All My Shadows

Thank you so much for sharing, Carl! I'm glad you thought of me when posting that! Mark is my ultimate soap crush, the character and the actor. He has this great vibe in all of the interviews from this time period and was living a very full, fun life. I love that he was definite in saying that he enjoyed working in daytime. Many actors at this time were very candid in their apathy towards their work on soaps.

I'm gonna have to find the time to watch these! I torrented the first DVD release and loved the series, so I'm ready for more.

Wow! I'll be watching later tonight!! What's with all the weird fades to blue? I'm guessing that's where sponsor tags might have been? Glancing through some of the episode...this show's atmosphere is very strong! The things playing out at the hospital are deliciously contrasted by the scene with Maggie and Althea, which lasts a whopping 10 minutes.

Somebody better have had it running!!

I finally decided to stop trying to catch up with the show and just jump back in, and it looks like this season was the perfect time to do that. YASSSSSSSSSSSS. That whole scene in the locker room was spectacular. I'm really digging the vibe of the show, though. They seem to have really embraced the soapiness of it and are going full steam ahead with it. Madeleine Stowe's delivery of just about every single line is GOLDEN. She's really earned her place alongside the great TV bitches. I'll have more thoughts when I'm able to watch the complete ep.

Thanks for sharing that ep, Carl! I'm trying to figure out if it's the same picture quality as when the ep first appeared on YT many years ago. I think it was a WoST bonus way back when as well. It's such a fantastic episode, though. This was the first LoL I'd ever seen, and I was so happy to finally see TuWig as Meg dominating so much of it. She played all of the tormented dame/diva notes perfectly, and she just has one of those classic soap voices. I'm assuming the date on the vid is wrong as everything I've ever read about the episode has it from June (or May?) 1975.

Has there ever been a more magnificent piece from a musical film? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW6CfSQIzOk

Wait...no offense to KR, but...someone is considered too ugly for Ste?

The weather's getting a bit cooler here, which once again means it's time for me to binge watch tons and tons of classic soaps. The last few years, it's been a very sad affair with my two faves being gone for good I miss AMC, y'all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeaJ23kESF0

I saw your post before you put the at the end, and that changes everything LOL. Sorry for the confusion, y'all. Bey stans are like "they forgot who the fuckin thread is for!"

LOL Well, I didn't understand why you thought that. Cheap posted that text/picture about Beyonce and Joan, and another posted implied that it might be too soon to make such jokes, so I shared something about Joan that I thought would help put Cheap's pic in perspective.

No?

Anyone who remembers what Joan said she wanted her funeral to be like will understand that there should and will be no sappy, sad mourning for her, not in the public sense, at least. She wanted her death to be like her life, and taking advantage of every mean-spirited joke is how that bitch LIVED. We celebrate her shady ass under THE biggest oak tree with THE tallest glass of tea.

OMG!!! I almost thought "That's mean!" but I have to remember this is Joan Rivers.

Gwen Stefani was NOT feeling Taylor's performance lol

I always thought Tony was hotter than Darren, but they're both very good-looking men with nice bodies. JP, the McQueens were more interesting/fun in their first year or so on the show, so if you want to see them in better days, look for that material. Circa 2006-2007.

I'll check those songs out when I get a chance, but if she has stuff like that on her albums, I wish whoever's in charge would try to get some of it out there so that she's more than just that kid who sings about bullies and bad boyfriends. That's why I've never ever ever gone beyond her hits (no pun intended). Also, because I just can't stand that damn voice.

Or, really, we could just stop at "You don't like me?" Regardless of what follows, it gets old. Her biggest hits have all followed the same formula where Taylor revels in pulling one over on someone who committed the cardinal sin of doing Taylor Swift wrong. "I Knew You Were Trouble," "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," "You Belong to Me," "Mean," and now this one all have that recurring theme, and it just doesn't appeal to me in the least. Will she ever get self-aware and write something a little deeper? I mean, if she doesn't, that's cool. If that's not what she wants to do or what her audience wants, then I've no place to expect it of her, but that's what it'll take to get me to want to listen to her -- or, rather, like her lyrics, because I can't stand her voice. "Red" is the only song she's written that I've really liked.

I can't stand Taylor's ass, and I don't need a reason. I just don't like her or her music. It doesn't speak to me, so I keep it moving. I do like the music of this latest song, but the lyrics are more of the same in the vein of "You don't like me? You're just jealous!" Write about other sh!t, please.

My baby Morgan maintained such a natural face until a few years ago

I think Soap Classics has stuff starting from 1979, hence all the great video packages on YT. There is an episode from September 1978 online as well (one of Colleen Zenk's earliest appearances as Barbara). There's also one from 1972 with poor quality B/W video, but it's definitely worth watching. Other than very short clips, however, that might be all that we have from ATWT's early 70s heyday.

I believe so. They divorced the same year Andy was born. There's a clip out there that was used for the 50th anniversary of John pleaded with Kim to not go through with it, but she rather sympathetically tells him that she'll only hurt him. Kathryn Hays in her prime!

Andy was born onscreen in 1976.

I'm looking forward to the scene where Betsy goes at John. I do like her, though. Like you said, she is very soulful. Kinda like daytime's answer to Kristy McNichol. It must have been interesting to be a young actress on the show for that particular five-year period. Were there any other Betsys between Suzanne and Meg? And was there any extreme SORASing between the two? Annie and Dee are kind of a bore. I do like them with their parents, and I love Ellen and David. How weird for them to spend the early 70s as parents to two grown sons, then both sons end up dying and their two daughters grow up and take over. Maybe this was an attempt to sorta de-age the characters (especially my girl Ellen)? Back to Annie and Dee, though. I'm disappointed in them somewhat because I've always loved the concept of the Stewart family and their predecessors the Lowells as a less idyllic counterpart to the Hughes family. I was looking for more from these two supposed-to-be young girls in the late 70s. Once again though I guess that's ATWT's fall from grace and need to cling to its old-fashioned ways. I wish they'd tried to reestablish the Stewart family more in the end. Annie had quadruplets and we never saw a single one of them onscreen!

I had no idea about that, Chit. That's a very interesting piece of history. I'm most looking forward to the Emotions and Chi-Lites episodes. I know most people think "Best of My Love" when they hear of The Emotions, but they'll always be "Don't Ask My Neighbors" to me. And that holiday standard "What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas?" I'm still waiting patiently for Betty Wright and Maze/Frankie Beverly. I feel like Rick James is far from "unsung," but that's just my opinion.