Contessa Donatella

38 minutes ago, Efulton said:

Thanks Donna. It still requires a drop down choice. If you could reach out to her I would appreciate it. 

Done.

During her latest day in court, Haley changed her plea to no contest on one DUI and in exchange, the district attorney dropped the second DUI charge along with the hit-and-run charge.

So, it could have been worse.

https://www.justjared.com/2024/04/29/general-hospital-actress-haley-pullos-receives-jail-time-following-dui-arrest/?=morehere

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13364051/General-Hospital-star-Haley-Pullos-months-jail-DUI-crash.html

18 minutes ago, Efulton said:

Hi Donna.  Do you know if the $45 option has been removed?  I do not see it in the drop down choices.

I'm signed up for it, paid & gotten an email confirmation. A GH fan told me today she just signed up for it yesterday & got an email confirmation. Let me look. 

She moved it! Below the drop down! See. (Weird.) Try that. Report back! If that's not it, I will email her. She responds to me almost instantly! 

30 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

No, I was clearly talking about the Reva/Zimmer situation and how she had the show under a barrel...all because they let her.  LW just annoys me so whomever wants to yank on her all the good...(I think you posted a clip or pic of her and that Cameron Mathieson guy and they both looked like an aging Barbie and Ken doll set...okay, CM annoys me even more, he looks like his is made of weird plastic. ) 

The only clip I've posted recently with Cameron Mathison in it was hot angry sex with Drew & Nina so wrong blonde! Cynthia Watros!  Not Laura Wright. This has become a hilarious exchange, I gotta tell ya. LOL!!! 

About KZ & Reva, sure thing, same page on that. 

I would add that I came to an appreciation of GL late. My experience of the different periods you praise is only through the Soap Classics DVDs that were put out & YouTube. I personally do feel KZ & Reva is not only an example of one character eating a show but possibly the best example. If Kim was not front burner for ONE DAY she had her special fans on the phone to the studio, complaining, loudly, with great fervor. And I hated Paul Rauch's "vision" with overlit "too bright" scenes where the women typically were only allowed to wear certain colors, A-line skirts, plunging V-neckline blouses, etc. I know people here do not but I loved Harley, Buzz & Jonathan. Also Otalia & Jami. 

17 hours ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

They are good but have a lot of inaccuracies. In particular, when it comes to dates. 

Very true, errors all over the place. 

46 minutes ago, TEdgeofNight said:

Remember, if it’s in a book or an interview, it’s fact. lol So many books have wrong facts. Same with interviews. Public relations idiots made it sound like everyone loved everyone on every show all the time. 

There are published accounts of many feuds. Most people got along with each other. But not all! Some people could not stand each other. And to a large extent, this is known. 

And, of course, most of us know that errors abound!!! 

My FB Memories presented these to me 

One night at Blondies

Melissa Scardaville & Scott Holroyd

Me & Elaine Flores

Scott Holroyd

Me, Scott again

2 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

And it makes no sense..TPTB especially in these cost conscious times should be able to let an actor go if they demand too much.  GL let Kimmer's ego and Rauch's stupidity make Reva the "star" so she could write her own check.  They should have done as ATWT did in the late 70s..slowly reemphasize Reva (like they did Lisa) so she is not the center of the universe.  Lisa was always important (well until the time of the Gautman) and in the mix, but not the star. 

Anyone who wants to dis LW either on GL or GH is good with me! 

Well, if you're talking about GH & any actor "demanding too much" then you must be talking about one actor who is now gone or MB. You are certainly NOT accurately speaking of LW, NOT AT ALL. 

But the reason I came here today is because my FB memories gave me these. 

And also these.

This is rare, never published. 

1 hour ago, allmc2008 said:

Do you remember the episode? And damn.

It was during the time Finn was going to be sued. We saw her in her office, at her desk & some place else I can't recall.

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I used to have a copy of the '97 anniversary book. I'm not sure if I still do - if I do it's in storage somewhere. There were plenty of insights for me (I had little knowledge of the show's history beyond when I started watching, scraps of soap magazines, and what was in the '92 TV special), along with many photos I'd never seen before, although fans who were more in the know likely noticed errors. 

Later on, I checked out the '87 anniversary book from the library. It didn't have as much content, but IIRC had a number of interesting interviews the other didn't have and focused a bit on the making of those anniversary shows.

I also have the Christopher Schmerering 50th Anniversary book. 

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7 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

Exactly. And one commenting on this trend among the soaps, which includes (but is not limited to) TGL in a Guiding Light thread, is perfectly reasonable.

I agree, in its own way, GH's infatuation with Carly (and Sonny and Jason) has hurt that soap the way the Reva tunnel vision hurt TGL. It's sad watching multiple soaps making the same sort of mistakes ad nauseum. No one wants to see another soap become extinct like TGL.

Do you watch GH? 

I appreciate your concern in the larger sense of concern for the genre but I think GH is quite safe.

25 minutes ago, Althea Davis said:

1. The Slut From The Valley

2. The Whore of Beverly Hills

3. The plague that swept through Forrester

4. The jackal that ripped through Forrester  

5. Opportunistic Slut

6. The woman who slept with her daughter's husband

7. The woman who slept with an entire gene pool

8. The woman who slept with a father and his two sons

9. The woman who slept with her brother in law

10. The woman who married 18 times

11. The woman who had accidental sex with her daughter's 19 year old boyfriend on a terace

12. The woman who turned a fashion house into a bordello

13. The Legend.

14. The one and only.

15. Brooke Logan

Brooke Logan Forrester Forrester Chambers Forrester Forrester Jones Forrester Forrester Forrester Marone Forrester Forrester Forrester Spencer Forrester (B&B) 

B&B's Brooke is the undisputed Queen Bee of getting married but not staying married! That is 15 marriages! 

7 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I would actually argue that Carly has taken over GH in the long term in ways even Reva did not with GL, but that would derail the thread and most people in here don't want to sit through all that.

Well, I would disagree & post the episode counts 2023 & 2024 so far, but you're right, it would be absurdly OT. 

Yeah, unfortunately the movie ratings guide doesn't include things like

Warning: Barnyard humor      or

Warning: Aimed at 12 yr old boys

@Althea Davis

Thanks everyone! I'll keep trying. I am able to hear Taby but not CW. 

Hooray! FINALLY. Got it. Had to use Jane's idea & drop "mediaviewer" & then it worked like a charm. I knew she & Maura went to the same conservatory at overlapping times. Loved hearing her interp of the scenes. Also liked the caption to a pic about her mom telling CW that last fall Taby & NAC had said they wanted to work with her & CW was, "Really?!!" And, Taby pipes up with, "Yes, really!" 

20 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

The link still works for me.

https://twitter.com/ariana_puzzo/status/1784344601827905803/mediaviewer

 

Well, just crap. This is annoying. 

57 minutes ago, Althea Davis said:

Another one - people who laugh at dumb comedies aka someone farting for 1,5 hours and this is a comedy... wow. I have relatives like that in my family and I have left the cinema multiple times, because I can't take the stupidity and farting and talking about excrements. 

Well, excuse me, but what are you doing in that movie in the first place?!! Aren't you just buying trouble?

I guess my biggest pet peeves are either about words or about dogs. 

Grammatical errors, like the misuse of I or me. But with typos & autocorrects I also can have a sense of humor. It's not a surprise to me that these things bug me. I used to be employed as a proofreader, a copy editor, a technical writer, etc. 

People who don't clean up after their dogs. People who let their dogs roam off leash in area where it's not appropriate & usually not safe. People who get a dog & then tie it or chain it out back & then ignore it. 

49 minutes ago, Sapounopera said:

You must agree that this type of heroine ("The Outsider" Reva, GH Carly, ATWT Carly) has changed soaps and turned them into flashy one-woman-shows. Not everybody loved this change Contessa. Even All My Children was never the Erica show.  

Well, I would not *exactly* agree with that. AMC, OLTL, AW, etc. were definitely ensemble shows but at the same time AMC was very much the Erica show, just as AW had Vicky Windham as its star & in a sense it usually was The Rachel show. Same thing with Slezak, Viki, OLTL. And other examples could be provided. 

Now I would argue that Reva is different. Reva is an instance where one character ate their show. But, it has nothing to do with her being an outsider. It had everything to do with the various PTB & the actress herself. 

Carly has not eaten GH. 

34 minutes ago, ScottyBman said:

I saw this on a Social Media feed.  And while the talk of a Soap resurgence I feel may be a bit premature, I also think that unfortunately if I were the powers that be, I would not bring back a Soap like Another World, that while this message board (and myself included) did enjoy, it really never had the daytime zeitgeist or cache to bring enough eye back in a business/ratings sense.  And I understand it may be an unpopular opinion, but just my thoughts.

And if you were to pick it back up, from a relevancy/ratings/logistics standpoint, where would you start?  I would say personally, I would omit most of the story from like 1994-end.  

https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/726808/another-world-reunion/

This idea that some people have that there may be a rebooting of classic soaps is so much hooey. Not gonna happen. 

5 hours ago, BetterForgotten said:

I found this interesting - at the fan event Taby, Laura, Finola, and Cynthia did this weekend, someone asked Cynthia about the scenes between Nina and Ava this week and someone else posted this audio along other actor Q&A’s on her Twitter account. 

It’s interesting how Cynthia talked about choosing to interpret those scenes in a specific way and not playing them as they were written on the surface.

https://twitter.com/ariana_puzzo/status/1784344601827905803/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1784344601827905803&currentTweetUser=ariana_puzzo

I don't know if it's been taken down or what but it's not there, although many of her recordings are still there.

1 hour ago, vetsoapfan said:

Classy heroines like Penny Hughes, Jessie Brewer and Nancy Karr have been underrepresented on the soaps for many years.

Reva Shayne and Carly Corinthos as leads is like Hollywood abandoning the likes of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn in favor of Roseanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell.

I am amazed that apparently it is impossible to escape this current tsunami of GH Carly hating even when one finds oneself in a Guiding Light thread!   

I can't think of serious pet peeves. I can only think of silly ones. Here's some. 

What Is RAS? The abbreviation stands for “Redundant Acronym Syndrome”

ATM machine → Automated Teller Machine machine

DC Comics → Detective Comics Comics

FBI investigation → Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation

GRE exam → Graduate Record Examination exam

HIV virus → Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus

IRA account → Individual Retirement Account account

ISBN number → International Standard Book Number number

LCD display → Liquid Crystal Display display

NPR radio → National Public Radio radio

OPEC countries → Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries countries

PDF format → Portable Document Format format

PIN number → Personal Identification Number number 

Please RSVP → Please Répondez S'il Vous Plaît (plaît being French for “please”) 

SAT test → Scholastic Aptitude Test test

UPC Code → Universal Product Code code 

VIN number → Vehicle Identification Number number 

 

Maurice was posting on TwiX today. In reply to someone wondering (& worried) if this is an exit for him, ... 

About Sasha, misogyny, no, not over this. I simply do not understand why they didn't make her Nina's new assistant at Crimson. She is one who actually likes Nina, who is very short on both friends & friendly acquaintances. It looked obvious to me, a gimme. 

I just ran into an old meme. As fast as you can write the 15 fictional characters that are the most important to you. I thought it would be fun to do it for entities (character or family or couple or group like Felicia/Cass/Wally or The 4 Musketeers, etc.) applied to soaps. I'll start. 

1. GH Kraze

2. DAYS Challie

3. GH Jarly

4. DAYS RoMar

5. DAYS Julie

6. AW Ada

7. AW Vicky

8. AW Rachel

9. SB Julia & Mason

10. SB Eden & Cruz

11. DAYS Julie & Doug

12. AW Cass & Frankie

13. AW Cass, Felicia & Wally

14. PC Eve & Kevin

15. GL Otalia

Well, what I think is that Patrick is gonna let Mo continue to be a mobster but he's no longer going to be considered an upstanding citizen. They set him up as this kinda Mobster with a Heart of Gold, to borrow from the Lady of the Night trope, back when Stone & Robin were in love & he cared for & nurtured Stone & Robin & that was a long time ago. 

Meanwhile I am considering whether I want to ship Chrome (Corinthos + Jerome) and also if I want to ship Drina (Drew + Nina). Perversely I am thinking of adding both.