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Why did I think she already had this baby? Oh well, congratulations to Lyndsy and her husband. 'Our hearts are bursting': Lyndsy Fonseca announces birth of daughter Greta Lilia with husband Noah Bean

ICYMI

Pence and his wife continue to make themselves look like imbeciles, this time at the Opening Ceremony.

She was the First one!

The third one was around during Pam (John Dixon's niece) and Beau's run. In fact, she followed Beau when he left Oakdale for good.

Tiffani Caesar (Nella #1) is the daughter of the late great actor Adolph Caesar (A Soldier's Story, The Color Purple). She appeared in 1986.

Trump claimed responsibility when the stock market was up (though presidents rarely have anything to do with this), so is he going to take responsibility now that the market is down?

OMG, that Hilton Head soap looks so bad! at Joy's quips about Pence and Sabato's movies. Sorry, I can't take this dude seriously. Any 5th grade debate champ would easily take his arguments apart. He looks desperate but hey, he's doing what he has to, I guess.

@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.