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A day of meetings/meetings/meetings, but meanwhile, my latest Young & Restless Report Card is up on super soap site Soaps.com – check out who made the grade!
Summer may be dwindling, but it’s not too late to introduce you to my swell new drinking game! I call it “The Little Nikker,” and playing’s easy: When Nikki Newman doesn’t know she’s drinking, you drink too! (Caveat: Do keep a designated driver handy. Anyone but Sean “Meggie” Young.) Click here to read more!
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Happy Monday!
Catching up with the mailbag, I came across this lovely note about an interview I did with the one-and-only Carol Channing on my former radio show:
Shaun – An endearing, utterly beguiling interview with a legend. You handled it with such aplomb and skill and it was obvious Carol adored chatting with you. I brought carol to NH in 2007 and again in 2008 to do a couple of AIDS benefits and her interactions with those infected and affected was amazing. Your interview style is delightful and you captured the Carol I have been privileged to know for many years. Bravo!!! Sincerely, Paul Brogan
Thanks Paul! If you never caught the kooky convo, check it out below – and keep scrolling down to find out which Y&R legend thinks pot should be legalized!
And which star of Y&R thinks marijuana should be legalized? Puffa-puffa!
"Jill Fenmore, Do You Promise To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Never Wear That Hideous Blouse Again, So Help You God?"
Summertime, and the living is easy – unless you’re in Genoa City, WI! Discuss!
Firstly I’d like to state I am FULLY aware I am watching a soap opera, a daytime drama, a genre famous for implausibility at the best of times. And I’m down with that – it’s WHY I watch and love. So I will always accept the curve balls. Jill and Lauren are long-lost sisters? I buy it! GC kids suddenly morph into horny teens or young adults? Sold! But what I can’t stand is the dumbing down that keeps going on on the show. If Sharon is relaxing at the Abbott cottage, GET HER OUT OF THE 4 INCH WEDGIES AND INTO FLIP FLOPS! Do we all remember a couple weeks ago when Abby rode into the Genoa City Athletic Club dining room, naked ON A HORSE? Not through those revolving doors we always see, of course, but through some never-before seen entrance just the perfect size. But have you ever actually tried to ride a horse into a restaurant? I have – it’s impossible. NO ONE will let you in. So just do us a favour and find another way to tell us Abby wants her picture in the paper than retarded implausibility I simply refuse to believe. Blind Adam kidnapping Patty via mental hospital ventilation ducts also fall into this category. Read the rest of this entry »
I Love The Way You Love Me!
Back from just the most remarkable week in Vancouver, a city I fell in love with. A great balance of shooting Pride Vancouver 2010, shooting the show (great chats with Cris Derksen, Darcy Michael, Candis Cayne, and Bif Naked!), seeing the city, plus a day trip to Victoria to visit Andrea, my high school pal. Reunited and it feels so good! Here’s what else I’m loving as we move into another summer weekend:
Prop 8 overturned – it puts same-sex marriage up in the air in California again, which is a big step forward from flat-on-it’s-back-over. Love is love, and that can never be trumped.
Maura West is joining Y&R as the new – and third – Diane Jenkins. I really liked the former actor to play her, Susan Walters, who sizzled opposite arch-enemy Phyllis – but West is AMAZING. She is on the soon-to-be-kaput As The World Turns and even though I don’t watch that soap, at my old gym they would have it on the TVs and I’d do my workout with an eye on her scenes ’cause she’s that compelling. More info! (Speaking of Phyllis, will we see any catfights with her other arch-enemy Skeletor Cricket, now that ‘the bug’ is back?) Lastly, while fans are divided regarding Victoria Rowell’s approach to her issues with Y&R on her Twitter, I get her, and I’d love to see her back doing Dru.
I journal daily. I call it my Love List. It’s an appreciation, one page, of my life as it is, mixed with some forward-feeling of the way I desire it to be. One page, no audience in mind, and I never re-read it. Something I almost always write is: “Opportunity is attracted to me like I am the world’s strongest magnet”. It works, and works often: First text received upon landing back in Toronto was a work opportunity for my consideration – and a mighty fine one at that.
Law Of Attraction: Eddie likes to get his hair cut whenever he visits a city, and Vancouver was no exception this past week. The question remained though: Where to go that gave good lid? That question put out there, we could only look at each other and laugh when, during the Vancouver Pride Parade two days later, this uber-hot goth chick leaves the parade route, bee-lines it straight to Eddie, and gives him a little pin with the words ‘Chop Shop‘ on it. And he took it – he never takes promo shit people hand out! Two days later, one fun cut, just what he wanted, inspired by the World Cup sexy hair that was everywhere. Ask, and it is given. And it’s the small stuff that’s easiest to notice, which allows you to then notice the big stuff.
Vancouver Pride. Such a blast, an amazing Parade, and to see the community gather by English Bay surrounded by Vancouver gorgeousness was a queer celebration like I’ve never seen. Here’s a peak of what’s ahead on our Summer Of Pride special on OUTtv:
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Well stink of blood with a Pine-Sol chasah!
Since Victoria Rowell began tweeting juicy nightly bedtime stories (secrets of a soap opera diva indeed!) the audio of my interview this spring with the ex-Y&R diva has become HIMBO!’s #1 visited post, proving what we already know: People want more Auntie Vicki.
Did you miss it? Have a listen!
Also just as hot as this summer, over on HIMBO!’s big sister site, GGT, blogger Max MacDonald has nabbed an exclusive interview with the godfather of house: Frankie Knuckles, porn star Eddie Stone’s got video of a different kind of pole raising, my beloved Assistant Nate (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LILAC!) reviews Christina Aguilera’s new video, Enrico Mandarino reports from Vienna on the key message offered at the 2010 World AIDS conference, Miss Raquel stirs the pot with her thoughts on selfish DJs this Toronto Pride now gone by, and for you Leos out there, Stars, Signs and Sprits blogger Robert Aitken explains why things are only going to heat up for you.
As Rowell would rap: “Drama for days left me breath-breath-breathless!”
Performer Of The Week: Elizabeth Hendrickson
Aaaaaargh, it’s so one-step-forward-three-steps back on Y&R right now.
Let’s start with the good stuff:
- Chloe’s confrontation with Heather after she found our her dud fiance shagged (UGH) Heather was delicious, and it was fun to see actor Elizabeth Hendrickson get something to sink her teeth into.
- Abby. Fresh, fun, reliable – Marcy Rylan, a great re-cast, has made the role her own, fast.
- Melody Thomas Scott has been appearing more lucid lately.
- Jess Walton. I’m so Team Jill as the Fenmore Sisters get set to duke it out. Not sure why she’d want to be Lauren’s sister, but she does. Here’s hoping she’ll give her baby sibling tips on aging gracefully.
Onto the bad:
- Jimmy’s bar. No one in GC would really go to a dump like that.
- Does anyone understand this bloody case that Heather and Chance and now Skeletor Cricket and Rowan are investigating? It’s hard to care, otherwise.
- The new Heather isn’t working. We all agree, right? I would have cast Laura Stone, currently playing Skye (one character who I hope sticks around). She even has a mole by her lip.
- I’m hearing awful rumours that hot mess Meggie (hot mess Sean Young) will turn out to be Murphy’s daughter? “Awful” because I’m so over the lazy writing that every new character (Tucker, Rowan, most lately) has GOT to be related to someone already in G.C. Can’t new people just be new people? Must it be so incestuous?
- Silly shit like Abby riding into the GCAC on that horse, or the time she was in the Chancellor’s bubble-filled pool naked with photographers everywhere with no one noticing (EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS A POOL PARTY IN PROGRESS). I can easily willingly suspend my disbelief for Y&R – but just stop with this crap.
- Question: Is Adam blind or not? And could the part of his story where he’s one step ahead of everyone not hinge on this immaculate timing he has to overhear just the right thing at the right time, or leave the scene of some crime just before getting caught, or having immediate access to everything he needs to pull off a dirty deed, like construction paper so he could make everyone at the nuthouse masks to freak Patty out, or obtaining new ID for Patty no problemo (in minutes!) to get her out of town and on her way to Canada? And again: is he blind or not?
- Fresh face makeup and extra long eyelashes on a character who has supposedly been battling cancer.
The end.
And The Last Word goes to … Chloe! “Oh I’ve seen you make a mistake. I’ve seen you make a mistake with my fiance, with the town slut, Billy, with that psycho path, Adam. I see a recurring theme here, Heather. No one wants you. So whatever you have to offer, it must not be that appealing.”
