DramatistDreamer

Wow. Glenda Jackson. Anyone who wants to see the breadth of this woman’s acting talent should Watch Elizabeth R. And she put that acting talent aside for decades to go into politics. https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/glenda-jackson-women-in-love-oscar-winner-and-uk-politician-dies-at-87/ar-AA1cA9tp

Back when daytime soaps had budgets! Today’s daytime soaps could never afford the likes of vintage Bill Blas or Oscar De La Renta. Today, you’re lucky if you see an actor dressed in an outfit from Etsy. Nothing against Etsy as I have a handmade playsuit from there but the rich people who are supposedly dripping in designer clothes dressed up in clothes I see on Etsy makes me giggle a little.

It’s what they deserve. The GOP members’ fixation on Trump is a road to nowhere.

This plot hole of Chance et al losing track of Faith smh.

Wardrobe comment- Sharon and Summer’s color pathways for their outfits were so similar in an episode last week, pretty much within the same color family. I mention this because there was a time years ago, when I tuned into the show and wondered why tptb had Summer looking more like Sharon’s daughter than Phyllis’. AL is at least built more like Phyllis but the styling of both Sharon and Summer in that particular episode stood out to me.

Here’s the link to her obituary in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/movies/jessie-maple-dead.html Years ago, WNET/Channel 13 in NYC had a documentary on the origins of PBS and it included the training program of television technicians and camera operators, of which Ms. Maple was part of that inaugural class. It’s a shame that PBS didn’t air her work on their channel the way they did for other filmmakers. She was one of those filmmakers that were mentioned as pioneers, with her photo displayed yet her work wasn’t as widely shown.

Typo or not, it certainly fits. I’ve always thought so. Aileen Cannon really needs to recuse herself, whether she’s obliged or not. When I read her name as the presiding judge, it struck me as very odd, considering her judicial history on matters of Trump.

Barbara in the bullring in Spain was iconic. Barbara doing her best Groucho Marx impression, then jumping out of the courtroom window (were there ever windows in courtrooms?) was a definite nadir (one of many in that time period) for the series. To me, it feels like there was a flirtation and a couple of dinners at the Mona Lisa, sort of a mixing of business with pleasure kind of thing for a brief period. He also wined and dined Susan Stewart (with Emily in tow, urging her mother not to flop this romantic opportunity, especially to pine away for John Dixon). It seemed like tptb were shopping Cal around to the unattached or semi-unattached over 50s ladies in Oakdale at one time.

Liz was such a shrew, lol. Tonio was good for a laugh on occasion, like when Lucinda would berate him for some perceived wrong. That time she scolded him for skulking about the office trying to eavesdrop.

Even though the actor looked a bit older than the recast, I could see the first actor who played Jarrod (Lindsay Frost’s dad irl) having a sweet chemistry with Kathleen Widdoes. Also, if Warren Frost was still in the role, I sincerely doubt we would have gotten a ‘¿Quien es mas macho?’ type of storyline between Cal and Jarrod. Then again, that Snyder circle already seemed way too incestuous and insular for my liking, so it’s probably for the best to have averted a long term romance between Emma and Jarrod.

Not Mitch McConnell but this sounds good to me.

This fool kept classified documents in a bathroom?! Lemme go read this indictment…we’ll, as soon as I finish my work.

Well, I had decided to tune in later in the Ruud/Zverev match, only to get busy and completely forget about the match. I am guessing that I didn’t miss much. Sound like those RG boobirds got the SF matches that they deserved.

Listen, I would have watched more if that regime was capable of layering their characters but I was thinking of the Goutman regime and tempered my expectations to be very limited. I Don think that gaggle of writers knew how to write layered characters. I mean, look what they did to Barbara in that courtroom scene where she jumps out of a window.

😂 which is why he would have been well cast for Rick Ryan, a character who was shady as hell.

I have still never forgiven them for that time they booed Venus. The RG crowd has booed and jeered a number of players over the years but this year, they seem to be booing to amuse themselves more than anything.

When I used to post my criticisms of the show’s last 12-13 years and wrote about how horrible many of the characterizations were, a few people misunderstood and believed that I was belittling the actors themselves. This was never the case. When I talked about what an affront I found Craig to be in that final decade, I meant the characterization, not the actor. In fact, I mentioned more than once that I thought Hunt Block would have made a good Rick Ryan, a character that that had enough history for viewers to care but was enough of a blank slate to give a writer, director (were they still using them in those final years?) and actor a free hand. Ah Scott Bryce, the diplomat. He was honest yet tactful in his interviews about that time.

I tuned in during the 3rd set of this Djokovic/Alcaraz match, just in time for what looks to be a dud. Why is this Roland Garros crowd booing, again?

IKR? The press should have waited a little longer before writing fawning coverage of bluesky.

Who did nazi this coming, when bluesky is brought to you by the guy who brought that same lack of moderation to twitter? https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/blueskys-growing-pains-strain-relationship-with-its-black-community-moderation/?guccounter=1

This looks like some sort of progress is being made and is worth noting. I need a confirmation from the DOJ though.

And I agree with your assessment of Craig and Lily’s relationship. Another thing that I didn’t like about how the character was portrayed in the last 12 years was the covetousness and seeming quest for power, just for kicks it seemed, which had never been a motive in the past—desperation and even an apparent need to right a perceived wrong that comes across as revenge, that at least would have made sense but not what showed up onscreen in that last decade. I don’t think that Anne Sward got enough credit for how much chemistry she displayed with all her onscreen children, through all recasts. Those hospital scenes were moving. The good ole Mona Lisa. That scene featuring the argument between Kirk and Jared Carpenter and his daughter as Barbara casually eavesdrops. So much warmth in those scenes between Bob and Kim and the extension of that warmth to Hank. The scenes just flowed. I still can’t get over Lucinda trying to patch up Kirk and Iva’s relationship. Heavy handed but she meant well. It was obvious that Lucinda preferred Iva to Ellie. With Iva, she knew what she was getting, while Ellie was somewhat of a flake.

It would have been so easy and made so much sense to bring Grant back for a brief story arc by the end of the series. They wouldn’t have even had to rekindle the romantic relationship between Grant and Lisa but at least reunite them in such a way as to give Lisa some option, a hint at a romantic possibility.

From what I read a couple years ago, the Saudis are planning for the end of “big oil” by investing in solar, wind and ‘green energy tech’. Their insertion into international sports markets is ‘sports washing’ and trying to acquire a level of high prestige. Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi is getting a lot of praise for turning down what was no doubt an obscene amount of money from the Saudis to play for Inter Miami in the MLS league. He said that his wife didn’t want to move so far and he didn’t want to play so far from home and also he has a house in Miami. Judging from the response from many of the PGA’s biggest players, they also understand the deal even if they still hate it. And yeah, I agree, those days when tennis had an abundance of big personalities with the games to match are over for the foreseeable future. Som many players now just want to put their heads down and “work”. You can’t really sell a whole lot of television time on major networks with that. I saw about a set of the match and it was fairly entertaining, from the portion I saw. One of the commentators observed that Muchova appeared to be limping towards the end of the match. For her sake, as well as the sakes of all those spectators who paid money for tickets to the women’s final, Muchova better be fit to compete well on Saturday or folks will be disappointed.

Cool. Thank you @DRW50! Since the character debuted in 1983, 98% of the problems that Craig got into were on account of his desire to hold on too tightly to family, whether it was his failing marriage (Betsy) or a child that turned out not to be his (Dani). It was completely out of character to twist the character into this snarky, selfish, power hungry guy who would toss his own son under the bus for a few moments of passion or a few measly dollars. And the way the relationships with Dani and Lily had corroded in the last decade of the show was truly vile.