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You KNOW you've messed up when your life becomes reset to a B&B scene on social media, lol. No doubt, if he had, all the usual, right-wing-nuts would have been all over the Internet and cable TV, decrying the incident as further proof that white, Christian Americans are under attack in this country. Which would have been a massive shame, because if anyone deserves a KNOTS LANDING slap across the face, it's Ricky Gervais.

Exactly. It was a bad joke - and an old joke! - told badly. Just smile and mutter "That [!@#$%^&*]!" under your teeth and keep it moving, Will.

So. This is what the Academy Awards has devolved into. Black people slapping the [!@#$%^&*] out of each other. For God's sake, it's the Oscars, people, not the Source Awards! I'm not defending Chris Rock or his joke. It was insensitive, it was tone-deaf and it was about 25 years too late. (A "G.I. Jane" joke in 2022? Really, Chris?). But how Will Smith responded, regardless of the personal and private demons that drove him to that fateful moment, didn't just make himself look bad. It made all Black men look bad. You wanna defend your wife against a comedian's unfunny joke? Fine. Pull him aside when the cameras aren't on you and demand that he apologize to your wife. Don't feed into racist white people's misperceptions of us as violent, out-of-control thugs who don't know how to behave in public.

You mean, Deacon's gonna get electrocuted? I'm kidding.

Idea: Reboot Y&R as "The Innocent Years," using Bill Bell's original scripts with updated cultural references, BUT...have all the Brookses and Fosters (and Sally) played by African-American actors. (The Chancellors, Brad Eliot and Pierre can remain Caucasian.)

Clyde: "But I made a deal with the aliens! Your baby for my freedom! And nothing - nothing, I tell you - is gonna ruin my plans!"

There's a lot you could do with Sharon's newly discovered half-brother. You could have him cause problems between Rey and Sharon - as you've mentioned, @Paul Raven - and you could have him create problems between another couple as well (say, Chance and Abby?). And he could wreak havoc on Adam and/or Nick financially, starting trouble at Newman Enterprises.

Frankly, I think the Mac/Rachel/Steve/Alice quadrangle was a mistake for several reasons. One, George Reinholt wasn't playing Steve this time around, nor was Jacqueline Courtney playing Alice. Two, Rachel was in a different place in her life at that point; the reasons for wanting to be with Steve then were not the same as the reasons for wanting to be with him before. And three, Mac and Alice just don't make any sense as a couple, no matter HOW you try to make it happen.

I still recall how the notorious Nicollette/Harry/Michael Bolton triangle played out in the tabloids. Lordy, that was a mess, lol.

I know. I was kidding.

They actually wrote a musical about Diana Ross?

I think most viewers found the premise (of Nazi treasure being buried on FC's grounds?) to be preposterous; and the casting of Paul Freeman, who played a similarly antagonistic role in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," didn't help matters either.

Or AW, and the one NBC soap that made the rankings is at the very bottom of the list. I'll bet that, aside from GENERATIONS and maybe the game shows, NBC has always had a heckuva time appealing to POC.

My theory: Josh Griffith is aware of Billy's importance to the canvas (at least in CBS and Sony's eyes) and wants to give him/JT more and better story, but either he's at a loss and afraid to admit that the character has been used up and needs a long, perhaps permanent rest* OR all the other ideas he and his team pitched have been rejected by the higher-ups and this (the podcasting business) is the best they can do under the circumstances. But, yeah, the "story" is nonexistent and boring af. (*Yes, I did say kill him off. At the very least, the option should be on the table.)

A polite way of saying, "[!@#$%^&*] you, Chuck!". Seriously, I'm tired of people giving CT more oxygen than he deserves. Shake his dust off your boots, America, and move on.

If our evacuation from Afghanistan had occurred during any other period in our history, maybe - MAYBE - more would have cared. But when you have thousands dying every week during a pandemic that our previous administration could have controlled, if not outright prevented, priorities tend to change. This reminds me of when former AMC/AW/ATWT/GH/OLTL scribe Elizabeth Page wrote an article during a WGA strike detailing all the many hardships she and her family had to endure...like giving up $200 haircuts for the time being. The more money you make, ladies and gentlemen, the more out-of-touch you become with reality. Well, that's one way of looking at it... ...and that's another. Me? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I don't listen to polls anymore. Period.

God bless Maura West, but she was seriously miscast as Diane. Y&R would have been better off bringing her on as Sharon's long-lost half-sister.

I have learned over the past four (or so) years not to believe one damn thing the polls say.

But one of them will read Addie's letters and believe she's Julie's mom! (Thanks again, Jamey!) Another possibility: John goes on yet another quest to learn his true origins (the [!@#$%^&*] with Robicheaux turns out to have been a deception on Orpheus' part, don't ask me how) and either he's Dickie Martin OR he's Jessica Blake's long-lost, fraternal twin brother (Marie doesn't remember giving birth to twins, Alex stole the boy and sold him to the Alamains, you know the rest).

Don't worry. Josh doesn't read the message boards. The voices in his head tell him it's not a good idea. (I'M KIDDING!)

There's Marlena, of course; and then there's "Harlena," her boozy, trashy alter-ego, who takes control of Marlena's body and who can't get enough of John's -- so much so, in fact, that the poor grandpa literally has a heart attack at one point, and Kristen and "Marlena" have a catfight in the hospital lounge after Kristen accuses her of trying to screw him to death! And then there's "Darlena," who represents the cold, calculating, impersonal side of Marlena's psyche, who's the one to treat patients at UH, and who locks Belle in a secret room (and leaves Shawn once again vulnerable to Jan) once Belle realizes her mom is mentally ill.

And just like that, GH became the show with the most cast members in the history of television.

When I read that "Chad's plan backfires," I seriously thought it was going to be one of those scenarios where Chad and Will make love in the dark, not realizing that they're both making love to the wrong guy.

Yeah, Bobby/Patrick Duffy didn't do it for me either. Then again, I don't think any actor from the nighttime soaps ever did it for me, lol.

The only thing I remember about Courtney is her eating disorder.