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They sure are doing a lot of foreshadowing that Naomi is pregnant. At the Mardi Gras party, she found the baby in the king cake and yelled, "I got the baby!! I got the baby!!" An episode recently closed with Naomi and Jacob tearing their clothes off for sex and she said, "It feels different this time." Fade to black. Then yesterday, she told Dull Ashley that the last time she & Jacob made love, she felt like "it would be the last time for a long time." I'm predicting he'll be kidnapped or injured in his undercover work, and she'll discover she's pregnant. (They didn't give her the BRCA Gene for nuthin'.)

There sure was a LOT of DuPraise being heaped on the Duprees today!

I criticize Beyond the Gates daily, so I'll so something positive for a change 😅 I've been familiar with Clifton Davis & Tamara Tunie for most of my life. I'd never even heard of Karla Mosley before the show premiered. I'd never seen Daphnee Duplaix act (though I vividly recall her attractive ass from a photo shoot she did several years ago). The four of them work beautifully together as a family unit, and they've set a certain tone that's trickled down to the less-experienced members of the cast. The Duprees seem like a REAL family to me, and I really like the warmth and humanity they exude. It's rare for a big soap family to "click" so early in a show's run, but they've done it with complete success in my opinion.

My understanding is Banneker is at 2400 6th Street NW, Washington DC (a fictionalized version of Howard University). Can't understand why Vanessa acts like her children are thousands of miles from home when they're at good ole Banneker U. The absence of Bill & Hayley's house is baffling. Not that I miss it. It's ugly. I wish they'd tone Anastasia and Francesca DOWN some. Anastasia works well as a snob, but every line she delivers shouldn't be snobbish and petty; it becomes difficult to comprehend why she has friends who actually sit down and eat a meal with her. In real life, people like her typically wear out their welcome pretty fast.

They've gotten off-schedule from when they intended these shows to air, due to pre-emptions. Thursday's episode was obviously intended to air Tuesday. Vernon and Anita made a big deal out of ordering lunch at the club, and all the "specials" were Fat Tuesday dishes, which Anita shook her head and declined for being too spicy. Then they discussed spending Mardi Gras day in New Orleans next year. For all of us out here in "TV land", Mardi Gras had come & gone two days ago. If they're talking about Lent on Friday's show -- well, that started Wednesday of this week. Looks like they're consistently running two days behind now.

That allegation is on her IMDB page. But take it for what it's worth. The same page also boasts that she's a "former Miss California". I've never found any evidence of that.

I think she "blackballed" herself right out of the entertainment business when she filed that $10 million "wrongful termination suit" against Columbia Pictures. Would you have hired her after that? (I wouldn't have.) That's the kind of conduct that frightens production companies away from hiring someone. As far as her finances go, she had Dr. Rifkin paying her bills for several years, and then she had Jan Weinberg footing her bills till he finally got rid of her. She likely had SOME savings of her own, since her husbands had been paying her way to a great extent. I believe her mother might have left her a small amount of money, too. It's probably about all gone now.

I blame Susan Dansby (the script editor) for the slang/non-slang inconsistencies among the episodes. A really good script editor would smooth that out ---trim some slang & pop culture references from Paige's scripts and drop a few more into the other writers' episodes so that it won't be so jarring when everyone magically changes voices from episode to episode.

Based on that "Baby Born in the Elevator" nonsense, BTG was clearly trying to do a storyline with Andre, Ashley, and Derek -- which never materialized at all. The writing wasn't there, the acting wasn't there, and the chemistry wasn't there. So glad TPTB realized the entire ordeal was an utter bust and pulled the plug on it. The writing for Dani Dupree was completely over-the-top initially, almost as absurd as the reboot of "Dynasty", but slowly they made some subtle adjustments that worked to the strengths of Karla & created a mighty likable character out of Dani. The show has also definitely adopted a much more "CBS/Hollywood" look with subdued lighting and better sound.

Enjoyed the episode a LOT, but whenever Vanessa & Joey accelerate their Creep Factor (which they did today), I start getting the same icky feeling I get when reading the Epstein files. When a woman runs an escort service and her beau runs a casino and kills people, the LAST thing they need are handcuffs, blindfolds, and dominatrix outfits. Yuck.

I keep thinking they're gonna kick Peaches out of her bed, wheel it up to the nurses station, and all take turns humping one another.

She occasionally likes to let Ted have a good look at her Attractive Ass. She's done this more than once. She ain't really moved on past her marriage, and that's why she's trying so hard to look as though she has.

And diamond earrings.

I agree 100%. The components are in place to create a broad-arc, Henry Slesar type mystery, that could affect a great number of characters. I'd been fully expecting Derek to become involved with Leslie's clinic, as that will put him in a position to get killed dead as a doornail protecting Ashley when the whole thing blows up. Sure enough, he's already been offered a job. So check that one off the list. I also predict the Eva/Kat rivalry will be a factor, as well as the Sexually Liberated Beautiful Nicole. Everything SEEMS to be lining-up for it. But I'm not sure I trust these "Lifetime Movie writers" to handle it effectively. (Producer Sheila Ducksworth freely admits that Slesar's Edge of Night was on her viewing list in the early 1980s.)

There's a lot of interesting things going on with Beautiful Nicole (that probably aren't going to end well). The writers seemed to be establishing a few days ago that Ted isn't over her yet, when he was making those sad eyes at her & Kial. Now that she's gone to bed with the Corpse-Like, Chemistry-Free Carlton and also with Kial, and now that she's dressing more provocatively and acting more sexually-liberated, it seems inevitable that one (or BOTH) of her "new boyfriends" will be involved in this Impaler storyline, and Ted will have to rescue her. That SEEMS to be where it's heading, and if so, I'm not sure I like the "moral lesson" of it all. If it works out that way, the "lesson" seems to be that if a dignified woman lets her hair down, she'll attract dangerous men & get her "comeuppance".

First time I remember seeing him --- and I believe it was his VERY first scene on the show --- was in February 1980 when he was hovering over Brock's desk like a vampire. Brock (foolishly) thought he had an open-and-shut case as the public defender of a teenage girl (Cathy Bruder) who had stolen a Rolls-Royce and gone joy riding. Brock's plan was to meet with the car's owner and convince him to prosecute Cathy Bruder as a juvenile rather than as an adult, which meant she'd get community service and nothing permanent on her criminal record. The owner of the car burst into Brock's office, and he was insistent he wanted to charge the girl as an adult; he was VERY spooky. While Victor's hardline position on the matter seemed a bit far-fetched and frivolous, Eric Braeden played the scenes quietly and formidably, and you could tell immediately that Brock was WAY in over his head with the guy. I remember instantly becoming interested in where the stolen car storyline was heading, even though on the surface it seemed like a "throwaway" story. It was because Eric Braeden immediately brought such formidable intensity and gravity into his (short-term) role as the owner of the car.

Dani did an EXCELLENT job of faking excitement. But if I were Andre, I'd be wondering if she sometimes fakes certain other things ☹️ I guess we can assume these shows were taped in early October of 2025, based on the "Missed Call -- Bill Hamilton -- Oct 2". And Bill evidently ain't terribly interested in Hayley if he can't spell her stupid name. At the end of today's show, Smitty looked a little bit EXCITED when Jacob revealed he'd be willing to step out of his comfort zone and try some things he hasn't done before.

That party a few years ago when Ashley yelled at Graham for taking advantage of Dina, and then Dina announced to the entire crowd that Ashley is Brent Davis's daughter --- wasn't that one also at the "new" Top of the Tower?

I think when they constructed the Athletic Club set, they pretty much just took what they wanted from the Gina's set, the Embers set, and the Top of the Tower set, added some new things, and called it a day. I've looked for some vestige of the Colonnade Room in the Athletic Club but can't find any. (Maybe Chancellor Park is built out of pieces of the Colonnade Room??)

Aw, I doubt that set was really 30 years old. When it transformed from Pierre's to the Allegro in about 1975, they might have used some of the same materials in the Allegro set that had been in the old Pierre's set, but it was basically a whole new set, with the doorways moved and the bar moved and a totally different layout. Same circa 1980, when it switched from being the Allegro to being Jonas's bar. Ditto for the 1982 switchover from Jonas's to Gina's. If you compare a 1973 photo of Pierre's and a 1985 of Gina's, it's pretty much impossible to recognize any vestige of Pierre's in Gina's. I'd guess the Gina's set was about 20 years old when it bit the dust (though I believe some of the same set materials were probably used in constructing the Athletic Club set after Gina's burned.) The salad bar was a big clumsy stainless steel contraption right in the middle of the floor. To get a "master shot", they had the camera out on the edge of the set like they'd always done. If they wanted to show someone walking through the door, they had to move the cameras around to the side of the salad bar. If they wanted to focus on a specific table, they had to move the cameras to the other side of the salad bar. It was a disastrous decision to put it where it was. It should've been against the rear wall, or on one of the side walls.

We'll probably see it like this for a few more days, and then POOF the fireplace will vanish and never be mentioned again 🤣

I knew someone backstage at Y&R in the early 2000s. The day the salad bar premiered, I emailed him and said, "Woops! I'm afraid y'all have messed-up badly with that salad bar. That thing is gonna haunt y'all for years to come." He said, "Don't worry, we already realize it. It was a mistake. It's being addressed." I pointed out, "If they suddenly take the salad bar down after making such a production out of installing it, it's gonna be accidentally comical." He said, "They're having meetings about how to best handle it." Wasn't long till Kevin Fisher locked Colleen Carlton in the freezer and set the restaurant on fire. Total loss. Action moved to the Athletic Club. 😅 They're CLEARLY having the same issue with Joey Armstrong's fireplace. The camera was BEHIND the thing for a while, with the flames in the foreground. Then the cameras were MOVED in front of the fireplace to capture the sofa without the flames. Then back again, with the flames in the shot. Then back again to the sofa. It requires time, money, and adjustments to the lighting each time they move those cameras within a set. That obviously ain't gonna be sustainable on a daily basis.

Regarding Joey Armstrong's strangely-placed fireplace -- I think that thing is going to prove a pain in the ass for the cameraman in the future. I don't predict the fireplace will last. I remember when the set designers on Y&R hauled-off and stuck a gigantically oversized (and ridiculous-looking) salad bar in the middle of the floor of Gina's Restaurant. The cameras couldn't move around the damn thing to view the tables and the characters who were dining. To solve the problem, the writers ended-up burning down the set entirely and creating the Genoa City Athletic Club to replace it. Joey's fireplace is likely heading toward the same fate.

Mary Williams croaked. During Dina Mergeron's final year, Dina set Nick Newman's nightclub on fire while suffering from Alzheimer's. Paul Williams told Jack she'd need to be booked for arson. Jack said, "Paul, you can't arrest my mother for this. If your own mother -- God rest her soul -- had done something like this, would you have arrested her?"

I'm guessing it'll be Carlton, since Beautiful Nicole slept with him. I'm thinking this might play-out at Leslie's New Clinic, giving Ted a chance to save the Beautiful Nicole before he saves Leslie (and making Nicole swoon that he prioritized her over his ex-concubine.) And as you've predicted, I'm thinking it will lead to a temporary truce between Kat & Eva. As well as some kind of turning point for Jacob & Naomi, and some kind of effect on Martin and Smitty.