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I also remember Ms. Gleason for a small but very poignant scene she performed with Cynthia Nixon in Sex and The City.

SMH.

Well, it looks like a Democratic Socialist did win a contest, and oh, look, she's a black woman! In fact, if memory serves me correctly, the only two DSA candidates to win on Tues/Wed. were both POC. Isn't that something? Bernie Bros. must be steaming.

If GL had the more dynamic stories during that time, ATWT certainly had the more dynamic young cast because their actors were ALWAYS leaving! It's certainly good for the actors but bad for the show. Imagine having to write around that level of instability. Regardless of what people think about Meg Ryan nowadays, she was probably not easy to replace. Imagine having to replace Julianne Moore! Gregg Marx was part of a supercouple when he left. And TPTB were likely relieved when HBS and Marx clicked, having replaced another highly popular couple in Margaret Colin and Justin Deas.

Oftentimes, the NYTimes can be utter crap but boy, was it glorious to read an uncensored quote of "Fu*ck Trump" in black and white in a news article. Now that's actually all the news that's fit to print.

I'm very fuzzy on specific storylines on Generations, did they ever address anything to do with race?

Gabrielle Union at NBC, Taraji P. Henson at CBS, the micro-agressions at CBS and the shady business that went on with that Lethal Weapon series. The equally shady business that caused black producers to flee from ABC. The list goes on and on.

These networks would do well to hire more black creatives instead of using black talent to build their networks' "street cred" before promptly dumping them once the show or timeslot gains momentum. Perhaps then I'd believe that they were doing more than just performative posting. Seriously, when's the last time you saw a one hour drama featuring a black family?

@DRW50^^That theme sounds like it could be the same saxy variation on the ATWT used years ago, in the 80s, except in this scene the music is fainter, as if an echo, I guess the situations are completely different, so they tweaked the versions to suit the mood. Was Joseph Breen cast because they wanted a Gregg Marx clone? I just noticed the resemblance, particularly in hair and styling.

It wasn't even as nice as a "striver", in most of those cases it was the one "uppity" sibling that had to be 'brought back down to earth' by the "hood" sibling. In that case, you can add Jessica Griffin/Lamar Griffin (ATWT) to that list. You also had Tyrone Jackson/Jazz Jackson (Y&R) and whatever the hell that storyline that they were involved in, was about.

Of course, Putin had words with Trump this morning, likely telling trump, that this was not what the Kremlin installed him in office to do and likely told trump to get his as* in gear PDQ.

So the news media is reporting that Joe is out of the basement, while Trump has retreated to his bunker. What a world. I've been saying for over three years now that there is simply no leadership. Now it's obvious to all but the most willfully blind. Trump went from campaigning on "I alone can fix things", which was totally preposterous from the beginning to "I don't know, don't care and take no responsibility for anything". His cult followers should be embarrassed (we know they're not, but they should be).

Well, that bedroom sequence was actually really brutal. Greta's slap was quick and easy to dismiss, James brutalizing Emily was not.

There's video floating around of a woman trying to bash in a window of a Neiman Marcus department store. Someone derided her as having her "Neiman Marxist" moment.

@DRW50Yes, I saw quite a few tweets/videos similar to that one pushing back on those claiming that the U.K. is more enlightened than the U.S. and some of the responses were...something else. What I hope is that those gathering en masse for these demonstrations in Europe will take that same energy and put it toward the cases of deaths in police custody that are surely there, in their respective countries. A thousand voices will no doubt ring louder than one single voice or two or three voices on social media.

I liked that mid 80s Barbara and late 80s, early 90s Emily were written as owning their sexuality, regardless of whether others approved or not. Barbara was pretty apologetic over her affair with Tonio but Emily seemed unapologetic despite those times when she was slut-shamed. Whether you agreed with their actions or not, at least their characters had agency, which is more than I can say for 90% of the women characters in daytime soaps today. Case and point: that video that was posted of Greta calling Emily a whore and slapping her outside of the court room. Notice how quickly Emily reacted and kept it moving, lol. Emily gave no effs what Greta thought of her.

John had quite the yen for younger women before and after his marriage to Lucinda. Smith would have been way more convincing as a "temptress" to Steve had he still been on the canvas when she showed up. Remember Emily supposedly had a "thing" with Hensley Taggart, the creepy guy who tried to assault Barbara and was shot and killed by James in Duncan's castle? Emily had some vague dalliance with him when she spent time in Europe/Scotland. Emily was sort of written as somewhat of a Lolita figure when McDermott was in the role. What didn't actually change even when Smith took over the role was that Emily was still written as a young women who never had any relationship with her own father and transferred those misplaced emotions into relationships with older men like James Stenbeck. Somewhere along the line, Marland must've felt that he was wasting Smith on May/December romances and decided to go younger, so much so that Emily went very young with a barely legal Paul.

Something tells me, the demonstrations in Europe go beyond solidarity over the death of George Floyd. The U.K. alone has countless cases of black people, especially black men who died in police custody under suspicious circumstances. I would hope that those countries and the citizens of those countries also take a look at their internal politics and see where the change should be made and call for that change.

Apparently, she voiced her displeasure at the way the protests are being done? She needs to explain rather than trying to evoke her blackness, which, correct me if I'm wrong, may be the first time she's ever done this. Who is she addressing in her original comments though?

We don't need "allies" like this. It's the very last thing we need.

Considering the fact that he was the only headwriter that I remember ever penning a story line in which a black man is shot dead by he police, I think that had he lived into, even the late 1990s, Marland would have written a full-fledged, all out story about a resident in Oakdale who also happens to be a black man who is killed by the police and the fall out in Oakdale that happened as a result. Marland used to have a way of dabbling in certain storylines only to write full-fledged stories years later, perhaps when he felt that he would have a freer hand.

GL tried to make Ann Hamilton's Mindy some type of 90s version of Annie Oakley. I just remember there were many scenes of her Mindy at Cross Creek taking target practice with a hunting rifle and wearing waders while fly fishing. It was quite a departure from the ultra-femme versions of Mindy that had come before. Although Smith had chemistry with a lot of actors that you wouldn't guess that she would. She had surprising chemistry with Benjamin Hendrickson in the scenes that I saw them in, as well as Andrew Kavovit, Scott Bryce, and Jon Hensley, Anthony Herrera and Greg Beecroft probably most of all. Those characters were nothing alike yet she had chemistry with them all.

Nope, Tesreau's Mindy would more likely have reached up on tiptoe and popped Roger in the jaw after stomping on his foot, if Roger ever made a move, lol.

And he's getting a multitude of pushback in his Mentions, as it should be. It's getting real across the pond. I'm considering the source but still...