You
know, folks, I have to be honest. There's not much out there in the
way of interesting news. I could make some crap up or give you some
boring drivel that would put you to sleep, but instead, I'm just
going to give you what I've got and chat for a bit, which might be
drivel in and of itself, but to each his own, right? If I get bored
writing it, surely you get bored reading it.
Let's get bored together, shall we?
GH
What kind of good ol' boys network do we have going on with the ABC
soap writers that the same damned names have to keep making the
rounds at each show? How many times has Megan "The Butcher" McTavish
squatted on AMC, OLTL and GH long enough to completely destroy the
shows before being fired? Isn't she about due to show up again on
one of them? In an Executive Producer job this time, I'm guessing?
Now comes the news that Josh Griffith, who was the Head Writer on
One Life to Live, has been given what's being referred to as a
"trial script writing deal" at GH. Evidently, even GH doesn't trust
him not to screw up the show even more than it already is. Griffith
is a buddy of Bob Guza, the current GH Head Writer, from their days
of writing together on the ill-fated "Sunset Beach." He has also
worked on B&B, ATWT and Santa Barbara. In 2008, he was fired from
Y&R (where he had been elevated to Executive Producer), allegedly
after a heated confrontation with Maria Arena Bell, the co-Head
Writer on the show who is married to the famous soap opera "Bell"
family (the patriarch of the Bell family, Bill Bell, Sr, created
Y&R). He had formerly served as co-Head Writer for Y&R with M.A.
Bell (Ma Bell - haha - I'm so easily amused).
For whatever reason, we are now saddled with Griffith, at least on a
trial basis. My big hope is that he is being eased in as a possible
replacement for Bob Guza, will stage a mighty coup and take over the
Head Writer chair and then use some of the good sense and talent
that could have osmosified into him from his time with the Bells to
return GH to its former glory. Now, wouldn't THAT be something.
Anyway, Julie Marie Berman (Lulu) is in hot demand as she stars in
both a pilot (something called "22" - not to be confused with "21" -
very original, guys) and a movie. The pilot is so new that it's not
even listed in IMDB yet, which is a precarious place to be. The
movie is called "Rachel's Return" and Berman is playing (guess who?)
Rachel. My guess is she's "returning" from somewhere, hmm? She
starts the movie next month, which is why she had to back out of the
GH Fan Club Weekend. Since GH knows they can no longer pay their
actors what they used to, they are loosening the restrictions on
actors who are under contract with the show pursuing outside
projects and being far more accommodating in their scheduling.
Berman will continue to air on GH during the time she is working on
these projects and we can only hope that it means a little less Lulu
around town because...damn.
and now we move on to...
OLTL
OK, the record needs to be set straight. Some of you watched the
sort of funny online parody of police shows called "The
Sentimentalist" and wrote to ask when Tuc Watkins (David Vickers)
new show is set to air. It's a joke, folks. It's not really on the
fall schedule. It's like a Saturday Night Live parody that is making
the rounds on the internet. Here y'go.
Seriously. Not real. Notttt reallll.
Stack is back, kiddies. Chris Stack (Michael McBain) is just shaking
the Llanview dust off of his shoes after exiting with newly pregnant
wife, Marcie, for his new job in...some place up North of me...
Portland? Seattle? Pfft, I dunno. Anyway, he is back taping scenes
regarding Shane's bone marrow transplant. With any luck, this is
about the complete outing and summary dismissal of the character of
Stacy, who is on my last damned nerve after that whole country club
thing.
Lionel Richie's song that he will perform may be called "Just Go,"
but he won't. Like Snoop Dogg before him, he will actually interact
with some of the actors in scenes.
Florencia Lozano's camp is saying that not only is the actress
staying with the show, despite resent rumors of a departure, but she
has a heavy story coming up. Sagey readers know that this involves a
character preliminarily named Elijah, played by Matt Walton
(ex-Terry Novak on AMC). Not another baby story, please. Too many
lost babies. It's a good thing in real life, there are not nearly as
many lost babies and cases of aplastic anemia going around. I dare
the writers to actually come up with a non-baby-related story for
Tea that will be her big secret. *I* have heard - as you likely have
too - that the Elijah thing is a smoke screen and that Walton is
actually playing a recast of Ross Rayburn, the other side of the
triangle from when Tea and Todd were stranded on the desert island
all those years ago. Todd saw Tea kissing Ross and ditched them both
for the mainland.
AMC
Meh, I got nothing.
The most interesting AMC thing I've heard is something kind of
second cousin, twice removed, which is Josh Duhamel (ex-Leo) talking
to ET Online about Perez Hilton's supposed beating at the hands of
Duhmael's wife's manager. For those who do not follow the sordid
tabloid goings on, Duhamel is married to Fergie"Unrepentantly
piss my pants in concert"from
the Black Eyed Peas (you know, "my humps, my humps, my lovely lady
humps"). Perez Hilton is actually a Cuban guy (no, no relation at
all to Paris or Nicky or the hotel) named Armando Lavandeira who is
a vile little troll who has a vicious gossip site where he prides
himself on outing gay celebs who are in the closet for whatever
personal reason and talking trash about anyone else. One of this
foremost victims has been Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas. (As I type
this, I realize I kind of do want some black eyed peas right now -
the food, not the band) Fergie's band mate, Will.I.Am, confronted
Perez at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, who had the poor taste to
have Armando be a presenter, proving how low on the awards totem
pole they actually are. Will.I.Am came over to Perez to talk to him
about his comments and beyond that, there are different accounts
from Armando and Will.I.Am. Both agree, however, that Armando kindly
called Will.I.Am a "faggot," saying "I knew that was going to set
him off, but I didn't want to get into a fight with this person."
(Please note that Armando, himself, professes to be quite gay)
Will.I.Am and the band's manager, Liborio "Polo" Molina, and some of
their security people then beat Armando down. Armando then - brace
yourself - TWITTERED to his teeming millions that he had been beaten
and needed an ambulance. He didn't call 9-1-1. He TEXTED a message
on TWITTER to get someone else to call 9-1-1: "I was assaulted by
Will.i.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am
bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke."
That was on June 21st. So how this pertains to AMC is that as I said
about 4 hours ago at the beginning of this story, ex-Leo, Josh D,
was asked about the situation by ET Online, since his wife is
indirectly involved. He said, "When you get rich saying hateful
things sometimes you ask for it. It's an unfortunate incident and I
hope it goes away."
Hatred breeds beat downs, Armando. Get used to it, you pissy,
pretentious little bitch.
I
know it's sad that this is all of the AMC info I have, but such is
the case.
That’s all for this week!
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