1 hour ago, dragonflies said:

Who is Janet

 

 

New co-EP Janet Spellman-Drucker

3 hours ago, Vee said:

His statement is clearly looking for a fight, IMO. And full of blaming everyone else. But it's also yet another sad indictment of the state of the genre - is Alarr of all people truly the first and only Black EP or co-EP in soaps (not counting stuff like Ishmael Reed's experimental avant-garde soap Personal Problems from over 40 years ago which almost no one has seen)? GH has hired and possibly fired a handful of new Black writers in recent years, too.

 

2 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Here, I take Albert Alarr's statement from Deadline.com & in italics I give my interpretation of what is really being said.

It is hard to overstate how heartbreaking I find this situation.

I am a big ole crybaby upset because I've lost my 2 million dollar job.

These allegations were already examined in a detailed and entirely independent investigation that lasted for two months. Dozens of individuals cooperated and every claim was thoroughly looked into. At the end of that process, the decision was made that I should continue in my role as Co-Executive Producer.

You cannot imagine how incredibly lucky I was to get off scot free!

Now, with no new facts presented, the studios have reversed course and caved to a cynical pressure campaign to force me out of my job.

Waaah, crying.

It’s important to set the record straight.

I've got to try to sell you on a different version of events.

Every day, I worked with hundreds of people, the overwhelming majority of whom would disagree with recent mischaracterizations of me.

I've got buddies who have been protecting me from paying for my actions for years & years.

I have been in this industry for decades, and not a single complaint has ever been made against me until now.

I was so successful at intimidating people & firing people that I had everyone scared into silence. Dammit now that is over.

Many of the claims recently referenced in the media are simply false.

I have lied about all of this successfully for years. I can't believe it stopped working.

Others have been taken so out of context or are so twisted that they are unrecognizable from the truth.

Of course my version of what is truth is unrecognizable!

To be clear, this whole situation stems from the animus of just two individuals.

There were just a few people that weren't intimidated by me, dadgummit.

Those individuals, at a time of industry-wide cutbacks and economic uncertainty, have been relentlessly angling for greater pay and increased influence on the show, and, it appears, believed that their best strategy to get it was to play on vile stereotypes in order to bring down a Black man in a position of power.

Now I will try to play the race card.

I will always be proud of being the only Black director/producer in daytime soap operas. And, while I am devastated by the manner of my departure, I will always treasure my years at Days of Our Lives and wish the wildly talented cast and crew the very best for the future.

To conclude I bring you my best bullshit.

Albert Alarr

As a black person, I am SUPER offended by his statement. In no way shape or form is race needed or important to this situation. Since he wants to point out he is the only black director or EP in soaps, perhaps he should have taken the opportunity more seriously and left his misogynistic narcissist ways at the door and instead he wouldn’t be another unemployed black man.

1 hour ago, FancyShoes said:

As a black person, I am SUPER offended by his statement. In no way shape or form is race needed or important to this situation. Since he wants to point out he is the only black director or EP in soaps, perhaps he should have taken the opportunity more seriously and left his misogynistic narcissist ways at the door and instead he wouldn’t be another unemployed black man.

Brava! You tell him! 🤔🙄🤬👏👏👏

14 minutes ago, FancyShoes said:

As a black person, I am SUPER offended by his statement. In no way shape or form is race needed or important to this situation. Since he wants to point out he is the only black director or EP in soaps, perhaps he should have taken the opportunity more seriously and left his misogynistic narcissist ways at the door and instead he wouldn’t be another unemployed black man.

It feels like he wants to make it about that instead of the allegations against him.

Damn SOD is getting dragged on Twitter HARD for not reporting on this LMAO

 

One example

 

 

So, Alarr will sue Corday Inc. 

He will have his own account & he till try to get cronies to testify for him. No idea if they will vanish or stick. 

Corday inc. will have the 2-month report which interviewed 30+ people. The SAGAFTRA reports from this week. Testimony they might get from cast or crew. Examples of fan reaction online. 

Surely with that Corday Inc. would fight instead of settle. 

Anyway, that's how I hope it would stack up. 

I have one question. I'm not sure where the 2 million figure came from. Seems so high. Was that confirmed? 

12 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

So, Alarr will sue Corday Inc. 

He will have his own account & he till try to get cronies to testify for him. No idea if they will vanish or stick. 

Corday inc. will have the 2-month report which interviewed 30+ people. The SAGAFTRA reports from this week. Testimony they might get from cast or crew. Examples of fan reaction online. 

Surely with that Corday Inc. would fight instead of settle. 

Anyway, that's how I hope it would stack up. 

I have one question. I'm not sure where the 2 million figure came from. Seems so high. Was that confirmed? 

Personally I don’t think it will stick. If anything I am sure he making all this noise because he didn’t think he would be fired. Looking at his resume, he has only been working in soaps and with it only being 4 soaps left he is not looking good to go knock on the other 3 soaps doors asking for a job. Knowing Corday tried to keep all this under the rug until Deadline and days fans was dead on his neck, he will try to settle this quietly too. 

1 hour ago, FancyShoes said:

Personally I don’t think it will stick. If anything I am sure he making all this noise because he didn’t think he would be fired. Looking at his resume, he has only been working in soaps and with it only being 4 soaps left he is not looking good to go knock on the other 3 soaps doors asking for a job. Knowing Corday tried to keep all this under the rug until Deadline and days fans was dead on his neck, he will try to settle this quietly too. 

He did direct one movie. A Crystal Chappell project, "A Million Happy Nows" is its title I think. Going on memory. But that is nit picking. They are soap actors, so his career is still "just soaps". I think you're right that any new job is going to be an impossibility for him. Who would hire someone with this kind of public reputation? Maybe their brother-in-law? LOL 

If it goes to court then the people who are now anonymous may be made public. A part of me wants a settlement to avoid that, but I don’t want Alarr to win.

1 hour ago, ~bl~ said:

If it goes to court then the people who are now anonymous may be made public. A part of me wants a settlement to avoid that, but I don’t want Alarr to win.

Yes, I thought about that but then I thought that 25+ people came out of anonymity to sign that cast petition. I think the fan reaction was so strong that they were emboldened to sign their John Hancocks. And I salute them for it. 

12 hours ago, janea4old said:

*WGA-West* listed any/all of their writers who have gone fi-core - if you look closely at their page it says "WGAW" at the top of the ficore list on the current website.

 

12 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

I always thought that was the full list. I think Jeanne Ford lives in Maryland, so I always thought she would be WGAE, like the Cullitons. Yet Ford is listed on the fi-core list of the WGAW list. That's why my assumption has always been it's the full list of the entire WGA fi-core. Unless I am totally wrong, I just thought WGAE were for writers who lived in the eastern half of the US, and WGAW was for writers who lived in the western half of the US.

 

____________________

RavenWhitney replied with a clarification and a list a link for WGA-east
On this post 
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/65042-deadline-days-of-our-lives-misconduct-investigation-against-co-ep-albert-alarr/?do=findComment&comment=1865701

Too big for me to quote. And yes thank you, @RavenWhitney . I had missed that list until today!
The datestamp of the sourcecode of the
WGA-E's  fi-core page looks like it was updated (or at least edited) June 19, 2023.

WGAW (WGA-West) fi-core list:
(last update July 26, 2023)
https://www.wga.org/members/membership-information/wgaw-financial-core-list

Going back to the original conversation - Sonja Alarr is *NOT* on either the East or West list, so presumably she is striking?  Since she's not on the ficore list, she could have been writing credited scripts up until the strike began.  
But thankfully she won't be on set anymore.

Edited August 5, 20232 yr by janea4old

13 minutes ago, ~bl~ said:

If it goes to court then the people who are now anonymous may be made public. A part of me wants a settlement to avoid that, but I don’t want Alarr to win.

 

10 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Yes, I thought about that but then I thought that 25+ people came out of anonymity to sign that cast petition. I think the fan reaction was so strong that they were emboldened to sign their John Hancocks. And I salute them for it. 

I don’t think it will go to court well maybe civil but as mad as Alarr wants to pretend to be he would have to realized he really has more to lose than Corday. All of this is because of HIS actions. Yes Corday went along with it but Corday has more sense and more money to fight more than Alarr can. From the articles and posts, everyone is complaining about him. As for the 25 cast members that sign the petition, they wouldn’t have to worry about being made public unless someone leaked their names or they said so themselves. 

1 hour ago, FancyShoes said:

they said so themselves. 

That was my thought, that now it might be worth it to them to do so.

1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

So, Alarr will sue Corday Inc. 

From what I have seen (external to what is already public), I do not doubt he will sue. Won't elaborate but it's ironic he fired the DAYS PR team considering he himself has retained a consulting firm focused on communications counsel and crisis management.

33 minutes ago, FancyShoes said:

I don’t think it will go to court well maybe civil

No crime was alleged nor committed in the legal sense, as no charges were brought against him. When he sues, it'll be civil.

I have been privileged to participate in many fan campaigns. The two most successful stand out in my mind. (1) We kept JFP from killing Donna Love on AW. (2) We helped to get Al Alarr's ass fired. It's amazing how satisfying two examples can be.