DramatistDreamer

What a thorough waste of my time. I should have stayed ignoring this tournament.

Oh, I remember that episode too.

I love that Debbie Allen tweeted this.

I meant this year. I just assumed that NBC had given the whole thing over to TC. I guess TC hasn't broadened it's subscriber base wide enough to exclusively handle a Grand Slam, which is just as well since wing nuts now own and operate a considerable share of TC.

NBC has the finals? Yeesh, shows you how little I have been following the tournament this year.😳

Hey, Martin Verkerk got to a final, so the men's side has had its share of duds going the distance in tournaments too. This year's U.S. Open, the women had higher ratings than the men. Overall, both finals nosedived compared to the previous year. It will be interesting to see what this year's RG rankings yield on U.S. Television. Last year's U.S. Open was decent mix of veteran and new prospects all the way up to the finals, while this year, it was tipped too heavily in one direction. I honestly don't know what it means for the future of the sport, except maybe tennis digging deeper into niche status.

Neither was Majoli and yet ... Regardless, it has still got to sting, given the fact that Aga reached a final.

Women's tennis is far more interesting to me than the men's side, which is entirely too hierarchical and predictable.

Deep down, you know Aga has got to feel some kind of way. The women's side always has new champions. It's the men's side that is in desperate need of new champions.

How could I forget the ageless Ming Na Wen?? Lea Salonga, who took up the role originated by Ming Na Wen, didn't do another daytime soap, I am pretty sure, at least not on American TV.

Has Patricia Bruder been on any soap other than ATWT?

I suspect that many people would be buying videos or even downloads, which have become more the norm than they were 8, 9, 10 years ago. I think the consumer base might have increased with time had it kept going. The people who try to make the argument that the digitization process would have been a "cost loss" for P&G don't understand how business actually works. For 20 years, Amazon operated certain aspects of its company either at a negligible profit margin or at a modest loss. Many parts still do not operate at a profit --their cloud business and warehouse and distribution system more than makes up for those losses. They throw in movies and music into Amazon Prime but those are not really profit-makers for them, they are investments into continuing to make Amazon the "Go To" marketplace. As much as I dislike Amazon's business strategy, I must concede that it has been a massive success for them. P&G, yesteryear's Amazon used to understand this.

The SoapClassics company was a brief respite, having put out collections of ATWT and GL and streaming on their online platform. The SoaopClassics company wanted to continue to do so but, as I understand it, couldn't secure permission from P&G to extend the agreement. The folks who wanted to make excuses for P&G (the same people who always make excuses for these mediocre soap production companies) at the time, claimed that it would take years for P&G to digitize a great deal of their episodes. Well, it's been years now, hasn't it? Imagine if P&G had actually allowed Soap classics to continue what they were doing, digitize episodes and stream them? Wouldn't there have been a significant amount of episodes in digital format?

That part did make me think that she has 'Karen-esque' tendencies 😬. Still, she spoke many truths and didn't hold back and I wish more would do this. P&G has shown that they don't care about the legacy of their shows, why protect P&G's "reputation"? For what?? What is the purpose of appearing on these shows if you're not going to be honest about your experience, good and bad?

And P&G is way too stupid and thoughtless to capitalize on mentions like those. All these series like Punky Brewster and Saved By The Bell, Karate Kid/Cobra Kai, The Doctors and Dark Shadows managing to have some presence on television and film, while P&G is still out there devaluing their own titles. Just. stupid.

Okay, I thought it was strange that she wouldn't have been on any other soap having done so much television. lockquote widget

No problem. She has been the subject of quite a few discussions in the ATWT thread. Phil Morris, who went on to play Jackie Chiles, only did Y&R. Tricia Cast, who has been acting since she was a child has only been in Y&R, it looks like.

AFAIK, Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei and Lyndsay Frost, Steven Weber, as well as ex-wife Finn Carter were only ever on ATWT. Lauryn Hill who did one or two film roles before devoting herself to music, only appeared on ATWT as well. Nia Long was only on GL, I think. @AbcNbc247 l'm pretty sure that Kim Johnston Ulrich appeared on ATWT in the previous decade.

Paging Roger Newcomb!

Only Kamala could have made me sit through that debate. One thing that did strike me was how vigorously Harris made a case for Joe's proposals and plans, even those she may not have entire agreed with during the early part of the Democratic primary season. This should put an end to the endless hand-wringing over whether Harris is sufficiently loyal. If ardent Obama supporters could get over Joe's remarks about Barack being "clean" and "articulate", surely Biden supporters can put away busing remarks said during a debate early in the primaries. Tens of millions of dollars raised later, surely it's time, no? Speaking of no and time, I have got none for the next debate, no thanks, lol.

Flies are attracted to💩and Pence was full of it tonight. Also, he looked like he has conjunctivitis. Harris did pretty well, considering the possibility that her opponent looked like he was rotting.

The debate committee or whoever is in charge needs to go on ahead and cancel the VP debate, in light of recent developments. Miller's diagnosis after five days is proof positive. Pun intended.

Something else that I want to mention is that, despite his efforts to delay being questioned in the family fraud case, Eric Trump was deposed yesterday. Parts of the public may have forgotten about the case but the attorney general for the state of New York certainly hasn't. Neither has the SDNY. And it is doubtful that the election results will impact that investigation, as it has become clear that it isn't just about Donald now. The scope of I investigation has obviously widened to encompass other individuals.

This thread has become quite ...something. I want to send my condolences to @marceline who I didn't send out words to yesterday because of the sheer breadth of the posts over the past few days. I hope you have a circle of friends and loved ones that you and your family can look to for comfort and healing. Even though we don't know each person by name, the loss of each person is immeasurable. Someday, with different leadership, there will be a national acknowledgement of collective grief.