Contessa Donatella

I'm not sure if Trina stumbled over what exactly it was that she said, but it is absolutely true in our country that there is such a thing as diminished capacity & someone who does something who is mentally ill is not held accountable in the same way or to the same degree as someone who is not & is just mean, or evil. There's lock-up for the criminally insane & there's lock-up for ordinary hardened criminals & they're two different situations.

I think Brooke Kerr is both beautiful & a talented actress. Not saying she's the best but certainly above average, IMO. ATM she is suffering with some really obsessed writing, one narrow way of thinking, tinged with this huge urgency she seems to feel. She's gonna be a protestor with nothing & no one to protest against in about 2 days' time.

DIR: Jillian D.

Why would a stabbing pain behind the eyes be an odd indicator of personality change?Many DID sufferers "lose time." It seems to me that looking like he had this kind of pain would be a good way for an actor to show change of personalities. Connie is way too uber-villainous!

Finally I am caught up on DAYS! Obviously I do not disagree about Leo & many possible romantic partners, or perhaps just Eff Buddies. Or about it being ludicrous for Leo & Marlena to hang out at her place in John's extended absence, which is driving me crazy, etc. It would be about as in character for Marlena to invite Kristen over for high tea! But, I believe I have just enjoyed the show more than what I've read here for a few days. It goes without saying that Doug/Julie and Bill/Susan was choice, elite, the stuff you can eat out on for years. Then today, I actually was fairly absorbed. Connie is #1 Fan, Misery style creepy but in a fairly soapy way. Everett is dangerous, really. Knew he was up to something. Is Rafe dead?!

Gati Tweets has just posted. Been very busy. Writing. She filmed a movie. Etc. No mention of the show booking her. If they had, she'd have said. BTW, if you are being a swami, making predictions, it would seem that your latest flies in the face of what Kelly T herself knows to be the actual truth, which is that she wanted to return to GH but when she ran it up the flagpole, no one saluted. I certainly did not say anything that would make a regular fan think they were getting rid of Heather. For the record, I think the very idea is ludicrous. Why would they have gone to all this trouble if they were just going to write her off the show. I encourage critical reading & thinking.

Brooke Kerr is a beautiful woman & I used to love her character. Now, they've gone & done it. Turned me completely around. Used to always dislike Curtis. So, now I'm liking Curtis & want to slap Portia!!! Must agree, on everything else.

@Joseph Got them. PM me your email address.

I can get them for you. Send me a PM with your email address. That's so I can share them to you on my Google Drive.

Most independent owners of soaps did find it to be too much & sold. Dan Curtis did not.

Before I got on Days of our Lives, I had never watched a serial and I had heard all the remarks downgrading the serials. The only reason I joined Days was to be able to stay in Hollywood and have more time home with my children. But now that I'm on Days, I'm very happy. Every day, I'm floored by the quality of the shows! I'm amazed at how well the shows are produced, and it's very satisfying for me, artistically." All I had heard about soap operas were derogatory: the writing was bad, the plotting was bad, that type of thing. But when I got there, the actors were incredibly good, the writing was excellent. Everything about it was wonderful. - Bill Hayes [The Arizona Republic, March 21, 1997] In 1974, Susan and I got married in my living room with 16 people. In 1976, when Doug and Julie got married, we had 16 million people. I was in the singing chorus, and I thought, ‘Holy mackerel, you can get paid for singing? Acting? Doing stage work?’ I had no idea.” Hayes continued to hone his craft, studying voice at Northwestern and earning his master’s degree, and made his television debut in 1948 on THE ADVENTURES OF HOMER HERK. In 1950, he got an even bigger break when he was cast on YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, which co-starred Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. “I’ve been told that I’m the longest- running person who’s been appearing on national television,” Hayes marveled to Digest in 2017. Reflecting on his life to Digest in 2017, Hayes noted, “I’ve had quite a varied career, which started in one direction for a long time and then suddenly stopped and started in another direction. I’m very proud of it. I was on YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, which was one of the best television series of all time. I played on Broadway. I have a hit record. I’ve been on DAYS OF OUR LIVES all these years. I’ve done wonderful things in my career, but what I’m happiest about is my family. I have four children left, I have 12 grandchildren, I have 24 great-grandchildren and that’s my treasure.” On Mon., Apr. 14, 1970 Bill Hayes first met Susan Seaforth. The DAYS office, Stage 9, NBC, Burbank, an afternoon read-through, Bill's 15th day of working at DAYS. Macdonald Carey did the honors. In "Like Sands Through the Hourglass," Bill writes "I learned that Susan Seaforth could listen to Wes giving directions, read her part, hear what others actors were whispering around the room & make wry comments all at the same time. I was impressed." https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,913850-1,00.html Oh. yeah, "OG supercouple" has come up. Technically they are not. The term wasn't coined until the Luke & Laura rage but two prior couples were immediately called so retroactively: ATWT's Jeff & Penny and our very own Doug & Julie.

Right you are! The modern actresses I've known about what they do is that they have several reels, for different purposes. And, they have a website & their reels are up on it. The older actresses, though seemed to have things on regular videotape.

Maybe it's just me but it seems to me that we've just come to a logical conclusion with this story. I said all along that I didn't think they would end up freeing Heather. Several different perspectives have been represented. I believe there's a fairly nice symmetry to what I hope is this ending. Curtis, whose perspective was markedly different than Portia's, went & talked to Heather. What he said was compelling to her apparently, which gave her the motivation to ask Laura to leave things alone as they are. Jordan supported Laura's premise & approach. Portia had & expressed the most extreme POV. Trina, on her own, spoke to Laura, at a bit different point than either Curtis or Portia. Liz only got marginally drawn in. Now, I'm left still wanting Portia to be called out on her hypocrisy so I don't get what I want but it looks like most people will end up happy.

Gained viewers the past 2 weeks reported, in a row.

It has probably been 10 years now since YouTube did that massive purge of ALL GL videos!!! When all of the Bandstand Mike videos came down & people found out that he sold hard drives of GL & took people's money but never shipped the drives. I have no idea if Procter & Gamble was behind that, though, since YouTube does not require that someone have standing to make a copyright claim! And, the company that made copyright claims on my Classic DAYS episodes was neither Sony nor Corday. The last person who made claims against my account was not a company at all, just a person. Since some of them were GH Kraze videos I wondered if it was an issue of bigotry.

You're very welcome. Bill's perspective & sentiment is wonderful but the man really has a way with words, too!

I am a fan of Wes, from GL, from CHARMED & from VENICE. To me the problem with Peter was not with the actor but some truly awful, abysmal, appalling, seeming to go on forever & ever, ... writing! The character was horrible! Also I questioned his motivation. By the end poor Wes was pretty much twirling moustache. Kinda UGH. He was one where we literally could not wait for him to be dead. As for Maxie, so much more like our Maximista from before, I am so pleased that Kirsten is doing so much better. From what she has said, recovering fully from the brain surgery was a long drawn out thing. Now she is obviously enjoying herself & we get to reap the benefits! I am all in, once again, for Spixie! I realize that Bradford does not have much in the way of guarantees & Kirsten can appear again & again so that's a problem, but only for Spixie fans. I was tickled yesterday that her impulse was to meddle in things between Cody & Mac. That to me will be a good thing.

I just almost fell on the floor reading here, a comparison of acting chops of Jerry verDorn & [cough, cough] Cameron Mathison!!!!

Well, the thing is, she told me about the interview with that actress 3 weeks ago & now has reported it as news to Daniel. But, it doesn't matter. I want the video, whenever! It's not like I have a deadline. 🤔🤣😉

Also FLAMINGO ROAD

Hayes, B., of Hayes & Hayes [Doug Williams]. (1982 B.C.E.). A Tribute to Brenda Benet: A Memorial. Soap Opera Digest, 7(16), 132–133. A MEMORIAL Is there ever a time when suicide is the answer? When pain surpasses its own threshold? When the seductive song of death is sweeter than the cacophony of life? The chilling reply is "yes." Otherwise there would be no suicide. Not even a need for the word. Suicide happens just often enough to remind us it is the situation for some. The final bleak option to deal with one's overburden. There is, of course, total disagreement on the moral aspect of suicide, with as many different points of view as there are religions, societies and philosophers. Some consign the perpetrator to hell's eternal fires; others respect the act as a glorification through self-sacrifice. But everyone jolts together in sudden agreement at the loss of a loved one, the sympathetic hurt, the deprivation and the frustration at the realization that a life has been snuffed out too early. Our lovely friend, Brenda Benet, apparently took her own life early last April. Of course, whenever it was, it was early, too damned early. Brenda was the perfect actress: stunningly beautiful, talented and utterly capable of her craft, dedicated and responsible, and sensitive to the extreme. And there's the rub -- SENSITIVE! The best actresses are the most sensitive, you know. In order to permit audiences to see into the depths of their private emotions, to discover choice human truths, the good actresses forego protective covering. There is no other way. Either you protect your soft center with a hard shell of inhibitions or you bare your soul and take your chances. There never has been a hard actress; that would be a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. There may be loud actresses, demanding actresses, inexhaustible workers, picky, tasteless, even hateful actresses -- but insensitive? No way! And Brenda was an actress. I'm sure she was sensitive to the fact that she was admired, appreciated, loved; that she enjoyed close friendships with many, both men and women; that she was aware that she was considered abundantly successful. And yet those positive components of her life and career couldn't balance out on her scale of importance. The negative tray was just too heavily weighted. Three years ago, when Brenda first came on "Days of Our Lives," she still had hopes that her marriage could be saved. It could not. She watched the pieces come apart. She was not a backbiter or a griper so she didn't talk about it. But Brenda & I worked together closely during her first two years on the show, and I say that Brenda was deeply hurt by the dissolution of her relationship with her husband. Wounded, yes, but not killed. After all, she still had the wondrous product of that marriage, her 6-year-iold son, Christopher. When she spoke of Christopher, when he came to spend the day with her at the studio, when she touched him, talked to him, smiled at him, it was obvious that Christopher was the consummation, the reality, the treasure of Brenda's life. And it was beautiful. Love like that is inspiring to all who experience it. And then she lost him. With a jerking suddenness, he was dead and gone, and Brenda was embracing only his memory. Was she shattered by this? She didn't outwardly betray such impact. Instead, she consoled her grieving friends. She soothingly explained how Christopher had known he was going to die, described the ways he had let her know this, even detailed how she herself had had premonitions that he would never reach his seventh birthday. No grief, no hysterics, no anger, no tears. Enigmatically, that torturous day of Christopher's death seemed to be swept under the carpet of fate. I would have expected Brenda to have been unable to control her emotions, let alone cover them. In retrospect, I wish she had screamed herself hoarse, torn the drapes, kicked and stomped and pounded herself to a frazzle, cried uncontrollably until exhaustion claimed her. Because it is my opinion that she bottled up all those feelings of loss and unfairness of life, and the sadness and anger added perhaps a catalytic agent of guilt and "what if" and "why me?," and corked it up tight to put away in her pocket. But, such feelings don't just go away. You must express them, face them, deal with them and admit their presence, even if you don't understand their function, before time can work its healing magic. I honestly think that Brenda -- for some reason -- didn't face her loss. And it caught up with her, blowing the cork off that bottle she had hidden away. I believe that, had she accepted her grief and anger and allowed the tears to flow naturally, her eyes would have cleared so she could see all the reasons to live now. She would have now been able to open herself to the caress of love offered by friends on all sides. And she would not have abruptly deprived the world of her own special brand of love. Many, many people loved Brenda. Not only her c-actors on "Days," and the producers and directors and crews with whom she worked, but also her soap opera family across the land. Ever since the stunning news of her death was made public, people have been moved to write words of sympathy to Susan and me, to the producers, to other members of the cast. They've sent condolence cards. Masses have been celebrated. Poems and songs and eulogies have been composed. It's been wonderful. Wonderful, and terribly sad. We all wish we'd been in the right place at the right time to prevent her suicide. We're sorry for the anguish she felt. We wish we'd sensed something that day, or the day before, and said, "Brenda, I love you and don't want you to leave. Please, don't do this." But today each of us is older and sadder and, we hope, wiser. Perhaps we'll all be more inclined to say, "I love you and need you" to each other more spontaneously, not waiting to look for the look of panic that signals depression. I, for one, hope so. We loved you, Brenda, and we'll miss you. --Bill Hayes, of Hayes and Hayes

Jason strode into Carly's kitchen with purpose but was brought up short when he saw everyone's favorite little Narcissist. Now we will never know what Jason wanted. And, Sonny, who most recently declared them all to be TRAITORS is now looking to see if they'll be a character witness in a custody suit. If the judge really put the child's interests first, they would award sole custody of Avery to Carly & both Sonny & Ava could have supervised visitation. No one in their right mind would think Avery should be solely Sonny's concern & Ava never has & never will be a good mother, not to anyone, ever. This way, sisters, Donna & Avery, can share a bedroom & the nanny Pilar.

I mean the quality is very challenging!!! Agree. Would love to see a quality version. In that same episode Alice speaks very highly of Valerie and her perspective that family is so important & Alice even refers to her as her "secret weapon" in getting David to the church on time since he was going to walk Julie down the aisle. I've often said that David was not only in love with Valerie but also the entire Grant family!!! https://rumble.com/v55yri3-days-of-our-lives-10-1-1976-doug-and-julies-first-wedding.html

I am beyond tired of waiting for it but she's mad at me now. In my last email asking her what was up I said it had been too long, the delay, and said GMAB & she said everyone else has been gracious but not me. OY.

My friend Daniel just received the program & the souvenir glass & there was a note that she'd just interviewed the actress who played MaryAnne & was adding that interview to the video.