DramatistDreamer

The homeless population exploding during Bloomberg's tenure should be as noteworthy as Stop and Frisk but few people seem to really care about poor people in this country so that won't be an issue.

There are always people who will act brand new (I mean, the woman who claimed she did "eenie-meenie-minee-moe" tells you all you need to know about some parts of the electorate) and as I've been repeatedly told Twitter is not real life anyway, so I only expect a ripple from this. Half the candidates in the presidential had enacted racist policies anyway and with the racist man in the WH, it seems to be par for the course in U.S. electoral politics. Bloomberg has been blanketing states with ads, despite the fact that he thumbed his nose at the first two states during primary season, he has just as much chance as any of the candidates in the race, due to his deep pockets. Remember, the U.S. loves billionaire white men. The more crotchety and racist, the better. And I think I have a pretty good idea why you never cared for Kamala. 🤐

Sarah Lawrence College said "Hold my beer". This is simply disgusting. https://abc7ny.com/students-father-charged-in-alleged-sex-cult-at-ny-college/5921035/

Bloomberg is racist is currently the #2 trending topic on Twitter. Can't say that I'm surprised, it was bound to happen. Oh yeah, NH totally deserves their place as holding the first primary in the nation. (*sarcasm*)

I saw a clip of Renée Zellweger's Oscar speech and she mentions Venus and Serena, lol! That's clout!

Something tells me, if given the opportunity, Marland would have happily written that story.

If Procter & Gamble actually had a decent social media footprint, or at least a YouTube page for their entertainment/production company, they could easily keep up with the most senior veteran soap stars from some of their shows. Sadly, there aren't a whole lot left, at this point. There are many people who voluntarily do blogs and Twitter, even FB pages, those people could easily be doing the same thing for an official page/YouTube channel. Many would volunteer but P&G could throw some freebies their way a few times a year via downloadable coupons (so many companies already do coupon giveaways for no particular reason as it is). If those pioneer and senior veteran soap stars really felt as though people were genuinely interested in hearing from them, I think they'd really make themselves available to do a podcast interview here and there, but no space has been made for them to do this on a big platform on a consistent basis. Many of the blogs have either faded or were very limited to begin with.

What's sad (but not as sad as the doctor's death) is that the U.S. is in absolutely no position to say a damn thing about it since there is an autocracy currently going on in the U.S.

Is this the country that Americans want?

Where the hell has he been? Living in willful ignorance, I guess.

Very interesting that Sinn Fein is now called the party of Irish reunification, especially considering their role in The Troubles. https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/generalelection/for-the-irish-varadkar-may-have-won-brexit-but-he-lost-the-war-at-home/ar-BBZJkro

I've heard that but I've never actually heard her sing.

LOL. In my imagination, Spaulding didn't produce anything but acquired other companies to fill out their various divisions and their company portfolio. It seemed as if most of those companies were like that, including Walsh Enterprises, which I remember wanted to take over the Snyder farm, Lucinda mainly wanted to get rid of the Snyders but I remember Tad Channing suggesting partnering with Lucinda to industrialize the farm, likely to make it one of those agro-businesses. I think early Kirk Anderson suggested a similar proposition. Walsh, in maneuvering to take Simply Barbara (and not give it back once Barbara got out of prison) seemed more of an acquisition (remember how Walsh flopped the business once Barbara started BRO and began to compete? Walsh also briefly acquired the television station WOAK. Yeah, why did Lewis Oil move from Tulsa to Springfield?? Unless they were a big proponent of 'fracking' and believed that Springfield had a source of oil underneath the surface like Nebraska, it doesn't make much sense as to why they'd move their headquarters to Springfield when their rigs were still rooted in Tulsa (and Venezuela).

That's a fair point. I definitely agree that, with their level of talent (Tunie and Morgan) they should be getting more opportunities to lead series. I do think that Davis has been quite a bit more vocal early on about her level of talent and where she believed she should be and that her career was not at the level that she felt it should be. I can remember from at least the time that Davis did Doubt with Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, maybe even earlier, speaking of not being satisfied with the types of roles that she was often offered and that she felt that she deserved better. It's a shame that a talented actress has to even bring this to anyone's attention but I do think that Davis being so consistently vocal had a lot to do with her being in the forefront of influential directors and producers' minds. Then, there is the George Clooney factor.

That's actually not true. By the early 1970s, Procter & Gamble was an international conglomerate, whose products were being sold worldwide (according to what I've read about Crest toothpaste, that product was definitely being sold abroad by then) and the P&G headquarters were located in the midwestern city of Cincinnati, OH. That's true, in a way. In 2009, the U.S. was still trying to extricate itself from a gaping maw of a recession, so people were definitely (and still do) going through hard times, although much of media did not reflect that. For as much as I love 1980s American daytime soaps, they often had a bit of a difficult time truly reflecting reality in a consistent manner. This was the point of my initial post on the topic. You clarified that point in a nutshell, lol.

Soaps have had trouble with getting aspects of culture right, we've seen this in other areas like how certain characterizations are made that don't quite ring true. My quip is not about being against soaps being set in a midwestern location, it is the fact that it is basically a vague setting that is often not imbued with any specificity, which is key to people believing it. That's why I suggested Denver, not L.A. L.A. makes sense for B&B, but wouldn't make sense for the residents of ATWT, for example. Bill Bell Sr., was a resident of Chicago when he started Y&R, so it makes sense the show is set in a midwestern city but a lot of the aspects have morphed over decades to more closely align with a city on the West Coast (including women in stilettos and off the shoulder or short-sleeved dresses with no coat on, in January and February). Denver is more of a midwestern city than west coast, it draws big business, has Fortune 500 and 100 companies and is more believable. Cincinnati, OH (the home of P&G) is much more believable than a city in Wisconsin (sorry Greenbay fans). I'm not arguing against the midwest, I'm arguing for more accuracy in which midwestern city/town gets picked.

Many soap creators decided to set their shows in some random midwestern city, including Y&R (Genoa City, WS), which supposedly has at least 3 Fortune 500 companies, two of which are conglomerates, lol. I often wondered why these shows didn't choose a city like Denver, Colorado which is west but closer to Midwest than it is to L.A. Denver was starting to boom as a city that companies were located and relocating to by the 1980s/90s.

I don't think I've watched an entire SOTU since he's been in the WH. Imagine that.

Well, I didn't watch. Then again, I didn't watch last year either.

Also, don't over-exaggerate Iowa's importance to the point that you drive out candidates that could have sustained interest in the primaries before the primaries even begin. As it is, I'm hearing about low-turnout at yesterday's caucus.

Boy, I'm glad I didn't stay up to try to track this mess! Yesterday, there were whispers that it was going to be a clusterf*ck and I believed it, so I didn't bother to try to track what was going on last night, knowing the mess would likely spill over into a new day. The Bernie Bros and the Trumpists are having a field day. I've only been casually following things lately and even I've noticed this. It's really time for the Democratic party to acknowledge that we're in the 21st century and a 19th-20th century presidential primary system built solely for white men might not work that well for a party that tries to tout diversity.

Oh yeah, I realize that. I hardly watch T.V. these days and still manage to catch her in something. She also does voice-overs as well. I remember hearing her voice on ads and a couple documentaries.

Hey, you don't have to convince me. I was responding to a post saying that her career wasn't very high-profile. I was giving my opinion from a theater perspective as I don't really watch that much television these days.

Julianne Moore moderates a discussion with survivors of gun violence on PeopleTV. https://peopletv.com/video/gun-violence-survivors-speak-out/