DramatistDreamer

Everything's perfectly fine, nothing to worry about.

This was posted earlier today.

All these fake Black Twitter bots tweeting best wishes to Nielsen.

Watching those group of episodes and seeing the character of Spree, was I the only one who was reminded of DiDi Conn when seeing her? It's no surprise that the actress whose name is Dana Kaminski (whose name is misspelled in the closing credits of the episode that I was watching) became a voice over actor (I wonder whether she's ever worked with Brian Bloom?). It looks like she's on Facebook and Twitter, if anyone is keeping track. https://www.facebook.com/HollywoodActorPrep/ https://twitter.com/__dana__ On YT, I remember seeing someone complain that they longed for the days before the Snyders and the Montgomerys took over the show. I could kind of see blaming Marland for the Snyders but the Montgomerys (before Margo's paternity became known she was also known as a Montgomery)?? The Montgomery family began on the show and had a good amount of storyline way before Marland took the reins. Perhaps this person was talking about the 1970s or earlier?

Speaking of Slezak, she will be appearing in an upcoming ABC 20/20 documentary on the chilling murder of Rebecca Schaeffer. Yikes @SFK We literally posted at the same time!

This is a beautiful shot and the description by Macchio is so poignant.

Speaking of Patricia Bruder and Ellen Stewart, not long ago, I watched some clips from 1984 when there was a big party/fundraiser/contest and Bob was wistfully watching Kim dance with another man on the dancefloor. David, who is dancing with Ellen wondered why Bob wasn't dancing with anyone and Ellen glances at Bob, before peering over at Kim and says something like, "I think he'd rather be dancing with Kim". Watching this episode from April 1985, on the eve of Bob and Kim's wedding (a really good episode overall) and this montage of their times together before they got married really made me wish there were more episodes posted on YT of their courtship, before they married. Unless I'm missing something. Are there more episodes featuring Bob & Kim's courtship up on YT that I might have missed?

It would be odd if/that another actress replaced Bruder and there is no photographic evidence that exists. Not impossible, just odd.

Speaking of that old troll in the White House, by now many people might know of the damage Fred and his son Donald did to the housing market with their exploitative policies in Queens, NY and their racist policies that brought about lawsuits from the feds, but their demolition of property in Brooklyn's Coney Island and their racist policies that affected primarily African American tenants in the area, is less well-known, I think. I remember going to concerts in Steeplechase Park in the late 90s and by that time, it was literally only a grassy open field. I had no idea that a pavilion and all of that other stuff used to be there.

The recruitment scandal ensnares Harvard after all.

Sadly, I am not surprised by this.

He never runs out of profoundly stupid things to say.

Oh well, I'm not paying attention today, obviously.

I thought about adding a disclaimer at the bottom of the post reminding people that it is the New York Times but I figured everybody already knows what The Times is about and will adjust expectations accordingly.

Thanks @Juliajms. It would be interesting if there were a national health study to see how many people have been affected (even incidentally) but the seemingly constant political turmoil. I'm one of those people who had the feeling that things would be every bit as bad as they've turned out but knowing it and actually experiencing it are almost two different things. Days like today, I miss my elementary school days when the biggest problems I had could seemingly be dissolved (or at least put on ice) by the weekend. Today, it's mild, slightly overcast with a light mist in the air, the type of weather I would have relished as a little girl when I'd look forward to the short walk home from the bus stop and getting to the VCR to rewind my recorded soaps. I really wish I had had the resources to buy a lot of VHS tapes, so I didn't have to record over episodes and I could've stock-piled episodes like some people did. I could do with some of those episodes now (unfortunately most are not on YT).

Not Slick but according to Soap Opera Wiki, Wendy Drew played the role from April 1956-September 1960. I'm not sure how accurate these dates are but I have heard of the actress. https://soap-operas.fandom.com/wiki/Ellen_Lowell

You're welcome @Khan. When the troubles of the world get to feel as though they've reached (over)saturation point, I often feel like disengaging with the world. Over the past week or so, I've been dealing with a personal issue that has really got me feeling down (it's less about me and more about what loved ones are currently going through) but I realize that thoroughly disengaging (which I have tried) probably makes me feel worse. I still ponder emotional disengagement but as a writer, that's probably all but completely impossible. In any case, I've developed a life-long habit of reading and consuming the news, which means I can't help but care about what goes on in the world, although, right now, I really wish I didn't.

The NYT has an article that discusses the issue of Anti-Semitism coming from various political spectrums. I am providing the link because the embed contains an image that may be disturbing and I don't want to be insensitive (sometimes I feel as if I've become desensitized to racist imagery because I've had to face it so often) to anyone. Anti-Semitism Is Back, From the Left, Right and Islamist Extremes. Why?

Seems as if attitudes, in general, haven't much changed since then.

She tags these folks when she criticizes them too, lol. I've seen her do this to her old employer CNN when she asked them about their lack of diversity behind the camera.

Yeah, when I think back, I think, with the exceptions of those two storylines, I didn't feel much about Margo during her run and it wasn't just the awful writing. Perhaps because TPTB knew that they had a recast and the two previous actresses had been so popular, the writing had become self-conscious, at times, too concerned with making the audience like the new Margo. Whereas with HBS, in particular, I felt like her Margo could genuinely make me laugh at something that might not have even been written that way in the script...she could also make me mad enough to want to shake the living daylights out of her but she never made me feel indifferent toward her. And with Margaret Colin's Margo, well, she was the one who had an affair with another woman's (Barbara) husband, so obviously the writers weren't too concerned about whether the viewers would end up hating Margo and one of Colin's strengths was that she could really make Margo endearing, even after all that messiness. Even though MC and HBS had slightly different approaches to their portrayals, HBS kept that off-beat witticism that MC had started. When MC would cackle, it made you cackle. When HBS had that rapid fire giggle, you'd giggle. And yes, both also benefited from good writing.

Huh? What is this ever about?

TBH, I think most of the ATWT cast stays actively busy. Larry Brygmann, Margaret Colin, Tom Wiggin, Tamara Tunie and many others do theater, at the B'way and regional level. IA with your assessment of the last Tom & Margo. Ellen Dolan's performances as Maureen Bauer were strong and a bit off-beat yet warm (although Ellen Parker was the Maureen I grew up knowing and I loved her portrayal as well). I can see why a casting director would expect that all of that could carry over to Margo Hughes but only the strength aspects seemed to carry over. I think ED's Margo had a very challenging storyline right from the start and it seemed as if when that was over, she only had one really powerful performance left and that was the rape storyline. I didn't really get the warmth from her and although she cracked jokes and smiled a lot, that easy humor that Margo always had seemed to fall flat or get lost. Although he wasn't my favorite Tom, I liked some aspects of Scott Holmes' portrayal of Tom when he was with Hillary Bailey Smith. They had a good poignant vibe which could veer into romantic, if lacking the passion that HBS had with Gregg Marx. I do think the writing became uninspired during much of Holmes and Dolan's run and perhaps they just got tired.

Did anyone see this?