DramatistDreamer

@YRBB I think someone may have posted this last year either in the Status Updates or in the Old Y&R thread. I remember it being mentioned somewhere. Director Kasi Lemmons (Nella Franklin #3, ATWT) has been writing the libretto for a jazz opera based on Fire Shut Up In My Bones the memoir of NYT columnist and political commentator Charles Blow.

Meanwhile, ICYMI

Charles is Charged? Nicole Eggert files sexual assault police report against Scott Baio

Why not spend the money to pay military better wages and help the homeless vets get permanent housing!! Maybe France could do a parade because they have socialized healthcare for everyone over there! Also, you don't hear/read anything about them having a population of homeless armed forces veterans.

Some televangelist named Gloria Copeland, who apparently is Trump's 'faith adviser' claims that the flu is all in our heads. Despite the high hospitalization rate and death rate from the flu. Flu season is all in our heads, Texas televangelist says: 'Inoculate yourself with the word of God' Consequently, there is no current head of the CDC as Trump's pick withdrew her nomination after it was revealed that she had heavy investments in big tobacco. Despite the high number of hospitalizations and deaths (particularly children) Twit-in-Chief has yet to mention this. Even sadder still no one in the media seems to ask him or his pathetic WH spokesperson about this.

Where are all those deficit hawks who used to block every subsequent plan the Obama administration came up with to boost the economy during recession because they scolded that it would raise the deficit?

There's also audio floating around of Tarrantino defending Polanski years ago. I don't feel like posting it because frankly, I'm getting tired of hearing some of these guys' voices with all the offensive crap they've been putting out there.

So Mick Mulvaney as the new head of the newly disempowered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is now set to pull the plug on the ongoing investigation into Equifax and their enormous data breach from last year. Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice - sources If it wasn't clear to anyone before, it should be clear now that we non-millionaires are truly on our own.

So. much. MAGA winning.

The restaurant business is so competitive, I could easily see his restaurants going under. It doesn't take much for a business to fail in such a competitive environment and Batali's name and reputation carries a lot of baggage now and I see this continuing for the foreseeable future. Oh well, hopefully the hard-working staff who was not engaging in misconduct will find other jobs--sounds like they already are. Batali's restaurants leaving the scene might make way for restaurants run by owner who is respectful of his/her staff.

The question is, who will take up this effort when it comes to P &G shows? PGP/P&G seems to have no appetite for doing anything so far (that I'm aware). A grassroots effort seems to be the only alternative but who would spearhead that? Many soap fans, especially P&G fans, seem resigned to the current status of these classic shows. Personally I'd be all for some type of effort to get a message to collectors to cull their classic episodes to at least be entered into a database to see what's out there and build some type of support (maybe even through crowdfunding) for continuing the digitization process with an eye toward selling downloads or boxed sets, streaming or a substation channel, etc but I can't get my hopes up for anything happening given P&G's history.

Meanwhile as usual, WOC getting very little attention in the media for their travails. He helped Halle Berry and Taraji Henson to stardom. Now 9 minority women are accusing him of sexual harassment.

I think that PGP claims that they only have episodes from 1979 onward. They claim to have 'wiped' many previous episodes. I know they have that Kennedy assassination episode (where Cronkite interrupted the live broadcast) that was likely preserved by CBS. I've seen other vintage episodes from the 60s floating around. I once read that a rare, believed to be lost collection of BBC performances were found in the house of a widow of a BBC cameraman. I don't rule out the possibility of a newly discovered reel. There were even people who worked in television who had television recorders (early prototype to the VCR) as early as the early 70s, so I hope for some random discovery of 'lost' episodes to be made someday. For now though, I have to take P&G at their word that their reels only go as far back as 1979.

It would be interesting to get an estimate of how many undigitized years still remain, after AOL and SoapClassics had a hand in the process? I just get the feeling that PGP/P&G wants someone to come to them with the perfect solution where they can maximize some unrealistically high profit margin, while doing/giving absolutely nothing in return. That's just the sense I get from the company and how they've treated their soaps over the last several years of their respective runs.

Clearly McGowan needs help.

Did the stock market fall 666 points today?

This is what it accomplished:

Apparently the memo that the GOP was going on about turned out to be the Capitol Hill/West Wing version of the beer bottle in Al Capone's vault that Geraldo "unveiled".

Honestly, I never thought about a reboot for ATWT. The only soap I've ever seriously considered as having a great shot at a reboot is Capitol. Capitol had a short enough run that some fans might remember but not a huge number would be 'married' to the original characters or their portrayer. Honestly, I think there would be problems with reboot of ATWT, especially if there were none of the actors that made certain characters so memorable. I don't know of any show with half as long a run as ATWT that anyone is even considering for a reboot. If you're going to use different actors, may as well do a 'prequel' and then give the characters different names and the show a different name as well. I remember the whining and complaining over the 2.0 version of AMC/OLTL. I think the backlash over a reboot of ATWT/GL without any of the actors who made their roles well known might exceed that.

It wouldn't have to be the entire collection but clearinghouses are good vehicles for selecting what would potentially be the top sellers, similar to what Soap Classics did, but on a larger level. There should be some imaginative collective thinking other than just to decide to let the videos completely deteriorate. If there are no takers, why not give it away to Soap Classics or the TV department of a university library and see what can be done? Had they done it years ago, how far could they have gotten in the digitization process by now? SoapClassics did a hell of a lot with limited staff and limited resources. Imagine what they could've accomplished had they had years, not months.

I can't even believe that P&G couldn't be bothered to do a measley reunion webisode for ATWT or GL's anniversaries. Honestly, why doesn't P&G/PGP just sell the damn libraries for these shows? If they think these shows are so worthless, why not just sell to some clearinghouse or video production company that could actually do something with these titles? Or is PGP the corporate version of The Dog in the Manger? Or are they secretly holding out for what they assume will be some big payday someday? I'm perplexed by these people. Also, no reboot would happen unless PGP sells/leases the rights to their shows, which they've shown no inclination of doing at this point. So far, they don't even want to do anything with their old episodes (and don't dare tell me it's the music rights holding things in limbo, digital technology could remedy that) let alone clear the path for a reboot.

Britain Was a Pioneer in Outsourcing Services. Now, the Model Is ‘Broken.’ I can easily see this situation happening in the U.S. for several reasons. 1. Britain, which uses a high rate of outsourcing, is second to the U.S., which uses the highest rate of outsourcing in the world. 2. The Republicans, like the Tories in England, are prone to austerity measures, which end up starving the public sector, which often helps to fund services for vulnerable people (even within the private sector). Think of nursing homes that use a mix of personal and state funding. 3. Both Britain and the U.S. rely heavily on foreign labor, particularly in their personal care industries like nursing homes (or Care Homes, as they are referred to in the U.K.). "Brexit" is currently exacerbating an already bad situation as staffs are depleted with workers leaving Great Britain for other E.U. destinations and these contractors are forced to rely on temporary labor, which are often undertrained. As the U.S. immigration policy begins to restrict even legal immigration, I can easily imagine the nursing homes falling into this same circumstance. This article struck me because of the parallels between Great Britain and the U.S. It's shocking how easily many of their worst crises can often translate to tenuous situations in the U.S. without missing a beat!