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first norm, now hot lips. free link. loretta swit’s. obit

redundant, tiresome, and annoying. actually muted their scenes. re the characters interacting: this was setting the scene for kat to find them. seems like plot-driven character unless making ted look like a naive idiot is the idea.

talented as the actor playing leslie is, these protracted exchanges with ted are starting to sounding one note and getting tiresome. so much so, that i’ve started muting their scenes. i suspect more a writing problem than an acting issue.

this has been clear from the very beginning. and, boring as they are, it’s not just derek and ashley. fitting in so many characters and storylines means they are skipping over the emotional beats — chelsea’s coming out was far too fast, and why did they not show her telling her grandparents — so there’s A LOT of exposition. given how long val jean and guza have written for soaps, this speeded up narrative and enormous cast have the suits’ fingerprints all over it. whether it ultimately drives down ratings remains to be seen.

pales by comparison with smitty and martin. however bad what martin did, after so much discussion, it’s going to feel anti climatic

“I really liked the Anita/Tracy scenes today. Both powerful actresses. They made me *want* to know what the secret is.“ so do i! just hope the reveal doesn’t drag on as long as martin’s — which, however bad, promises to be anti-climatic!

hard to believe that laura’s been in the hospital for what? — three months — and no one — not shanice, not mona — has filled her in about what happened at the anniversary party! does she not have any idea what leslie’s done.?

and, yet i do. i actually thought he was quite good in their scenes — he was really listening to and absorbing what she was saying before he responded. some actors are so anxious to say their line, they don’t listen.

came across this quote that provides some context: “It’s hard to escape the cultural reach of the Catholic Church when you live in the Western world. It is, for better or worse, one of the load-bearing walls of our civilization. Its influence wafts from the church into the streets of civic life, the courts, the schools, the arts.”

finally! no question this was worthy of live coverage. but, how hard would it have been for norah, et all, to have just shut the fuc* up at 2pm and gone back to regular programming — like abc did?

cbs has always been the worst. when dan rather was the anchor, he was always the first one in and the last one out!

no argument here! and as she was singing, i kept wondering how many verses ‘amazing grace’ had. looked it up: 13 — 13! — and i think she must have sung every one.

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.