DramatistDreamer

I'm watching an episode from October 1993 (courtesy of bandstandmike on YT) and I know that the bottom will soon drop out, as it concerns my interest in the show, but for now, I'm enjoying the fact that I can see still a good ole fashioned Friday cliffhanger. Not that nonsense about every day being like a Friday, therefore Fridays have no meaning and have no cliffhanger or foreseeable impact.

Hey @Khan I never knew you had some island heritage. Dap! I mean, most immigrants who come, even the ones who already have jobs, rarely had their health insurance already in place. And frankly, most wealthy and comfortable people are not emigrating anywhere, let alone the U.S.-- even less so, with these onerous policies being put in place. Trump wants to attract the wealthy immigrants who are not even interested in coming. Immigration has trickled almost to a halt. If this continues, we're all looking at a future of economic stagnation similar to Japan.

Yeah, that and I do think that the Sanders campaign intentionally broke the news of Bernie's heart attack when they thought it would garner the least attention.

You'd have bet correctly, Khan. The nerve of him.

We're back to "Freaky Fridays" with these Friday evening news dumps (the announcement of Bernie's heart attack, now this).

I said this in the other Diahann Carroll appraisal thread but it bears repeating: Seeing a HW for one of the remaining daytime soaps un-ironically post a meme with Ms. Carroll from Dynasty while he couldn't be bothered to write for or cast a black vixen like Dominique Deveraux on his own soap is the height of hypocrisy, but as Titus Burgess would say "Do your show, girl".

This clip has been making its way around social media but it's all about her casting on Dynasty, so it belongs in the Dynasty thread.

Bernie basically had a heart attack.

It happens. People generally just type "wrong thread" or "deleted post" because there is no actual way to remove the post, so just fill it with something brief and click Reply.

Unless I'm missing something, I think you may be in the wrong thread, @Donna B.

Not me. I was just waiting for that fool to mess up,lol.

We already knew Wohl is a fraudster.

If anything, it could be a combination of both. Sascha had a pretty mediocre year, compared with previous seasons so it's possible that he might have gotten a boost--winning is winning for some players, especially when one is searching for anything providing a boost. He may have carried some of that energy into the Asian swing, who knows?

I didn't see much of the match but Felix looked tired. This is his first full season on the ATP main tour, no? I don't know whether he's playing Milan but he should try to get some rest, he's likely played more matches than he's ever played before in his career. At 19, he's still a work in progress.

Just as many of us had suspected...another whistleblower.

Janie and Holden dated in the 1980s on and off, presumably before he met Lily. Back when he was deviously plotting to get in between Dusty and Lily, (while his sister Meg was trying to seduce Dusty), I remember a few occasions where Holden deliberately used Janie to make Lily jealous. She appeared onscreen, more than once. I hate it when soap writers pull characters out of nowhere and create some ridiculously spun backstory. At least use someone that can be seen in a classic clip, then it might have some resonance. Even if you didn't see Dusty and Janie "together", viewers can still draw the conclusion that it was plausible since everybody knew that Janie lived in Luther's Corners and existed during that time.

@victoria foxton It's funny but I identified with the kids in Stephanie, Joey, Wheels and Lucy Fernandez' age group when I actually belonged to the younger group that came in, the one that the likes of Stephanie would've mocked for being younger, LOL. I loved how awkward and unaffected the dialogue could be. I heard that the kids themselves sometimes helped shape how their characters talked. The show handled a lot of big drama (like Spike's pregnancy, that played out over successive series like TNG) but I also loved those small moments like the aching secondary embarrassment I felt for one of the characters, Melanie, who had a crush on Snake, when she tried to chat him up, only to moments later, discover she had lipstick on her teeth! A short scene, but a scene I will always remember! In describing it, I know, the scene doesn't sound like much but if you watch it...Snake's reaction and later Melanie's reaction are everything! LOL I was also surprised when years later, I read about the episodes that were banned or blocked from airing in some countries, or even ones that were slightly censored before airing. I watched the PBS channel in NYC so the abortion episode in Degrassi High that censored the part where the woman puts a toy fetus in the hand of one of the twins in front of the clinic, many people claim that part was edited out in the U.S. but I saw it! Fascinating! In many ways Degrassi was better written then than many daytime soaps are today, though Degrassi had far less resources (especially back then) but the writers actually paid attention to things like continuity, over time. For instance, the Spike pregnancy issue and also the fact that her best friend in childhood Liz, who was the main antagonist to one of the twins who had the abortion--it made sense that Liz eventually became a midwife. If only Y&R and ATWT had that type of grasp of history in regards to their characters decades later.

So Manafort has been consulting with Giuliani concerning Ukraine...while behind bars? What a cabal of criminals! I saw that picture posted above earlier and some miserable ninny in the subtweets was advising them to sell the beachfront property because of floods and climate change. I wanted to ask "How do you know that it's even theirs, fool? It could be rented or just a getaway. Why not worry about the trash currently residing in the White House?"

Doesn't he basically wish to be tossed out at this point? Let's face it, the 2016 campaign was originally a ploy to draw more investors, he never truly expected to win and he discovered in the first 100 days that he really didn't want the job. AFAIK, the only thing that's kept him hanging in has been his enormous ego (and later his wish to avoid possible prosecution for other matters). Otherwise, he's been trying to find ways to get out of the job, while still saving face.

The irony of both IMDB TV and Pluto TV streaming TNG on their platforms. I often wonder why the OG series, DJH and DH seem to get little love publicly but I saw that there's a Canadian channel named Encore+ on YouTube that apparently streams all of the Degrassi Junior High/DH series. I've got such a fondness for Degrassi Junior High and DH when most of the repertory was made up of non-actors and first time actors. So, at least it hasn't been forgotten by a streaming platform.

Geez, I feel fortunate to either have forgotten or simply not been watching some of this crap. If the show wanted to pull a character from Luther's Corners that Dusty could have met, why didn't they just use Janie Cobb? And Janie and Holden dated so it might have at least made use of some plausible history, instead of nonsense.

Marland didn't even have a co-HW and yet he's responsible for half of those Emmys.

Just. Delusional.

This is what you'd call 'straight from the horse's mouth".

I was beginning to forget all about this one. Quite a few cases coming out of the classical performing arts world these days.