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I think sometimes Teschner still makes great hires (Chavez, William Lipton, Tabyana Ali, Avery Pohl). Many other times since FV took over, it feels like FV is absolutely overruling him and exercising the same taste he often exhibited at OLTL and on I Wanna Be a Soap Star. Frank's taste is often tacky, peppy, hardbodied or blonde. No one can tell me Mark Teschner hired Jordan #3, Sasha, Willow, Rafe or that little fool who played Oscar, to name a few.

I'm sure she's a very nice woman who doesn't deserve a lot of vitriol against her personally. Doesn't mean she's right for the part! People tried to get me to support Burgess Jenkins at Y&R too. Remember that? Billy Abbott as Father Time? Remember when we thought that was the oldest Billy could possibly look?

Time and again my preemptive blocks on transparent new accounts keep proving me right. Y'all gotta stop being so obvious. 😌

Yes. She's wrong for the part. What are you going to do about it, John?

What!! Sorry, allow me to rephrase:

Thanks! I'll try that.

Twitter is almost completely impossible to access or navigate for a non-user at present; only direct links to specific tweets work and you can't navigate a person's feed, read replies or view a hashtag at all at present. But there is this:

Oh, wow.

Anyone know the Pine Valley/Jack episode days? That stuff I'll watch. If it's too hard to pinpoint don't put yourself out, I'll track it all down.

Alternately, at this rate Zaslav could burn the masters to fuel his fifth yacht.

Jesus, both Haiduk and Martsolf look rough.

Given the uber-messy state of the gaming industry, from consumers to devs to labor to development cycles and content, there are absolutely Y&R-style stories to be told about the video game business. I can imagine seeing one of the leads or their company blundering in with some sort of high-end, edgy game that goes sideways due to content or one of the devs' pasts or all of the above, just like the many ups and downs with Tuvia and Safra or whatever else. But Y&R just pretends to tell 'business stories' now in all the perfunctory ways people have already mentioned.

Honey, everyone has been talking about this news for 4-5 pages.

Unbelievable stuff. And as someone who's been screwed in other ways not connected to this strike but not dissimilar in this business, just harrowing to read. Matt Damon was misquoted on this by Deadline to make it sound pro-studio and his lawyers came down hard on them to correct it. I think these are his full remarks: The great Lois Smith, Llanview's own Aunt Betsy Cramer from OLTL and a legendary character actor of cinema (I could not believe OLTL got her at that time for such a silly part), quoted by Mark Ruffalo: LOL at Cox calling out the DGA. You can never muzzle him.

3/10.

I would argue there's only a handful of eps in the last two seasons of TNG that are relevant to DS9. Those eps mentioned certainly are, as is "Journey's End" with Wil Wheaton's return and the penultimate episode of TNG ("Preemptive Strike") which IIRC both deal with the Maquis, who are an ongoing issue in DS9.

Thank you for this. I will peek at FC here and there sometime soon, though I am not picking it up like I did KL or more casually, some periods of Dallas. (I am getting back to KL shortly, BTW - a lot of stops and starts re: availability) I do know Bill Duke has talked about how the Lorimar soaps kept him employed and paid for much of the '80s and IIRC he credited Jane Wyman and Larry Hagman in particular for their support of him and kindness, while he regularly heard derogatory and racist remarks from the crew, Teamsters, etc. Later he of course became more famous for his acting work in Predator, etc. but he still directs and acts today.

I thought we all agreed this recast didn't happen.

Heather Tom did very well as Kelly, actually.

I didn't see this speech, so apologies if it's up again:

Jill is still such a jewel. She was wonderful in The Haunting of Deborah Logan. I don't want to know what she had to pitch to Andy on though.

There's about a zillion broke-ass actors striking.

How some of these characters lasted aeons is a tribute to the comforting inertia of the medium at that time. Of course, I say that but you could apply it to half the played out stars of Y&R and GH.

It's not an acting choice, IMO. She has no range. People saw this character as a dayplayer and glommed onto her, and now we have too many vocal fans for this character whose performer has exactly one note onscreen. This is why some people stay dayplayers. I am all for Selina Wu being a force onscreen with the right actor and all for more AAPI characters, but I have never found LL very good.