Contessa Donatella

Yes, and scrapping the international jewel thief stuff really annoyed us! LOL But, I found good stuff within the IzzyB time. We could have had John & Gina like The Avengers only on the wrong side of the law.

That is the first time I just let the show go on without me. I didn't like James Scott, either on AMC where they said he gave notes to actors better than him or on DOOL. And, Sami was just enough of a good thing, already, enuff is enuff!

The best I can say about John's life path being a good tale, ya know, is to say that you seem to have some nice ideas that could have been implemented with some grace or elegance & the show just slammed the poor character with inelegant changes. My favorite John won't be anyone else's I'm sure. It's likely unpopular but, international jewel thief. Some of us online didn't necessarily like what they did with the characters & would make stuff up. We had fun doing it. If you & I had been in the same space I probably would have encouraged you to write for the Alt*Days we did.

Every year Susan had an Emmy s/l. Now that could be annoying. But, you just had to accept it. It was like a Quest, for gosh sakes! But, places when she would be in other stories, she belonged; she fit.

She's driving me crazy. I honestly thought at first that she was gonna pull it off but she is no way a Kristen & also no way a Susan Banks but she is marginally better at Susan. That said, if ED doesn't want to do the part, even short range, then, they should not do the story, not her part anyway.

One person has pointed out to me that all 3 are anger & angry. And, that seemed right to me given what cards life has dealt her! But, I get the point that it would be better to see something else for variety. Same thing is gonna be true for Laura Wright, who wanted to submit a funny scene & tried to sell the idea that acting as mob boss & having a little old lady kidnapped & secreted away had funny parts to it but they told her she was crazy. LOL JORDI VILLASUSO, up for Best Supporting Actor, Y&R, Rey. Before the announcements Jordi had his last day on the show & Peter Bergman called him, now they had had no scenes together, ever, so this was very special, and he wanted to say farewell & he also made a point to tell Jordi that he'd seen his reel & that it was very good. This excited him. 20 yrs ago he had his first nomination & 19 yrs ago he had won for his role on GL. He was aware that the nominations were going to be announced but he didn't tell his wife & he didn't do anything to watch. I think he was nervous. So, he got a call from someone & that was how he found out. Very excited. It sounded like all his scenes related to the triangle between him & Sharon & Adam, Mark's character. First he brought her flowers & confronted her. Then, with Raelynn at the hospital. Last, when he unleashed all of the anger he had been sitting on. KELLY THIEBAUD, up for Best Supporting Actress, GH, Britt. She submitted: The break-up scene with Jason. Britt tells Carly that Jason died. When she & Jason were on the run & he told her he was going to take her to Sonny's island. And, one scene about finding out that she had the gene marker for Huntington's Disease. Now that's too many scenes so two of those have to be merged into one. She was in a real good mood & reflecting on the 11 yrs since she's been acting & being nominated at this point & being so happy about it. JOHN McCOOK, up for Best Actor, B&B, Eric Forrester. All of his reels were with Thorsten & he feels that B&B gives them such good father/son stuff. He explained that most of his story had been from the problem that he could not fulfill his wife sexually & his making the terrible decision to let her go outside the marriage to have her needs met. He talked about a primary motivation for Eric is not to be left alone in that house. And, everyone has left him. Stephanie left. Felicia left. others left & there he was alone in that house & feeling bad about everything. He also talked about Brad approaching him about the storyline & that they would not do it if he felt the least bit squirrelly about it. (I think that was the word he used.) But he said they should go ahead with it, just the only thing he didn't want to leave it that Eric was pitiful. He wanted to get somewhere with it. Oops! I thought I was done with John McCook & sat down to begin with someone new & they were still on & talking. More JOHN McCOOK. The last time they were together afterward they went to this big party & he was with Peter Bergman & there's this picture of them, loosened tuxes, kicking back, relaxing, etc. It sounds appealing. MF congratulates him on his reel & says that it was so good & that it broke his heart. To which McCook kinda thundered, "Good! Good!" MF said he could give some of those kudos to Thorsten if he just has to. McCook always seems to be so composed, so ebullient & to be speaking in MidWest Broadcast voice all the time.

So, Kaley Cucuo is dating Tom Pelphrey who once dated Gina Tognoni who appeared on Y&R. I know, there's no Kevin Bacon in sight! But, wait! Kevin Bacon got his start on GL which is where Tom Pelphrey got his, too. Ya see what I did there. Of course I could go one further since KB's wife got her start on AW. Kyra Sedgwick.

🤣 LOL, okay, I stand corrected!

Michael Fairman did Zoom-style interviews with many of the nominees right after they were announced. I'm going to listen to as many as I can manage & take notes & share that. By their very nature they may not seem like polished copy, instead being more informal, etc. I plan to do a few at a time. LAURA WRIGHT, up for Best Lead Actress, GH, Carly Corinthos. First off, she was in a moving car while she talked to MF & that was kind of hilarious. They were going to Chelsea Handler. Now to it, she knew when she was taping these scenes that she would put them on as her reels. A scene where she is experiencing & then expressing about it that coffee is just not the same anymore, that Sonny always made the first coffee of the day & that he made it better than anyone else could or ever did & it wasn't that she couldn't make a good cup of coffee, but it was that it was never AS good & that was somehow emblematic of the loss of Sonny in her life. The scene where she found out that Nina had known! A scene she had with Epiphany about losing Jason where she actually made the actress who plays Epiphany cry. She expressed a lot of gratitude & excitement at going to the Ladies' Dinner, the awards ceremony itself & GO CBS for having it back again live, etc, and of course being honored to be nominated & great feelings about the other nominees. She was effervescent! Kimberlin Brown, up for Best Supporting Actress, B&B, Sheila. She didn't actually get around to describing the reels she submitted a'tall. She said that the writers continue to amaze her at what they come up with for Sheila. When she gets her scripts & immediately reads into them, she quickly finds that she is surprised by what they've put out. She is HONORED to be nominated with the other people. She's excited with her job as well as being excited about the Daytime Emmys. She loves that this is such a collaborative medium & feels thankful & blessed.

Well, that stopped me in my tracks. I never once thought of it as something that could've been a good story. To me, anyway, it was such a mess from the get-go. I guess I'm just relieved that they are probably done with any amount of re-re-retconning, over however many generations of changes they've done! I give them credit for putting imagination to work to effect the changes they want to, but it's just never a pretty sight!

I finally got around to looking at that clip of Laura Wright & Cynthia Watros on GL & nearly bust a gut laughing my head off! I had forgotten how much Cassie seemed like a floozy! And, my god, her hair! She had so much of it & it was glorious but it was so OTT. Then it was just being in style, I guess.

I was just looking at that clip someone posted of Renee & Tony (Andre') coming to know more about their feelings for each other & thinking about all of the retconning & re-retconning, et al, that they did with Tony. Of course they did even more with John. I think DOOL did more with retcon layers than any other show. Philece RIP was so good as Renee!

Generally my soap celeb crushes were on women which was both convenient and made sense. But for 3 guys: Robert Kelker-Kelly, Stephen Nichols & had it bad/still do Stephen Schnetzer. Oy vey.

Oh, I was just being flip. I know people do keep that double life up for amazingly long periods of time & some people even have arrangements.

Not for very long if he likes getting his picture took.

I wondered if they would divorce & then I saw where they were together & I was surprised & lots of time has gone by without my hearing or seeing any word a'tall till now. So, that makes sense now. Personally I figure he was nickel'd & dimed to death with the micromanaging & without the Exec-in-Charge of Prod. position being still existent & filled with someone who would help fight. He was clearly so bitter. Lynn Liccardo thinks that's what changed him, too, although she puts it in her chapter called 'don't let the bastards grind you down'. He was certainly a different man compared to the last days of AW. It's a shame & to happen to the ATWT clan who were so known for just working fast & playing hard & being a happy set.

Chrishell Stause, ex-AMC, and after AMC she was doing some big deal real estate something-er-other & now this week she's gone public with this relationship with a female rap star.

They were comfortable enough with each other that by long habit they negotiated their own contract stuff so there was no agent or manager or lawyer between her & him. The year before she had voluntarily taken a substantial cut in pay because she knew the show needed it & she could afford to do that. This year all she wanted was to have the same number of days. He said no. He wouldn't give a reason why. He wouldn't discuss it or if anything was up. He let her know she wasn't needed anymore. They agreed that they would not discuss 'outside that room' the terms or lack of terms or anything, that they would just announce her departure. And, she didn't say anything -- until he shot his mouth off about how she'd been unreasonable in her demands & he'd had no choice but to let her go. Then, of course, she felt free to speak, although the tale she had to tell was certainly puzzling, to say the least. When the show got the cancellation notice, Noelle Beck who had been playing Lily, offered up front to him that she would leave so Martha could be back to take her to the barn, so to speak, and she made it clear that she thought that would be the only right thing to do. He wouldn't hear of it. Again, no discussion. And, it was during that time period, generally speaking that he was in a Q&A with the SOD Editor for ATWT, Jennifer Lenhart, that he said He didn't need to hear what the fans wanted, that he knew what was best for the show & he'd really rather not get letters & stuff from the fans at all. She even asked him if he was sure he wanted that to be in print, that the way it sounded wouldn't be good, and he wanted it like he had said it. Jenn & Melissa (the P&G Editors) were both flabbergasted. Goutman said not long ago that he never said he didn't want to hear from the fans. That he didn't want to hear from the magazines. But that's not true.

Maybe that with a corollary to address the new character that is suddenly forced into every other story whether they have one of their own yet or not?

I just read where Carl T. Evans had spoken about Brad Pitt reading for the part of Alan-Michael. I wonder if they got him from us or if we got him from them.

I thought he was to be the NuJason. I just saw something & have to pass it along. It's LW & CW but not on GH. Cassie & Annie Confrontation

Just saw this terrific scene between Cynthia Watros & Laura Wright, no, not on GH, on GL! Confrontation Between Cassie & Annie

It must be working on me because I'm finding myself more interested in Willow. And, giving more points to acting ability, vocal variety, more expressive face instead of one placid expression no matter what she was meant to be feeling. It's like suddenly she is engaged.

You'd never say that Mary Stuart ate SFT, that Victor or Nikki ate Y&R, that Bob or Kim or Lisa or Lucinda ate ATWT, that Rachel ate AW, although you could say that Jensen *tried* to eat AW ...

It's just a shame they can't be held up to people & say, "See? Like this." "Do it like this." Although I am afraid that there are current soap fans who would be too impatient for things to happen. They've learned some bad habits & I don't know anyway to un-learn them. I just saw a Today In Soaps item that I love: On May 7, 1970, Susan introduced Doug & Julie. And, so it begins. And, I just had such a crush on Julie!