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During the ‘difficult days’ at Apple (1969ish) this sort of message arrived in my office or at home fairly frequently (though rarely so explicit and never so artistic as this one) from Paul. There is some humour in the drawing, I think, and it is an accurate, if hard, representation of a press hang-out. At the time, the cartoon made me doubt, even dismiss, our worth as a press office but with hindsight I know that Apple would not have been nearly as good as it was without us lot on the second-floor back (Richard, Carol, Mavis, Sally, Frankie and me and all the others) nor as much fun and despite what may have been said, written or imagined, Apple was often very very good and a happy and creative place to be. We believed in Apple to the end - and beyond.

Fifty Years Adrift, Derek Taylor (1984)

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Yo this reminds me of a whole bunch of quotes from All You Need Is Love about the press office being wild:

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · I enjoy the little background thread in All You Need Is Love of Derek Taylor / the Apple press office being absolutely insa

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About Time is the only film I’ve ever seen where:

1) Using time travel has literally no negative consequences for the main character

2) There is no conflict / obstacles / problems to overcome because they are immediately solved

Also everyone talks like it’s the 1950s

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I ❤️ the spirit of Carter/Benton Christmas goodbye.

But a couple of the details frustrate me.

Carter saying ‘I owe you’. This kind of is their relationship in reality, but it’s not what I want it to be and it’s not how I want them to see their relationship.

I guess this is more a bigger thing of me wanting things to have been less one-sided between them e.g. if had Benton shared literally any aspect of his life with Carter. But also I don’t like the idea that Carter felt indebted to Benton. In a sappier show that line would have been followed with “you don’t owe me anything”. And usually I like when stuff is left unsaid, but it doesn’t feel like a denial was left unsaid, it just feels true.

And the exchange of “I’m a good doctor because of you”. “No you’re not… but keep trying”. Pls don’t undercut their final emotional moment like that. I’m sure by this point Benton does think Carter’s a good doctor but actually the last time we saw any evidence of that was season… 4? Maybe? (You’re better than Dale / Benton following Carter’s lead in Exodus). I’d be ok with them leaving it at “no you’re not” - it would sound vaguely ambiguous but I’d take it purely as Benton saying that Carter did it himself. The way it ends just sounds like Benton still doesn’t think that much of Carter (I know it’s supposed to be lighthearted).

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Furor Erupts Over Klan Joke on Set of 'E.R'

A controversy is swirling around "E.R.," TV's hottest new drama, after one actress complained that racist remarks were made on the set, but

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There’s an interview with Julianna Margulies where she mentioned the writers wrote Carol and Doug breaking up after [event?] and they refused to film it so it didn’t happen

Does this ring a bell with anyone in ER fandom?

I have a feeling that the event is when she kissed the EMT played by George Eads but maybe I’m just jumping to that because I rewatched that recently.

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Noah Wyle and Peter Berg in the play “The 24th Day”, which ran at the Coronet Theatre in LA in 1996.

I’ve been searching for more photos from this play and finally found them on clagri_29’s IG, which is a treasure trove of Noah content and adorable comments.

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I’ve never seen a valedictorian speech irl but it always trips me up when Rory Gilmore does a whole tribute to her mother and grandparents in hers. Really feels like it should be more aimed towards all the graduating students rather than about the one doing the speech.

(I mean I’m not American so idk maybe that’s how they normally go).

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Of course Carter’s dad cancels on going on holiday (with a day’s notice) in When Night Meets Day (S9 E21).

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X

I’m rewatching Gilmore Girls and it’s reminded me of the way I’m convinced this was what was going of with Benton and Carter / Eriq La Salle and Noah Wyle in early ER days.

My evidence is Benton (and sometimes Greene) dragging Carter around, along with my accidentally-purple-filtered compilation of Carter bumping into people (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), including Benton directing Carter where to go. And also in the first ep when the baby is being born and Carter is in Doug’s way I think maybe that’s just Noah not knowing where to stand. Plus in the audio commentary John Wells says Noah was really green when they started which is partly why they weren’t sure about casting him at first.

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This run of Carter eps is so ridiculously good: jail, Chase detox, ethical quandaries, heroics and Chase overdose, with a little break for Greene family drama.

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whatever you say beautiful

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I have a based-on-very-little theory that Romano was supposed to be hot but Paul McCrane blew them out of the water with a great audition so they changed the character.

His nickname is Rocket Romano and his whole thing at the start is that he’s a hot-shot surgeon who spends 10 months a year in Europe. I think he was supposed to be a stereotypical dreamy but heartless surgeon - the closest they’d had to that before was Dale? (I guess?). Maybe he’d have been a romantic rival in the Benton/Corday romance and probably he wouldn’t have lasted nearly as long as he did or been half as memorable.

(Saying that: if Romano has no haters I am dead. I can never get past him sexually harassing Doyle and having no consequences for it, as realistic for the time as it was).

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Early years Doug Ross had a real edge of casual cruelty - stuff like imitating Kerry in front of a group of people in the break room and randomly being an arsehole to Bob (in what might have been her final scene on the show??). It’s balanced well in that I think it usually only happens when he’s at a low point.

They sort of move away from this after mid-S2 but I think it’s a bit of a shame because it’s a good, realistic character flaw, and it frankly fit him pretty well in a way it wouldn’t for Greene etc.

I think Doug’s character arc is done pretty well - hitting rock bottom with the woman dying so he could then start to work on himself and become worthy of Carol.

They obviously continue (again and again) with his recklessness causing problems until the bitter end. Which is fine but it’s a bit too ‘my biggest weakness is that I care too much’.

But give me back Doug Ross who is charming and a great doctor and brilliant with kids, but also is sometimes kind of spiteful.

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The John Carter Death (/*brain damage) Tally

S3: Dennis Gant

S4: Chase Carter*

S6: Lucy / the concept of hope

S8: Grandfather, Mark Greene

S9: Gamma

S10: Joshua

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Ha, good instinct - that’s not even everyone Neela had a thing with.

But I screenshot this for the below quote:

“[Neela] would never have got together with [Carter] because of the whole mentor-mentee thing. It was supposed to mirror his relationship with Benton”.

The idea they were mirroring Carter/Benton is so interesting! IIRC Neela didn’t go into surgery until after Carter left, but one of her main weaknesses as a doctor was the patient care side of it - so her change to surgery always made sense. I had been thinking when I watched the later seasons recently that Dubenko replaced bits of Carter (despite being a surgeon) and I think maybe that’s true.

The other thing though - the idea that Carter would never had got together with Neela because he was her mentor - I’m glad he was consistent about that at least!!

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I don’t know if this is a hot take but I really wish they hadn’t killed Mark Greene off the way they did. I get wanting to give him a dramatic send off but it casts a shadow over like two seasons and makes rewatching any of his scenes after S6 (and kinda before tbh) a real bummer.