DramatistDreamer

Oh damn, this is all too much. R.I.P. to Mr. Kristofferson, his performances on stage and onscreen were always full of heart.

Another reason why I refuse to attach myself to polls.

Personally, this news is so deeply triggering and tragic. So many of us have lost loved ones due to pancreatic cancer. Why can’t every effort be exhausted in order to formulate treatments that help people go into remission or even prevent the most deadly cancers instead of all this energy to annihilating people?? This is just too much. Heartfelt condolences to Hogestyn’s family and loved ones. Each of these announcements are devastating.

You can tell I haven’t watched this show in a long time because I completely forgot about Amanda. Ha!.You didn’t catch my elaborate idea for Hilary’s return upthread?

A seminal talent and a giant of the theatrical world.

I will just keep reading the comments on this message board maybe down the road I might have some desire to watch but for now, even the possibility of what I am reading showing up on screen is depressing to me personally. You all will have to let me know if any drama at all happens with Devon and Abby. That would have been a perfect time to have a veiled woman walk in and turn out to be Hilary, in the old days of good soap, something along those lines would have occurred. But in JG’s world good drama usually doesn’t enter into the story of what lands onscreen.

Don’t worry, anything JG can come up with is always so far away from what viewers actually like that he’ll get nowhere near the ideas in this thread.

Yeah, that Adam’s situation had been brewing for months. Just about everyone in his administration was either being raided, indicted or walking away from his administration so I knew it didn’t look good. It’s as bad or worse than the GOP situation(s) in Nassau County. Just a few weeks ago, I was musing that if Maya Wiley wanted to run again, she could run on the “see what you could’ve had NYC” campaign but she has given no indication that she would like another bite at the “Big Apple” and there are other candidates who have thrown their proverbial hats into the ring. For weeks, I had been thinking the unthinkable— that Adams should be ‘primaried’.

Trump is losing his edge on the economy among voters

It’s been a very very hectic couple of days and I haven’t been able to watch anything but I hope to be able to watch the appearance of POTUS Biden on The View at some point. I haven’t been able to watch anything with Clooney since his insinuations into Biden’s reelection bid.

When I used to be on Twitter, Lydia Cornell used to follow me (and vice versa). If she could do improv with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, I think she might be able to vibe on Y&R, with a slight learning curb.

Given what is happening in the rest of the world, I know people are not likely to be paying much attention to what’s been happening in Sri Lanka and it wouldn’t really be your fault if you haven’t been, since the media (especially U.S. media) hasn’t done much reporting on the nation since the protests and Rajapaksa’s exile last year. They just had an election a few days ago. Here’s an update: https://news.yahoo.com/news/left-leaning-candidate-leads-sri-035801017.html

Thanks, I was just riffing but what would have worked best would have been not to kill Hilary off in the first place. But if you’re going to try to make lemonade out of lemons, go with a storyline that has the potential to be a big umbrella mystery.

We’ll have to see, but for Black people the DMV area has a distinct cultural footprint. Remember, Hillman College on the first season of ADW vs, Hillman during the 2nd season and thereafter?

Has anyone seen this? Someone put up the full documentary the other day. I saw the description on social media and opened up a tab with the video, then got too busy to watch. The next thing I knew, the video had disappeared by the time I went back to watch it. I don’t subscribe to MSNBC, I haven’t subscribed to cable television for over a decade now so, unless there is an upload of the full movie, it is unlikely that I would be able to watch it. Since people in the comments of the trailer are begging for a full upload of the movie, maybe the network might be persuaded.

This isn’t some nondescript Midwestern town, this is the District of Columbia and/ DMV area with a very distinct cultural imprint. There will need to be some indication of specificity of place, or else why both naming the setting with a real (and really distinct) city? It would defeat the entire purpose of setting the story in a recognizable place.

Quite some time ago, someone in the Y&R thread had proposed the idea of having Neil putting Hilary somewhere hidden. At first, I didn’t like the idea because I assumed that it would make Neil the bad guy and I hated the idea of posthumously making such a drastic change in his character. The other day though, I thought what if Hilary was being threatened by someone and turned to Neil for help and his solution was to hide her away until the threat was removed? I thought of a scenario where Hilary, in an effort to revive GC Buzz as a news and current events journal, rather than a gossip vlog and a story that she was secretly pursuing caused her to receive threats to her (and Devon’s) lives. Hilary, wanting to protect Devon goes to Neil for help, swearing him to secrecy. Neil, goes to Victor, to ask what contacts he might have but doesn’t tell Victor why. Victor trusts that it is for a just cause, tells Neil to “say less” and gives a Neil the contacts (it might be cool if Larry Wharton turns out to be one of, but not the crucial contacts) he desperately needs. In the midst of Neil’s sudden death, Hilary (who doesn’t know of his passing) is cut off from every and all things in GC. She doesn’t know that Neil hired a private investigator to find out who was threatening Hilary and Devon and the PI, whose only direct connect was Neil sent a message through an encrypted private message that not only was Neil the sole person who knew the password to unlock the message but no one else knew the existence of this line of communication in the first place. There are are only three people who know that Hilary is alive and only two who know how to get to her and one of them is dead. The account that sent automatic payments to midwife/caretaker for the care of Hilary and the baby has just run completely out of funds and is forced to admit as much to Hilary who had suspected for some time that something happened to Neil. Now she is sure she has to find out as well as whether Neil was able to neutralize the threat as he promised. She enlists the help of the caretaker and gives her a slip of paper that she says contains the name of the only person who is likely to have the resources to help. Later the caretaker has brought some groceries to stock the pantry and storage. The caretaker has her bag packed, as Hilary assures her that she is confident that she has memorized the codes to the security system as the caretaker urges Hilary to take all precautions and hands Hilary a burner phone and tells her she will be in touch. She gives Hilary a hug and the toddler a cuddle and sets out into the darkness of night. Later, the caretaker is seen at an airstrip. While on the small plane, she unfolds and stares at the strip of paper. The name Victor Newman is scrawled in faint script.

Just as an aside, the stock market ended up while Truth Social/DJT continues to fall.

Ha!

Those are two separate issues afaic. She can still be relevant as an entertainer (every Superbowl her name trends) but it doesn’t mean we want her advice on political issues. There are some artists and entertainers for whom there will always be interest in the broad expanse of their views, while others… I actually think the questions being asked these days also lack depth, but that’s another story.

Y&R, if they cared to genuinely get some engagement with potential fans of the upcoming soap, would figure out a resurrection story for Hilary. Just in the time of mentioning this I came up with one lol.

Michael did indeed have vitiligo. It didn’t really explain why he felt the need to have such extreme plastic surgery though. I do try to show grace since both Michael and Janet did express how, at times, their looks were attacked by other family members (Janet even admitted that, as much as she loved Michael, he also was among those that taunted her about the size of her rear end, which was likely one of the aspects that set her on a path to equating her value with her weight). The family was also raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses, which, although they definitely had a lower and higher hierarchy, tried to present an idealized version of humanity with no identity other than being members of Kingdom Hall and the supposedly small number people headed for paradise. JW don’t vote, so who knows whether she will even bother to cast her vote, one way or the other. Someone who might not even vote, why are we asking for their political views?

I was more thinking about the family surname Dupree and wondering if it signifies some type of Creole heritage.

The effect is absolutely negligible. It has caused people to question the Jackson’s relationship to their Blackness and the possibility of vulnerability to misinformation for people over 55 but that’s about it.