DramatistDreamer

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.

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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.

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