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I don't think it's some big enigma. Felicia basically had a midlife crisis when she got sprung for Luke (also in his own midlife crisis at the time) and rediscovered the adventure '80s with him, and it wrecked everything. The girls were still kids then, though Maxie was becoming a teen, and I think it was easier for Felicia to keep digging the hole once she was already in it. She went off to Texas supposedly to take care of Mariah, but that didn't last; Guza had her claiming she was off doing missions with Frisco in the mid-2000s when she returned briefly after Georgie's death. And it made a sort of dysfunctional sense at that point - she'd destroyed her life with Mac and the girls, so once she'd already left town she ran off again with the man who had been an even worse parent than her. I assume there is some stuff with Maxie excoriating her in 2007 or 2008 or whenever Georgie died and Kristina came back that has Maxie probing at this a bit, because God knows RC didn't bother with deeper exploration in dialogue. Ron and Frank wrote a conclusion to this stuff very poorly when they brought her back in 2012, because they dumped virtually all the longtime dialogue writers and cut scenes/segments to the bare minimum length per Frank's preference; it never really got dug into much beyond the surface drama and behavior. But Felicia did recommit herself to Maxie and Mac over the next couple years and it redeemed the character for me. I just wish that stuff had been better written.

I'm going to beat you with soap in a sock. *He said with love.

Newman doesn't need the work; he's been doing a lot of primetime/cable/etc. and I believe a lot of theater. I doubt they'll keep him long.

It was Reilly's debut and yes, it was meant to be the prelude to the Salem Stalker. But its reasoning never made any sense, like most of that storyline.

I think if she hadn't gone on Colbert the same night(?) before Tuesday's retraction it might not have been such an issue. But Whoopi can be obtuse on a good day.

I know what her point was. It was wrong.

I understand where that thinking comes from if you don't fully understand the Holocaust, but it's dead wrong and I'm glad she was forcefully corrected. I don't think she needs to lose her job over it unless she triples down, and I do think it's an unfortunate look that she is suspended but to my knowledge McCain was never disciplined in public.

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.