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Yeah, that was pretty funny. Speaking of boutiques and fashion, don't judge me but... I kind of liked Cricket's big poufy-sleeved dress for the time period (not for today, of course). It was unabashedly 'Big 80s' but at least they didn't shy away from making a statement. And somehow, against all odds, Lisa Loring was able to pull it off! Audacious in a way that only big 80s can be. I wish I could find the previous episode. Hey @Soapsuds, that 1983 episode, was it stand alone in the collection, or was the previous day and the day after included too?

Also, once blacks began to get political power and blacks were elected to public office as a result, this started to reflect a change in economic status for black businesses, which many whites found threatening. That is when you had the emergence of groups that would coalesce into what became known as the Ku Klux Klan, essentially a terrorist organization, aided and abetted by law enforcement to terrorize blacks. In the case of Greenwood, the KKK burned an entire town! One of the last survivors (who was a child at the time) just died, so this is not distant history! This is a reminder to me to finish the Reconstruction documentary (I watched Part 1 last week) but it was interesting to watch the first part and then the documentary on Black entrepreneurs as a few of the themes and historical events overlapped. It's not an easy viewing, to see how an entire people's aspirations are thwarted politically after promises not kept. I was pretty pissed when watching the section on the Freedman's bank because it reminds me so much of what happened with the global economic crises a bit over a decade ago. Nobody was punished for their criminality and in the case of Frederick Douglas with the Freedman's bank and President Obama with the economic/banking crisis, they only enlisted black men to fix things once both situations became dire.

Same, although I didn't start off disliking her- it was her sarcastically laced low-key snide remarks about various Williams sisters supposed 'attributes' during various matches that began to completely turn me off toward her commentary. Interestingly enough, when she does reporting and commentary for sports outside of tennis, it's like she transforms into a total professional again.

Someone in the comments section said "No wonder Eileen Fulton decided to leave the show...". Still, with the sometimes stilted dialogue, the occasional overacting, Meg Ryan's "prairie dress", the gaudy decor of Maggie's office and the boutique and the obvious lack of cohesion between the Spanish scenes and the Oakdale scenes, that 1983 episode was still better than 90% of what the last 12 years of ATWT had to offer.

ICYMI

I bet it was Mary Carillo.

I was actually looking for Ginny Ortiz (who I only vaguely remember from 3-2-1 Contact), who is listed in the credits but doesn't seem to appear in this episode at all but I watched the episode anyway. Ortiz must've appeared in the previous episode.

For some reason, I thought this episode occurred at least two years before 1983. I was so young, I still wasn't fully comprehending what went was happening on this show during this time period but more than anything else, Barbara, dressed in red, running in that bullring was embedded in my memory as a little kid. Those scenes look as if they'd been shot at a completely different time and placed into the episode, which, as a whole appears to lack cohesion. The "Spanish" sets and streetscapes look good. The Segovia music toes the line between fitting and a bit 'on the nose', the fight scenes don't look too bad. What really looks bad is Maggie's office (someone needed to pick a theme and stick to it). Some of the dialogue in this episode is not great and the director needed a good talking to about the overacting in some of these scenes. I do like the scenes between Lyla and Maggie and some things never change with John and Margo bickering about Margo's relationship with Tom. Interesting to see Maggie tell Lyla how she thinks Margo hurt Tom and then wants him back (that would be a recurring practice with Margo in the 1980s). Interesting to see Craig (also somewhat overacting) barking at Steve, trying to assert himself as Betsey's husband because in less than three years, Craig would get a taste of the bitterness that Steve had to swallow, pining for a seemingly lost love who he should've married and who is stuck in a loveless marriage with someone else. Still, Barbara in that bullring is iconic! And little Jonathan Bower!

I hope Netflix loses Friends and The Office. Also, I just don't believe that they are pleased about the WGA's #staffingboost initiative because studios and entities like Netflix love to do those packaged deals with agencies like CAA and WME that caused writers to fire their agents in the first place. The fact that they don't want to see ODAAT at another streaming platform is one of the few honest moments of expression in this article but the use of the word "inappropriate" grates at the very least, as does Holland's condescending attitude about what a massive investment they made in "this special little show". Why exhaustively use the word "little" and then insinuate that it was a highly expensive flop? Netflix doesn't release numbers (viewers or cost breakdowns) so it's hard to decipher what is true and what is hyperbole. Suffice it to say, after reading that article, I'm remain wary of Netflix and in terms of seeing them as an honest (or what passes for honest in the entertainment industry) broker to creatives.

WTF is Pam talking about?!

It wouldn't surprise me if sponsors started to chirp and the ITF started to call too. The ATP was likely nudged to do something beforehand. I mean, with everyone looking so terrible, how were they going to chide players for throwing their racquets if they had people with violent rapsheets trolling their boards where decisions are made? I still think they ceded their 'moral high ground' for waiting so damn long.

Andy Murray said the same thing several days ago. Both are just saying what needs to be said because the ATP looks like entire fools about this.

To make matter worse-

I'm not sure who didn't see this coming a mile away. Guaidó's small band of breakaways was not going to match up with the military force that is still under Maduro's control. And like I said before, on the previous page, most of Latin America and the Caribbean has a long history of distrust of the U.S. government.

The Trump criminal enterprise is desperately trying to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One from being able to answer the question of "What's in your wallet?" to the House Financial Services Committee.

The situation in Venezuela has been a slow moving disaster for a number of years now but I don't believe that Guaidó inspires much trust or confidence among many Venezuelans. He's already been seen as being co-opted by the Trump administration and to this day, Latin Americans and most of that entire region (including the Caribbean) continue to be wary and mistrustful of the U.S. Obama inspired some trust in many Caribbean nations and parts of Latin America but he is only one man. The only other American president who inspired any type of trust is probably Jimmy Carter during his post presidential years. I'm not even sure what a small portion of the military will do when the rest still cling to some type of loyalty to Maduro, who many in the military don't even care for but believe he is stronger than Guaidó and will likely cling to power, especially if Guaidó is Maduro's only opponent.

This is what is currently happening in Venezuela.

A teenager by the name of Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island on suspicion of stealing a backpack. Browder languished for nearly three years without being formally charged. Less than two years after his release, Browder committed suicide.

Okay, for some reason, I don't get the caption under the photo sometimes. Forever yes, definitely clarifies that, lol.

Is Sloane Stephens now engaged or married?

This doctor said it succinctly.

All the adults failed this child, who fortunately was able to help another child. Or, as he says, they helped each other.

One of these would require generations of proper education to fix, while the other could be fixed if only both houses of Congress had a conscience.

Tamara Tunie (Jessica Griffin, ATWT) is the narrator for a highly intriguing documentary called Boss: The Black Experience in Business, which aired and is currently streaming on PBS.