DramatistDreamer

They're foolish if they don't show episodes with Dickson and especially Lester. Those are some of Y&R's 'Diamond Years'. Y&R already hosted a stream on Facebook where Jerry Douglas, Beth Maitland and Eileen Davidson extolled the talents of Terry Lester and expressed how much he is missed. Honestly, I don't see why they wouldn't show those episodes featuring Dickson and/or Lester, unless it were out of anxiety not to show viewers how much better the show was in those days.

For about six months and running, I've been saying that there will be a recession due to Trump's incitement of trade wars. Now with this pandemic sweeping the world and having to rely on failed leaders like Trump and Boris Johnson, delays from Italian leadership and others, it looks like we are headed for a global recession that could be very painful and lengthy. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/why-the-global-recession-could-last-a-long-time/articleshow/74945319.cms

While China has been known to hide and obfuscate information, this article articulates something that may have caused China's numbers to be understated--the fact that their health ministry set a very high bar in the early days for what constituted a confirmed COVID-19 case, which left out many cases that were either asymptomatic, mild or delayed onset of symptoms. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/infected-but-feeling-fine-the-unwitting-coronavirus-spreaders/ar-BB120M2c

Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell seems to have what sounds like a mild case of COVID-19.

Tonya Pinkins sings a handwashing song. She did sorta scratch her nose at the very beginning though.😕

I really hope my old neighborhood in Harlem stays with that same low infection rate that I'm seeing. One of the worst things to come out of this is the belief that only elderly would be in danger because it has only encouraged some younger people to be less than fully observant of safeguarding their health. In turn, plenty of them, including asymptomatic have gone around spreading COVID-19 to others. Yes, it is still true (for now) that up to now, the fatalities have largely happened in the elderly but who's to say that won't change?

Tuc Watkins (David Vickers/OLTL) appears in Season 2 of the Showtime series Black Monday as Congressman Roger Harris, who has a very memorable encounter with one of the main characters.

Saw that Whoopi is trending and got worried for a moment but saw that this is the reason why. Bernie's cultists are likely flooding Whoopi's mentions with bile and vitriol now.

Oh boy, how things change in the midst of a pandemic! I remember at this time last year, even just before the Oscars, so many industry folk were decrying the streaming platforms. Netflix was regarded as Public Enemy #1 with cinema operators and the studio system that relied on them. Now, so many studios are flocking to streaming platforms to save their non-comic book movies. Romantic comedies, in particular, are beating a hasty path to streaming. Indie producers are looking to capitalize on the sudden need that streaming platforms now have for films that are already ready for distribution but hadn't been sold yet. It's very interesting. No word on how soap fans feel on streaming but I suspect there has been less to whine about in that regard, especially when a show can get interrupted at any moment by a breaking news moment or press conference about the latest grim developments.

Wimbledon used to be my favorite GS tournament when the courts actually played like grass courts. That seems like so long ago. The players who will suffer the most are the ones who lack the financial resources to keep on track and pick up where they left off. Those who were already struggling and needed to travel to play Challengers just to remain viable will suffer the most. Roger has a HOF career and has had one for a decade. Nadal and Djokovic also are shoo-ins for the HOF as are, without question, The Williams Sisters. The people who have yet to win a major and need good timing, good health and fortunate circumstances to go their way will be most at risk because so much can change in a year. Not to mention those who are still waiting to get their tennis careers off the ground. Nothing is a given for anyone at this point.

Remember when folks screamed about the robots coming to take 'our' jobs? How do folks feel now? Personally, it would be reassuring to have robots do certain jobs at times like these.

Really poor on the part of the Tories. If this isn't a signpost of conservatism/austerity, I don't know what is.

Parker really was my first Maureen and I loved her and thought she deserved her Emmy award. I saw Dolan kind of retroactively and was amazed at how fluid her Maureen was compared to how brittle her Margo seemed to me. My lasting memory of Dolan's Margo was her shouting at Casey all the time--of course, it didn't help that TIIC had decided to make both her sons relentless screw-ups. Unfortunately, the Emmy awards mostly seemed to reward shouty-ness and maudlin performances over subtlety or nuanced performances, which is why Kathryn Hays was always overlooked despite her excellence over decades. The commonplace tactics of performative histrionics with men grabbing and over-emoting that you speak of, unfortunately was a direct result of shows wanting to arm their actors with 'Emmy bait' performances, imo. It's a shame it afflicted ATWT the way it had already done with most soaps at the time and still exists today.

The way you identify Marx as being connected with Days is the way I think of Dolan being connected to GL, lol. I can't say that I ever got used to her as Margo.

At the time, he and Colin weren't yet married. I think they were both off the show by the time they wed but they did have wonderful onscreen chemistry. And Deas and Hutchinson had great chemistry too, so yes Deas definitely benefited from more than one great onscreen pairing. That probably had a lot to do with his more disciplined performances. Tom was a character that had been played by other actors, who came and went and Deas must have had some sense that he could be replaced if he didn't focus on just doing good work, which likely kept him honest and his performances earnest. Meanwhile Deas originated the role of Buzz and AFAIK, has been the sole actor ever to play the role. On some level, Deas probably came to believe that he was the only one who could play Buzz. Once an actor believes that he/she is the only one capable of portraying that character, it's probably a challenge to get them to be humble and just do their work and give an earnest performance.

They probably didn't have anyone BTS to reign Deas in. By the mid '90s GL seemed to be mostly made up of a few characters who appeared to have gotten all the spotlight and the rest kind of seemed disappear and fade after missing so long that you wondered whether certain characters were even still on the show. It's no coincidence that as Deas started chewing scenery, the lack of balance on the show was more glaringly obvious than ever.

Why would anyone chop up episodes this way? I detest character and couples' edits.

Interesting article on how a number of authoritarian leaders are using the coronavirus crisis to choke civil liberties and rights, many with no indication of an end date or temporary status. For Autocrats, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power

As much as I've come to dislike DeBlasio and his rigid leftist doctrine (which didn't seem as thoroughly ground in when he first got into office but is now), DeBlasio inherited an intractable homeless crisis that has proven extremely difficult to burrow out of. At the very least DeBlasio put an end to stop and frisk and set about trying to rectify some glaring criminal justice matters that had been festering during the Bloomberg administration. Since we could use all the good news we can get.

One of the things that I most hold against former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg (besides Stop and Frisk) is the fact that he promised to address this need but never did. He was supposed to oversee the construction of more affordable housing for families as well as Single Rooming Options (studio apartments), particularly for homeless men (many of whom were veterans, some with substance abuse and mental health issues that often kept them in a cycle of homelessness and hopelessness. Even as the homeless problem became a full-blown crisis, not seen since the Reagan years, Bloomberg did nothing to alleviate this. In fact, more luxury buildings and apartments were built under his watch than any other NYC municipal government in memory. One of the reasons why I'm glad he got so little support that he eventually dropped out of the presidential race.