DramatistDreamer

Whenever Tsitsipas opens his mouth, he believes that he sounds intelligent. Someone ought to tell him the truth.

That seems plausible. Whatever the impetus for the diminution of the character, with each recast it seemed as if Nathan became increasingly generic. Lazare seemed talented enough but Nathan appeared to be devoid of charisma by the time Lazare had his turn. I may not have fully realized it then, but in retrospect, that final storyline was pushing Nathan off the canvas, by first making the character as unlikeable a character as one can get, so presumably when his demise came, he wouldn't be as greatly missed as he would've been had he stayed the version of the character portrayed by Nathan Purdee.

The most interesting aspect of this Op-ed is the reminder that the Taliban have already been governing swaths of Afghanistan for years.

The post above was supposed to be in the Politics thread. Too much going on today, I guess. Oh well, I am not sure it'd get read anyway and I am too tired to move it(shrug).

Africa to the rescue, I guess.

So now, the J&J vaccine which was tested by a large number of South Africans and being bottled and packaged in South Africa, is being shipped off to Europe, while Africa waits? That hardly seems fair. https://archive.is/KHWQB

Other than the Taliban and their supporters, I really don't think you can call anyone a "winner" in this. Even as some people were seeing some measure of autonomy during the occupation, there was still a whole lot of suffering in the midst of it.

The last reports of Ashraf Ghani were of his alleged fleeing from Afghanistan (possibly to Uzbekistan) with a load of money. What's wrong with Afghanistan is more than just its military.

We who reside here in the U.S. and other Western countries don't usually get news of elections in African countries unless there is violence but this is a noteworthy development, even if it is not getting much notice at the moment.

From what I have been reading about Irna Phillips over the last month, it seems as if she had been trying to extricate herself from Procter and Gamble since the days that Guiding Light began to air on television.

Lots of vapid people winning titles lately but at least there is some meaning in it here.

The calls for Biden to be impeached are from a sketchy small group of likely mostly bots and some trolls trying to start something. There are other concerns, like the pandemic and how many kids will actually be showing up for school. I am interested in Afghanistan, as I am in what goes on globally, but beyond that? The biggest mistake was getting in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place and having the hubris to believe the U.S. could nation-build, but what's done is done, staying wouldn't make anything better. Also, the people who use words like vindication are not being helpful. Many of us protested the wars and occupation. Congress authorized it anyway. And?

Afghanistan has had disputed elections where nobody wanted to leave, even when voted out. In this case though, the leader can't leave fast enough, I guess. Given the propensity of some of the leaders of Afghanistan's government toward cowardice I can't say I'm surprised. Flight or fight and most of us would take flight, but when you're the leader, isn't more usually required?

This is moving at lightning speed.

Not gonna lie, but when I saw this headline/lede, one of the first things that came to mind was that, if only the Marshall family had this sort of backdrop for their ice cream business, maybe that aspect would have been more interesting. I doubt that their writing staff would have had the skills to pull it off though. That could have made an ace tagline for a promo though.😉

It would have been nice for viewers to actually find out how she felt about it (Susan too). These types of details would have played out onscreen once upon a time.

P&G definitely made, I guess the word might be choices that led their productions down the path to the state they were in when they cancelled by them. Wiping, for instance. We're there other non-P&G soap operas that were as assiduous "wipers" as P&G soaps? If Y&R archived all their episodes from the beginning of their serial in 1973, shouldn't P&G at least tried to archive episodes from as far back as, maybe 1974-? Choices. My first job out of college (before Graduate school) was in the office of a producer and she was a prolific one. I have worked for one or two people (in the arts) who were both good at what they did and we're not assh*les. One can be both. That is also a choice. Choices.

Soaps are unlike any other entertainment media, in the fact that many continue over many years, over decades, in fact. No actor would dictate to me how I write one of my plays. I know best, although a workshop where actors do a table read of my script, all the way to a staged reading, can massively inform how I "tweak" my play. If a writer goes into an existing soap, most of the actors have been there long before that writer and in that case, they would have more information than that writer and an intelligent writer would lean on those actors as guides, in addition to archived scripts and video episodes to continue stories. Of course, many actors want to have plenty of story and are more likely to view a show favorably if they are actively being utilized on the canvas-- they want to work, and frankly, that's their job. Unless they have interest in directing, producing or writing, it's not their job to know how the other parts of production work. They also know and care that everyone is doing their jobs effectively- they don't want the show to be cancelled, especially due to some BTS f*ckry.

Of course he's right. We're it not for the expletives, this would have made a perfect PSA for vaccination and proper adherence to anti-COVID-19 protocols. As for Laura Osnes, there is likely an understudy waiting in the wings to replace her. Oh, scanning the article (I loathe the NY Post, lol), I see that it is just a one-off performance in some weeklong festival and Osnes has already been replaced by an actress who previously played Ariel in The Little Mermaid. Problem solved. Osnes now has a reputation that will impact her career going forward.

P&G never, I mean never truly learned how to properly promote their talent. Fulton was daytime's O.G. 'Bad Gal' and should have been promoted as a pioneering character. Lisa was doing what many avid readers of the "Feminine Mystique" book must surely have fantasizing about doing during that period of time (despite the public backlash to the character, especially when she temporarily abandons Oakdale) Meanwhile, you had AMC, OLTL, Y&R, GH all far better at promoting their talent. It's really a shame. Barbara Ryan was one of the most stylish characters in all of daytime "Not a hair outta place" as was often said by various characters of Barbara-- who should've been almost as well known as Erica Kane and yet... no, despite being one of the most consistent characters on CBS daytime. Again, a shame. Perhaps Holden and Lily were on par with Nick and Sharon. That's all I can think of. P&G was better at promoting their daytime lineup, but looking back it irks me that they chose to do entire promotions where they'd use stand ins, whose faces were blurred, instead of the actors who portrayed the actual characters, and this was at one of the heights of the show's popularity. So generic. Who does that? I was speaking specifically.

Keating's character on ATWT, Niles Mason was an absolute villain, lol. He plotted with his son Derek (Thomas Gibson) to court Lily, then kill her for her money. When Derek decided to back out of the plot, Niles barreled through with the plan anyway, setting a bomb to go off when Derek was supposed to be out of town, which backfired when Derek discovered the plot, rushed back home and, you guessed it...

Perhaps this could set a precedent for other such cases?

It looks to be by design but that's my opinion, I guess. The way Goutman treated a number of the show's talent, on the other hand, was very much within his control and he chose to treat a number of the talent in a very sh*tty manner. The interviews are out there with a Google search.

Oh, I definitely got the sense that she was personally revolted by what happened, the visceral nature of it leaped off the page when I read it and when I listened to her podcast interview ,(with a different soap blog), I got that exact same sense of revulsion. She didn't want to go into much detail and I respect her desire not to revisit that particular time in much detail. I also got the sense that it was somewhat traumatic and she wanted to push past it. Another aspect that comes to mind about that particular sequence of years and events is that, when a soap opera is on its "last legs" as ATWT obviously was at that time, TPTB usually put the production in the hands of less than fully capable people.

Well said. JW's family seems like a strong supportive group so, as they grieve, may they be able to draw strength from one another.