Contessa Donatella

Yeah, I posted about it in the thread about her original thing. I'm sure it is legal strategy but it is so offensive. She seems to say that it was his fault, not hers!!!! Also that if she caused any harm that it was "out of her control". Ridiculous!!!! A friend on Twitter outlined 5 different points when she made a choice. When she could have gone another way. Which brought up 4 Mollys in 4 months & that being her fault, entirely. Someone even suggested that doing this in the civil case could hurt her in her attempt to do a plea agreement. Can she say she is guilty of a lesser charge in criminal court while it's in the media that she is saying she did nothing in civil court?!! Steve Burton really brought it today! Never expected to type those words. Both he & LW had tears in their eyes, on the brink of spilling over, but then didn't. How in heck did IAmJohn get a search warrant?!! There was no time. So, I figure Jason slipped away while Carly was arguing with the Feds & Anna. After they search & find nothing, they'll leave. Carly then will have NO IDEA where Jason has gone. Where would he go next? Sam?

I might be wrong but I think I see that people are going to have to decide whether they're Team Sonny or Team Jason. Team Sonny is going to think what Ava just pitched & see Jason as the one targeting Sonny & the other mob members. "Stone Cold" is where "Stone" comes in. We know Jason saved Sonny by jostling the sniper's arm just as he took the kill shot. Carly is not gonna believe Jason is out to kill Sonny. Someone needs to find out that he saved Dante's life.

To me it was strange, yes, but also good. Jim Reynolds doesn't get any better than today & today was superb! Tamara Braun, spitting words, growling words, fracking screaming words, was hitting it outta the park. Wendy & Tripp talked, really talked about faith, philosophy & did that soap opera staple where they exchanged vows.

I'm having more interest in him now for 2 reasons. Ava is playing him. I can't figure it out because of the risk since he is Avery's papa. But I am loving it. I think we've been set up for a story I did not think Mo would let them tell & that is Sonny vs. Jason.

What I just posted in my forum: DAYS 3-8-24 Scott McKinsey may I tell you that I think today's show, that you directed, was an example of a perfect show. 10 out of 10. From Jim Reynolds tour de force performance, to Tamara Braun going from spitting her words out to growling to SCREAMING, with Wendy & Tripp for another day trying to hold on to life with all they're worth, and the vows they exchanged will be remembered like the vows Bo & Carly shared on a pyramid in Mexico! Everyone else was just sublime & all of the camera angles & shots were dead on. Thank you & your colleagues!

YES! If I were to pick a very special kind of matriarch off of AW, it would have to be Ada. 3 of my favorite AW compilation videos are "The Lovely Ada" #1, #2 & #3. And, on DAYS Alice Horton was the pluperfect matriarch!!! I love that Peter Reckell adlibbed "Mrs. H" and it stuck!

This was my song 8 years ago as I went through radiation after bilateral lumpectomies for breast cancer. Obviously not this version since this is from 3-7-24 but this performance was meant to be!

New Edit to a cover of the iconic "My Girl"

I have posted several places that I'd like to see Gloria Loring, Don Frabotta (Dave) and an adult actor cast to be "Little Dougie" who now of course, would be called Doug. Those are my 3 wishes for Doug's Memorial, besides Bo & Hope & their family members.

I'm glad we know what the plan was. The knowledge is bittersweet but it is better by far than not knowing. But, back to my show, Another World, and Mary Matthews, matriarch, she quite honestly was never that kind of a matriarch to me & I do not think that having a longer tenure would have made her so. To me she was not like Nancy Hughes or Bert Bauer. Instead she was just a wife, a mother, etc. of the OG core family. Obviously if she'd had very different writing, then perhaps she would have been. But, I do not see that in her as it stands. I'm not sure if this is a minority opinion or not, but if it is, that's okay. They are not new to me.

The ATWT finale was set to have Helen Wagner be our host for a tour of sorts of the hospital. Unfortunately she died several weeks before the ending was shot. Dr. Bob Hughes was our host instead. It just made me so sad that they were going to honor her that way & it almost happened, but then, didn't. And, also it was astonishing to me that Goutman had that kind of right idea at that point in the game.

Bing Featured Image: 3-8-24 The Tate Modern museum is alll it up in purple in honor of International Women's Day!

I just know that this is her atty & strategy but I mean how much nerve does she have, what size cojones & could she be any more entitled if she was playing a role called "whitest most entitled young adult in town"?!!!

I haven't been posting because I was bored. But Ari brought it back for me today. Holly, rightfully so, got upset about Tate being blamed & tried to fix things & couldn't & got even more upset so Nicole concludes we won't speak of this again. How soapy can you get?! I love it.

https://people.com/haley-pullos-requests-car-crash-lawsuit-dismissal-8606094 I suppose this is just a legal maneuvering but it really seems so outrageous.

Jess's Kraze Clips This is a Google Drive of all of clips of Kraze for 2023 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IVXll6ssFkn7revo0Be875ouCCEb2DHW

Thanks for the reply. I see the sense of it now. And, if CBS used the leverage ploy, that is old hat to them. If they've now been bitten by the soap ownership bug, owning 2 is twice as good as owning one. (Minus Corday's 1%.)

I have no idea if it's accurate but someone who seems to know BOLD told me they're now only in a dozen countries. I'm curious why you think a defunct B&B would cause them to get completely out of the business? I tweeted today to MarthaB & asked what has become of the soap she & Lauralee were planning & talking about. Her reply was only to like my post. 🤔🙄

That's the Rachel who does that amazing spreadsheet of episode counts & includes EP, Dir, Writers & keeps it on Google Docs so it can be seen &/or downloaded.

And there's really more than one Facebook. Sure, there's GH Snark & there's a supposedly official GH board that is negative & also very weird but with huge membership numbers, also a huge membership Willow's Family group. But, there's also just regular people on FB, too, and also people where no one fights with anyone else!

So, was the Spixie kiss also character driven? Last week there was a great deal setting up this week. This week so far it's also seemed that many things are being set up. I'm just not sure if we are currently set up for a big day tomorrow or we're just poised for next week. I am guessing that the tag tomorrow will be Carly seeing Jason & they'll make us wait till Monday to get past the look on her face when she sees him in the flesh. And the other thing I thought today is that Michael called it. Not accustomed to that coming from him. But, he said Sonny was going to become isolated, not have anyone to trust & trust the wrong people.

The way Bradford talked about it, it sounded to me like, yes, there's a security door & for a reason, but maybe that is Spinelli's only set, so he lives there, too. ?? And, didn't Maxie have a key? LIkely they'd have each other's dwelling keys as co-parents, but why would she have a key to his office?

March 5, 1979 was AW's first 90 minute show. That's when the affiliates turned on the show, hating the 90 minute iteration & thinking it had been the show's choice to do it. One fell swoop to go from The Darling of the affiliates to full-out disdain. And, Sunset Beach is another show that had problems with affiliates not airing it when they were "supposed" to.

Maybe they're saving this amnesia for Dante?!!! (I hope NOT.)