DramatistDreamer

I know I sound like a broken record, going back to the same point over and over again but I do think this is a preview of what we can expect in her career. A career full of injuries.

It's not as if lawsuits are new to Trump, but he must be breaking presidential records or something.

Did he look like this at Laver Cup? In terms of weight, I mean. I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm genuinely curious as to whether he's gained weight since then. LC was not that long ago.

You're welcome. I wanted to copy & paste the way others do in these threads but the downloads were a bit messy and I lost patience (it's late), lol. It's fascinating to see how big these soaps were at one point--they were global! I'd love to hear the perspective of some Aussie ATWT fans. I wonder how long the show aired there?

Came across this, at random on Twitter. I never knew that the series aired in Australia.

I read that Julian Castro had visited a prison in D.C. earlier that day, and although I'm sure the inmates there appreciated his visit, some were asking why didn't didn't didn't participate in the town hall and there was some tweets about how the organizers of the town hall felt that Castro had undermined their event. A few people mentioned that Beto O'Rourke visited a prison in San Quentin last month. It is indeed shameful that many of the surrogates and supporters who attack Harris over her "record" as a prosecutor, (although just about all of those claims have been debunked, people still choose to use the same talking points), none of those candidates decided to show up and there's no mention of that.

This seemed to be the only platform that was streaming it, from what I've seen.

So, yesterday there was a prison town hall, only three Democratic candidates showed up and there was next to no coverage in the media about it. Hm.

Anyone keeping count?

Probably due to the time differences and the politics of the location, I can't get invested in this WTA Championships. Bertens just beat the new #1 after barely getting in from the Elite Trophy tournament in Zhuhai. She has a good chance to win it now too, lol. And the courts are slow as hell. No wonder Osaka pulled up lame.

The fact is, the Kurds were instrumental in this raid, because they tracked, found and confirmed the location of al-Baghdadi. Given all that, the U.S. still abandoned them with next to no advanced warning that they were doing so.

The story behind that handshake snub is much deeper than what could be conveyed by a short video clip.

Not in terms of chronological age, in terms of demeanor. As someone said upthread, Kiefer had a much more domesticated, soccer mom posture, which reads older and more settled, compared to Stringfield's rebellious 'wild-child' profile.

Trump was probably so sure that the raid on al-Baghdadi would result in people throwing roses at his feet, so he felt it was 'safe' to go out among the unpaid/non-MAGA vetted folk, who would no doubt sing his praises. But people weren't falling for it. Trump and his cronies are so slap-dash in everything they do that people quickly realized that Trump's 'war room' photos (his attempt at creating an Obama moment) were staged and couldn't have been taken at the actual time the raid was taking place. Also, people didn't appreciate Trump's hollow attempts to praise the intelligence community, who did all the heavy lifting, the same intelligence community that he had been belittling and mocking for the past two years. And as Trump lavished praise on himself for the raid (meanwhile al-Baghdadi has likely already been replaced in the terrorist organization), people were unearthing an old tweet of his where he mocked Obama for giving that statement where he described the raid and killing of bin Laden. This, and Trump's hastily put together forum where he tried (unsuccessfully) to tout his justice initiatives to a select group of black people (while the rest were ordered to stay in their rooms and not come out on their own campus), did nothing to bolster his image to the myriad of people who want him out of office. I guess he is shocked to find out that life is vastly different when he's among the people who are not paid actors, MAGA fanatics and cabinet cronies. Speaking of what happened at Benedict College this weekend, this video gives a bit of a summary and crystallizes what happened as a result. Gillum was very diplomatic in his gentle rebuke of Van Jones, who got off easy.

ATWT ended up SORASing itself to death (literally) in that last decade. Many of the ages of the teens and twenty-somethings were all over the place and made little sense in the context of what we'd seen in the previous decade.

Sisco is about four years older than Rossum, which doesn't seem like it would make a difference but if you look at the ages they were at the time the character entered the canvas- Rossum was eleven and Sisco supposedly came on two years later in '99 as a full-fledged, ready-to-date teenager, it looks like a big leap in age. Because the character disappeared for two years, the audience probably didn't really notice. Soap audiences tend to be inured to big leaps in age. This one would of been one of the relative minor ones compared to the drastic way in which they aged other characters.

Since P&G couldn't care less at this point (did they ever?), our only hope seems to be that more actors like Patricia Bruder Debrovner and Margaret Reed upload episodes and reels from their work on the show.

With the lack of episodes throughout the years posted online for some of the show's biggest storylines, the same could probably be said of many of ATWT's episodes.

(*Psst, there's e-mail, Khan).

I'm hearing that the EU has granted the UK an extension until January 2020. I'll have to read about it later.

I was on and off with GL in the 90s (as I was with pretty much every soap at that time) but I remember the first time I tuned in and saw that Sherry Stringfield had left the role, feeling very disappointed. By then, I understood why actors left but it was a big loss for the character and the show. Now I wonder if the casting of Kiefer was to make Ross seem more youthful. The illicit aspect of the Blake/Ross pairing seemed to disappear with Kiefer and ver Dorn paired together and it seemed more like a garden variety love (past) love triangle with Holly. It's strange how many 'couples edits' are on YT for Blake and Ross with Kiefer and ver Dorn in the role when the scenes with Stringfield and ver Dorn were far more steamy and intriguing. I also think the writing did Kiefer no favors-- her Blake was often written to be constantly pining away for marriage and children with Ross. It was annoying. Dennehy gives me Glenn Close vibes, lol. I was always expecting her to say "I will not be ignored!" I think her Blake would've been more cut from the same cloth as Roger but I have a hard time seeing her as being any part of Holly, let alone her daughter.

Seeing snippets of this match (on breaks) between Halep and Andreescu and realizing how Bianca was, at first, thoroughly walloping Halep and how Simona has by degrees, proceeded to wear down Bianca in the second set and just clicking back on to see Andreescu on the floor getting medical treatment gives me the distinct impression that Bianca is the type of player who will be beset by injuries over the course of her career. She's only a teenager still and has already spent a significant amount of time on the DL. I don't expect that to improve as she gets older. I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up spending swaths of her career out injured in between the successful runs. So apparently, Simona decided she wanted "in" on the MTO attention too and decided to take one virtually at the same time. These girls.

Joe and Mika are being roundly criticized on Twitter, add those to the many who have avowed to just ignore these two hosts. Trump himself has insulted them repeatedly, so his fanatics hate them. Where do Joe and Mika go from here? Does anybody really care? To paraphrase @JaneAusten , who even watches Morning Joe anymore? It's been a good five or six years since I've bothered with that show. Everyone knows that Rachel Maddow gives MSNBC whatever ratings boost they've gotten these days. Morning Joe is trying to be relevant. Joe and Mika will fall off trending in a few hours. #LockHimUp has been steadily trending since last night and will likely continue to trend the rest of the day.