DramatistDreamer

Christine probably ended up prosecuting Victor one too many times to summon any romantic magic.

There is a name drop of As The World Turns in this article but I cannot figure out whether it’s a positive or negative reference. Truman Capote Cashed In on His Friends’ Secrets. It Cost Him Everything.

The timing is interesting @BoldRestless. For years, I have been asking why more soap stars haven’t started their own YouTube channel yet. Many athletes have been doing so in the last few years. Patricia Bruder Debrovner (Ellen Lowell Stewart, ATWT) started her own YouTube channel a few years ago and I enjoyed the few episodes she uploaded and wished she would post more). Since Y&R is still on air, this might be a copyright infringement issue to post entire episodes but there are always clips and other non-soap related content. And for actors from cancelled soaps, I really wish they would start their own YouTube channels and post classic episodes.

^^ Even looking at the camera work, the angles and positioning of the camera in helping to navigate the action shows the vast differences between the show back then versus what it would become several decades later. The differences are stark.

Getting rid of Hilary Curtis remains one of the most idiotic decisions that Y&R made in the last decade, and that’s saying a whole lot.

Have many people seen this version of Cinderella? Someone posted this today and it just happened to appear on my timeline and thought it delightful and thought I would share with GH fans who possibly hadn’t seen it before.

Wrong thread. Sorry. I will move post to the classic thread.

So much yikes in this article. https://people.com/amy-robach-tearfully-tells-tj-holmes-have-chosen-love-you-podcast-8547855

That song (and Brown Girl In The Ring) is very misleading in being attached to him in any way, by the way. It’s only just and necessary that DW raised the issue of “looted music”, which is essentially what Farian did with these songs.

Aww, one of the players I have been enjoying watching lately lost her match while I was sleeping. Itty bitty ‘Pow Pow’ Jasmine Paolini couldn’t power her way past her outsized opponent.

My dad lives in Florida and was never of the belief that the DeSantis presidential campaign would go anywhere, as my dad believes that “nobody likes DeSantis”. Yes @Veethat tweetchain is entertainment, particularly Wu Tang Is For The Children’s post.

New York Times, as a local paper that reports on issues affecting the NY Metropolitan area and Tri-state is still effective at that type of reporting but otherwise, they are too busy trying to play both ends against the middle, with the mistaken belief that they can somehow capture subscribers from the Fox News Channel crowd. A losing strategy, as they will discover in due time. In the meantime, they alienate what used to be their core subscribers and potential subscribers with this both sides are equally bad dross. I guess with NYC being a majority immigrant city, that type of “diversity is scary” reporting would never work. Their Metro section is also probably the one section that they don’t rabidly paywall all the time.

No thanks, that’s a hard pass for me.

It was different, which I guess was enough at the time. Timing is especially important, from what it looks like.

Currently reading The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Ride of an American Commune by Alexander Stille and it is quite the odyssey. A commune (aka cult) on the upper west side of Manhattan that began in the late 1950s, right up until the very early 1990s. You really have to read about it in detail to believe it.

I read that article this morning. Nothing these individuals say surprises me. They gave themselves away all during their teardown strategy for affirmative action (to which the same entities that supposedly emerged triumphant are still finding reason to complain about their insecurities).

ICYMI, Julianne Moore did a podcast interview with the Hollywood Reporter show Awards Chatter where she discusses her latest movie, May December as well as her body of work (including As The World Turns) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/awards-chatter/id1039032256?i=1000638886853

Okay, thanks. It still proves my point that he was the beneficiary of Y&R’s status and clout as the #1 daytime soap. I mean, I’m all for a sensitive man who’s not afraid to shed tears but PB’s Jack is downright maudlin.

Also, unless I’m mistaken, PB arrived at Y&R the same year Y&R first ascended to be the #1 daytime soap. He benefited from Y&R’s new status imo. The writing for PB’s Jack was an easy layup, it leaned heavily on PB’s ability to turn on the waterworks but imo, the writing became too heavily reliant on PB’s saccharine weepy portrayal of Jack Abbott.

You are absolutely correct about this assertion. Promising Young Woman alone built up a reserve of awards goodwill. Hollywood is fickle though, so who knows how long this will last? Today’s Emerald Fennell may very well become tomorrow’s Diablo Cody, who although still doing work, is just no longer a film industry darling. I also think Fennell’s British-ness also tends to automatically elevate her creative ideas in the minds of the industry people.

Alec Baldwin has been re-charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/alec-baldwin-recharged-involuntary-manslaughter-1235598303/

Oh, he was definitely the one I was referring to as possible jail time but you’re likely correct to say that it will probably be some kind of probation or suspended sentence or some combination of the two. I didn’t see any of the post match interviews but I read that a reporter asked him about the case/allegations and he looked bewildered and caught off guard by the questions. Surely, he had to expect that someone sometime would ask him about this.

Did anyone see the Sabalenko vs Tsurenko match? What the heck happened there?! Seems like there is a recent trend of tennis players going to prison, narrowly avoiding prison, or under threat of possible prison time. Sanchez Vicario was known for being so clever on court, apparently not so much IRL.

I posted my thoughts on what I believed could be the most likely scenario that could expand the war into a regional conflict and I still believe this. Pakistan and India, which had conflicts and skirmishes since the partition of the Indian subcontinent are both nuclear armed nations. I could be mistaken but I don’t see Pakistan as being politically cohesive enough to go farther than occasional air strikes (which, to be fair is unnerving enough as it is). Iran seems to be spreading its influence very thin these days as they seem to be behind a number of conflicts in the region. Perhaps this will sap some of their focus and military power, who knows?

^^Wow, that is very sad. Was heat a complicating factor at all?