GH In The News: The PC Press Club

[UYI]

Nope, not a myth. I saw it all on twitter. It went down like:

 

High school junior or senior tweeted Ron a picture of James Franco by side with Roger Howarth and some snarky caption.  

 

Ron responded, and they engaged in a twitter fight.

 

The fight got really nasty, and the kid made some incendiary, even over-the-line, comments.

 

Rather than reporting him to twitter or just blocking him (because that's just for dissenters who hit a little too close to home), Ron figured out from the kid's timeline what town he lived in, and ergo what high school he must have gone to, and called his principal.

 

Ron tried to defend himself by saying he was justified. And I have a recollection of Ron then trying to say, once twitter went all twitter on him,* that he was trying to 'help' the kid. '

 

*If you don't know what I mean by that, think of the flack NLG got for her emmy night tweet.

 

Looking back, that was probably what set the ball rolling for Ron's eventual dismissal (Well, that and the ratings getting lower and lower. But I think even these particular DGAF execs at ABC Daytime now HAD to have noticed something like this.). 

Edited April 20, 2016 by UYI

[dubbel zout]

Ron was going after children. It was pathetic.

[Francie]

Looking back, that was probably what set the ball rolling for Ron's eventual dismissal (Well, that and the ratings getting lower and lower. But I think even these particular DGAF execs at ABC Daytime now HAD to have noticed something like this.). 

Varni definitely took note of, and was at least mildly annoyed by, Ron's twitter behavior.  I think they thought of him more as a whiny headache. Like an annoying child sitting in the backseat who won't stop engaging with his sibling. They didn't care who started it first or what the squabble was about.

[TeeVee329]

Varni definitely took note of, and was at least mildly annoyed by, Ron's twitter behavior.

 

Which is a little eye roll-y, given his own behavior on social media, but whatever.

[UYI]

Somewhat GH related:

 

Prince has died. Vanessa Marcil was one of his closest friends, and appeared in the video for his song "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"--which may have been written about her.

 

She's got to be devastated right now. :'( 

[jsbt]

Between David Bowie, Prince (and poor Chyna) this is a real shitty year

[BestestAuntEver]

Between David Bowie, Prince (and poor Chyna) this is a real shitty year

It really had adding in Alan Rickman as well.

[dubbel zout]

poor Chyna

 

She got Farrah Fawcetted, who died the same day Michael Jackson did.

[Tiger]

Between David Bowie, Prince (and poor Chyna) this is a real shitty year

And Doris "Marie Barone" Roberts . . .

Edited April 21, 2016 by Tiger

[ulkis]

 

This does not quite capture the moment of the woman sitting typing, hearing Bryan come in, stare hard for a couple of seconds trying to figure out what's going on, and then turn back to whatever she's doing (I wouldn't put it up actually if her face weren't blurry, although I assume if she cared she would tell Bryan to put down the phone)

 

It's from Bryan's snapchat, which he invited everyone to look at :)

 

Bryan Craig ‏@bryan_craig  3h3 hours ago
Go follow me on snapchat: bryan_craig      Its a good time

Edited April 22, 2016 by ulkis

[dubbel zout]

I can't wait to read jsbt's reaction to that.

[Chairperson Meow]

Oh my. He filtered himself hair....

[ulkis]

It's a police hat, to be specific :)

[jsbt]

I can't tolerate this blasphemy on the day of Prince's return to his home planet, so I will decline to react at all

[ulkis]

http://community.ew.com/2016/04/23/general-hospital-couples-polls/

 

Random EW poll; I had a hard time choosing between TJ and Molly and Brad and Lucas under "couples that should be seen more" but I went with Brad and Lucas.

[peachmangosteen]

There should have been an 'all of the above' option for the 'keep away' poll.

[HeatLifer]

Kim, Minae, and Kent (and Bree) celebrated the 10-yr anniversary of GNO. Super adorbs.

https://instagram.com/p/BEkmPSXsojd/

https://instagram.com/p/BEkWop6TLsu/

[ulkis]

That's too funny.

[HeatLifer]

That's too funny.

It's so sweet to me that they're such good friends. You could tell the actors loved GH during that time, too. They always looked like they were having so much fun.

[ulkis]

Jim Warren put up some pictures from a pre-emmy party.

https://twitter.com/justJimWarren/status/725536679797223428/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Bryan Craig is very seriously ready for his serious emmy now, thank you very much.

[peachmangosteen]

I have no words.

Oh speaking of, the Emmy's are being live streamed somewhere, right? I feel like I read that.

[dubbel zout]

They want to do that, but they have to find someone to do it. 

[HeatLifer]

I'm kinda sad they're not showing the Emmys. I wanted to laugh, dammit. 

[OnceSane]

I wish YouTube would stream them.  I bet a ton of the remaining viewing audience people would watch.

[KerleyQ]

21 hours ago, ulkis said:

Jim Warren put up some pictures from a pre-emmy party.

https://twitter.com/justJimWarren/status/725536679797223428/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Bryan Craig is very seriously ready for his serious emmy now, thank you very much.

Is the baseball hat because he's embarrassed by that bad dye job that was inflicted on his poor hair? 

[peachmangosteen]

Apparently they will be streaming the red carpet and behind-the-scenes stuff on Periscope.

Edited April 29, 2016 by peachmangosteen

[LeftPhalange]

Why not just stream the show on Facebook Live. 

[UYI]

It was one thing when they stopped broadcasting the SOD Awards, but not broadcasting the Daytime Emmys, even with a live stream? That's just sad.

And for the record, I'm 27, but I've always loved the Daytime Emmys--I watched my first one at 12 in 2001 (two years after Lucci's win, but still). Even when I was on hiatus from the soaps I enjoyed watching them, even if they got worse after 2008. Last year's were actually pretty good. :( 

[Chairperson Meow]

Dammit.  So we have to settle for an internet meltdown? Sigh.  

[Chairperson Meow]

Oh.  It's streaming on the Daytime Emmys Facebook page guys.  Creative Arts are tonight, main ceremony is May 1st.  You can watch live there and comment away.  

[tvgoddess]

The news you've all been waiting for (don't deny it!)

http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/gh-lovebirds-announce-wedding-date

[UYI]

I just found out that LW and her husband separated/divorced; apparently it was announced a week or two ago and I missed it. I'll be honest, I'm shocked, because I think they've known each other since high school back in Maryland (301 represent!).

[UYI]

5 minutes ago, tvgoddess said:

The news you've all been waiting for (don't deny it!)

http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/gh-lovebirds-announce-wedding-date

Didn't their gift registry site originally have a much sooner date this year?

Eh, gives us more time for comedy. 

[dubbel zout]

They have a whole year to screw things up.

[TeeVee329]

A familiar face is back to be used to ill effect:

http://www.serialscoop.com/2016/05/robin-mattson-returns-to-general.html

[LeftPhalange]

21 minutes ago, TeeVee329 said:

A familiar face is back to be used to ill effect:

http://www.serialscoop.com/2016/05/robin-mattson-returns-to-general.html

[HeatLifer]

OMG. THIS.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MErLPMDbB_k

And then this.

@whitewatercrew: @MyJasonThompson Explain yourself...

And then this.

@MyJasonThompson: Ha! I think "Lucky Bastard" says it all. Hands down one of the best memories of my time. Going to lunch hung over.

[dubbel zout]

LOL how Minae and Kent don't know what kind of doctor Robin was. 

Women's friendships have gone down dramatically since then. What group would have a GNO these days? When Molly turns 21, the Davis Coven could, but they're the only group of more than two I can think of.

[HeatLifer]

I still can't stop laughing at Minae being offended that JT didn't use tongue with her. That line "at first I thought he respected me..." Lolololol.

I feel like even if they did try to recreate GNO with a bunch of characters, it wouldn't be the same. There was something about that time of the show that was just....exciting. I don't know why.

[ulkis]

Gonna reply in the history thread

[OnceSane]

5 hours ago, tvgoddess said:

The news you've all been waiting for (don't deny it!)

http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/gh-lovebirds-announce-wedding-date

I hope they Periscope it.

[TeeVee329]

Via Twitter, Frank is threatening...I mean, promising...a fun announcement this afternoon.  Which 1) probably won't be this afternoon because he always preannounces an announcement and then forgets about it for two days and 2) probably won't be fun.

[ulkis]

Why does he always do this?

[dubbel zout]

We already know that Robin Mattson/Heather is coming back. Keep up, Frank!

[TeeVee329]

Seriously!  If you've got something to say, just say it!

Considering the last "fun announcement" was the return of Michael Easton, it'll probably be a video of him and Kristen Alderson in a dry cleaners.

[peachmangosteen]

LOL that probably is it. Not only is it not a 'fun' announcement, it's something we already know. Fucking Frank!

[ulkis]

Thank God for Robert Palmer Watkins. I've really been missing skin-cream based pyramid schemes in my life. You think I'm joking!

[dubbel zout]

Meanwhile, BryDog cuddles his Emmy and laughs.

[Chairperson Meow]

2 hours ago, TeeVee329 said:

Via Twitter, Frank is threatening...I mean, promising...a fun announcement this afternoon.  Which 1) probably won't be this afternoon because he always preannounces an announcement and then forgets about it for two days and 2) probably won't be fun.

Dammit.   We need more characters killed off, not more added on.  

[tvgoddess]

I think the announcement already happened. It was that the Nurse's Ball starts on May 24th. Yeah Frank, we already know that but thanks for playing.