Another World Discussion Thread

[Contessa Donatella]

I believe Cecile was intentionally used for comedic elements maybe twice. I mean, start with her being royalty from where? Tanquir!!! LOL From the first moment it's a gag, isn't it? And, her kidnapping Cass? I mean does a serious character do that? Well, literally, if you go another way & it's horror, sure. And, what you describe, a food fight, yeah, it's going to be played for laughs.

Not a problem. I can respect different POVs. 

Black & Stern is on Les Moonves' head. He knew their work including NO DAYTIME. He recommended them anyway. Thank god their tenure was brief. But, Moonves is CBS not P&G. At any rate we have a true dilemma because we see this time at AW so differently. Vive la difference!

[Xanthe]

So many things would have had to be different for Mary to want to go back to Reginald. It could have been interesting if it had been handled completely differently but as it was we had a very black and white Mary good/Reginald bad. If she had been able to ignore his worldly crimes and how he treated his own children there was still the fact that he had separated her from her children. Maybe if they had shown us more intimacy and affection between them and had allowed him to have real vulnerabilities it could have worked but as it played out they didn't do much to present him with any sympathetic hook.

There are a lot of ways to define wanting things to work. Fans are mostly thinking of preserving or restoring characters and an atmosphere that drew them to the show. The sponsor may only be thinking of the bottom line. When a producer or HW comes in and decides that their vision will deliver for the bottom line and they need to fire most of the cast in order to do it it can feel very much like not caring. 

[Contessa Donatella]

That is a specific example where I would agree with those fans so I would be critical of the execs doing so. I frankly think that "caring" in this regard is not conducive to dialog. Basically you point out its very subjective nature. What is caring to one person might be callous disregard to another. I suggest it is a trap & we fell in it!

[Contessa Donatella]

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1996 Daytime Emmy Awards Presentation Show
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On 5-22-1996, in NY, NY, at Radio City Music Hall, featuring the Rockettes, in primetime on CBS, our hosts, Eric Braeden & Melody Thomas Scott 
EB introduced NYPD Blue James McDaniel & DAYS Deidre Hall who presented Best Actor with nominees GH Maurice Benard, Y&R Peter Bergman, Y&R Eric Braeden, AMC David Canary & AW Charles Keating who won for the first time. 
"Thank you very much ladies & gentlemen. Thank you my dear hearts. I have to confess. I've prepared nothing. I've never been a prize winner. Not even as a child. I lost 3 Emmys. Once I lost a Tony. A friend recently lost an Oscar. My agent said, 'Following in the steps of Susan Lucci couldn't do you any harm.' So I have to rethink my entire career. Ladies & gentlemen, no one person ever deserves such an award. We all know this is the result of collaboration. So I am privileged to accept this on behalf of my fellows at ANOTHER WORLD!"