Contessa Donatella

Gentleman Jack S2E3 5-9-2022 "Tripe all over the place, presumably." Things still to say. The new railroad went by & a cow exploded. Like a carriage with no horse pulling it. Revolutionize the country. Marion thinks the railroads won't catch on. In Vichy, racing to get back to the hotel, try to take advantage & try to get the best price. Raced after a vehicle & got a man to hire me his horses. Light rail? Maryanna, Miz Laughton, experiencing dizziness in her head. Is she about to faint?Might invite Ann over for a few nights. Oh, it's Maryanna, ltr. from Ann Lister. Crying after she read the letter.Young girl. Had made another young girl cry.Eliza wants to come back.Can she go with you? Says things & touches her.People from down below. A guy with cuts.Visiting 81 yr old Mrs. Rossen."People should not grow moldy at home."A Fiction about their past.Mr. Ingram, a letter for him. Unmarried.Keep an eye on Matthew.People need education.Tiddly Taddle from Mr. Priestley.Maryanna cannot meet your little friend. list of proprietors. # of shareholders 637. 160 thou' pds. Sterling Mr. Waterhouse, you do not have enough to pay the shareholders their 5%! We spent too much on expansion, deepening the channels. The subcommittee us meeting this afternoon & will decide quickly. Is that a sell-out? No, no. Will you let me know? We talked about the railway. Panicking. No respect for property. They are upset that she took father's carriage without his permission. Floorboards. She brought all this on herself. So many times she could have just had me. Waterhouse! Withholding information. Abney, what's the matter? Wanted a groom to write a letter for you, for your sister about settling the inheritance. About separating assets. For her, to her. Right now, no heir. Expedite the estate coming to her & Elizabeth. How about we use a non-local attorney? I have somebody in York. Maryanna is feeling sorry for herself. Trying a deal with some others about coal. All off now. Changes railway versus carriage. Speed, distance, capacity. Saw Mr. Waterhouse. Stay away from Eliza. Show him around. Get shut in this room! Not funny. Don't want anything to do with it. (They were kissing.) Delicate, difficult: Mrs. Lawton, very low. In her last letter she was asking could she see me. I think she needs to hear it from me, to achieve peace of mind. Reach equilibrium. I need for her to accept it. But, Ann won't go if Abney doesn't want her to. Decision made by the general meeting. Copy of Mr. Farmer's report. The loudest voice swayed. Now there are more blue shareholders than yellow. Hers & Miz Walker's shares. Abney said okay. Leave her & go to see Maryanna. She is happy & has all she needs here. Maryanna needs to hear this from me. Abney: Come back. Me: I love you. Mrs. Lawton is upstairs. Writing in her journal. Travel. Time. Arrival. Hello Freddy. Maryanna: Have you had any dinner? No & it would not be unwelcome. M: I'm wretched. You've no idea what you've done to me. Destroyed me! You're not in love with her! Gentleman Jack HBOMax Mon. pm S2E2 5-2-22 Two Jacks Don't Suit When we begin we're in a restaurant at a table, there's quite a crowd of people, and, oh, yes, we're in Paris. GJ is still walking just as fine, talking just as fine, addressing the camera directly just as fine, in short the good stuff from last week is back again this week. Oh, and, kissing and making love just as fine. Right off, a plump, chest-heavy woman joins them by appropriating a nearby chair with one hand & slapping it under the table halfway between our girls who, yes, are seated across from each other & not on the same side. That would be too modern for the 1800s. Now, Isn't she insipid? Be happy for me. Just who is supposed to have said that? And, who repeated it to us? And, who is it about? That lost me. Do better Wainright. Next up: Maryanna with a question mark. But then maybe it is a sprinkling of Maryanna's thoughts as she surely must think that Anne is a force of nature. I wish they'd give us an unambiguous answer to how much does Anne really love our new soon-to-be like bride. After all, two Jacks don't suit. Maybe Maryanna is a Jack, most assuredly Jack is a Jack. We see someone go calling on old lady Walker with news that the Alps were actually an improvement by everyone. Oh, this is a sister to Anne Lister, well what errands will they not do for her! Mrs. Walker objects to getting messages passed to her instead hearing directly from her niece. Furthermore, Miss Lister is worldly & you, my dear, are naive. We're in the barn with someone whose seat is definitely below the salt. She wants them to help unpack all of this so she can start a meal. Amy doesn't want to learn to read. One of the boys chased her around with a pig's head. Who did that to you, lad? Uncle Ben? (Anyone know who this person is?) Grew up with pig parts, was going to apologize. The mountains & snow & then them holding hands looking at this massive display of raw nature! So alive & so happy! Now we have a circle of men & women. ... dereliction of duty ... ignored & humiliated ... people will talk ... going to live together ... do something & then feel the consequences ... figuring a husband ... A couple, M&W, copulating, from the rear, both standing, said I wrote & told him. I never did. Came from here. You? Is this Maryanna? I don't see how it could be. What saddens her friends, saddens her. Our young Miss Walker has some questions? Some concerns? What is this about before her? You said you had never done this before. She did. We heard her. You have to understand that I am older than you. There had been another, not this but something dear. Don't be jealous. Here, I don't know what 'Fair book selling?' means. Been a fair amt. not making sense tonight. Child asks, "Is she a man?" Not the first time that's happened & won't be a last. Mr. Sundelyn ... ? No idea. Adney is what Young Miss Walker calls me now. Saturday night? ?? She wants to go see her aunt. Take gifts, etc. They are now calling this groom by his middle name of George instead of his first name of Joseph. Customs had confiscated ladies' handkerchiefs, so she put them in her underwear. She said she had nothing to declare & they did not search her. Old Mrs. Walker was very ugly to them. That will probably mean they never see her again. Back at Shibden. Someone's been bullying his mother. George's dad wants to stay. Aunt Walker & the Misses Walker & Lister, we brought you gifts all the way from Paris. They almost reached the summit of Mount Blanc. She said she'd had heartache over this for her whole life - which is surely an exaggeration because she is older than Anne. She says how special Anne is & how you can't just put her into a box. For just one example, look at young Miss Walker's face! Have you ever seen anyone that happy? Anne & Miz Walker continue going through the house but their minds don't seem to be on their tasks. No wonder! Anne brings out the letter that was waiting for her when they got in & asks Miss Walker if she can read it for her. Letter from Miss Scarborough. She understands she must give up doting on Freddy. She must love her less. She would like it if they could see each other sometime. How would your Miz Walker feel about such a visit & about being friends? Miss Walker looks like a burden has been lifted from her, She says they could be friends. Anne's mother & father come flying around the corner in this rig he bought that was too much for him. All for 100 guineas. (Anyone know what that value is?)

Well, we got the entire cast, speaking directly into the camera telling us how much they love us & what good things they wish for us. That was a clever device. Does anyone know where that YT clip is of Felicia & Wally in the truck cab, speeding downhill, no brakes, screaming, aimed dead ahead at Tall Boy's?

I like Tripp. Somebody needs to be a more normal even keel. Not everyone can be all over the place. I tweeted Bo today. He tweeted back. He said he was nervous!

The way the actress is playing it, it seems she is in turmoil most of the time! I feel like she's been candid a few times & that made for better drama, but I suppose having Anne go see Mariana is necessary for the 'plotting of it all. I'm just really high on the show. I do wish they would have it up by 10 on Monday nights.

Well, this is very interesting. Some things don't matter; some things don't make sense. At any rate, if the offer was made to Beverlee & she declined, Goutman still had what the fans agree was a great idea but he couldn't bring it home. At any rate he tried. And, of course, Beverlee & Iris #1 is all over "old show" not new. Then Carolyn Culliton & the gorilla & her mate Richard (Culliton again) & her keeper, Sam & who Felicia was asking for on the phone, is Samuel D. Ratcliffe, RIP, the W & HW responsible for the comedy & high-jinks of Cass & Wally & Felicia & the gorilla Carolyn & that is all old show, not new. That is an homage. Maybe I'll add in confusing to interesting. At any rate soap journalists don't tend to get things wrong but at some point they are relying on what someone at the show told them, so there are many possibiities. I will say that if Goutman thought those last 2 days were for the new fans, at a wilder time in my life I'd like to have had whatever he was smokin'.

Does anyone understand why DOOL looks blue?

Of course, we don't know if the offer was even tendered since it is safe to assume that he might have asked for permission first. Once denied, there would have been no point to actually ask the great lady.

No, I think you've nailed it.

23 yrs ago, on Sun, May 16th, 1999, the cast & crew of AW were finishing up their last weekend as employees of PGP. The next week would be their last full week in the studio in Brooklyn. Chris Goutman had tried to get Beverlee McKinsey back for the last several show days, to appear as Iris one more time. But it didn't work out.

As if I needed one, I have learned a new reason to LOVE Doug Marland: He quit GH HW over the "re-branding" of the violent rape of Laura as a "seduction." He quit GL HW over principle too. Pat Falken Smith objected to the "seduction" craziness, but didn't quit.

Wanna bet they are over the legal limit for capacity of a gazebo?!

This is just Wikipedia & there may be other figures shown elsewhere. But, some of what you think of off the top of your head are Missing Persons here.

Listed as Writers at the time of the 1st Nurses' Ball (1994) was Labine, ValJean, Harris and also Elizabeth Korte & Patrick Mulcahey, just as a point of reference. And, Labine left voluntarily in 1996. Riche was fired in 2001. Shapiro tortured Linda Dano & all of the rest of us with her ALL SHOWS experiment from June 28, 1999 - Mar. 13, 2004. (She started just 3 days after the last AW broadcast.) And, then Shapiro herself was outta there & on to FOX in 2004. My mind boggles at all the moving & shaking that was going on. One tiny tidbit that seems surreal to me is that Shapiro & her husband founded Soap Opera Digest! Many years before all of this.

I really liked a soap mag that I think was out of Atlanta, SOD size, called Soap Opera News (maybe it was Soap Opera Now) with a triumvirate of 3 editors, Michael Kape, Don West & Joanna last-name-I-forget. Michael would come to our weekly chats on AW on the Delphi Soap Forum & they were the only mag that ever attempted to report on the ratings, what they meant & what caused changes, etc. Michael's still around. I don't know anything about NBC's opinion with regard to PSSN but it was well known that they really had their nose out of joint over the anti-DOOL bias of the Emmys. Since it was accepted that there was such an anti-DOOL bias of the Daytime Emmys, there really wasn't much to say & then DOOL under JER ran with demonic possession & no one cared anymore that there was an anti-DOOL bias because they were just off on a walk on the dark side. Still today they think they should get Emmy recognition despite more than half of their stories being a schlock fest! They have real talent in actors & it doesn't matter as long as they are so disrespectful of the genre. It's amazing that the market supported as many mags as it did, say, in the '90s. Month, Update, News, Dish, Bauer Publications in NJ had In Depth & one other I can't think of, ... They all fell far behind when it came time to have a web presence, too.

I have a memory of some young fella. standing, straddling a motorcycle, at a crossroads & the sign points this way to Bay City & that way to Oakdale, etc. and so forth. What is unusual about it is that AW was NBC & ATWT & GL were CBS! Of course now Wally Kurth is working for both DOOL & GH.

Sure thing. I asked someone if they're stacking them up like firewood when they're not on set?! 😆 How much dressing room & green room space could they have? I want a sound file like "With a cast of thousands!" in a booming broadcast voice to link to for twitter!

I think that was the way it came out from the studio.

For a long time the bias was toward DOOL & Y&R. I mean, it may not be fair to say bias, since they had statistics to show what covers sold! Eric Braeden big seller. MTS Q score out the roof. Of course, the editors for AW, ATWT, GL, AMC, OLTL advocated for their shows. Mostly I did not read Hinsey.

Over the years the company that owned Digest & Weekly was owned by a wide variety of corporations who often as not, had no idea what to do with them. When they were owned by a company that owned lots of niche publishers, they had a fighting chance. Weekly, the company that owned them & Lynn Leahey all really did Mimi wrong. I hit upon her farewell to Weekly just the other day in my FB Memories so she must've just had an anniversary of. She's a very happy married lady, to a sweet young thing, who is learning watercolor right now. She's very good! Not to worry, they are as out as it is possible to be. I always thought it odd that the publishing companies that owned the soap mags each owned two. Of course the number of mags started diminishing many years ago. I do understand things like demos, age groups, lifestyle groups, etc. both from an advertsing & a sociology perspective.

Monthly Bipolar Magazine Cites Famous People with Bipolar Carrie Fisher (RIP), Chamique Holdsclaw (women's basketball), Maurice Benard, Patty Duke (RIP) Generally I find fans less patient.

I love people who understand statistics -- because I do NOT! LOL What do you mean by 'behavioral component'? Doesn't that apply to everything we do?

At the end of JFP's tenure at AW although there was no Producer credit given to the HW, she still was more in power than Jill was. Effectively Margaret de Priest was in favor with P&G and NBC & Jill was out of favor & just treading water till they showed her the door.

No. Completely illegal, as is posting photos you don't hold the copyright for, and, lotsa stuff that fans do, do. But, no not at all legal.

I, too, am more accustomed to having unpopular opinions than popular ones. But, I *potentially* put stock in everything. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.