Contessa Donatella

Anna Stuart singing as Donna Love

My notes Team Jason: Jason, Carly. That's all right now. But, likely Spinelli & Maxie will align here. Also probably Michael & Joss. Sexy Dexy is a question mark. Team Sonny: Sonny, Ava, Jagger, Anna (but Anna is conflicted yet she must do her job) Nina will be here if Sonny allows it. ? Sam? ? Liz?

Read the names & phone numbers on the wall. If you were in jail & had one phone call & you called me, you would say ...

Definitely St. Elsewhere but also Hill Street Blues, both are not just soapy dramas but are about 3/4s the way to being primetime soaps. IMO

I agree. Although some day they might do Carly & Jason, the Romance, but I feel like right now they're gonna stick with the Best Friends who also are soulmates, thing. This is exactly what some of us are saying to FV & NV on Twitter, meaning we are saying it to their assistants. I am pretty sure that's what Dan & Chris were doing. Might still go with it. Might not.

Both almost cried. He had real angst in his voice with 3 lines: Carly? It's really me. I'm sorry it took so long. Now he's learned about Bobbie's passing. One down. Britt & Epiphany to go. I've been playing & singing along with "Reunited (and it feels so good)" I fully expect Carly to break up with Drewfus. But I don't necessarily think that will mean an immediate pairing of Jason & Carly, at least not immediately. Who knows down the road. (Added: Do we think I need to say "immediate" maybe 4 or 5 times?!! LOL!!!) I had no objections to Lexi. But, it is true NOW that I like Kate's Kristina more. And I think Blaze is an excellent pairing. But they've got to have them on at least once a week. Once a month is not goin' to cut it. The most popular YT of them is 2-23 making love & yesterday it was at 4.5 million views! Lisa LoCicero

Scott represented him in a lawsuit where he lied & said he was someone else's son in trying to get his hands on that person's money. So he thinks at best he would be charged with perjuring himself & at worst maybe of attempt to defraud.

And Michele Val Jean knows one of them.

Paul kept asking him about feeling guilty about what they'd just done, which threw me, but then he went on & he was talking about journalistic integrity. 🤔🙄👊🫰😲😏😉🤣🤣🤣

Oh, yeah, it's nice here that we can jostle around a bit, play, possibly even at times be a little outrageous because it's like we're safe here, on home base.

RKK

Not my companion animal but my Spirit Animal

Classic DAYS RoMar Photo Collage

I'd like to see this. How can I find out the date of the episode? And, of course, I would share. That YT video says 1-11-2015 which is on the weekend. 1-7-2015: Will meets with Kate to show her his article on Paul. Kate thinks Paul is hiding something and encourages Will to get more information on him. Will calls Paul for another interview and asks Paul is he is lonely. Will also ends up asking Paul is he is gay. 1-8-2015: No IMDb plot. 1-9-2015: Sonny arrives at Paul's hotel room as Paul and Will are in bed together. Sonny wants to return the ball Paul gave him and Derrick ends up letting him into the room but Will is in the shower. So I guess they did the deed on the 8th. Yep. @Soapsuds Okay, is this 🔥🔥 sex scene their first time or do I need to look beyond this?

And yet, vocal 'shippers in the audience continue to sing out praises for the most degenerate criminal men of the genre. But, today, more & more people speak up about it & against it. Some viewers apply the same values, philosophies & beliefs to reel as to real. Also some PTB. Donna Swajeski insisted that Jake would never have raped Marley. She fought NBC telling her she had to write him raping her. She lost that battle. But, she decided at that moment that she was quitting at the end of her contract - and she did. Pat Falken Smith disagreed with Bill Bell, Sr. about Laura marrying Bill after he raped her. Doug Marland disagreed with Gloria Monty about calling Luke's rape of Laura a seduction & he quit over it. Pat Falken Smith also disagreed but she was a single parent & didn't feel she could lose the job so she stayed on & basically lived with a lie. NBC told their soaps for years that violence against women raised ratings.

If somehow people think I am woefully out of step with soaps & soap fans, I would only say that Disney handed down a No Rapist Redeemed Edict. So, there went Franco, arguably one of the most successful rape redemption examples ever. They killed him off. Snap. Just like that. And, I happen to think it was a good thing for them to do. Surely we know that soaps have an horrific reputation, for cause, about rape & violence against women. And, a favorite quote: "For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything." - Kenneth Noland

Thanks for your reply. I understand & respect the distinction you are making. Further, I would respect your opinion, no matter what. I very much appreciate your enjoyment of humor from Vivian & Ada & others. Me, I am also an aficionado of zany comedy & hijinks. On AW that meant Cass & Felicia & Wally and also Krystal with a K Lake & Tony the Tuna. On AMC that meant jokes & gags about Opal's Glamorama & Tad in a chicken suit, etc. I dnn't mind one whit that you don't care for that stuff. Totally okay choice if you ask me. Actually, I do not believe that ratings reflect either quality or popularity. I could go on about that but it's not really germane here. Is this to me? If so, I am totally cognizant that they are instead reel people. And I also believe in suspension of disbelief. Does that somehow negate values?

Yet there are some fans who eschew this entirely as an enjoyment. Personally I have never been a fan of catfights, slaps, etc. with one exception & that is the catfight I consider to be the best ever in any soap. Written by Michele Val Jean, it is the iconic fight in GENERATIONS where the two women almost destroy an apartment. It wasn't. There was no straw, no camel, nor its back. It stood alone as an example where a good man physically assaulted his wife & the gentle reader in question summed up by saying she deserved it. In the statement that I questioned, because I wanted to know how you truly felt about it, you said something to the effect of her deserving it, not what you're saying in this paragraph here above. And, there is a large body of soap fandom that in fact is entirely opposed to, for just one example, rape victims EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to fall in love with or marry their rapists. But I do agree that life & soaps are not either black or white. Much is gray & that actually is to the good. And, I thought I had said what I was going to say about this, but then this reply came along & I felt clarification was badly needed. Me either. I personally believe that context is everything. Of course, because we occupy a space of situational ethics, degrees matter. A spanking when compared with a a rape does not equate. We know which is worse. There is no question. And, Todd was never forgiven. And, Luke was forgiven by some but not by most. For example, I am one of many who contend that Luke & Laura are not & cannot be iconic as a couple because it began with rape. To make Luke the romantic lead they were after Gloria Monty offered up a bald faced lie which both the HW & the Assoc HW disagreed with, violently. And, in fact that lie haunted the show & the couple for decades until it was revisited in a story written by Michele Val Jean. As of this past winter Genie Francis has gone on record about that lie & that she will never support the lie but instead will insist on the truth which is that Luke violently raped Laura. Not a seduction! Now, see, if this simple statement had been the answer to my genuine question, then, that would have been the end of the conversation.

Heaven forbid that I do so!!! Not my intention, not at all. I personally find soaps to be excellent at challenging us about our attitudes & philosophies & enjoy discussions, but I will absolutely cease & desist. The drama needs to stay on the screen.

No, I wasn't doubting that he did so. You said And that is the part I was hoping was a bad joke.

And, we know how impossible it is to live with a saint. And, please tell me you are making a bad joke about him physically assaulting her?

Immediate acceptance for me. As soon as she began it clicked. Now, probably first good scene was with Sam. My only concern now is that they've created this excellent couple but they are not having them on even once a week. That's the way to lose a great couple, if the show doesn't invest in it. I know there are fans who are still so bummed about Lexi getting a raw deal that they are blocked from giving Kate Mansi a chance. I feel for them. Also I like FinalMolly so much!! She is an excellent actress & looks the part & seems authentic & works with the rest of the Davis clan. Possibly not as romantically exciting with TJ. Someone very credible told me that SG has retired from acting. But I'd thought I would try to look for somewhere it's printed or said in an interview. It's on my list to look some tomorrow. https://www.soapcentral.com/all-my-children/news/2018/1121-stephanie_gatschet_thanksgiving_gratitude.php Yes, she has retired & is pursuing a career in holistic healing & in wellness.

I love Chandler but his nervous inappropriate grinning & laughing just needs to go!