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If we do not count Elvis Presley's 11 Pre-Billboard Hot 100 #1s, Justin Bieber is the 8th male solo artist to reach 8 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. The male solo artists with 8 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 are Michael Jackson (13), Stevie Wonder (10), Elton John (9), Usher (9), George Michael (8), Drake (8), Bruno Mars (8), Justin Bieber (8).

If we do not count Elvis Presley's 11 Pre-Billboard Hot 100 #1s, Justin Bieber is the 18th artist to reach 8 #1s. 

Justin Bieber is the 8th artist not from the United States to reach 8 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. The artists not from the United States with 8 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 are The Beatles (20), Rihanna (14), The Bee Gees (9), Elton John (9), The Rolling Stones (8), George Michael (8), Drake (8), Justin Bieber (8).

Drake and Justin Bieber are tied for most #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 by a Canadian artist.

Re JFP/Justin Deas/Cooper family. Pamela Long created Harley, Frank, Nadine, Pops. Nancy Curlee expanded the family with Stavros and Eleni before JFP arrived. It was posted in the They Almost Became thread and in the GL thread that CBS/P&G originally offered the part of Buzz Cooper to Terry Lester but he turned it down to take Royce Keller on As the World Turns and Terry himself even said this in an interview. Were any other actors were considered for Buzz before JFP got her friend Justin Deas hired? Although the Coopers were already on the canvas, JFP wanted them to become the main family as a showcase for Deas, which is pretty much what we saw in the aftermath of Maureen's death until Nancy Curlee left the writing team.

Side note, Terry Lester was not a Buzz. Someone in the GL thread suggested him as an Alan recast in 1994, I wonder how he would've done in that role.

On 8/5/2021 at 8:13 PM, Faulkner said:

When I was growing up, track and field stars were huge: FloJo, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, the list goes on.

Those names bring back so many memories of the excitement of Olympic track and field. Even though he is not American, Usain Bolt was probably the last Olympic track and field superstar.

No surprise in men's basketball, USA wins gold. As for the bronze game, I'm not disappointed with Australia getting their first men's basketball medal. Fourth is not a bad showing for Slovenia in their Olympic men's basketball debut.

Men's Basketball gold medal game USA/France and bronze medal game Australia/Slovenia. My predictions were way off LOL. At this point it'll probably go USA gold, France silver, Slovenia bronze.

Men's Basketball Final Four: USA/Australia and Slovenia/France. Predicting USA gold, Slovenia silver, Australia bronze.

12 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

It makes no sense that a *hotel* would be a center of the Genoa City social life.
That anyone would live there but maybe the owner. That business would be conducted there. That people would just hang out and meet there.
Ludicrous.

Y&R has gone into budget mode.

9 hours ago, John said:

Ok How many kids does Shelia have

Mary/Erica

Daisy

Ryder

Finn

when did she have all these kids

4 hours ago, Forever8 said:

I take it he is younger than Mary Margaret and older than Diana.  And we can just ignore those other two children played by Wilson Bethel and Yvonne Zima from the sister show. 

I do hope this means we can get to see both Mary-Margaret and James Warwick to help fill this story out too. 

I did like someone's theory on Twitter I saw about Morgan DeWitt being Finn's mother. But I figured with Kimberlin tweeting back at Ted King that she was the one. I'm surprised Brad didn't try to keep this on the hush. Though I guess the show needs the publicity more at this moment. 

Yeah... we can ignore them. Sheila can only have 3 children we can care about. I do want Mary and Diana to return on the canvas. 

What we saw onscreen and rewrites. I used real time for the rewrites.

1991 - Sheila miscarries Scott Sr.'s child.

1997 - Sheila gives birth to Mary Warwick.

2002/2003 - Sheila becomes involved w/ Massimo Marone, supposedly resulting in Diana Marone.

2005/2006 - Sheila becomes involved w/ Tom Fisher, supposedly resulting in twins Daisy and Ryder Fisher.

In the timeline, Finn's birth and adoption would either have been before Sheila arrived in Genoa City, or in between Mary and Diana.

42 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

I would be ASTONISHED if they actually went that route! 

Do you think Bradley remembers his father's history of the character?

Re Maureen/Roger, theirs was such a fascinating dynamic. Maureen saw the good qualities in Roger, and while Roger didn't care about what the rest of Springfield thought of him, he cared about what Maureen thought of him. You could see hints of that when Roger and Maureen were trapped together during the blackout and when Roger visited Maureen's grave. Perhaps secretly deep down Roger might have been a little in love with Maureen but I don't think he ever would admit it or act on it. I think having Maureen turn to Roger in the aftermath of learning about the Ed/Lillian affair and Roger helping Maureen and Michelle leave Springfield and start over somewhere else might have played out better than killing off Maureen.

Sheila has been played out since 1998. I swear that character is Bradley's "break glass in case of emergency" device.

We saw Sheila pregnant onscreen once on Y&R (Scott Grainger Sr.'s child that was miscarried which lead to the baby switch) and once on B&B (Mary Warwick). Then there was Diana Marone on B&B, and twins Daisy and Ryder Fisher on Y&R. I don't know how old this Finn character is supposed to be but the only explanation I can think of is that Sheila had a child while in nursing school and then placed it for adoption. Maybe the father is John Silva. Remember when Sheila first arrived in Genoa City there were some hints that she and John Silva shared a past but for whatever reason Bill Bell didn't expand on that.

USA Men's Basketball gets Spain in the Quarterfinals and either Australia or Argentina in the Semifinals. The other half of the bracket is France/Italy and Slovenia/Germany. I'm thinking the Gold Medal Game will be USA/Slovenia and the Bronze Medal Game will be Australia/France.

I'm fully vaccinated but I still wear a mask when I go out places. Not taking any chances.

LOL at USA Men's Basketball losing their opening game to France. This NBA C Team thinks they can saunter in and win gold. Newsflash, it's not 1992, the rest of the world has caught up. OTOH, Slovenia Men's Basketball killed it in their Olympic debut vs. Argentina.

On 7/16/2021 at 1:04 PM, AlexGrimaldi said:

YR started in Italy in 1983 (1979 Us ep).  

Is it possible that Italy's first episode was Melody Thomas Scott's first episode? Italy got to see part of Vanessa's story and also the arrival of Victor.

39 minutes ago, AlexGrimaldi said:

6. They did 2 time jumps, axing US episodes from march 1986 to november 1989 and from january 1994 to november 1998. 

Italy was spared Cricket eating the show (Summer 1986 to the end of 1989), Nick and Sharon eating the show (Fall 1994 to Spring 1996), and the lull (Fall 1996 through first half of 1997).

BTS is the 45th artist and the 11th duo/group to reach 5 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. BTS is also the 13th artist not from the United States and the first artist from a non-English speaking country to reach 5 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100.

The duos/groups with 5 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 as of today: The Beatles (20), The Supremes (12), The Bee Gees (9), The Rolling Stones (8), Wings (6), Hall & Oates (6), The Four Seasons (5), The Eagles (5), KC and the Sunshine Band (5), Boyz II Men (5), BTS (5).

Artists not from the United States with 5 or more #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 as of today: The Beatles (20), Rihanna (14), The Bee Gees (9), Elton John (9), The Rolling Stones (8), George Michael (8), Drake (8), Phil Collins (7), Justin Bieber (7), Wings (6), The Weeknd (6), Olivia Newton-John (5), BTS (5). 

On 7/17/2021 at 2:15 PM, j swift said:

Sophia and Pamela were both women who abandoned their children, returned in disguise, and remarried rich Europeans.

Two Alexis clones on one show? I once read Santa Barbara described as a dollar store Dynasty.

I haven't seen alot of Brenda Dickson's 1973-1980 run to judge her acting style, but from what I've seen of her 1983-1987 run, she starting getting OTT in her acting style around 1985. It got worse during 1986 and 1987.

1 hour ago, BoldRestless said:

I am so curious why Italy seems to be the only country that aired Y&R episodes before 1986. 

Italy seems to be the only non-English speaking country that aired episodes before 1986. Y&R started in Australia in 1974 and in New Zealand in 1977. As far as Canada goes, I know Global started airing Y&R in 1984, and CHCH aired Y&R before that but I don't know the start year.

4 hours ago, BoldKara said:

That's brilliant, yet something we will overlook LOL

Y&R episode of Friday December 22, 1989. Bill Bell had Marge watch B&B since it was his other show, but I guess he wasn't thinking ahead to potential crossovers at that time. 

4 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

I remember reading lots of blind items in the year before it happened (that only became clear after the fact that it was about RM) that a certain producer was putting out feelers to an actor he had in mind and thus calling the chicken game of a certain diva actor who was certain his "iconic" role could never be recast and was being a pain.

Was this when Bradley was trying to recast Ridge with Peter Reckell?

Bill Bell forgot about the Y&R scene from December 1989 where Marge was watching B&B. We could hear some dialogue and the B&B theme music.

@Soapsuds Thank you for the link to the 1979 episode. Episodes of the Roger/Holly storylines from 1979 and 1980 are such a treat, as those storylines set in motion so much of what we saw a decade later during the Calhoun era.

So four adult Kyles in the last 8 or 9 years? I lost track of the Kyles after the kid with the Bieber bangs.

I can't remember how long the last renewal is until. At this point I say plan the ending to coincide w/ the 50th anniversary in March 2023.

1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

CBS

 

I can't believe they let it go for Capitol of all soaps.

 

Once SFT moved to NBC I stopped watching it.

Which show is worse in your opinion, Capitol or B&B?

Capitol served two purposes. CBS needed something young and glamorous to compete with ABC, and it was a time filler until Bill Bell had a second show ready. 

CBS approached Bill Bell in 1977 for a second show but for whatever reason he didn't have one ready until a decade later. If Bill Bell had a second show ready in 1977, we probably wouldn't have gotten GL expanding to one hour that year. I really think CBS wanted a second Bill Bell show to replace Search for Tomorrow in 1982 but early 1980s Y&R was in transition mode so Bill Bell was probably focused on getting Y&R settled at that time. Even if CBS kept Search for Tomorrow, it would have ended once Bill Bell had a second show ready to go.