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http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/confidential/seven-sinners-lost-first-film-by-lewis-milestone-unearthed-in-queensland/story-fnn7l51k-1227334638790

Sometimes I see a photo or clip of Nancy - so eternally beautiful - and remember all over again that she died.

So...you know that you're going to have characters arrested for being gay. Do you: a) develop airtime and relationships for them over the years to make viewers feel more strongly that this is a terrible injustice b ) make it clear that there is no "right" or "wrong" way to be gay or love your own gender, that you will be brought down no matter what by bigotry and hate or... c) make both gay men ciphers, cast one of them in a negative light (a prostitute who sells out his clients), make the other as frivolous as possible season after season (gives up family secrets in exchange for a hot ass, makes sex eyes with total strangers at his sister's wedding, only interest in a political marriage to Sansa that would pay huge dividends is that he got to plan the wedding), and then make sure the latter is warned about being so indiscreet about his sexuality, so that viewers who feel gay men "flaunt" their sexuality will feel justified in believing that both men deserve whatever they get (with the only other affected characters being extras in a brothel). Choosing c, and making this religious cult look like that cult in the DW episode where Donna Noble and David Tennant went to Pompeii, guaranteed that these scenes had all the dramatic power of Podrick Payne doing the funky chicken. I would guess that 90-95% of the viewers don't give a rat's ass if Olyvar or Loras die, or if all gay characters on the show (who are treated as irrelevant and invisible) are shunted off somewhere, and who can blame them, really? That's what happens when showrunners go for a half-assed attempt at being topical and don't even have the integrity to present Loras and Olyvar as anything but somewhat skeevy plot devices. And how stupid did Margaery look in expecting anything from her child husband when she knew he had no ability to lead at his age and she knew that his mother controlled him? Did she get a lobotomy in early season 4?

Thanks for all the hard work.

What did you think of the producers after Stuart? I'd ask about before Potter but I'm not sure if you watched that material.

We lost so many wonderful people to that disease...sometimes it still hits me, on days like today. It's so unfair. As for Stuart, I've heard so many bad things about his OLTL run. It's unfortunate to hear he was the same at The Doctors. Sometimes I feel like daytime's only had a handful of good producers and sometimes I feel like they've had more but the bad ones are just so bad.

Barbara Crampton horror movie on the way. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/04/barbara-crampton-starring-horror-movie-we-are-still-here-haunt-cinemas-june-5 Poor Barbara.

Sad... He did have a part in a Florida soap that never got off the ground, in 1978. It sounds like a lot of the changes to the show (changes that ultimately were fatal to it) that we've already heard about. A part of me isn't even sure if I want to see up to that point, although I guess I probably do (realistically I don't think Retro will go that far though). I remember thinking that he looked a lot like CC Courtney. It's funny that they did too.

Those Hallmark TV-movies are actually a pretty consistent source of income if an actor gets a foothold in them. They're one of the reasons Mathison hasn't had to go back to soaps (thank goodness...). And several end up getting turned into series.

This is Jane Cameron in the Montgomery Ward ad, right?

I don't think they're happening yet. The photos were from a ball for a charity Danny Miller and some other people founded.

That's great. Does she ever have any stories about her time there? AW was in such transition at that point and it showed. Gaining and losing an entire family in a year must have been odd.

I have a feeling they rewrote and possibly extended the Karen/Matt/Maggie story because of the recast. I don't know if Matt was ever supposed to be as torn as he was.

It may just not be your type of show. I do think they start to have more melodrama going into 1969.

Monika sent these to me.

Some of the cast at a ball for Danny Miller's charity. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/kym-marsh-gemma-atkinson-emmerdale-9173308#ICID=sharebar_twitter

http://i3.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article9173435.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS62648446.jpg Sorry, didn't want to make this huge and crash the thread. It's two of the Cheshire Housewives at a charity event. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/kym-marsh-gemma-atkinson-emmerdale-9173308#ICID=sharebar_twitter