DramatistDreamer

The joke was still on all the soap fans who had been consistent and ardent supporters of Procter & Gamble products when within an 11 year time span, P&G would dump all remnants of their shows. This is one of many infamous P&G related anniversaries.

To people who may not fully understand the history and impact of blackface and minstrelsy (beyond that sitcom from the 1980s), this Op-Ed essay offers a pretty concise and informative timeline of the act and its corrosive effects in American society.

Can't say that I'm at all surprised by this. Russia has been in Africa before helping to train and arm resistance fighters, including anti-apartheid fighters in Southern Africa but this time the Kremlin appears to be aligned with autocrats in politically fragile countries if its alliances with the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Sudan and Libya are any indication (yikes!). And with the U.S. currently being run by a man who regards Africa, not as a continent but one big sh*thole country, it's not surprising that even democratic-leaning African countries like Mali are looking to the Russians more and more.

The media is really picking up the story with Joe Biden in earnest. Because Biden has been in public office for so long, there's a lot of 'meat' to pick at there. I think it may also become a case of 'the more you know, the less there is to like' type of scenario. It's been mentioned many times in this thread that Democrats and Republicans have different standards for their candidates. Republicans probably wouldn't have balked at backing John Edwards, despite his awful personal history, because look who is in office now. Democrats have expected more, even before the emergent 'ultra-progressive' left arrived on the scene.

I hadn't heard of this at all until today when I saw @Faulkner's post about it and I have yet to read his response but apparently Federer has responded to Tsitsipas' favoritism claims.

Yes, I saw him say Justin and the camera was on Gimelstob for a good amount of time. Apparently, others saw it too.

That shout-out to Justin Gimelstob by Isner was vomit-inducing. As long as it wasn't against one of my faves, I'm fine with Federer winning this.

I guess we have to take these victories where we can get them.

I just saw a promo of Marj Dusay and Beverlee McKinsey, back to back. It was a promo for Capitol and Guiding Light. I couldn't help but reflect on the fact that at that time neither woman would have any idea that they would eventually portray the same character.

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.