DramatistDreamer

Soaps don't know how to write for characters independently of being tied to another character, and it is especially rare for women characters to be introduced or sustained without being tied to a man. It's really sad and I think that was what happened to Juliet, they never tried to extricate her from Cane. You can't sustain a character as solely an appendage to another character.

Al Freeman is one of what, three black actors who've won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Actor in A Leading Role? CBS has never had a Black actor who has won an award in this category? The whole entire network! Why are they not embarrassed about this? Wasn't the first black actor to appear on a televised daytime soap on CBS??

Andy (to Lien): Are you okay...did he hurt you? Lien: (too busy choking to answer)...

Black people tried to "go high" and take a knee in silent protest until y'all put your knees on our necks.

From what I've seen, it seems as if Moon had previously been a sort of the "go-to" Asian stock character in the P&G universe, having made appearances on at least two P&G soaps prior to Y&R. His role on Guiding Light seemed to be a complete stereotype and he was on As The World Turns for seemingly a short time before another actor, Russell Wong, stepped into the role.

People forget that E.R. existed. It's a shame that there were hardly any South Asian characters, particularly on one hour dramas in the wake of that show but my guess is that there was no will behind the scenes to see South Asians as more than stereotypes. By the way, that's not just true of South Asians but of most immigrant groups of color on U.S. television and movies, including Black immigrants. It's pretty darn pathetic. Like I said, probably one of the many reasons, soaps have failed to grow their viewing audience over decades. To be honest, that could be a good reason for the drop off of viewers in primetime broadcast television as well. Why waste time with The Last Man Standing when you can go to Netflix and watch Narcos, House of Flowers, Kim's Convenience or watch sexy Dev Patel on Amazon Video or Korean dramas on Hulu? There's a whole diverse world out there and U.S. T.V. is pretty much missing it.

So did I! I thought that Shenaz Treasurywala would've been perfect to play an older sister. I had her whole entrance story set in my mind. It's too bad they gave up so easily. I know some people found Ravi boring but how many boring characters have the show allowed to remain on canvas for several years before dumping them? I honestly think that with the addition of even one sibling would've brightened Ravi's prospects storywise and created a lot more complexity for the characters around him, even Ashley. I saw the Nia Long appreciation tweets earlier. I don't know how it got started but I think it's cool.

On at least one occasion she played doubles with Gimelstob. I don't know about the Bryan brothers. Gimelstob is boorish and thuggish but I don't know where he stands in terms of race. He has partnered with Chanda, Venus and Alexandra Stevenson. Not that this means he can't be racist but I've never heard him saying racist things, virulently sexist yes.

Rubin also seemed to suggest that an ATP player had done the same.

That part! There was a study done about 5 or 6 years ago that illustrated that television entertainment like movies and television show (as well as companies) that were diverse, tended to make more money at the box office, had higher ratings and were more successful in general. Could there be a correlation to soaps in terms of the lack of diversity, in front of and especially behind the cameras? I think so. Even as ratings fell, soaps held onto their ways of doing things, even though those ways had become largely anachronistic.

Okay, I just got a chance to see the Cooper reunion and it was fun (I wished Justin's mic's volume was up higher), the conversation moved at a good clip and it seemed like everyone said what they wanted to say. I did miss Jean Carol's presence though. It was nice to hear that Melina and Frank still keep in touch, their story didn't always service their characters but they had genuine onscreen chemistry.

Or someone else, because the burden shouldn't only be on her but yes, that I would like to see! Ellen Holly, Tonya Pinkins, Tonya Lee Williams, Eddie Earl Hatch, Stephanie E. Williams and so many others would have loads of insight I'd bet!

It wouldn't surprise me if the way the show treated her in her last years left a bad taste in her mouth. She's done livestreams with other organizations and panels over the past two months or so, she doesn't seem to have an issue with the platform. Nothing would surprise me. Daytime doesn't have that great of a track record with black actors.

I noticed that someone in the chat asked Alan why he hasn't had any black actors on yet. I wonder if Alan is afraid of what some might say. Which is why yesterday, I posted that he should seek to get Tamara Tunie on sooner rather than later as it's becoming quite noticeable.

Actual number of jobs added, at what wages and in what industries will always be a far more accurate indicator of who is working and who is not in the U.S. than the "unemployment" metric, where demographics are always left off or fall through the cracks, because they are under-reported, or simply not reported at all. Even having said this, black and Asian unemployment ROSE. How is the current occupant of the White House going to spin that in his pitch to black voters?

People are skeptical of these numbers, with good reason.

Kamala Harris verbally dismantled Rand Paul.

Exposed.

What dates did Frank and Maggie leave the canvas? I don't think there is a video of that time anywhere. Were they still around in the summer of '85?

Just saw that video of the Buffalo PD knocking an elderly man to the ground and I wished I hadn't. It is a terrible thing to see, especially close to bedtime. Then the BPD lied and said he tripped, did they not see the video?? I've decided not to post it because it's too disturbing.

I laughed so much when they were discussing the shrunken head and Michael Swan talked about talking to the tennis ball, lmao! I think I had heard that the two dated, it might have been on either one of their social media.