DramatistDreamer

L'Affaire de Ed Whelan is truly revealing the GOP to be comprised mostly of a band of nutjobs. There is just no other way to describe it. They really are panicking and it's not pretty.

I almost posted about the Jian Ghomeshi (whose case I've been reading about for about two years) in the Off-Topic Thread since I don't consider it to be Hollywood related. Back on topic though, This article discusses the possibility that Moonves may end up collecting that $120 million after all, despite several CBS directors refusal. Why Les Moonves Might Still Get $120 Million From CBS So Moonves is claiming that his encounters were consensual (a la Weinstein) but any "inappropriate" behavior was before he arrived at CBS. Oh boy...

Wow, you're good for remembering all this! So it was what I thought it was. Thanks for clarifying that.

Trigger warning, everybody because this is pretty awful.

@Brolden Glad you enjoyed that. I'd love to ask someone who made the creative decisions on how scenes were shot. Was it decided during meetings or was it left up to the director and/or camera operators? It seems that those people had to be skilled to shoot these almost entirely continuous sequences because they had to shoot so much script material in a relatively brief amount of time so they had to be efficient. It is unlikely that they had a lot of time to do re-takes. Today's shows do a couple of scenes with from a funky angle and they make a big show of what they've done but ATWT was so fluid and seamless, that they it had an understated quality about it. This is might be why the show may not have gotten much credit for a lot of the technical feats that they accomplished. They made it look so easy! I'd love to do other clips highlighting other aspects that ATWT accomplished technically but the editing of clips was kind of a chore because the software was so clunky. Maybe down the road, I'll do some having to do with my favorite musical cues in scenes-- there were some memorable ones.

Charles Blow speaks eloquently of why someone wouldn't have come forward and also why the FBI is much better equipped at doing an investigation. This is definitely worth your time to watch. Especially to ignorant trolls (if they're still here, I put them on ignore) who ask impertinent questions.

Hm, not sure how this affects the long term results but it's an intriguing development nonetheless.

Anita Hill expresses the hope that the Senate gets things right this time by conducting a more thoughtful hearing and a thorough investigation before testimony is given. Anita Hill: How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right

The same party who delayed Merrick Garland's hearing as long as humanly possible (over 400 days) are now chiding Democrats for agreeing that the FBI should investigate before Prof. Blasey Ford testifies because it would delay the vote. How richly hypocritical of the GOP but none of us are surprised, right?

You're welcome @~bl~ @DRW50. I wish that the second video was a bit clearer, sharper but since PGP/P&G won't upload episodes on a streaming platform anywhere, beggars can't be choosers, I guess. I've been wanting to post clips for sometime but had to get myself in the mood to do it. There are other editing software that are much better but they have to be installed and until I can get myself a new hard- drive (either portable or internal), I don't want to install any more software on my computer. Soaps back then were likely always multi-camera but the seamless movement of these tracking shots are just beautiful. Another reason why this is probably not done on today's soaps is because, clearly the director had to do blocking with the actors, so they know when to move out of frame and when and where to enter. Today's soaps don't seem as if they even use a director. I can't really recall when ATWT ceased doing these types of tracking shots but I'd guess somewhere around the mid 90s when the 'old guard' started to depart and the accountants really started to have a bigger say, which was a shame because ATWT really began to lose its visual beauty, frame by frame and the show began to take on a more generic look.

'Gurl bye' and I don't even watch The Talk. The look on Eve's face at the very end, ('you didn't have to put my name in this, I hardly know you'.)

Somebody asked me if I was going to get up at like, 4 o'clock or something to watch Sloane play. I was like "Haeeeellll nah!".

Some supposed signatories of that letter of support for Kavanaugh claim that their names were used fraudulently. Adrian Perkins Claims Senate Judiciary Committee Relied on Fraudulent Letter Supporting Kavanaugh

@Soapsuds mentioned that yesterday September 17th marked the anniversary of the final episode of ATWT and I wanted to mark the occasion but I got so busy yesterday that I didn't have much time to do the type of post I envisioned and I wasn't satisfied with the clips I'd edited. I'm still not satisfied but, oh well. We often discuss the best (and the worst) of the writing, storylines, production values and characterizations but I wanted to highlight an aspect of the show that often went unheralded-- the high level of technique involved in how scenes were shot, when ATWT was truly at its height. Having written, drawn storyboards and filmed scenes myself, I can appreciate the level of skill the crew had in filming some of these scenes. The three scenes I'm going to present here represent some of the reasons why imo ATWT was a standout in how they shot the sequences on this series during the 80s, in particular. These scenes consist of group scenes because I think these ones standout as the most vivid examples of what ATWT did so well-- these sequences are almost entirely continuous (little to no cuts), which is not easy and I imagine, not cheap because you have to get it right or you have to start over. *I apologize in advance, the software I used made the edited video loop continuously, so I advise that you just either press Pause when the video tries to begin again, or just refresh this page. You'll likely have to do this for each video. If anyone knows a good free, uncomplicated editing software, please let me know*). Is it just my computer, or do these videos look humongous on anyone else's screen?

+1 Yeah, I thought about the fact that this poster is a troll. I posted a reply that was very curt and abrupt because I suspected that poster's trolling. I don't want to waste my time. I think I'll just put that one on ignore, tbh.

Ellison can be voted out and replaced by the people of Minnesota, a Supreme Court justice CANNOT. Supreme Court Justice is a lifetime appointment. One single Supreme Court Justice can tip the balance and therefore change federal laws (for a generation, at least). Any fool knows this. You are making false equivalencies. You get a grip and stop being basic.

I remember that he belonged to that cult. At the time, it wasn't clear to me what his origins were. I haven't watched since I first saw it, so I can't be entirely sure. Where he came from seemed murky to me.

Not sure whether I'll tune in tonight but I thought I'd post this here.

You're welcome @BellaCuore. Glad you enjoyed it.

Oh no, it used to be fun! I admit that it's not always fun or memorable but I've enjoyed the finals for the past few years. I'm just concerned with Piqué wanting to transform it into some FIFA/World Cup also-ran. And FIFA (and by extension, The World Cup) has had some major problems with transparency and corruption.

This sounds like a recipe for World Cup-style corruption.

So interesting that you mentioned that because while I watched the OLTL 2.0 a few years ago, I couldn't help but wonder what it would've been like if the show had brought in a family for Jeffrey King (Corbin Bleu) and I though of Ellen Holly reprising her role as his grandmother, with Victoria Rowell, playing the mother. I invented an entire storyline in my head and honestly, I've only seen clips and read about EH's character on OLTL. It would've been fab, imo.

People are complaining that someone from the Ted Cruz campaign is sending out fraudulent mailers ...AGAIN. Apparently it has happened before.