Everything posted by BetterForgotten
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The Madonna Thread
In her field of dance/pop and the MTV era, she is unrivaled. But it's never really fair to compare very different artists.
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The Madonna Thread
I think the best thing was she didn't apologize for any of it. There's been a few essays written about it, and how dangerous a precedent it would have been had she disowned it and said she was sorry for doing it. At her peak, Madonna was cultural, she wasn't just a mere pop star and she was fully in control of her message. We've not seen that since. Her final video collaboration with David Fincher (who also directed Express Yourself and Vogue). The SNL performances of Fever and Bad Girl are some of her best TV performances - very stripped down, very much driven by her interaction with the SNL band, and showing her charisma on full display.
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Guiding Light Discussion Thread
Does anyone know if Maeve Kinkead wasn't fond of the way Pam Long wrote for Vanessa? Looking at her Emmy speech again, she thanked Doug Marland for creating Vanessa and Nancy Curlee for giving Vanessa "new life." Someone in the comments mentioned she hated the drug storyline and most of what Long wrote for her...
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Y&R to air classic episodes
Yes, the OLTL selections were probably some of the best from what I saw. My first exposure to the Karen Wolek and Marco Dane, character-types I'd rarely ever seen on daytime before or since.
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Britney Spears Thread
I forget about P!nk all the time, because well, all of her music since M!zundastood and Try This has been so damn forgettable. It works for her because she still has a strong following, but after M!zundastood (still her best album, IMO) and after Try This sold disappointingly, she gave up trying to bring anything new to the table and has played it safe and catered to soccer moms ever since. It's a shame, because had potential to be so much more, especially after she flipped the script from her first album and into M!zundastood.
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Britney Spears Thread
It's sad she was never really able to regain her 99-04 spark again. Even before her recent troubles, her career has been on a downward trajectory - these last two albums were huge flops. She's so irrelevant to the current pop scene that she may never be able to make a significant mark on it again, especially as she pushes 40. Though, I guess other than Beyonce, no one from her generation of pop has really been able to sustain a career with much momentum.
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Y&R to air classic episodes
And as ridiculed as that story was then, it’s still 10x better than what any of the soaps are dishing out these days. So sad.
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Y&R to air classic episodes
Tracey E. Bergman also said CBS asked her and I assume others from the current cast to do intros for those classic episodes. I am assuming that will also cut into air time.
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The Lady Gaga Thread
She's gone on to slightly disown the 'ArtFlop' I mean Artpop album, going as far as saying she doesn't remember recording it. Her team's terrible marketing campaign for that album really wrecked it.
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The Lady Gaga Thread
Well, the ASIB soundtrack put some momentum back into her career, but looks like she's intent on squandering any momentum in her career (once again) with such dated and uninspired crap.
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The Madonna Thread
No, it's due to several injuries she's endured over the past year.
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Guiding Light Discussion Thread
Jill has her talents, and while she's made her fair share of stupid decisions, so have her male counterparts who don't seem to get nearly as much vitriol as she does (Rauch, Conboy, Valentini, etc). Then again, I guess she's had a consistently longer run in daytime than most others, only finally coming to a end once she was fired from Y&R a few years back.
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Coronavirus/Covid-19 Discussion Thread
NEVER. GETS. OLD.
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Guiding Light Discussion Thread
The credits were such a mess in 1994 post-Curlee - they went through so many HW's for at least a year after that. I noticed that Patrick Mulcahey is listed as the sole HW in the episode immediately after Curlee's last. Mulcahey's Tweeted a bit about how it wasn't fun working on the show post-Curlee and the corporate interference that happened during his brief HW stint (which, in Curlee's case, drove her away forever).
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The Madonna Thread
She's had numerous health issues and injuries during this whole tour. The botox on top of that hasn't been a good look.
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EastEnders: Discussion Thread
It's not the first time June has said she's quit, only to be back. She did the same thing in 2003. She's quite an eccentric character, but given her age, it could very well be true this time around.
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What Are You Listening To?
- The Lady Gaga Thread
Can “Stupid Love” reverse Lady Gaga’s fortunes?- EastEnders: Discussion Thread
Not that he was much of a character, but it’s awful and really shortsighted that they killed off Denny. Sharon’s miracle child she never thought she’d be able to have no less.- Guiding Light Discussion Thread
- GH: Classic Thread
- Film Awards Thread
It's an elite club - James L. Brooks, James Cameron, Ethan Cohen, Joel Cohen, Francis Ford Coppola, Marvin Hamlisch, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and now Bong Joon-ho have all won 3 in one night. The record is held by Walt Disney, though, who won 4 in 1953 - Best Documentary (Feature), Best Documentary (Short), Best Short Subject (Cartoon), and Best Short Subject (Two Reel). Though, many of these categories no longer exist or are renamed, and none of them are the major categories.- Guiding Light Discussion Thread
To be honest, it isn't that far-fetched - P&G itself is a midwestern based company. There are many others like it, and I could probably see them wanting that reflected on their shows. Cities like NYC and LA drove away many large corporations that were headquartered in those cities years ago with their taxes, so many ended up settling in the midwest as a result.- Film Awards Thread
The full list of 2020 BAFTA winners BAFTA winners in the main categories: Best Film: 1917 Outstanding British Film: 1917 Leading Actress: Renee Zellweger Leading Actor: Joaquin Phoenix Supporting Actress: Laura Dern Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt Original Screenplay: Parasite - Han Jin Won and Bong Joon-ho Adapted Screenplay: Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waititi Cinematography: 1917 - Roger Deakins Director: Sam Mendes- DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos
My guess is she was probably never asked, and eventually, Susan just became one of many characters from a forgotten era that the show had little interest in revisiting. That, or maybe she had some strong loyalty to GH and the role of Lesley and eventually decided that was going to be the only daytime role she would revisit from time to time. - The Lady Gaga Thread
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