DramatistDreamer

Did anyone see the pictures of that giant pool party in Wuhan, China? Admittedly, I'm dubious about the veracity of what that video and photo implies but otoh, the city of Wuhan did test millions of their residents.

Whew, right there with you on that one! Also, didn't help that the writing for these iterations of the character was just dreadful but I agree that the casting was wrong. Something I appreciated, when the writing was actually good, was that characters could seemingly be bitter rivals, sniping at each other one moment and demonstrating empathy and understanding in a different moment. Lisa and Lucinda did it when Lisa vowed to go after Lucinda with the Martin Guest mystery yet, didn't use it to hurt Lily, even when it would clearly be to Lisa's advantage to do so. This happened with Barbara and Margo a few times also.

IA. Fortunately, the success of Becoming proves that there are so many other things she is capable of doing and she still has the ability to connect with people.

@I Am A Swede I posted a little about this a week ago or so. IMO with Lukashenko being in office for damn near a quarter-century, the only person he can turn to, at this point, is Putin who has had 20 years in higher office in some capacity. Putin may not like it but, as you inferred, if Lukashenko goes down, it might raise hopes, particularly for those Russians in the Far East who have already been protesting.

LOL. I just cannot stand them and think Cubic Zirconium and Rayon are a better fit for names in which to call them by.

With all the construction noise on my street, I am having a hard time being productive so I decided to watch the GL reunion with Rick Hearst and Sonia Satra and Hearst mentioned doing a screen test for the role of Linc with Heather Rattray, who he complimented as a sweetheart that he got along with very well. It'd be nice if some reunion show could have Rattray and Lucy Deakins. Also, there needs to be a show with Lea Salonga and Ming-Na Wen.

Aren't Cubic Zirconium and Rayon engaged in some lawsuit against FNC or something?

There was a lot of cheering on my TL when that announcement was made. I'm trying to parse why. For most of the season, everyone's talking about the Slams and the bigger tournaments, while failing to paying attention to the smaller tournaments which seem to have little to no money for proper testing. This is disturbing to me.

CBS just broadcasted Biden with a 10 point lead on their morning news show. Are people relying on polls again?? Those relying on CNN should remember that CNN has wild swings in their polling. I'm curious about polls but I'm no masochist, so I think I will take these with a grain of salt, especially the ones with wild swings.

I was watching the episode where Kim finds out that the father of Barbara's baby Jennifer is Frannie's husband with Kathryn Hays giving an understated and satisfying performance, per usual. The episode was pretty entertaining, not sure whether I actually saw it when it originally aired. Hal's scenes with a betrayed Frannie, commiserating while explaining that he actually still loves Barbara. I even liked Andy's scenes with Courtney, that were obviously meant to obliquely reference some sort of foreshadowing of the inevitable crumbling of Daryl and Frannie's relationship due to lack of trust. Even the scenes with Kirk, Ellie, Iva and John all seated at dinner were oddly amusing. With Lucinda, out with Scott Eldridge stopping by their table, I couldn't help but chuckle at the grouping of couples, most of whom were all wrong for each other gathered at one table. The relationship between Scott and Lucinda was intriguing. Was this some sort of attempt at a Lucinda/Craig retread or just an aspect of Lucinda's predilection towards younger men (there was a great scene in the late 80s where Sierra, with an air of disdain, mentions Lucinda with her "younger men"--of course, a dart at not only her dalliance with Craig but the assumption that Lucinda was having a "thing" with her masseuse, that Sierra saw as he was exiting Lucinda's budoir) or was it equal parts flirtation and getting "sticking it" to Scott's mother Lisa? The scenes with Kirk cooing over baby Aaron and Iva's unborn baby were something to see. Ellie's reaction seemed to be indifference, if not exasperation. Ellie rightly asserts that Kirk knew that she didn't want children when they married. Those scenes made me wonder what Marland's commentary may have been on that marriage with scenes of Kirk so attentive to Iva's unborn baby with Iva seeming to enjoy the attention. John wasn't really in the room in that sequence (mostly out of frame), which struck me as interesting.

Don't know what it's going to take to steer this Titanic country away from the iceberg but there is not nearly enough national outrage in the U.S. over numbers like this.

Continuing to rack up the "Ls" on the diplomacy front (what diplomacy?).

The first alcoholism story several years previous to the Pratt one, was actually a decent story and that's where they should've stopped. There's only so much an actor can do when the storyline is just not there.

There is an overwhelming abundance of ignorance at every level in the soap industry, which explains so much about why the industry is basically at bottom-feeder status these days.

You know, for years I had been hearing about the things that JFP did well and poorly. I agree that, over the course of a storyline and even over the course of a year's worth of storylines, there were somethings that were done very well. She also made some decisions that had really poor outcomes in the longterm, choices that just turned out to be... not that smart. To me, there ought to be limits placed on the type of decisions that a producer can make, unless that producer writes and/or created the show.

Trump will be big mad as the Postal Service and the question of his rampant lies is taking the attention away from the agreement between Israel and the UAE, which he/Jared had absolutely nothing to do with but want everyone to assume that they orchestrated.

I didn't get to see the match. Some people were complaining about two bad calls that went against Venus and apparently there is no challenge system at this tournament?

On 4/23/2020 at 9:32 PM, DramatistDreamer said: The trailer for the documentary about the women accusing Russell Simmons of sexual assault has been released.

Ellen Parker? She has had (and continues to have) a pretty active theater career. I don't know whether she wanted to do soaps again. These soaps never do the smart thing anyway. Michelle should've been Miner's role for as long as she wanted to stay in the role. Someone else said that Michelle should've been allowed to age naturally, a la Kimberly McCollough on GH. And like McCollough, I think Miner should've been given a chance by either GL or CBS to learn the ropes behind the scenes. Courtney Simon was in front and behind the cameras at times and was pretty successful at it (but wisely took a minor onscreen role when she did both). I think Miner would've been great at directing.

Ew.

Same. I was really impressed with how much Rachel seemed to know about the inner workings of soap production and what made them so popular and how some seemingly lost their way. I wish the people running soaps today actually demonstrated this type of knowledge. Also, I kept thinking how appalled she'd be with how Y&R handled their MS "story"--particularly insulting, especially since, from what I saw growing up, Y&R used to handle disability with much more depth.

Yeah, I kind of missed a chunk of Guiding Light in the mid-late 90s and when I saw Rachel Miner in other things, I guess I too assumed she left to do other things. Tells you how much we know, huh? She said that it was said that she was seen as too young for all the sexuality-based stories they wanted Michelle to be in, so they replaced her and didn't bother to tell her first. I really do believe that how a company treats their staff/employees will impact the fate of that business. Is it any wonder GL ended up the way it did in the decade that followed?