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The sad irony of Tick Tick Boom is that it was patterned after Jonathan Larson's one man show about his real life anxiety about not being able to make a career as a theater composer and running out of time (hence the title) It debuted on Broadway posthumously.

It was Craig. It took place in the barn at the Snyder farm, the episode before she took the backbreaking fall. Craig was breaking up with her because he wanted to reunite with Sierra and Iva knows that this is what's happening and she knows he wants to let her down easy, so in the process although her heart is breaking, she tries to help smooth the way for him to end the relationship. No screaming and shouting, which is the usual Emmy bait but she did great work and it was memorable. I don't remember which scene she submitted for her Emmy reel for the '88 Daytime Emmy awards, do you remember? It was a shame that Ellie and Kirk ended it getting married because Iva and Kirk were a much more entertaining and dynamic fit. I thought each was the others' best pairing on the show but I don't know if one particular scene stood out for the Emmys, it was more about the banter they had and the obvious chemistry that Brown and Tom Wiggins had. It's just one of those quirks of the Daytime Emmys that Brown was never nominated for her work on Guiding Light despite how incredibly popular her character obviously was. My main point is that I don't think that her best work from ATWT is even on YouTube.

Out of her three Daytime Emmy award nominations, Brown was nominated twice in the Best Supporting Actress category, both for As The World Turns and the episode that her '87 nomination reel came from is not even up on YouTube, which is a real shame. Most people continually mention the barn scene when citing her work (which was probably part of the reel for her '88 nomination) but there was more to the Iva Snyder character than just her relationship to Lily. The Tad Channing storyline (from 1986) as well as the realization that the man that she loves would always be in love with another woman (also in 1986-it was from one of these scenes that formed her Emmy reel for the '87 Emmy nomination) comprised some of her strongest performances on ATWT. It's tragic that those scenes are not out there to be viewed and enjoyed by the fans of the show and Brown. Some of us were fortunate to see these episodes in real time but if you haven't had the chance, sadly you have missed some if her best work on the series.

Well dang, can we all get a break from the grief?! R.I.P. Stephen Sondheim.

Eric Braeden is on TikTok.

Is the only a travel ban involving African countries? Or are Belgium, Hong Kong and Israel also included in this?

One of their Dutch ovens is on my wishlist. Honestly, I'd like to buy this for my mom when the price is right, but I am looking for a sizeable one which would be $300-400 and there are currently a few other things on the list that take priority right now. Someone made a joke that those in the right-wing always try to relegate women to only the kitchen but when a women actually expresses joy at doing something in an actual kitchen, it's still not right enough. Pfft.

I'm actually really angry with P&G for not even bothering to put up even a measely ATWT official YouTube page where fans could have reached out to Brown and other actors, writers, etc. to give them the flowers they deserved while they are still around, instead of having to rely on mediocre livestream hosts who talk more about themselves than the talented cast and crew members.

Guaranteed, Le Creuset's sales are going to get a sizeable bump. My mom has some cookware from Le Creuset and it is an investment, yes, but one that, with proper care lasts generations. VP Harris, from all accounts, is a serious cook and many serious cooks own cookware from Le Creuset. Did these right-wing media outlets put the same energy into reporting on the dude who once occupied the WH that had gold toilets and and taxidermy on the walls of his homes? Same guy who went golfing damn near every weekend at tax payer expense?

Here I was, coming to ask about how many years Bob did his Thanksgiving toasts and this news hits. Shockingly sad news of Lisa Brown's passing. May she R.I.P. May her family and loved ones be comforted in their grief. We're losing these soap opera icons and it stings that P&G didn't even bother to set aside an official platform where fans could come together, look at high quality episodes and clips without worrying about them being taken down. How long would it take to put up an official PGP YouTube channel? We have unofficial social media for ATWT with less than 10K followers, a fraction of the actual fanbase. And what we're left with is mostly grainy clips, that, if we're fortunate, will include some of the actors' best work. We have to wait for next year's Daytime Emmy awards and hope that whomever produces the 'In Memoriam' segment will remember and use the proper photo. Our talented ATWT alums are not being celebrated as they should while they are here to receive their flowers and it just doesn't sit right with me.

OMG, this is so very sad and admittedly, a shock personally. Someone correctly made mention that we lost "Quint" and "Nola" in the same year.

The fact that Pound hasn't even seen the video just invalidates what he said. It's clear he could care less about Peng, just promoting Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Becker has 3 sons. Noah and Elias by his first wife Barbara Feltus and Amadeus (yup, that's his real name) by his second wife Lilly Sharlely Kerssenberg. And then there's the daughter Anna who people derisively refer to as the cupboard child.👀 Thanks for letting me know about Davis Cup, I can get on the app as well. From a few years ago but, 2nd wife is in the blue, first wife is in red and eldest son is next to her. Both are now exes, lol.

In tennis-adjacent news (sort of), this came up on my timeline: Elias Becker, the middle son of Boris Becker, gets a profile in The Times Of London.

Ironically, given today's and recent news events in America, I am smack dab in the middle of reading the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson which discusses such aspects as citizens' arrest and stand your ground as being outgrowth of slavery and Jim Crow laws, when slaveholders were allowed to apprehend, by force any Black man or women that they deemed runaways, even if the person they "caught" had free papers.

Oh no, Iva wasn't even on the canvas at that time. Russ was an antagonist to Steve and Betsy. I was only about eight or nine at that time but I was able to glean that from a piece of dialogue I heard during a re-watch of an episode from 1985. Russ was long gone by then.

This link is paywall-free. The former governor getting in the way of coordination between state and city health officials seems especially heinous, as well as slowing the accessibility of vital information that critically impacts people's health and lives. It's just worse than I even thought.

Even when I use the Playlist feature for From The Beginning, some videos are out of order chronologically and I have to go back and click on the next video, in order.

Yeah, that mugshot really caught me by surprise, especially since they used the real person. I don't think they were trying to malign her or anything, that's just the way it was, it was big news back then and it had a huge effect on the age eligibility rules going forward, so to somehow not mention it in a movie about young tennis phenoms would have been odd. Rick Macci was over the moon that he figured in the story in such a significant way.

Well, count me in as someone who had no idea that Hensley sang. The men on the show didn't often sing as much or as often as the women did. There were a few exceptions, like Bob's duet with Kim at their wedding reception. This seemed to be in contrast with some other '80s soaps that had seemed to have their fair share of singers (Michael Damian, Rick Springfield, Jack Wagner).

Many times in the past, I've criticized various tennis organizations but the WTA has really been standing by their convictions in this Peng Shuai situation, meanwhile the ATP is playing at the margins with anti-vaxxers and DV suspects as their standard bearers.

This is available in theaters too, so maybe people might have been looking in the movie section? Will was good in this but I have to admit that for most of this movie I was always aware that it was Will Smith playing a role, but Aujanue Ellis who played Brandy/Oracene was fantastic! Maybe because of their youth and kids pick up things with more ease than adults but I found the two actresses who portrayed Venus and Serena pretty convincing as up and coming tennis players. This was probably the first tennis themed movie that I have seen, that starred non-tennis players who came across looking like actual tennis players onscreen. These types of movies usually get it wrong. Saniyya Sidney, who played Venus, is playing another iconic person, Sasha Obama in another film with Viola Davis. Talk about a terrific start to a career. The actress who played Serena, Demi Singleton looks just Serena did at that age. When I watched the Red Table Talk with Will Smith and the Williams women, Serena mentioned being in tears every time young Yetunde appeared onscreen and I couldn't help but think about the gangbanger who was stalking her, and IRL, years down the road it would be a gangbanger who took her life, when as an innocent bystander, she got caught in gun crossfire while a passenger in a car. People are talking about how Capriati and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario can't be too pleased with their portrayals but they stuck fairly close to facts. That real life mugshot of Capriati though.👀 And surely Sanchez Vicario is already aware that she has annoyed people at various times during her oncourt career. I am curious about whether McEnroe and Sampras saw the movie. Andy Roddick and his brother get a mention, although only the actor portraying his brother John was shown onscreen. Overall, I found the movie to be moving. The scenes of Venus' first professional match and the real life images and video during the final credits surprised me by how emotional they made me feel. I still think Smith's best dramatic role was as Ali but he did a good job and he was backed up by a talented cast and crew and the story was fairly well done. I don't remember ever hearing Venus pronounce Wimbledon with a "T" in real life though but I guess that was a bit of dramatic license at play.

I'm not shocked, I never had the faith that it would go any other way. Honestly, I don't know what that says about me personally, but I never allowed myself to get invested in this trial because I have believed for years that this wouldn't stop at Trayvon Martin's murder, these self-appointed vigilantes would only become more brazen and eventually, it wouldn't be just Black and brown people who would be the victims of this violence. The law has been propping up these types for years, it was always going to happen that these violent types would extend themselves beyond the usual victims. Also, that jury make-up should've told you what you needed to know from the get-go.