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I don’t know why she would even want to do this. If the direction of the show and/or the actors is bad tomorrow, it will just give people who find Ali to come off as some sort of supergirl wannabe’, then she’s in for a huge barrage of criticism. You should see some of the nasty things said about her on other message boards. People have been highly critical of her many irons in the fire. As for me, although admittedly I don’t know how she does it, I personally wish her the best of luck, and if her direction for tomorrow’s show is a success, then I say congratulations, because any improvement to the way some of these characters have been behaving lately will be welcomed by this fan.
could they possibly be saying about Ali that’s nasty. Just wondering.
I don’t think it’s unusual for an actor to want to direct. It seems a lot of them go that way. She seems to be a very ambitions woman who will probably go far in her career.
if you read other boards, some more than others, then you would know. There are a huge number of fans of DOOL who can’t seem to find a good thing to say about Ali OR Sami; and, yes, some of them are downright nasty. Personally, I love her and wish her the best.
(character, not actress) because Corday and writers will not let her grow up with four kids and as many marriages – the "woman" has got to be almost 37 on the show now, she’s not been the fifteen year old kid who saw Mommy and Step-dad on the conf. room table, over (way over) 15 years ago.
While I think that Alison and all of her endeavors are note worthy, I wish her all the sucess in the world. For someone to go after what they want in life and keep that it a well rounded balanced life (family, love, home, work), is amazing in this day and age. That being said, she has help, secretaries, chauffer, maid, nanny, cooks, etc., I don’t think without it the every day life as she is leading would not possible. My point being, I admire and find the work of every day women and mothers who do the family-love-home-work, without all the help so very much more. The pampered racehorse works 8 minutes out of the week, the poor draft horse toils in the fields 6 days a week sun up to sun down…give me the strength and fortitude of a draft horse anyday.
I’m just wondering what kind of things they are saying about Ali. I can understand someone not likeing Sami but Ali? Pammy mentioned about having nanny, housekeepers, etc. but I really don’t see anything wrong with that. If a woman decides to work outside the home I say more power to her.
Everyone woman wasn’t made to be a domestic (myself included!). As long as she can still give her family the quality time they need, I don’t see any reason why she has to also cook and clean. Pammy seems to prefer being the draft horse, for me, I’d rather be the racehorse and only work 8 minutes a week. :o)
I admire Alison, for all the things she does, and has accomplished. I’m just saying that if we all had that kind of help that Alison does, we could all accomplish and do what she does, (the amount and varitey of different things), and still have a family life, (as Alison has a family).
It’s great that Alison can do all these things, however, a normal every day person i.e., "Mom" cannot, because of the sheer work load that she already does without help. You’ve been Mom’s, you all know it’s a 24/7 job for 18+ years. So therefore I am not so overly impressed with Alison and all her extra curricular activities, as she does all of it with "help". Mom’s with little kids, laundry, dr.’s appointments, PTA meetings, baking cookies for school, getting to work on time, barely have anytime for a pedicure for themselves let alone to start new ventures…usually, the only ventures they want are to slip into some cool sheets at mid-night and start the say over again when the alarm goes off at six o’clock!
I’m more impressed with normal, every day women who do it all (without having all the extra help that a "star" does) – work, (outside the home) AND keeps a home running, while raising children and all that entails, taking care of hubby’s needs, etc. A draft horse if you will, not a pampered race horse. We, in our society, sometimes, tend to forget the real heros (Mom’s in particular) in real life for what’s actors do on the "boob" tube.
call her "Miss Piggy" to "Miss Swiney", the "blonde bitch", and are saying things like "hope the show fails miserably on Monday, August 1, then maybe she’ll know once and for all she’s no better behind the camera than she is in front of it", they think she must be as neglectful mother in real life; they knock her looks, her acting, her clothes, her dominating screen-time (even though no one is on more than James Scott, but he’s a handsome, popular man and more desirable to watch, I guess), but all in all, the insults and innuendos posted by jealous, hateful people simply because they don’t like the actress OR the character she portrays I find pitiful, because Alison Sweeney probably gets this every day, and regardless of how much they claim it just comes with the job, it has to be hurtful to see, in print, how some people feel about you on a personal level. Every time I see some derogatory remark against Ali (not Sami), I think she must have some reaction to those who think of her this way, because I don’t know about now, but there was a time when she did read the message boards, and personal attacks have to hurt, no matter how successful you are.
If this was a MAN doing all the extra thing to better their lives and family, this conversation would not be an issue…
but a woman ? no she should be at home spendig time with the family instead of doing what she feels she wants to do. how dare US as Women to knock other woman who wants to better themself, if she feels that she can do these extra things that are important to her and she has the help to do it, I say go for it. Double Standard ? Yes., and we Woman continue to keep that going by conversations like these..Shame on us.
are probably jealous of all of the things she has accomplished. They can’t stand the fact that she went from being a child actor and bloomed into a well-adjusted, seemingly extremely nice person, not to mention having a happy marriage and kids. And whomever is calling her Miss Piggy and other nasty names are probably a bunch of sofa slugs who need to take a long hard look in the mirror. I’ll bet half of them could make a freight train take a dirt road!
thought the show was terrific. Well paced, well acted, well directed. I appreciated the slightly "first time" approach that was given to Maggie and Victor. I thought the stuff with Nicole and EJ was interesting and perhaps will lead to hiim actually becoming a different person. The part where Tay cracked Brady across his shoulders (not the back of his head) I coulda done without. But overall I thought it was well done. Oh, and I really enjoyed the Rafe/Dario scenes but I am sure this must be a precursor to something awful happening to Dario. (Don’t know, just saying that is usually how it goes, LOL). That poor Hernandez family can’t get a break. And I really wish the guys in charge would reconsider Dario. I really really love him with Melanie.
And I would just like to say that I agree with 53tdogs. It is easier for a woman who can afford help at home to be more diverse. Many of us, like me, were just happy to be able to stay at home and go work parttime when my youngest went to school. Otherwise it didn’t make sense to work cuz everything I made would have gone to hired help. I think that is all that was being said, not a crack at AS. She is fortunate. She can afford help to enable her to be work out of the home more frequently. Not a crack, just an valid observation.
there is only one thing I can say on that score and that is, as a woman who stayed at home because that is where I though I should be, I was on the receiving end of many criticisms exactly the opposite of your statement. People who thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t want to work after I had my children. Never wanted to and fortunately didn’t have to. Lots of people took that to mean I wasn’t interested in my own goals. So I think when it comes to the double standard we women are capable of that on more than one side. We refuse to see that women are capable of choosing what makes them happy and fulfilled even if it is different from our chosen path. We don’t have to chose the path of breadwinner to be satisfied. And if we want to defend one side of the coin we need to be able to see the other side, too.
I think a woman who has a family should be able to choose whether she wants to stay home and raise the kids or be able to go out and persue a career. I always wanted to do the later but my DH thought I should be at home. (He was definitely old fashioned in this aspect.) I actually wanted to go to medical school after the kids started school.
But then, after 20 years of marriage and staying at home, we ended up divorcing and I had to go out and and start from scratch with no higher education or experience. It took me years to get to the point where I could make a decent living (long after the paltry alimony ran out). Even now that I’m retired (after putting away every single extra penny into my retirement account so I COULD retire), his Social Security is twice as much as mine. DH#2 died leaving me in debt from a business he had just gone into, and no life insurance except the military’s $10,000.
So, I say, if being a homemaker and mother is your choice, good for you, especially if you can afford to do so. It is certainly a noble and honorable "profession." But if you want to be out there in the work force, you should have that available to you also…if nothing more than something to fall back on.
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