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not sure what the costume designer was trying to say about anita with that monstrosity of a necklace.

mother?! at the risk of overstating the obvious — leslie is a horrible human being!

also likely that the demo means the commercial $$ are higher than for a daytime soap.

you’re not the only one who thought ‘white quota’ as for the derek/ashley bomb: not sure that would have been clear on day 1, but even if it was, it would have meant a fair amount of rewriting to deal with it and i expect they had more pressing issues to deal with. of course, back in the day when they were taping a couple of weeks ahead of air instead of a few months, they could have fixed it. but, that’s the downside of taping so far in advance.

agreed. but people get dumped and lose loved ones without turning sociopaths who attempt to murder people who stand in their way. and, it’s entirely possible that she killed alan.

10 minutes in: derek’s proving to be a dick and a conversation about threesomes — going to be a long episode.

not sure thay would work. irna was 29 when she wrote ‘painted dreams,’ 49 when she created ‘these are my children.’ so even if the story began with television and ran through the end of her life, that’s 25 years. sarandon is 78; bates 77; lange 76 — can’t see any of them being de-aged to 50. a younger actor could more believably be aged up. any idea? i’m thinking someone in their 40s.

interesting idea — who do you think would be good?

fred silverman, (then head of cbs daytime) told me that president of cbs, james aubrey, was fond of irna (and according to silverman, the feeling was mutual) and green lit opw. in february 1965, aubrey was fired details here, replaced by john schneider and opw got lost in the shuffle.

cannot make this up. and she gets secret service protection! free link. kristi noem purse stolen

sorry — she is doing a great time with the material. but, i will always have a hard time rooting for a character who attempts to MURDER people to get her way. especially since the show had been on the air for a few day, and we had barely met her, when she ran laura — who could easily have been killed — off the road. maybe if i had gotten to know her just a little bit first…

Ugh...ATWT's Stern and Black era. the stern and black era didn’t begin until february 1996 — at the suggestion of cbs president, leslie moonves — months after john valente replaced laurie caso in may 1995 in june 1994, ‘world turns was still dealing with the sudden death of douglas marland in 1993.

saw that, as well. there were 3 others: ‘the road of life’; ‘young dr malone’; ‘the brighter day’ — all created by irna. though it’s certainly fair to say that gl was the most successful transition.

i missed the news back in january that the ny times editorial page is cleaning house. here’s a free link to pamela paul’s farewell column. i always found her an insightful voice of reason i will miss. apparently, charles blow’s recent departure was part of the shakeup, as well. pamela paul’s farewell column

in addition to don hastings’s birthday, today marks 69 years since ‘world turns 1956 premiere. here are two interesting reads to mark the occasion: introduction: annotating irna… guiding light begets as the world turns

found this on page 37 of the marland 1991 longterm. looks like doug had the same idea initially. i do think it made more sense storywise for lisa to question the marriage.

enough already with the endless superlatives and self-congratulation — it’s getting annoying. that’s just how people speak to each other all the time — at least not people i know. . please banish (or at least, limit) the following: my wonderful, beautiful, amazing… feel free to add.

wow! thanks for this. love reading long terms. it’s the only place you can get a sense of the headwriter had in mind. you really can’t tell too much about the overall story from a single script of breakdown.

no, it wasn’t on the news last night. what was on last night was them getting picked up. this live coverage is of the actual splash down. they’re back on earth. as i type, they are exiting the capsule. might be in the minority here, but, at least for me, this is newsworthy! and, it’s not like the old days when a soap aired and that was it. there are available options to watch.

no one hates when the news breaks in more than me, especially when the “news” could easily have waited. but these astronauts went to space for what was supposed to be 8 days and wound up having to stay more than 9 months! so yeah, that they’re finally back is a big deal.

no relationship at all, or lost in the shuffle of so much going on with unrelated characters? he has to have some kind of relationship with father, even if it’s a bad relationship.

vernon is martin’s grandfather — ted is his father.

someone correct me if i’m wrong, but beyond martin telling his mother that he’s thinking of run for president, i can’t recall any interaction between martin and his parents. we’re in week4: given his dickish behavior toward his husband his ‘secret,’ it would be nice to know know what kind of relationship martin and ted have.

it feels as though we’ve met almost all of those 40 characters in the first few weeks, which is a lot — maybe too many? — in such a short time.

wondered about that. thought it might have been production issues, then i realized how well they took advantage of black history month to promote the show.