Members Sylph Posted September 12, 2008 Members Share Posted September 12, 2008 Sara talks about Victoria Rowell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 She displays remarkable wisdom in some of these blogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann_SS Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Of course, now it must be Sara Bibel because can never be Victoria Rowell. As difficult as it appears that Victoria was to work with, Y&R didn't fire her and she had major screentime under LML. It is really too bad she let her hurt pride cause her to quit and finally burn her bridges. I miss the hell out of Dru. She was fierce. To this today, I die laughing remembering the scene where she pops the cellphone in her bra. Classic Dru. I would have loved to see Dru's reaction to Daniel's porn addiction. I bet that we would be rolling. I miss those outrageous hats well. No one could pull them off like Dru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 She is a remarkable young woman. It is a crime she is an unemployed screenwriter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted September 13, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted September 13, 2008 Another fantastic blog by Sara. Great insight on the Victoria Rowell situation. The last paragraph about Antonio Sabato Jr.'s dating show was hilarious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 She writes so well and gracefully and graciously... I just love reading that blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sheilaforever Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Me too. Her latest entry was one of her best - yet. Why is this woman out of a job??? If Y&R or any other soap is too stupid to hire is it too much to ask for my dear Brothers & Sisters to pick her up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Since she has a press pass, I'm pretty sure she's officially part of the press now. Networks and studios aren't too fond of people from the press, generrally. I suspect that has a lot to do with her unemployment as a writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Since we all know that daytime is dead, she should only try to get a job in primetime. She would have one hell of a career. Sara, call your agent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 I mean, she is like on of those rare, perfectly carved gems you only come upon once in a blue moon. She is extremely well educated (an Ivy League alumna) and well-read, has excellent manners from what I've seen, knows how to write, has had experience in production and writing, is passionate about the genre... And all that comes with humility and generosity. What more could one want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Ugh. Now, I have posted on the death of daytime myself...right down to graphs predicting time of death. But I find myself bristling at your declarative statement, or your suggestion that talented individuals should leave daytime. There is always hope. Keeping talented people IN the genre is an aspect of the hope. I think I'm also reacting to the elitism here. Do you really want to say an Ivy League education makes her "extremely" well educated and well read? She could have been a slacker at Harvard who paled compared to a star student at Rutgers or SUNY Binghamton . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Dead as a dead horse. Instead of this young woman returning to dead genre, I think she should have far more freedom in primetime to express herself. Yup, dead as a dead horse. Dead. Everywhere surrounding it — only death (ratings & message board activity), embarrassments, lies, scabbing, re-writes, foul firings etc. Do you really want something like that to thrive? Nope. You misunderstood. She is well educated for other reasons, not just because she attended Harvard, no. 2 on 2008 Best Universities and Colleges. Right behind Princeton. Do I sense envy and inferiority complex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted September 13, 2008 Members Share Posted September 13, 2008 Well, while I predict death-by-demography, I don't concur that it is "only death, embarrassments...foul firings". Indeed, I think most viewers are blissfully unaware of this stuff. I do not believe that creative death is inevitable. I only believe that these shows, in these timeslots, with these levels of promotion, and with cost cutting now being manifest in what happens on screens, may be doomed. But I do not totally exclude the prospect of rescue. You sound like Y&R's Adam and Heather, debating about Harvard/Princeton merits. Surely, you do not base your rankings on US News and World Report? What a flawed, flawed, flawed, flawed, flawed (did I mention flawed?) methodology. No inferiority complex here. I actually do believe that the Ivys have some advantages, owing largely to their selection factors and their endowments/tuitions. Public schools (large and regional) have a lot less to work with, and more inclusive missions. However, the relative benefits of the Ivys does not mean that all Ivy-educated students exceed (on some measure) all non-Ivy educated students. The distributions are overlapping...the best of the non-Ivy students will clearly o'erleap the worst of the Ivy's. We coud talk about the gains and losses of different kinds of schools...I think about it every day...but that would take us off topic . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted September 16, 2008 Members Share Posted September 16, 2008 MarkH, I will reply. But, I wanted to say this: I would love it if Sara did a piece (or pieces) about primetime soap opera, what they do good, what they don't. Every soap, including Heroes. Because, among other reasons, HWs could learn a lot from Tim Kring's interview after the failed second season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MoTheGreat Posted September 16, 2008 Members Share Posted September 16, 2008 This what I'm talking about. Thank you Sara! Plus they can afford therapist that most people can't when a co worker gets on there nerves. Most people have at least one co-worker they dislike. Soap actors get paid six figures to do what they love. In my opinion, unless they’re actually being harassed, they ought to suck it up and behave like adults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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