BetterForgotten
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These surveys went out before Latham, MAB, and I think Mal all got fired in the past. Let’s hope history repeats itself and it’s a sign!
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Every time one has gone out previously, the EP/HW was fired shortly after. Let's hope history repeats itself again, lol.
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Wendy Riche herself has said Shelley was her right hand, as she had no previous experience producing soaps, and having Shelley’s support and expertise meant the world. Shelley credits Gloria Monty for teaching her how to produce love scenes with passion and how to edit them successfully. For those that haven’t seen, it begins like 13:37 in:
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She was directing at B&B before the pandemic hit, but stopped after they came back. She’s still very close to her GH folks. Both Vanessa and Maurice hung out with her and Wendy Richie last year at Maurice’s birthday party and posted about it. This is from Vanessa’s Instagram post last year. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpS9VeSvimE/?igsh=NjJ4ZGgzMHU4cm9s
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Exactly, @Khan! That’s been the problem with this show (and all soaps tbh) for a long time. Shelley Curtis touched on this in her State of Mind interview with Maurice. Maurice tried to make an excuse about budgeting for soaps today, but Shelley wasn’t having it. She was clear that the people producing soaps today don’t know how to produce them with emotion and skill, and that shouldn’t take an extreme budget to do. What should be core scenes end up feeling like a deflated ballon. Soap producers today lack the basic understanding of how to milk the emotion and deep meaning out of scenes that need it when they’re tasked with translating them to the screen. In an ideal world, Shelley would still be producing this show. She said everything in a few seconds that I had been thinking for years. She also really seems to love GH in particular. But, alas, we seem stuck with Frank “budget extraordinaire” Valentini…
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This tour ended up being a big triumph for her - not just commercially, because her legacy and back catalogue alone ensures she can still draw crowds - but after her near death experience last year, she surprisingly has looked more healthier (even with a grueling worldwide touring schedule at the age of 65), and seems more appreciative of both her legacy (which she often ignored in the past) and of her fan support than ever. I’m glad I got to see her in NYC back in January. Many may have come before and after her, but she is the Queen of Pop, and I’m grateful she’s still around when so many of her Pop peers are not or are totally irrelevant at this point. I can’t imagine my life had I not grown up with her or followed her for so many years. I don’t say that about many celebrities, but I often feel like I experienced so much of life and the world through following her for so long, as weird as that sounds. When so many pop stars were trying to sell a highly manufactured image that was foisted upon them by the industry that they couldn’t live up to, Madonna told us it was OK to be who you really are and that, “Everybody is a star. Everyone is special in their own way” as the lyrics to ‘Spotlight’ say. 🤣 Anyway, this Rio show was such a massive undertaking. I’m happy it was a success and she’s ending this tour, which is supposed to celebrate her 40 years in the industry, on a very high note. And she made history, too!
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Several regimes have neglected Liz or demoted her presence on the show. She’s essentially the new Amy Vining now, lol, only Liz has kids.
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It will be interesting with Kent now having more direct oversight on Y&R and being Sony’s plant on the production team. Will this lead to a power struggle between him and his old friend Griffith?
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Which is interesting, a lot of those people were Tweeting about how they’d miss Jill when she was fired, too. JFP is the type of producer that stuck her hands in everything, for better or worse. Or at least that was how she was before Frons came to ABC. Wendy Riche wasn’t “on the floor” a lot either. Technically, the EP is supposed to manage the entire production and deal with executive level matters, and subordinate producers are supposed to oversee the day to day “on the floor.” Riche had Shelley Curtis (who Riche called her “right hand”), and later Francesca James, Julie Hanan Carruthers, and Carol Scott largely doing that type of work. Makes me wonder what the other producers on staff are doing if Frank is micromanaging the day to day on the floor. Frank also worked his way up in every production role at OLTL, so this may be part of his “style.”
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Honestly, there were other problems at play, JFP’s ego was at an all time high, and he wasn’t to blame for everything that went wrong. But, GH right now is sort of reminiscent of Mulcahey’s brief HW-ing stint at GL in 1994. Much of the day to day writing can be thoughtful, but it’s low energy and the stories don’t really have much stakes to them. It was more noticeable at GL because they had just come off some really great years, and Justin Deas was eating the show alive in a very aggressive way. GH is different in that regard at least.
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I don't think so - Sony distributes and owns the distribution rights for DAYS, but Corday Productions is the owner and the official production company. Y&R is considered a "co-production" between Sony and the Bell Dramatic Serial Company, with Sony owning the majority share. Sony also controls the distribution rights for Y&R.
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So weird, so laid off by Sony corporate, but they created this role for him on Y&R? But, yeah, this means nothing is changing at Y&R no matter how terrible the show is.
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