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Zimmer went on at length about the conditions in Peapack including trying to find a bathroom. I think the main 'show house' only had one or two or something for the entire production. I think some had to relieve themselves in the bushes at some point? After Peapack I think just four walls and a roof (and not changing in the back of a car) is 5x5 for GL alum.

Josh was not always some prince, lol. Robert Newman will do fine. It's the show that sucks.

Any time they try it they pull back, yes. So there's no point IMO because the show won't ever commit and it's all she can play. So just write her out for a bit and find someone else.

They tried that already! Here we are!

Quiet, you!

I looked up her iMDB and Lindsay does a [!@#$%^&*]-ton of TV movie work not just as an actor but directing and producing. That would likely be why she might not go for a contract, whatever opportunity may be.

I don't see a reason to keep Heinle onscreen. Like Ordway, the show and network have tried everything to make her work and justify their endless investment in the actor, and it doesn't work. It will never work. And the brief time when it did work for a certain segment of their audience, with Billy Miller, is long gone. Just write Victoria out for however many years as it takes to find someone else or somehow lure Heather Tom back with cheese like a mouse or something.

I never understood why they put AH with an older man to begin with. They've burnt that character out with her in the role.

Katie Couric's memoir also has a bit about Zucker and Gollust's relationship, and him pushing for her to get a job with Couric. (I'm only posting the memoir pages as the tweet in question is from a right winger.) Apparently unaware of this memoir, this is Gollust's angle:

Kelly had COVID, apparently. Beyond that I'll just let people unpack this one for a bit.

Hmm!

Heads up @DRW50 Will Brian Stelter connect the dots between Zucker's relationship with Gollust and the Cuomo investigation, a topic Brian steadfastly avoided seriously addressing on his show until the day CNN fired Chris Cuomo? In my experience Both Sides Brian's rictus-grin discussions of serious media topics only extends as far as the front doors of CNN. He ignored their dismissal of Santorum and the hiring of Alyssa Farah as well.

Courtney should go back to her action roots from the video game Control and just go to GH and play Annie Donely.

Genie wasn't exactly replacing a beloved favorite with a major history in her role. I'm not condoning their behavior, but Jacob was among the worst possible choices. As for Drew Garrett, that whole situation still seems suspect but I did really enjoy Chad's first several years in the role despite thinking DG was excellent. I think the writing has really screwed over Michael in recent years, and as a result the character needs a change and an edge and Chad has unfortunately become a bit of a joke. Personally I'd bring Garrett back if he was willing. But who knows what went down there.

IIRC neither Genie nor Tony wanted Lucky recast initially and drove a very hard bargain on that BTS. I have no idea how Jacob Young got through the casting process, other than Riche's power was waning and ABCD was changing a lot and likely was determined to not have another unconventional young male take the part over after Jonathan - they wanted a sellable soap hunk. Jacob was terrible on the show. And he's developed as a performer since then, but he's never exactly been Laurence Olivier. He has learned how to ham it up and that's enough for the roles he plays.

As a Jew I think what she said was damn stupid, but the right is very transparently capitalizing on it to get their own back for Meghan McCain. I do think she should be disciplined but this seems beyond the pale.

Janet did well with "Made For Now" and that's what spurred a bit of a resurgence beyond the more loyal audience. It wasn't her umpteenth song about fùcking and it wasn't something we'd all heard before from her. I don't think she's going to turn back into 90s Janet the hitmaker but I do think she can continue to build off the recent energy and appreciation and put out at least one more pretty solid album. I liked some of Unbreakable more than anything since the '90s - there were a fair amount of hit singles in the 2000s but I didn't think the overall albums worked. Madonna def went through it in the mid-90s and there was a time I thought she had gone too far for people and was done. Evita and Ray of Light were her massive comeback. But Janet has never had a comeback of that magnitude or global impact - Madonna went from being persona non grata for awhile to being the biggest star on the planet again; that's never happened for Janet. And nothing Madonna has experienced since (including any anti-Bush critique in the 2000s, which lots of artists did at the time and the Dixie Chicks got way, way more heat than her) is remotely comparable to how much Janet fell off in the same period with the media, the public and critically. American Life didn't work because it was a bad album, and Confessions was a hit. Janet would've killed for either of those sales or attention, and she didn't get it because there is a different standard for her than for Madonna. She should absolutely work with both.

I actually really liked him as Mr. Annie Romano on One Day at a Time, lol.

I think they brought them well past that over the ensuing year-plus and made them very rootable, but I also think that supercouple time for them is long, long past. They've been a dead cell for me since 2003.

Lord. I don't know how anyone would've thought Galen Gering could hold up on Y&R. Morrow is rough enough and he's been there decades.

You would not have that on Beyond Salem. You would have a dream sequence teasing more gay content followed by more drag. That's all.

Ryan Grim, at it again! Also in his OP Grim blames Biden for a) def going to war in Ukraine any day now and b) leaving Afghanistan. No apologia for junior rapists in there yet, but the day is young.

Man, what a legend.

It's what I suspected at the time given the climate at MTV, etc. with a lot of racy live stunts like that happening in that era constantly trying to one-up themselves - Britney, Madonna, etc. But years later it seems like it must've been an accident. Regardless of how it started, I never liked how Janet was treated vs. Justin. And I'd even suggest you can draw a line between that fallout and the continued decline of her artistic output, not just because of the reasons mentioned above by DD but because I think, professionally, she couldn't always get in the room with better people with new visions following the Super Bowl. So instead we got a lot of disposable stuff and/or some frankly embarrassing racy tracks and about 25 interludes per album. But did Justin Timberlake's career and musical output suffer following the Super Bowl? Nope.