DramatistDreamer

Oh no, at this George Segal news!

^^ NRR doing a much better job of explaining GL's cultural significance than P&G/PGP. SMH. Still, very cool. Are all GL's radio episodes archived? Does anyone know?

Retro TV has a livestream on their website, so I will try to watch that debut episode in real-time.

If it were easy, Sheffer would definitely have done it. He likely didn't want to write for Lisa because he really, he couldn't dress her in drag or have her do pratfalls out of windows.

My first thought is to wonder what South Asian Americans think about what she said. Do they not count as Asians? If she meant East Asians, she should just have said so, even though that would be opening up an entire Pandora's box worth of division.

Yes, her tenures seem very testosterone-laced. As an aside, I think she would've been great at writing Brooke Logan as she seemed adept at writing sexually charged vamps. From what I have noticed, she seemed to write two archetypes of women, hard-charging, full-steam ahead in career, and hard-charging, full-steam ahead in the bedroom. The same way that many criticized Maryland in how he wrote '86 Barbara and Lucinda, I would see Long writing similarly for both characters. Lisa is a character that seems straight-forward and easy to write on the surface but was a bit more complex beneath, which is my guess as to why the writers didn't bother with her at all towards the end (they should have at least tried though). Due to Fulton's Southern heritage, I fear that Long may have been tempted to write her as some sort of ageing Southern belle or grande dame and that wasn't Lisa. Despite all her sparkly, fancy attire, Lisa wasn't a reclining grande same. She was a successful business woman but she wasn't an Alexandra Spaulding, either in business temperament, or in disposition (she was not as concerned with socio-economic standing and class as Alexandra). Lisa was a romantic but not a camp like Reva. Lisa was, on occasion down for a good scrap. Another thing, is that Lisa was fiercely loyal to her women friends. Most of Long's best known creations had stronger friendships/relationships with men. So, I would've handed off writing duties to another writer, as far as Lisa was concerned. I think Long would've done fine with John Dixon (no one has ever truly flopped with him) and she probably would have written great conflict between he and Bob.

Nobody mentioned writing for Lisa.😬 I realize not everybody is capable but Lisa was a major character.

FWIW, Moderna has a slightly higher efficacy % rate than Pfizer, but again, a minuscule difference. A little but much needed humor.

The "good guy with a gun"? Wouldn't that be the cop that was shot and killed by the gunman?

The differences between Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are miniscule. The real issue, IMO is with AstraZeneca, which has been problematic throughout this entire pandemic.

Unfortunately this thread should be bumped up. Given the tragic events in Colorado.

If you've only seen what's been uploaded up on YouTube, you have missed many spicy scenes. No offense to the uploaders, who have provided fans with lots of entertainment, but if you really look at who is featured in the majority of those episodes, it's mainly Lily and Holden, lol. The sultry stuff from Tom and Margo is not even on there.

I saw your post @JaneAusten about the Democrats missing a golden opportunity to use the border situation as a rallying cry for immigration reform and this, I think, is one example of the attempt at this.

Oh the irony of all those soap bloggers and soap-themed magazines not being able to cover that soap-adjacent news item that is right in front of their faces, even as the industry struggles for relevance!

These f*ckers, lol.

Short of a major overhaul, this show is likely done. The Talk was supposed to be a cheapie light-hearted crowd pleaser and none of this is true, at present. I have said continually that racism is expensive, it comes at a hefty price. Osbourne is no Walter Cronkite and despite her desire to be referred to as "Mrs. O" (in some pathetic bid for respectability, imo) she's certainly no Oprah. It is not, in fact, "cheaper to keep her", as the song says.

The 'mishandling' seemed intentional to me.

Florida gonna Florida, I guess.

Good points. It just goes to show even more how much the story was written simply as a shocking, yet convenient way to send a character off the canvas, nothing more.

Teen Vogue should probably offer Welteroth more money to go back (even if for the interim until a suitable permanent replacement can be found and VETTED) and right the ship.

Let's see what happens with the Senate.

😂 This!

A guess on my part but perhaps the production companies behind AMC and OLTL cared more than P&G did at that point. By the early aughts P&G seemed past the point of caring. The sad thing about filming every other interior as if it were happening at the Lakeview is that you know it could have still been worse-- it could've been shot at The Stratford Arms. Remember that place? Lucinda owned it and it was rumored to be a real dump!