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More scenes with Antonia Rey as Rosa Flores from 4:23.

If you watch the first 7 minutes of the YT video I embedded, you'll find a hilarious sequence between John, Dusty and Rosa and then at minute 22:45, Meg faces the horror that Rosa is now living in Oakdale. It's the first time that Rosa calls Meg a low-rent tramp in Spanish.

This episode contains Rosa's arrival in Oakdale. You're welcome. One of my favorite things about Rosa, (besides how she and John traded barbs back and forth) was the fact that she'd always needle Meg Snyder and call her a cheap tramp in Spanish and Meg never even knew what she was saying! There was one scene where Meg was having one of her fantasies about being with Dusty and Rosa shows up as their maid and even in the fantasy, she's calling Meg a cheap tramp in Spanish.

Initially, Rosa worked in the kitchen on the ranch in New Mexico that Dusty ran away to after he graduated from high school, in order to get away from John and all the pressures he was facing in Oakdale concerning his future. Meg also found out where he was and followed him there. Eventually Meg was able to convince Dusty to return with her to Oakdale. When John was out of town, his housekeeper (who had been recommended by Shannon O'Hara after Shannon moved out of John's penthouse) got arrested for some thefts and Dusty contacted Rosa to see if she wanted to job that had been left vacant by the housekeeper's arrest. She worked for John but got fed up with John's rudeness and his lack of consideration. Meanwhile, Lucinda's temperamental cook threw a fit and when Lucinda discovered that the cook often lashed out after losing her temper, she fired her. Dusty suggested that Lucinda give Rosa a chance and Lucinda agreed. After that, she worked for Lucinda, which became even more comical once John and Lucinda got married and John ended up living at Lucinda's mansion.

It's especially sad that unlike New Zealand which took immediate action after their tragedy, the U.S. continues to do nothing, effectively not recognizing the devastation that is caused by these mass shootings. In this case, a year after the shootings, the tragedy continues, which is what many don't seem to comprehend. The devastation doesn't just stop once the tragedy is out of the news cycle. It continues.

R.I.P. to Antonia Rey, who portrayed one of my favorite minor characters, Rosa.

Oh, I agree...she's still beautiful. Perhaps her natural beauty is a bit too real for the remaining West Coast soaps.

There is a profile of her from a few years back on the popular Humans of New York blog/Facebook page. Unfortunately, I can't seem to embed the entry, probably because I'm not a member of Facebook but because the page is Public, I was able to read it. What she has to say is unsurprising but pretty interesting. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735/1415486905192072/?type=3&theater

Ironically, it seems that Mary Kay Adams' career has generally stayed away from movies. Does anybody know why?

There were definitely times when Bob's shortness of temperament reared its head in situations. I know that John Dixon was often a provocateur who could get under anybody's skin but there were a few instances when he would voice a genuine concern with Bob (although, in typical John fashion, he used neither diplomacy nor tact) and Bob would just go off on John, sometimes unprovoked. Bob could be very haughty, as he displayed with new resident Casey Perretti, even when Casey's ideas were in earnest (and yes, on occasion, Casey could rub people the wrong way with his abrupt manner). Then there is the way that Bob talked down to Kim when he found out that she wanted to have a career shortly after Christopher was born. Everyone talked about Steve Andropoulous' regressive views on married women (w/kids) in the workplace but no one mentioned Bob's, even after both Kim and Lisa challenged Bob on his out of step views. FWIW, I think various writing regimes tried to show just how imperfect and flawed Bob could be (in many ways) but a lot of viewers often built up a hagiography in their own minds, based upon those warm and wonderful Thanksgiving toasts and Christmas carols but Bob was still the man who cheated on two of his wives.

I was in my mid-30s when it struck me. I think I must have a high threshold for misery because it was bad, but I wouldn't say I was in terrible pain. It was miserable but thankfully came and went in about a week, sort of like the chickenpox that afflicted me many years before. Age 50 is at least a handful of years away but I wonder whether it's worth it to get the vaccine since I've already had it?

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more sickening. Are there no safe spaces where a woman may work unmolested??

Chickenpox puts you in direct line to one day have the possibility of contracting shingles. Yay! As someone who had the shingles, I don't know anyone who would want someone to be at risk of that, especially when there is a vaccine that can now prevent it.

I didn't know that Phil Lewis was directing now! I recognize him from the ton of sitcom work that he has done.

Last week it was Michelle Obama. Roseanne is still blaming everybody but herself. People were making it out to be an act of pettiness but I can see why Joyce DeWitt had cut Somers out of her life for decades. As a kid I always preferred Janet anyway.

This reminds of that scene in As The World Turns where Margo (HBS) impatiently says "Am I speaking Serbo-Croatian?!" I wish I could find that clip.

Looks like Big Sascha will be doing coaching consult for Kiki Mladenovic, er, or at least Kiki's mother. I wonder if they communicate in Serbian as Kiki's family are originally from Serbia and Sascha, though born in Germany, is of Serbian origin as well.

This goes without saying but that Kentucky governor is clearly a dumba*s. How professional is Individual 1's administration!

Netflix's contracts will likely cause creatives to think twice about signing on the dotted line with them in the future. Just because this contract model has worked in the past, doesn't mean it will continue to work. So far, money has allowed Netflix to enforce their standard of placing a moratorium on most series that streamed on their platform (even the author claims that ODAAT might be an exception) Creatives value their freedom and will be side-eyeing these agreements going forward, some may even bypass Netflix and their big $$$ in favor of more freedom with their projects. One aspect that I don't like about that Deadline article is that there are still many unknowns presented in the way that Netflix does its business. "I hear" and "as far as I have heard" is cited a lot in this article, which tells me virtually nothing as it offers no concrete proof that this is actually the way Netflix does their business. I like to go on facts before I go off on Netflix or HBO or any company, for that matter, lol.

Speaking of anti-vaxxers in political office.

No wheelchair, no stretcher? Why call the ball boy, what's he supposed to do...with a towel?

Like Stacy Abrams, Andrew Gillum is also launching a voter registration initiative.

The main stadium court, that's the temporary one, right?