DramatistDreamer

Some of the people on the left who are coming for Chelsea Clinton-- were they even around during the Clinton years? Or have they been reading and watching documentaries about it on Netflix/Hulu? Clinton made policy mistakes of course (every president does) but employment (i.e. good jobs with room for advancement and growth) and optimism surged during those years. I was a kid when Reagan was president and I remember the constant layoffs of friends and family members in the work force. Do people remember what it was like? Especially for people of color and women, during the Reagan years? I got a front row seat to see how hard it was for my mother and people like her during the Reagan years. During the Clinton years she (and people like her) was able to buy a house. Those homeowner policies were unfortunately abused by the GW Bush administration and the ties between the mortgage backed securities and the global recession is well known. Some of these people are going after Chelsea with not a whole lot of knowledge, they just see a potential person to unleash on and because Chelsea is known as being so polite, she has become their target, similar to how she has become the target of right-wing trolls and blowhards. Some of these left-wing critics are showing their inability to look at matters from a holistic viewpoint. And just as I thought, when you try to do a search of what happened with Chelsea and her critic(s) at the NYU townhall/vigil, much of the links are for right-wing websites (which I REFUSE to visit or give clicks to), which just goes to show that this incident is becoming grist for the right-wing. FWIW, other Muslims are disparaging the critics and defending Chelsea on this one, even those who disagreed with her remarks about Omar. AOC and Omar need to try to see if, for six weeks, they can actually focus on their actual constituents, instead of riding so hard for a national spotlight.

That's the last time I consult Soapcentral, they have Jacqueline Schultz listed as being on being on in April of 1986, which is what when that episode takes place. I thought it was Dawson but (sigh) let myself be convinced that my first instinct was wrong by Soapcentral, that has the dates and actresses all mixed up.

In the Old Y&R thread, being treated to some vintage episodes from the 1970s and appreciating how magnanimous many Y&R fans are, dipping into their collections and trading and sharing videos. Also wondering why ATWT doesn't have that same tradition. The Y&R videos are in such good picture quality, better than many of the ATWT ones from the 1980s and even early '90s! I truly don't understand what would be the harm in sharing, if you have vintage videos? I feel like, with Y&R, every year a crop of vintage episodes pop up somewhere online while with ATWT, I'm seeing many of the same videos uploaded and reuploaded from the past ten years on YouTube. Today I feel like I needed some entertainment "comfort food" so I am watching an episode leading up to ATWT's 30th Anniversary where several characters from the past visit Oakdale for Chris and Nancy Hughes' wedding anniversary celebration and seeing Dee Hughes converse with Tom Hughes, I felt that instead of Emily, it would've been much more interesting to me had Dee and Tom had a dalliance. The added effect it would've had on John (if he were still around) could have provided a lot of drama. I realize that part of the reason I just didn't care about Daniel was because I just didn't care about Emily and Tom's affair, the two actors who were playing Tom (SH) and Emily (KMH) lacked chemistry and for that reason, I wished the writers had never done the story. Seeing Greg Marx and Jacqueline Schultz, uh Vicky Dawson, interact made me see that, in the right hands, it could've been more plausible, compelling even.

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Oh wow, how long was the theme sung during the ending credits? Seeing those sets from the 1975 episode just goes to show that you can do elegant without an enormous set. What you really need is creative talent who can build tasteful and intimate set design. Okay the bar where Brock was looked a bit seedy but my point stands for the other sets. Thanks for posting these episodes. I look forward to seeing the episode from '78.

Ad-supported. They also produce original series/ Crackle was known for being the distributor of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars with Coffee, where it built up a large following before Netflix scooped up the series in a multi-million dollar deal with Jerry Seinfeld.

@VeeSonyCrackle (used to be known simply as Crackle) is Sony Entertainment's online ad-supported streaming platform. They generally stream mostly older titles (primetime TV and movies) from their catalog but they also produce original content.

Kimberly McCollough is also on the #SaveODAAT bandwagon.

Why doesn't SonyCrackle pick it up? They produce some original material. StartUp, for example. Snatch (which I admit to never having watched), is actually a remake/reboot/whatever of the Guy Ritchie movie. Is there a reason why SonyCrackle hasn't gotten in on this?

What an awful man.

Indian Wells has always been trash. I didn't miss it when Venus and Serena used to skip it and I wouldn't mind if they skipped it again. The management at IW don't clean their facilities properly, sickening players, their courts are godawful slow and what in the ever-loving hell happened in Elina Svitolina's hotel room last night/early morning??!

I'm not sure what people's knowledge of the Muslim faith is but this happened on Friday in New Zealand. Friday is a day of prayer in the Islamic faith, it is a day when mosques are filled with people praying. The person(s) who staged these deadly attacks planned this to target the most people possible. When I went to bed last night, I saw that dozens had been shot. As it stands now, 49 people (including children, I heard) had been killed. The shooter had livestreamed at least one of the attacks, which is why after I posted the news last night, I got offline ASAP so as not to risk seeing it. The shooters were likely inspired by that Anders Breivik, the Norway shooter but Trump has not helped matters, in his associations with known racists and people tangentially linked to white supremacists. People like Trump have definitely helped those networks feel emboldened. For example, the shooter, once apprehended, had already claimed that there were more mosque attacks in the works. Shaun King is another person who needs to open his financial books. There are numerous complaints about him "fundraising" for vulnerable people but not producing the money. There is a lot of distrust of him within black social media circles.

Netflix will likely try to wait it out then bring out a ODAAT clone that they will produce so as not to have to pay another production company (e.g. Sony). That still doesn't explain why Netflix was willing to shell out $100 million to keep Friends on its streaming platform. I'm dubious that a network will allow the show's creators and writers to write material without restrictions or interference but networks like ABC and NBC are definitely in need of series television shows that inspire such critical acclaim and a dedicated fanbase. I also think networks usually do more to promote their shows (I said usually because this hasn't always been the case). I saw on social media that there were people who claimed they were frequent Netflix users and they had never heard of ODAAT. That was the crux of the problem, in a nutshell.

Apparently, there have been multiple shootings at mosques in New Zealand. No words for how bad this is. And a hospital, it seems. I think I'm going to go offline. I don't want to risk having to see that terrible video that is said to be floating around.

Uh, Cory Booker is dating Rosario Dawson? I thought he and Mindy Kaling were getting close? Is she still pledged to vote for Bernie? Two candidates that seem almost to be on opposite sides of the Democratic political spectrum. Hm.

I hope Remington gets sued to the highest degree possible. It seems money is the only way to obtain a measure of justice in America these days.

This is part of what I wanted to mention when I cited a gripe with Netflix's new business model (in the Awards Show thread). They have now become so committed to drawing in the big-time film directors and the big budget projects that they are leaving behind the independent and indie-adjacent fare that used to be their stock and trade, including a lot of shows by minority creatives. It's a shame, really. It's no coincidence that they've canceled so many shows with minority majority cast (e.g.The Get Down, Sense8, Everything Sucks). I've never seen 13 Reasons Why or Insatiable but I take it that they've been renewed and people are objecting to it? Something seems fishy about this.

Do people honestly need a service to "guide" them through the college application process? Or is it looking for ways to find loopholes, legal and otherwise? This statement rings hollow to me.

As dispiriting as I know it must be, I guess it's better that these kids found out how things truly are early on, instead of years after you obtain your degree and still struggled to get opportunities, like many of us did.

I think that it's probably more xenophobia more than racism (although for a percentage of 'little Britain', the two are co-mingled). Just after the referendum two years ago, I was surprised to see there were pockets of POC, a few young who voted to Leave the EU. Admittedly, a few of them felt remorse the next day, claiming they didn't realize what they were actually voting for. I think the divide is also a function of region (with the Metropole London and other big cities that have diverse populations generally voting in favor or Remaining in the EU and rural and outlying areas voting to Leave) When I speak of diversity, I don't just mean color, I mean the fact that in London and Birmingham, you can find residents who come from other parts of Europe making London and Birmingham their home. Much of the Leave campaign was xenophobic, about not allowing any more Polish or Romanian migrants in to "take" jobs. Never mind the fact that many Eastern Europeans were working in jobs that many British did not want to apply for (sandwich shops and cafés), or filled positions with the National Health Service that desperately needed filling (similar to the way that nurses and health care pros were lured from the West Indies in the late 1950s, early '60s, to the early 1970s). The Leave campaign was promoted for almost as long as Britain has been in the European Union, with many of GB's most widely read tabloids propagandizing it within their pages. Unfortunately, British tabloids became intertwined with British politics as the numbers of their former reporters have been known to join the political ranks or become very cozy with politicians. Boris Johnson himself used to edit a tabloid. The coverage in the tabloids was usually skewed to make Europeans from the Continent look like Barbarians At the Gate. Also, from my time there, I got the distinct notion that the British liked to think of themselves as distinctly apart from the rest of Europe. They had an air of exceptionalism, similar to the way many Americans think of the U.S. as being exceptional to other countries. Couple all this with the fact that many Conservatives/Tories sought to blame some external source for all the pain, poverty and hardship that austerity caused and you find a toxic stew of economic hardship, xenophobia, political power grabs and desperate measures (e.g. referendum).

One parent faked his son's learning disability, so that the son could take the SAT over two days with no proctor. Others falsified the ethnicities of their children, presumably to qualify for affirmative action programs. Man, these folks are disgusting!

At this point, the only hope left is the Southern District of New York.

Jussie Smollett is not the only one faking death threats, I guess.