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Donna and Joan at an event yesterday. Donna looks luminous, of course, LOVE her champagne satin suit. Joan.... I'm beginning to wonder if something is seriously wrong with her (some type of oral cancer, etc.) 

2 hours ago, Khan said:

I agree!

I'm surprised MAB didn't have him running an all-sandwich food truck, lol.

It is!  Or, it would've been.  To me, though, it was frustrating how the one, semi-wealthy African-American family on soaps had to run a bunch of Baskin-Robbins knockoffs while their white counterparts got to fry much bigger fish, running oil companies and media conglomerates.  Especially when you had the real-life Johnson family IN Chicago running Ebony, Jet and BET.

On the other hand, at least Sally Sussman had the decency to spare us all from "Marshall's Famous Fried Chicken."

It's nothin to sneeze at. Bluebell Creameries, with their limited distribution... grosses 657 million dollars last year. 

Her first husband, Tim Matheson, announced her death 

Well.. I listened to them, and they are all awful! I generally don't like modern music, but I ussually find something to like in Eurovision... not this year! France seems to be the only one that is listenable. Finland? Good Lord. The highlight of the song is supposed to be when his pants arrive from the ceiling? Who comes up with this stuff? I figure everyone is going to dump on Israel this year, although Eurovision is not supposed to be political. Sad, really. The only really FANTASTIC song of the last 3 years was from Sweden, and it didn't even win Melodifestivalen.  

I'm gobsmacked at the amount of people in the gay community who support Palestine on this issue. Seriously? A culture that throws gay people off of roofs, you are going to stan for? The fact that Hamas is the one who started this is reason enough for me not to support them in any way. AS far as Gaza? I guess the moral of that story is don't choose a homeland that is a barren desert without the capability of supporting human life. 

On 1/7/2024 at 1:41 PM, All My Shadows said:

Pluto's Barker Era channel rotated in about 60 half-hour episodes from 1972-1973 throughout the month of December in honor of Bob's 100th birthday. They debuted each weeknight in a two-hour block in primetime, and now they'll just be added to the regular rotation (so we'll get those episodes, jump to 1982-1985, then back to 1972, etc).

Truthfully, I was looking forward to seeing more from the beginning, but I wasn't too excited simply because of how few games there were. They started with only five, one of which was an awkward dud, so I figure it would get pretty monotonous pretty quickly. I was very wrong, though, and even with just a small rotation of a handful of games, each episode is still as fun and exciting as any other era (especially once the show gained popularity and the audience became more enthusiastic).

An interesting thing, for me at least, is how many black contestants there were right from the very beginning. It's no big deal now, but I think of all of the game shows I've watched from the 60s and 70s, and I'd bet TPIR was the first to have a truly "integrated" contestant base.

Hopefully, they dust off some late 70s eps to rotate in. There were close to 40 different games by then, almost all of them classics, and the energy was already electric.

I think game shows were pretty integrated once the 70's came in... or at least the ones I watched, which were Wheel and Pyramid. And example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7skOZEFgCw&t=310s

As a 56 year old gay man, this topic interests, and disturbs me at the same time. The more radical of the trans activists seem to be getting more aggressive and toxic by the day, then there are people like Blaire White, who DOES have salient points about the issue and the ideology... but her hanging with crackpots such as Alex Jones seriously harms her credibility, IMO. Buck Angel does the far better job. And the whole character assassination of JK Rowling, when she is not even CLOSE to being a bigoted right wing person seems just awful to me. What exactly do these activists hope to accomplish by villfying and alienating people who are politically adjacent to them? Just because they don't check every single box on their wish list, and march in lock step with their ideology. Opinions? 

On 3/18/2024 at 9:46 AM, Faulkner said:

 

For me, that’s the million-dollar question: what does a new daytime soap look like in 2024? I wonder how large the cast can be. The 2-3 family structure is classic soap, but things can get incestuous really quickly without a strong range of unrelated individuals for romantic purposes on a daily, one-hour soap, if that’s indeed the format.

Should exorbitant wealth be the focus? I’d be happy with a family that’s merely very comfortable instead of trying to be like the Newmans. There’s too much suspension of disbelief to depict Victor, et al., as billionaires with Y&R’s budgets. Succession could dramatize the Roys’ extravagance with their HBO budgets. Daytime cannot, and it’s often embarrassing to see them try. (Although there’s something appealing about seeing a Black family on that level—people may be looking for that, as daytime has never really gone there.)

I know actors realize how much job security matters nowadays, especially with the opportunities shrinking as streamers enter an austerity period (just now seeing this article here). Some stars might be willing to budge on big payouts, but can they afford a cast with several big names?

I'd love to see the new soap have BOTH wealthy and poor families, the interplay between that is always so compelling, however... they may not have a poor black family, because of the criticism it would attract. Jimmy Walker said that Good Times got so much flack for the portrayals on their show, that he is 100% certain we will never see a poor black family on television ever again. I think that would be sad, because as Downton Abbey proved, it's a great combination.