DramatistDreamer

These are the same entities whose antecedents threw it to the states in deciding which states would regard Blacks as semi-free and which states regard Blacks as property and 3/5 of a human being. Same energy for the states that regarded “mixed-race” marriages as illegal versus those who did not. Same energy.

People really do not fully comprehend how this will potentially impact everyone, not just women and not just women in child-bearing years. Even in states where the governor and state legislature has vowed to protect a woman’s right to an abortion, stands to be the unintended consequence of women in need of abortions coming to these states and overwhelming the health systems, that is, those who will even be able to get (t)here. There will be so many unintended consequences as a result of this law (which has been law since before I was born) being overturned and a great many of these consequences will ultimately be tragic. If you think poverty in the U.S. is bad now, wait a few years with an overturned Roe v. Wade in effect.

Interesting and hopefully a blueprint to a successful end run around these conservative court decisions.

The comments in this thread made me curious enough to check out that specific anniversary episode featuring Traci and Ashley. The dialogue for Traci was sometimes written clumsily but Beth Maitland did her best and salvaged what she could and let her natural warmth and sincerity shine through. The dialogue for Ashley was a bit better but I wonder why the writing couldn’t make the dialogue sound more conversational and less like exposition or an interview. This was the first time I saw Allie and I like the casting choice, the actress comes off as personable, even charming at moments but I can imagine the show not truly giving her anything to do. I agree with whoever posted how much of a shame it is that the show killed off Keemo and Colleen and it’s not due to sentimental reasons why I bring this up, both characters have character and genuine story value for this show, that has been flushed down the drain. A whole host of story possibilities lost. I found myself snickering or guffawing over how they tried to smooth over that whole part of the story involving Brad creating an entire 2nd family with his former sister-in-law, only mildly acknowledging how weird it was. For the most part, I enjoyed the flashbacks, even taking into account the odd omissions. Oh, and was I the only one who thought the food looked putrid? I knew there was supposed to be broccoli on the plate but what the heck was that mystery meat??! I kept hoping the food was fake because it looked disgusting!

That doubles match between Serena/Ons and Bouzkova/Sorribes-Tormo was so entertaining!

I always turn my Adblocker off for ST. I’m fine with having them get ad money, especially since they are a smaller, less deep pocketed newsroom and they were upfront about it and asked nicely, lol. I have more of an issue with papers run by millionaires and billionaires like NYT and WAPO whose executives ride the high horse of journalistic integrity and are a veritable sh*show behind the scenes. If they were really invested in journalists getting paid they would not have had to fought unionization for so long. Also, they would have been an employee-owned enterprise like other companies. And they wouldn’t still have people with accusations of sexual predation still on their payroll. And since NYT (and likely WAPO too) tracks most of their readers, whether you have an account or not, I don’t feel compelled to subscribe to either. They make a healthy profit off profiling the vast majority of visitors to their site.

The NYT should just admit that they rely on ads and tracking software even more than they rely on subscriptions. At least with other papers like the Seattle Times, they require you to allow ads in order to read their paper, but the tech section of the NYT will have columnists write articles on how you can subvert ads (tracking software is another issue entirely) on other sites, as they both track and sneak ads in every single article. Their ethics are not entirely pure either. NYT does do some things very well and of course the journalists and researchers deserve fair compensation, despite the fact that many weren’t even when subscriptions were at their peak, and despite the fact that they continue to bankroll the likes of Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman who at this point is using the paper to promote her book. I do wonder why newspapers don’t just become an employee owned enterprise and ditch the hierarchy as some truly independent local newspapers have elected to do.

Type in twitter.com/explore in the url of your browser copy and paste the headline into the search bar. There are usually some tweets that provide links shared courtesy of a subscriber that are free. Clear your browser cache afterwards.

This looks absolutely atrocious. Qualifying for a major tournament and this is what the come up with? As a long time tennis fan I don’t even want to watch this. Are they no longer trying to attract fans?

Colombia stands apart from the other Latin American countries, with the exception of Brazil that has the highest number of people of African descent. Colombia comes in second, with the second highest number of people of African descent in Latin America. Márquez Mina became Petro’s running mate because she came in second only to Petro in the primary. Her personal biography as well as her career has energized a core group of the Colombian electorate— people who normally don’t vote, voted! Those from the rural community that Márquez Mina hails from, as well as other rural and poor areas who have been marginalized for decades voted. It wasn’t just about the pandemic leaving people behind…people in Colombia have been left behind and marginalized for years by candidates from the same political parties that usually win, time and again. It’s the main reason why the first group of candidates to get knocked out of the presidential race were the two candidates from the two traditional political parties in Colombia.

Meléchon and the political left gained a lot of seats in France, which looks as if the French voted to be a check on Macron who has alienated a lot of French voters. The worrying aspect is the fact that Le Pen’s party got so many seats, because I believe that she is a wolf who has been trying on sheep’s clothing as of late. She is the same xenophobe nationalist who has only triangulated and softened her positions to seem more palatable to a larger number of voters than her usual base. Macron is largely responsible for the loss of the majority of loss of seats. It’s never a good thing when your constituents refer to you as a Napoleonic figure. Here is the result, an erosion of his party’s presence in government. A reminder of the history being made in Colombia.

Glad it has helped. Was that the same convention where they also proposed a total repeal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act? Such a soulless lot, I just can’t let my mind focus too much on that degree of darkness.

Both Vice Presidential candidates in the national election identify as Afro-Colombian women. The leftist candidate Gustavo Petro and his vice-presidential running mate Francia Márquez Mina were just proclaimed the winners after a runoff. As much as Latin America may not look at the U.S. as any sort of ideal or beacon, you cannot tell me that seeing a Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t meaningful.

“Oh my”, as Mrs. Garrett might have said. You’ve got my attention!

The two main instigators of her ouster are gone so…why not, I guess.🤷🏾‍♀️ Could Remini be next to make an appearance?

For anyone who is familiar with the NewsHour on PBS and has watched their opinion commentators. Mark Shields often challenged the opinions of David Brooks (that usually needed to be challenged). May he rest in peace.

Oh no. 😔 Judy Woodruff has lost a number of her colleagues in recent years.

Some people have criticized the films of Eric Rohmer as like watching paint dry, but Ma Nuit chez Maude but it was probably the blueprint for many movies about average middle class guys who find themselves ensconced in a something that can only be described as a morally compromised situation. Jean Tritignant played the slightly smug bourgeois professional (that you’re not sure you can even find likeable)who lives a bland life and wanders into that morally compromised situation seamlessly.

Having participated in numerous workshops where my work and everybody else’s work can be picked apart at any time during the process, you have to be able to handle critiques and discussion of your work and as long as it’s coming from a genuine place, I don’t see a problem with it.

Personally, I think Marland was a great writer. Was he perfect? No one is perfect, but he wrote some storylines that still have relevance today. He wrote real conversations between characters in situations that had relatable aspects even when those situations stretched into the bizarre, and when the actors were truly well cast, the dialogue could really ring true and truly profound. I am just going to go on ahead and say this: I think that sexuality had an impact on how Marland’s work was promoted (or rather, not promoted) by the network and the production company P&G, similar to the way that Irna Phillips found her ambitions thwarted by P&G because of her gender. In terms of criticism, what soap writer didn’t have misfires? In regards to those misfires, I find myself extending grace because one, writing is not easy, especially for writers like Marland who tended to juggle multiple stories in various stages of progression over long story arcs that spanned a lengthy period of time and two, we don’t know exactly how many stories suffered from interference from either the executives at P&G and/or the executives at the “Tiffany Network” both of which had to have been among the two most conservative entities that ever produced entertainment television. I try to keep these factors in mind whenever I analyze any master soap writer. Otherwise, it’s just being b*tchy for no reason, lol. I feel like I have said this before, on some level.

Years ago, I floated the theory that Marland’s work illustrated a lot of mortality, particularly in the last two to three years of his work and heard crickets. It was obvious that he was preoccupied with mortality. A writer’s life is sedentary, often requires late nights, requires some solitude, not exactly the healthiest lifestyle. Combine this aspect with the fact that Marland was a chain smoker— it is likely that he had developed some underlying health issues, even if nobody else knew. If you compare a fifty year old man back then with a fifty year old man today…most are not even in the same age group physically, probably not psychologically or psychically either. Writers today are also very different from writers back then. I remember while in grad school, one of my screenwriting instructors (a man who had written an award winning screenplay and has since unfortunately died after a fatal heart attack) lamented that the lifestyle of writers had changed. Observing that some of us had apparently healthy lifestyles (some of us worked out, a few were vegetarians or abstained from red meat, didn’t smoke) quipped “What has happened today…where’s the drinking…the smoking?!” Marland probably knew something was wrong with his health. He was an intuitive man, you can’t have such sharp insight into human personality, especially the neuroses and pathological side of human behavior, while lacking intuition. Even if he didn’t know that the end was emerging soon, at the pace he was working, the aspect of him working himself into an early grave more than likely entered his thoughts. It doesn’t take a huge leap for one’s preoccupations to trickle, even bleed into one’s creative work. Like I said before, what someone considered to be the age of decline was a lot earlier back then.

Donald Cryer, the father of actor Jon Cryer, played two villains on As The World Turns. The first appearance he displayed such great chemistry with Eileen Fulton that, looking back, in later years, I had always hoped the show would bring him back, but as a different character that would be a love interest for Lisa, who was still full of vigor at that time. Unfortunately, the show demonstrated that they had no use for Lisa.

When TF will Americans be sick of this? This is insane!

Another day, another lawsuit for Musk.

I agree. You don’t always need a major character being centered to drive a story, especially if it’s such a tragic story. Something that often annoys me about today’s soaps is that idea that one character has to endure an avalanche of awful events that happen to them, especially when it’s in a short period of time. You can have one single character be raped twice, kidnapped lose a spouse and be in a car accident or crash of some sort. It becomes ridiculous. Why not have that marginal character become embedded in the canvas for a year or so and let the horrendous tragedy unfold. If that character is written fairly well, most viewers will come to care.