Contessa Donatella

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHoPTWlJk2s/ Here is today's Jarly video clip. it's from Sept. 2021. They talk about their impending nuptials. And, a bonus, Jarly yesterday end of scene, "Jason's Promise" https://www.instagram.com/p/DHoRcv2J37h/

THIS ALL OF THIS You have no idea what you spared yourself!! B&S ran it down once, then 6months lster the damn fool did it AGAIN

Valentin is many things but a doofus is not one of them. He may be the worst Cassadine. He is no Stefan nor Stavros, certainly not a Helena. He is good with money. He can hide in plain sight. Only fair as a parent. He can mix it up with ordinary people.

Isn't it particularly divine? Yes, why not??!!! That was so incredibly stupid.

I wonder if she wasn't in a foul mood because of the mini-honeymoon

Tamara Tunie's impromptu rap, how much more delicious can she get, our Queen Anita, she is perfection.

Those Alex dream/courtroom episodes were the very beginning of January & they were an experiment.

I stand corrected. I'm surprised because he is a favorite of mine.

Really? Typical. 4 days a week, minimum 10 hours each day, add to that hating the writing. AND she tried to talk to Jill about this. Then Jill said impossible we have a contract. Yes, one Jill had not read. Beverlee, you go, girl!

As to Goutman saying over & over we are not going to chase nostalgia. We have stories & we intend to tell them. Then what does he do, a gorilla harkening back to the zany comedy of the 80s. Which I hasten to say I loved but what is it if not nostalgic? I get it that he tried to bring back Beverlee but when that fell through why not Carmen?

IMO it was the actor.

How cool that they listed him in the credits!!! But, still, I do not believe they said it in the show. Do you? That is, of course, what I was speaking of. And as far as the other goes, we tend to get on rather well here & sometimes one person has the best info, sometimes someone else, a third person, a new person, it all mostly comes out in the wash. Given how much bad info is out there, being a fan of good info just seems like a good thing to me. I got the biggest kick out of tweeting with Carolyn Culliton about her namesake & with Jean Passanante about Lumina. And, Patrick Mulcahey about early Texas/AW. Twi/X is so degraded now that it would never happen again. Mona, Sam was a writer not a director. I'm not sure if you were confused on that point or not. If I misunderstood, skip it.

I have no idea if there is merit to what you're describing or not but I am under the impression that A is a huge FOJ so if they were unhappy with him obviously there might have been a reason. I know we'd probably all prefer there not to be pettiness but the people are only human. I try to think about what they went through & it totally boggles my mind. With New World the time period was relatively short. NBC, not at all short.

At least my girl was in PREVIOUSLY. LOL!

BERENGER'S The opening sequence https://www.instagram.com/p/DHj85brJM-i/

YES!! That's the Tom & we shared good feelings about this drama. I suggested to some friends that this is not a crisis & you'd have thought I said bad things about Elvis's mama or something!!!!

And, this is Agnes in her autobiography, I think in some appendix. “On ERICA versus RACHEL, Erica was a very unique character. Rachel on Another World was her precursor to the public, but in fact I created Erica first, since I had written the bible for All My Children before I started head writing Another World. Rachel was a lower-class Erica, her mother was a cleaning woman, and her goals were not nearly stratostrepheric as Erica’s. Rachel just wanted to marry Russ or somebody with money. What Erica and Rachel have in common is they thought if they could get their dream, they’d be satisfied. But that dream has been very elusive.”– Agnes Nixon, Creator, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, ALL MY CHILDREN, and LOVING Oh, okay. I will re-read what you said then. Sorry.

Mona, I disagree. I see similarities in Rachel & Erica just as I do Ada & Mona. Agnes wrote the troublesome daughter & her put upon mother 4 times. To me, it is clearly a trope. Agnes even talked about similarities/differences in Rachel & Erica. This is the editor of the AW trivia book talking about Rachel & Erica. Hordes of soap opera vixens through the years have been based to some degree on Erica Kane, played so deftly on “All My Children” for almost thirty years by Susan Lucci. Rachel Cory n`ee Davis, who started off on “Another World” as a scheming gold-digger is one of them. What separates Rachel from daytime’s other Erica Klones is the fact that Rachel Davis was introduced to viewers three years before Erica. In 1965, writer Agnes Nixon had completed the bible for “All My Children.” After Procter & Gamble optioned the project but passed on it, the bible went into a drawer. Nixon was asked, however, to take on head-writing duties at “Another World.” One of the first characters she introduced was Rachel Davis, a scheming model whose destructive relationships with men and obsession with material gain could be traced back to being abandoned by her father.

Well, that's lovely!! Yeah, I don't know why he would have had, though, so quickly. Oh, having any more of that time is so wished for!!! That would surprise me if so.

I have the 40th anniversary episode in my Dropbox for someone right now. If anyone else were to want it, very convenient. PM me for link if so. Lyla, I have an edit of my own of her singing live.

Hmm, I totally adore both Kate Mansi & Brooke Kerr. https://www.instagram.com/p/DHlsYJIJZpd/ Here is today's GH Jarly clip. 11-10-2005 It is two-fold, part of the Train Wreck story and "blue" & how that color relates to Carly & to Jason.

Personally I think Ron's perspective on comedy in soaps is as much to blame.

Very interesting. What is your soap history in real time? I mean, if you don't mind saying. Me, I began watching in 1970 with DAYS & AW & ATWT being my first soaps because they were my mother's soaps. When the shows expanded to an hour, we gave up ATWT & then I was a traditional full schedule NBC baby for a long time. Now I say my favorite soaps are 1-AW, 2-GL and 3-Santa Barbara with Honorable Mention to some of AMC & some of PC & GH since 1993.

Darn, I thought, ... well, it doesn't matter. 5 is plenty.

LOL!!!! I don't think anyone is going to be murdered, else I mean. The reason I'm laughing is you apparently want to save Curtis from Portia, when I would try to find some way to save Portia from Curtis. Curtis can kick rocks AFAIAC but Portia is soap gold. Obviously I respect your difference of opinion. I'm not laughing at you, at all, instead just the irony of who likes whom in any given pairing.