DramatistDreamer

Not to keep going into it but Byrne has been staunchly conservative and hasn’t really kept it under wraps, especially after she left ATWT. Lucy Deakins (who left the role to do movies) was my first “Lily” and I have a preference toward her in the role but I appreciate what Martha and Heather brought to the role. That said, I have always wished fans could make a line of demarcation between the characters and the actors who portray those characters. Byrne herself has said that she thought she had more in common with the Rose character (who she thought was closer to who she was irl) than Lily.

I loved the Anne Of Green Gables and Anne Of Avonlee series. From episode 1, I immediately purchased the books. I think Megan Follows may have even been on the covers lol. And yes, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and The Tales Of Narnia was a series that reminded me of the holidays because that’s generally when PBS would air it. I would love if they could stream a lot of these programs. I realize that PBS was under a lot of pressure from conservatives who wanted to dismantle their funding and as a result, this forced PBS to become smaller in scope and present programming that was more ‘vanilla’ in order to appeal to deep-pocketed donors but it makes for bland and repetitive programming.

You haven’t spent much time in the As The World Turns thread, have you? There has been an entire ongoing situation with her husband, a former policeman. I’m not going to say anymore about that one, but no, her reaction is on brand. Anyhoo, I hope we get to hear from Alvin Bragg who has earned the right to speak on this. Many people came for him but he understood the assignment.

Trump’s crooked cronies are trying to have their say right now.

He looked weary although he was trying to play it off with faux tough talk but he was sleeping and farting his way through this trial.

New charges are being considered. New York prosecutors say they are weighing new charges against Harvey Weinstein

You’re welcome. They might need to have a separate FAST channel for their more daring programs but it would be nice to be able to view those episodes of show. Maybe something like PBS Arts? Although it would also be cool to see episodes of the Bill Moyers program. So many thoughtful programs that were deemed too risky by PBS and dropped and all but completely forgotten these days. I mean, whatever happened to American Playhouse? As much as I enjoy Masterpiece, I get a bit weary with constantly getting bombarded with British dramatic fare, I would love to see more pieces by writers from the Americas…Canada, the Caribbean, Texas, Miami. How many iterations of Upstairs/Downstairs can they churn out? Classic episodes of Mystery is another series that I enjoyed and would love to get a second look.

The RG crowds have been boorish for at least two decades now with scant notice. The RG crowd was known to boo French players as well. Personally, I think it was worse when the Williams Sisters were at their peak, it was very clear to me why.

No problem at all @Khan!

Are people aware that this has been going on? https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166607/the-internet-archive-is-being-ddosd

If they would show some of their more avant garde arts programming (e.g. Alive From Off Center, etc.) I think I’d be more excited about this but maybe they will be doing bolder programming in the future? https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/pbs-launches-free-retro-channel-with-programs-from-the-80s-and-90s/ar-AA1nENOL

Who does something like this? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nikki-haley-writes-finish-them-on-israeli-bomb-after-refugee-massacre/ar-BB1ndp2u

Wow, over the last two years there had been quite a bit of Godfather nostalgia (the somewhat controversial but highly engrossing bts memoir “Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli and The Offer which is a limited series based on that book which were both said to be drawn primarily from the perspective of Al Ruddy.

They sort of picked up with the Griffins where they left off with the Franklins. I felt like attempts were made to do something similar with Roy and his family, the Franklins but they didn’t have the ‘know-how’, especially seeing as the show wanted to tackle the issue of race and police killings and the tension between Roy and his father, who disliked cops because they shot and killed his other son. The idea was prescient (and still is unfortunately) but the execution of the story was clumsy and spoke to the lack of intimate knowledge of the issues and relationships. Maybe that’s why Tonya Pinkins felt that their personal lives and relationships were being pried into by the writers (although from personal experience, I can attest to the fact that writers are always eavesdropping for material)- because they otherwise had no knowledge of these issues. Hey, maybe hiring a few Black writers would have solved that issue but we know that daytime writer’s rooms were very insular.

Then that’s really smart. Seems like more entertainment entities have stopped thumbing their noses at the revenue sharing options on YouTube. Those coins can add up if the number of those views are high enough.

Also, why couldn’t the show have more than one Black woman in the same age group on the canvas at the same time? You had Barbara and Margo, you had Lily and Meg. Lisa, Ellen and Kim were presumably in the same age group, and so were Betsy and Sierra. I don’t understand the mentality that there could only be one character of the same gender and ethnicity on the canvas.

That would be some far out and ahead thinking (which tbh Maryland was known to do with story projections) because Heather left around summer ‘86 and Jessica didn’t appear onscreen until early 1987, although in late 1986 (around one of Gregg Marx’s final onscreen appearances) Tom Hughes is seen looking overwhelmed and talking on the phone and pressing Jessica to come to Oakdale a bit earlier than she plans to arrive. Because there are so many missing episodes, I am not even sure if Marx’s Tom and Tamar Tunie’s Jessica Griffin ever had an onscreen interaction. The first episode that’s posted on YouTube where I remember seeing Jessica is either end of January or early February 1987. I am really curious as to what really happened to Count Stovall’s presence on this show. Was his character deliberately phased out or did he get tired of the direction of the character and choose to leave?

From what I understand, Rafa did not want a big “send-off” as he isn’t even sure that this will be his final RG. I also heard that there is a possibility that Rafa may skip Wimbledon to prepare for the Olympic Games tennis tournament as it’s being contested at Roland Garros (of course).

This is a good move as it opens the serial up to viewers in many other countries beside the United States (unless it is geo-blocked).

Yes, in principle, one should take out a loan in good faith that repayments will be made but the student loan system hasn’t been working in good faith for the last 30 years. I can remember being told by financial aid and registrars offices that student loan debt was “good debt”. Oh really…how sway?🤨 The terms of “good debt” shouldn’t function in a way that is as or more ruthless than loan sharks do. When I read this article, I thought back to how hard it was for low-income students to graduate on time. Not for academic reasons but financial. I was able to graduate on time for undergrad but for graduate school, I had to take time off for financial reasons only to discover that the it elite university I attended lost (yes, I said LOST) my scholarship! That made me graduate late into a less than ideal economy. I also thought about the fact that in undergrad, the school actually allowed credit card companies to come on campus and set up tables trying to sign up students for credit cards. So you take a situation where you have students, most of whom have had little to no financial education, some of whom are low-income, some who are the first in their families to go to college and luring them in with freebies. Most of us were not profligate spenders but if you have vulnerable students who have work study jobs that only pay the bottom of the wage scale needing books you’re setting most up for financial pressures. Honestly, I don’t really care if these folks see a dime. Any time I get mail seeking alumni contributions, guess where I put that letter? If anyone is really interested in actually fixing the problem, they may want to pay more attention to the obscenely high tuition fees and how much of that goes to university presidents and professors who are hardly on campus and leave their adjuncts to do all the work. I once had a professor, the head of my department (in a rotating chair of the department position) give me the number to contact him at his summer home if I needed to contact him (a second home, as it turned out, the school was helping to pay mortgage on).

He should be thrown in jail just for this. 😷 🤢 https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2024/05/26/nation-world-news/new-jersey-man-gets-12-years-for-violent-acts-during-jan-6-riot/ Tragically, I think we’re already at this point.

Absolute criminality which shouldn’t be allowed at the academic level.

Wow, 8% interest rates for graduate student loans?! https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/student-loan-interest-rates-to-soar-above-65-the-highest-level-in-more-than-15-years/ar-BB1mzSOs

Catalytic converter theft has become a huge problem nationwide in the United States but this is the first time that I am hearing about a murder as a result. This indeed so senseless.