DramatistDreamer

😂 Sometimes a picture truly speaks a thousand words! This may not answer your question but when I watched one of the reunion live streams, Hillary Bailey Smith spoke of the reason for her character's miscarriage storyline as being due to the difficulties of working with children in a continuing daytime drama. HBS' character Margo was finally allowed to carry a child to term but the actress used her own child on the soap.

Ugh, I have an appointment so I won't be able to watch live but I will definitely watch when I return.

OMG 😃 Yaaass!!!

Ming-Na Wen discussed her cameo in the live-action version of Mulan.

The word "sterile" is trending because people are lambasting Melania's makeover of the White House gardens. Part of my thinks that her taste is about as bad and awful as her husband's but the other part of me also thinks that she may be purposefully riling up people to get angry, hoping her sojourn in the White House will come to an end soon.

I know I don't venture into this thread much but I do appreciate the efforts that @Brolden has been making to try to document and preserve aspects of this show's history. It's a shame that there are certain forces making those efforts more difficult. If only, it were P&G creating a channel for their soaps but we know they do not care and it is likely other individuals who want to be one of the few channel(s) on YouTube, not wanting to make space for another channel because that new channel has the audacity to have a few episodes that may have already been posted previously on YouTube.

Somewhat surprised that live animals are transported via USPS in the year 2020 but here is another example of members of Trump's "base" that are shocked and/or disheartened to discover that his terrible policies don't only affected libs, minorities and Democrats. Here is a link to the same article, if you don't want to go through the usual workarounds to bypass any paywalls. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-chick-s-in-the-mail-rural-america-faces-new-worries-with-postal-crisis/ar-BB18dGV1

Disturbing. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/school-reopenings-coronavirus-reporting.html

Was watching an episode from '85 and the scenes between Jay and Spree made me realize that Spree sort of reminds me of Didi Conn--the short dark hair, there's even something about the timbre of the voice that is reminiscent of Conn, though their voices don't sound alike.

There once was a time that the possible poisoning of Russia's biggest opposition figure (and his subsequent flight to another country for treatment) would have been big news but not in 2020. I'm a tea drinker but if I ever find myself anywhere near Russia, tea wouldn't be going anywhere near my lips.

6 minutes? I thought it was 90 seconds. Isn't that what some people were squawking about?

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Me, at that Phillip Michael Thomas throwback:

Thanks for posting these speeches in their entirely, @janea4old. Well, well, well, ahead of 'Indictment Fridays', Bannon gets taken into custody for fundraising fraud by, wait for it...U.S. Postal Service agents.

Both Alfre Woodard and Taraji P. Henson did narration. I noticed their voices right away. Last night was a night of powerful speeches and testimony. I appreciate how Kamala Harris kept including Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous communities, Indigenous tends to get left out of the discussion and sometimes Asian communities as well.

THIS! Million times THIS!!

I do like the aspect of Lucinda and John reconciling but Lucinda giving over the reins to Worldwide to Lily just doesn't quite ring true to the character. I agree with @Mitchthough that realistically, there would be a back and forth on who is running the company. I could see Lucinda, not meaning to undermine Lily but doing it nonetheless, until a struggle ensues over the direction of the company. Honestly, the show should've kept Lucinda's eldest grandchild alive so that he could be groomed to take over (even as Lily runs the company), that would've caused some friction, but alas.

I definitely don't miss the old roll call, it was really noisy, you could hardly hear what people were saying and tended to be overpopulated by obvious bigwigs overfull of bombast. There were quite a few touching vignettes during last night's roll call, which personalized the feature to the extent where you weren't just seeing a state but a collection of people's experiences.

Interesting article that made me wonder what does happen to those seasons of The Cosby Show? Also, the aspect of removing episodes driving a cult following and underground video culture reminds me of so much of what goes on with soap episodes nowadays.

Then Charlotte Kirk, I guess, is what I had always pictured Leanna Love becoming on Y&R, lol.