DramatistDreamer

How convenient for Trump and his cronies.

And looks so young to boot!

Some sad news that I just discovered: Mel Winkler, who portrayed the first Leonard Franklin, father of Detective Roy Franklin (Count Stovall) passed away last week. He was wonderful in the few scenes that he had on the show and honestly, ATWT should have developed Roy's family because of Stovall, Winkler and Novella Nelson alone. https://www.etonline.com/mel-winkler-devil-in-a-blue-dress-actor-dead-at-78-147976

About two years ago, or a little less, I believe I posted an article about Chinese and Indian military tensions along the border. Looks like it has only gotten worse since then.

There still needs to be an effective and safe prophylactic but if this helps more people survive this scourge then it's obviously good and necessary right now.

That stimulus money at work.

Did anyone read that NYT article? I did, and it was extensive. I wonder if Mary Trump provided some of those documents that were embedded in the article. The fact that she was a primary source for that feature really speaks volumes.

The next issue of the New Yorker is stunning. No words, really. Just feelings. Intense ones.

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

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.

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.