Contessa Donatella

I have NO sympathy for him either but I don't know if that is my bias. I just feel defeated because I think there's a banner in the Writers Room that says Stephanie & Chad = Job One! And if we don't like it, we can just shove it.

Good thoughts. Good idea. TCA is super important but it is also ALL about promoting the show to the rooftops if at all possible! I know the GH panel had more actors & that they said a whole lot & that Genie used it as a vehicle to say some things about the rape that needed saying years ago. I'm sure peacock was the most important part to Robt & Dee.

OMG! I knew it was bad. Thnx. But, listen, I just realized I should've put this in the BTS DOOL thread. I'm going to move it. Sorry, folks. On second thought it would be more mess by duping it to move it. Maybe it will die with this epic Nicole moment!!

Personally I believe (1) Typos will always be with us. (2) Numbers & dates hate us. And, I used to make a living as a par excellence proofreader & copy editor. Argh.

Sept. 6?! LOL, so from before the switch on Sept. 12. By my count we're on Day 106.

I believe that Kate is Kate Roberts Reed Kiriakis Brady Dimera Dimera Brady What is Nicole?

Okay, I thought I would post this since you had posted that, ... The last movie Anne worked on before her death has been released. Joey Lawrence & his wife talk about it & about working with her in this article. https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2911187024161/joey-lawrence-and-wife-samantha-cope-open-up-about-working-with-anne-heche-exclusive?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i16 Of course I will add that the movie she made, WILDFIRE, about the Cherokees, the horse & the song from the 80s, has not been released, still. There is an article on Anne's new book & on Anne in the new PEOPLE. I have not checked the website to see if there's an article there.

I think it's interesting that people who are supposedly in the know on these things say that back in the day Tony was miserable at GH & Genie was very unhappy at GH. Now both are said to be happy.

I think in some ways it is & in some ways it isn't. That way they can say *this* in one venue and say *that* in another venue which I believe suits the streamers just fine.

NOTE: I hope this is considered topical. If it's not, I apologize & I will take it down. And, I was there! It was right before my birthday & Tuscaloosa was about an hour's car trip, one way, and I didn't even know about it & David Stampley & Sherry Edwards got tickets & planned the whole thing & surprised me a few days ahead & treated me to my all time favorite Joni Mitchell. The acoustics were incredible. She was lovely in black, looking very formal. Part of the time she sat & played at this humongous grand piano & part she stood & sang & part she stood & played guitar & sang. She sang everything! She had to. We just wouldn't have left until she did! Last week I streamed TAR. I love Cate Blanchett & so to me it was an excellent movie & she may take home the Oscar for it. You may know already that for the role she learned to play the piano, learned to speak German & learned to conduct an orchestra like Leonard Bernstein. Maestro Please! Bonus quote: The narcissism of small differences leads to the most boring conformity. - Lydia Tar, 2022 That's a line she uses on one of her students at Juilliard & she seems to like to put them down. She's a real character. She hears random noises off & on all the time. She lives openly as a lesbian, with a musician wife. They have a child about 10. You never see her putting any pressure on young women that she has power over. I thought that was an interesting facet to the storytelling. In real life no one ever sees anything but the victims themselves. However, we did see some fallout around her, heard about a girl having a nervous breakdown & about a suicide attempt.

I really liked Scott. I thought he was doing a good job & got a raw deal. I met him at an event at Blondie's. He was from SC & I have family there & we got to talking. I have several casual pictures of him & me.

Thnx. Genie as Tiger was really something.

I was just wondering, ... how many nights was BARE ESSENCE? But, I honestly can't imagine it in today's world.

And, they were all so good you didn't even mind that it destroyed your whole week or week & a day. And at the end of it you were tired, behind on homework, behind on laundry, uplifted and you knew you had been through something. Later, when the mini-series shrank till it shrank itself out of existence they simply weren't as good. My favorites were ROOTS, NORTH & SOUTHs, THORNBIRDS and then changing channels SHOGUN. Thns for reminding me ... fond memories.

Tommy Eplin with wife #3 Abilene Crabtree M. 6-20-2015 Danville, California. Had 2 daughters together. Divorced Feb. 2020. I knew I had this somewhere.

Thanks! You're a peach! 🧐🫵🫰

I was looking for a picture of Tom Eplin for someone on #SoapTwitter but instead I found a graying at the temples Robert Kelker Kelly. Tried again & found this. I'll just look another day.

Oh, yes, you are so right! That makes sense. And, it would've been a best-seller since he had to have so many tales to tell! Wikipedia, which as I say I know can be wrong, does credit him with ShoGun. They say the first person to work for or with all 3 networks was Irna & then there was Fred & the way he did it was nothing short of remarkable. Of course, that's the way they talk. Irna had worked with CBS with P&G soaps, with NBC with a P&G soap, with ABC with her daughter's soap & then with CBS again but not with P&G for what turned into a disaster, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, but that's off-topic, so excuse me.

I wish wish wish they had made Austin Alan's long-lost son instead of Jimmy Lee's!

Gosh, I hope not. But, I definitely hear what you're saying. Fear it, ... dread it.

I love VANNA! They are the closet thing to the look & feel of a supercouple since Brenda & Sonny, who I believe to be the last of the supercouples. I'm pro-Sprina, too, just not as rah-rah as Vanna.

I think it is perfectly usual for any soap fan of any age to have any characters or couples they like as part of their fandom. And, it is certainly acceptable to be interested in Doug & Julie and Challie and any age in between. Me & DOOL I am high on Doug & Julie, Challie, Steve & Kayla, John & Marlena, Cady McClain as Jennifer Rose, Abe & Paulina, Chad, even more. Of course, I think it is particularly usual & definitely acceptable for a lesbian to be into Challie, regardless of age! I would never think of chastising someone for who they were fans of. That's as bad as calling names. Who set you up as judge & jury of who someone can be fans of? I must've missed that memo. Topically speaking I'm a fan of about 90% of Salem & not a fan of about 4 characters.

Well, this is Wikipedia, which can be wrong, I know, but this is what it says: Despite these failures, there were high points in Silverman's tenure at NBC, including the launch of the critically lauded Hill Street Blues (1981), the epic mini-series Shōgun, and The David Letterman Show (daytime, 1980), which would lead to Letterman's successful Late Night with David Letterman in 1982. Silverman had Letterman in a holding deal after the morning show which kept the unemployed Letterman from going to another network (NBC gave Letterman a $20,000 per week [$1,000,000 for a year] to sit out a year). Silverman also developed successful comedies such as Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, and Gimme a Break!, and made the series commitments that led to Cheers and St. Elsewhere.

As you should, of course. You'll be pleased to know that I place no value on any of your words since I know so many of them to be bald-faced lies. As to topicality, I could only reiterate my fond wish that we should ignore each other. That way we would be in a permanent state of ON TOPIC.

Recently I had reason to do some research on Fred Silverman. Before getting into it I knew he'd done high level programming work with ABC, with CBS & with NBC before continuing with his own company. And, I knew that he had been the idea man & the network push behind the 90 minute expansion of ANOTHER WORLD. I am one of many fans who consider that exquisite failure to be the first nail in the coffin of AW's long descent toward cancellation. And that is because the affiliates hated the 90 minute show & thought it was the show's idea so they blamed the show & began to hate it instead of their prior favored status of it. And, NBC programmers said after the fact that they did it because they didn't have any better idea of something to do. I was surprised to learn that his tenure at NBC is generally considered a failure compared to his wild success at ABC & CBS. It's true that he launched some high profile shows that were very expensive & that they flopped. One is SUPERTRAIN, said to be the most expensive TV program to produce up to that time. I was not personally familiar with any of the flops. He was at NBC from 1978-1980 but his shows mostly had life in the 80s. He got the peacock back into the NBC logo & it was used that way until 1986. What I was most interested in was that he launched CHEERS, HILL ST. BLUES, ST. ELSEWHERE, THE FACTS OF LIFE and THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW. Now, there were successes that I was very familiar with. CHEERS had 7 seasons where its ratings placed it in the top 5 shows. HILL ST. got critical raves but pretty dismal ratings. (And, I knew that it had been up against KNOTS LANDING.) ST. ELSEWHERE seemed to manage 13.x ratings pretty consistently. LETTERMAN, reports mostly called it a 'cult following' & didn't mention ratings. FACTS OF LIFE i failed to find info on. Then, the last thing he did was install Brandon Tartikoff in the NBC Programming corporate team & that has to be a feather in his cap since he went on to take NBC up to its #1 status. To sum up, I found him very interesting.