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Sadly, most daytime soaps have a horrible digital and streaming presence. Little to no way to access their library of episodes. The New York Public Library is looking at ways to make their dance collection more accessible, via digital platform. Certain choreographers have already started this, so that dance scholars, students, teachers and choreographers can access the performances and rehearsals, workshops without having to physically come into the library at Lincoln Center. Many of these performances stretch back all the way back to the 40s, 50s, perhaps even earlier. If the dance world, which was never the huge money maker that daytime dramas were can undertake this effort, how can the likes of P&G not be able to put even some measure of that effort?

Most of the performances were taped in advance too.

ATWT alum Jesse Lee Soffer joins Deidre Hall, Eric Martsoff and an array of personalities and stars on NBC shows send Thanksgiving greets and recall their memories.

Rick Hearst and Sonia Satra gave their thoughts on that wedding on The Locker Room reunion livestream. Hearst was particularly outspoken on what he really thought of that wedding, lol. Okay, I just saw that @soapsuds mentioned it. Rick's depiction of it was hilarious.

Well, I guess that makes two of us because I have never seen Ribeiro as host of the show. As nice a man as Bergeron is, I kind of faded from that show before Ribeiro took over hosting duties. It doesn't seem that Carlton was too far from his real personality, when I think about it.

Thanks. I'll definitely be looking into that trial because I know I don't have access to HBO Max, lol. Also, on Ribeiro, sometimes I can't believe he was my brief childhood crush. I guess it could've been worse, it could've been Rick Schroeder.

Janet Huber portrayed Will's Aunt Viv, not his mother, but I understand that you didn't much watch the show, @Mitch I admit to missing some episodes during it's original run. I need to see this reunion, I guess, since it's been the talk of the interwebs lately. Why minus Ribeiro? Was he not there? Were there hard feelings between them too? Anyway on the subject of critiquing a show that you grew up with and loved, it is possible to do both. As a writer, my work often got critiqued, it was part of the process. Some of it could actually be helpful. One really can't be so thin-skinned to take it as some sort of affront. A few of us have been musing about an in-depth multi-part documentary series, a la Ken Burns, on the history of the daytime drama. One thing that I really appreciate about those series are that the often approach their subject clear-eyed, and critically, even that which the filmmakers love. Whether it's jazz, baseball or country music, the documentaries didn't steer clear of criticism-- there was racism and greed and short-sighted thinking involved that was at odds with the art and beauty and sheer enjoyment. This was a very real part of each industry and to not discuss the blind spots and shortcomings would be doing a grave disservice as it is akin to a lie of omission. If you truly care about the genre and want it to be respected (maybe even have some aspects be revived in the future) why wouldn't you want those problems to be discussed? Some intelligent discussions can only help the genre's image, since most non-soap opera viewers think soap fans are mostly a collection of 'Nurse Bettys' devoid of critical thinking skills, with little perception of real life. Looking at us as a collection of critics with specific tastes can only be an improvement, lol.

Well, I would've been in grammar school when the Lujack/Beth feature the aired but by the late 80s/early 90s was in my adolescent years. So,if you were coming of age when it was still referred to "adolescence" and not "tweens", then it's likely that we're in the same age group.😄😉. Some of the retraction away from artistic risk taking, I would guess would be a reaction to pressure from the "Moral Majority" groups that were very active at that time. PBS back then had a lot of avant-garde programming, while in today's PBS, Downton Abbey is probably the closest thing they had to risk-taking, barrier breaking programming.

The Biden-Harris transition team has a YouTube page. I watched a 20 minutes briefing. If you have watched any of the campaign rally events before the election, you likely noticed the sign language interpretation. Today, I couldn't help but notice how expressive the guy in the violet turtleneck was in his interpretation. In particular, how he signed the comment about Donald Trump's cases being laughed out of court, is really worth watching. https://youtu.be/btvU7pGdGfM

Having grown up in the NYC Metro/Tri-state area, I can attest to the aspect of NY having some fairly sophisticated public access and public television programming, even in the 80s. I feel quite fortunate to being raised around that time where there was a bit more room for experimentation. The programming now has become so tame and risk-averse.

It seems as though Alan feels that he has to be seen saying something, heaven forbid he actually let the conversation flow organically. The actresses were highly diplomatic, seeking to complement their colleagues and their generosity, rather than get into the weeds of the politics at P&G, probably sensing Alan's unease with those topics. I was intrigued by Lauren's brief recounting of the time that a group of Black actors convened to bring their concerns, as well as voice their displeasure with P&G. Someone needs to ask her more about that because I'd like to hear more about it.

Didn't Dietrich also once play Dorothy's sister on The Golden Girls?

That's great news. You now have to keep us all updated on your progress. No pressure, lol. What's funny is that during my many musings on how I would rewrite and redeem the mess that was ATWT's final decade, I mentally created an elaborately constructed storyline bringing back the Bryant character, who after overcoming a traumatic experience, eventually attends Harvard Business School (triggering all his grandmother's succession grooming impulses when she finds out) with a combination of online and in person learning, so your announcement brought out a bit of a chuckle and head nod. As for the accusation that Biden is only choosing Harvard and Yale, Ivy League alums, Madame Vice President-Elect says "I'm still speaking", HBCU alumna has entered the chat. Also, there many more positions to be filled and a number of them are of vast importance. After sitting idle on their hands about Trump's cronyism picks, now people decide that it's of the utmost importance to speak up? Puhlease. Thanks for posting that news conference, @Vee It was uplifting and actually a bit comforting, tbh.

Whether people realize this or not, this is big. I'll be glad when this era of sycophants placating a wannabe autocrat comes to an end and common sense and decency takes over. This is going a small way in that direction.

Thanks for posting that video @DRW50 I certainly have never seen that video, which seems like a featurette for the VHS age. Whoa, on the spelling of Vincent's last name in the credits. Is anyone on the production crew still around? It would be fascinating to hear from the cameraman on the technical aspects of shooting those scenes (e.g. aerial shots and long shots along the shoreline). Judi was styled as classic 80s soap heroine in that first scene. I'd love to see something like this for the remote in Europe that ATWT did for the Frannie/Sabrina storyline but that would likely have been dependent on some public access program documenting this and I don't think there was such a thing in Europe in the 80s.

The same way he entered will be the same way he exits-in a hail of litigation.

Apparently, revealed on today's Locher Room livestream (which I have to go back and listen to in its entirety), Lauren B. Martin (Camille Bennett, ATWT) and Jada Pinkett-Smith are cousins. I am guessing that Lauren's father and Jada's mother are related.

At least Howard Beale had his righteous indignation to fall back on (literally). All Rudy has is grift. Anyways... Trump administration continues to lose on many fronts.

Marisa Tomei getting a lot of love tonight (and deservedly so) after the reference to "My Cousin Vinny" during that ridiculous press conference today. Her response to the press conference.

Marisa Tomei getting a lot of love tonight, due to the "My Cousin Vinny" references.