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Finally, I saw the In Memoriam segment and it was just okay, imo. Some people were asking why Michael Bolton wasn’t moving his face and if he’d had some type of Botox. I think he was trying to have a restrained performance, befitting the solemnity of the occasion. I appreciate that he was not delivering the type of overwrought performance that he might have delivered in the 1980s or 90s. Still, the tone of the song itself, not to mention the desperation of those lyrics just doesn’t strike quite the right note, imo, especially given the fact that there were people who died of suicide in that segment. Not mentioning Lisa Brown’s work as part of an important coupling on Guiding Light, the first televised daytime drama, is an omission that I just cannot fathom how that happened, especially given that Michael Tylo was in that same segment. Did they not have time to include Marni Schulenberg in this year’s segment? Hopefully Kathryn Hays will also be included in the prime time Emmy In Memoriam segment. We all know that even the Daytime Emmys organization has more deference to the Primetime Emmy awards than their own, not to mention that there was more media (not just social media) engagement in regards to Hays’ Star Trek appearance than her decades of work on As The World Turns.

Just as I had suspected, this tragedy was a result of domestic violence in which this woman was targeted. It was not an act of random violence. People who are claim this issue has nothing to do with guns clearly lack the ability to see the forest for the trees. What on earth do they think he used to end this young woman’s life?! And he had a history of DV, which had already been reported to the police.

ICYMI: SCOTUS is pretty much trying to undo as much as possible when it comes to anything resembling a decent quality of life for most human beings in the United States of America. Just in time for Independence Day.

UES is currently trending because of the tragedy of a woman being shot and mile as she pushed a baby in a stroller and the Upper East Side of Manhattan is a wealthy predominantly white enclave. Harlem had a mass shooting last weekend with nary a word on SM. It certainly did not trend. Perhaps if the epidemic of gun violence had been taken seriously and not just dismissed as a “them problem” as it plagued inner cities, we might not be in this position today, living with a veritable Sword Of Damocles hovering over our collective heads.

No testing at Wimbledon is not a smart decision. Hopefully my faves will stay safe. One has already made a questionable move.🤨

Thank you for putting that so succinctly. Chuck Pratt and even Mel whatever his name was, didn’t want MM/Hilary being a lead and as Hilary, she got uncomfortably close to being a lead. Never forget that interview where Pratt’ groused about budgeting for specific characters who also happened to be Black. Why should people forget about this. I have never understood why other fans can write, call, call out, picket and boycott inequities in the system while soap fans are expected to behave as if they’ve had lobotomies. People may not like agitation but it does produce results (“Oscars So White” Anyone?) As the saying goes “Pressure produces diamonds”. And what is this genre producing? Anyway, I do hope that Mishael can parlay her win into more opportunities to work on other platforms and do interesting work. If nothing else, the historic nature of her win should put her on the radar of other producers in the entertainment industry. Hopefully.

Something similar happened to an African-American teacher (or was he a Vice-Principal?) who was asked to remove photos of his wife, who is white, from SM. I think he was fired eventually, but the reason cited was parents upset that he was seen to be embracing a “Woke” curriculum. 🙄

Now that Kelly is a convicted sex predator, these holdout radio shows that tried to play his songs, claiming that he hadn’t been convicted (prompting me to turn away from the stations in disgust) no longer have any excuse. I better not hear one bar of “I Believe I Can Fly” or “Happy People”, or whatever that two-step song is. Folks need to let him go.

I vaguely remember that story. Someone posted a TV promo for that storyline and for some reason, I found the promo pretty funny. The actress seemed solid and engaging, as as she was clearly a vixen. Had the character been someone like Kirk Anderson instead of Sean Baxter, who was fairly new and had a very thin tie to the canvas through Courtney, (a fairly recently introduced character herself), the story may have had more resonance but I guess, given Kirk’s recent storyline with Lenore, Kirk’s ex-wife and coming off the very messy storyline of his breakup with Iva to marry her sister Eli (which still seems so wrong even now, decades later), not to mention an early storyline introducing Kirk’s former employer and ex-lover Adelaide Fitzgibbon, it might have been too much of a “case of the ex” for Kirk.

Will the marathon of appeasement to Republicans never end?

His flowers were late in being delivered but he did finally get his flowers late in his life/career. R.I.P. Mr. Gilliam. https://artreview.com/sam-gilliam-has-died-aged-88/

Listen, I am of Afro-Caribbean heritage and I am a woman. I even have family who migrated from the West Indies and settled in Toronto, so there is a certain pride of place seeing those photographs of MM cradling her Emmy. I am glad for Mishael’s success, but the fact remains that she should have won years ago when she was far and away playing the most compelling character on the canvas, Hilary Curtis. As Hillary Curtis, MM really had the chance to give a dynamic performance with each appearance, rising above a lot of dreck that had been written for her. It’s weird that she didn’t win for her work for her last year on the show as Hilary. And it’s weird that, in a genre famous for bringing people back from the dead, they didn’t revive such a dynamic character. But this is also the show that refuses to bring back one of their most popular characters because she point out the obvious. Anyway… I hope Mishael is able to parlay her Emmy to better opportunities. Again, as I stated before, congratulations to her and all the awardees.

This seems like kind of a big deal. Strange though for the last two weeks or so, most of the stories being reported about the Russian economy seemed to suggest that oil purchases from China and India were keeping Russia’s economy remarkably resilient. Seems there is a different story emerging now, what with Russia defaulting on its foreign debt for the first time since 1918 and all. EDT. Oh, so technically Russia can afford to pay but are unable due to sanctions? Apparently their payments are being rejected. The very illustration of the phrase “Your money is no good here”.

Methinks he’s being sarcastic, but yeah, this wasn’t even a slap.

Ashe was the conscience of sport, tennis especially. His death left a huge void.

What an idiot. And idiots will cast their votes for this person.

Undocumented women who find themselves in need of an abortion will be particularly vulnerable because of rulings like this deportation ruling that came down on June 10 but was not appealed. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/us/immigration-enforcement-priorities-court.html

That comment by Miller is the least surprising thing I have heard in the past 24 hours. I have been telling friends and family that this was the end goal for many right-wingers and Trump backers.

Is Congress going to continue to be late with everything? It’s as if the bare minimum is getting accomplished.

They feel free to remove their hoods. And the stunods trying to say that Cornyn was saying that Plessy v. Ferguson is like Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court overturning it is akin to Brown v. Board of Education miss the entire point. They are nothing like each other.

Gurl, no.

It’s too bad that those consequences haven’t had as lasting an impact nationally as the vote for Thomas. His confirmation continues to reverberate in the most negative of ways, down to his wife Ginny’s harassment of Hill for her testimony decades after the fact. Whoo boy, if even 15 years ago, someone were to ask which country would have the most repressive abortion law in 2022 and the choices were Chile, Ireland and the United States-how many people would have chosen the correct answer? Let that sink in: Ireland has more progressive abortion laws in 2022 than the United States of America.😵