Contessa Donatella

I did not & do not respect that decision of Zimmer's. There were two dominant actors on the show at that time. KZ & Grant. Grant was unselfish. Zimmer was selfish. But I do agree with you that at that point I would have cut Zimmer loose. I was with GL till the bitter end.

Yes, I thought about that but then I thought that 25+ people came out of anonymity to sign that cast petition. I think the fan reaction was so strong that they were emboldened to sign their John Hancocks. And I salute them for it.

He did direct one movie. A Crystal Chappell project, "A Million Happy Nows" is its title I think. Going on memory. But that is nit picking. They are soap actors, so his career is still "just soaps". I think you're right that any new job is going to be an impossibility for him. Who would hire someone with this kind of public reputation? Maybe their brother-in-law? LOL

@carolineg I found it onlline. abc.com/shows/general-hospital Well, just sputter. 🤬🤬 Yes, I can watch it there - in a week.

So, Alarr will sue Corday Inc. He will have his own account & he till try to get cronies to testify for him. No idea if they will vanish or stick. Corday inc. will have the 2-month report which interviewed 30+ people. The SAGAFTRA reports from this week. Testimony they might get from cast or crew. Examples of fan reaction online. Surely with that Corday Inc. would fight instead of settle. Anyway, that's how I hope it would stack up. I have one question. I'm not sure where the 2 million figure came from. Seems so high. Was that confirmed?

Michele Val Jean, apparently disgusted as are many other WGA strikers today, referred me to this to explain to me why they are so disenchanted after yesterday. She has it on her Twitter page. Negotiations Update (wgacontract2023.org)

Oy vey y'all! The teens tunneling & falling into Danny & Michelle's apartment. AWFUL Maryanne Carruthers HORRID! Nye was pitiful. And, they rewrote history of FIVE veteran male characters implying they had something to do with a murder & cover-up which they never did! Okay, I'll stop hyperventilating now. Thanks for the correction. It WAS Aubrey Dollar that I felt so sorry for & who was his scene partner in the butt shot. No idea why my fingers typed Mandy Bruno. Yes, it's you! You're the first person I ran into with such hatred of Harley that it is still to this day seared into my forebrain. Hats off.

Ohhhh. Okay. So it is West. Gotcha. I paid no attention to the little w. Thanks. I thought I was onto something. Never mind.

Wonderful! Not crazy!! No, not at all. 🤔🙄👎😉🤫

See, I am one who thinks that ConWest put more nails in the coffin than anyone else! Yes, I blame them. My information is that he overspent his budget, which left EW with a minus staring out on her budget. And Westons was just NOT a HW, she could hardly write at all. As a matter of fact, she couldn't even be interviewed properly, she was so incompetent. Marty West had videotape of himself wrestling. You can imagine him in the little singlet. He sold copies of them, literally out of his car. And, he dropped his drawers in one scene causing the show to be fined. All that along with his inability to act! I think we know what Conboy chose him for. I felt so sorry for Mandy Bruno. See, we have very different views on Harley, Buzz & GusH. But, I can respect your views & just agree to disagree I'm not even sure that I am free of bias because I love Harley, Beth Ehlers, Buzz, Justin Deas, Ricky Paull Goldin & GusH just that much. But I sure know what it's like when you feel one character is taking over the whole show, so I have empathy!

Brava! You tell him! 🤔🙄🤬👏👏👏

I hope this hasn't been posted. Idk because I don't read here till I catch up on the show. Amazingly, yesterday's episode is still not up on Hulu. Their support has tweeted me twice apologizing but saying they still do not have an ETA! About once a week they are horribly late in loading the show. But, this is the worst ever. This is totally unacceptable.

New co-EP Janet Spellman-Drucker

Just for the record, this is from my personal notes. Got it off of the WGA website. There was no distinction made as to East or West. I only wish now that I had gotten the whole list instead of stopping at 1999.

Excellent! If only there were a famous poem, "Ode to a Narcissistic Race-Card-Playing Monster". Yes, they finally covered the whole story mid-morning after. God, could they have been any later?! And, it's not Sloane, nor is Mara.

Me, too. I hope they hire a PTSD counselor to be available to the cast & crew full-time for about 6 months! Now I have to just stop cringing every single time I see his name in the credits.

Here, I take Albert Alarr's statement from Deadline.com & in italics I give my interpretation of what is really being said. It is hard to overstate how heartbreaking I find this situation. I am a big ole crybaby upset because I've lost my 2 million dollar job. These allegations were already examined in a detailed and entirely independent investigation that lasted for two months. Dozens of individuals cooperated and every claim was thoroughly looked into. At the end of that process, the decision was made that I should continue in my role as Co-Executive Producer. You cannot imagine how incredibly lucky I was to get off scot free! Now, with no new facts presented, the studios have reversed course and caved to a cynical pressure campaign to force me out of my job. Waaah, crying. It’s important to set the record straight. I've got to try to sell you on a different version of events. Every day, I worked with hundreds of people, the overwhelming majority of whom would disagree with recent mischaracterizations of me. I've got buddies who have been protecting me from paying for my actions for years & years. I have been in this industry for decades, and not a single complaint has ever been made against me until now. I was so successful at intimidating people & firing people that I had everyone scared into silence. Dammit now that is over. Many of the claims recently referenced in the media are simply false. I have lied about all of this successfully for years. I can't believe it stopped working. Others have been taken so out of context or are so twisted that they are unrecognizable from the truth. Of course my version of what is truth is unrecognizable! To be clear, this whole situation stems from the animus of just two individuals. There were just a few people that weren't intimidated by me, dadgummit. Those individuals, at a time of industry-wide cutbacks and economic uncertainty, have been relentlessly angling for greater pay and increased influence on the show, and, it appears, believed that their best strategy to get it was to play on vile stereotypes in order to bring down a Black man in a position of power. Now I will try to play the race card. I will always be proud of being the only Black director/producer in daytime soap operas. And, while I am devastated by the manner of my departure, I will always treasure my years at Days of Our Lives and wish the wildly talented cast and crew the very best for the future. To conclude I bring you my best bullshit. Albert Alarr

You called it!

Was this during ConWest? EP Conboy & [ahem] *cough cough* "writer" Ellen Weston? If so, which co-HW was keeping the writing above the level of drowning?!! And, if it was a Shayne week, was it Marty West's Shayne? And had he pulled himself away from selling his wrestling tapes out of the trunk of his car? Yes, special thanks & kudos go to @Jason47 !! No, you're not at all wrong. Harley & Beth Ehlers were hugely popular. But, there are some people who dislike the entire Cooper clan & consider them interlopers.

Ding Dong The Wretch Is Gone!

From another outlet: ‘Days Of Our Lives’ Co-Executive Producer/Director Albert Alarr Fired – Deadline

I know that Harley Cooper has her detractors intellectually but emotionally as a huge fan I always do a double take, whiplash, reaction to hearing there's someone/s who is not totally in love with her!! 🤔🙄😉🤣

We all thought that. But this document debunks it. Eddie Drueding wrote it & both Elana Levine & Lynn Liccardo did some of the research. When you have a free 10 minutes go to that link & read it, it's fascinating. Actually NBC had been wanting an Irna soap & approached her & she was more than happy to come up with another "world" motif!

She could be taking some time off because she's getting married.

I just sent a tweet to the author asking for clarification. Maybe she will reply.