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My first thought re: Dalton's body was always about Rick Webber. I have to think that (or David Hamilton, or both) is what is foremost in Laura's mind.

Unfortunately I need it for work but those promos never seem to apply to me because I was a past subscriber, lol. Considering making a burner email to get in on this.

Speaking just re: social media, I think a lot of the impatience re: Leslie comes from new viewers frankly not used to daytime. There's an ebb and flow to this stuff. It's not like Empire where stuff wraps up in 2-3 episodes or less, or Tyler Perry shows which, nevermind. The Eva/Kat wars are heavy but remain good for the show and getting eyeballs. The audience is well divided there. My only real issue is with Tomas still being part of the picture, and the show not necessarily knowing what lane it wants to be in with Eva from day to day, or not being consistent enough re: her inconsistency. I like Eva and think she's a breakout, same as Kat, but I'm going to start taking shots every time she howls 'MAWMAH!' while enabling her mother.

There's a lot of great stuff out there (and a lot of teeming mediocrity). The problem is there is just too much 'content' period, too many streamers and half the shows out there you don't know exist until it's too late in the streaming crash and its ongoing boom/bust cycle, which has yet to settle down. Like I said re: Apple TV - there's some very good work but almost no one in America uses it or knows about over half its product, lol. Who would know it now has an ongoing Bill Lawrence situation comedy starring Harrison Ford and now Michael J. Fox?

The brainchild of Cynthia Cidre, who was accused later of xeroxing elements of Cane for her Dallas revival. Jimmy Smits is still well renowned, but I wish he would get something more lasting too.

I think Michael J. Fox would've likely found another lasting success had his illness not progressed so much further. He tried a show a few years back despite his condition and it was neither the right fit nor time. He's still warmly received whenever he appears in anything, and still has his charm. (I had no idea til just now he is apparently on Shrinking for Apple TV - a streamer almost no one watches, where his costar is Harrison Ford. Apparently they get along very well)

I posted it in the spoilers thread but the interview with Kate Mansi re: directing the show is worth a read.

Apologies if this was posted, not every link is displaying for me. Kate Mansi talks directing GH I'm glad someone (anyone) is pushing for more heat and sexuality onscreen in GH's current tame climate. Mansi would know, as DAYS has been considerably rawer and more heated in recent years than GH including during her time there with James Scott. The bits about the supportive cast like Genie and KV are sweet.

He may have missed out on them back then but in the changing climate of the 2010s, etc. he would absolutely have had at least one or two of those by now, same as Cranston. What a waste.

From the above: Someone was kind enough to post the entire, un-paywalled second Lizza post re: Nuzzi/RFK (Part 2) on Google Docs. An excerpt:

Since this all relates to RFK who is now inexplicably in our government, we might as well post the equally odious Ryan Lizza's Substack post about his ex Olivia Nuzzi and her affair with RFK, etc. That's Part 1 about her and Mark Sanford. Part 2, about RFK is here. This may have already put Nuzzi's new perch at Vanity Fair at risk, particularly the revelation that Nuzzi helped orchestrate catch and kill ops for Kennedy. If our country survives all this Nuzzi will end up an aging figure, drifting out to sea like a dead elder on an ice floe, on Fox News or Newsmax in 10-15 years - the polar opposite of where she very distinctly wants to position herself - and I hope I'm there to see it.

Okay, but neither of those posts posit a theory claiming BTG is floundering.

I only really became acquainted with her as Keira Knightley's handler on Black Doves for Netflix, which I guess got renewed. Cute little spy romp and Knightley and Ben Whishaw are very good for witty if somewhat shopworn material.

I forgot it existed too. There's way too much streaming shít out there. All shows I never knew came and went on too many platforms. Don't get me started on "The Head," the goofy multi-national thriller series I discovered while on vacation a few years ago hidden deep on HBO, which centers around (you guessed it) a series of murder mysteries all involving a severed head.

Almost exclusively in theater recently, with the exception of that short-lived Julia Child show on HBO. Good for him to know what he wants, a la the also out Tuc Watkins who seems to do just as he pleases these days.

I had no idea, lol. Nor did I know Gary Oldman did Friends!

How is it obvious? Whats is the true reason? Make your opinion plain.

I pretty much ignore everything with Rosanna after some time early in 2004. What a waste.

John Ritter was so dependable and more versatile than he was given credit for. I have no doubt he'd still be in demand today, like Henry Winkler but much moreso. (Last Chance Tuesdays is funny though. I'm sure that was the case for Bonnie Hunt.)

Just a pity that, as legend goes anyway, William Hurt (in typical fashion) quit somewhere mid-second season, which necessitated some very hasty messy rewrites. The plotline then had to wrap around two talented guest actors on loan from The Wire (Clarke Peters and John Doman) standing around conspiring about the main cast instead. I was so excited for Hurt joining the show but Season 2 was Damages' least successful year as a result. I never even knew about New York News til today.

I only found out just now that a) Mary tried multiple failed sitcoms post-MTM and b) that widely-hated "Mary and Rhoda" TV movie from the 2000s was actually a write-off of a Mary and Rhoda series order when ABC hated the pilot script. I would also be remiss to not point out that the sleepy Becker era aside, Ted Danson's real comeback began with his breakout dramatic role as an Enron-esque tycoon on the underrated FX show Damages with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close, where he got rave reviews and suddenly started doing everything again afterwards. He was amazing. I think either Danson or his talented wife Mary Steenburgen had some very incisive, smart comments about why Ink failed and why it was likely unwise to pair them together onscreen in an A.V. Club Random Roles interview, or somewhere else like that some years ago.

Willow should absolutely turn into a dangerous 'mommy blogger' sensation with more than a whiff of her Dawn of Day experience with Shiloh before her run ends. Possibly while faking the return of her cancer, which several of those types have done IRL!

Good lord, I didn't know all that about Chad Everett. Last I recall of him was an unfortunate stint on Melrose Place (which led a young me to ask 'who the fúck is Chad Everett?') and of course his memorable cameo in Mulholland Drive where he pretty much played to his IRL type.

I'm just glad we're getting any new ones for the holiday week. Besides, we know BTG had a limited episode order for its first year.

I think both Robinson and Gregory were quite good from what I've seen, but there's no doubt CR was stiffer and more patrician which probably suited Rick's evolving role on the canvas. It seems Robinson was very popular in the role despite the leading ladies' issues with him, which I think ended up water under the bridge decades later. Pity about CR's later years though. I've always wanted GH to bring on his son Rick Jr., as sort of another swinging male medical dick at the hospital. Fulfilling some of the archetype the Webber brothers had. But you can't really do that with Ric Lansing (no apparent relation to the other Lansings!) around. You'd have to change the name.