DramatistDreamer

No doubt, they got that Superbowl bounce but I actually prefer CBS Morning’s more newsy-flavored format to GMA’s and Today Show, primarily because I’m more of a news junkie.

If Jill is spearheading this effort to get the company’s name changed, why Abbott, which Jill hasn’t been in such a long time? Is she doing it to solidify Billy’s tie to the company, as Billy has always been an Abbott? Someone who watches the show these days will have to explain the reasoning behind this to me when they get the chance. If someone were to ask the actors behind these companies on Y&R to describe in one sentence, what their companies do, I wonder how many of them could actually do this without faltering? Last time I watched, even Jabot seemed to be involved in everything except making cosmetics.

Another problem is that the opposition itself in Russia is very fractured. I remember years ago when I first read about Navalny, I was hearing that he had association with people who espoused nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment, which always made me view him somewhat skeptically but I was never sure whether that was Kremlin manufactured “dezinformatsiya” (and let’s face it, these elements exist in the Russian government, they exist in Ukraine as well) or even if Navalny personally espoused these beliefs. It did make me uncomfortable though. And maybe it might have dissuaded some from uniting as a larger opposition movement. In movements worldwide, I know that people like to focus on one charismatic leader but it has shown not to work in Russia when it comes to democracy or anything resembling a democratic movement. And there seems to be no signs of coalition politics, at least from the outside.

1986 was a really good year for how well the stories unfolded and overlapped. Classic dramatic fashion yet not rigid. If only all episodes were up on YouTube, people could really see this in action. Damn P&G. Here’s an article about Julianne Moore, looking pure dramatic actress in the accompanying photos for this interview in The Cut. I keep forgetting to post this. Julianne Moore’s Dangerous Housewives She doesn’t believe it’s possible to know yourself. That’s why her best characters are searching for an answer.

From what I have been reading, between the $355 million judgement against Trump, including interest, the $83 million judgment against him in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case could wipe out all his cash on hand and liquidity. Good. Also, what self respecting business would want to do business with a company that not only has to operate under a court appointed independent monitor, who has just been granted enhanced monitoring powers as well as an independent financial compliance director? People are talking about Trump and his sons being banned for 3 and two years, but two of the company’s officers are banned for life. Not a good look. Real estate prospects can change in a New York minute. Reading the particulars of this judgement has been fun.

Oh yay, for Margaret who,,over the years has quietly built up an impressive CV of work on television shows.

Sounds good to me. I still can’t get over the fact that they basically erased Jill’s working class origins and for what?

No problem.

From what I can recall, these are not among the problematic issues, more of maybe lines that get crossed by today’s standards but were probably seen as towing a fine line back then. I don’t want to spoil it for you in case you want to watch the film for yourself.

^^Sometimes it’s just really inappropriate to be trying to play devil’s advocate. Tur really is doing the entire profession of journalism a disservice by asking these types of questions.

Just keep in mind that 1980s films are not without controversy and only today, I realized in retrospect, there are one or two problematic moments in this film. It is an undeniably beautiful looking film and Wiggins Rodriguez looks and sounds exquisite in it.

Donald Trump must pay $354.9 million, barred from NY business for 3 years, judge rules

Beautiful, talented, certainly was not known for her acting (this was her only acting role) but featured in an iconic role where she played the title character. A Diva with the common touch. Ms. Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, R.I.P. https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/wilhelmenia-wiggins-fernandez-diva-obituary-20240206.html

Nope. Ideologically, I realize he felt compelled to return to Russia, after his miraculous recovery from having been poisoned, but his return really did seal his fate. He was arrested upon arrival, so I am not really sure whether or not he couldn’t have achieved his goals from exile in Germany-it certainly would have given him more time.

@DRW50Yes, I remember when that post Labor Day weekend episode was up on YouTube but I don’t remember the picture jumping that violently. Too bad the previous cliffhanger episode has never been posted. I think that episode had all the action with Kim giving birth and Craig following Sierra up to Foxwood Lodge and ended up conceiving their firstborn Bryant. So much missing from the best of this soap.

Currently, I am listening to a townhall on Spoutible with Representative Jasmine Crockett. https://spoutible.com/pod/65c73ffe1db49c2a3f17765f

Something tells me that the likes of The New York Times and its ilk do not want to truly have that conversation (*coughs Fox News Channel*).

R.I.P. Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/bob-moore-founder-of-bobs-red-mill-dies-at-94/5128679/

Cohn is nothing if not consistent in being wrong. Speaking of The Times, isn’t this special (*inserts sarcasm*). https://news.yahoo.com/terrorists-paying-check-marks-x-185418291.html

Well, to borrow a word from @DRW50, in contrast to the evasive answers that Pilip tried to give, the Republicans are not at all being evasive about their racism, xenophobia and antisemitism. They are just letting it all hang out there in the open, like soiled undergarments. https://news.yahoo.com/capitol-hill-republicans-bigoted-attacks-190406864.html

Ordinarily, I might agree but Pilip is a much more complex figure being Ethiopian born and having served in the Israeli army, that still goes a long way in a more conservative leaning area like Nassau County and a portion of Queens, the district which Suozzi reclaimed (remember that he once held office in that district and relinquished it for an ultimately failed bid for governor of New York). One of the main issues, that probably won’t get much attention is that Pilip was very vague on her positions, including on abortion, an issue that does drive engagement among women (and a surprising number of men), even in the suburbs. Pilip, for the most part, bobbed and weaved when it came to debates, likely because her one debate was something of a flop. Yes, the odds were definitely not stacked in her favor as a Black woman running in Nassau County but she was running against someone who voters were already familiar with and she did little to nothing to get voters more acquainted with her, a definite ‘no no’ in a post George Santos election. It was even more interesting that the level of voter turnout was relatively high, especially since the entire region had a snowstorm that brought more snow than in the previous two years of snowfall. Yes, NY has early voting but turnout on the actual day was higher than expected from what I read. It did make me chuckle too that the Republicans who run the county were under a microscope because some prominent Democrats in the area pretty much publicly declared their hopes that the streets in Democratic leaning areas will be plowed with as much urgency and thoroughness as the Republican leaning areas. The Republican officials pretended to be offended by this and made statements about equitable plowing but allegedly, streets in Republican leaning areas were plowed the earliest. Her support of Trump, halting or not, is a wash, imo. Yes, Trump has some support in parts of the NY suburbs that ring NYC but the revocation of S.A.L.T. happened under his administration and people in these same NY suburban areas were among those adversely affected and many are likely still pissed about this. Suozzi deftly reminded voters of this during the campaign, Pilip had no answers for this issue, like much of the other issues she was queried on. With all this, I expect she’ll probably run again unless the Republicans find someone else but there’s not enough of a window for them to find someone else to run an adequate campaign.

Not necessarily. Didn’t Eileen Fulton do this in the 1960s? Granted it was from ATWT to a newly created soap but it was as the same character.

I think anyone living in the NYC Metro area knew Suozzi was taking that seat. The media wanted to make it look like it was going to be close but Republicans had the one chance in Santos and he made fools out of everybody and anybody who was foolish enough to cast a vote for him. Republicans were not getting another chance this time around.

Anthony Herrera brought life to one of the best ever villains in daytime dramatic history but James Stenbeck should have stayed dead in 1989 after his son Paul pumped multiple bullets into him. And especially given the fact that the writing portrayed James as a cartoon villain when he reappeared on the canvas in the ‘00s Yes, I know that a lot of people loved that spa storyline but they could have used any number of other villains in the history of the show to carry out this plot. By then Emily and Lily and Carly each had enough enemies to fill a mansion in the Swiss Alps to fulfill the plot.

LOL, I guess it did. Even if we had a few flops stateside, I wouldn’t mind seeing some experimentation with the format. Before both Guiding Light and ATWT were cancelled, I had hoped that someone might make each daytime soap a 30 minute serial again but that is when I still believed that P&G wasn’t spiteful enough to throw both shows in the bin.