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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>It is hopefully clear that a review and discussion of the \u003c/em>Succession \u003cem>season two finale is not suitable for people who do not want to be spoiled regarding the \u003c/em>Succession \u003cem>season two finale. If it is not clear: You will know what happened on this episode by the time you’re finished reading this piece. Choose wisely. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We began this season of \u003cem>Succession\u003c/em> with Kendall Roy half-submerged in what was supposed to be a relaxing spa soak but was more like a very wet metaphor. And he didn’t get his head above water until the last 30 seconds of the second-season finale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were times when this season looked like it might be about Kendall’s sister, Shiv (Sarah Snook)—her father, Logan (Brian Cox), dangled the “top job” at the company, as he calls it, in front of her face, then refused to give it to her. Shiv’s restlessness seemed like perhaps it was the biggest threat to Logan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were times when it seemed like it might be about Kendall smoothly transitioning into being his father’s traumatized but functional right hand. After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/12/750189331/succession-back-to-the-pit-of-vipers-for-another-season-of-discontent\">ending last season in the weakest possible position\u003c/a>, needing to be rescued from the father he had been trying to overthrow, Kendall became unfailingly loyal. When he put on a good performance at the congressional hearings, it suggested we could be headed for a conclusion where Kendall finally became his father’s favorite—something he wants so desperately that it drips from Jeremy Strong’s performance almost as much as sweat so often seems to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no. No, Logan decided it was time for a “blood sacrifice,” as he put it—someone who could be thrown to the wolves and blamed for the devastating revelations about Waystar Royco’s cruise division. Someone who would satisfy the shareholders that the problem was being taken seriously; someone who would give those shareholders, as one told Logan on the phone, “cover.” So Logan gathered the family and the top lieutenants—Kendall, Shiv and Tom, Roman (Kieran Culkin), even Greg—on the Roy yacht and watched each one try to respectfully, gently argue that the person sacrificed should emphatically not be them, no offense to whomever they suggested it \u003cem>should \u003c/em>be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The obvious answer was Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), Shiv’s husband. He had been in charge of cruises; he had a logical connection to the crimes committed, even if they predated his leadership. After all, one of the things someone needed to take responsibility for was the cover-up, and Tom carried out key elements of the cover-up. He wouldn’t even have been just a figurehead. Tom had the advantage of being both largely expendable to the family and \u003cem>actually guilty\u003c/em>, not that they would care. Particularly if they threw in poor dopey cousin Greg, Tom’s assistant, they thought maybe that would be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Snook brought out Shiv’s shocking shrug-it-off energy in the scene—let’s just call it the Roy Family Murder Breakfast—in which she seemed to agree with the group that the blood sacrifice should be Tom. Her husband! Her own husband! Sure, why not? Tom was kinda \u003cem>like \u003c/em>family, she explained, without actually being family. Which you can translate as “he’s close enough for the shareholders to think it really means something for us to hand him over to be sacrificed, when in fact, \u003cem>eh\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was not to be Tom, because once he and Shiv were in private and he made clear how devastated he was by her betrayal—and once that opened other wounds in their marriage to the point where he questioned its status as a going concern—Shiv shifted gears. She went to her father and said it could not be Tom. By then, it appeared that it was likely to be either Tom or Kendall who would suffer, and Shiv took the coward’s way out: She chose while refusing to choose, saying she couldn’t make the decision … but it couldn’t be Tom. (The degree to which Shiv truly loves Tom has always been an intriguing element of their marriage. Her saving him is a data point, but so was her initially being prepared not to.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Logan chose Kendall to be sacrificed, breaking the news gently—or what passes for gently in a man whose idea of bedside manner would be leaving you one-third of your ice chips while you’re in the hospital and he’s at your bedside feeling thirsty. Kendall would have to make a statement that he had known about the misconduct in the cruise division, he had engineered the cover-up, he had done it all, and in Logan’s words, it had gone “no higher.” Kendall would sacrifice himself to save his father, and ultimately to save the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when did Kendall decide … not to? When did Kendall decide that instead of falling on his sword, he would stroll into that press conference, whip out a set of note cards and call his father “a malignant presence, a bully and a liar”? When did he decide that even knowing his father could ruin him with the story of the waiter who died after Kendall drove off a bridge, it was over? When did he decide that instead of reciting “I saw their plan; my dad’s plan was better” over and over as he did in the first episode of this season, and instead of saying “my dad told me to” the way he did when he destroyed Vaulter, he would not only sacrifice his father as the mover behind the cruises debacle but reveal his father’s deceitful, vicious personality?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9TKHvvaMfE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My money is on the moment in which, referring to the death of the waiter, Logan repeated an abbreviation that came out of the cruise division, used when a migrant worker or a sex worker died on a ship: NRPI. \u003cem>No Real Person Involved\u003c/em>. It is shorthand, really, for the idea that only some people matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan believes in NRPI. Roman believes in it. Shiv just NRPI’d \u003cem>her own husband\u003c/em> until he specifically asked her not to. But Kendall is, perhaps ironically given the protection he accepted from his father, not an NRPI kind of person. He agonized over that accident. He hated himself for shutting down Vaulter—an act he proved he could carry out in an NRPI-style manner, provided he didn’t pay too much attention to feeling his skin go gray and clammy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendall had already been reminded during the trip that his father doesn’t care about his feelings: Logan had forced Kendall to send his girlfriend away in the middle of the trip, a fresh humiliation that increased Kendall’s isolation. Things built up. Logan’s callous conducting of the Family Murder Breakfast and his announcement that he needed a “skull to wave” showed Kendall how ready his father was to throw away his kids, not to mention faithful lieutenants like Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron), Karl (David Rasche) and Frank (Peter Friedman).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Logan told Kendall that his was the skull that would be waved, a resigned Kendall asked him a question. Had Logan ever believed that Kendall could do the top job? After the profound cruelty of acting like he’d never really thought about it, Logan came around to an answer: “You’re not a killer,” he said. “You have to be a killer.” Jeremy Strong’s performance in this critical scene with Cox looks very different on second viewing. What originally played as agonized resignation to his situation and an understanding that he’d have to be the skull, as it were, looks now like agonized resignation to the fact that he will never have his father’s love and approval this way. He’ll never get there by trying to be good and loyal and perfect; that’s what he was doing all season, and he’s still the skull. This family only respects killers. Not the kind who accidentally cause the deaths of waiters, either. Only the kind who kill with ice-cold calculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that’s what Kendall did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Kendall, after learning the bad news, wound up on a plane back home with Greg (Nicholas Braun). This was extraordinarily bad luck for Logan, who had no way of knowing Greg had first saved some of the troublesome records Tom told him to get rid of. He had no way of knowing that when Tom found out and insisted on burning what was left, Greg \u003cem>once again \u003c/em>reserved a few in case he ever needed them. Greg spent this entire season being Chekhov’s knucklehead, and ultimately, like all the things metaphorically rendered unto Chekhov, he mattered a great deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to preserve the suspense of the ending, in order to create the gasp when Kendall goes to the press conference and says “BUT” between what sounds like it will be an admission of guilt and what becomes a blast of accusations against his father, we didn’t see what happened on the plane home. We saw Greg gently tell Kendall he felt bad that Kendall had to be the blood sacrifice. And we’ve seen a friendship growing between Greg and Kendall, the only family member who’s ever shown the kid any kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presumably, at some point during that flight, they talked. Greg revealed that he was holding on to the evidence Kendall needed to make accusations against Logan stick. Or Kendall opened up about being unable to get his father’s love. Or both. The key to Kendall’s ability to finally carry out the fully public attack on his father that’s been brewing since season one episode one, the key to Kendall’s escape from his father’s “protection” that’s been brewing since season two episode one? It turned out to be Greg. Greg, who saved his secret papers in a folder labeled “SECRET.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a season that was enjoyable to watch as it proceeded but that looks far more impressive in light of the finale. It looked at times like they had flattened Kendall’s affect too much; perhaps he was too much changed by the accident after Shiv’s wedding, too devastated and defanged to maintain the powerful dynamic between himself and his father that drove the first season. The character of Rhea Jarrell never entirely jelled, despite the reliable presence of Holly Hunter. The strange sexual connection between Roman and Gerri was picked up and put down a little abruptly, although the notion that they share \u003cem>some \u003c/em>sort of bond flared during the Family Murder Breakfast when Roman rose to her defense. Shiv’s waffling about whether she was really prepared to do battle with her father—spoiler alert: She was not—makes more sense as a prelude to her weakness in the finale. It is Shiv, perhaps, who is not a killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Kendall’s dead eyes all season make narrative sense. The story was going \u003cem>here\u003c/em>, to this place where the torment and the misery accumulated, to where Kendall was willing to blow up his family because it was better than all the other choices. Even the embarrassing tribute rap at Logan’s party is now, in context, just one of the last gasps of his desperate attempt to earn his father’s approval. Now, that rap is just more evidence that Kendall may have looked cold in the old peepers, but in fact he was doing \u003cem>everything \u003c/em>he could think of. He played a relatively non-flashy role in the now-infamous “Boar on the Floor” sequence in the episode “Hunting,” precisely because he was keeping out of as much of the drama as he could. In fact, his role in “Hunting” and at several other points during the season was to do his father’s dirty work without complaint—to inform, to obey, to expose. He was the good son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last bit of business to deal with is Logan’s tiny hint of a smile as he watches his son accuse him of being a monster. Is he a little impressed that Kendall is more of a killer than he thought? Does he enjoy a fight? Did he somehow \u003cem>intend \u003c/em>for this to happen, so that he himself would wind up being the skull and the company would live on? (That last theory was raised with me by a reader on Twitter, and I must say: I hadn’t thought of it, but I don’t think Logan would gamble that hard with his company.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My vote is for some combination of all of it. Logan doesn’t mind a fight, and he hates weakness even more than aggressive attack. Some part of him only respects people who come for him. That’s not to say he won’t attempt to crush them like bugs as I can only assume he will do with Kendall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many lessons to take away from this episode: It is futile to seek an immoral person’s approval if you’re not prepared to be immoral yourself. Even if your husband is a goober, you’re going to feel bad if you offer to let your father destroy him. When you burn a clutch of secret papers, make sure you see them all go. 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Tom was kinda \u003cem>like \u003c/em>family, she explained, without actually being family. Which you can translate as “he’s close enough for the shareholders to think it really means something for us to hand him over to be sacrificed, when in fact, \u003cem>eh\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was not to be Tom, because once he and Shiv were in private and he made clear how devastated he was by her betrayal—and once that opened other wounds in their marriage to the point where he questioned its status as a going concern—Shiv shifted gears. She went to her father and said it could not be Tom. By then, it appeared that it was likely to be either Tom or Kendall who would suffer, and Shiv took the coward’s way out: She chose while refusing to choose, saying she couldn’t make the decision … but it couldn’t be Tom. (The degree to which Shiv truly loves Tom has always been an intriguing element of their marriage. 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When did he decide that even knowing his father could ruin him with the story of the waiter who died after Kendall drove off a bridge, it was over? When did he decide that instead of reciting “I saw their plan; my dad’s plan was better” over and over as he did in the first episode of this season, and instead of saying “my dad told me to” the way he did when he destroyed Vaulter, he would not only sacrifice his father as the mover behind the cruises debacle but reveal his father’s deceitful, vicious personality?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/l9TKHvvaMfE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l9TKHvvaMfE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>My money is on the moment in which, referring to the death of the waiter, Logan repeated an abbreviation that came out of the cruise division, used when a migrant worker or a sex worker died on a ship: NRPI. \u003cem>No Real Person Involved\u003c/em>. 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Logan’s callous conducting of the Family Murder Breakfast and his announcement that he needed a “skull to wave” showed Kendall how ready his father was to throw away his kids, not to mention faithful lieutenants like Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron), Karl (David Rasche) and Frank (Peter Friedman).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Logan told Kendall that his was the skull that would be waved, a resigned Kendall asked him a question. Had Logan ever believed that Kendall could do the top job? After the profound cruelty of acting like he’d never really thought about it, Logan came around to an answer: “You’re not a killer,” he said. “You have to be a killer.” Jeremy Strong’s performance in this critical scene with Cox looks very different on second viewing. What originally played as agonized resignation to his situation and an understanding that he’d have to be the skull, as it were, looks now like agonized resignation to the fact that he will never have his father’s love and approval this way. He’ll never get there by trying to be good and loyal and perfect; that’s what he was doing all season, and he’s still the skull. This family only respects killers. Not the kind who accidentally cause the deaths of waiters, either. Only the kind who kill with ice-cold calculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that’s what Kendall did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Kendall, after learning the bad news, wound up on a plane back home with Greg (Nicholas Braun). This was extraordinarily bad luck for Logan, who had no way of knowing Greg had first saved some of the troublesome records Tom told him to get rid of. He had no way of knowing that when Tom found out and insisted on burning what was left, Greg \u003cem>once again \u003c/em>reserved a few in case he ever needed them. Greg spent this entire season being Chekhov’s knucklehead, and ultimately, like all the things metaphorically rendered unto Chekhov, he mattered a great deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to preserve the suspense of the ending, in order to create the gasp when Kendall goes to the press conference and says “BUT” between what sounds like it will be an admission of guilt and what becomes a blast of accusations against his father, we didn’t see what happened on the plane home. We saw Greg gently tell Kendall he felt bad that Kendall had to be the blood sacrifice. And we’ve seen a friendship growing between Greg and Kendall, the only family member who’s ever shown the kid any kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presumably, at some point during that flight, they talked. Greg revealed that he was holding on to the evidence Kendall needed to make accusations against Logan stick. Or Kendall opened up about being unable to get his father’s love. Or both. The key to Kendall’s ability to finally carry out the fully public attack on his father that’s been brewing since season one episode one, the key to Kendall’s escape from his father’s “protection” that’s been brewing since season two episode one? It turned out to be Greg. Greg, who saved his secret papers in a folder labeled “SECRET.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a season that was enjoyable to watch as it proceeded but that looks far more impressive in light of the finale. It looked at times like they had flattened Kendall’s affect too much; perhaps he was too much changed by the accident after Shiv’s wedding, too devastated and defanged to maintain the powerful dynamic between himself and his father that drove the first season. The character of Rhea Jarrell never entirely jelled, despite the reliable presence of Holly Hunter. The strange sexual connection between Roman and Gerri was picked up and put down a little abruptly, although the notion that they share \u003cem>some \u003c/em>sort of bond flared during the Family Murder Breakfast when Roman rose to her defense. Shiv’s waffling about whether she was really prepared to do battle with her father—spoiler alert: She was not—makes more sense as a prelude to her weakness in the finale. It is Shiv, perhaps, who is not a killer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Kendall’s dead eyes all season make narrative sense. The story was going \u003cem>here\u003c/em>, to this place where the torment and the misery accumulated, to where Kendall was willing to blow up his family because it was better than all the other choices. Even the embarrassing tribute rap at Logan’s party is now, in context, just one of the last gasps of his desperate attempt to earn his father’s approval. Now, that rap is just more evidence that Kendall may have looked cold in the old peepers, but in fact he was doing \u003cem>everything \u003c/em>he could think of. He played a relatively non-flashy role in the now-infamous “Boar on the Floor” sequence in the episode “Hunting,” precisely because he was keeping out of as much of the drama as he could. In fact, his role in “Hunting” and at several other points during the season was to do his father’s dirty work without complaint—to inform, to obey, to expose. He was the good son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last bit of business to deal with is Logan’s tiny hint of a smile as he watches his son accuse him of being a monster. Is he a little impressed that Kendall is more of a killer than he thought? Does he enjoy a fight? Did he somehow \u003cem>intend \u003c/em>for this to happen, so that he himself would wind up being the skull and the company would live on? 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So if I’m going to scold anybody, I try to include myself in that group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on the limits of political comedy:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always important to realize as an artist… nobody is going to come sit in a theater with me for an hour and a half and leave the theater changed. … A racist is not going to turn around and say, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I’ve been so wrong all these years.’ And instead, I just feel like open-minded humanity has been trending across our history towards decency. And if I take a step back and just look at my lifetime, it’s easy to then become more optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on his immense dancing talent:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are perhaps unaware that my greatest talent is my graceful and elegant dance moves. There \u003cem>are\u003c/em> a few moments of dancing in the show… My wife, the entertainment and beauty legend, Megan Mullally, is directing this show, and so we keep playing with the amount of panache that we think the audience can handle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on how climate change might fix corruption:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any organization that contains a bunch of people, whether it be an organized religion or a government, eventually is going to be corrupted. Because that’s human nature. No matter how altruistic the beginnings may be, eventually you are going to get some people in charge that say, ‘Hey, I can rig the system so that my family gets more apples than those other bastards.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’re slowly figuring out how to keep that from happening. I think it’s going to take a long time because there’s a lot of people, and a lot of them like apples. But I think that the emergency that we’ve found ourselves in with Mother Nature and with the dire future of climate change will help things along considerably. People won’t be able to go shopping for brightly-colored tennis shoes quite as easily as they could 10 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10526493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10526493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Offerman with wife Megan Mullally.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Offerman with wife Megan Mullally.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on being one half of an iconic working marriage with Megan Mullally:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of feel like we’re pretty anomalous in our ability to collaborate and really value each other in a way; there’s something about our particular recipe that allows us to love working together. 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And you too can find that for yourself.’ So anytime we can, we can help break down old-fashioned, limiting norms, we are grateful to be part of a movement in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on why audiences \u003cem>still\u003c/em> love Ron Swanson:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been asked this before, and my first answer is don’t ask the clown behind the makeup why the children are crying. I’m just clowning. But… Ron lives very simply. In a way, he embodies some of the ideals that I also pursue in my life: an old-fashioned sensibility, that we don’t \u003cem>need\u003c/em> all the myriad choices that we’re given these days, whether it’s in information or consumable goods. You can have a very happy and fulfilling life with a very simple set of life rules, and with a very simple set of skills. And I think people find that appealing. 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But in the larger sense, I think \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> is also a show about ethics; it’s saying ‘How can people of all walks of life get along and survive while having to deal with the banality of making rules, and following rules, and actually getting all the paperwork done to turn a big pit into a city park?’ So I feel like it still flies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on being \u003ca href=\"https://offermanwoodshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a famous woodworker\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will immodestly say that I’m pretty handy. In the theater, we say a person like that is ‘good with props.’… I was brought up in a family where we were taught to use implements, and that’s one of the reasons I encourage people to do, to make things, because it carries over. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nick Offerman doesn’t need to be pressed too hard to say that he loves the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was growing up in a small town in Illinois, when I thought of California, I always thought of San Francisco much more than anywhere else,” says Offerman. “I’ve shot films up there. I have had a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of rich cultural experiences, between seeing theater and restaurants and other happenings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those “other happenings” include the 49-year-old actor, standup comedian and \u003ca href=\"https://joenguyen.neocities.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">television cult hero\u003c/a> returning to the Bay Area, time and again, to perform. Offerman’s newest live show \u003cem>All Rise\u003c/em>, pitched as an evening “that will compel you to chuckle whilst enjoining you to brandish a better side of humanity,” roars into to town for two nights of standup and music at the Masonic in San Francisco (Oct. 10) and Mountain Winery in Saratoga (Oct. 11).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s appropriate that Offerman describes \u003cem>All Rise\u003c/em> as “a proper revival,” given his distinctly preacher-like way of talking—which may come as a surprise to those who only know his role as the perpetually intransigent curmudgeon Ron Swanson in NBC’s \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em>. Ahead of his Bay Area shows—directed by his comic collaborator, wife Megan Mullally, and which promise to take on the “ideals of the Illuminati”—we chatted by phone about the limits of political comedy, his wife’s brain, the philosophy of woodworking and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on \u003cem>All Rise\u003c/em>’s “origin story,” involving San Francisco’s Masonic Auditorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stumbled in there one night in the early 1970s and found a secret entrance to an Illuminati chamber of secrets. It was mainly a set of library books. There’s a lot of Robert Anton Wilson on the shelf and a six-pack of beer sitting in ice. And that’s where I began learning the secrets, which I impart to my audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on creating a political show at a highly political time:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a democracy where we get to pick what happens. And here we are, in a situation where every single person is shaking their fists at someone else saying, ‘I am terribly unhappy with the state of affairs.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s funny. We are one dumb population.’ And so that’s where I started… our ability to not pay attention to a lot of heavy truths, but instead allow ourselves to be distracted by advertising and shopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on self-awareness:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I get into an admonishing frame of mind, I think ‘I was brought up well,’ because it occurs to me to look in the mirror first. So if I’m going to scold anybody, I try to include myself in that group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on the limits of political comedy:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always important to realize as an artist… nobody is going to come sit in a theater with me for an hour and a half and leave the theater changed. … A racist is not going to turn around and say, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I’ve been so wrong all these years.’ And instead, I just feel like open-minded humanity has been trending across our history towards decency. And if I take a step back and just look at my lifetime, it’s easy to then become more optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on his immense dancing talent:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are perhaps unaware that my greatest talent is my graceful and elegant dance moves. There \u003cem>are\u003c/em> a few moments of dancing in the show… My wife, the entertainment and beauty legend, Megan Mullally, is directing this show, and so we keep playing with the amount of panache that we think the audience can handle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on how climate change might fix corruption:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any organization that contains a bunch of people, whether it be an organized religion or a government, eventually is going to be corrupted. Because that’s human nature. No matter how altruistic the beginnings may be, eventually you are going to get some people in charge that say, ‘Hey, I can rig the system so that my family gets more apples than those other bastards.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’re slowly figuring out how to keep that from happening. I think it’s going to take a long time because there’s a lot of people, and a lot of them like apples. But I think that the emergency that we’ve found ourselves in with Mother Nature and with the dire future of climate change will help things along considerably. People won’t be able to go shopping for brightly-colored tennis shoes quite as easily as they could 10 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10526493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10526493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Offerman with wife Megan Mullally.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/offermanbbq-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Offerman with wife Megan Mullally.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on being one half of an iconic working marriage with Megan Mullally:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of feel like we’re pretty anomalous in our ability to collaborate and really value each other in a way; there’s something about our particular recipe that allows us to love working together. I feel like the main pitfall in this situation usually is that there’s a sense of competition, but Megan and I are different enough. I call us a bunny and a hog, where our strengths don’t cross over each other enough that we feel the need to elbow one another out of the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on bucking comic stereotypes of henpecked husbands and nagging wives:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trope that you have cited is mired in misogyny… As we continue to break down those old fashioned patriarchal norms, I think we’ll see more and more relationships openly saying, ‘Hey, we’re both smart, charismatic and flawed, farting human beings and we’ve agreed on a partnership and we happen to have the ingredients to have a happy sexual life, professional life, domestic life. And you too can find that for yourself.’ So anytime we can, we can help break down old-fashioned, limiting norms, we are grateful to be part of a movement in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on why audiences \u003cem>still\u003c/em> love Ron Swanson:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been asked this before, and my first answer is don’t ask the clown behind the makeup why the children are crying. I’m just clowning. But… Ron lives very simply. In a way, he embodies some of the ideals that I also pursue in my life: an old-fashioned sensibility, that we don’t \u003cem>need\u003c/em> all the myriad choices that we’re given these days, whether it’s in information or consumable goods. You can have a very happy and fulfilling life with a very simple set of life rules, and with a very simple set of skills. And I think people find that appealing. 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But in the larger sense, I think \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> is also a show about ethics; it’s saying ‘How can people of all walks of life get along and survive while having to deal with the banality of making rules, and following rules, and actually getting all the paperwork done to turn a big pit into a city park?’ So I feel like it still flies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offerman on being \u003ca href=\"https://offermanwoodshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a famous woodworker\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will immodestly say that I’m pretty handy. In the theater, we say a person like that is ‘good with props.’… I was brought up in a family where we were taught to use implements, and that’s one of the reasons I encourage people to do, to make things, because it carries over. 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And it’s one of the many sources of bounty that \u003cem>Parks and Recreation\u003c/em> has added to my life [Offerman began formally promoting Lagavulin after his character Ron Swanson expressed his love for the brand in the show.] And I’ll tell you what, it keeps me minding my manners. When you keep winning the lottery every three to four months, you say, ‘Holy cow, I don’t know. I don’t know what I did right. But man, I’m going to double down my efforts not to be any more of a jackass than I am already.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nick Offerman performs Oct. 10 at the Masonic in San Francisco and Oct. 11 at Mountain Winery in Saratoga. Details \u003ca href=\"https://sfmasonic.com/event/nick-offerman-3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mountainwinery.com/events/detail/?event_id=371025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Friday afternoon, Sandra Hill leads a painting class at an arts center nestled amid rolling Virginia hills, about an hour and a half drive northwest of Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the 10 adult students has a canvas balanced on an easel in front of them. They’re dabbing paintbrushes loaded with dark green paint along the edge of a lake, the beginnings of a glowing sunset in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And think tree! Don’t just go tap, tap, tap any old place. Remember, trees have depth to them!” she reminds the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is no ordinary painting lesson: The students have come to Purcellville, Va., from as far away as Texas to learn to paint in the distinctive style and palette of Bob Ross, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1990-07-07-9007060122-story.html\">Air Force sergeant-turned-painter\u003c/a> who rose to public media fame in the 1980s and ’90s with his TV show \u003cem>The Joy of Painting\u003c/em>. Over 31 seasons and more than 400 episodes, Ross became known for his hushed, soothing tones, big bushy hair, vivid landscapes and “happy little trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost spiritual,” Cliff Nolan, a painter from nearby Manassas, Va., says about being in the class at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.franklinparkartscenter.org/\">Franklin Park Arts Center\u003c/a>. In a room lined with 24 original Ross paintings, Nolan pulls a laminated photo book out of his pocket. It’s filled with pictures of paintings inspired by Ross’ work, using the wet-on-wet painting technique he used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bob is just wonderful,” Nolan says with a sigh. “Or, was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross died from cancer in 1995 at age 52. But the popularity of this quirky pop icon continues to soar, among fans old and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Joy of Painting\u003c/em> is broadcast every day on some PBS stations across the country and is available on-demand to millions of viewers on Netflix and YouTube. There are Bob Ross bobbleheads, board games, underwear and coffee mugs. The Smithsonian’s National Museum Of American History recently acquired four of his paintings for their permanent collection. And Ross—a throwback to the pre-Internet era—has a surprisingly huge following \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/bobross\">on Twitch\u003c/a>, the streaming platform best known for video games, where fans can comment in real-time while he paints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross left behind thousands of paintings, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html\">rarely go on display\u003c/a>. So when the current solo exhibition opened at the Franklin Park Arts Center, fans flocked to the small dairy-barn-turned-gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Bracey, the center’s director, worked with Bob Ross, Inc., to put the show together. Based nearby in Herndon, Va., the company—which Ross started with his business partners Annette and Walter Kowalski—owns most of Ross’ paintings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew it was going to be popular, but not like this,” Bracey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-800x293.png\" alt='Left: Cliff Nolan holds a book of his own paintings that he has done in the \"Bob Ross\" style. Right: Sara Monteleone, wears a Bob Ross wig while she follows along with Sandra Hill, a Certified Ross Instructor, during the recent painting class.' width=\"800\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-800x293.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-160x59.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-768x282.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-1020x374.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-1200x440.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Cliff Nolan holds a book of his own paintings that he has done in the “Bob Ross” style. Right: Sara Monteleone, wears a Bob Ross wig while she follows along with Sandra Hill, a Certified Ross Instructor, during the recent painting class. \u003ccite>(Mhari Shaw/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people have visited the show since it opened last month. Bracey says she’s expecting at least 15,000 by the time the exhibition closes on Oct. 15. That’s half the number of visitors the art center usually sees in an entire year. It’s become a kind of unexpected pilgrimage for fans, from all over and all walks of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Little kids starting at like 4, all the way to grandmas and grandpas and every ethnicity, you know, every state. It’s everybody,” Bracey says. “Everybody loves him, [he] resonates with [everybody] in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is a wonderland of colorful sunsets, forests tucked into snowy mountains, and waves crashing against rocky cliffs, with paintings named things like \u003cem>Sunset Aglow\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Home Before Nightfall\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Daisies at Dawn\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"'Happy Accidents: An Exhibit of Bob Ross Paintings' will be on display the Franklin Parks Art Center, in Purcellville, Va., through Oct. 15.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-768x535.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Happy Accidents: An Exhibit of Bob Ross Paintings’ will be on display the Franklin Parks Art Center, in Purcellville, Va., through Oct. 15. \u003ccite>(Mhari Shaw/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I like to think that there are places like this that still exist in the world, that don’t have cell phone towers and high rises and things like that. It just seems like such an amazing magical place,” Bracey says, staring at a painting called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEyR2FDp-00\">Splendor of Autumn\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lake with towering birch trees in the foreground, and bold pops of fall foliage framing the canvas. And hung next to it, is a quote, something he said during the episode while he was painting it: “If painting does nothing else for you, it should make you happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The whole exhibition is like this, the paintings and quotes sharing the spotlight, side by side. Even when he was alive, Ross’ draw wasn’t just his paintings, it was also the way he talked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Maybe in our world, there lives a big old cloud right up here. He just sort of floats around and has a good time all day. You know, clouds are one of the freest things in nature I believe. So, just let them go. Shoot, just let them have fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEZp47VKC0\">The Joy Of Painting, Season 26, Episode 12 “Sunset Aglow”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Any person who has ever wanted to put a dream on canvas, you can do it. You don’t have to go to school half your life, you don’t have to know Leonardo da Vinci as a personal friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>—\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnb2cXKKuWM\"> The Joy Of Painting, Season 29, Episode 7 “Cypress Creek”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bob Ross made viewers want to lean in closer to the screen so they didn’t miss anything. He could be wonderfully weird and deeply emotional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Saltz, senior art critic at \u003cem>New York\u003c/em> magazine, says that was one of the things that made Ross great. “Once you set eyes on that guy you’re kinda locked in for 25 minutes,” he says, referring to the length of an episode. “It’s you alone in your dorky studio in your apartment, wearing an old shirt, and just working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross captivated and connected with audiences, but he did much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think that he’s just kitsch and cute and a little Buddha and fun happy little accidents … but Bob Ross breaks down painting into its component parts,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no irony, and the closest thing to a gimmick was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpNrn0_97LM\">a pet squirrel named Peapod\u003c/a> he would occasionally bottle feed on screen. Instead, he demystified the process for viewers in each episode, creating one landscape, from start to finish: a blank canvas transformed before their eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1koOWsj70d4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then he adds a beautiful bit at the end: You can do this, too,” Saltz says. “You have to banish self-doubt. And at the end of the session, it’s done. And he’s basically saying, ‘And then we’ll do another happy little accident tomorrow.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross didn’t want people to buy his paintings—in fact, he didn’t sell paintings once he started his television show—he wanted viewers to create their own. As long as they just tried to paint, Ross said, it will be right, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Bob Ross attitude lives on at the painting class in Purcellville, where the landscapes lining the walls practically whisper encouragement to the budding artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students all have palettes set out with Ross’ signature colors—titanium white, alizarin crimson, midnight black. Three women in the back of the class are wearing big, bushy Bob Ross-style wigs. The soothing sound of paintbrush on canvas, another J\u003cem>oy of Painting\u003c/em> signature, fills the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Rossi sits at the front of the class. She flew all the way from Texas to attend. She’s fussing with the row of trees along the lakeshore in her painting, dabbing them with a look of concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh no, no don’t you worry,” Hill, the instructor, says, coming up behind her. “There’s no mistakes here, we can fix that. These are happy accidents!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rossi, 70, started learning to paint from Ross’ TV show after a stroke four years ago left her partially paralyzed and unable to work. \u003cem>The Joy of Painting \u003c/em>had a profound effect on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought something out of me I didn’t know was in there,” Rossi says with a smile. “You think, wow, no limits! You can move clouds, you can change mountains. I guess that’s what you learn from Bob Ross. Don’t put limits on your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867848\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867848\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Rossi traveled from Texas to participate in the class and see the exhibit. Rossi has used Bob Ross as a type of therapy after suffering from a stroke four years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-final6-554bbf4307619347c363b825833a0c8259835a7d.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Rossi traveled from Texas to participate in the class and see the exhibit. Rossi has used Bob Ross as a type of therapy after suffering from a stroke four years ago. \u003ccite>(Mhari Shaw/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ross himself was surprisingly philosophical during the show, often casually whispering big ideas to viewers before returning to his instruction. These sprinkles of wisdom have lived on \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Little-Accidents-Wisdom-Ross/dp/0762462787\">in quote books\u003c/a> and internet memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One that pops up often is from an episode that Ross taped in 1992, after his wife, Jane, died from cancer. In the episode, he’s painting a scene with a lake resting between two majestic mountains. He loads his brush up with a dark mixture of paint and starts to dab it all across the bottom of the mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t worry, he tells viewers, I’m only adding this dark for contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gotta have dark. Gotta have opposites, dark and light, light and dark, continually in painting. If you have light on light, you have nothing. If you have dark on dark, you basically have nothing,” he practically whispers, his brush tapping rhythmically on the canvas. “It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He looks at the camera and quietly says, “I’m waiting on the good times now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he turns back to his painting, instructing viewers on the next step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe what’s made Bob Ross so everlasting is really that simple. He reminds people that the dark is there for a reason, and helps them find the light when they need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maureen Pao edited the Web story. Matt Ozug edited the audio story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bob is just wonderful,” Nolan says with a sigh. “Or, was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross died from cancer in 1995 at age 52. But the popularity of this quirky pop icon continues to soar, among fans old and new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Joy of Painting\u003c/em> is broadcast every day on some PBS stations across the country and is available on-demand to millions of viewers on Netflix and YouTube. There are Bob Ross bobbleheads, board games, underwear and coffee mugs. The Smithsonian’s National Museum Of American History recently acquired four of his paintings for their permanent collection. And Ross—a throwback to the pre-Internet era—has a surprisingly huge following \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/bobross\">on Twitch\u003c/a>, the streaming platform best known for video games, where fans can comment in real-time while he paints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross left behind thousands of paintings, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/arts/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html\">rarely go on display\u003c/a>. So when the current solo exhibition opened at the Franklin Park Arts Center, fans flocked to the small dairy-barn-turned-gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Bracey, the center’s director, worked with Bob Ross, Inc., to put the show together. Based nearby in Herndon, Va., the company—which Ross started with his business partners Annette and Walter Kowalski—owns most of Ross’ paintings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew it was going to be popular, but not like this,” Bracey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-800x293.png\" alt='Left: Cliff Nolan holds a book of his own paintings that he has done in the \"Bob Ross\" style. Right: Sara Monteleone, wears a Bob Ross wig while she follows along with Sandra Hill, a Certified Ross Instructor, during the recent painting class.' width=\"800\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-800x293.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-160x59.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-768x282.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-1020x374.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85-1200x440.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/photo_composite_bob_ross_mshaw_custom-3f1e7381c79ce383ac2aedc925178624dced9427-s2400-c85.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Cliff Nolan holds a book of his own paintings that he has done in the “Bob Ross” style. Right: Sara Monteleone, wears a Bob Ross wig while she follows along with Sandra Hill, a Certified Ross Instructor, during the recent painting class. \u003ccite>(Mhari Shaw/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people have visited the show since it opened last month. Bracey says she’s expecting at least 15,000 by the time the exhibition closes on Oct. 15. That’s half the number of visitors the art center usually sees in an entire year. It’s become a kind of unexpected pilgrimage for fans, from all over and all walks of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Little kids starting at like 4, all the way to grandmas and grandpas and every ethnicity, you know, every state. It’s everybody,” Bracey says. “Everybody loves him, [he] resonates with [everybody] in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is a wonderland of colorful sunsets, forests tucked into snowy mountains, and waves crashing against rocky cliffs, with paintings named things like \u003cem>Sunset Aglow\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Home Before Nightfall\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Daisies at Dawn\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13867862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13867862\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-800x557.jpg\" alt=\"'Happy Accidents: An Exhibit of Bob Ross Paintings' will be on display the Franklin Parks Art Center, in Purcellville, Va., through Oct. 15.\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-800x557.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85-768x535.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/2019-09-20-bobross-mshaw-02_custom-daaac53f0d8f1b36d322404ab5f879781855975f-s1000-c85.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Happy Accidents: An Exhibit of Bob Ross Paintings’ will be on display the Franklin Parks Art Center, in Purcellville, Va., through Oct. 15. \u003ccite>(Mhari Shaw/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I like to think that there are places like this that still exist in the world, that don’t have cell phone towers and high rises and things like that. 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It casts the right people …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early going, the film leans into the mockumentary device, featuring testimonials from Galifianakis’ co-workers, but—perhaps owing to the fact that the movie was largely improvised—that familiar narrative infrastructure quickly collapses, and it resurfaces only fitfully as the story unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the film depends on the characters—which is to say the improv comedians—around Galifianakis to ground the film, to ablate the interviews’ caustic edge of ironic anti-comedy, and find its heart. In doing so, it pulls from the company of actors who’ve appeared on Aukerman’s \u003cem>Comedy Bang Bang\u003c/em> podcast and (late, lamented) television series (Lauren Lapkus, Ryan Gaul, Paul Rust, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him Paul F. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The premise was simple. Clean. Direct. If one were feeling uncharitable, one might even say \u003cem>thin\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of 21 videos posted to Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die website, comedian Zach Galifianakis played a version of himself, interviewing celebrities. That was it. Now: It was a \u003cem>pinched \u003c/em>version of himself. A bored, distracted, irritable Zach Galifianakis, lobbing questions that were condescending and dismissive at best, and jaw-droppingly insulting at worst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebrities were A-list: Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Steve Carell. The setting was distinctly D-minus-list: two chairs, a black background curtain, and two large ferns. Everything about it—the harsh lighting, the static camera, the blocky, frequently misspelled chyrons—was meant to evoke the lawless frontier of public access television, where both Galifianakis and his \u003cem>Between Two Ferns\u003c/em> co-creator Scott Aukerman \u003cem>(Comedy Bang Bang)\u003c/em> got their starts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Episodes were brief: a tight three minutes and change in the early going, and later, once they hit the big time with Very Special Episodes featuring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, nearly seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news that Netflix would release a \u003cem>Between Two Ferns\u003c/em> movie (which dropped on Friday, Sept. 20) caused fans of the Web series to experience that alchemical mixture of excitement and dread that has become the defining mood of this, our current era of ceaseless reboots and relaunches. “It’s a great show,” we thought, “but it’s … a sketch, basically. And movies made out of sketches tend to …” and here we fell silent, and lowered our eyes to the floor, and perhaps we turned around in a circle three times and spat, to ward off the curse of \u003cem>It’s Pat\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And not just \u003cem>It’s Pat,\u003c/em> of course, but also \u003cem>A Night at the Roxbury,\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Ladies’ Man,\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Stuart Saves His Family\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now hold up,” you say. “What about \u003cem>MacGruber\u003c/em>? \u003cem>MacGruber\u003c/em> worked. And \u003cem>Wayne’s World\u003c/em>. And \u003cem>Blues Brothers,\u003c/em> after all, come on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We agree about \u003cem>MacGruber, \u003c/em>you and I. But the three examples you listed are exceptions. And besides, for every \u003cem>Wayne’s World,\u003c/em> there’s a \u003cem>Wayne’s World 2.\u003c/em> And for every \u003cem>Blues Brothers,\u003c/em> there is, alas, a \u003cem>Blues Brothers 2000\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point is: It is prohibitively difficult to transform a five-minute sketch into a feature-length film. 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This level of attack has broken most of the windows in Britain. Many roofs are open to the sky; some where the lethal dust gets in. In these early stages, the symptoms of radiation sickness and the symptoms of panic are identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that is a full hour of slow, harrowing deaths, interspersed with civilians being teargassed for wanting supplies, finally culminating in post-apocalyptic nuclear winter, the spread of disease, and a heavy veil of abject, filthy hopelessness. 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According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/us/politics/active-shooter-drills-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “Psychologists and many educators say frequent, realistic drills contribute to anxiety and depression in children,” and that “nearly 60 percent of American teenagers said they were very or somewhat worried about a mass shooting at school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where \u003cem>Threads\u003c/em> distinguished itself though, is in the fact that it offered no instruction or advice whatsoever. In fact, the film quite emphatically told viewers there was absolutely nothing they could do to stay safe in the event of a nuclear explosion. The best they could hope for was instant death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Threads\u003c/em> was not specifically made for a young audience, nor was it the BBC’s intention for it turn into an educational video for school-aged children. 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Arquette devoted most of her speech to the pain of losing her sister Alexis, and to a stirring call to treat trans people better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXS7uVU0xA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In further limited-series news, Johan Renck won for directing \u003cem>Chernobyl \u003c/em>for HBO, Ben Whishaw won supporting actor for Amazon’s \u003cem>A Very English Scandal \u003c/em>(beating, among others, three actors from Ava DuVernay’s \u003cem>When They See Us \u003c/em>on Netflix; they may have suffered from some vote-splitting), and Craig Mazin won for writing the highly regarded \u003cem>Chernobyl\u003c/em>. Next up was the moment for \u003cem>When They See Us\u003c/em>, though, when Jharrel Jerome won best lead actor in a limited series for playing Korey Wise, one of the five men who were ultimately exonerated after spending years incarcerated for an assault in Central Park. Jerome, the only actor in the piece who played his character both as an adolescent at the time of the arrest and as an adult at the time of his exoneration, got one of the most excited reactions of the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpxBswBrQ2w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The award for best TV movie, a category that doesn’t get nearly the heat it used to, went to \u003cem>Bandersnatch\u003c/em>, Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680671691/black-mirror-bandersnatch-makes-you-choose-your-own-adventure\">weird, uneven experiment\u003c/a> in interactive storytelling. Among other nominees, it beat the movie that wrapped up HBO’s \u003cem>Deadwood\u003c/em> years after it originally ended—perhaps a fitting legacy for a show that was denied major awards for its entire run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they wrapped up the limited series/movie awards, there was a \u003cem>Veep \u003c/em>tribute similar to the \u003cem>Game of Thrones \u003c/em>tribute, and … well, once again, there have been a lot of opportunities to salute this show, including a string of Emmys for star Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The cast, being naturally funny, did more with the on-stage time than the \u003cem>Game of Thrones \u003c/em>cast did, but … the way you recognize shows on an awards show is with awards. If you don’t have enough to do, move some awards back from Creative Arts. Or just make the show shorter. Nobody will mind. You’ve got to believe me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead actress in a limited series or movie was Michelle Williams for her indelible work as Gwen Verdon in FX’s \u003cem>Fosse/Verdon\u003c/em>. Williams, who gave that series most of its finest moments, made a stirring speech in which she told the story of having been supported in the things she asked for—more dance lessons, a better wig, better fake teeth—and having been paid equally. She called out the particularly low pay that goes to women of color, and said that valuing people leads them to put that value back into their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMUl57nDAQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emmy for limited series went to \u003cem>Chernobyl\u003c/em>, and there’s a good argument to be made that that award, while it’s in the middle of the show rather than at the end, is as prestigious as any. Limited series are the home of a lot of the most interesting work that’s happening at any given moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Variety Series\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think about it, “Variety” is an inappropriate name for the variety category. You know how you can tell? The award for variety series writing went to the writers from \u003cem>Last Week Tonight With John Oliver\u003c/em>, which has been winning and winning, and the award for outstanding sketch series went to the young upstart known as \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em>, which also took the directing award. Not to take anything away from these winners that have won a billion awards already, but if you haven’t yet watched \u003cem>Documentary Now!\u003c/em>, which was nominated in the sketch category and didn’t win, I encourage you to track it down immediately. It was fun, we must admit, to see Billy Porter, wearing perhaps the best hat of the year, present the award for best variety talk series to \u003cem>Last Week Tonight With John Oliver\u003c/em>, even if it was for the fourth straight time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For whatever reason, variety category winners tend to win for 11 years in a row or what have you, or they never win at all. Variety, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drama Series Awards\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for some drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viola Davis came out in some genuinely great sneakers (comfort is important!) to present the award for supporting actor in a drama series. Unsurprisingly, it went to Peter Dinklage, who won for the fourth time for \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fresher news, Jesse Armstrong won for drama series writing, for HBO’s exceptional \u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>, which seems destined to one day win for drama series, even if it was not to be this year. The supporting actress Emmy was nabbed by another actor from a somewhat lower-profile show: Julia Garner for \u003cem>Ozark\u003c/em>, a Netflix drama that’s maintained a solid awards profile and has an enthusiastic following but more modest critical attention. \u003cem>Ozark \u003c/em>also won Jason Bateman, its star, an Emmy for directing. (Raise your hand if you called that one back when he was on \u003cem>Silver Spoons\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some awards just seem like good news all around, and the next one to be handed out fit that bill: The award for lead actor in a drama series went to the wonderful Billy Porter for \u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>, and if you didn’t feel good about anything else that happened at this ceremony, how could you not feel good about that? And then Billy Porter was followed by a win for Jodie Comer, who plays the wicked Villanelle on \u003cem>Killing Eve\u003c/em>; she won for lead actress in a drama series. So that’s two winning roles—on \u003cem>Killing Eve \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>—that were developed by the same creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qO9UdA6WA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t over yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>‘s night—and its Emmy run—concluded with a comedy series win for this unusual, beautiful, very funny show that probably could not have existed in quite this way even 10 years ago. This was the part of the evening where things felt surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best drama series went to \u003cem>Game of Thrones—\u003c/em>which, it turns out, did not need to have been given a tribute in the middle of the broadcast as if it were an adorable hero dog who saved someone from drowning, on top of winning the top award of them all … again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as that suspicion began to set in, they gave the comedy series writing award to Waller-Bridge for \u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>, which completed its two-season story this year with a nearly perfect second set of episodes. (Amazon Prime, if you still haven’t watched it!) The directing prize went to Harry Bradbeer, also for \u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>, which meant, among other things, that Amazon had won the first four prizes of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HBO roared back when Bill Hader won lead actor for \u003cem>Barry\u003c/em>, his series in which he plays a hit man. Could HBO keep it up? They could not, because when Hader was through, we went right back to Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Sometimes more recognized as a writer than a performer (she also created \u003cem>Killing Eve\u003c/em>), Waller-Bridge beat actresses like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the legendary Catherine O’Hara, and fabulous performances in new series by Christina Applegate and Natasha Lyonne—not to mention Rachel Brosnahan, who won last year for \u003cem>Maisel\u003c/em>. It never seemed certain that the Academy would embrace something as idiosyncratic as \u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>; what a delight to see that they did.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dAXJir9knco'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dAXJir9knco'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Moment For Reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the reality awards have been shipped off to the Creative Arts ceremony that took place a week ago, the reality competition show stayed to represent the entire genre, and this year, it went to \u003cem>RuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c/em>. RuPaul got up on stage and told everyone to go and register to vote, the first time we’d hear a (very mild) nod to current events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the limited series and movie awards started, there was a very special moment of … gratitude? … for the existence of HBO’s \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>, during which the cast came on stage and recited lines about what a great time they had. Had there been a whole bunch of tributes to concluded shows, it might have seemed like a more graceful element of the broadcast. But bringing the entire show to a halt to salute \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>—a show still in competition in these very awards!—felt, for lack of a better word, weird. After all, the way a show normally wins a chunk of attention is by winning awards, and many, many wonderful shows have never been recognized at all. \u003cem>Game of Thrones \u003c/em>has been honored a great deal at the Emmys \u003cem>and \u003c/em>its ending was covered extensively in the press \u003cem>and \u003c/em>it got high ratings. Why, exactly, does it need a special moment of appreciation? How are we deciding who gets this little tribute? Why not a special tribute for shows like \u003cem>Jane the Virgin \u003c/em>that were never Emmy favorites?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limited Series/Movie Awards\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we did finally get around to giving out more awards, Patricia Arquette won for supporting actress in a limited series for Hulu’s \u003cem>The Act\u003c/em>, based on the true story of a mother and daughter. Arquette devoted most of her speech to the pain of losing her sister Alexis, and to a stirring call to treat trans people better.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6OXS7uVU0xA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6OXS7uVU0xA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In further limited-series news, Johan Renck won for directing \u003cem>Chernobyl \u003c/em>for HBO, Ben Whishaw won supporting actor for Amazon’s \u003cem>A Very English Scandal \u003c/em>(beating, among others, three actors from Ava DuVernay’s \u003cem>When They See Us \u003c/em>on Netflix; they may have suffered from some vote-splitting), and Craig Mazin won for writing the highly regarded \u003cem>Chernobyl\u003c/em>. Next up was the moment for \u003cem>When They See Us\u003c/em>, though, when Jharrel Jerome won best lead actor in a limited series for playing Korey Wise, one of the five men who were ultimately exonerated after spending years incarcerated for an assault in Central Park. Jerome, the only actor in the piece who played his character both as an adolescent at the time of the arrest and as an adult at the time of his exoneration, got one of the most excited reactions of the evening.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/VpxBswBrQ2w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VpxBswBrQ2w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The award for best TV movie, a category that doesn’t get nearly the heat it used to, went to \u003cem>Bandersnatch\u003c/em>, Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/680671691/black-mirror-bandersnatch-makes-you-choose-your-own-adventure\">weird, uneven experiment\u003c/a> in interactive storytelling. Among other nominees, it beat the movie that wrapped up HBO’s \u003cem>Deadwood\u003c/em> years after it originally ended—perhaps a fitting legacy for a show that was denied major awards for its entire run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they wrapped up the limited series/movie awards, there was a \u003cem>Veep \u003c/em>tribute similar to the \u003cem>Game of Thrones \u003c/em>tribute, and … well, once again, there have been a lot of opportunities to salute this show, including a string of Emmys for star Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The cast, being naturally funny, did more with the on-stage time than the \u003cem>Game of Thrones \u003c/em>cast did, but … the way you recognize shows on an awards show is with awards. If you don’t have enough to do, move some awards back from Creative Arts. Or just make the show shorter. Nobody will mind. You’ve got to believe me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lead actress in a limited series or movie was Michelle Williams for her indelible work as Gwen Verdon in FX’s \u003cem>Fosse/Verdon\u003c/em>. Williams, who gave that series most of its finest moments, made a stirring speech in which she told the story of having been supported in the things she asked for—more dance lessons, a better wig, better fake teeth—and having been paid equally. She called out the particularly low pay that goes to women of color, and said that valuing people leads them to put that value back into their work.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/UbMUl57nDAQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/UbMUl57nDAQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The Emmy for limited series went to \u003cem>Chernobyl\u003c/em>, and there’s a good argument to be made that that award, while it’s in the middle of the show rather than at the end, is as prestigious as any. Limited series are the home of a lot of the most interesting work that’s happening at any given moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Variety Series\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you think about it, “Variety” is an inappropriate name for the variety category. You know how you can tell? The award for variety series writing went to the writers from \u003cem>Last Week Tonight With John Oliver\u003c/em>, which has been winning and winning, and the award for outstanding sketch series went to the young upstart known as \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em>, which also took the directing award. Not to take anything away from these winners that have won a billion awards already, but if you haven’t yet watched \u003cem>Documentary Now!\u003c/em>, which was nominated in the sketch category and didn’t win, I encourage you to track it down immediately. It was fun, we must admit, to see Billy Porter, wearing perhaps the best hat of the year, present the award for best variety talk series to \u003cem>Last Week Tonight With John Oliver\u003c/em>, even if it was for the fourth straight time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For whatever reason, variety category winners tend to win for 11 years in a row or what have you, or they never win at all. Variety, indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drama Series Awards\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for some drama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viola Davis came out in some genuinely great sneakers (comfort is important!) to present the award for supporting actor in a drama series. Unsurprisingly, it went to Peter Dinklage, who won for the fourth time for \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fresher news, Jesse Armstrong won for drama series writing, for HBO’s exceptional \u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>, which seems destined to one day win for drama series, even if it was not to be this year. The supporting actress Emmy was nabbed by another actor from a somewhat lower-profile show: Julia Garner for \u003cem>Ozark\u003c/em>, a Netflix drama that’s maintained a solid awards profile and has an enthusiastic following but more modest critical attention. \u003cem>Ozark \u003c/em>also won Jason Bateman, its star, an Emmy for directing. 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"content": "\u003cp>You might recall that Ralph Lauren product placement went into total overdrive in the fifth season of \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em>, after Rachel Green started working for the fashion house. There was even an episode where Phoebe got duped into making out with “Kenny, the copy guy” because she thought he was Ralph Lauren. (Lauren himself made \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6pOe8B5LJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a cameo\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The designer label, very shrewdly, is now looking to capitalize on this history, by launching \u003ca href=\"https://www.ralphlauren.com/friends-cg?sz=30&start=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a collection\u003c/a> said to be inspired by \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em>‘ 25th anniversary. There’s only one problem: with the exception of a handful of items, none of these clothes look like anything someone in \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> might have actually worn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, these pleated skirts have definite Rachel vibes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pleats.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a token sweater vest for Chandler:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1337820_alternate10.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"392\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1337820_alternate10.jpg 392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1337820_alternate10-160x201.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmwAjt-dz1g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross’ leather pants\u003c/a> (which appeared in exactly one episode) have clearly served as a major inspiration:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/LEATHER.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But most of the other items in this collection are genuinely baffling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who, for example, ever, in ten years of \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> wore anything approximating a pussy-bow blouse? No one! But, sure, go ahead, Ralph Lauren. Give us three:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rachel did have her fair share of blazers, but red and purple? Not even Gunther pulled this nonsense:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And who are these frumpy dresses for? Because it’s not Monica, Rachel, Phoebe \u003cem>or\u003c/em> Janice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just when you think it can’t get any worse, we reach menswear, which, if it’s possible, makes even less sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t recall anyone in \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> working on Wall Street, or going to a young Republicans convention, but still this somehow made it to the collection:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1300354_lifestyle.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"392\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1300354_lifestyle.jpg 392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1300354_lifestyle-160x201.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As did these, which might have been inspired by the stuffy old professors Ross worked with, but still seem like an odd choice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866763\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866763\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/herringbone.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The less said about this weird teddy bear sweater, the better:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1312435_alternate10.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"392\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1312435_alternate10.jpg 392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1312435_alternate10-160x201.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally, and worst of all: WHO THE HELL IS THE INSPIRATION FOR THESE HIDEOUS MOUNTAIN CLIMBER PANTS?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 392px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13866732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1337268_lifestyle.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"392\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1337268_lifestyle.jpg 392w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/s7-1337268_lifestyle-160x201.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I am aware that the Ralph Lauren \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> collection is a very silly 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I’d have settled for Joey’s man-bag.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Who, for example, ever, in ten years of \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> wore anything approximating a pussy-bow blouse? No one! But, sure, go ahead, Ralph Lauren. Give us three:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-1020x631.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-1200x743.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/pussy-bow.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rachel did have her fair share of blazers, but red and purple? Not even Gunther pulled this nonsense:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/blazers.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph Lauren\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And who are these frumpy dresses for? Because it’s not Monica, Rachel, Phoebe \u003cem>or\u003c/em> Janice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13866729\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13866729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-800x743.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Lauren\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-800x743.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-160x149.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-768x713.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-1020x947.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-1200x1114.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress-1920x1782.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/bad-dress.jpg 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I’d have settled for Joey’s man-bag.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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