Contessa Donatella

THIS ^^^ A grand total of ONE THING was realistic & useful - the projector.

Has an absolutely ridiculous Sarah Horton spoiler been posted anywhere? I'm looking & not finding & I'm hoping this has no credibility!

He's working. He's happy. it's a good thing. He spent more than enough time agonizing over Bryant Montgomery's death, etc. He's probably always gonna stick his head in & say hey every once in awhile in soap territory & why not? Mostly, it's just not a big deal.

No, I did not work in the industry. And, don't mind your asking. My partner, girlfriend, wife, whatever, did.

I will say that I go a number of places in an Internet day & it sticks with me when I hear certain phrases or sentences echo in different places. Like, for example with both DOOL & GH people say "Make it make sense." or "This Makes No Sense." Well, what I am hearing different places about this, yesterday & today, is one sentence, "This will not end well." [sigh]

We have these great tools to help us negotiate online spaces. But, sometimes they simply fail. You put someone on Ignore, for example, and Voila, wonderful, you don't see them. They aren't there. BOOM. Oops. Fell through the cracks by being quoted. Oh, well. But, to the point, if you have a question for me, just ask me. Simple. And, to the other point, I already spoke about how the actors may be next up as the money crunch continues. This is very much a product of the times we live in. And, no one really knows how "the talent" will react if someone comes around talking about pay cuts or about letting some people go or about putting numerous people on recurring. Tough stuff.

That's kind of funny meaning odd because it's true that in the past DOOL did do a wholesale firing of all of their Breakdown Writers ... and I believe that before the year was even out they had hired Breakdown writers back. And, now, yes, they do use them. So, basically they tried doing without them & it did not work! If they're following the model, they didn't look at it very closely, did they?

They say it is the easiest soap to watch, taking only 18 minutes out of one's day & having a lot of familiarity in stories it tells. I think that is all by intent.

No offense taken but it's clear to me that it is about a time that longtime Y&R fans had reason to celebrate & often when fans face the possible demise of what they've had it is a good time to reflect on what one once had. Or at least that was true of AW & GL, etc. It's often even a good time to stake out some space & do some nostalgia. Sorry if that doesn't compute to you. Really.

I was so pleased with EJ & Nicole figuring the whole poisoning out! Look out, Stefan, they are coming for you. I didn't get any sense of a missed episode, sorry not sure what you're thinking of. I could not believe all the household accessory crap that they had Rolf unpacking. The kitchen mixer was especially ludicrous. At least the slide projector made sense. Cracked me up that Sloan broke it off with Eric & called him a bastard to boot. She was so indignant & no one was taking her the least bit serious. The Shin father was such a blowhard!

I've just been struck by a thought. I'm afraid it's not even worthy. Nonetheless it is Doc-in-a-Tube I suggest that that's what we've got. And, off topic, on to that other business of this whole afternoon & evening, if that is the Okay Corral, who is Doc Holliday?

Lemme see if I follow ... is it the juxtaposition of "Caring Anna" making a traditional grief visit to a person in mourning with the other-worldly wacky techno-astronaut-like tubes? These are the choices we have: the one person who feels the need to reach out to Roman who she knows best of the 3 or a B-movie scifi lab probably hidden on a likely non-existing floor on the elevator? If so, I definitely get your drift & my reply, not to you, but to our higher soap power is why can't we ever have nice things?!!

That's a shout out to Shawn Reeves, Costume Designer for GH! I thought most everyone looked very good but especially Portia & Terri & then for the photo shoot, again I thought most everyone looked very good, but there especially Tracy, Liz, Laura, Carly, Nina, and this time I did not like Terri's dress. And, at the wedding reception Drew drove me crazy looking & sounding & seeming like a game show host.

Yes, he's been a personal friend of mine for years.

And, he was a mad, crazy gamer from way back.

Complete transcript of Challie, Last Day, 2-20-23 https://paste.plurk.com/show/qqnv9tWvHvcUkYfCpsP1/

Well, Tommy started out at AW, quite before Hogie, as he called him, was recruited by MADD & Goutman. But, he was almost a mascot to Hogan, it's true. His eulogy of him was quite profound.

Well, GH was both crazy & amazing today & they are still winning the February sweeps period & there's still 2 more days in this week! OMG! Ryan Chamberlain is dead. He died rather magnificently. When Mac came into the opening in the woods & fired that shot, he had just reared back his head & come out with a blood-curdling scream, full-throated, and that shot rang out & he went down like an empty sack collapses. There was nothing holding him up! And then when Mac was kneeling at his head he suddenly moved his head & said, "It had to be you." Great line! Then he fell over again, completely inert. He was DEAD-dead.

Excellent! Both allows for it all!

For most of his career, Harding "Pete" Lemay was HW, Breakdown Writer, Daily Script Writer & Script Editor in charge of continuity. The veritable one man show! He did it for 8 years. His work was superb. And, he burned out in a huge sort of flame! So he did it but even he couldn't sustain it without burning out! And, there's no way that Josh Griffith is any kind of Pete Lemay. JG was at his best when he had a full Writing Team and Michael Malone and Linda Gottlieb. The idea that he is capable of this is ... lunacy.

As I mentioned I am positively dazzled by Alley Mills & this past 2 days in particular I feel like she's been giving a Master Class in how to play crazy yet relatable! People were starting to try to find a portmanteau for Heather & Ryan & there was Heathan, easy, but I thought we should just go non-traditional and call them TheMentals. It's been fun as people have learned who Esme's parents are!

Talk about a crying shame, but it is true that this is a product of the times we live in. And, of course, there's no chance in hell that the fans would now get any part of what they have been clamoring for, which is all about the writing! Every Y&R fan should remember what it was like not only when Bill Bell was writing but when Y&R had "Protected Status" & CBS left them alone to do their thing.

We know they're hurting for money because of the dire need for sets which are not forthcoming. because of the lack of extras because the flowers are no longer real because of things that Sally Sussman Morina said in a podcast a few weeks ago. Now I believe that they have more vets still on contract & still in their regular salary path than anyone else. I just wonder if money is bad enough to drive even more drastic measures. And, how that would be received by this group of vets.

They thought that Britt was poisoned but there was nothing about proof after the fact so that is a fact in doubt now.

Really no way to know without it being put to them as a necessity.