DramatistDreamer

Justin Gimelstob...ewww! Tennis Channel and Netflix are probably thrilled with that development. Rafa did not look happy, to say the least, from the footage I have seen.

Did Baby Daddy win??! I nearly spit my drink out when I read that result. I heard everybody was injured in the men's final today.

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed him on GL and am sure he's doing as well as anyone can, I haven't been tempted to tune in either.

B.2 variant at work in Europe and it cut an especially wide swath through Great Britain.

Which is why I haven't watched an actual episode in ages. I watch vicariously through you all. Still, it's fun for me to speculate.

Really?? Why, you've always kept this such a well-guarded secret! 😂

Okay, I'll play along. 😂 Perhaps if someone extremely rich and powerful was able to intercept a dying Diane and gradually restore her to health. Bonus points, if that person is a mutual adversary of both Jack and Victor. If Kyle were actually still a factor on this show, they could lure him toward his mother without giving a hint to Jack, Victor or anyone in GC. If you're going to write an audacious soap opera story, at least give a good payoff by the end.

IW has never been my favorite but at this point, I'd rather watch a Challenger tournament than IW.

The perks of a series that is still on air, produced by a company that actually still wants people to watch their content. JMO but I also think that ATWT collectors (IDK about GL) are more prone to hoarding and profiteering than Y&R/B&B collectors who are more inclined to share and exchange ideas in order to preserve and present the highest quality uploads for their archive. Hell, the fact that collectors got together in order to build an archive in the first place says a lot already. A decade later there's ATWT collectors on YouTube trying to charge fans for "edits" of their favorite couples (in reality, only one or two couples) and the rest are guarding their uploads, despite those uploads being in less than stellar visual quality. I don't get it either.

Interesting and unsettling to see that the former leader of the infamous Janjaweed, who now has power in Western Sudan, is reported to have been in Moscow recently. What people fail to pay attention to is that many autocrats on the African continent are seeking (and receiving) resources (including military) from Russia. It's been all out in the open.

It's interesting to see that this B&B episode is soon to be posted on their YouTube channel. I missed a number of these episodes when they originally aired because I was in between the frenzy of having graduated from 8th grade to the frenetic start of high school. It's interesting to have a look ahead from the current B&B uploads where Brooke is still pregnant and looking forward to a wedding with Ridge and her, me not remembering how it all came apart. Fun to see how it unfolds. Speaking of having things unfold, there are multiple storylines in different stages on ATWT. This was back when writers still knew how to layer their stories. I especially appreciated how exposition was laid out in a manner that felt organic. Barbara telling Hal about her early separation from Paul and how it has led to her feeling as if she has had to make up for lost time, which makes her appear possessive of Paul. Hal seeing the parallels in aspects of her story with his current situation with Adam and Tom and Margo. While Craig explains to Ellie his unseamly history with Lucinda and how it has led to her feeling possessive of him, with Sierra's happiness being the only factor that got Lucinda to change eventually. So interesting to see Paul and Emily's ONS, realizing that that night will have massive reverberations that lead to a big Labor Day blowout episode that has consequences leading all the way up to Thanksgiving and the rest of the year. And the introduction of Lily's first husband Derrick H. Mason (couldn't catch his full name that he introduced himself as, I guess he was trying to connote social 'breeding' by introducing himself with 3 names). All the players for that "explosive" storyline were in that one space at the same time, Lucinda's courtyard. I do like when ATWT used to at least make an effort to have exterior scenes that distinguished between the daytime and the evening. When you think about these exterior evening scenes that happened at the Hughes or the Walsh mansion or Barbara's courtyard or even the farm, it's a world of difference in detail of lighting and set up from where the show would be in the last twelve years, with the ghostly artificial settings, where even outside, somehow you couldn't distinguish between night or day with the garish lighting. It was cool to see an actual "lineup" of CBS shows, complete with the assortment of highly dated commercials, some of whom have vanished, like that odd wine cooler ad and those ads for distasteful microwave and canned/boxed meals. Hamburger Helper should have been sued for trying to lay claim to "authentic" Italian taste.

Which is what he wants anyway, if you see what he has done to Chechnya.

I'm really talking about the government, not really the public at this point. I do not want to revisit the situation we had in 2020 where there weren't even enough PPP for frontline workers. This goes beyond optics. I live in the Northeast, where we are the first to feel any effects of new variants and changes and it is not the same as in the Midwest, which is generally last to experience any changes. It is a different story here. Panic won't help matters but people need to go into this emerging situation with open eyes. I just don't think it's a good idea to shift COVID money to Ukraine at this point. Government preparedness is different from public anxiety. What I am talking about is preparedness. If anything goes left, people will inevitably blame the government, even those who claimed that everyone had been overreacting six weeks prior. I also think there hasn't been much thought given to the disabled and immunocompromised these days.

I will try again later. Thanks.

So CBS is legally off the hook. The trial is not scheduled until next year?!! The slow moving gears of the legal system, I guess.

And the Russian people. They also need to be participants in coming up with a solution. Any solutions coming from the outside are unlikely to take root or last. One reason why he has been successful in Russia has been the fact that he has steadily, consistently put up the argument that the U.S. is far from the ideal governance. It has been a convincing argument for many Russians, particularly after the disastrous election results of 2016. He has also convinced his supporters that any dissent, anything amiss within the order of the day in Russia is because of interference from the West. So a proposal for a solution that comes from outside Russia is likely to be looked at with skepticism by some and outright disdain by others.

It's always so painful 😣. I was shocked that I watched until the end but Pinkins also talked about her theater work which always interests me, she spilled some tea about a falling out she and theater director George C. Wolf had that apparently lasted a few years and how, when they worked together years later, he was going to fire her but didn't by what she described as mere happenstance. With a better class of interviewer I could only imagine how much more in depth the discussion could have been. I was surprised that there wasn't more time given to her time in AMC but I got the sense that her statement that she really only had one storyline that belonged to her character might have made Alan uncomfortable somehow. I guess this is the best we can ever expect from him.

I just got finished watching a Frontline episode called Putin's War. It recalled so much awful history and devastating events like the massacre at Beslan. I know many Americans think they see the solution is to take up arms or establish a no fly zone but if they were to actually sit down and watch this documentary, they would see that, not only are there no straightforward solutions but the options are all very unsavory. When a person is willing to sacrifice the lives of six year olds, their teachers and their babushkas taking them to school on their first day, what choice, what path can be taken that won't lead to chaos and mass death?

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.