DramatistDreamer

Sadly, it seems that Kirk Cameron was alienating people as far back as the late 80s/early 90s. When he became born-again, he seemed to separate himself from his fellow cast members and began to regard the show as if it were beneath him, from what I saw on the E! True Hollywood Story. A former girlfriend of his who had done some appearances on the show pretty much said he dumped her once he became born-again because she had once posed for Playboy. You can be a Christian without being a jerk but Kirk seems to have only become more obnoxious as the years go by. God bless Tracey Gold, who has maintained her sense of humanity, not to mention, patience. She demonstrated a lot of restraint in her remarks. Kirk let the screaming girls and the appearances on the covers of teen magazines get to his head. He comes off as something of a narcissist.

While watching the GL fundraiser livestream, I can't remember whether it was Robert Newman, or Peter Simon, or maybe Grant Alexander who mentioned how, for many years, GL used to focus on characters celebrating Christmas, rather than existing storylines for their Christmas episodes, and that in later years, the show did the opposite, using the holiday as a backdrop, while centering existing storylines. I mention this because I have noticed the exact same thing with ATWT. While watching an episode from 1985, the aspect of characters celebrating the holiday was the focus. Clearly, nuggets were being dropped of characters that we would see months, sometimes years later but the main focus was Christmas Eve, Frannie's birthday and Christmas. I don't know whether it was a budget thing but, in the last years of the show, having a meaningful celebration of Christmas seemed almost like an afterthought, where the episodes insisted on ploughing ahead with the existing storylines.

Yes, thanks @Vee for posting those stats on Black voter participation in GA for the runoffs. I saw something to this effect yesterday and wanted to post here but couldn't find the pertinent information in a tweet. Lots of people still seem to be ignoring this.

Well, you're finding things to enjoy about the show, which is the important thing.

Wait, aren't Ray and Lola siblings? Doesn't that make Lola and Faith prospective in-laws?

Seems like there are some disagreements on whether this Village Voice revival is actually a good thing. I guess the new owner is getting mixed reviews concerning his performance.

Wow, congrats to her! She looks so happy.

Doctors have been relying a lot on oximeters to determine whether a patient should be hospitalized or deemed well enough to be sent home.

Happy to spotlight that he pardoned people responsible for killing 17 people, including two children?? How disgusting! In any case, Pat Robertson, of all people seem more than ready to see the back of Trump and likely already has his 2024 pick and it is not Trump, which makes me wonder whether the evangelicals will follow suit. I definitely think there is a power struggle between the Russian asset and Moscow Mitch, but it looks more like Trump is more in a "burn it all down" mode and Mitch, who advocated recognizing Biden's election victory and moving on is in Don the Con's cross hairs. Pelosi looks like a bystander in all this. Also, Nancy's no fool, she won't stand idly by and be labeled by the foolishness of these men. Which is why I said, in my post last night, not to trust Trump, who has been known to make grand pronouncements, only to have to retract them, usually out of ignorance for what is actually possible and what his limits are. I personally would benefit greatly from a 2K check but I am going to need the word of someone who actually reads even a fraction of what is in those bills, and it ain't Trump.

Can't say that I trust Trump, who has a penchant for saying one thing on one day, then reversing himself days later. Although I was surprised by some of the items that made it into the bill, I have to see exactly what specific items he is referring to when he mentions "pork". That being said, the $600 individual payment is unconscionable. Also, I wonder whether his pronouncement (after basically sitting on his as$ during this entire process) may be a diversion meant to draw attention away from these pardons.

Y'all know that Bartoli had a bebé, right?

People in other countries have always side-eyed the U.S. in many aspects politically, while finding pockets of things/people to admire but this process leading to this emergency "aid" package has made the U.S. a laughingstock. Only GB has taken some of the focus away (but not much) from how entirely ridiculous this country looks right now. While I personally have my thoughts about the aspect of a candidate connected so intimately with Wall Street running for mayor in a city like NYC, speaking purely from an artistic perspective, this is a well put together ad! I've sometimes have had my issues with Spike Lee and how some aspects of his vision come across storywise but I have to say, over recent years, he's gotten better at presenting a picture that better encompasses complexity, especially across the spectrum of gender and intersectionality.

You should definitely read some of the tweets he's been getting, especially from Brits. Here's one example:

Twitter is just having at it, where Nigel Farage is concerned. Still, I just can't help but laugh at some of the invective.

I just started watching and Kassie is in the group with the Bauers but wasn't Chelsea a Reardon?

Even though I haven't been able to partake of viewing lately, I want to express gratitude for all the contributors who build up the vault. It's a great thing that you're doing, especially with the true classic and vintage episodes (70s, 80s and 90s). I only wish all soap communities could be this committed and generous, in terms of preservation, storing and sharing their gems (yes, I am looking at you, ATWT).

So, Jim Carrey won't be playing Joe Biden anymore (which is just as well), but why is this person using Meg Ryan's photo as her Avi? 😂

Did you see the reunion livestream with HBS, GM and SB? HBS discussed the miscarriage story as being the result of the difficulties associated with having infants on set (usually having to deal with twin infant actors). She later mentioned that when "Margo" finally got pregnant again, it was after HBS just had a baby and was able to bring her baby to work with her as her character's onscreen child. The affair between Hal and Margo was seen as a way to fill in the storyline gap left by GM's exit. HBS explained that since no one (including Marland) believed that Margo would truly cheat on Tom, since Margo was so "crazy in love" with Tom, Marland wrote the beginning of the affair as initially being a result of Margo being drunk (I don't remember this, but I was a child at the time this storyline originally aired and unfortunately, like most of the juiciest ATWT episodes, it's not on YT) because Margo could not have been sober and cheated on Tom. I am convinced that had GM elected to stay or even return, there would be no drunken romp and resulting affair between Margo and Hal, because the chemistry was so strong between HBS and GM. You have to remember that GM had already left the show when the affair began. I believe that GM had made it clear that he intended to leave the show by that time, it was a question of Marland writing a way for the character to exit the canvas for a lengthy period of time. What I would've liked to know was whether Marland had ever considered not reuniting Tom and Margo after GM left the show, and put Margo and Hal together for the long haul. I suspect that he may have considered it but perhaps decided against it, seeing that a newly cast SH had enough chemistry with HBS to carry on with the pairing. Also, Tom and Margo had survived a previous recast of both characters, so there was no reason not to think they couldn't be successful again with another recast. SH was certainly no GM but the new pairing worked well enough, I guess.

Well, what can be said when soaps reach a ratings low for the 20th time? No words.

Was it a secret though? Someone displayed a copy of a letter they received from the Trump "campaign" and in fine print there was an LLC listed in the letter as one of the recipients of any donations. The other entity listed was the RNC and only a meager portion would be going to his "re-election" campaign. That has "Duh" written all over it.

Mai Yamauchi has been Kei's girlfriend for six years ( these ATP players sure do like lengthy courtships), so I guess that was her that I saw. Don't know where I got the figure skater notion from, maybe a rumor? Anyway, congrats Kei on keeping things low-key. You've got to give the man props for discretion--he's not out here being messy with his romantic relationship like some players.

From last I remembered, he was dating some figure skater or other. Last year, or two years ago, I remember seeing some woman in his box. The only thing is Kei's teeth (which he should follow Andy Murray's example and get fixed), otherwise, he'd be fine. Besides that, money tends to make people more attractive and with all his endorsements, Kei has plenty of that. Also, attractiveness is fairly subjective.