DramatistDreamer

This isn't always a given though. A couple years ago, Faith Evans complained that she gave a documentary her full participation and was disheartened with what ultimately aired and the way she was presented in the doc. I am thinking, however that Janet's people made sure that she had approval over the final cut, but I never make assumptions.

Today is the type of day that I'd appreciate the good escapists drama of vintage ATWT. I look at the upload schedule of B&B episodes and, man, could you imagine if PGP did something like this for ATWT years 1986 and 1987?!! Every storyline, each and every episode, from beginning to end?! Man, today is the type of day that I wish someone were looking out for ATWT like someone is clearly looking out for B&B fans.

Geez, what a regrettable day.

As a Caribbean person, Poitier was such a giant of a figure to my community. Even at 94 years of age, this is taking me awhile to process. With the hurricane and with COVID-19, thoughts would often but randomly drift to him and wonder at his health, how he was impacted by having so many family impacted by that hurricane. Right now, I realize that there are family members who do not know this news and I don't want to tell them. Poitier was that impactful. Man, what a loss. How can I tell certain loved ones?

It was a three, not a handful of people, as Tiley claimed?

@janea4old Thank you for posting these speeches, as I have yet to see them. I hope to get a chance to watch later on today.

Stay tuned for another episode of "As The Tennis Ball Bounces"...

ITA. It wasn't a censored episode or anything, there was clearly something wrong, possibly something went awry during the upload process (perhaps the perils of going directly from analog to YouTube without a digital conversion?). I noticed that the time stamp had thirty minutes, which is odd since the run times are usually 21 minutes or so, but at least there were no missing scenes or sequences, so I could deal with it and most, importantly, the slap was included this time.

So, were the other exemption recipients able to prove that they had COVID-19 in the past six months? The suspicion/sentiment seems to be that the documents presented by Djokovic weren't verifiable, either because there were inaccuracies or or some type of fraud (which would be a punishable offense). I wonder whether the specific circumstances for his deportation will be revealed. Perhaps in his lawyers' appeal filings, there will be additional revelations. Just curious.

Glad you and your parents tested negative. Glad to hear confirmation that this variant predates Omicron. I suspected that it would be along the lines of a Lambda variant. I mean Omicron has become dominant over Delta and Delta had been pretty damn virulent.

Whew, a mess indeed. And an avoidable spectacle too.

And then his fanatics do this, which in their eyes, his situation is completely the same as a woman who was sexually assaulted and disappeared. EDT: Looks like he already changed his AVI but the Internet doesn't forget about thing like this.

Tennis players are not essential workers. Tennis organizations love to throw their weight around concerning enforcement of rules towards some players. Clearly Tennis Australia has its own set of rules, which may or may not be in keeping with the rules of the Australian government. Millions had to abide by Australia's rigid standards, surely most players are intelligent enough to realize this? As for those who are not? Oh well. Deal with it. Djokovic is likely to find a way to weasel his way in anyway, so don't stress it.

This is the first I am hearing of this. Why?

^^There is some question of whether Omicron, in its infinite power to dominate other variants (even an arguably more virulent strain like Delta), may just dominate this newest variant as well.

Oh well, gotta admit that I don't care what Djokovic's fate is. Send him out of Oz. If he gets sent off, won't miss him. At all. It's the people who had to miss loved one's passages, births and other important milestones that I was thinking about. Sloppy paperwork was also a factor, allegedly.

Clarke Garrison was B&B version of "Tad The Cad", many soaps in the 1980s seemed to have their own version to varying degrees of success, but McVicar did a very good job of walking that tightrope. He's a character that could return to the canvas and if written competently, could be highly effective, with McVicar in the role. Don't hit me, but I actually think he and Teri Ann Linn had easy chemistry together. It's giving me ideas, lol. In that initial run, McVicar was so effective of leaving Clarke ambiguous where his true feelings lay. Of course, the writing also made this possible. You were always wondering if and to what extent was it possible that Clarke, on some level was capable of true love of another person?

Not sure this will actually come to pass.

Thanks for the heads up @AusBoldFan! I'm going to take another look.

Re: The episodes that I mentioned, I don't believe the cuts were intentional, nevertheless there are scenes missing from at least one episode. Another episode was intact but the visual quality was extremely dark and the audio quality was subpar.

Have people been hearing about that massive traffic jam on I-95 in VA? Someone asked the question of why there were no National Guard to hand out food, water and supplies to stranded motorists and someone else replied- "They're all helping in the ER" So anyone who doesn't believe that rising COVID infection rates have an impact beyond numbers should really think about a scenario such as this. It's not just about available hospital beds, it's about the impact of stretched resources and overtaxed personnel.

There's an article about the wedding in People magazine. Sloane and Jozy left empty seats for the loved ones unable to attend the wedding, including Sloane's grandparents who died from COVID-19 earlier this year.