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13 minutes ago, John said:

There were 3 nellas on ATWT? I know of 2: Kasi & Victoria Rowell. Who was the third?

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?

BREAKING: Dow closes down more than 1,000 points. pic.twitter.com/mMriU1fDfS

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 8, 2018

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.

This week, Kelly called DACA-eligible immigrants lazy and tried to cover for an alleged, two-time wife abuser.
He is not the adult in the room. He is a Trumpist.

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) February 8, 2018

BREAKING: U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking tells NBC News that Russians successfully penetrated voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to 2016 presidential election. https://t.co/QXnaa0zdBd

More tonight on @NBCNightlyNews.

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 7, 2018

@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.

BIG NEWS My memoir #FireShutUpInMyBones is being turned into an opera by composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons. It premiers June 15, 2019, at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and features @JuliaBullockSop @DavoneTines (who will play me). So excited I could burst! pic.twitter.com/U8Grtr5sT5

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) February 6, 2018

Meanwhile, ICYMI

#BREAKING: Democrats win state House seat in deep-red Missouri district Trump won by 28 points https://t.co/NqvnYjuCKG pic.twitter.com/1GaoTT9mtf

— The Hill (@thehill) February 7, 2018

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?

US trade deficit surges to highest level since 2008 despite Trump's promises to lower gap https://t.co/7GaunwZvpR pic.twitter.com/9khug7g6QO

— The Hill (@thehill) February 6, 2018

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.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Am I reading right that the Dow average today fell more than 1000 points?

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.

3 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

If some of these classic older episodes could be brought together and sold in a package to eager fans, I think it would be good way to test the market. Since Y&R and DAYS have all their episodes in storage, how about a collectors' boxset of, say, the first 40 eps of Y&R from 1973?

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.

Rose McGowan has meltdown on stage at Barnes & Nobles book signing after trans heckler yells that she hasn't done anything for trans women who are victims of sexual assault. pic.twitter.com/fTRafCUNcL

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 2, 2018

How much did the Dow drop today? 666 points. Let me say it again:666.
Coincidence? I think not.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 2, 2018

Did the stock market fall 666 points today? 

BREAKING: U.S. stocks fall sharply, DOW drops over 600 points. https://t.co/Y7qMDMhyzn pic.twitter.com/cxwWfeFhp7

— ABC News (@ABC) February 2, 2018

28 minutes ago, Roman said:

and what did this accomplish? Trump has now turned the entire intel. community against him. if he thought they were going after him before......

This is what it accomplished:

Some are missing a plot piece in memogate - Carter Page was under surveillance in 2013. Hired by Trump after that. The dossier came into existence after that. Why are republicans and the WH more desperate to smear FBI than find out whether Page was part of a criminal conspiracy?

— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) February 2, 2018

In leveling its central charge dossier was entire basis of #CarterPage warrant, #NunesMemo twice inadvertently undermines the argument: 1, it says Papadopoulos info, not dossier, triggered opening of the FBI probe, and, 2, it notes FBI corroborated some of Steele dossier.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 2, 2018

That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.

— James Comey (@Comey) February 2, 2018

As I have said repeatedly, I also remain 100 percent confident in Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The contents of this memo do not - in any way - discredit his investigation.

— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) February 2, 2018

My statement on the misleading Nunes memo, also known as a nothing burger.

Also, I am super excited for the American public to see the Democratic memo, which sets forth all the omitted material facts that the #NunesMemo hides. https://t.co/wey0xGR0Nz

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 2, 2018

Memo actually confirms a timeline not favorable to Trump:
1. Counterintelligence probe opened in July 2016 by FBI because of George P./Wikileaks/emails.
2. FISA application on Carter Page obtained late Oct. 2016, after Page had left Trump campaign.

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 2, 2018

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.