Contessa Donatella

Commish.

Personally I wonder what a collaboration between Pete Lemay & Donna Swajeski might have brought about.

I overslept today, too. I woke at 6 when I normally wake at 4 or 5. 🤨🤏🫣🤔🙃🤣

Susan gave the eulogy & it was & she was remarkable. Deidre read a poem that Susan asked her to read. That's typical that the family would ask loved ones to do readings. Not just speak.

Bing CoPilot (AI) when asked what the definition is of a sister soap: In the context of US daytime soap operas, sister soaps are soap operas Also I asked a few people in email & the only one who replied was Eddie Drueding & he said that they share the same "parents" when those parents are the HW & the EP. He gave the example of Pete Lemay & Paul Rauch on AW & on Lovers & Friends.

Yeah, I just watched the clip & that is him. Imdb only gave me 3 people. I was thinking the Monica one made 4. Thanks for the clip.

I remember pretty well just detesting one of them. And it had something to do with Monica, too, not just how awful he was about Stone. I looked at Jim Fitzpatrick & it rang no bells. IMDb has no picture of Rob Youngblood so it must have been his iteration.

About the [ahem] "rumor" on what was the straw that broke the camel's back, which got Dan & Chris fired, the sum total of one part of it is this phrase, "and something about Jason's mother". That is all.

I found that more interesting myself, although I don't feel like I knew much about it. Circa 2013 Disney let Frank Valentini & Ron Carlivati take over GH soon after their last show, OLTL, was canned. I believe there is a long tradition in US Daytime in rehiring "failures".

This woman taught me how to be a gay woman as a young woman & here's the first, of many, of her books I read & it changed my life! A gay man loaned me his copy. I don't think I returned it to him which was fine with him.

Okay, I have my 7 charges to the new writers! #1-Marcus Taggert: Reål Andrews said he would be there with bells on if GH called. Call him! #2-Cut from the cast: Violet, Gregory, Finn, Maxie, Spinelli, Maxie's children except James, Marshall, Stella & Drew. #3-Maintain all of the Qs except Drew. Maintain Lois, guest of the Qs. Maintain the Davis women & TJ & Blaze. Maintain Carly, Ava, Trina, Dante, Sam, Sam's kids, Liz & Liz's kids. Maintain Laura, Kevin & Anna. #4-Make sure stories have stakes & pay-off. #5-Try to write well-paced stories with balance. #6-See a little less of Sonny, Nina, Carly & Jason. #7-Remember to tell stories about the hospital.

Both Alina Adams & Melissa Scardaville interviewed him & can't say enough good things about him.

Hate autocorrect!!! So I try to have a sense of humor about it! When you attempt to type: A rabbi, a priest & a minister walk into a bar together & it fixes rabbi by adding a t at the end.

That's either a great typo or a great autocorrect! I guess we could say they yes one another.

What an amazing family!

And I just discovered that they show up in searches! Drat that.

Okay. Good point. However, as an official position it seems incredibly short-sighted.

Ken badly needs to have his 'come to Jesus' moment but it seems nothing is penetrating his thick skull! Given what has happened in 2023 with multiple investigations, articles, fan campaign, SAG-AFTRA serious involvement & Ken Corday has the audacity to say that TheRealLifeAriZ's claims are baseless, not warranted! I imagine his attorneys pulling out their hair since I am sure they told him to say "No Comment." Has he always just not been very bright?

Personally I buy this because of Avery. And they've done due diligence with dialogue about the child being the connection there that makes it work. Carly even invited Ava to stay overnight so she would be there in the morning when Avery woke up after Ava was almost killed recently. Avery is akin to a hinge which makes a gate swing open between people who should be adversarial by all accounts, but are not. And unlike Violet I love the Avery actress.

Perhaps these things are just vestiges of a show in transition. Maybe these things will begin to make sense soon. We can hope. Meanwhile, yes, very perplexing choices!

Yet it was NBC specifically who had them go toward DALLAS. Paul etc. were going to do a Southern thing before NBC said to do DALLAS. And you know Paul's ideas on lighting, colors, even wardrobe were always quite different. You could count on it, on AW, on Texas, on GL for sure, not sure about OLTL, we all hated what he bragged about! So odd for a Production oriented EP!! And, of course, they did a test run of an hour show with THE DOCTORS, We will never know for sure why Lin Bolen did not pursue it. And, then, true to form, NBC only gave TEXAS 2 years & then typically they cut them off.