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IG embeds don’t typically work, but Michael Graziadei and Michelle Stafford (Daniel & Phyllis, Y&R) have participated in the TikTok trend that mashes up 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” and Nicki Minaj’s “Beez in the Trap.” https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQZ4TAREvQL/?igsh=MXVwbHVyZWM3MDRodg==

That promo was so bad, I LOL’d. “Hey!” ”Hey!”

The great June Lockhart has died at 100: https://people.com/june-lockhart-dead-lassie-and-lost-in-space-actress-dies-at-100-8621340

I caught just a little bit of her scenes with Michael Mealor. Tamara has a whole vibe when she’s playing a tough chick. She’s very sexy. I wonder how she’d play opposite Stafford. I don’t remember them crossing paths on GH.

Funny how dominant GH is in every category but Lead Actress. Obviously, the Lead categories are known for having several performers with multiple Emmys in those categories (Slezak, Geary, Flannery, Bergman, Zimmer, Le Blanc, Benard, Canary, Gallagher, Maura West, JMW, et al), so some of those numbers are padded. 11 of GH’s 12 Lead Actor wins are just from Geary (8) and Mo (3).

Didn’t watch (on a break from the soaps overall right now) but saw some clips. Actually, there were decent winners for a change, JJ excepted. (He’s a great actor, but it just shows that one well-constructed reel or name recognition can make up for a truly aimless story and largely uninspired overall performance. This is also a category that Robert Gossett, also a good actor, won twice for whatever Hat Dad was.) I’m glad that they chose a less somber accompaniment for the In Memoriam than last year’s, but I thought they might actually show clips for everyone (or at least the on-camera talent) after the first couple of people got them. The Eileen Fulton tribute was nice. It’s still so weird to be rewarding performances from almost two years ago in some cases.

Same. He was as gorgeous as he was talented.

This SUCKS.

This was my first Diane Keaton experience, and it traumatized me for life. She’s so good in this:

This one’s a gut punch. I loved her so much.

Lily should’ve been much more antagonistic towards Phyllis over the years given her involvement in Dru’s death (and the fact that Dru despised her). CK has really improved as an actress in recent years. But it’s largely been wasted, as it has for all of Y&R’s talented actors.

Right, and it’s not like they were freeing up Lily to be with Cane again if they are earmarking him for Phyllis, unless they’re intending to play a love triangle down the line (in that case, they could have kept Damian). Odd that they wouldn’t continue to play the Lily/Cane tension if he’s growing closer to Phi Phi anyway. This show just sucks.

But you know what I mean? I like that actor mentioned, but I don’t love the message this sends on the first hour-long Black soap. On a show with a male deficit in general. Where they decided to cast the core family almost entirely of women with loser Black husbands and a gay Black man with a doting, long-suffering white husband. Where a Black doctor (a gambling addict and a cuckold) was just killed off while his white wife was schtupping the local white gangster. Where a lot of the Black men have been corrupt cops or criminals working at the pleasure of said white gangster. Daytime hasn’t done a great job at developing Black talent over the years. The Monti Sharps never had a chance. It’s sad that there are only a few solid Black male actors who rise to the level of “vet,” but they do exist. But I suppose none of them would yield the excitement of a — (none of them ever had the chance to build his level of notoriety).

This show needs to get its act together with its Black male characters before it starts hiring white soap vets in leading male roles. Especially with its meager budget. Where are the Sean Blakemores and the Peter Parroses?

I kinda like that orange and teal get-up on Nikki.

He could’ve been anybody if they just needed a set of semi-fresh male genitals for Phyllis.

People were talking about actors/characters they could easily cut in the Directors & Writers thread to open up some budget. Mark Grossman and Melissa Claire Egan would be easy enough to dismiss. Let Adam and Chelsea ride out in the sunset together. They have been played out as characters for YEARS and no longer have a raison d’être.

I’m also surprised there was so little Christel Khalil given the number for Cane. Billy Flynn really should’ve just been a new character or someone else (like Brooks Prentiss).

When I read that, I thought you meant they were going to have a story together. Then I scrolled up.

Awww.

It’s a terrible, unwatchable, lazy show, but it’s been that way for so long without any viewership consequences that I figured it was immune to such drops. Hopefully, the changes we’re seeing behind the scenes are the tip of the iceberg. Y&R will never be what it was, but someone could actually try to tell a story.