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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.

Why they still throw every man that comes on the show (even younger ones) at Phyllis for a romp I don't know. I can always set my watch to it if they're not related. It's a matter of time before she beds one of the Noahs someday. (She hasn't, right?) This isn't 20 years ago and Stafford isn't Vanessa Marcil.

Somehow worse.

A plotline they really should do as some sweeps event at this point. Halloween II's empty hospital will never not creep me out. I've always said KT is incapable of playing deep nuance or much earnest pathos and recent events have borne that out again.

I still don't know what the point of that was. It seemed like there was a very, very hard push to put Jordan and Chris Beetem over at the time, and then he and the entire storyline just vanished overnight. I actually thought Jordan/CB was quite good but I wonder what happened there. Later I remember him making a public stink about his stupid role on OLTL, in a poorly-done storyline that unfortunately proved quite prescient for today (the One Pure People white supremacist group).

Are they really doing another flash-forward?? Come on.

This started at OLTL and got very noticeable in its last year or two. For a time I thought it was an ingenious approach to their budget situation, but eventually key stories or veterans would have stuff just going on in the margins every 3-5 weeks (like Viki, Charlie, Dorian and David basically doing light bedroom farce that went nowhere one summer) and it wore things down. It got worse at GH when Frank came here, particularly under Carlivati who had trained himself to work with FV's taping rhythm and the stories were very, very choppy. I'd argue it was even worse in 2014-15 than it is now, with us getting vague glimpses of backburner veteran storylines (Lucy/Duke, etc.) that were apparently going on without the audience. He still does this and it has ebbs and flows, but it's definitely been all over the shop lately. I remember when they spoiled pairing up Martin and Tracy late last year/early this one in the mags (something I dreaded) and of course that's clearly no longer happening.

Have you seen the scene where Sonny and Carly battle it out and then fúck for the first time? There is a reason I was a fan of theirs real quick back in the day. (Online fandom in that era, on USENET etc. was notably repulsed when magazine spoilers about the hatesex came out early, but as soon as I saw their big scene I changed my tune.) Tamara allegedly did almost replace Laura maybe eight years ago around contract renewal time, but that didn't happen and we got Kim Nero. I think you know that story. I like all 3, but I'd dump anyone for Sarah Brown.