Remains of the Day (04/08)

RIP - Anne Beatts - LEGEND

Responsible for the Volkswagen ad parody: "If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today," accompanied by a photograph of a VW Beetle floating on a lake (an allusion to Kennedy's Chappaquiddick incident). pic.twitter.com/xR8rcCqgCD

— 2 Fast 2 Smoochy (@lifetosmoochy) April 8, 2021

I truly wouldn't have survived 9th grade without "Square Pegs." RIP, funny lady. 

‘They’ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of Congress, but they’ve passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence. Enough prayers. Time for some action’: President Biden announces steps to tackle gun violence in the U.S. https://t.co/qLzG1cxlUL pic.twitter.com/gtJUy66TOy

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 8, 2021

Biden calls U.S. gun violence an ‘international embarrassment’; "Just a reminder, the NRA is a terrorist organization And Wayne LaPierre is a snowflake," writes Mary Trump 

I have lived through the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I have never seen less UK media coverage of serious rioting. Clear the UK media is censoring events to protect the Johnson government. Democracy is hanging by a thread in the United Kingdom. Wake up people.

— Kerry Burgess (@KerryBurgess) April 8, 2021

Time to give the Ireland back its entire country 

Liberace is kind of a fey Donald Trump figure who doesn’t seem to understand humor and who really just wants you to know that he’s rich. @TheTonyRodrig joins us this week on @gayestepisode to discuss his baffling Muppet Show appearance: https://t.co/Y1me9FDbdR pic.twitter.com/uPRVsxtExC

— Drew Mackie (@drewgmackie) April 8, 2021

 He was way ahead of his time: Now almost all gay guys are a bunch of pills

Happy Bo-day to John Schneider, whose acting was often below the belt: https://t.co/WKq6bC3SSq pic.twitter.com/2mnxrfsAQG

— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) April 8, 2021

This is how hot you have to be for me to overlook your idiotic conservative views 

A billionaire in India tweets and then.. https://t.co/l41aMa7Olj pic.twitter.com/PS0G4LiQkB

— Raju Narisetti (@raju) April 8, 2021

Different country, same 1% mentality

BRET EASTON ELLIS PODCAST. Hollywood disillusionment, a decade of lost projects, the problem of when the star of your movie gets cancelled, Armie Hammer, TV<Movies, with Crisis director Nicholas Jarecki. A shocking rift in the latest chapter of THE SHARDS: https://t.co/ibCQtR97wL pic.twitter.com/50iFpERvZZ

— Bret Easton Ellis (@BretEastonEllis) April 8, 2021

I don't have the podcast gene, but if you listen feel free to send me a recap! 

In 2013, @rainnwilson and @JasonBiggs took the court against @ChrissieEvert and @MonicaSeles10s, with @alroker officiating.

Hilarity ensued. Watch the full match 👇

— US Open Tennis (@usopen) April 8, 2021

Dream Team: Chris and Monica 

17yo Carlos beats 39yo Feli Lopez to reach his first career ATP QFs in Marbella. First of many... pic.twitter.com/KSmDyGQ7kV

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) April 8, 2021

Feliciano López, Madrid's tournament diretor, already gave Alcaraz a wild card for the event, that starts in three weeks.

Hillary Rodham Clinton: We can preserve the filibuster, or we can preserve the voting rights of people of color. But we can't do both.