda Kloots — who has spent weeks rallying support for her husband — said Thursday that her husband has “been thrown every curve ball he could be thrown” as she detailed via a video on Instagram, “Yesterday was a very hard day. He started off with low blood count. Luckily, Nick’s CT scans came back clear of internal bleeding as of now, so that was a huge blessing. “However, we did learn that due to COVID, Nick’s lungs are severely damaged to look almost like he’s been a smoker for 50 years, they said, they’re that damaged. There are holes in his lungs where obviously you don’t want holes to be.” The fitness trainer and mom to their baby son, Elvis, said doctors discovered this when Cordero’s oxygen count went down and they cleaned out his lungs. She said the plan now is to scan his lungs with ink and take cultures, so they can put him on the right medication. Cordero has already had his leg amputated and his friends and family are waiting for him to regain consciousness. Kloots added that her husband’s doctor is “absolutely wonderful,” saying, “He told me if Nick was in his 70s, we’d be having a different conversation. He’s 41, he’s been fighting really hard. “He told me if it was his brother in there, he would not be giving up hope, so I’m not giving up hope. Obviously, it was super scary news to hear.” She said they are desperate to get him healthy and stable so they can give him a tracheostomy and get him off his ventilator, but have to work out his lung issues first.