DramatistDreamer

The concept of a Communal Apartment scheme does indeed seem anachronistic, but considering our present times, seems insane. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/too-close-for-comfort-and-the-virus-in-russias-communal-apartments/ar-BB15qszl

Personally, I was not invested in Gloria and John as a couple. At all. Although I preferred Joan van Ark's portrayal because it was more gritty, Gloria was a mess but she was shown as a survivor. I could've kind of seen how John might have admired and even been attracted to that quality, with Van Ark, you could see it. At least with Jill, you could realize what John might have seen in her but I couldn't see what John would've seen in Gloria, especially after the role was recast. I'm not trying to knock Judith Chapman who seems like a down-to-earth genuinely nice person but the character had morphed into this over the top figure, that resembled a low-rent Jill Foster Abbott and I just wasn't interested. I don't even know how the Baldwin/Fischer wing survived at all, considering how nefarious both Michael and Kevin were.

I thought so. Derwin said it drove him crazy that actors would use cue cards, for phone scenes, in particular. Someone asked if Y&R used a Teleprompter and he basically said "Not even..." and said that it was actual cue card. He compared it to GL, which he thought was more about the work. I think that because GL was NYC based and closer to the theater world, it was expected that everyone knew their lines. Melissa Hayden recalled coming in late once and being given a stern but lovely lecture from William Roerig about showing up on time and prepared because it was not fair to the crew, many of which had to put in long hours and would miss their trains home (I guess many lived outside of NYC and took the commuter rails) if they had to stay late as a result of running behind schedule. In NYC theater, tardiness is considered a cardinal sin and a form of disrespect to your colleagues.

Vivica Fox reminisces about her time as a Soul Train dancer. There are blink-and-you-miss it clips of her former Y&R co-stars Shemar Moore, who once hosted the show, and Kristoff St. John, when Fox mentions her transition into soaps and beyond.

Wow, the technical difficulties during the Jun 10 reunion is off the charts! I stopped and came back just now out of curiosity but the volume issues are really off-putting. I'm not putting it only on Alan (although he should really do a mic check before going live) this time because Morgan and Kimberly had some recurring issues that were getting on my last nerve. I thought it was funny that Mark Derwin talked about how frequently Y&R used cue cards with their actors, which was never done on GL. I suspect that it would never be allowed on any P&G soap. OMG, did Kimberly and Vincent not get along??! I detected a strong note of shade in Simm's reactions. Does anyone know more? Oh, okay, they dated IRL but did it end acrimoniously or something? Mark was more forthcoming about his relationship with Beth. Okay, now Simms backtracked and cleaned up her response, lol. M'kay.

VR once referred to that apartment as a kitchenette, which is a good description of the space. Ashley Bashioum was my favorite of the actresses to have played Mac. Some people criticized her and claimed she was expressionless but I don't agree. I liked the fact that she didn't feel the need to over-emote so when the tears and the anger did come, it felt more genuine. Everybody can't be sunny all the time either. I appreciated that. Heather Tom was very good at walking that line between 'fire and ice'. Cold fury, I would call it. Had HT stayed in the role, I think we'd be seeing a lot more soap slaps on Y&R. The show hasn't really committed to completely building up the Sharon character. A good start would be to have her reconnect with her mama and have her find her daddy. They did this will Victor years ago, and it went a long way in humanizing the character and giving insight into why and how Victor turned out the way he did, psychologically.

I knew it! I knew that was the reason it took her behind so long to move her behind into the White House! She was likely also still shagging the Tiffany security guy. The fact will also remain that Trump has to pay women to be with him, ring or no ring. Trump gatherings are like Klan rallies anyway, might as well make it official.

I really wish someone would interview Stephanie E. Williams. I'd really like to hear what she had to say. I know someone cited an interview she did several years ago but I don't think anyone has spoken to her recently and even before the pandemic and the current BLM protests, CBS was in the midst of a massive reckoning in terms of its toxic corporate culture. That was the sense that I got. How do you bring back an actress but completely disconnect her character from every single element that made the character pop? I realize that Hilary was lightning rod but she wasn't boring. From the episodes that I've seen (I admit they were not that many), Amanda is boring.

Who is Chuck Wendig?

At the risk of sounding sanctimonious, I had little problem believing both Ellen Holly and Victoria Rowell's accounts when I first read/heard them. Perhaps it was my own personal experience as a black woman, experiencing micro-aggressions before an official definition even came into being. Experiencing condescension masquerading as complements. Being denied opportunities then finding out months, sometimes years later that my white male colleagues asked for the same thing and were granted their requests with no discernible reason why. My only issue with VR was that, I knew that the more she talked, the more alienation she would experience. Peter Bergman's insinuation about her mental stability, being just one example. I'd witnessed some women and black women, in particularly, being labeled either crazy or hysterical, if they were insistent in their outspokenness. It made me uncomfortable to watch this unfold because I recognized her talent and realized the penalty that she'd likely pay would blowback on her career prospects. I'm so glad she didn't care what I or anyone else thought and kept speaking out. She has come out on the other end looking a lot better than many of her colleagues who criticized her.

This!! Let's have a prayer circle that there be no technical issues, lol.

Thank you for the energy you put in this post because I'm too tired to explain these things to some folks. It's actually exhausting some times.

Funny how little discussion there has been about this week's job numbers. Also, the fact that the Federal Reserve has now predicted years of high unemployment going forward.

And I suspect that they'd rather let the show go completely down the tubes than have a black family leading story. It is CBS after all.

Honestly, the story could still be told with good sensitive writing that plays all the beats. We never saw where Sarge lived or who he would've lived with. Or perhaps he left town and moved back to his hometown where his wife was being taken care of by his family. Or maybe his wife was in a rehabilation facility/nursing home and decided to take her out due to hearing about how many people were getting infected with COVID-19 in nursing homes. Maybe that new clinic in Genoa city has need for a physical therapist and Jack, hearing about it from Devon, tells Devon that he might know someone. Jack contacts Sarge about the position. Sarge is non-committal but tells Jack he will give it some serious consideration. Sarge, weighing the pros and cons, decides that he liked Genoa City and perhaps this could be a great opportunity, so he says yes. Unbeknownst to Jack and anyone else in GC, Sarge won't be returning to GC alone--he will be returning with his wife. There could be a series of episodes where his wife wanders out on her own (which upsets Sarge as he feels it is unsafe for her to wander around a town that she doesn't know her way around) but his wife feels safe and that there is an odd familiarity and comfort to the town. Sarge is glad that she likes the town but urges her not to wander out on her own again. Eventually, his wife starts having odd flashes and needs to pursue why. She secretly ventures out again at times when Sarge is at work. Little by little she starts having stronger flashes and recollections until she starts seeing faces, and wanders closer to the center of town. Who will spot her first? From a distance she sees Devon, Lily (whoever plays her, lol) and sees a man's face in her dreams and starts having memories of him. At a beach, getting married. The man is not Sarge.

Yeah, I batted around the idea on this board about Dru having amnesia and actually being Sarge's common-law wife. It was when KSJ was still alive though.

I'd also like to see actors whose time in daytime was relatively short, like an Eddie Earl Hatch, who could offer an interesting perspective on the industry. I'd like to hear whether his views of his time on As The World Turns are the same as they were decades ago.

BINGO! And it's evident right on the screen, right in front of our eyes.

What did these guys do before their entourages? It would be interesting to see how some players compete without their coaches, relatives sitting in the box pretending not to coach from the stands.

I agree @marceline Jose Andrés has been doing great works for people in crisis for years now. More on the clusterf*ck in Georgia yesterday. On a side note, I read that the point person in charge of the acquisition of the new voting machines used to be associated with the Brian Kemp campaign for governor of GA. Some of these machines had a test run in December and had problems back then. Meanwhile, the entire voting apparatus seems to have broken down.