DramatistDreamer

OTDIH, many Americans may be unaware that this happened but it did.

I remember reading about this when the story broke. https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/40101063/usta-ordered-pay-9m-player-sexually-abused-coach

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Not to put anyone down but Westerners tend to be narrowly focused on one single cause. I mean people have been consistently slaughtered in Sudan for over a year with little notice by American media or people, with the exception of those communities more directly affected.

Thanks @DRW50I haven’t forgotten about this, hopefully I can watch this before the weekend is over.

Why not present the person with the award while they are still alive, lucid and well enough to take in the love and appreciation? Kimberly Sullivan was likely the last character that Irna Phillips ever created? How can any daytime television programmer with an active brain cell fail to acknowledge this? ATWT was cancelled in 2010, Ms. Hays appeared on the Locher Room during when, 2020? The Emmy people had a full decade in which to present her with an award. To me, that says that the folks who program the Daytime Emmy show want to acknowledge the soaps as little as they could possibly get away with, by only focusing on the ones still on air, with the lion share of the awards show dedicated to “service programming”. 2010-2012 were years that soaps were seemingly going out of fashion and in the following years, once the tributes were over, the Daytime Emmys seemed ready to “turn the page” and “Turn Off The Light” and shine the spotlight on other types of shows, like those service shows. With a brand new daytime soap, perhaps this attitude will change but you can’t recapture what has been lost once human beings pass away.

This is unsettling. https://www.yahoo.com/news/serena-williams-dragged-trump-trial-212628293.html

The Daytime wing of N.A.T.A.S. lacks the sense that God gave to a flea, which is why the show spent years being banished to the HLN wilderness. Can you imagine, if they would have given Kathryn Hays a Liftetime Achievement Award while she was still among us? I bet they could’ve gotten Julianne Moore to present, if they planned it properly and promoted well, that could’ve gotten a bump in ratings too. But now, it’s too late.

They were likely thinking there would be more opportunities to come so perhaps they decided to highlight the three characters that were on the show in the first decade of the series. However, there is no excuse for Kathryn and Larry to be left out of the next class of after Helen, Don and Eileen. And after them, it should have been Colleen and Elizabeth in the following class. Even after the show’s cancellation, it still could’ve been done. Monty Hall got his Daytime Lifetime Achievement Award way after he had retired, so why couldn’t all the ATWT actors? I had been saying this for years.

Hays’ work ages so well because it’s understated. Her naturalistic approach doesn’t date itself like some other performances, she subtly draws in the viewer. It may not have gotten awards (it’s inexcusable that they never awarded her an Emmy for lifetime achievement though) but it certainly gets respect. People are welcome to challenge me on this (well, except for anyone on Ignore in which case I won’t bother to check for your response 😂)but I have often gotten the distinct impression that P&G either lacked interest in or was unable to understand the process of campaigning for their actors when it came to Emmy awards. Maybe they didn’t think it was worth it or thought it was beneath them to campaign on behalf of their actors.

OMG, that last comment from Whoopi!😯🤣🙃

People talk about “quiet quitting”. Apparently, Camila Giorgi has quietly retired. https://www.tennis.com/news/articles/camila-giorgi-silently-walks-away-after-name-appears-on-itia-s-retired-players-list

I read the bills up for consideration today and see that apparently, legislation determining whether a citizenship should be added to the 2030 census and I wonder whether this takes precedent over more urgent business that is already overdue. Sigh.

Even at FDIC??! https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-probe-finds-widespread-sexual-misconduct-fdic-sources-say-2024-05-07/

So I heard that TFG’s defense team requested a mistrial and the judge said no. A mistrial for what? If Daniels offered too much information in her testimony, the judge can simply order it stricken from the record and instruct the jury to disregard.

Whoops, wrong thread.

Also, we don’t need to see religion play out extensively onscreen but I wouldn’t mind seeing family members enter the house after church, dressed in Sunday best getting ready for an elaborately prepared Sunday dinner. Who is invited, who is not, the “the Upstairs/Downstairs aspect with the machinations and conversations going on between the cook and housekeeping staff, could be an interesting view not portrayed in an American daytime soap opera before. It doesn’t need to be a regular thing but maybe an episode around Easter time etc.

Have you tried going to the Support Desk? If not, that should be your first place to post this comment.

Jones was luminous in Daughters Of The Dust”. May she RIP.

And if the show is going to have youthful characters (which it should), I would like to see those youthful characters engaged in youthful activities, rather than on the current daytime television soaps where we see young people engaged in activities best reserved for people in their 40s and 50s.

The show needs characters that reflect a spectrum of economic diversity or else it will become monotonous relatively quickly. Even if the core family is a wealthy one, wealthy people don’t just interact with solely wealthy people, particularly if their wealth is self-made, they will interact with others in work and other arenas. I am curious to see how this family made and maintain their wealth, I bet they don’t do it on their own. There will be support staff, at home and work, maybe at the hair salon and the barbershop, tailors, stylists, retailers and doctor’s offices, accountants and bankers, restaurants and cafes, hey, even delivery people —these are all opportunities to flesh out characters who aren’t wealthy but might naturally interact with members of a wealthy family. It cannot be just a bunch of wealthy people interacting with each other with no acknowledgement of others across the socioeconomic spectrum. Once we see “how the other half lives”, the story would feel too confining and dull. But yeah, a show like this needs strivers in the mix. Hey, we all know that within many Black families there can be a mix of economic statuses. Remember Vanessa Williams’ character in Soul Food?

Jack Dorsey is full of crap lol. Is anyone here on Bluesky? https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/jack-dorsey-says-hes-no-longer-on-the-bluesky-board/

Please let someone get the word out to secure skilled hair and makeup people, especially hair…I don’t want to see and Party City wigs on people.

I think there’s a lot of classic television that still airs/streams to enjoy it back in its respective era but this new soap is a chance to break new ground and offer some fresh characterizations and a fresh perspective.

It has become industry standard just by hanging around long enough. Similar to Y&R, they don’t have to do much to maintain loyalty from their base, I guess.