DramatistDreamer

Amanda Seyfried is set to appear in a special featuring POTUS #44 and #46 encouraging vaccination.

If you were a Black and/or Brown person coming into adulthood during the mid to late 90s and connected to NYC, DMX's emergence on the music scene was inescapable. It also seemed to show the ascent of Black biker culture out of the shadows onto city streets in a big way. It was unforgettable and a sight to behold! R.I.P. DMX

That makes it even more incredible that nearly two years later, that whole bathtub scene would not only occur but lead to this shocking elopement. The thing is, Lucinda didn't always dislike John. Lucinda used to taunt John's former wife Karen about being ill-suited to be Mrs. Dr. John Dixon. It seemed to come from a place of jealousy, as if to say that Lucinda herself would have been better suited to be a doctor's wife and that Karen was not good enough for him, I think she as much as said so. This was in '84, early '85. So there was some sort if attraction/revulsion element at work, seemingly from the beginning. The thing that is most unfortunate about what soaps have become over time is that there no longer seems to room for complexity in how characters are written or how they interact. Everything now is so obvious.

Watching November 1, 1985 episode and there is a scene between John and Lucinda, where John makes a wisecrack about Lucinda's bathtub. I wonder if this scene was a consideration for the infamous bathtub sequence almost two years later? If it was, that would involve some memory, especially considering all the story that happened in those two years. It's just one of those minor details that one wouldn't expect to play in such a major way so far down the road. That's one of the things I find fascinating (from a technical perspective) about the writing during this period. Little scenes that appear to be about something completely different, but when you go back, you see seeds being planted, whereas, in real time, as you watch, you would never figure this out.

Years ago when #Brexit looked like a fait accompli, I wondered aloud (i.e. posted here) how this could adversely affect the situation between Ireland and Northern Ireland, speculating that Brexit could heighten tensions, and eventually lead to riots, that I hoped wouldn't be a new "Troubles". I still hope things won't get that far as The Troubles, but unfortunately, I was right in the other regard, with obvious tensions spilling into riots.

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When I saw FAA at the Nadal Academy with Toni Nadal in the frame, I knew something could emerge out of that. By the way, FAA has been to the Nadal Academy to train in the past.

I love how Cullum speaks of the theater- how he loves performing night after night, and if you're bored with it, basically you need to do something else (because clearly you're not doing it right).

I've never had to work with him directly but apparently a producer I once worked for had co-produced a play with him and others that ran on Broadway at the time I was working with this particular producer. The fact that someone who worked for him fled to work with Harvey Weinstein, an ogre, is a pretty vivid illustration of how much of a hellscape it must have been to work with him. Has anyone considered the possibility that the arts and entertainment is always on a knife's edge in terms of success and failure because of the rampant toxicity embedded in these industries?

It seems like Ms. Charles touched so many lives, IRL and across the airwaves. Hopefully, her loved ones can be there to help and take care of her mother and each other. So sad. R.I.P.

I think I saw that segment on Decades a few years ago too. P&G is definitely the entity standing in the way of getting any more episodes curated and released/streamed to the public. They yanked rights out of the hands of the SoapClassics people, who seemed to be doing a fairly good job taking the distribution of classic episodes in a technologically progressive direction, by not only selling sets and collections but streaming episodes as well, which was the future back then (it is the "now" nowadays). I am surprised there wasn't more collective action to try to change P&G's course of action on that (online petitions existed in 2012/13) but I guess ATWT & GL fans were so used to accepting things being yanked away, that most just shrugged.

Oh, for the love of Debbie Simon, it's Sharon Case! Out of curiosity, when did the show stop mentioning The Pampered Palate?

Good. Now, will Ivanka, Kelly Anne and the rest of the cabal be made to face repercussions?

The PPP program rollout at the beginning of the pandemic last year amounted to exactly what I thought it would. Hopefully the Biden administration can set things right.

If this is truly the case, I hope Senate Democrats run right over Mitch McConnell on the way to get the infrastructure bill done. It would serve 'ole Mitch right after he has stood in the way of progress and tried to block anything good from happening for the better part of a decade. Maybe, just maybe Democrats will be able to show him that his deliberate inaction as an act of sabotage will have consequences that will impact him and his cronies negatively. I hope he gets severely outmaneuvered.

From what I saw of the writing, it showed that he didn't want to write for them, although I know that the Rosales family were her pet project and it was obviously a vanity project. If McDaniel were genuine about integrating a Latino family into the landscape in a way that made sense, instead of shoehorning her wish-list and redesigning the show's DNA, she could have easily picked up on a different branch of the Raul Gutierrez family (they wouldn't have even have had to change the name, could have kept it Rosales). And actually used Raul for more than a cameo when he appeared on the show for the anniversary episodes. He could have ushered in the family, which could have eased the way of the characters and actors, but I guess it was not as showy as that photoshoot.🥴

Remember when "Lane" fanatics practically ran a campaign to drive the character off the show? There have been some characters that I never could stand, but I still can't grasp the idea of trying to force an actor out of a job unless they'd done something unconscionable. Coming from the U.K., one would think that Mal would've seen the value of having a South Asian character, even a family on a soap, since shows like Eastenders, no doubt, benefited from having South Asian characters on that show. Mal Young was passive aggressive AF when it came to writing non-white characters.

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Because P&G is pettier than Irna Phillips was. Phillips likely would sold a bigger rotation of box sets and collections.

After Republicans squawking about the fencing around the Capitol building and just as parts of it were coming down, this ramming event occurs. There have been incidents on White House property, but it seems as though the Capitol has become a magnet for these unhinged people.

There are surprisingly few April 2nd episodes uploaded to YT. I was searching for the 1987 episode, and only the 1997 episode turned up. Other than the Nikki/Ryder conflict with Hal and Jack's jailhouse visit to Lily, the episode seemed somewhat dull for an episode airing on the show's anniversary. I know that not every year can feature a party but this one seemed so bland. Even Margo's psychotic break in the garishly lit boutique was like, meh. Another strange but interesting marker... A hair color commercial featuring an almost completely blonde Noelle Beck.

This is also important to remember, as I have often had to abstain from revisiting these traumatic images. The media has often stepped over the line from information to indulgence in trauma porn, imo. n

One of the reasons why I think Prinz has remained so sharp is because she has continued to do theater. It's really hard to become inert when performing on a NYC stage. It's also one reason why I don't really see her on a soap except for brief periods of time, she'd become bored, especially the way daytime soaps have stuck in the last 20 years. Still, ATWT should've at least asked and gave her the first right of refusal but as I have long said, the last decade of the show was very poor, especially the decisions that were made BTS, so I wouldn't even expect them to remember that Bob had siblings.

This may have been posted here before but somehow I don't remember seeing it so maybe someone else hasn't seen it yet either.

In some countries, this conversation has been happening before Harry even started dating Meghan, by the way. Barbados has removed the Queen as their country's sovereign, wish other island-nations would do the same.