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“Heat Waves” is No. 1 for a third week. To show how stale these charts are, “Stay” (which first topped the Hot 100 way back in AUGUST) is back at No. 2:

JG is treating JT like Mal Young treated Camryn Grimes.

R.I.P. AIDS took so many beautiful actors.

What’s the point of this sh!t? I have it on in the background. Seems like a rehash of everything we’ve already gone through and digested with Billy.

LOL. Soap-inspired porn parodies are such a missed opportunity. They should do a gay one and just name the “Slut from the Valley” Brook instead of Brooke.

King Vincene from France 🇫🇷 @Taoboi, do you know him?

The preferential ballot is only used for Best Picture.

Dai from Japan 🇯🇵

In the U.K., Jimmy McGovern went from writing Brookside and Coronation Street to creating the great series Cracker and one of my unsung favorites, The Street:

Ok, who watched this season? While it wasn’t as fresh as S1 (nor did it have anyone as fascinatingly trainwreck-messy as Jessica or as adorable as Lauren/Cameron), I thought it was a pretty great watch. Shake is a dick.

Melissa Salmons has also entered the world of Hallmark movies, like this one from last year:

Pam Long wrote those Dolly Parton movies for NBC, featuring Alyvia Alyn Lind (ex-Faith, Y&R) as the young Dolly. Current Y&R writer Sara Endsley comes from the world of cable Christmas romance movies (like the Melissa Joan Hart romp, “Holiday in Handcuffs”):

This veterinary doctor from São Paulo 🇧🇷

Should just use the Benny Hill theme…

Not a particularly well-constructed plot to say the least. I just wish these writers also accounted for the ubiquity of cameras in our lives, which would force them to be a bit more creative with their storytelling.

😂 @amybrickwallace@Soapsuds Link to the Deadline article here.

Just odd. Esme slips that phone into Trina’s bag, calls in an anonymous tip to the PCPD, and there’s no follow-up today with Trina, which I understand is due to SM leaving, but seems like poor planning/pacing/shifting gears. GH has improved, but things like that make the show feel ultra-amateurish.

Marshall in California 🇺🇸

Diana Barton (Mari Jo) hasn’t acted (on screen) in almost 20 years, if her IMDB is to be believed. https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0059125/filmotype/actress?ref_=m_nmfm_1 I always thought she was so striking in that film-noir femme fatale way.