Contessa Donatella

May I just say ICKY!!! Straying a bit, but she was last seen on BOLD & I loved seeing this post from her today! Krista Allen @KristaAllenXO Happy 2025!! This new year will begin with Karma served. 🍿 It’s the year that confidence overtakes feeling less than. It’s the year that all of us remember that our voice is as valid as it is powerful. Life is too short to stay small. The truth shall set you free! Love you.

🙄Uhhh ... I thought it was totally lame. LOL! If Brady wants to give Marlena jewelry, good grief, he should reach into some serious funds & get something brand new & classy!! That locket, absolutely should be kept until Rachel is a bit older & then she should have it. Anyway, that's my opinion.

This is really awful. It cries out for justice. The only thing I can think of is for Bradley Bell to write it that Sheila kills Carl.

A BOLD move, you say?

I always loved Olivia Hussey, in Romeo & Juliet & in Lost Horizon. As you know she died recently, at the age of 73. I am 73. Last night I saw a new YouTube video tribute to her. It's by her Romeo, Leonard Whiting, & I can't really explain it but it made me cry.

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Was there some reason not to continue with the original actor?

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Great! That means I'm not actually crazy! Well, I guess that's not the best way to say that. What I mean is I never knew this so today I was surprised & I wasn't sure if I should doubt myself. Your information & the history behind it is confirmation, in my case, much needed confirmation. So thanks for that!

Encore performances were announced. And, if tomorrow is anything like today was, these have been chosen for reasons having to do with the current show. I know that sounds like "Are you kidding me? There is no way GH could do that kind of thing I mean do it effectively." But, IMO, at least, that was done today.

Thanks for the additional information. I can't tell you how fabulous this is! Again, you have saved the day - or should that be DAYS!

What a nice thing to say! I happen to think that the AW topic is a really very special place. And, I basically love everyone here. I expect that sounds a little strange. That's just tough.

Yes, you're right. Totally forgot about Phyllis. What a goofy thing to do. Linda was especially soapy. Do you recall when Mike got it in his head that maybe he couldn't function sexually with a woman? Guess who stepped up to "help him"? Of course, it was Linda. What was that actress's name? Was it Marsha?

WOW, what a day! That was such a close call. Thank you for sharing this episode with us. And, also Happy New Year to you & yours! Here's hoping 2025 is a much better year!

Neither Bob nor Linda was boring, not at all. Bob, an industrialist who owned Anderson Industries, was at one time, with Julie. He was a good man, a self-made man. Doug would've been with Addie then. Linda, in her own way was, well, I don't know any other way to put it, she was wicked. Now, Mary, okay, probably she was boring. So strait-laced, such a damn good girl. Really very pretty but not all that interesting.

I'm not sure who you're considering to be in Sonny's clan at this point. I think they've made a lot of progress moving both Jason & Carly away from Sonny. I'm not sure who watched today's Encore episode but I think they showed it to us for a couple of reasons. I think today for the first time Brook Lynn was really close to telling Chase that as a teen she had a baby. I wonder if she thinks that baby died. I'm sure that she does not know that Gio is that baby. Lois knows & she may be the only one who does. Then we saw Jason's devotion to Carly. He stayed to see what Brennan wanted because he knew that Brennan had been the one who deleted Carly's FBI audio file. It is hilarious that Jason has still not told Carly that fact. At some point she is going to find out & she is going to be so furious with Jason for not telling her immediately. Carly had a great line. Brennan suggested making things up to her by having supper together, how about Tuesday, he proposed. Carly: How about never?! (Loved it!!) We saw Kelly Monaco have a good scene as Sam, being loving & considerate to Dante, about Lulu, who we all just found out is in real danger of dying without a liver transplant. Far away, in Somalia at Sidwell's compound, Lucky has managed to get himself to be a prisoner when he went there by intent to try to rescue Isaiah who is a prisoner there. Tracy, very emotional, sits at Lulu's bedside & talks to her about how as Luke's child she can never give up & that she has his heart, his courage & his infuriating stubbornness. Lois, upset by a caller when she was selling Deception products on Home & Heart, decides to work with a dialect coach to be able to sound more sophisticated. All in all, there was a helluva lot in this episode!

"I give you LIFE!"

https://people.com/abigail-breslin-had-similar-experience-to-blake-lively-harassment-me-too-8767533 Here's another one, Abigail Breslin And, yet one more, Kate Beckinsale https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/kate-beckinsale-responds-to-blake-lively-suit-details-mistreatment/ “I’ve been following, as a lot of people have, this situation between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni and I must stress that I don’t know either of them. I’ve never met either of them and I wasn’t on the set,” Beckinsale, 51, said in a Sunday, December 29, Instagram video. “But I will say, what is highlighted is this machine effect when a woman complains about something legitimately offensive, upsetting, harmful or whatever in this industry.”

Not me, either. But, I am reading I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama by Eric Braeden and I'm re-reading My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves by Agnes Nixon

Well, Tate is certainly not that! I'm not entirely sure what he is, but I am quite sure that he's nobody's hero. On DAYS we have seen that kind of hero. And, Tate is no Bo! Nor is he a Real Roman. Also not a Forrest Alamain aka John Black!

But, it has been this way for years & they didn't capitulate earlier. Why would the Mouse company do so now? When I think about that as a possibility I cannot even imagine, given the size of Ingo's ego, it is substantially a chance that he would ... I don't know ... maybe his head would explode!!! At any rate you wouldn't want to be in the vicinity.