Contessa Donatella

How about AMC: Angie sees Jesse in the early morning fog at the train And, another thing, when I think back to really remarkable reveals one of the first I think of is DAYS Mike Horton's paternity, where that secret was kept for 8 years!

Yes, they taped her in 2 shots - one, seated at her desk & two, in a wheelchair.

Great article! https://www.globaltv.com/yrs-melody-thomas-scott-promises-nikkis-nightmare-isnt-over/

Some twitter/Ugly X catching up Bill sings Lady https://twitter.com/i/status/1746507176527753423 Bday Bill https://twitter.com/i/status/1746128178429751801 Danny Boy https://twitter.com/i/status/1746022999977865582 Julie special https://twitter.com/i/status/1734154611894936060

Just 2 weeks in & we've had 3.

And, I wonder how they got the Pine Valley teleporter?! Meanwhile here is a totally hilarious edit of Spencer visiting Esme in jail & realizing she has remembered. I know UglyX (formerly Twitter) isn't working right but I don't know how to fix it up. Spencer Esme hilarity https://twitter.com/i/status/1746144153040228822

Yes, exactly, the difference is sheer numbers, volume, density, number of episodes. And, no, Sunset Beach and Passions are not legally sanctioned by any means. B&B is but no one else on YT is. And, yes, only The Doctors and Dark Shadows plus the Prospect Park reboots of AMC & OLTL are legally sanctioned & streaming, of daytime.

On AW when Jake finally remembered that it was Paulina who had shot him, wasn't her marrying him his price for not turning her in? Although I believe it was eventually wedding "interruptus", but I think the trope was in play.

Well, in fact, there are many classic soaps being streamed. However, most of them are primetime not daytime. Daytime only has The Doctors & Dark Shadows. But, daytime does have representation on YouTube. PSSN & Sunset Beach are both on YT. I wish P&G would sell their warehoused soap tapes. And, I wish Disney would curate & stream all their holdings which includes all of ABC's soaps plus Santa Barbara.

Yes, bare minmum, for chronological order, digitzing & servers. If they marketed, say by storyline, then there's more curating to be done, titles, segues, etc.

Unless they wanted to do a YouTube channel, peacock would be the natural destination.

Supposedly DAYS has all but one early season. (Warehouse fire.)

This morning early I typed up Bill's description of the first time he met Susan. Re-reading more in their book, it is clear that from that very first instant, he couldn't take his eyes off of her! Their story is a real life fairy tale! Real life marriage 1974, on the show 1976, Bill Bell was hesitant to marry them because of the supposed "boring" factor.

And, here he led them.

So was Bill. He recently had his 98th birthday. They had a cake with his face on it. I thought that was a funny cake!

Hayes, B., of Hayes &. Hayes [Doug Williams]. (1982 B.C.E.). A Tribute to Brenda Benet: A Memorial. Soap Opera Digest, 7(16), 132–133. A MEMORIAL Is there ever a time when suicide is the answer? When pain surpasses its own threshold? When the seductive song of death is sweeter than the cacophony of life? The chilling reply is "yes." Otherwise there would be no suicide. Not even a need for the word. Suicide happens just often enough to remind us it is the solution for some. The final bleak option to dealing with one's overburden. There is, of course, total disagreement on the moral aspect of suicide, with as many different points of view as there are religions, societies and philosophers. Some consign the perpetrator to hell's eternal fires: others respect the act as a glorification through self-sacrifice. But everyone jolts together in sudden agreement at the loss of a loved one, the sympathetic hurt, the deprivation and the frustration as the realization that a life has been snuffed out too early. Our lovely friend, Brenda Benet, apparently took her own life early last April. Of course, whenever it was it was early, too damned early. Brenda was the perfect actress: stunningly beautiful, talented and utterly capable of her craft, dedicated and responsible, and sensitive to the extreme. And there's the rub -- SENSITIVE! The best actresses are the most sensitive, you know. In order to permit audiences to see into the depths of their private emotions, to discover choice human truths, the good actresses forego protective covering. There is no other way. Either you protect your soft center with a hard shell of inhibitions or you bare your soul and take your chances. There never has been a hard actress; that would be a contradiction of terms, an oxymoron. There may be loud actresses, demanding actresses, inexhaustible workers, picky, tasteless, even hateful actresses --but insensitive? No way! And Brenda was an actress. I'm sure she was sensitive to the fact that she was admired, appreciated, loved; that she enjoyed close friendships with many, both men and women; that she was aware she was considered abundantly successful. And yet those positive components of her life and career couldn't balance out on her scale of importance. The negative tray was just too heavily weighted. Three years ago, when Brenda first came on "Days of our Lives," she still had hopes that her marriage could be saved. It could not. She watched the pieces come apart. She was not a backbiter or a griper, so she didn't talk about it. But Brenda and I worked together closely during her first two years on the show, and I say Brenda was deeply hurt by the dissolution of her relationship with her husband. Wounded, yes, but not killed. After all, she still had the wondrous product of that marriage, her 6-year-old son, Christopher. Brenda's life had come to focus on Christopher. When she spoke of Christopher, when he came to spend the day with her at the studio, when she touched him, talked to him, smiled at him, it was obvious that Christopher was the consummation, the reality, the treasure of Brenda's life. And it was beautiful. Love like that is inspiring to all who experience it. And then she lost him. With a jerking suddenness, he was dead and gone, and Brenda was embracing only his memory. Was she shattered by this? She didn't outwardly betray such impact. Instead, she consoled her grieving friends. She soothingly explained how Christopher had known he was going to die, described the ways he had let her know this, even detailed how she herself had had premonitions that he would never reach his seventh birthday. No grief, no hysterics, no anger, no tears. Enigmatically, that torturous day of Christopher's death seemed to be swept under the carpet of fate. I would have expected Brenda, the super-sensitive actress, to have been unable to control her emotions, let alone cover them. In retrospect I wish she had screamed herself hoarse, torn the drapes, kicked and stomped and pounded herself to a frazzle, cried uncontrollably until exhaustion claimed her. Because it is my opinion that she bottled up all those feelings of loss and unfairness of life, and the sadness and anger added perhaps a catalytic agent of guilt and "what if" and "why me?," and corked it up tight to put away in her pocket. But such feelings don't just go away. You must express them, face them, deal with them and admit their presence, even if you don't understand their function, before time can work its healing magic. I honestly think that Brenda -- for some reason -- didn't face her loss. And it caught up with her, blowing the cork off that bottle she had hidden away. I believe that, had she accepted her grief and anger and allowed the tears to flow naturally, her eyes would have cleared so she could see all the reasons to live now. She would have now been able to open herself to the caress of love offered by friends on all sides. And she would not have abruptly deprived the world of her own special brand of love. Many, many people loved Brenda. Not only her co-actors on "Days," and the producers and crews with whom she worked, but also her soap opera family across the land. Ever since the stunning news of her death was made public, people have been moved to write words of sympathy to Susan and me, to the producers, to other members of the cast. They've sent condolence cards. Masses have been celebrated. Poems and songs and eulogies have been composed. It's been wonderful. Wonderful, and terribly sad. We all wish we'd been in the right place at the right time to prevent her suicide. We're sorry for the anguish she felt. We wish we'd sensed something that day, or the day before, and said, "Brenda, I love you and don't want you to leave. Please, don't do this." But today each of us is older and sadder and, we hope, wiser. Perhaps we'll all be more inclined to say, "I love you and need you" to each other more spontaneously, not waiting for the look of panic that signals depression to the point of desperation. I, for one, hope so. We loved you, Brenda, and we'll miss you. - Bill Hayes, of Hayes and Hayes

Thanks for the assist!

Thank you for sharing, Jason! @JAS0N47 Do you know what his last appearance was? Maybe this will be new to some people.

Yes, I went for DAVY CROCKETT immediately, too! I am so sad. But, I have been very concerned with him being offstage so much in December. So sorry for Susan to have to go for what I'm sure will be many years without him. His Doug Williams features strongly in much of my earliest soap memories. May light perpetual shine upon him. May he find heaven to be the perfect place for a song & dance man looking for a new place to rest his head.

I wondered about that. If they are adding something different each time, by intent, then they're going for a particular device, well, maybe they are. If they are doing so it would at least give a reason for repeating the scene. I honestly wish I had been keeping count!

1-12-24 Cole just said, "I'm not ready to write this off as a failure just yet." CC: "I'm not ready to write this office as a failure just yet." Crack me up! 🤔🫣🤨🤣 How many times have they shown this Paris scene?!!

Yes, it sounded like someone very drunk trying to pronounce "intimidating"!

Another thing about Alex has to do with money. Now that he's Victor's sole heir he seems to think any problem can be solved by him throwing large amounts of money at it.

I've talked about it in terms of the narrative style being different & in this case different equals better! I think that includes what you're saying & I've also noted less confusion about what day it is & not being different days or times of day in different character's experience, which affects pacing. Although at times we did still have it being both day & night during the same time period, just across town. To me the problem with musicals is not all that singing & dancing, it's that everyone automagically knows all the same songs & choreography!!