Summer is all about young love in Genoa City!

I was hoping Jess Walton would get a Lead Actress nod for her Skype scenes.

Bren daD was quite good at that sort of character. Can't take my eyes off her. Every scene is like passing by a lethal car crash that happened an hour before.

Why did Jill hate Kay?

Kay hated Jill for stealing her husband

Jill hated Kay - blamed her for Phillip (Sr)'s death b/c Kay was driving the car that crashed

Thanks R4.

Besides the car crash that killed PC2, Jill also hated Kay because she went to court and got Phillip's Dominican Republic divorce from her thrown out, which meant Phillip's subsequent deathbed marriage to Jill became null and void as well as his directive that Jill's then unborn child be his rightful heir. Kay's actions made Jill's baby illegitimate, and the boy could not be called Phillip Chancellor III, and instead had to go be raised as plain ol' Phillip Foster.

Well shoot... Despite her best efforts, Kate Linder failed yet again to secure a daytime emmy nomination.

Kate has been bestowed the prestigious honor of tidying up at the Emmy afterparty.

That academy's just jealous of Kate. The old gal continues to give riveting performances daily!

[quote] That academy's just jealous of Kate. The old gal continues to give riveting performances daily!

On a United flight, maybe.

Young love that should have gotten restless: Chance and Noah.

Uh oh. The Staff and NuSummer are trying to act, and it isn't going well.

So idiot Dummer is going to go along with Syphyllis to "protect" her mother, which means keeping Dianejenkins in jail?

The only good thing about that is, when JaBottom eventually finds out, he'll be so pissed that he'll dump his beard and get back on Grindr to fulfill his destiny.

It certainly makes sense that gorgeous Nate would be driven into a frenzy of passion over Skeletoria with her aggressive overbite and hair inspired by a rat nest.

Nate and Fen should be comparing at a urinal. Loser gets fucked by winner.

I think Mark Grossman is a very good actor, but I don’t find him sexually attractive.

I would take Josh Morrow over him any day of the week.

Tricia Cast was very good as Nina.

Kay could have sex with all the stable boys on her payroll. But Phillip's affair with Jill was UNACCEPTABLE (in Kay's mind).

R18 Kay's stable boys era was well after Phillip's death.

R19 Nope. .. Phillip wouldn't touch the Old Battleaxe, because she stunk like booze and cigarettes, so she resorted to riding the stableboys. .. Soap actor, Rod Arrants, was one of them, and he was on Y&R in 1974, playing "Jeff the Stableboy." That was the year before Kay drove Phillip over the cliff. .. Years later Arrants would be cast as Ashley's doctor-husband, Steven Lassiter.

J.T. will be seen in a video call this coming Tuesday. Luckinbill is said to be making a brief return.

Anyone remember the scene where J.T. was living at the loft, and Bradley came by. I think he was suspicious about Boretoria's whereabouts.

Anyway, J.T. answered the door wearing a low-slung towel. Meanwhile Brad was in his full business suit.

This was so fucking hot. Like a Men At Play set-up.

That's news to me. I didn't know the stable boys were ever shown, just shoved in her face.

God, can imagine having to mount that old nag? Even in the seventies she had a face like a hard stop.

R22, Jill actually tried to help get Katherine clean, stop smoking, and to stop fucking the stable boys. Katherine didn't just hate Jill because Jill and Phillip fell in love, Katherine hated her because she knew exactly who Katherine was and she couldn't play the grand dame around Jill.

Kay was a total SLUT.

Recall, we also heard that when her first husband, Gary Reynolds, went to work abroad in Germany for a year and took 7-year old Brock with him, Kay and her drinking buddy, Charlotte, went out partying and carousing almost every night. .. I still remember the way Charlotte (the wonderful Elizabeth Harrower) read that line, "The men, ohhhh the MEN!" .. She made it sound like the two party girls enjoyed sampling random cocks left and right. .. That's during the time when Kay eventually began fucking one guy in particular, Tucker's father, Arthur Hendricks, who I believe was in college and working as a waiter at the GCAC so he could go to law school.

It amuses me that Elizabeth Harrower (a) wrote DAYS for a time and (b) is/was the mother of Susan Seaforth Hayes!

I stand corrected re the stable boys. I thought that was after the whole Phillip/Jill thing, my apologies.

And yes, the photo at R21 is hot!

Harrower also wrote at Y&R. I remember Wilma Jeanne reminiscing once that she used to love getting scripts that Harrower had worked on because of the subtext she'd include, which gave precise directions on what a character should be doing while saying their lines.

Kay looked and sounded like an old used up bar hag.

What's funny is that Wilma Jeanne was only 45-years old when the Kay-Jill story started - so the "Old Sot" was actually several years younger than the actresses now playing Syphllis, Dianejenkins, Boretoria, Sharon, Ashley, Lauren .... Shows how the "young" in Young & Restless is now like the cover of an AARP magazine.

R28 45 going on 70!

All of those actresses should do like Wilma Jeanne did and have their face lifts and other cosmetic procedures done on camera. That would fill several weeks of storyline every year!

I don't know, R30. Moat of those actresses are looking pretty good and wouldn't need any cosmetic procedures. Although, I'd like to see Snooty Nikki in pain.

Nikki's pain will come in the form of production cutting the SPANX budget.

God, the scene of Nate and Skeletoria going at it made me want to puke

R31 The reason they look good(?) if that's the way one sees it, is because most, if not all of them, have had already had work done.

We know Stafford's been having surgeries-procedures for well over 15 years now. That was put out there in one of Vicky Rowell's "bedtime stories" involving her and then-EP, Ed Scott, who apparently had a talk with her and "suggested" she go in and have "the same eye job that Michelle had just had done." The implication was she was looking old and needed to have something done about it. Rowell turned it around on Big Ed and pointedly asked him if he'd also told his wife to go in and have it done. ..lol.

Bregman too. I remember years ago, she had something go wrong with one of her procedures and had to keep the right side of her forehead-temple area covered with her hair. This was around the time she had a massive boob job. She can't even move most of her face now. .. And people have been talking about Case's face for over a year now. Whatever she had done seems to have 'settled in' somewhat, presently. .. Years ago Susan Walters talked about her bad experience with Botox treatments and that she was giving it up, but that doesn't mean she hasn't had some other cosmetic work done since. .. Some feel Eileen had nose and breast jobs in the past and that she had something done to her face about a year ago. Better work on her part, though.

R33 God, they are just so CRINGE.

Mark Grossman is looking thicky-thick in today's episode (and I like it). Keep eating, Mark!

Former Y&R EP, Jill Farren Phelps, predicts how soaps will react to the strike.

Josh Griffith probably has a list of fellow FiCore scribes he'll call up to do the actual scripts. After all, he's already doing the breakdowns.

One interesting thing Phelps says is:

[quote] One unlikely consequence of the strike was that the show’s producers tended to loosen the purse strings and the usual controls just to get episodes finished. “During a strike, the financial constraints are all but released because the writers are no longer being paid so sets can be created and most of the money rules that strangle daytime are gone,” Phelps said.

I was a teen during the 1988 writer’s strike.

I was on a class trip to NYC and ditched my group; determined to find the Guiding Light studios. I got there and had some nice conversations with those picketing.

I never saw any actors or any of “Springfield” that day, but I did go home with a picket sign of the union members gave me.

Previous writers strikes hit the soaps in 1960, 1973, 1981, 1988, 2007-2008, and now 2023.

The 1988 strike really fucked up some good stories.

The 2008 strike probably killed Guiding Light and As The World Turns, especially GL, just because of the very specific timing of when it happened.

Wasn't there some drama regarding the awful Lynn Marie Latham fduring the 2007-2008 strike that led to her even faster firing?

Chance never answered Summer's question as to what he was doing in alone in Chancellor Park.

Not long after, Daniel shows up at the park for no apparent reason as well.

I guess we can take this to mean the Chancellor Park is still the premiere cruising spot in Genoa City.

Too bad the bitch had to be there to spoil things.

Sharon tells Mariah that Cassie had a spark, was a light "just like you!", while Mariah looked like she forgot her bra after eating an entire pizza alone in her prairie dress.

R41 Sony (Steve Kent) took the opportunity to fire LML during the strike. As showrunner, she'd was been EP-HW, so I guess not doing one function meant she wasn't doing the other. Kent installed Josh Griffith as EP and Maria Arena Bell as HW. After the strike, MAB was retained as HW and Paul Rauch became EP. Eventually, MAB became EP-HW with Hogan Sheffer brought in as co-HW. .. Interestingly, Sheffer had also been let go as the HW at Days during the strike. Thing is, both he and Meg Kelly had gone FiCore to keep working, yet were told to stay home, with Days taking the opportunity to release them and replace then with Dena Higley, who subsequently went on to become the the official HW at Days after the strike.

Musical chairs.

Fingers crossed Dena doesn't use this strike as an opportunity to infect the soaps again.

At this point she'd be no worse than any team on the air.

NuSummer gave us all some terrible acting on Wednesday.

[quote]At this point she'd be no worse than any team on the air.

Be careful what you say! You don't know how BAD Dena can be.

NuSummer is so terrible that she's actually good.

[quote]Be careful what you say! You don't know how BAD Dena can be.

I have to agree.

IIRC, Lynn Marie Latham joined the writers' strike in 2007-2008 and it really pissed off TPTB. I think they were hoping she'd say and guide the show as executive producer.

Stay, not say.

As I recall, it was CBS VP Daytime, Barbara Bloom who got her buddy, Latham, in there. I got the idea that Sony's Steve Kent wasn't happy with her and was just itching to get rid. The writers strike provided that Incredible & Amazing opportunity.

More piimping of DuhVon in Monday's episode.

. CueBall announces he wants to change his surname to "Winters" seeking Malcum's blessing. They're obviously trying to play up the similar styling of these two with their bald heads and goatees. Maybe they should have done this scene shirtless so they could compare ugly tattoos as well.

Here, I thought they already did the change to "Winters" when Neil & Dru adopted Devon over 15 years ago?! .. I know there have been times when his name was listed as "Devon Winters" in the closing credits. (See link.) I recall it seemed really odd, like a mistake, when he started going by "Hamiton" again, compounded by him and Neil starting "Hamilton-Winters."

No one cares about Devon. Not even Malcolm will make him hot.

Malcolm shows up wearing more rings than Kay Chancellor, oh, and chains. So 90s. I'm surprised he doesn't have sunglasses on.

I think that's just Shemar's personal style. He was on The Talk dressed like a geriatric 90s boy band member

Yes, at this point Shemar just plays himself. I'm surprised he's not calling the female characters in the scene his 'Baby Girls."

That “baby girl” thing is so annoying.

He's using this Y&R appearance as another press vehicle to let everyone know that -- dear gawd in heaven -- he's procreated.

So those rumors can just stop, right now!

I caught nuSummer's retard cosplay yesterday. This show is something else.

Regardless, r61, she and Daniel are carrying the show. Or maybe you're more a fan of "Nate self-destructs, part 3."

I hope they don't resolve the "Phyllis isn't dead" storyline too quickly. I like seeing Summer suffer. It's like a real soap opera. She deserves to rot in hell, just like her mother. Kyle is not going to love her anymore when he realizes what she's doing.

I'm not a fan of any of it, but I think Graziadei is a terrific actor, and nuSummer is bringing Barbizon Modelling School realness.

Next they’ll make Nate a crack addict.

I'd much rather watch the self destruction of Nate than anything Devon is doing.

Sean Dominic is a far superior actor to Bryton James.

[quote] Kyle is not going to love her anymore when he realizes what she's doing.

This could be foreshadowing of a disheartened JaBottom giving up on love altogether and deciding to just present hole non-stop at the new Pierre Roulland Memorial Jizz Lounge connected to the men's locker room at the Genoa City Athletic Club.

They need to bring Stritch back and put him in shorts all summer.

Do they wear shorts in prison? .. Really asinine for Griffith to ruin the Stitch character by turning him into pregnant Mariah's deranged kidnapper. I think last we heard there was a warrant out for Stitch's arrest, and they discovered that he'd somehow gotten psycho Max out of the mental hospital, so father and son were on the run. .. His sister, Kelly, was nuts too. It must run in the family.

What’s the best part of the show right now, in your opinion, whether it’s storyline or performance?

R69, The masculine sexiness of Conner Floyd.

What Summer is going through is the only storyline I really look forward to, r69. And I love any scene with Adam in it.

I enjoy Snoretoria getting dicked down by that beautiful black buck.

Is Nate Victoria’s first bbc?

I hope Conner's not manscaping - pic at R70. He seemed to have had more chest hair before. And don't touch those furry pits!

R73 Yes, first one, I believe. .. Bitchtoria was actually once engaged to Neil Winters, though. .. And funny, because, at that point, "Little Man" (Nate Hastings) was only about 7-years old. ..lol.

But her relationship with Neil was more or less platonic, since she had found herself pregnant with Cole's baby, and Neil stepped up to help her make everyone think that he was the baby's father. .. But during this time, they never had sex, only kissed. (The racists out in TV Land had a conniption.) .. By the time Vicki delivered her baby, Cole had found out anyway, and then the baby soon died. And with no baby, her engagement to Neil was called off.

I remember people laughing at the time that if Vicki actually married Neil, her name would be "Victoria Winters."

this is such a gay picture

That's one ugly tattoo .. Did he do that himself .. when he was drunk?

Has Michael Muhney won his oscar yet? Maybe he can return, if he isn’t too busy.

ugh

That Conner guy looks smelly and unclean.

Noah and Chance should have been a couple. Noah would still have a job.

I guess it was Nick's turn to cruise the park today. With that bodacious booty it won't take long.

I love that they dress Sally like the cheapest slut who ever slutted

Damn, between Josh Morrow and Mark Grossman, I don’t know whose ass I’d eat first. Both are thicker than a snicker!

R81, Did Noah lose his club?

Josh has an ass that just won’t quit!

I meant the actor, actually, r85. Noah has been demoted to "recurring," and is hardly a part of the show any longer. It's a shame.

Morrow is built. Grossman is tubby.

Morrow's been asked to play Santa at this year's Christmas party.

Grossman is gorgeous.

R83 Sally really does look like hooker trolling the park in that scene.

Scoche Marin (Kay) always pinches the butts of her male costars!

Grossman looks like he licked the windows of the bus as a kid and still does every once in a while.

Scoche Marin as Katherine Chancellor will be taking center stage this summer!! She adds such a terrific spark as Kay. She has defined the role. When I think of Mrs. C, I. think of Scoche.

meow

Miss Connor brought the sass today.

R85 The Glam Club was a bust. There were times I couldn't even tell if characters were sitting there or in the small lounge area inside Society. .. When's the last time we saw the club? Noah was off-screen for over a couple of months and was supposedly in London, and they didn't say anything about his club.

I might guess Griffith eventually figured out that a "hot nightclub" may not be the best set for a show where most of the actors qualify for the Denny's Senior Discount, so they came up with the Neil Winters Jazz Club, which has tables to sit at instead of a dance floor that was hardly ever used.

Plus Noah's club had the ugliest decor I have seen on this show. Or any other show, for that matter.

So the PR agent at Bold and Beautiful is near death and a number of B&B and Y&R actors are rallying to help her out.

These stars are cheapskates. They have enough money to give Eva. Cheap bastards.

Dear God in HEAVEN!

LaBergman has given $1000.

So has my generous Hot Daddy, Frank Valentini!

It took Jack long enough to remind Cricket of her own experiences with the horribility of Phyllis.

WEHT to Sharon's dyky crippled mother Doris?

R103 I think the last time we heard anything about Doris was when Sharon and Nick were about to be married again (ca. 2014), and Sharon offhandedly mentioned that Doris wouldn't be at the wedding, because she'd gone on a cruise with a galpal ... more than likely one of those ladies only ones offered by Diva Destinations .. lol. (That was the wedding that got aborted because Phyllis showed up - Gina T's big entrance at the church.)

But even though Doris wouldn't be coming to the wedding, viewers took this to mean that things had thawed between mother and daughter, since the last time we'd seen Doris (ca. 2012), she was pretty pissed off with Sharon. .. Sharon had married Victor (GAG) with the divorce pending, and Doris was on her daughter's case about the bad choices she'd made in her life. .. Doris wanted Sharon to pack her bags and come home to live with her. Sharon refused and said she was staying to make people pay . .. Doris hated what Sharon was doing and rolled out of her life.

After Sharon married Victor, she married Tucker (OG version). So, it's not like her taste in men improved much after Doris rolled out of her life.

I miss Slutty Sharon. All she does now is pour coffee, give advice and wait to go on another date with Clueless Chance. She used to get prime dick in the past - Nick, Diego, Tucker, Two Adams, Billy, the Bradsicle.

And does Eric Braeden and his massive ego still hate Sharon Case when she dared to express unhappiness with the awful Victor and Sharon story, which was ghastly and most cast members and fans would like to forget?

[quote] Sharon married Victor

Whose idiocy brought that forth?

R106 Whatever that was didn't last long. The following year Braeden and Case were spotted dancing together at one of the evening parties in Monte Carlo (in conjunction with the annual TV Festival there).

[quote] I miss Slutty Sharon. All she does now is pour coffee, give advice and wait to go on another date with Clueless Chance.

As a way to integrate Sharon's characterization, they should think about having her interact and give advice to straight guys and lesbians on a Chaturbate while using various devices on herself including OhMiBod.

Dumb Dylan claims that Josh Griffith is writing the scripts by himself now that the strike is in full force. This is Josh Griffith’s Y&R.

Griffith is definitely writing the breakdowns now as well. That was his plan even before the strike. But any scriptwriters helping him may not want to be credited. Recall, during the last strike the WGA called out all of soap opera writers who were FiCore by publishing their names -- Griffith being among them -- so they were labeled scabs. .. As I recall, during the last strike, when it came to onscreen credits, Y&R only credited Josh Griffith and Maria Arena Bell; they eventually added Paula Cwikly (also FiCore) as a scriptwriter. But there were more than likely a couple other ghost writers helping them.

Dumb Dylan is an idiot!! He never learned his there, their, and they’res!

Bring back Kay Alden ashap!

So Josh Griffith is to blame for that beyond cringe dialogue in every scene between Snoretoria and Nate?

R114 No. .. Episodes and scripts airing now were still written pre-strike. It will probably be another month (or more) before any strike material airs. .. Recall, during the last strike, it was right at the outset in November 2007 that we heard fairly reliable rumors (from that Bell-mouthpiece) that Latham wasn't writing and was going to be canned. .. But the Griffith-Bell material didn't start airing until late December. .. I think Latham's firing was then confirmed sometime in February 2008.

Josh Griffith is now the sole writer and EP of Y&R.

Look for more Abbott breakfasts and Beth Maitland talking with her mouth full!

R117, A girl’s gotta eat . . .

Pass the bacon……..

Did someone say bacon? Can someone also say pancakes and waffles?

Does Mrs. Martinez live in the Abbott mansion?

Given their history, L'Bug not believing that Syphilis faked her death and is still alive is sooooo stupid. .. Cricket should be directing Chance to use every resource available to track the bitch down, so she can prosecute her for obstruction of justice and 25 other crimes.

And Aunt Jack and JaBottom playing "CSI: Genoa City" is laughable. Note to producers: Unless you're going to go there, don't show JaBottom putting on a pair of vinyl gloves.

Dear gawd in heaven! ... They're not going to have DuhVon buy and move into the Chancellor Estate are they?

Nice to see that it looks like they've decided to keep the main dining room of the GCAC up. But enough of Messa and the baby. How to waste 10 minutes of an episode with boring, repetitive filler.

And Sharon receiving a bottle of expensive champagne with an ominous, unseen lurker watching her? .. My first thought was Cameron Kirsten is out of prison and back. .. Recall, Sharon hit him over the head with a bottle of champagne, believing she killed him. .. This led to some crazy, camp material such as Larry helping Sharon stash the "corpse" in the Genoa City sewer, and later, she and Nikki going down into it to try to find it. It's been something like 20 years. Cameron was played by Susan Walters' real-life husband, Linden Ashby.

[quote]Given their history, L'Bug not believing that Syphilis faked her death and is still alive is sooooo stupid. .. Cricket should be directing Chance to use every resource available to track the bitch down, so she can prosecute her for obstruction of justice and 25 other crimes.

That's all I could think of. Whoever's writing this must never have watched the show before 2005 or so.

[quote]Dear gawd in heaven! ... They're not going to have DuhVon buy and move into the Chancellor Estate are they?

Why not? Abby and Dom are already living there.

[quote]Nice to see that it looks like they've decided to keep the main dining room of the GCAC up. But enough of Messa and the baby. How to waste 10 minutes of an episode with boring, repetitive filler.

The only story more boring than watching Nate self-destruct.

[quote] Why not? Abby and Dom are already living there.

Nope. Abby and Dom moved into DuhVon's penthouse back in early April.

Chance -- the only true Chancellor heir along with gay Phillip -- is apparently flying solo at the Chancellor Estate, which we haven't seen since they showed that new room in the house months ago. That scene probably signaled that they'd shuttered the main Chancellor set.

Is Devon especially popular with black viewers?

I fail to understand why the show has kept such a dull character and bland actor around for so long. Yeah, I know Devon represents a connection to Neil Winters which the show obviously wants to keep playing up.

[quote]Nope. Abby and Dom moved into DuhVon's penthouse back in early April.

Thanks. I FF them, so I missed that.

I liked KSJ, but even with "Kneel" - as he began to be called - the character became rather boring after Drucilla exited.

Those two were a true supercouple in my book - playing off each other so well. But once she was gone, Neil was just kind of 'there' - much the way DuhVon is.

They tried a lot of pairings - Karen, Tyra, Ashley, Sofia LOL!, Leslie, Hilary, etc. - and nothing really clicked.

R127, You left out Carmen Mesta.

R128 I didn't include Camen-Mesta-Lunesta-Siesta because Dru was still on the canvas and part of that bad LML story -- made even worse by Carmen having an "identical cousin" (Ines Vargas). .. I guess she thought she was doing "The Patty Duke Show."

OMG--Carmen Mesta. That's where I remember Baez on Blue Bloods from.

One wonders if they changed the bed sheets between the Mariah-Tessa and Boretoria-Nate sex scenes? It was way too obvious that both couples were in the same room and bed at GCAC.. .. The only good thing about running these two scenes concurrently is that viewers can use the same barf bag.

Besides Summer, Detective Chance should also get Daniel in a position to interrogate him one-on-one about Phyllis. .. I'd suggest getting him alone at the steam room at the Athlletic Club.. Now, there's a set they need to bring back.

Funny, if they don't want us to know who the ominous lurker is who sent Sharon the champagne and is watching her, then why did they include the actor's name and character on the IMDb credits for the episode ..lol.

“Funny, if they don't want us to know who the ominous lurker is who sent Sharon the champagne and is watching her, then why did they include the actor's name and character on the IMDb credits for the episode ..lol.“

Why not just give us his name?

R132, Allen Marsh playing Lester Thomas.

R132 I didn't know if people wanted "the big mystery" spoiled or not.

But as speculated at R122, Linden Ashby is back as "Cameron Kirsten."

I'm old enough to remember when Susan Walters was an ingenue on Loving.

So am I, R135.

This was during the era when Aunt Jack was an ingenue on All My Children playing Aunt Cliff!

R133 Allen Marsh is the actor playing the pianist at the new Neil Winters Jazz Club. I guess they've given him the name "Lester Thomas."

Did it creep anyone else out the way Daniel was checking out the backside of his duller than dishwater daughter today, at Crimson Lights? I was watching with a friend who noticed it first, and he thought his 'gf' was too young for him, and I said that's his daughter. And Kyle's acting today.....yee gads. And finally Summer, if Phyllis (supposed to be dead) is still paying her cell phone bill....

I couldn't stand Hunter King but I can't stand this new Summer either.

I still find Lanier less annoying than King, but the problem with the Summer character is that as long as they pair her with JaBottom, she's going to read "cockblocker."

Amelia certainly seems to be enjoying her sex scenes with Sean Dominic.

I would, too. He's hot.

Conner Floyd is sex on a stick.

As long as she's paired with Jabottom, she'll always be the better actress.

Btw, who the hell is running Jabot while Aunt Jack and Jabottom play Scarecrow and Mrs. King?

On Tuesday, Tucker and Audra sniping at one another in the Chancellor Pickup Park is pretty entertaining. .. I enjoyed their scene. .. TSJ does deadpan well, and the actress playing Audra is good delivering the snark. .. I'm also laughing at how Aunt Jack has a major hissy fit every time he encounters Tucker just lazing around the Abbott house. .. Tucker to Jackie: "You know I always figured the manners in this place would be more genteel, but sometimes it's like a truck stop on a Friday night around here."

And how funny that every time Sharon talks to someone about the mystery bottle of champagne, the lurker just happens to be watching from the patio. .. Either he's got great timing, or he lives out there.

Billy mentions the status of Jabot's "Men's Grooming Collection." .. Glad to hear the Men's Line still exists! .. This made me think they should have a male model audition (like in the olden days), and because it's a grooming collection, they need to find a new spokesman for their Groin Shaving Gel and Nut Rub Cologne. .. The men would have to demonstrate their competency in this area. .. Speaking of Hot Conner Floyd, didn't Chance mention not that long ago that he was thinking of giving police work up? .. Maybe he could apply for that job.

Robin Strasser (OLTL) dropped some gossip about former Y&R executive producer Jill Farren-Phelps during JFP’s stint at OLTL.

r147 I couldn't stand Mel, either. OTOH, Felicia and John? GTFOH.

Mel was boring and queeny. JFP made the right decision, as she did when she fired coma-inducing Ellen Parker. The focus groups were right on the money about boring Maureen Bauer.

JFP ushered modernity into soaps. Sleepy Mo Bauer needed to go. Lazy Bev McKinsey was holding up production with her demands and short work hours on a handful of days per year. It made everyone miserable.

"Summer Means New Love." Here's hoping Jabottom finds one.

When JaBottom learns about Dummer's lies, they should have FenMo be in town for the Genoa City Pride Parade and reach out to comfort him.

If I were Jabottom and learned that Bummer had kept the fact that Phyllis is still alive from me, I'd want to kill her. Fen would make a smashing alternative.

Robin Strasser is looking for attention again. She does this alot. Fine. Strasser and Jill Farren Phelps did not get along. We get it. Erika Slezak loved Jill. Funny how 2 lead actresses on the same show have differing opinions. I’m not a Robin Strasser fan. She has many issues. Always complaining about something. It is very telling that neither of her sons will speak to her.

Slezak was for any producer who padded her Emmy case, waistline or bank account.

^Slezak was never nominated for an Emmy while Phelps was at OLTL.

In her archives interview, Slee raves about Rauch and JFP., both of whom gave her tons of front burner story. She's not very kind about Linda Gottlieb, who kept Viki backburner most of the time and saddled her with boring Sloane. Oh Slee.

JFP was smart to fire dull as dishwater Ellen Parker to free up money for Justin Deas, who brought a new type of much-needed energy to the show. He wasn't the typical low-energy P&G actor. Buzz was one of my all-time favorite characters. Justin is one of the best actors in daytime, right up there with Larry Bryggman, Eric Braeden, and Douglas Watson.

I loved Deas and Robin Matson as Keith and Gina on Santa Barbara. He is an acquired taste, though. Buzz was hardly a bargain for losing the matriarch who closely reminded folks of Charita. Even Michael Zaslow saw that in Parker.

Question - was vinegary Helen Wagner on ATWT as Nancy, when Deas played Tom? She would have HATED working with him. I can imagine the side eye shade.

This is Genoa City not Santa Barbara, Oakdale, Springfield, Llanview, etc. etc. etc.

R159, When was Helen Wagner not on ATWT?

Why is the hottest guy on the show, Conner Floyd, without a love interest?

R161 she quit in 1980, sick of Mary Ellis Bunim - who wanted to painfully kill off Nancy - and she and Don MacLaughlin didn't return together until 1985.

R162 The idea of Chance flying solo might actually be more attractive than any of the females they might pair him with. .. Sharon, who's old enough to be his mother? .. Summer, who's an idiot?

They should, however, show him at the GCAC working out shirtless, while he talks to some hot cop buddy about where the case is at .. or nursing a drink at Society while a cute bartender flirts with him.

Does jealous Miss Connor not understand that half-bro Johnny is off limits, apart from maybe an occasional J.O. session where they don't touch each other?

Speaking of Johnny, what a nerd! I keep thinking I'm watching "Young Sheldon."

While searching the cum-dumpsters in the back alley of The No-tel Motel, they should have had Chance encounter a cute, homeless twink who unknowingly has information about Phyllis and Stark. Chance would take the lad home to get cleaned up, feed him, and question him further. .. This would be like one Bell's summer, teen stories of yesteryear, and soon the young man would be staying in a room off the kitchen and cleaning the pool at the Chancellor Estate.

LOL R165.

What's the deal with the old lady hairstyle on Daniel's daughter? Sharon (50;s) & Nikki(70-ish) have loose, llong hair and Daniel's daughter looks like the Book Mobile lady.

R166 How funny .. I was actually thinking of mentioning "Old Lucy." .. The young actress seems competent, but she's one of those teenagers who has the face of woman pushing 40. .. As you say, the styling doesn't help, but honestly, since it's probably just genetic, I'm not sure anything would. .. She could easily be playing a teacher at Walnut Grove or someone's secretary at Newman, and I wouldn't think anything was 'off' about it.

Uh Johnny, Miss Connor will NOT be ignored.

It is beginning to feel a bit more like a soap. Stakes are being raised. People are taking sides. I want to pulverize both Phyllis and Ashley. I give them both the finger when they appear in the opening credits, something I had never done with Ashley.

Linden Ashby looks really scruffy, very weathered with long-ish hair and scraggly beard. It doesn't help that they have him in old man blue jeans. Maybe, they want him to look like he just got out of prison, but he sticks out like a sore thumb as he checks into the the posh GCAC. The initial reaction from the hotel's concierge would probably be more along the lines, "Are you the plumber here to unplug the clogged toilets on the third floor?"

The hook comes in the preview for next week, where we see Cameron roaming the Chancellor Park where he encounters a young woman, asking her, "Are you FAITH NEWMAN?" with Faith responding, "I am. Do I know you?"

Are Linden Ashby and Susan Walters still married?

R171 Yes.

A little aside on that ... When both Linden & Susan primarily resided in L.A. due to their acting jobs, they would often double-date with Chrissy and his husband. Good friends these four. .. The boys even traveled across the country to be guests at an Ashby daughter's wedding. .. This photo was taken by Sid with the four of them out at the movies in 2013. I remember pics from hiking and beach dates as well.

Sally Spectra, Air Freshener Magnate. Oh, fucking sit down, you toxic bitch.

Which Newman brother has the bigger cock, Nick or Adam?

Nick for girth; Adam for length.

YES!

People need to understand that Tonya Williams (she's dropped the "Lee") is done with Y&R. She's not going to give up her Reelworld Screen Institute project - which is based in Canada and takes her all over the globe - for little ol' Y&R. Would they even pay her travel and hotel expenses?

TW has been part of the "Afro Panel" at the Cannes Film Festival over the last week. She's got more important things to do.

Why does Melissa Claire Egan’s face look so “different”?