Contessa Donatella

Just your luck. You picked that one instead of one of the YT clips. A pity. Guess what? You apparently think about Usenet more often than I do. WTH is that about?!! Please dear god go back to ignoring me! More, much more, than enough said. It might be a shock to you but I don't need your crap. Blogs, Usenet, MY HOUSE?!!! These things have NOTHING to do with my posting a contribution that was blurred. And I meant to mention why it's topical: because we think Patrick Mulcahey wrote it.

https://people.com/chita-rivera-dead-at-91-broadway-star-7971697 Massive credits, theatre, guest on primetime shows, recurring role on OLTL Melody Rambo Geeze, RIP. 91

🤔Rather than ask why he is like that, flip the page & say instead, Donell Turner is like that. Potentially anyone can have an attitude that is all their own. This one is his. And he owns it. It is part of why I do not like Curtis. 😉🤣🤣

From THE SURVIVAL OF SOAP OPERA: TRANSFORMATIONS FOR A NEW MEDIA ERA From PERSPECTIVE: WRITER PATRICK MULCAHEY ON CHANGES IN SOAP OPERA WRITING CONTRACTS (Based on an Interview by Giada da Ros) At two soaps PM was hired & worked for the HWs. At SFT the Corringtons & at GL Douglas Marland. The checks were from the HWs, not the show, not the show's production company. It was totally the choice of the HW who they hired. Really were a team, a unit, a package deal. This gave the HW power, clout, much more like an auteur. When, on Santa Barbara, they locked the Dobsons out, we just continued to write as if they were still there! For a long time no one stopped us. But eventually they did & ruined everything. The rule of thumb was that everything had to be spoken. Because of this image of the housewife ironing while "watching" their shows. At Santa Barbara we dared to use silence! At the time our doing so was considered edgy. But today soaps are no longer "cutting edge". No, we are quaint. The biggest creative hit for soaps was not cable or the Internet or VCRs. No, what it was, was changing the writers from working for the HWs to working for the show.

Thanks!

Thanks! It helps to know it's not something wrong with my new computer!!!

I have no idea where to put this, so here it goes. https://ccit300-1.blogspot.com/2005/10/all-hits-are-flukes-undecideds-explore.html?fbclid=IwAR0B1npMfU5Y3iVeptSUxNkSI54vjv0D0UkpSCHzDyjLDoWlfTYlNkR0tNg This is an essay by Bielby & Bielby sociology professors at UCLA who have written a great deal about soaps. This however is about primetime shows in general. And also it is dated.

Does anyone know anywhere there are daily or even weekly recaps of GL Jan & Feb. 1991. The farthest back I've found so far is 1996.

I made the same reaction, sorta. Someone replied to me that if there is an empty socket there then he would need to because he has to keep foreign bodies from getting in there. Given the surgery that Marcus did when he was then fitted with the prosthetic, I am sure that what is there is in fact an empty socket.

@JAS0N47 Hey, I've got a question. So, Janet Spellman-Drucker showed up yesterday first time as new co-EP in closing credits. Why then is Alarr still credited as the director of the day both yesterday & today? Janet wasn't promoted until the week after Alarr was fired. So, I am confused. Can you help me out? Thanks! Whoa, Stephanie doing the walk of shame & caught by UGH-Leo. (I think that should be his new name.) Later Leo tried to get Everett's goat by letting him know he saw Steph leaving his room but he referred to her as Sally. UGH-Leo is weird, but then we knew that. Odd but interesting conversations today. Stefan's in a bad mood so Johnny picks now to razz him about "Love the one you're with when you're with Ava Vitali!" Unpleasant conversation. I never thought about it before but it seemed weird to me that Steve sleeps in his eyepatch. Kayla reminded us that she & Steve wed on Valentine's when she congratulates Chanel. Maybe it's just me but I think her engagement ring is ugly. Ava & Wendy had an unpleasant conversation. Chanel has a great attitude about other people's business not concerning her. Steve & Stephanie had a wonderful conversation!!! More please.

Well, I've got it narrowed down to Jan. or Feb. 1991. One helpful clue is that Beth couldn't speak until sometime in 1990 and she & Phillip left sometime in 1991. Funny thing is, none of the fans helping me date this remember this "memorable" scene AT ALL! 🤔🙄😉🤏🤷‍♀️🤣🤣🤣

This morning is just a remnant of yesterday being so awful.

Redroom was the same thing. Maybe a few days' warning but there was not enough time for people to get what they'd written downloaded & there was no archiving. If any place had been archived it would have saved the day.

Just an FYI, possibly people do not know but he was officially the curator of the collection! And, he did a truly thoughtful, excellent job of it.

That would explain a lot.

Have you watched DAYS lately? I think the scab writers have immensely improved the dialogue!

I didn't say anything because it didn't matter & it was easy to do. Jane, have you seen the Davy Crockett clip?

When she pled not guilty she was fully aware of her illegal Blood Alcohol Level! Forensic evidence, anyone?

Oh, okay, I fixated on the big desk. Now I see it's a table. You're right, living room set.

I agree 100% and I would only add that Paddy Chayefsky was uncanny! The mind that wrote that then, since he could not have been Nostradamus, he certainly was ahead of his time.

I've been posting to encourage people to list who they like & even more who they find essential, since that may be better than being the 1000th person to say get rid of Micheal Easton & so I've made my essential list: Tracy, really all the Qs, the Davis women, (Lois is in with the Qs), Laura & Kevin, Anna, Ava, Carly, Trina, Liz, Dante, and I can't get any farther than that & I realize it is gender lopsided. I've gotta work on coming up with more men.

Frankly they've been writing Laura worse longer ... and, we are soon to get some relief in the area of writing, at least that is our fervent hope! But I've come with news about Haley Pullos. Unfortunately it's only sourced to the Daily Mail and Radar Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13019145/Driver-injured-Haley-Pullos-sues-lounge-soap-star-crash.html https://radaronline.com/p/general-hospital-star-haley-pullos-dui-car-crash-lawsuit-accuses-drinking-hostess-job-before-incident/ So, the guy she hit, who was hurt, who is suing her, ... is now also adding to the suit the lounge where she was working that night & alleging that she was encouraged to drink with the parties as she served them.

I posted this YT clip as something Patrick Mulcahey wrote & Pierpaolo Dongiovanni was kind enough to clarify that PM had left but the Dobsons called him & asked him to return to write this & so he was back for 2 episodes. I know that he has said that the dinner party scenes he was allowed to write are those scenes he is most proud of.