DramatistDreamer

Both Nadal and Djokovic's Madrid press conferences have been postponed until tomorrow. Hm.

Piggybacking on this ongoing discussion of streamers, I read this blog post and now I understand why there are some holdouts in the public library system in regards to Kanopy. The cost may be prohibitive to quite a number of library systems.

Well, I know there were people complaining the there were too many Montgomerys, maybe it was his directive to rid the show of a few (* kanye shrug*). Has Lisa Loring spoken of her time on ATWT? She's lived quite an eventful life since she left the show, including being married to an adult film actor, as well as the fallout from that, and other divorces. Also, her recovery from a drug addiction. Is it possible that the show wanted her to make an appearance but she had too much going on in her life?

Keep in mind Monfils hadn't played since Indian Wells. Honestly, he should've taken Davidovich Fokina out in straight-sets but he kept giving gifts. Can't say Monfils isn't generous.

This is what greed devoid of conscience looks like.

Oops, I meant Bilan. She and Cricket looked so much alike they were almost interchangeable here. As for Lisa's acting choices...where was the director in all this mess? ATWT at that time must have approved of EF's acting choices then because otherwise, a director would've intervened in that.

As someone who struggled financially while in graduate school (and to a lesser extent in undergrad), this was an incredibly depressing read to know that things seem to have gotten worse. There were lean times in regards to food, for sure, but thanks to friends who were out in the work force)( who would stock me up with meals in which they had made extra portions), I never had to take "poverty naps". And some of the comments that this article have drawn are almost as depressing as it illustrates how clueless and lacking in compassion some people truly are.

I can't believe this girl's video is still up on YouTube!

Wow, this show must truly be a big success if YouTube is going to make it free to watch with ads! Advertisers must be willing to pay a good rate for this to be possible. I'm not surprised though, anyone who saw my post about the product placement deals CK was raking in. I bet there is more where that came from.

That's one of the things that irritated me about those compilations--why wouldn't you have the before and after episodes? It needn't have the entire story arc but the episode showing how Barbara ends up in the bullring and then the episode that follows Gunnar saving Barbara from the bullring. I mean, were Barbara and Gunnar able to wrest little Jonathan Bower from James' clutches? I want to know how it happens? The other thing that still annoys me is, why wouldn't they include those special episodes like the masquerade balls and formal events like the hospital fundraising formals? Emily's tango with Brock should be in any compilation and so should Lisa's Cleopatra trick on Lucinda. Also, if you're going to have Bob and Kim's bachelor party, wedding and reception, Kim's surprise labor and birth of Christopher Hughes should've been included! That was a highly popular set of episodes.

She still looks great. She could be on one of the soaps on air today. If Y&R weren't so ageist, she probably could've made a good Diane Jenkins (no offense to MW but we all know she was miscast in that role). Actually both Kate McNeil and Kim Ulrich look great. If it were up to me, I would've waited a few months after Lindsey Frost left the role and just recasted Ulrich as Betsey Stewart. I know Runyeon left at least a year before Frost but ironically Ulrich had a lot more chemistry with Runyeon than Frost did. I'm not sure whether it was the decision of the actresses or they were written out but I understand that McNeil left in 1984?

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.