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The funny thing is that, in the episode that I posted above Tom actually uses it with Frannie and I know Barbara used it once with Paul. Was Marland the writer who started using "kiddo"?

Blue Bloods has had Colleen Zenk on in the past. Is CBS trying to atone for canceling two of their most historic soaps? They seem to hire many former soap actors (Scott Bryce, Martha Byrne, Colleen Zenk to name a few) quite frequently for primetime stints.

It would be interesting to find out how many Easter episodes ATWT actually did (or for soaps in general) but as far as I can see on YouTube, this seems to be a rare one.

Can't remember the last time I really read anything written by Ben Rothenberg and his tweets I've already learned to take with a grain of salt. It's unfortunate that expectations have to be lowered where tennis journalism/journalism is concerned but as a soap fan who still watched regularly until a few years ago, I guess I realized that we're all just going on low expectations these days. For me, the post pressing question about today is whether Flavia Pennetta says anything to Carlos Moya if/when she sees him in passing.

Zemek had no choice, LOL, everyone screenshots things these days.

Looks like all those who penciled in Rafa into the finals may have gotten ahead of themselves.

Mevedev looks like he's somewhere between quiet panic and exasperation and the twilight zone. All that patience that he has been exhibiting throughout the tournament seems to have dissipated after his lead in the first set crumbled. He did hold serve in the second, so there's that. It'll be interesting to see whether Medvedev will be able to stage a Lajovic-like comeback in the second set. Nope.

I'm surprised that no one has tried to blame his marriage as a factor. Isn't that the de facto fallback when a married ATP player's ranking slides?

Well, this sure is a twist to the entire saga at City Ballet.

When done seamlessly, product placement can truly be effective. The problem is that, most times, it's tossed in as an afterthought and is not really organic to the scene(s) where the product is placed. You would think that a company such as P&G, there would be special attention to how products are placed creatively (no running water, I guess, meant no product placement for dishwashing soap) but the product placement that ATWT attempted to do in it's final years was so clunky and bad, it was laughable. With the coterie of household products that P&G sells and all those storylines and scenes that took place inside the home and office, you'd of thought it would've been a slam dunk but it wasn't. I just don't understand how you get that wrong, but they managed to get it wrong.

Tecquan Richmond (GH) co-stars alongside an ensemble cast in the slasher movie Thriller apparently now streaming on Netflix. Watch a scene from the new slasher film Thriller

In the Cobra Kai thread in the Primetime section, I posted an article about how the show has a brand marketing deal with Enterprise car rentals. Even though the show streams on YouTube premium, it is product placement, which is essentially marketing, which is an ad. Ads are still relevant, even in premium streaming, whether people want to acknowledge this or not. Having ad dollars come in adds an extra layer of protection for a show/channel's bottom line. The ads are not so obvious with product placement (unless you remember those clunky product placements in the last years of P&G soaps like ATWT) but it's still there. And it's more prominent than you think.

Oh. My. God.

Not really an ad, in the traditional sense but certainly product placement.

If there is any justice in the world, SHS and that entire Trump WH will never be able to secure gainful employment ever again.

Andrea Lewis did a project about on the thoughts of black boys and black men as it regards loving themselves . https://shadowandact.com/black-boys-and-men-speak-their-truth-on-self-love-in-latest-project-from-degrassi-alumna-andrea-lewis

Does anyone think that TBS could have a shot? What's TBS' budget?

Who says? Streaming is getting to be where TV has been for over fifty years. YouTube, one of the earliest streamers, has never been about having no ads. PBS' streaming service even has a subtly placed ad or two. The idea of cable networks like HBO was always to avoid ads. Netflix, which began as a DVD by mail service, has evolved into the subscription-based service it is today. Hulu has always had ads. Crackle has ads. ESPN's streaming service even has ads (as far as I know, I'm not sure about their recent ESPN+ service). I have never gotten the sense that anything online is set in stone, it has always been ever evolving. I don't think that anyone knows what things will evolve into. That's the Internet, in a nutshell. If you had asked the inventors of the World Wide Web (and people have asked people like Tim Berners Lee), they would admit that they had no idea the concept that they invented for computers to communicate with one another would turn into what it is today.

Interesting that though this article posits that there is room for both Netflix and Hulu and Netflix if far and away the leader, Hulu's $6 per month ad-supported service may be more aligned with the future of streaming, according to this article. I still say P&G are absolute fools for not at least trying an ad-supported service to stream episodes from some of their classic daytime dramas.

All those folks who were praising Trump over his 'brand of diplomacy' with N. Korea, where are they now?

Whew, this has reached the levels of peak pettiness! Is tennis media going to give this as much attention as they did Kerber and Andreescu? My guess is no.

It's probably because at this age, I realized that there were times when I was bullied, called indescribable names for no justifiable reason or harassed six ways to Sunday and discovered that not openly reacting was the best response (albeit the most difficult) especially when open displays of anger would be giving people what they want and expect, which is their stereotype of an angry black woman. My guess is that both Megan Markel and Michelle Obama have come to realize this fact as well in their lifetimes. People are all over Michelle Obama's areola for comparing Trump to a divorced dad (which is about the mildest thing one could ever call that troll) and the British press are deliberately trying to hurt Harry by going after Megan (this time for the couple having the gall not to submit to that ridiculous post delivery photo-op outside of the hospital ). The British press seems even more incensed that the Megan and Harry won't respond to their tantrums. There gets to be a certain point where you know that displaying outrage won't change anything, in fact, it gives detractors a smug sense of satisfaction, so better to channel the anger in other ways and so much the better if it comes off as insouciance. I used to have a wicked temper when I was younger but over the years, I think meditation has also helped. Thanks for the compliment though @Juliajms.

Not going to defend the stingy because obviously there are no Jehovah's Witnesses in this group but I personally have never claimed charitable donations on tax forms and I know some people consider it somewhat distasteful to make every charitable donation a "write-off". Are all these folks, keeping their wallets/purses tight or is there some other reason, like investing in organizations that do work that helps individuals? I would genuinely like for someone to ask each candidate why their charitable donations look the way they do. Of course, when the Obamas taxes showed how generous they had been in their charitable donations, they got criticized by some people who claimed it was for show and that charity's effects were limited compared to investing in entrepreneurial and training programs that benefit women, minorities and the poor, for example. America, in general, was quite harsh on the Obamas in certain regards. Some still are.

He's often spoke of some injury. It sure doesn't stop him from beating most of his opponents into the dirt.

For people who many not know much about Peruvian politics, most of their leaders are either incarcerated or have been incarcerated.