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Eric Turner has posted his magazine covers:
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7 minutes ago, dragonflies said:
Wow. An institution in and of himself.
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Such a depressing yet powerfully beautiful song:
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32 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
Yeah. Dude’s got some kind of obsession with rape, and with power and control. And humiliating people. And misogyny. Pretty much every toxic trait you can think of, and the writing clearly shows it.
I’m gonna say it.
Its at the point where I think Leo is a disgrace to the LGBTQ+ community. It’s not even all the stereotypes. He’s just a horrible person and a horrible character. It’s almost like he’s not even human.
He definitely doesn’t represent me.
It’s funny: RC said that, working under Labine and crew at OLTL as an assistant, he saw all of the network notes on scripts, etc. and absorbed key takeaways on what they would and wouldn’t approve well before he wrote for the show, which gave him an advantage, especially as he rose to HW. Not absolving him of responsibility, but his work is telling of how these networks see these shows. His stories of rape just sail through…
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15 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:
It could still be true, but take it with a grain of salt until a more trustworthy source presents the news.
Yeah. I don’t see it picked up by a news source but outlets are often very late to the game when it’s not an A-list soap star or someone who is still on a soap (where you get cast tributes).
This was what a Google search turned up. I see IMDB and Wikipedia have made changes.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/hyannis-ma/nancy-frangione-11413676
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32 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:
Nancy Frangione, Aug. 18, 2023, Amazing! Somehow Cecile (or Cecil) was 70 & has died. I think of her ageless,
the young mischievous queen of Tanquir.
What?!? Ok it’s getting crazy with these premature soap deaths. Such vibrant presences like Andrea Evans, Jerry ver Dorn, John Callahan, Lisa Brown, Carmen Duncan, and now Nancy…
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2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:
Serena has a second baby girl with husband Alexis Ohanian.
Time flies. I didn’t realize Olympia is about to turn SIX.
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4 hours ago, Liberty City said:
He's too built now for me. Major turnoff.
I guess it’s in part because he’ll have to get his kit off for Ryan Murphy. I don’t think he’s overdeveloped or roidy-looking quite yet…
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I remember the quicksand obsession.
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TSJ’s body looks great. He’s obviously committed himself to fitness while on the show because he didn’t look as ripped in his earlier shirtless scenes.
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The drums in the intro are so killer:
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He was so touching on This Is Us. So glad he had that platform to share his talent:
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53 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:
Technically, in NYC, the 10:00 AM news won't be debuting until September 12th.
Oh right, the reading of the names on 9/11…
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Venus on what she learned from her toughest loss (1999 USO SF against Martina Hingis):
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8 hours ago, Vee said:
I think both shows (and all of the shows really, even DAYS to an extent - B&B has not really changed in decades IMO) have that same fundamental terror at this point. They fear any true risks would alienate their last sliver of audience vs. trying to grow it again. But Y&R's problem is somewhat more profound to me because as you say they do bring on the new generation - but unlike GH, they just never materially use any of it. GH is caught between two poles but Y&R is in total paralysis to me.
I think they’ve largely and realistically given up on a youth audience. Which ok, fine. And the loyal older audience will freak out when they go too long without seeing Victor or the people they know. But these shows feel so STUCK. GH at least has had a vibrancy and a consistency (and the budget management) to allow new faces to break through and eventually those longtime viewers warm up to the younger characters. (Granted, if you go up a few years in age beyond the Spencer/Trina/Cam/Joss crew, a lot of those newer characters have been flops.) But the commitment is there, even if there is ambivalence. Y&R hasn’t taken the same care in the past 15-20 years.
Why isn’t Faith featured as much as Joss is on GH by now? A legacy kid, a NEWMAN. AAL’s departure and RC’s addition gave them an opportunity to play out more adult stories for Faith. But nope. She’s gotten two “little girl in distress” stories. Even the Cameron Kirsten hostage situation felt tame, especially when we know what Cameron is capable of. (Those flashbacks were HARROWING.) It would take patience and a commitment to build a scene that Faith could thrive in, but all attempts have been so clunky, halfhearted, and quickly dropped instead of fixed. The show would rather dig into its greatest hits.
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7 hours ago, Vee said:
It's the same problem on every remaining soap but especially Y&R and GH. The veterans are not moved out of first position, ever, so you have a traffic jam of squandered generations below them getting older on the vine, and more pointless kids and babies all the time.
That's not to say many of these veterans can't still have active and vital story - the age groups of 40-60 are not what they used to be in the '80s or '70s. But there's no attempt to really invest in much of the future generations at Y&R especially. With GH you have a mostly solid recent youth set getting story but too many kids below them, and too many of the wrong played-out people across a wide age range in the frontburner.
Definitely. GH feels extreme with so many offscreen kids in Port Charles. There’s no need to have a gazillion baby stories, but they are easy to get approved, as writers have shared. Yet now we have all of these randy, rough-and-ready AARP cardholders mingling in bars away from their young kids, who are being raised by offscreen nannies, I’m assuming, or offscreen older relatives. (Or to bring it back to Y&R, sent away to boarding school like Johnny and Katie.) They expect we’ll be so caught up in their “scintillating” stories of the moment that we won’t remember these people have LARGE families they barely see, not even at holidays.
For Y&R, it feels like budget mode has made them hone in on “comfort food” and “what works,” which apparently is familiar faces locked in a state of perpetual adolescence. Their attempts at featuring the kids have been fully half-assed. Seriously, what on earth did they have planned for Moses? Was it surprising that he disappeared after that “exciting” non-story he had? Charlie and Mattie? Reed? Fen? Ana? Allie? What even was that characterization of Noah? Creeping on a lesbian and skulking around town in a leather jacket (when Rory Gibson has a body like this he loves to show off)? That’s how you introduce a potential leading man? They weren’t even trying.
Even Faith, a character we have known for years on the show, has just experienced significant trauma. Yet the show has not explored the aftermath and emotional impact on Faith. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially since Sharon also has a complex history of trauma and probably feels a lot of guilt. Sharon helping Faith deal with the aftermath could have been an engaging story arc about intergenerational trauma. However, instead of developing this story, the show sent Faith away and we’re back to another boring business story with Sharon inheriting Cameron Kirsten’s company.
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