Contessa Donatella
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But it might just mean that someone new is doing PR for him & they told him unilaterally to "erase" the soap from his internet profile. Someone said he is no longer even following his family but just new people & people affiliated with Ryan Murphy. I want to share what one Jex shipper posted to illustrate what this past week was like for them. -
I am fairly certain that it wasn't a rumor, that they in fact were known to be "dating".
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They shoot out of order. And, at times WAY out of order. Something that is taped Monday could air 5 weeks later. Something that is taped Monday could air 2 days later. And, everything in between. It is not possible to do the kind of computation that you're thinking of. But, if he tapes for 6 weeks that might yield 6 weeks of air shows. Or it might yield more. It's just according. And, he might not be brought back at all. I believe the latest info on when he will finish the Ryan Murphy project is May but I have no idea when in May.
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Fox said they wanted a real daytime lineup but they never actually even tried.
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It went around ages ago that he scrubbed GH from everything. Also that he made his farewells to everyone at the studio. And whether these are just things going around or there is some kernel of truth driving the paranoia, etc. it's really totally irrelevant. It's up to GH. If they want him back when he finishes filming, supposedly in May, to have him for (I think) 45 days till end of June, they will have him back. If they prefer to go ahead & recast, they'll do that. No amount of fan discussion is going to make any difference! Some Sprina fans are delightful. Then there are others. So, I hear you & I feel ya!
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No, I don't think she did either. I don't think this is in any way about bad behavior! Nope. I figure their working her longer than they thought reflects the confusion about when NAC would be gone. They thought he was going out before the strike, didn't happen, then the strike. I believe there was fair amount of logistical UGH.
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Not a discussion that we had, except to note that since she said they let her know 6 months ago, that they were likely planning on how they would drop out NAC & so some things seem strange in the way they made use of Esme, Baby Ace, Spencer & Trina, pure fan spec & analysis. My personal opinion us that Frank and/or whomever simply did not want to change the character & were willing to lose her instead. Perhaps they had thought amnesia would be effective & when it wasn't they were fresh out of ammo. Why do you think they cut her loose?
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Great job! I hate to use them, too, but, ... And, I have corrected one error on them, so there is that.
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Faraway Hill 1946 A Woman to Remember 1949 The O'Neills 1949-50
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What a good catch! A Tuesday start date, how inauspicious!
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Can't go. Would if I could. My god, that close! Can you talk it over with your guy? One person from my forum is going & one of my oldest friends online is going so I will get a great report after. Nadine Stenovitch has just popped up in my forum saying no one got in touch with her so I'm going to put her together with the woman who is doing this shindig. This won't happen again, this event, or one like it. This is it.
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Good deal! Here, for your ref. Schemering, C. (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia. Ballantine Books. p. 156 Lovers and Friends Jan. 3, 1977 to May 6, 1977 NBC ... writer Harding Lemay & producer Paul Rauch ... new serial ... 2 families, the Cushings & the Saxons, suburb of Chicago. Class conflict & psychological themes. Unsuccessful. Put on hold. Tweaked. revamped & back on the air as For Richer, For Poorer. Dec. 6, 1977 to Sept. 29, 1978 NBC.
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Me, too! I had so much trouble trying to get across that this was what I always treasured as a delightful anecdote from Virginia Dwyer's own words & point of view that made me think highly of her as well as appreciating that she seems to have a wicked sense of humor! When people thought I was reporting a slam! Of course, we know that if I had an anecdote that was a slam, I would post it, too! But, that's just a theory! 🤔🙄😉 Hooray!! I thought it was lost & I found it!! Thanks so much for outlining this perspective! Robt LaGuardia has several soap books but this is my favorite. Yes, quote/unquote. EXACTLY!!!! And I think it shows a fine sense of humor!
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D&C simply could not think of a way to use Trina. When I heard this, it shocked me. I'm past that now. D&C possibly shouldn't have been in the position they were in. They were in it too long. Finally they're not. It's a good thought. Maybe Cyrus won't be so bad in smaller doses. And, I honestly wish Laura had more family, not less. So, last week some of us said we wanted a scene between Aidan & Jake. Spoiler Next week we're getting that scene between Aidan & Jake. WT'heck is going on?
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Melissa Scardaville speaks out about GUIDING LIGHT once more Melissa Scardaville published a note. April 19, 2009 Another GL Note I wrote this on 4/2, right after GL was canceled. I thought I would post it. Enjoy it if you can. In 1941, in the midst of World World II, the Citizen Kane premiere and Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak, Guiding Light was canceled for the first time. Around 75,000 angry letters convinced Procter & Gamble, the show's sponsor, to return the serial to the airways. Decades later, GL became broadcast history's longest running drama, enjoying a 72-year run that produced over 15,000 episodes and launched the careers of acting luminaries such as Cicely Tyson, Kevin Bacon and Allison Janney. On April 1, 2009, Guiding Light endured its second and final cancellation, one that cannot be overturned by viewer outrage. When the show airs its final episode in September, a vital and integral part of American history will cease. It's easy to dismiss that claim as grandiose. After all, it's only a television show, or worse it's only a soap opera. Yet it is its very identity as a soap opera that makes its loss so acute. America can embrace very few inventions as her own. While baseball and jazz are sources of pride, soap operas, a genre created in the 1930s by former school teacher Irna Phillips, are stigmatized in the United States. Given this ostracism, many people miss what soaps actually are: a treasure trove of our culture's shifting attitudes and ideas, desires and ambitions. Soap operas offer an ongoing record of our collective memory where no single person or group can claim authorship. On the rare occasion that a U.S. daytime soap leaves the airways, talk focuses on the missteps made by the show themselves. Guiding Light is not simply a casualty of its own mistakes but is emblematic of a moribund television industry. Television thrived in eras when daytime earned windfall profits for networks and production companies; primetime banked on the occasional blockbuster and syndication deals. That model has been dead for years yet networks operate as if that paradigm can be revived. They convince themselves that the Internet, cable channels and fickle viewers are simply blocking their pathways to success. The thing is, networks don't really know who watches television, how they watch and incorporate the programming (or not) into their daily lives and why people watch in the first place. Answers to these questions would not matter as much if big decisions and big money didn't ride on them. The ratings are broken and Guiding Light is one victim. At this stage people talk about the inevitable. Of course, Guiding Light would be canceled. Soaps are dying, after all. What is not said is that soaps are dying, not out of disinterest, but neglect. A genre that has nurtured countless innovations can only survive so long when our culture treats them as back alley laboratories. It was not inevitable that Guiding Light stay on the air for 72 years, just as it was not inevitable that the show leave now. Since it will depart, let us take a moment to acknowledge that these decades of narratives have stretched over and connected generations. Let us acknowledge that anyone who sits down to enjoy *any* television show owes a debt to Guiding Light. - Melissa Scardaville (Melissa was previously the "Guiding Light" Editor at "Soap Opera Digest". She had the pleasure of working with colleagues at Digest especially including Jen Lenhart who was the Editor for "As the World Turns" since those two PGP soaps worked closely together and actors & press & leadership, etc. Nothing pleased her as much any Wednesday --when the magazine went to bed -- but to hear that the tear sheet of an interview she'd done or that week's 'Editor's Choice' was up on the bulletin board at the studio -- like the one she wrote that had a headline 'The King Is Back!' ---Yes, when Grant was back at the show!)
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Found it! The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas by Robert LaGuardia. Ballantine Books: New York. ©1974 by Random House, Inc. "Another World's" Virginia Dwyer tells an incredible but true story: "I had been playing Mary Matthews for a couple of years. One afternoon I returned home from the studio and began poking around in my clothes closet. Suddenly I reeled from the shock. Every article of clothing in that closet was Mary's, not mine. Every dress and every coat was exactly her -- ultraconservative. I panicked! I scooped all the clothes up in my arms and threw them out! I had forgotten who I was. I had become Mary Matthews."
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Yes, it's like that. Oddly I find some people hated one but liked the other. It is the soap that Paul Rauch & Pete Lemay did together while they were doing AW. It was on hiatus for a number of months so they did do some fiddling with it & not just the title change, but still, they go together.
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What's that old gag? And, it just annoys the pig?
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Glad to help! You kept me on my toes. Couldn't find THE CITY. There it was hiding beside LOVING. But when I got to FOR RICHER, FOR POORER, no sign of LOVERS & FRIENDS! Here at the end, your mind works like mine does. One thing makes me think of another thing.
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Fairmeadows USA NBC 1951-52 but you may have excluded it intentionally as it began on Sunday afternoons & then moved to M-F daily but as part of the Kate Smith Hour. I checked against a list of soaps I have & was left with only the 3 on Dumont & this. So, probably 100% accuracy for US daytime soaps.
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LINDA DANO DAY After the show ended, fans held 2 fan gatherings in June in Manhattan, the 2 years 2000 and 2001. Both were two day events with one day being in Central Park at the AW Fan Bench, where one year we held a dedication for the bench, and the other day being at Blondie’s Sports Bar, which was the locale for many soap celebrations over the years. One of those days at Blondie’s, the second year, was LINDA DANO DAY. There was a proclamation from the CT governor making it LINDA DANO DAY for the state. These were the pertinent dates: Last show 6-25-1999 Sat. 6-24-2000 Sat. 6-23-2001 Silas Kain, Susan O'Konis, Linda Dano, Noreen Douglas Silas again, Tina Gray Anna Stuart, Gail Brown, Susan O'Konis Ricky Paull Goldin Anna Stuart Linda Dano entering LiL Linda Dano speaking in accepting this proclamation Kale Brown Mark Pinter
