Contessa Donatella

Oh, you know it! The Nursery Rhyme Stalker? Holly kidnapped all of the kids. MG had two totally hateful things to do at GL in the last decade. This was one & Sebastian kidnapping her & kissing her, was the other. I just always call it that dreadful Pied Piper story & then I try to blank it out of my mind!

You're kidding!!! REALLY. What good tidings you have brought me! And, hey! I didn't recognize you with no last name!

Yep, and she was amazingly gracious! But that was one hot, ugly mess!

Well, looking very young is something that she will get mileage out of for a long while in her given career! But I also think that the OG Davis women were fine, just fine, the way they were. Fortunately, they're fine again! It was scary, in the middle.

Well, I was taught not to speak ill of the dead & I think Barbara Esensten died in 2012. But, I thought James Harmon Brown wrote an AWFUL MEAN-SPIRITED story. I didn't like what he wrote on some ABC soap either!

My second favorite all time high Mike! Carrie should BE with him!

Who was responsible for that hideous Pied Piper story that Maureen had to play? Between Holly stealing children & Phillip stealing children, there was real family endangerment! Okay, that's not a word.

Why thanks! Count me in.

What was so totally weird when the last of New York fell, Danny had worked on GL, ATWT & AMC, then next on DAYS. There were fans who actually said he was to blame for all the cancellations! They referred to it (as if it were a real thing) as the Danny Cosgrove Curse. I kid you not. I was nonplussed. I just wondered if they were really that superstitious, or what?! Perhaps the fans who are imbeciles?!

That was so awkward the way it happened!!! I am loving the Davis women again! Kate Mansi is excellent. I adored her challenging Alexis this week! And, thank god, and pass the biscuits FinalMolly is also doing a very very good job!

Good, thnx. I'm behind enough already!!! 😜🤥😉🤩

Oh, yes, Reva & Olivia & I'm not sure how many others, stepped through that life size painting & traveled in time! At least, though, then we got neat costumes. Marty West, baseball diamond, gently aging twink, older man with power & a crush? I thought that one was obvious. And, the Carruthers story seriously challenged history & the character integrity of 5 different adult men in Springfield. And, sock puppet, teens tunneling in the underground & then they fell through the roof in Danny & Michele's apartment. West lost control of his sweatpants in one scene when he was supposed to be romancing Marina & the show was fined for showing buttocks.

Now, that I understand! When AW was canceled, I tried out 8 different soaps! I never saw the Paris webisodes either.

That would be a great B story!!! What actor do you have in your mind as a NuMike?

I really like both actors & so far, the way the characters are being written as well. Watch DAYS 11-15-23. Ari Zucker's reel for next year's Emmys will heavily feature that day.

I believe it was Kobe who got McKinsey for GL but at that point Pam Long was H'writing because she created Alex for her. So, that's a different date than 🤣this one! 'Scuse me. Nothing to see here.

Sounds like it accurately reflects the fact that Frank had story for Kristina this year.

Oh, certainly agree. She was the root of the ABCification of P&G soaps. But, she was a fierce protector of her shows & it was a huge mistake when P&G chose not to continue the position of Executive In Charge of Production for their soaps when she retired.

Write-ins, phone calls, petitions, you name it, we threw it at it! We had Eddie Drueding working with us. Tom Freeman was our fearless leader who applied political experience to fan campaigns & who had single-handedly gotten AW back on the air in Seattle. He talked to Victoria every day. And then Diva Lisa who talked to another cast member, also every day. They relayed info & strategy to all of us. And, the rest of us did what we were told, if you see what I mean! I don't know if you will credit this or not, but 6 of us are still in touch. It was invaluable that the actors were savvy & could not only give us advance info but could suggest strategy to us. That's how we knew ahead of time, usually, what they were planning. Frankly, in retrospect I find it gratifying that we drove JFP crazy. And, the next EP Charlotte Savitz hired bodyguards. Recently I have learned that NBC forced RKK on JFP. So, in effect, the fact that DAYS stopped using him as Bo (supposedly thanks to KA) indirectly caused Frankie's murder because NBC didn't want to pay him without playing him. Weird to learn this so many years later. Who knew?!

Well, if it was terrible awfulness being written on AMC, it was likely either Megan McTavish who blessed us with the UnAbortion or Chuck Pratt who told all the actors to forget everything they knew about their character's histories because he did not believe in character driving story. Then he proceeded to have Reese kiss a man the night before she married Binks. I remember Jesse & the only partly buried ... ugh. BTW, welcome!

Nicole did well. I don't see a problem with Maxie per se. The problem is Kirsten & just might as well say so at this point.

Sounds reasonable. I did not think about Xing out. It felt Proustian, like LLBean was determined to MAKE me become a customer!

Fabulous! And, good to see you. Hope you've been having an excellent holiday season.

Sure. Will do. It was totally weird. For about 20 minutes, no matter where I clicked, it took me to that one LLBean website. Anyway, if it happens again I will definitely Ctrl+PrtScr.