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I think BTG is mostly going to struggle from a new soap being introduced in 2025 and likely being seen as "DEI" by bigots at a time when they run every part of our media and government the elephant in the room that no on wants to acknowledge out loud.

could be wrong about this, and correct me if i am. but, as i recall, sometimes in the 90s, networks ceded time after 3pm to their local affiliates, which meant that they could do what they pleased with soaps that aired @ 3 — gl and aw. but the affiliates couldn’t mess with the shows that aired before 3 — the rest of the soap lineups

it was 1995, when WCBS, which was owned by the network, move gl to 10am. around the same time the boston affiliate had it @ 9. while hard to measure the impact, i’ve always felt it was the beginning of the end. same thing happened with another world. in boston, it was on some obscure local station in the middle of the night.

or perhaps not! my mother hated it, stopped watching, and refused to return — no matter how many times i told her that doug marland had righted the ship.

i seem to remember that early on, soap operas didn’t run cast lists. and that aftra has to intervene. can’t find anything online. would appreciate any info.

words fail… free link: trump names self to head kennedy center

watching schumer react to what’s happening is scary, pathetic — and absolutely terrifying.

they just opened up the ny times piece to comments. free link. ny times beyond the gates

can’t remember where i saw it, but when trump’s gaza plan hit the fan, chris murphy suggested that it was a way to distract the chattering classes while musk continued his takeover, which in indeed has happened. glad to see that at least he’s keeping his eye on the prize.

it’s the new york times, not the new yorker. daily newspapers are edited, not fact-checked — even the copyediting can be iffy — so there are always going to be errors and corrections. it’s a long article with a a lot of information and highly likely that he simply misunderstood — so no harm, no foul!

photo of jonathan abrams:

wonder if that was the same version that aired last night on colbert?

At the finale, it was implied/almost revealed that Chanel was the daughter from an affair between Ruth Marshall and Peter Whitmore. thanks.

does anyone know off the top of their head if there were ever any interracial couples on generations?

yes — sabrina was born mid-december 1973; frannie, of course, on christmas day. so even if this were late spring — may, even early june — kim wouldn’t have been this far along.

scroll way down for a picture of michael park in ‘redwood,’ the new idina menzel that opens on broadway mid-februaty free link redwood

not since soaps began, but certainly since the success of dallas and dynasty began seeping into daytime in the early 1980s.

Actually, it’s more like, “if you’ve got money, you’ve still got problems — just like the rest of us.” i, too, prefer marland’s and nixon’s storytelling style to the over-the-top glitz and glam of the uber rich — white or black — behaving badly. but, i do hope the show does well. and, since i will watch tamara tunie in anything, i’ll be tuning in, as well.

as someone who grew up (and still pine for:) soaps before pre luke, laura, and dynasty, sharing your concern.

on a lighter (ok, shallow:) note, which is really all i can manage today…

many playwrights and screenwriters read their dialogue aloud, but irna’s method was unique. don’t remember where i read this, but she once said that like scheherazade, she required a live audience, which is why she dictated directly to her secretaries rather than use a dictaphone.

lipton wasn’t the only one who had issues with irna’s dialogue. don mclaughlin said the same thing same thing re both dialogue and plot. and irna didn’t actually ‘write’ dialogue. here’s how she describes her process: I know I am one of the few serial writers who dictates rather than types their scripts. But instead of being a detriment to me, dictating has been one of my strongest assets as a writer. When I dictate I, in fact, act out the entire episode. People who have watched me work have commented that when dictating I change my voice to fit each character, that I used certain gestures when speaking the lines intended for this character or that [one]. In fact, one observer called my work routine “a one-woman repertory company.” Secretaries have no problem knowing which character is speaking when I dictate.

just took a look up to 1961, the year before he left, didn’t see anything that even remotely mentioned an abortion. as far as his memory, people are being asked to recall events that took place decades earlier. so, of course, there will be some misremembering. when i hear one person’s version of any given situation an interview, i always try to find what others involved had to say. but, with this guy — much as he appears to distance from soaps. he also wants to exaggerate his role.

according to imdb, he was not involved with liamst in any capacity. and, also according to imdb as well as his book,’inside, inside,’ he began writing aw after irna left in 1965 — a year after the abortion story. granted he was 83 when the interview took place and may have misremembered some events. of course, given his proclivity for self-aggrandizement…

it’s not as though we didn’t know, but seeing it in print… words fail. free link ny times on biden’s enablers