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And don't think for one single moment that Black people have forgotten about this, which is why he's being cussed for filth all over social media, which honestly, is the only place where Kanye is even receiving a modicum of discussion. The rest could care less.

These scenes and clips seem fairly jumbled but I did notice this scene with a nightmare sequence, in particular, which I have no recollection of. Also, a few minutes after this, there is a scene where Sabrina gallops away on a white horse, nearly knocking over Frannie and Seth, who sees Sabrina for the first time.

Trump is also trying to bully school districts into re-opening in the fall (something he has no power to dictate) by threatening to withhold funding to states whose school districts don't reopen due to COVID-19 concerncs. This seems familiar, as he tried (and failed) to use a similar tactic against so-called sanctuary cities. The truth that no one seems to want to face up to is that most schools (not even just public schools) would need a total re-working of layout and engineering systems. Most experts in virology, infectious diseases and the like, have said that public spaces need high-grade air filtration systems, room for social distancing, sanitizing stations and contact-less facilities in order to make these spaces less likely to become incubators of the virus.

Dude needs to take an extended break from public speaking. The "woe is me" self-pitying attitude is totally unbecoming. This was not some charitable act gone wrong, they sold tickets, players were getting paid. Things have gotten bad enough in Serbia that they government has declared another lockdown. He helped to host an exhibition with no social distancing and no masks, where players partied shirtless in a club. Does he want people to feel sorry for him because of decisions that he made? His statements are making things worse.

POTUS 44 and former AG Eric Holder have been working on this issue for at least, the last three years.

99% of the soap blogs, the self-appointed keepers of the soap legacy are only interested in star-gazing and would rather forget the less glamorous aspects what production entails. Notice how quiet many have been during this pandemic (which is not a bad thing, btw). Without the prominence of the soap stars, most blogs have nothing to say. The irony is with half a dozen video-streaming platforms available (Zoom is only one of them), this would be a perfect opportunity to dig in past the artifice and good deeper into daytime drama's legacy. Have discussions with the writers of past (let's be honest, the present soap writers are unlikely to be honest about the process), the music directors, the set designers, etc. to give insight into how exactly these shows are put together and the conflicts that can spring from clashing concepts of creativity and how it gets resolved. I know that most soap fans are unlikely to be riveted by this stuff but it could find a niche audience that might be more than people think. The WGA has been doing a series of discussions with writers and showrunners. Unfortunately, the daytime soap genre is less than an afterthought when it comes to this, so I don't expect soap writers, even highly regarded ones to get on that platform. Someone will have to create one outside of this.

This pretty much summed up my thoughts when I read that open letter that was criticizing...other open letters?

Oh, I enjoyed the discussion between HBS, GM and SB immensely. It was highly entertaining. To have writers on, though, I'd have different expectations. As a writer myself, I'd want a discussion featuring another writer(s) to be instructive and informative and I realize that despite my curiosity about wanting to hear from SBH concerning her writing days at ATWT, I'd be unlikely to get what I 'want' out of a discussion on such a freewheeling format--the very quality that I liked so much when SB, HBS and GM appeared on the livestream.

If there is a lot of misremembering in these interviews, it might not be helpful to invite Susan Bedsow Horgan on to talk about her time as a writer on ATWT then. Locher had some GL writers on previously, so I was thinking that perhaps it might be cool to have her on to discuss her time as a writer on the show and maybe why she wasn't back after Marland's passing or anytime after, which would be interesting to know. But you're right, it's been so long ago now, that may not be helpful or very insightful.

How many people watched the Locher Room livestream with Scott Bryce, Hillary Bailey Smith and Gregg Marx? In all this talk about writing regimes and continuity, it got me thinking about something Scott said and I'm a bit confused and now I have a question: Scott said that Doug Marland would put these really humorous notes in the script. Love notes, Scott referred to them as being. One note, Scott said was one where Craig and "Carlos" (Sierra Esteban's alias while she was disguised as a boy) are in Montega and there is an explosion and Craig throws his body on top of Carlos' and Scott said that in the script there was a "love note" that said that "Craig is strangely attracted to Carlos". I chuckled at that but now I'm a bit confused: Wasn't those Montega scenes/storyline supposed to fall under Susan Bedsow-Horgan's purview? Was Marland "ghostwriting" or supervising during that time? Was he already embedded in the Writer's Room by then? I ask because I've been told many times that Marland's work didn't show up onscreen until Autumn 1985 or late summer, at the earliest but these scenes that Bryce speaks of, clearly happened earlier in 1985 (late winter, at the latest). Bryce seemed pretty clear on his relaying of the story. Thoughts? Anyone?

HBS' Margo and GM's Tom remained hot and fiery, even in the midst of the faux affair with Barbara. Dolan and Holmes' Margo and Tom just weren't my cup of tea, in general.

Susan Bedsow-Horgan was part of the HW duo that wrote OLTL for the Prospect Park/TOLN soaps, which was eagerly denigrated by much of the so-called 'soap press', which was highly unfortunate. SBH should have been brought back to ATWT in the 90s after Marland passed...certainly in the late 1990s, at the very least. Many of the same people who eagerly denigrated her HW regime at OLTL during the PP/TOLN era eagerly heap praise on Sheffer who took the show the farthest away it had ever been from the style of storytelling that it was best known for. How ironic.

For some reason, I'm thinking that Mary Trump's book is going to outsell John Bolton's. Just gonna put that thought out there.

It sure would be nice if someone could actually interview him to find out. As for Eileen Fulton, with Lisa already having to practically step over Whit's dead body, I could see why she'd be 'over it' in terms of having to play out another body practically dropping at her feet. LOL. Yes, he does! Isn't Lisa Brown married to the actor who played Floyd IRL?

Zach Roerig was busted for DUI in May?!! In a less crazy time this would've made a lot more news headlines. https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/29/vampires-diaries-zach-roerig-arrested-dui-allegedly-urinates-pees-jail-cell/

Speaking of the overlooked continuity between writing regimes, only four years later David Cryer (Haskell) would return as Phillip Lombard. I would have liked the show to bring him back in the show's final years, as he might've made a good love interest for Lisa. Fulton and Cryer clearly have some zany, fun chemistry in these scenes. In the show's last years, Lisa was in desperate need of some fun and romance. I was going to say the same thing. Finn became much more assured in the next year and did some excellent work in 1986 and 87, in particular. Finn had come straight from Little Theater into television, already a different animal and daytime, in particular, has a very frenetic pace where one has to learn copious pages of dialogue very quickly. I don't think most people have an appreciation for how challenging that can be and Finn was not eased into things either...she entered in storyline that was already off the ground and running. I'd advise people to look at her scenes in 1986 and 1987, she did some fantastic work on the show! Last year I said that I wished Cal Randolph had stayed around (did the actor leave by choice or was his character dispatched? I ask because with these livestreams we're finding out that many actors who were alleged to have been "cut" actually chose to leave e.g. Frank Runyeon and wanted to be written out). The more I see the character, the more I think he should've stayed. Fight me, if you want but I think Luke Reilly and Lisa Brown would have had some really good chemistry. Was I the only one who didn't know that Zach Roerig got busted for DUI over Memorial Day weekend? https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/29/vampires-diaries-zach-roerig-arrested-dui-allegedly-urinates-pees-jail-cell/

No surprises there, especially when several members of his cabinet were testing positive for well over a month. Hm.

This. 2Chainz can go sit in his VR chair. Does he even vote?? Does Elon Musk even vote? I've talked to my nieces and nephews, some of whom are voting age now and they have told me that buying a pair of Yeezy's (which are ugly, tbh) is different from voting for the office of POTUS. It is an entirely different calculus. And I suspect the voices that are loudest on social media (that is, if it's not mostly some Russian troll factory) are the ones least likely to show up to the ballot machines, especially if those lines are long. The only tweets I've really seen are the ones joking that Kanye's M-I-L Kris Kardashian is likely behind this and also making jokes about what Kim would be like as FLOTUS, taking endless selfies.

I must be on a totally different wavelength because I have yet to hear any single person say that they will vote for Kanye. People are talking about 'splitting the Black vote' as if Black voters are stupid and fall for anything, when the majority of donors and financial supporters of conmen like Shaun King are white, who continually ignored the warnings of black women and continue to contribute to that fraudsters. Black voters are not stupid and we are not a monolith.

This is soap YT page quickly becoming my favorite channel for ATWT episodes because she/he/they are posting some episodes that I'm pretty sure have never been posted before. That cover version of "Every Breath You Take" in the opening scene had me screaming. There have been clips posted of Lisa struggling and Tom and Margo getting to the warehouse but much of how they got there was missing. This fills in the missing details.

Just a reminder. And this is all I'm going to even bother to say in regards to what's-his-face.

I agree and there was a continuity of style in some of the execution of later storylines during Marland's tenure. For example, the chaotic, frenzied night where Shannon got arrested at Diana's and a brawl ensues where the police ended up dragging everyone in the restaurant's dining room into the police station (with an exasperated Lt. McClosky bellowing for "Quiet!"), with Lucinda once again salivating at the prospect of capitalizing off the juicy gossip that will be in her newspaper. That happened a year later in '86. It has obvious echoes to the frenzied, chaotic scene at Bob & Kim's wedding reception. There are other examples where there is a continuity of characterizations and technique in story execution that might not be obvious to some but is obvious to me. The style and the execution are very similar, except a year later, the tracking of how the scene was filmed at Diana's was technically more sophisticated, having been filmed with edits that were more seamless.

From what I've seen of her work, I think that Susan Bedsow Horgan would have been able to manage HW duties. This just goes to prove how terribly misogynistic the daytime soap industry was and still is, which is pretty shocking, considering the role of Irna Phillips, a woman, in the creation of the T.V. daytime drama. I posted that episode because, for all the talk that Bob and Kim's wedding gets, no one seems to mention the fact that an entire room of the bridal party and guests were rounded up by police and shuffled off to the police station, where they were detained! Also, those scenes between Lucy Deakins' Lily and EH's Lucinda seem pretty tender and rare...not that it's meat, or anything but you catch my drift. but yeah, a pretty chaotic episode, lol.