DramatistDreamer

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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.

Speaking of Wimbledon, they stand alone.

I don’t know but I think it’s kind of sad that a promo from nearly four decades ago is infinitely more fiery and intriguing than this new promo, which looks relatively tame by comparison. I think it’s Jess Walton in that screen capture.

Vivica is definitely a maximalist in terms of decor but she looks really good here (not pulled too tight). This show used to be exclusively a NYC show but I guess it has expanded over the years.

The tone has a lot of urgency to it. Good luck to them. Hopefully they’re engaged in other fundraising efforts on multiple fronts.

Thank you for stating this! Unless people watch the lived experiences of these characters on a daily basis, they won’t understand that. In the Soaps thread, I mentioned how good a number of P&G soaps were at presenting taboo topics in the everyday. But because the performances tended toward the understated, it has been easy for some to dismiss them. ATWT often did have major characters in storylines that presented taboo topics. Susan and Dan in an open marriage during the 1970s?! When I saw an episode a few years ago…well, that one still blows my mind. Also, thanks for posting this episode. I look forward to seeing it.

It you don’t have a clip of a character like Lauren Fenmore wearing mirror shades in you Some Like It Hot promo, then you can keep it. By the way, does anyone know about this apparent fundraiser that has been happening on YouTube for the Museum of Classic Chicago Television. What’s going on with this?

I am also told that Serena will be dipping her toes into competition at Eastbourne in doubles with Ons Jabeur.