DramatistDreamer

Either that or he believes that Melania's side piece at Saks has a lot of explaining to do.

It's still a loss but that margin of victory for Bishop was mighty small. Just saying. In uneasy financial markets, this is interesting. I doubt it will be accepted but it is causing consternation in the U.K. about GB's autonomy in the wake of #BrexitShambles.

What a shame.

By the way, Bolton is now saying he resigned first, lol. A mess!

^^Trump Inc. needs to be asking Queen if they can borrow use of "Another One Bites The Dust" because that is definitely the theme song of this administration. Is there any other presidential administration with this type of turnover??? In a first term?? As for the pomp and ceremony happening in the House of Commons, if you've ever been to one of England's most "prestigious" institutions, this bizarre spectacle is pretty much par for the course. I once spent some time at Cambridge University, chock full of bizarre traditions and spectacle. The other day, I had to remind my mother that this was the country that once ruled about a 1/4 of the world's population at one time, where she was born and raised, being one of those populations. All my mother could do was shake her head. Yeah, pretty hard to fathom now.

^^That is good to hear. Speaking of soap alumni from the Alphabet network- Sean Blakemore (Shawn Butler, GH) can be seen in the new Brad Pitt movie Ad Astra.

Which is why that oft-used argument about budgets being the sole reason why daytime soaps are so lackluster always seemed to be a bit dubious. What determines the quality starts out on the page 1st. Bill Bell Sr. knew that. Notice also, how subtle the music cues are. The dialogue is what is the centerpiece of those scenes, everything else is aesthetics.

That tableau of everyone standing outside the hospital room as Jennifer was wheeled off to surgery was very poignant. The episode hardly seemed like just a half-hour, it didn't feel rushed, the detail was laid out and the dialogue took its time. It's easy to see how someone could become engrossed in the story. Because the dialogue and the story takes its time to unfold, a viewer actually has something tangible to hold onto and there's no avoidance of tough material. I'm glad I got to see it. Courtney Simon in that Search For Tomorrow ad, boy, she really became a part of the P&G universe even earlier than I could have ever known. Does Dove still make dishwashing soap? I only think of them as a bath soap now.

There's nothing really to process. BoJo is scum who decades ago planted the seeds that would bloom and foment chaos and discord from his editorial perch at a tabloid newspaper. In looking so small, he is reaping exactly what he has sown. He's truly shameless, so I don't expect him to feel at all chastened, he will just carry on with his destructive plans. Feeling sorry for him is a complete waste of time. My sympathies are with the children whose food insecurity will only worsen or the average person (who didn't vote for Leaving the E.U.) who won't know where to get their medicine, their groceries and will find their lives disrupted because of the perilous state of things with the single market being swept away. My sympathies are with the immigrants who spent damn near all their lives helping to build England, only to have their citizenship denied because they were lied to and told that they could enter as Commonwealth citizens on their parents passports, only to be discarded like garbage (I know he wasn't PM when this happened but he was still a member of the party and fomented anti-immigrant sentiment for well over two decades). Boris Johnson is trash, f*ck him. A thrashing (politically and physically) is the least he deserves. When your own brother abandons you and your political party out of disgust, you don't deserve anybody's sympathy. Speaking of those who don't deserve our sympathy, This certainly couldn't have been unexpected but I guess it's news?

Nadal has violated that rule many more times than he has actually been caught. Tennis is very selective about who they punish and it makes them look ridiculous as an organization. You have people who bash holes into umpires' chairs and pretending to fire guns getting smaller fines than players swiping at a blade of glass. Also, how is it determined that CSN was giving 'not enough effort'? How is that determined? You have verbal abuse warnings for some...fine, but let it be in a language or slang that an official isn't familiar with and the offender gets absolutely no warning, even if everybody heard it. Pundits still complain about grunting as though it is solely a women's tennis issue when, at this point there are just as many male players who grunt (and loudly) during matches. When the shot clock rule was introduced, I was one of those who dismissed it. One, I really thought the effect would be negligible on the actual running time of the match (surface speeds, balls, etc. are far more important factors, imo) and I just didn't care and third, like many other of tennis' rules, many players who are often habitual offenders would find a way around it anyway. Now that the shot clock rule is here and in effect, however, I think that either tennis needs to apply and enforce it, equally and judiciously or just get rid of the rule altogether. Tennis as a sport looks ridiculous nowadays.

And if there's any doubt about that, one only need look as the twitter feud he was trying to start with *squints at paper* John Legend and Chrissy Teigen as Teigen's incredible clapback at Trump that actually started to trend until Twitter shadowbanned it. People continue to tweet and retweet the insult hoping to get it to trend. Incredible how with a few well-chosen, politely delivered words Varadkar made Johnson look every inch the disheveled small bumbling fool that he truly is. Johnson can only grin and bear it.

Anyone who was feeling sorry for Billy Bush being out of a job because of the Access Hollywood clip, stop, Bush has a new hosting gig. He was also all over CBS This Morning with the PR blitz.

Some of you longtime GH viewers might recognize one of the actors in this sketch.

Well, there have been a steady flow of defections and resignations, haven't there?

Please don't remind me anything about that horrible serial slasher story they tried to do on ATWT in its final years. Just the notion of it...yikes and, in a bad way!

Just remember, there was a homeless black woman in Connecticut who got 5 years in prison for registering her child to a school in a different district from the one in which she "resided".

Why is Trump going around bragging about a failed diplomacy mission? Most people already see his administration as incompetent on all diplomatic matters and then he talks about flopping an already risky, diplomatic mission with an already low bar of success. Read the room already! Just when you think this keystone cop administration couldn't look anymore incompetent and out of their depth...

Maybe for actors who qualify as "Show Hoppers" but CLJ was no "Show Hopper", he's only ever done two roles in soaps that I can think of, Michael Baldwin and Kirk McColl and he's remembered quite well for both roles. One role, he's still in and the other, where he acted opposite two Oscar winners (Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore). To exorcise that from people's, particularly soap fans' (who remember everything! LOL) memories could be quite challenging. It was bizarre enough to see him alongside Eileen Fulton as Michael Baldwin. People talked about it a lot when it happened and it was distracting.

I admit to not knowing much about Days since the only experience I have as a viewer is briefly when I had roommates that used to watch when I was in college but I think that Days hanging in there may also have something to do with it being the last remaining soap on that network. I think so few are left that if one goes away now, it would be highly noticeable and I don't think that any of these networks want the type of backlash that ABC got after dumping AMC and OLTL where the two replacement shows "The Chew" and "The Revolution" met with a lot of resistance. "The Revolution" in particular, flopped spectacularly. Any show that might replace Days could conceivably go the way of "The Revolution". I'm not sure that's a risk the network is willing to take, at least, not right now.

The perfect time to have begun to do these types of cross-overs would have been early-mid 1990s, come to think of it when both shows were kind of searching for their identities, especially at the beginning of the whole OJ Simpson saga and trial when soaps were truly trying to cling to their viewers to compete with the circus of the arrest, trial and aftermath. I don't believe the soaps really launched a serious fight for ratings with some compelling stories. The mid 1990s, starting in '94 were sort of a drab time for both shows, artistically and creatively. The talented cast were still there but the writing just wasn't. Procter & Gamble is the obstacle and it's a significant one since they, not CBS own the rights to those shows. How I wish that the mother of soaps Irna Phillips had an estate that had retained control of those shows, things might have been different then.

It was quite telling to me that Alison was the only one who did porn. It was implied that both Amber and Alison had done some meth but only Alison was the one who developed an insatiable appetite for it and was doing porn to support her habit. From what I remember, Amber was the one who ended up contacting Emily (against Alison's wishes) to rescue Emily and oddly, Emily engaged Dusty for help with the rescue effort. The show was just so random at that point. As unpopular as Amber could sometimes be on Y&R, I found it fascinating that the show still wanted to "protect" the character by restricting her to a little drug use but not the full-blown dark underbelly of drugs & porn. I just think that the two shows were in completely different places and it showed. I vaguely recall an online component, so you're probably correct on that. I know that ATWT was trying to develop more of an interactive feel and engage viewers with an online technological component. Had the show hung on a few more years, those interactive seeds that were planted may have borne some fruit but as it was, most ATWT viewers (who skewed older and were not exactly tech savvy) weren't quite ready for it and ATWT really didn't fully invest and implement it properly anyway. I was on and off with the show in the last decade but I do remember the InTurn contest as yet another attempt to engage viewers in an interactive way. I would have love a cross-over during the 1980s or even early 1990s when both shows still resembled themselves and were at a high in terms of critical success. To see a power conference of corporate leaders in the region with Lucinda Walsh and Alexandra Spaulding would have been lit! Or to see a medical convention with the likes of Dr. Bob Hughes, Dr. Ed Bauer, Dr. Susan Stewart, Dr. Rick Bauer, Dr. John Dixon! Or to see some big lawsuit over water contamination that is affecting Springfield and Oakdale's water pipes and have Ross Marler, Tom Hughes, Jessica Griffin all consulting on the suit! Or to see one of those natural disasters that hit several mid-Western towns and cities affect either Springfield or Oakdale, or parts of both and have the towns/cities pre-eminent families come together to raise funds to aid in the recovery. So. many. ideas!

Some would say that P&G wanted out of producing soaps since they canceled AW in 1999, which was a full decade before the cancellation of GL. I tend to think that by the time AW got canceled, the decision had been made to phase out their remaining soaps, basically to let them fade into oblivion without intervention.