DramatistDreamer

If I come across the scene, I will definitely post it here. Not sure how much I can take of this either, tbh, the sets and the lighting look dystopian. I think that Susan's home (a.k.a. Dusty's old carriage house) is the only attractive looking set. Everything else looks bleak and the "new" Fashions is an eyesore! Quite a few of the storylines are depressing, relationships are cratering. Was this a time of big changes and rapid turnover for the show? At this point, I could only watch during the summer, so I missed much of the mid-to late 1990s.

A financial analysts believes that a one-time stimulus payment is ridiculous.

Watching an undated episode from 1994 and the stories are interesting enough but boy are those sets and that lighting ever bland and generic! There is a Janie Cobb mention in this episode, even though we don't see her. Holden mentions that he has to pick up Aaron from Janie Cobb's place. I've mentioned this before but it would've made sense if Janie and Holden had had a child together, instead of inventing Molly and Holden as a never before seen couple. And the time when Lily was with Damian or Derrick would have been the perfect time to do that.

Amy was Nathan's first GC love interest. Also, Amy's father, Frank Lewis was the Police Commissioner in Genoa City. I remember just thinking he was Paul's father's boss. Also, except for her father Frank Lewis, Amy preceded all of those black characters that you just mentioned.

Me too. The vastly different expressions on both their faces made me cackle. It's a shame that in the last 15 years of the show, Lisa no longer had that same fighting spirit.

What the men's side of this series has had to offer so far has pretty much paled in comparison to this.

You know it's a sad state of affairs when these types of revelations are not even surprising.

Oh, I know not one word of that faux apology was real. I needed to vent but I've long accepted that people like that will never change. Speaking of impatient idiots,

Despite my upbringing of being taught never to say I hate anyone, I swear, these folks are making me start to hate people.

Maggie Baird (Dr. Taylor Baldwin, ATWT/Rhonda Sadowsky, AW) talked to Gayle King on CBS This Morning about her efforts to help restaurants that serve vegan food connect to food banks, front workers and the underserved. https://www.facebook.com/CBSThisMorning/videos/537323653622024/ It looks like it is no longer possible to embed video unless you log onto the site. I'm not a member of Facebook so I am unable to embed the video as I would've been in the past. EDT. Okay, it looks like I've found the video.

Ah, yes, a uniformed Margo Hughes, how could I forget that episode?! You'd think I'd remember the crystal clear episodes on YouTube, especially since they're not all that plentiful.

I think there are one or two episodes posted on YouTube, sometime in early to mid '84 with HBS and Deas. They were okay together but the chemistry really didn't "fire" until she was paired with Gregg Marx. Like she said in the interview, Deas was definitely not happy that Colin had left, for reasons that would become obvious, lol. HBS kind of mentioned that part with a chuckle.

HBS also confirmed something about that era that I'd long suspected-- storyline projections were pitched and written way in advance, rather than the make-it-up-as-you-go-along style of today. The difference in how the dramatic narrative plays out is really noticeable, particularly in the structure and the pacing.

Saudi Arabia is trending right now.

A sweet and entertaining interview. I just finished the segment where she talks about her time at ATWT. Sounds like she got along famously with the cast and her onscreen family. I'm still trying to process the fact that the show turned down a chance to cast Bryan Cranston but I guess like HBS said, things worked out quite fine for Cranston. Also, tittering about Ellen Parker (who replaced Ellen Dolan on GL) replacing HBS in The Heidi Chronicles. Around that same time, PBS aired another Wendy Wasserstein play Uncommon Women with Meryl Streep, Swoosie Kurtz, which Ellen Parker also co-starred in, and since the film onstage production was shot in the 70s, I guess Ellen Parker must've been a favorite of Wasserstein. Amazing. After listening to this podcast, now I really want to see a livestream reunion of Gregg Marx and HBS. Perhaps they could get Scott Bryce too.

Someone should try to get Laurence Caso on a podcast or livestream interview. I'm curious as to what he'd say about his time producing the soap.

That's a great lineup, the lustrous heads of hair on that group alone!🤣 Please, let there be no technical glitches.

Slight typo, she meant black deaths due to the coronavirus but it is understood nonetheless.

Just when you thought he couldn't get more ridiculous, Fanta Fascist's actions wreak of desperation anew.

Mystery solved as to why Georgia's numbers didn't seem to budget after the governor had moved to "reopen" the state.

Belgium, with a Flemish capital (financial) and Francophile capital (cultural) has been a mess politically for years. As I've said so many times, this pandemic has brought into sharp relief all the deficiencies, dysfunctions and structural weaknesses that have been hiding in plain sight in the governments of countries worldwide. Speaking of political messes and dysfunction, I disagree with the caption that somehow this is a "brutal" takedown. It is not. It is merely an honest assessment.