DramatistDreamer

This was put in another thread but I thought that I should place this in this thread too since it involves an actress who once appeared on ATWT decades ago. Jill Powell, who played Marcie Breen, (who, by the way, you cannot tell me wasn't an early antecedent to the Carly Tenney character), has had some struggles in recent years. Hopefully, she has since gotten help. (She could be an interesting person to interview on a podcast, if the so-called soap media actually cared enough). https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/nyregion/therapist-and-patient-share-a-theater-of-hurt.html

Speaking of Ms. Powell, she has been through quite a lot in recent years, to put things mildly. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/nyregion/therapist-and-patient-share-a-theater-of-hurt.html

ICYMI

The last time, she was able to get the violation cleared because she stopped taking the substance before it was officially banned. The substance? Meldonium. Sound familiar? Initially, she was tagged with using a banned substance and challenged her suspension by claiming that, although it she still had it in her system when she was tested (and failed) her doping test, she technically had stopped taking meldonium before it was officially listed as a banned substance.

Lepchenko getting busted for a doping violation. Again!

Well, any subsequent writing regimes generally does something different with a character years down the road. I doubt that the writer who originally created Barbara Ryan imagined that she would be a vamp wreaking havoc on the men (and men's wives) of Oakdale while building a fashion business or even further down the road, jumping out of windows and assisting the same ex-husband who once tortured her into kidnapping people. Also, I am confused about the discussion about Carly and Luke. There was a Carly on ATWT, and a Carly on GH. There was also a Luke on ATWT, created decades after GH's Luke--all by different writers. Are we all talking about vastly different characters? Right?

Again, iterating that the biggest mistake the U.S. made was to go into Afghanistan and Iraq in the first place. A mess from the very beginning. Trump made a mess in his attempts to negotiate a "deal" with the Taliban, the way he tried to negotiate a "deal" with China, the way he tried to negotiate a "deal" with North Korea. These right-wing media outlets, and some mainstream media are derelict in their duty, as they seem to want to cherry pick examples of disastrous diplomacy. Hopefully people don't continue to fall for it. If they do, that's unfortunate for them.

It's likely that Marland created Marcy Breen (Jill Powell was the actress who was most memorable in the role), who I have always thought seemed like an early precursor to Carly Tenney.

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.