DramatistDreamer

According to news reports, the Trump cabal has decided to cut off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. I've got no energy to discuss how stupid, cruel and blind-sighted this is. It will not achieve his goal of deterrence of migrants, it is more likely to backfire.

With all the reboots happening every five minutes, it draws into sharp relief, the absence of a soap like As The World Turns. On for decades, from Golden Age to Golden Age, yet M.I.A. during the current Golden Age of television, part of history (how often do we see the clip of Walter Cronkite interrupting the "regularly scheduled program" to announce the JFK assassination?). I'm not even expecting a reboot or anything but it's just the bane of my existence that P&G has left those archives to languish somewhere and no one with any agency seems to care. Are we to believe that it's all music rights that are the big impediment? Does every single episode from 1979 to 199- whenever digitization began have a piece of popular music embedded in the episode?? Once a year, P&G couldn't throw the fans and the living cast and crew a bone by putting out a handful of good quality episodes from the original source? (I find it hard to believe when there is an entity, as we speak, digitizing and preserving old episodes of Soul Train for the web). It's just a shame how little value these soaps have, and it's not just the cancelled ones either.

Coming to the realization that next week will be another anniversary where the only acknowledgement of this show will be from a few bloggers and some fans. It's unlikely that there will be so much as a peep from P&G acknowledging all those decades of talent, hard work and drive in service of this dramatic series. No nods to the decades of fan support. No magnanimous gesture as a way of saying thanks or celebrating an entertaining and sometimes great show. Thinking about it makes me a bit sad.

I think was his mugshot projected on the screen of Corman's One Woman show that was pictured in the article. I didn't take a detailed look at it because what I saw was quite enough.

The lengths and breadth that this greedy, unconscionable family went to hide their fraud is vast.

Is Nate Silver learning that perhaps it's unwise to make prognostications on the veracity of Barr's statement based on a report that no one (probably including Barr) has read?

A messy snowball of garbage and crap continues to snowball. There are no words.

Yes! I don't know why I always think Seventh Heaven is the title of that movie. When I was a little kid, I'd always watch it when it came on cable. Most of the movie was filmed in New Jersey and there was a lot of markers that were familiar to me. To be fair though, pretty much every NYC-based working actor pretty much got chances to appear on L&O, in some capacity. I went to school with a few people that became actors and appeared on L&O but yeah, nepotism is rife in the arts & entertainment industry...and the current White House.

I have no idea whether Jane Alexander has responded but I see that her second husband died in 2017 so it sounds as if she's had some tough personal stuff in the last few years. HBO used to show a movie that Maddie Corman did with Jennifer Connelly when they were teens. That was the first thing I remember seeing her in. HBO must've showed that movie consistently for years!

Looks new but it took me by surprise, I didn't know that those existed. Also I was viewing a classic Guiding Light episode. When I have viewed classic As The World Turns episodes, I don't remember that happening.

Generations passed a milestone (or would have) and it was virtually left unrecognized on this board. I just found out that yesterday would have been the show's 30th Anniversary. Cheers to the efforts made by the cast and crew. It was on but just a few years but I offer a salute to the concept of this show and the talent that got some time and space in the annals of daytime dramatic history.

I'll just say one more thing and leave it at that: at some point Ilhan Omar (and AOC, for that matter) will have to return to their home districts and explain exactly what they are doing specifically for their constituents because their political fates will be directly in the hands of those voters in their districts. At least with AOC, she recently gave a speech in the House about the Green New Deal and how kids in the Bronx had the highest rates of asthma in the country, (she also spoke about the health problems that kids in Flint will carry with them due to high levels of lead in their blood) so perhaps, at least one of them has been reminded that they were put into their positions in the House by their home constituents. I guess we'll see whether that holds or whether the siren song of national/international attention continues to distract her.

Oh my Gawwwwddd! I'll never be able to look at that promo in the same way again! (I'll also be looking at it a few more times).

ICYMI

I wonder what Omar's constituents think of her Twitter posts. Eventually, they will be the ones to decide whether she gets bounced or gets reelected. I'm often confounded by some of the congress people who get reelected term after term by their constituents but as they say, politics is local. This is currently trending on social media.

Today felt like a very depressing day for me. I really hope tomorrow will feel different. I know but it was a good reminder for me to give my post a once-over just to make sure my words said what I meant them to say.

Did y'all know that someone is livestreaming Y&R episodes on YT? I just happened to be viewing a classic episode of GL when I saw it on the sidepanel. There's an open chat and everything! Actually, I think it would be fun if even some of the cancelled soaps would do a livestream where people could chat while watching episodes together, maybe sometime on the weekends. I'd love it if one of the YT channels that has ATWT episodes would do a livestream of some of their episodes!

I remember this promo for Guiding Light but did the other CBS soaps have their own versions?

I hope I didn't come off as bearing down on you, Khan. From what I've experienced from working for groups like The United Way and The Urban League, working class and middle class people are more generous with what they have than the wealthy, who used to give because they knew they'd get it back as a tax write-off anyway. IMO, I think that public policy is the only way the U.S. can help people achieve something like a living wage (which only a few states now have), which would provide a living standard with basic dignity. Maybe if we had a living minimum wage, there would be a wider tax base and funding things like Special Needs wouldn't be considered a wish-list item. (Maybe I'm a bit sensitive to this-- I just read a 'feel good' story about some people who crowdfunded for a woman who works full time, yet is homeless. Maybe it's me but someone who works shouldn't have to resort to sleeping outside. She should be paid enough to have a roof over her head and live with a measure of dignity).

If we're relying on charity minded rich people to help, we're really up sh it creek. There should be a baseline of humanity, yes, even in the government that money is set aside for people with special needs, whether it be physical or developmental. If we accept that Reagonimic premise that government can't solve anything, we might as well get to crowdfunding public schools, trash collection and the fire department right now. But I'm sure there is readily available money set aside in the Trump administration for arming teachers with M-16s in the classroom.

Although I thought her radio show polluted the airwaves and I probably never got through an entire episode of her TV show, still, I don't wish her any ill will and I hope she makes it through.

Maddie Corman is clearly a gifted actress but this subject matter is tough to digest and I'm not sure that even she can pull this off, especially given the fact that she has elected to stay with her husband and, as the review states, she hasn't dramatized any of the reasons that led to her decision to remain with him. As someone who once tried to help someone write a One Man Show that was going nowhere, I recognize that some projects, one really doesn't know what to do with. Review: Staging a True Family Nightmare in ‘Accidentally Brave’