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Yeah, she was nervous but even more, she was struggling to be heard above the choir, LOL. Someone tweeted, "I love Ariana, but she better be warmed up before she gets out there!"

I'm actually not surprised that Faith Hill is there. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have been pretty popular across a wide swath of people, including many Black people. Remember that joke about Faith Evans and Faith Hill doing a duet? A lot of people genuinely want that to happen, for good reason.

Yes, lol. TV One is also streaming live on You Tube. TV One: Aretha Franklin Funeral Service

Also, Aretha Franklin was a very sharp woman who no doubt knows that a popular artist who can sing will bring a certain demographic, making it more likely that there will be a multi-generational audience. Do people not believe that Auntie ReRe wants ratings for her church service? I saw some of the names on that seating list and whew!! Ms. Franklin wants all eyes to be on her home-going ceremony, believe that!

This makes me wonder what the writer's room looked like as the character/actress aged. What was the balance of writers in Lucinda's age group writing story for Lucinda, particularly after Marland passed? Representation matters, although, sadly, you do have some women who write highly misogynistic stories, too concerned with not being seen as showing too much solidarity with their female characters.

Question: Was John and Lucinda's Las Vegas wedding televised? I have no recollection of the actual nuptials, just the bathtub scene and then the following week, Lucinda descends the stairs at John's penthouse and announces to Emma Snyder that she was the honorable Mrs. John Dixon. I know there are many missing episodes that don't appear on You Tube, so I was wondering whether anyone remembers whether scenes from the Vegas elopement actually appeared on the show.

Bounce TV also televised Whitney Houston's funeral from what I remember. I didn't see them on Rolling Stones' listing but somehow I knew they would do it. It's especially thoughtful since Bounce TV can be accessed by antenna.

Information on Aretha Franklin's funeral service. It will be livestreamed as well as televised. Aretha Franklin’s Funeral to Be Broadcast on TV, Livestreamed

There was an interview after ATWT was canceled where Bryce said that he got the feeling that his questions about the character were not welcome by Goutman but he genuinely did not understand how the character had reached this place that Craig was currently in. It just didn't make sense to him. I don't think his questions about character trajectory were ever answered. Just on a purely superficial note, ATWT in the '80s was on trend for better (and sometimes for worse) but they usually got it very right when they outfitted the Craig character in those tailored suits, personified the "sharp-dressed man" that ZZ Top sang about.

He wedded and bedded Jo mutha-effin' Polniaczech and Corky Sherwood! Hell yeah, he was husband material!!

This is so bad.

Staaaaph! When Bryce returned, the character was much changed. Craig was written horrendously in '07 when Bryce had briefly returned to the role but hey, no more tears, lol.

No offense @Mitch but I don't think you were the intended audience where Craig was concerned. The soap writers and execs likely paid attention the fact that the majority of their audiences were women and Scott Bryce, would have appealed to a good number of that audience. His Craig was by most definitions "80s hot". I'm actually serious. The idea of the sensitive, romantic guy was very popular back then, which is probably why Bryce's sensitive guy got nominated for an Emmy over his anti-hero from years before. And on his worst days, Bryce's Craig couldn't ever have as grating as Nicholas Cage's character from Valley Girl and that movie is a cult classic. I actually do believe it when @P.J. says that Craig consistently ranked at the top of the lists of characters most desired for a return. I actually loved Craig and Sierra and I would've relished Craig returning had I trusted the writers and ATWT/PGP execs. But I didn't. I thought the writers were pretty lousy in the last decade and I thought the decisions the execs made were pretty poor choices. So glad I had taken a hiatus from watching the show at that time.

Uber isn't the only problem. China is forced to overhaul its ride-hailing service after the rapes and murders of two female passengers. Hitch, one particular service has rethink how they market themselves to customers and drivers after using sexist advertising featuring double entendres and lewd imagery. Customers Died. Will That Be a Wake-Up Call for China’s Tech Scene?

Times Up was not a movement but an initiative that was started to address the specific problems in the gender inequality issues in the entertainment industry. After criticism from some who thought it was too narrowly focused on what are considered fairly privileged women, the scope was broadened outside of the entertainment industry to incorporate women from other walks of live and in various levels of the socio-economic spectrum. Me Too was a movement that was started in the mid '00s by Tarana Burke, a civil rights activist and it encompassed the marginalized, with an emphasis on sexual abuse and sexual assault. Her movement was co-opted into a hashtag but the movement existed long before 2017. The fact that there are folks who still don't know this is a crying shame.

There was a hew and cry? Wow, really?? Perhaps the writers should've resisted the hew and cry and simply wrote better stories for the characters they actually had. Personally, I would've left Craig in Montega with Sierra and the kids and had him make occasional appearances the way ATWT used to have Don and Penny and even David Stewart visit Oakdale. Bonus points if they could get Finn Carter's Sierra to make an occasional visit with him. In the last decade of the show, Carter was doing more TV and some of the shows were on CBS. It wouldn't have taken that much effort. What they wrote for Craig could've been accomplished by any ole garden variety villain. That would've been a good instance where a brand new character would've made sense. The ages were all messed up. Paul looked damn near older than Barbara toward the end of the series. Meg, Emily and Paul were written as if they were all in the same age group. I found Emily and Paul written as the same age group to be particularly incongruous considering their history. The other thing that seemed ridiculous was the multiple recasts. I thought it was ridiculous how many recasts ATWT had for Adam, Craig, Paul and Casey's trip to the attic to SORAS was utterly ridiculous.

Probably during the Writer's Strike. Still better than the horrendous stuff that was written for the character in the '00s. About a month ago, I struggled to get through a chunk of 2007 episodes and saw Bryce and Elizabeth Hubbard try to get some terribly written dialogue to work. I repeat, Scott Bryce and Elizabeth Hubbard couldn't get the dialogue to work!! That's when you know a script is a genuine flop, but that was characteristic of the show's final decade, in particular.

The fan who talks about how, although they never met, Aretha Franklin saved her life, is really quite endearing.

I knew the U.S. wasn't long for this to happen, yet Goddammit, what 8th circle of hell are we in now?

What is says is that writers loved to use Craig to service damn near every woman in his age group, whether the pairing worked or not. After Ellie, it began to get ridiculous, although he had some chemistry with Sam. Writers completely ruined that character after the mid 1990s and I don't even acknowledge the years that came after.

Without having yet read this article, is it the Uighur population? China treats the Uighurs terribly and has for many years and Uighurs have rebelled by committing acts that China has labeled as terrorist. My guess is with Islamaphobia running rampant in the past 17 years, this has gotten very little attention.

The director of the funeral home handling arrangements for Aretha Franklin says that she paid for many people who could not afford to pay funeral expenses. Many of the stories that I've been reading have cited her as a genuine member of a community. It kind of reminds me of Prince and how he did many low-key and anonymous acts of charity. The Latest: Aretha Franklin covered burial expenses of needy

ICYMI.

Speaking of Kenya, after assailing Obama's Kenyan connections and referring to African countries as sh*tholes, apparently the Trump W.H. wants to strengthen "ties" with Kenya. Is this the new colonizer language?