All My Shadows

GL's Kane Manera is...a real estate agent? http://www.elliman.com/real-estate-agent/kane-manera/6100

Good for him to have the opportunity to clear the air on that whole thing, even if it hadn't been in an interview about his currently playing a gay character.

I don't have my iPad in front of me, but the way I remember it she claims there were indeed plans in the offing for Luke to be gay and for his airtime to be ramped up as a result. IIRC, Zimmer said she didn't want his whole life to becoming acting at such a young age and pulled him out. Later, of course, Jake Weary went on to a busy career in a ton of movies and TV (including the great It Follows) and I think he's now playing gay on the TNT adaptation of Animal Kingdom. I believe she claims it had nothing to do with the storyline, though I wouldn't be surprised or hold it against her if, in 2005 or whenever, Kim Zimmer did not want her young son to become a target for bigots in the audience. I agree with all of the above. Kim Zimmer the Homophobe never added up to me. I googled pics to see what JW's looking like nowadays, and he's matured quite nicely. I'm not gonna lie, I crushed hard as hell for him when he was on ATWT. Animal Kingdom is another show I have to give a try, especially since it's still early in the run and with those Shameless names on its crew list.

I love SuLu's hair and expression in the thumbnail of the Oprah clip!

I'm still making my way through the complete series, currently in the earliest of the 100s. We've just gotten introduced to Merle and Jimmy Joe Jeeter, Sgt. Foley has had a heart attack and he and Mary slept together in his hospital bed, Tom has moved out, Loretta is becoming super religious and Charlie is getting frustrated, Cathy wants to be a nun, and the new neighbors, Ed and Howard, are on the verge of coming out to their friends and neighbors. Aside from a very slow rough patch in the 40s and early 50s (they held on to the Tom/Mae angle for way too long), the show has continued to be great. We just got through the fun storyline with Muriel, Charlie's first wife, running a scheme to get money from the Haggerses, and now some new life has been breathed into the Mary/Foley stuff. I wish someone on the show would call Foley out for the sociopath he is. It's crazy to see all these women fawning over him while he just plays them all, openly. Ed and Howard are an interesting surprise. I knew they were coming, but I didn't expect the show to spend so much time on them and developing the nuances of their relationship. The show should be praised for writing them as real characters. The closer I get to Mary's breakdown, the more excited I get. I've never actually seen the scene, so I have a lot of high hopes for it. One thing I'm disappointed about re: the complete series set is that most of the episodes seem to be edited a little. You don't lose too much of it, and the scenes are so long that they wouldn't dare edit out more than a line or two, but it's noticeable. Also, they went with 10 episodes of Fernwood 2-Night as the bonus but absolutely nothing from Forever Fernwood.

I thought killing Bryant off was a Hogan decision.

Room for the character of Rick, yes. But room for a snide, smirky, depressing loser who brought with him a shroud of negativity into every scene? I'll pass. Relating him to other characters doesn't make him more entertaining.

I've never seen anything with Rick, but I think Carl has the best answer. Honestly, I hated every bit of Craig's contributions to ATWT over the years I watched, and I think the show would have been better served by not having such a character on the canvas at all. He was a waste of time, and even after they spent so much time trying to make Hunt Block the show's big antihero leading man, they ended up doing a merry-go-round of actors in the role. SB's return was good because you could tell he saw more to the character than what they wanted him to be, but that didn't last.

Nope, and I always always always wanted her to pop up. My dream storyline for the Hughes family was for Chris and Christina to be rivals at Oakdale Memorial and the dynamics of Christina clashing with the rest of the family. I'm one of the few people who liked Katie Peretti and saw a purpose for her and had no problem with her being a focus of the show (the mistakes were in the execution, IMO), but they could have just as easily had Nancy serving as Greek chorus for her own granddaughter, and it would have been a much better use of the character. Christina Hughes not showing up and none of the Ward quads showing up will always be one of the biggest errors of the last 10 years, in my opinion. They had the tools to keep the Hughes and Stewart families alive and vital, but for whatever reason, they refused to go there. A part of me wonders if TPTB even knew such characters existed.

The first 35 years, particularly the early/mid 1960s, late 1970s/early 1980s, and early/mid 1990s.

Honest to god, other than Whoopi and Joy, who TF are these people?

I do love the 80s theme, but I guess because I wasn't around watching the show when it was used, I don't have the fondness for it that others do. I guess my main thing is that the music coupled with the visuals gave the show a very sci-fi look. I think they could have updated while still keeping some of the bigness of the previous music. The original version of "My Guiding Light" over on GL was majestic without being overblown, and they kinda brought back some of the grandness with the toilet flush theme.

They did, for the 50th anniversary episodes in 2006. The music wasn't exactly the same, but they probably did the best they could with a piece of music that was played live 35-50 years earlier. I always thought the 80s theme was overrated as hell. They went from the grand, majestic, sweeping 70s theme to that?

I don't understand the point of remaking old crime/action dramas if they're all going to have the exact same look and feel. This has the same tone as Hawaii Five-0, yet the original Five-O and original MacGyver weren't very similar at all. I remember Lindsey Wagner calling TPTB out on this when they remade Bionic Woman.

It's really frustrating that they don't make any bigger changes, especially since we're heading into summer. It's the perfect time to roll out some interesting things for the weekends, but we get nothing.

Wow at that spoiler in the pics! LOL at Paige's bitchy, shady ass giving ol girl the look. Marco is still as fine as ever.

This was the ONLY song I liked from Britney Jean (besides WB). Hopefully the new album is better.

But I thought nobody was saying the album is good??

"Second, the songs from the last album and this one sound like B-side songs…like she just came up with this songs through her (*(&(*)(*_(&(*^!" This doesn't really tell me what you dislike about the songs though lol Granted, I don't think any of these songs were made with radio in mind, but that isn't something that makes a song a bad song.

That's what I mean, though. I wasn't trying to imply that you didn't like Single Ladies, but I'm saying that people will find fault regardless (which I get is the nature of the business, but still). If she was still turning out just the fun, dancey stuff that she built herself on, a lot of people would accuse her of not growing or changing, or worse, of embarrassing herself. I say good on her for trying new things. You can do that when you're 13 years into your solo career, and I think she's doing it well.

Glad you are enjoying the Kool-Aid. Some are saying the whole supposedly rumors of J cheating was a ploy to bring publicity to the album…to create more buzz for the album. I won't put it pass them to do so….either way the album is downright awful. What, they can't promote their album? Jeez. It should be even more impressive that they created all of this and he didn't cheat, because everyone was ready to believe he did. Why? Because she sold the fck out of it, that's why. I'm over the "I miss the old Beyonce" complaints because it wasn't long ago when people were rolling their eyes at her because they thought she was too old to still be doing stuff like Single Ladies. I wonder, though, what exactly don't you like about it?

I watched the entire special and really enjoyed it. My fave songs were Daddy Lessons, Freedom, Pray You Catch Me, 6 Inch, and All Night. The video for All Night was beautiful.

My baby daddies are together again

It was. I forget where the original setting (Barrowsville) was located, but I think at some point, they were in NYC before settling in Rosehill, NY, by the early 60s.