DramatistDreamer

It's disappeared from trending topics. COVID-19 hearings are the focus, which is I'm sure, exactly what the bots and right-wingers DID NOT want.

Cowardly couldn't bully or whine his way out of the questioning, so he turned, tail tucked between his legs and ran.

That is fantastic news about Kathryn Hays and Don Hastings!

Hazel Aden was truly the Susie Rivera of her Degrassi generation, right down to the lack of an exit storyline. If you don't know who Susie Rivera is/was, look her up, lol. The actress who played Teri, reminds me of a young Lauren Graham in this video, for some reason. Good, interesting conversation. Thanks for posting that video @Forever8

Bots. Yesterday, someone noted that the hashtag got started in the middle of the night U.S. time, which was afternoon Russian time. There are people who are trying to counteract the misinformation and provocations but in doing so, they are keeping the hashtag going unfortunately. At this point, that is counterproductive. They should just let that hashtag die.

I came across some SNL clips just now and was struck by this one, which is poignant but also made me chuckle.

Honestly, I had no idea where to put this, and understandably, there is no May Y&R thread so here is as good as any place since Y&R gets a mention in this SNL skit.

The NRCC has been contacting people out of desperation. I know someone who is a recently naturalized U.S. citizen (who lives in a very blue state) who complained of being contacted by this organization (she hung up on them). She was suspicious but didn't know who they were until she told me the telephone number, although I'd already suspected they were Republicans but I looked it up for confirmation. I bet the GOP is calling regions that they never in a million years believed they'd be calling out of desperation.

Because of series like Unsung, at least Ms. Betty Wright was able to see some measure of appreciation while she was still alive. Still, in this day and age, 66 seems like entirely too early to leave this earth. This must surely be a painful Mother's Day for her children. I hope it was a peaceful passage. R.I.P.

If she had won those Daytime Emmys in the previous decade or two, her ticket for primetime would've been written but at that point (2006-), daytime soaps were starting to hit their nadir.

It is comforting and for some of these episodes, it's like, brand new. I've seen the Steve and Betsy wedding but I don't think I'd seen the morning after. They already have Steve having premonitions of what is to come. I was thinking how nice it was to see a passionate evening with Tom and Margo having "sexy time" then oops, there's a snag. The fashions are VERY interesting, per the 80s. That half-shirt that Tom was wearing?!! Boy, I'd forgotten that people used to wear those, LOL! There was a character (Steve's sister?) who was wearing a very avant-garde design. The draping was similar to that of a sari and the contrast in the sleeves, which were asymmetrical. ATWT had to have gotten access to what was considered cutting edge fashion because that resembled the impractical outfits that you'd usually only see on a runway but the character definitely looked like she would not be out of place walking the runway anyway. Was the show trying to chem-test Barbara and Cal Randolph? They might've been onto something there. Speaking of chemistry, I couldn't decide what I thought about John and Lee Bryant's Lyla. It was near-miss, almost for me.

Nope, I find myself doing this constantly with ATWT. I just want to redo and fix that last 10-15 years!

Like I said in my post above, I didn't like their storyline either but it seemed as if she remembers it so fondly because it was an emotional lifeline for her during a difficult time. That 11-14-89 episode, I could see Iva with that Jason Benedict. He was a jerk but at least, he could compete with Kirk Anderson in the looks department.

Having heard the latest Locher Room livestream, I can honestly say that for the first time, I can actually understand why Colleen Zenk is so attached to her storylines from that final year of ATWT. Don't get me wrong, I didn't like the storylines for the last several years but I can see why she speaks of it with such fondness, she explained why, so I tried to see things from her perspective. She'd had a very trying, frightening venturing on traumatic year with her treatments after the second diagnosis, she mentioned that she was actually in her last rounds of radiation therapy when she heard that the show was being canceled, so it seemed like she wanted material that she felt she could have fun with, so I guess she might not have been in the frame of mind to deal with "meaty" or deep material if it meant something that was potentially traumatic. She enjoyed working with Trent and she liked her storyline with him because it was light humor and fun. I think that Barbara could have had a much more impactful send off than an ode to Dance Fever but now, at least, I understand why she clings to that time period so much.

The Bernie Bros. need to get off her aerola for once.

Watching right now. In clip #3 there is a really lovely rendition of the theme in a scene with a forlorn Dusty peering out a window.

Josie Davis? I did but Grace was really a different character at that point. Honestly, I think it was more about Davis' Grace was a better fit with Nick Scotti's Tony. Once Gareis was in the role, the show seemed to have little to no use for Scotti but yeah, I have to admit, I never truly got used to Gareis in the role.