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Other than the aspect of what happened in their personal lives off screen would find its way into the story? She didn't have any chance to get into specific examples due to Alan's strategic bulldozing of the conversation. He didn't even ask what it was like to work with the actors who made up Oakdale's first onscreen Black family. It was a missed opportunity. Hell, he didn't even ask what it was like to have met Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston!

Watching part of this reunion interview (I am not sure how much of it I will watch) and she talks about the tension created due to the fact that Marland was trying to bring on the first Black family in the show's history. She also mentioned having had a crush on Steven Weber, going out on a date and feeling crushed after finding out that he was really focused on getting close to Finn Carter. It's sad to hear how alienated she felt from him and Finn once they started dating. I was disappointed to hear that. It's obvious there was more to tell but Alan hastily moved the conversation to her time on AMC. Pinkins did speak of the amazing cast members, her peers who she referred to as "the kids" (Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan, Steven Weber, Finn Carter) that she worked with while on the show. I wished she had been asked about working with Novella Nelson, Count Stovall. Pinkins has mentioned seeing Julianne Moore now and then, and interviewing Marisa Tomei for a project she produced a few years ago. She also did say that she ran into Steven Weber years after they had both left the show and he apologized to her for the way he treated her. It was at the height of Wings popularity and she was not expecting him to remember her (I would only hope that if she and Finn ever encountered each other, Finn would do the same but we all know that Finn has other issues to contend with, who knows whether she would remember?). Of her experience working on ATWT, she did say that it was so much like working in theater and a noticeable glimmer appeared in her eye when she spoke of getting to sing "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" before Whitney Houston even sang the song.

It's like "dress to impress", but, before you know it, the tie comes off, then the jacket and soon the shirt is unbuttoned to the navel and oh, boy, the pants unzip...😒

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The fact remains that this variant is indeed spreading at a clipped pace. It may turn out to be no more lethal than omicron but the speculation and prognostications that pose as fact are irritating to me personally. I'm still going to wear my mask, because how many times have people been wrong during the course of this pandemic? I'm not saying to panic (what good has that ever done?) but please use wisdom.

For years I had been suggesting that a return of Leanna Love would have been a great thing, especially when they had the anniversary of Ruthless or even when they commemorated Eric Braeden's time on Y&R by having Leanna put out a new edition to Ruthless. I said that years ago! But would JG botch any return of Barbara Crampton? It just seems like, in his hands, any return of Leanna Love would be destined to disappoint.

There may be room for one or two in a couple of categories.

Is any ruling ever final in Peru? So interesting that the courts can give consideration to release in humanitarian grounds when under the Fujimori regime, indigenous women were forcibly sterilized, and torture of political opponents was enforced regularly. But when his daughter Keiko can run repeatedly and get closer and closer to winning and his party has only gained seats, I guess it's not beyond consideration that Alberto Fujimori would repeatedly be granted release, for one reason or another. Wild.

There are probably multiple reasons, not really one single reason. One important one is support from executives (production company as well as network) Another could be favorable timeslot and how ratings are impacted by it. Sponsors usually have some say over traditional network television. When sponsors begin to walk away, shows can suffer (here is a test for how much/little support a show has from the production company executives/network. Each show has a different dynamic. For example, Sony is an entertainment entity, so unlike Proctor and Gamble, a corporate conglomerate that specialized in household and personal care products, Sony is more likely to be committed to investing in their entertainment titles to keep them in production, while we obviously now know that P&G was not. Like I said though, the dynamic varies depending on who is producing what show and what the executives want for their respective companies/network.

For anyone wondering about the status of WNBA star Brittney Griner's detention in Russia, this has to be somewhat discouraging news. Perhaps the one less distressing aspect is that, at the very least, physically, she looks unharmed. Mentally, may be something else entirely. One can only hope that she can maintain her well-being for another two months while her release is secured.

To be honest, I have never watched one single program about this topic. Based on the mention of former As The World Turns actor Brian Starcher, a former dancer in another thread, I decided to check this limited docuseries out, just out of curiosity. I have kept the stated limitations in mind, so I am definitely not expecting a Ken Burns type documentary series.

I remember we have discussed these aspects so it is surprising that some continue to cite cheap sets as being the thing that's most wrong with today's daytime soaps, other than poor writing when sets are the least of these show's problems. To me, this was already evident in the last decade of ATWT. It's just great to hear someone who has specifically spent a good chunk of time an effort in presenting a substantial body of work highlighting serialized drama express this in a succinct way.

^^Oh Lord, so now add the spectre of child exploitation and human trafficking to the list of perils in Ukraine. On the Russian side of things, or the Russian people side of things, this is a thoughtful Op-ed piece despite it appearing in the NYT.

I am watching part of the bathtub interview and when Roger speaks of the assembly line type of production that daytime soaps do today and the fact that one former soap writer expressed that it had become devoid of joy, that is really what is lacking, not expensive sets. The budget cuts are evident in the process and the lack thereof. Lack of rehearsal time, lack of interesting filming because there is no time to do multiple takes in order to find the best one. No time for anyone to do their best. At all. He described it well.

It's been very bad. I have talked to a few close friends and at least two have expressed self-consciousness being out in public during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, actually before it was declared a pandemic. And one has expressed fear for her parents. Interwoven with all these, there have been attacks on homeless men and each time it has been a formerly homeless man. Another tragic issue getting entirely too little attention. It's weird how homelessness has just become a peripheral issue when it once absorbed quite a bit of the national attention, at least once annually on HBO. I wonder where that tendency comes from? Is it something they were taught by helicopter parents or were they socialized to think this way over time? When I went to college, I met kids who lacked the ability to even wake themselves up in the morning I was shocked. As a latch-key kid who was traveling by bus to take myself to music lessons by age 11, I couldn't fathom not being able to get myself where I needed to b, especially when money and time were involved. And some of those students that I attended college with (the ones who who would wail if reprimanded by a professor, usually after they said something ignorant) became parents and raised some of these Gen Z kids, lol.

Maybe because I have nieces and nephews, I have empathy for those kids, to a certain point. I have had conversations with them about critical thinking and discernment, but mostly I have taken them to the library very early on in their lives encouraged them to read books, the way I was encouraged to read books. It's odd to hear of parents wanting to censor and ban books because I always read whatever I wanted. JMO but many of the parents of the millennial and Z generations are at the root of the problem. Different times, I guess? Reading the paper and watching the news with a critical eye was a must in my household but today even the New York Times has a markedly lower standard than what it once had been, so in a sense , I can see how some people might get caught in the wrong lane of the information superhighway when there is a vacuum.

When Scott Byce who played Craig Montgomery, appeared disguised as "Tony Impostore" to help say goodbye to Anne Sward, who had played his mother Lyla Montgomery Perretti for years and was leaving the show. She looked genuinely shocked and you could hear audible gasps and whoops, so I believe that, not only was it kept a secret from viewers but it was likely kept a secret from the cast as well, with the likely exception of Eileen Fulton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRM84dxzdy0

Yeah, I have even heard some people start to complain that DST will be dangerous for the bus drivers on the roads, as if they really care about bus drivers who are subject to bad roads, terrible pay-- many drivers suffered from lack of pay during the pandemic while they waited for unemployment. Whether it's ST or DST, I can deal with it personally but I have no use for the backwards and forwards. I used to work with someone who suffered from acute SAD, so much so that he was on medication and ultimately decided to move to another state that would provide more sunshine during the winter months. I don't know what the suicide rate is lately but I feel as if I have been reading a lot of news about suicides among people in their 30s and I wonder whether this is a factor behind the push and no one really wants to admit it. It does seem like everyone is ultra concerned about children, which is strange considering how money for education usually gets cut first and there are still issues with overcrowding and I just know that not all of these schools are properly ventilated despite Covid still being around. Also, a lot of these same people who claim they want to protect children from the dark, also claim to be protecting the children from CRT, bilingual education and whatever else seems to close to the real world that we live in

And if you have extra-curriculars that surround winter sports, you're often leaving for school when it's still dark and coming home when it's already getting dark. They need to decide on one way to stop messing with people's circadian rhythms and seasonal mental health issues. On another topic, politicians have to stop (mis)using and abusing the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You don't really need a set to have Nate in a semi-darkened room with a couple of scans and looking puzzled as he utters "this can't be right!" Even a later scene of Nate on the telephone, speaking to someone and then says "Mom, I really need your advice...as a physician... something that I've discovered about a patient that's highly disturbing to me. It has to be confidential. I don't know how to begin..." Cut. I mean seed the story over time. You actually don't have to reveal all, but drop some clues, so that viewers could actually go back and see the logic. Those scenes cut be shot with Nate alone, at any time, in a small space and placed in a relatively uncomplicated editing process. The post-production professionals at Y&R are more than capable. The main idea is to show, not just tell. IMO, the budget cuts have really come to bear on the people who would normally look at these scripts and say "This needs something... it's missing something..." It feels like the budget has reduced the role of those folks. It seems like there is only a script coordinator who maybe makes sure the script pages are in numerical order and hands them out. Continuity went by the wayside over a decade ago, so we know nobody's checking for that anymore. But yeah, seed some seeds to fill in these gaps.

See, this is very sad to me. Characters sitting around delivering a lot of exposition after the fact, rather than showing actions, as they happened. Are people satisfied with this? Couldn't be me.

Even if you believe that COVID-19 is somehow 'winding down', why wouldn't you want to at least ensure a proper infrastructure and distribution system for future endemics/pandemics, so that nations won't be caught flat-footed again. Honestly, I don't understand this.

@Fevuh Being the soap fans that we are, it's never a surprise how the most storied organizations and institutions can make decisions and take stands that exhibit the highest degree of folly and hubris and end up putting themselves on the path to irrelevance. Tennis organizations themselves are known for doing this. I know someone who has kids who were in the juniors (tennis) but got so disgusted and ultimately pulled them out of the junior circuit. The USTA is another institution that takes in so much more than they actually produce.

Then you're probably going to dislike the idea of a biopic of Somen Banerjee that Salman Khan is producing.