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32 minutes ago, Khan said:
My hunch: Nathan Varni (or someone else at the network level) decided a change was needed and went to PM, given his reputation, with the promise of being allowed to write the kind of material he wanted.Β Frank Valentini, however, had other ideas.
I can see that, certainly, but I feel like PM strikes me as savvy enough to know he was walking into a lionβs den. Even knowing who FV is. Maybe he underestimated FV or felt that heβd have more backing from the network than he ultimately received. Or the deal was sweet enough that he felt he could give it a shot.
14 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:A lot may be riding on The Gates to succeed and rejuvenate the dimming genre.
I worry about The Gates.Β
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3 minutes ago, Vee said:
It has felt very similar from the beginning. And I say that as someone who found a lot of improvement in the show and that the glimmers (I think) of what PM was trying to do mostly worked.
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3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:I think the days of soaps being that level of competition to each other, or anyone else, are long gone, although if it gives ABC an excuse to pull the plug and put on GMA Part 394 they might try. Ideally I would have thought that they brought Mulcahey in and made some other changes, like dumping Howarth, because they knew they had to shape up with a new soap on the way, but clearly that isn't the case.Β
Good a writer as Mulcahey is (even if not necessarily as headwriter), he alone was never going to be enough to genuinely fix the show. I guess that will never happen, but if it does, it's going to take a big turnover. Not Korte, Von Etten, or other grinding mediocrities waiting out the clock.
Iβm curious. PM isnβt naive to the current realities of soap. What made him come out of retirement for this? Could have been money but soap HW gigs are tough.Β
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21 minutes ago, DRW50 said:
Mulcahey was being undermined from the start as Frank didn't want him, like what Paul Rauch may have done to Claire Labine at GL.Β
Or how Mal Young sabotaged Sally Sussman for a power grab at Y&R. (Granted, SS is nowhere near the talent that PM or Labine is.)
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A nice experiment that was probably doomed from the get-go. You really canβt go home again.Β
This is why we need a Michael Logan. A soap journalist attached to a powerful brand who isnβt scared of pissing off TPTB. We need a Patrick Mulcahey exit interview, STAT.
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1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:
^^ CZ sorta looks like James Lipton.
LOL she does.
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1 hour ago, I Am A Swede said:
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her work has an off the charts emotional IQβno one comes close ime. my first read i knew i had seen something that was beyond me and even now her best stuff is always half a step in front of me and requires me to simply be more. god tier. thank you alice munro for everything.
β sαΉ«ΗttsiisoβΕαΈ±Ηasim (@MrHWM) May 14, 2024
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3 hours ago, jam6242 said:
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Oh man. Thatβs a name I havenβt heard in years. Heβs from St. Louis, my hometown. R.I.P.Β
He played on so many hits, like this one:
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Roger Corman and Steve Albini dying in the same week is a very heavy-handed message on the state of independent art.
β Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) May 12, 20240 -
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