DramatistDreamer

I haven't eaten beef or pork in over 20 years and I try to eat more fish than chicken or turkey. When I first heard about possible infections (it had yet to be confirmed), I vowed not to buy anymore chicken or ground turkey. I've been stocking up on beans, rice, etc. because it's going to be homemade veggie burgers this spring/summer. May as well put that food processor to use.

Some had a Long Island accent which is very distinct from the city. As a little girl, I had such a crush on Brian Bloom that I didn't care, I was willing to overlook it.

^^ That just makes me wonder what might have been if characters had been allowed to age normally. Very few soap characters have been allowed to do so and it seems like the ones who do tend to make the deepest impression.

Uh-oh, some folks are just not dealing with this period of confinement very well.

George Conway and a group of "disaffected Republicans" that refer to themselves as The Lincoln Project released a video called "Mourning in America" which apparently has caused Trump to have a midnight and early morning meltdown.

Chris Christie speaking for what must be the first time in months and I'm already tired of him. Why couldn't his stupid @ss stay away??

So, is Andy Lack the Frieda Claxton of NBC/Universal?😄

Friends and distant cousins, lol. Someone posted a podcast about a year ago where she and Alec Baldwin both talked about their soap days. It was a fun listen. I think she's still in touch with John Wesley Shipp also, at least they seem to communicate on social media. I've said this before...Locher should ask, the worst they can say is no.

That's very cool. Those PR skills are serving him pretty well.

OMG.

I'd only realized the origin of the conversation after I posted my remarks based on what others were discussing. I ignore that account. If Locher can manage to get Tamara Tunie on, I think he could possibly get Scott as the two are good friends. Hillary Bailey Smith also.

Most people who post frequently on YouTube do have some monetary compensation in mind, especially when it requires some thought and ingenuity. He's not charging me, so I have absolutely no problems with him trying to generate some ad revenue sharing compensation from it. Why would anybody else? If you don't like it, don't tune in, it's that simple. If the numbers get high enough, you just know P&G (who abandoned these creative properties) will pay attention, right? Exactly. It might just be an incentive for him to keep doing it, bigger and better. I've got no time for 'purity ponies' who think that people shouldn't be compensative for their time and effort. Good point. Even if it should happen, down the line, who cares?

Wow @Veethanks for the 411 on that site. MSN often has articles from various news sites on their website but I never knew about this one!

So the "Open the Country" protesters, i.e. Jackasses are clashing with police and the "Blue Lives Matter" folks are awfully quiet. Some of us always knew that it was never truly about blue lives mattering.

Yeah, I've heard about Florida but with as much carelessness as the bureaucracy in many states have, I expect leaks to happen eventually. If a country that specializes in misinformation like China had to amend their numbers upwards, I think this is the fate of any government that attempts to keep the count artificially low. It may not happen right away, but it eventually happens.

This is perfect! Isn't it sad that there is no soap press to speak of these days? I'm actually genuinely sorry for this because you have these podcasts out here connecting with some favorite actors and it's getting little notice. I frequently see people on social media claim that they had no idea these podcasts existed. As bad as these soap press were, I doubt this would've happened back in the day. On topic though, even though I didn't really read those magazines that often, sound like certain members of the soap media took themselves too seriously and got drunk on their own perceived power.

Who says they're not already? The numbers are likely much higher.

What's surely coming next is higher infection rates, like in Georgia and Texas and likely a second wave.

Oh my at this 1986 promo for Y&R. Jack dumps Nikki.

You know, I've spoken my piece on that years ago and I stand by it. The show was an absolute mess in its final decade but there was nothing special about Craig in that final decade, you could've slotted Block, Meek and Lindstrom in any number of other character roles and it would've made no difference. The characterizations and writing were so generic. I guess in isolation you could say "that one storyline that lasted all of two weeks was good" or that scene wasn't bad but the overall picture was that it wasn't that stirring. Maybe compared to the other schlock that was on the show it looked pretty good but what does that truly say? In the "Best Soap Scenes" thread on this board, does anybody know how many scenes were posted from ATWT's last decade? Because I don't remember any being posted. To me, that speaks volumes. OMG at the tongue lolling around in the mouth. Okay, well, that did stand out, I guess.

When I posted sarcastically about Tr*mp (sick of typing his wretched name) and his love of Kim Jong Un, little did I know that hours latter, the jerk would tweet about...Kim Jong Un. Damn, is the big dumb oaf reading this messageboard. In case he is, don't run for reelection but announce it in October.

I agree with the aspect of it being about perspective. Perhaps Hubbard preferred Lucinda be a more marginal character, more part of the ensemble than standout and if so, I can respect that. When the character of Lucinda first appeared on the scene in 1984, they had her going after John Dixon, with Lucinda musing about what it would be like to be married to a prominent doctor (part of the reason for her "rivalry" with Karen) which seemed like something out of the 1950s even back then but perhaps that is what Liz would've preferred. I also wonder whether Hubbard disliked Lucinda being spurned by Craig. In 1985, it seemed as if Craig was a bit torn where Sierra and Lucinda were concerned after his one night stand with Lucinda. To me, it seemed obvious that it was guilt, not love that made him somewhat conflicted where his budding romance with Sierra was concerned but perhaps in Liz's mind, Craig was in love with Lucinda somehow? It became obvious under Marland's pen that Craig didn't want Lucinda-- I even recall a scene where Lucinda was groping all over Craig and he literally pushed her off him and said "Go take a cold shower" with a look of disgust. Even as a fictional character, I could see how that rejection could sting. Television is also not like a play. Whereas a play, an actor has time to investigate the world of the character, scene by scene and ask the playwright a lot of questions, soaps move so fast that there isn't much time to process any of the reasons why things happen, so it would be easy to see how differently a writer's perspective of a character might be different from an actor's. Honestly though, does anyone believe that Lucinda Walsh was a fully formed character when she arrived a year and a half before Marland arrived? Also, I love Liz, God knows I do (she has stories for days!) but why did no one correct her when she referred to Jesse Lee Soffer's character as the young homosexual man? Was she getting him mixed up with Van Hansis?

I thought he was awful too.