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DTC's poor track record with younger leading men continues. Sam Strike is leaving. http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/s2/eastenders/news/a610024/eastenders-sam-strike-leaving-johnny-carter-role.html Can't say I'll miss him - he was mostly just a nice body, and the porn fic some people wrote with him was more compelling than his onscreen material. I think this whole story being set up with Ben using Abi as a beard while trying to get Johnny as his bit on the side is material none of the actors can handle, and just seems regressive and unpleasant. Strike is doing the show a favor if this story gets dropped.

Someone should tell sungrey.

More clips from 1981. https://www.youtube.com/user/mrmoore1972

What an understated, talented lady. So underrated. What impresses me is she always seemed so fresh and current even as the show's quasi-matriarch.

That's being generous.

I don't think the story was bad, per se, just boring, and very isolated. I tend to wonder if he would have given her the same story. They were already setting up her modeling, so maybe he would have, I don't know. I assume if he'd stayed the story would have ended with Kelly and Morgan still being together, but then Jennifer Cooke was leaving, so he may have ended it the same way. Morgan has such an interesting personality in some of the 1980 material. By 1981, it's mostly Vigard keeping that going. Without her, Morgan was just there. It's weird how Amanda got the Lily role in the Iva/Lily/Lucinda story (Jennifer as Iva and Lucille as Lucinda), but otherwise Morgan was the Lily.

Some July 1980 (the start of Carrie Mowery's Jackie...close to the end for Holly's first run [i actually thought she was gone by this point]), late Lucille, early Jennifer, Rita/Ed tentative reconciliation. More Hope/Alan troubles. Early Vanessa, wearing a Wonder Bread bag. The Morgan/Kelly stuff in this was already on Youtube, chopped up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIdBggtZTbc&list=UU1SN29flGTjicPnAzxJM28A&index=79 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4vhpLdtZkM&list=UU1SN29flGTjicPnAzxJM28A&index=76 May 1982 episode, with some Carrie Todd material (always tough to find) and some fun Nola/Grace, and the always dull Kelly/Morgan/Josh saga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmcOI6H519A&list=UU1SN29flGTjicPnAzxJM28A&index=73 Jerry ver Dorn is still a handsome guy, but he was so, so beautiful in these years, especially the 1980 clips. Mrs. Renfield seems...weirder here than I remember her being most of the time.

Oh so that's who that was. Was Judi sick? She reminds me a little of Rebecca Staab.

Canary had a great body on AMC for a long time (I remember fans noticing during some of his sex scenes with Liza). He also still looked fairly young early in his AMC run. I think the silver hair may have made him seem older.

Someone is putting up some of the '50s GL kinescopes that were on a GL fansite for a while, via Megavideo, then never were put back up in another form. Great to see these again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2SrBAhzYM&list=UU1SN29flGTjicPnAzxJM28A I love those early years when Bert is so aggressive...even over a chess game. I love Papa Bauer. Jone Allison had such a distinctive voice as Meta, in the radio episodes. It's always odd to actually see her.  I never can remember which Trudy this is. I remember someone saying it was Helen Wagner, but i really don't think it is.

Kathleen reminds me of Tina Louise, for some reason. I wasn't too thrilled with the way John grabbed the last niece's arm and dragged her into another room. It reminded me of stuff on soaps today.

I almost don't want to know. I'd rather keep deluding myself for a while longer... Poor Sheryl. You could tell the article was written melodramatically, although I do wonder if most of it was true. I wish something like People could write an article on her. The timing is right after all.

Ramsay in the books is likely too horrific to ever put onscreen, and they do present him as being a bad guy (killing women, torturing Theon). I just think there's a certain ambiguity, intentional or not - oh, he's just trying to please his father, oh, Theon got what he deserved and it's not so awful (I don't think the show is saying that, but the somewhat gentler version of "Thramsay" helps blur the lines somewhat), oh, he has a consensual relationship with Myranda (as far as we know) which balances out what he did with other people, etc. And, while this is typical of TV, obviously - he's also much more handsome on the show. The story in the books is one of those that some fans hold dear but is something that I don't necessarily think would work onscreen. It's really vile. But I feel like if you're going to make some changes, you may be better off cutting those ties altogether.

Thanks for the link to the 1982 episode. I'd never seen the episode, just some clips. And I see a lot of GL at that channel too. I never did get to see WOST material (by the time I got high-speed Internet, they were pay only). I see some 1952-53 GL material that I'd watched on some of the GL sites that are now ghost towns because of things like Megavideo and Youtube going down or taking stuff off. It's terrific to get to see this again. Thanks.

Season 5 spoilers, maybe... Complaining ahead so if you don't want to see it don't read it.

I've only seen some episodes of her in the show's last few years. She seemed somewhat neurotic, while also being strong. I don't think the humor or wryness was played up as much.

The June 1958 TV Radio Mirror article I put up a few years back. A blog entry on Kathleen. http://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/the-candy-fudge-sundae-girl/

She was on in 1981 or 1982 I think. AWHP mentions a story about depression in the workplace. Lemay said in his book that he was burnt out from the AW workload, which is one of the reasons, along with money, he wanted to create L&F.

Radio Mirror April 1943

November 1977 Daytimers. I keep thinking about saynotoursoap's comments about his ideas not being a good fit for the show. I can sort of see that with the core families talk. The setup we're seeing on the Retro TV reruns suits it more. His comments about Liz Hubbard, which are a more polite way of saying "bye, bitch!" amuse me, as he wrote and wrote for her on ATWT. Not a big fan of Julia Duffy either.

https://sites.google.com/site/colleenmooresite/lost-no-more-the-re-discovery-and-restoration-of-why-be-good-and-synthetic-sin http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/oct/13/colleen-moore-barrymore-best-of-the-2014-silent-film-festival-pordenone

Another example of the sheer perfection of disco suites when done right, especially the first song.

Texas mostly works depending on who you are. If you're white and wealthy, you have a shot.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Walking-Dead-Michael-Cudlitz-Josh-McDermitt-1088981.aspx http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-deads-michael-cudlitz-abraham-747361?utm_source=twitter http://www.eonline.com/news/596198/the-walking-dead-s-can-of-whoop-ass-michael-cudlitz-reveals-what-s-next-and-the-truth-about-his-casting http://www.thewalkingdead.com/episode-505-panel-to-screen-comparison/

That's so sad. I had no idea. I hope someone nice bought her things.