DramatistDreamer

Wow, are matches still being played at this hour?

Fantastic play from Anisimova, horrible kit by Nike. A reasonably entertaining match between her and Osaka.

Wow @Videnbas, that’s a whole lot to take in!😳 I stopped watching consistently around ‘92, so I missed a lot of the man-sharing, but I can’t say that I’m surprised. It’s odd to really think about but, out of CBS Daytime soaps, the P&G soaps seemed the most “progressive”, in stories (if not necessarily aesthetics) even though they were among the oldest shows of the genre.

I doubt that they will let that happen. Dang, Ons has hit the skids already? Wasn’t she regarded as one of the favorites? These new-ish gworls can’t be trusted, it seems.

I don’t really think you have to write an overtly sexual character to write a character who has a healthy sex life. Emma Snyder on ATWT was certainly no sexpot, lol. She ran a farm where she worked her hands until calloused and had a gaggle of children. Still, the show didn’t shy away from showing her as a sexual being, especially in the first six years she was on the canvas. Lucinda Walsh was a businesswoman who ran what was described as a Fortune 500 company. She was hard charging in the boardroom and the bedroom. She had many aspects to her character but she had needs and desires and made this clear. A few times, she almost teetered on the verge of desperation but not to the point where she was offering men her company to marry her, she was never that desperate. To me, Eric was far from sensual yet we still saw him with a harem’s worth of women in his life. Had Bill Spencer stayed longer, I have no doubt he would have caught up to Eric, or come close. I just don’t understand why we couldn’t have gotten more attention to those aspects of the lives of the women who were supposedly in Bill and Eric’s age range, especially in those years where the show was supposed to be at its best.

I just compare Stephanie and Sally with women in that same age group on other soaps—someone like Lucinda Walsh (ATWT) and there’s just no comparison. Even Emma Snyder (ATWT) in her onscreen prime outpaces Beth, Stephanie and Sally. Lucinda had an active onscreen sex life, that rivaled any man half her age and for awhile, so did wholesome Emma Snyder. And Lucinda legit had a man who, hard as he may have tried, couldn’t escape his love and desire for her. I can’t think of any comparable comparisons for women in that age group during that same period of time on B&B. Bill Spencer also had Donna Logan, a young woman younger than his daughter, fawning all over him for a period of time. One gets the sense that if he had wanted her, he would have had her.

Did this show ever write Stephanie and Sally as having loving relationships with men who genuinely had eyes for only them? Even for awhile? Even as a child, something about B&B struck me as being “off” in the way certain characters were written. Looking at these episodes now, it’s obvious that there was a certain narrative being written about “women of a certain age”, that was not written for Eric or Bill Spencer.

She also has a mineral sunscreen for face/body (I am thinking of trying). Quite a number of companies. Interestingly enough, all of her companies fit within the profile of non-toxic, eco friendly and health conscious products.

Which part? The no points? Neither Venus nor Serena have retired officially. I could see both doing a mini tour, like they did in Africa,(with a stop in Jamaica) years ago, as a goodbye.

Are we still taking rankings seriously in tennis? And now, as with pandemic protocols, each major will be a law unto themselves. Speaking of things that seem illogical, I gagged when I read this.🤣😥

This song has been sampled quite a bit. There seems to be some confusion about whether Flack is actually Wright’s mother or a mother figure. In any case, there was said to be a bond, which must still hurt.

Tennis as a professional industry is such a mess.

Honestly, I have been trying to avoid anything to do with the media coverage of this trial but I haven’t been able to entirely avoid some of the disparaging comments, so this doesn’t surprise me in the least.

Probably because RJ has been an afterthought since Brooke had kids with Eric and is the bio-mom of Nick Marone’s child, not to mention that crazy Deacon Sharpe. Not since Stephanie and her brood has anyone been in the running for populating practically half of L.A.’s upper crust enclave.

Now that I have archived my tweets, it will be fun to look up the one where I tweeted exactly what I thought of her, in no uncertain terms.

Eww, B&B is wrong for that. They just didn’t want to come up with new theme music. They’re cheap as hell.😂

Some people claim they hate Stephanie because she ‘stole’ Eric from Beth but Stephanie even know about Beth when Eric got her pregnant? Wasn’t it Eric who actually cheated on Beth?

Oh poor Marnie. And she had a baby not too long ago. We are all hoping for a miracle for her. Doesn’t it seem like the actors from P&G soaps have had an especially tragic year?

🤣 Whooo boy, I want to see Cardi B and Normani at the U.S. Open, although I don’t know if they’ll ever have AAKD but if they have a celebrity event or something, it’d be a scream.😂 Taylor is a good instructor though. I did not think that Normani would be able to coordinate the toss and hit the serve on her first attempt. I think she even hit the serve over the net! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1191073904993122

Does Pennsylvania have any sensible candidates? Ugh.

When Tonya Pinkins appeared on that reunion livestream, this was barely mentioned. Perhaps she might not have known the creative process of the son, or its full production history, but a host who had done a modicum of research could have expanded the discussion of this topic. Such a missed opportunity.

I am so exasperated by P&G and their lack of effort. They go on and on about Irna Phillips and their part in her pioneering work, yet they make no visible effort to preserve that work. As much as they have gone on and on about their part in her legacy, I would)ave to think any preservation efforts would have been just as public and also would have been publicized.