DramatistDreamer

This is said to be the closest race in the history of free elections in South Korea (since 1987). One voter described the election as choosing the least hated candidate. And the election result is seen as more of a referendum on outgoing President Moon Hard-on, whose administration is seen as failing to live up to campaign promises. Despite the Reuters headline, it is in no way like "you know who", so I hope Americans seeing it do not make the mistake of drawing false equivalence as there are many differences.

Every single time James Stenbeck ever returned to Oakdale in the 1980s. When Craig's plane went down in Greece, and viewers were shocked to discover that he had survived it when the ATWT showed two women nursing him back to health on some remote island.

I think it's the makeup tbh. When Giorgi is on the court sans makeup, she looks younger than this.

His character was interesting on Mad Men but that was definitely a supporting character to Christina Hendricks' character Joan, which presented an intriguing dynamic in how many unknowns there were as to the true nature of their relationship. Wolk definitely gives a supporting character type. In those instances, you really need to weave a complex persona and backstory, as well as running story. That's how he'd best work dramatically, imo.

Tennis Twitter can be irascible but sometimes the meme and the replies mix in a hilarious way. The comment that mentioned a one-time quote by Giorgi about how she didn't "watch woman tennis" as the reason why she's hanging out with Lepchenko, because she doesn't realize that Lepchenko is suspended (yet again) for taking a banned substance. Also, why does Giorgi look like she's in her 50s in this picture??!

This series (which got a second season renewal fairly early on) seems to be very popular. The casting, while not perfect, has been very solid, imo. Vernee Watson and Daphne Maxwell Reid are both appearing in the season finale. It would not surprise me if OG "Aunt Viv" makes an appearance in season 2, at some point. And by OG "Aunt Viv", I mean the actress who portrayed her, Janet Hubert.

Ordinary people seem to have little interest in seeing the ordinary on their screens, I guess. And yeah, mayonnaise stories and bland characters ain't gonna cut it these days. Time has moved on but I think Hollywood still has a hard time letting go of those types of characters and stories. This is the same type of thinking that led to many industry folk to label Woody Allen as some type of genius. His stories are usually all about centering bland white guys.

We talked about some of these issues over the course of this pandemic.

It's as fascinating what/who the media does not mention-- Venezuela. Does that mean that they are taking calls from the United States? Or are people not up on this one?

NYC's loss is The Leadership Conference's gain.

Isn't he still supposedly still under investigation for the domestic violence allegations too? I saw the quote from him where he claimed that the Brazilian crowd was disrespectful, or something? Is he really gonna whine about someone, anyone being disrespectful?

Zverev got a suspended sentence, uh wut? He's basically allowed to play without penalty. Oh and a fine, that's like a few day's pay, at his stage of career.

What's very tragic is that I just found out that someone who mutually follows me on Twitter died of COVID-19.😔 He was a sports writer from South Africa.

Do you have a Samsung T.V.?

Will this FAST channel only be available on Samsung T.V. sets (and presumably mobile phones), or will there be an app available on set top streaming boxes like Roku, Fire and Apple+?

Better late than never?🤨

Grigor made me chuckle with this.

It would have been nice if there had been even half the news coverage on this as on that ridiculous event that happened in D.C. today.

You know, considering Bell's history of methodical, some might say "slow" writing, impulsive would not be a term that would normally come to mind when describing him but in this case, I think you may be correct here. In some subtle ways, B&B was a tad more "experimental" (filming of exterior/interior shots, etc) than Y&R, which had a more staid aura. With the Writer's Strike the previous year, it's clear why many aspects of the show seemed so uneven then but 1989 was rocky in some aspects that seem inexplicable. Clearly 1989 was a transitional year but the way some situations shift got wild! The way three characters (all happened to be male) got herded off the show in short order was really jarring. I guess there were reasons why the characters diminished or disappeared but the mechanism could have been more artful. I mean, didn't Rocco practically disappear? Nick seemed to have vanished. It was weird.

Does this come as any surprise to anyone?

Donna was probably the most interesting of the Logans to me and the most modern in her day. Her character was openly ambitious, wanted better for herself and it her happiness was never tied to one man. I can't figure out why the decision was made to take the character in the direction she was taken in the third year and beyond. Question: did Joanna Johnson opt not to renew before Caroline was ended? If so, I could see why. B&B seemed very wedded to the idea of endless love triangles even before the '00s and I can imagine that would become pretty boring after awhile.

Yeah, I pretty much gave up on the people in charge of the daytime soap genre giving fans what they truly want. It's always like Lucy with the football and soap fans as Charlie Brown.

The show should have tried Bill and Stephanie, at least for a brief affair, particularly as Eric begins his May/December relationship with Brooke. And yeah, loads of wasted characters. Nick and Donna barely scratched the surface and Katie was forever wasted in one deadend story or another. I was more than ready for Beth and Steven to go to Paris when they did as it was obvious that the show had waning interest in Beth since the recast.