Jump to content

What are you currently reading?


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 95
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • 9 months later...
  • Members

Has anyone read the Demi Moore memoir Inside Out

I've been listening to the audiobook and am currently on the section where she talks about her time auditioning and acting on General Hospital. Distinctive ways of speech, like hers, were meant for audiobooks.

Please register in order to view this content

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 3 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...
  • 2 weeks later...
  • Members

Ironically, given today's and recent news events in America, I am smack dab in the middle of reading the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson which discusses such aspects as citizens' arrest and stand your ground as being outgrowth of slavery and Jim Crow laws, when slaveholders were allowed to apprehend, by force any Black man or women that they deemed runaways, even if the person they "caught" had free papers.

Please register in order to view this content

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 4 weeks later...
  • Members

Another audiobook. I just listened to the chapter where he narrates his experience of his parents becoming estranged and he got lost in television shows as a form of escape. There is a passage on how the soap Dallas blew his mind, in particular, a scene where Sue Ellen arrives to breakfast by horseback! The estate of Southfork became aspirational for Smith as a child.

Please register in order to view this content

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 month later...
  • 1 year later...
  • Members

The last book I finished was Call Me Anne. Anne Heche was 98% finished with it at the time of her tragic death Aug. 11, 2022. Her BFF & podcast partner Heather wrote a final chapter beautifully, taking care of any loose threads. Not only does Anne tell about her life, in every chapter she includes positive life-affirming advice or how-to. Brilliant idea! 

Please register in order to view this content

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I am halfway through Susan Lucci's All My Life: A Memoir (Promo E-Books)

Please register in order to view this content

As you probably know Susan Lucci has been a part of daytime since AMC debuted in 1970. In all of that time she never made critical remarks about anyone or anything in the business. Until the 2011 epilogue to her memoir ALL MY LIFE when she shared about Brian Frons & the cancellation of AMC. "An iconic show was losing out to greed ... If Brian Frons could show his bosses that he could save the network 40 percent ... he could keep his job even if the rest of us lost ours." He'd told her that April that he was replacing AMC with a food talk show THE CHEW because it was cheaper to produce. Now, this was after he had moved production from NYC to LA to save money. Many cast members took awful hits selling their house on one coast to move to the other. "I watched Brian Frons' decisions destroy the production of our show and the lives of people on both sides of the country." Besides her comments about what he did she took issue with his seeming to be positively gleeful at the idea of the change. And, to sum up, she said that he "has what, for me, is that fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • Agnes had written for Bernard Grant for many years on TGL as well as Ernest Graves and Joe Gallison,Doris Belack,Robert Milli,and  Antony Ponzini at AW. So she would probably gravitate to writing a role with an actor in mind or choosing someone she had written for before who she knew could deliver.
    • Once Johnny Dallas' cut himself off from Laurie Ann Karr and their son, and once Laurie successfully recovered from her mental problems, she wanted a new, fresh, and healthy start for the next chapter of her life. She legally reverted her name and changed John Victor's  surname to Karr. After moving to the country (when Teri  Keane was dropped from the show), Bill and Martha Marceau legally adopted Jennifer, the baby girl whom they had earlier taken in when the child's biological mother, Taffy Simms (and other bio family members) proved to be unfit to raise her. Jennifer legally and emotionally became a Marceau, and gave that name to her own daughter, whom Jennifer birthed through surrogacy as a single parent. Et...voila! The Karr and Marceau legacies live on.

      Please register in order to view this content

    • BLQ is having second thoughts regarding putting her baby up for adoption. Chase is upset he can't tell Dante. So both are putting this on at lulus feet. Saying she is holding it over them. Lulu is doing none of this. 
    • Yes she absolutely was involved in that story which seems to have gone nowhere.  She didn't start to remove herself from the writing until 1973.
    • Y'all are bringing back great memories of AMC 2.0 for me.  I haven't thought about it and the new characters in so long, well since it aired, and I plan to go re-watch it now. When AMC ended, I finally came to peace with it and accepted that I will never watch an hour of a TV show daily in my life again... something that I had been doing since I was 6-7 years old. I was starting a new career, relationship, and chapter in life when AMC 2.0 came out.  I found a way to watch it, but things felt differently for me at the time and when it was so short-lived and gone, it became such a distant memory, sadly.
    • That's a great point. I wish the writing could find those nuances.
    • After all Lulu's been through with her coma and missing years I can get her being on the sensitive side especially when talking to her mother.  I was thinking it was more a culmination of everything than just this one particular problem. 
    • I see her moral dilemma, too, and I don't think Lulu was out of line. I just felt it was overboard for her to break down in tears over her dilemma.
    • I also think the fact Lulu chose abortion and Brook Lynn chose to give a baby up for adoption instead when they were in similar situations adds another layer to this.  The writing doesn't really state this, but I can see Lulu slightly spiraling about thinking she could have an adult child out there if she made a different choice.  Both woman made the right choices for themselves at the time, but I can see both making parallels to their decisions.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy