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Thank you for the reveal scenes. I like the contrast between JLB and Victoria Mallory there - Lorie has a complete meltdown (and as with many of JLB's performances along these lines you can see just how much she lost herself in the moment), while Leslie is still and solid and doing whatever she can to hold herself together. I like how they soon realize Vanessa is their real problem, and again we see Lorie falling apart while Leslie tries to be calm. It's a nice show of sisterhood, but not a false or cloying one. Tom Ligon is so strong and powerful in his supporting work here. I wish they'd kept Lucas around. I wish they'd had more Lucas/Lorie. He seems "real" to me in a way Lance doesn't.

I'm glad you said that because I have a hard time believing The View would let her have casting approval. I think I preferred the fake promo shots to the real one. I do like Rosie Perez...still won't be watching this.

When I went to sites like Daily Kos some of the people there would go gaga over him. I'm not sure if that's the case now, but the belief that he's somehow "brave" enough to speak the truth, and his being an atheist, etc. tends to give him a free pass among some. I think some people see him as cool or hip. He's always kind of made my skin crawl.

Sorry to hear this. John was a wonderful actor - great chemistry with June Brown, and he was able to play all aspects of Jim when the writing let him.

Thanks, Paul Raven. Now this is a hunk and this is a hot body. Generic, oily gym rats with busted, frozen faces - you can keep them, daytime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XsaKjReOcQ

Yes.

Did Lance know that he was Brooks' father?

Denise Alexander was expert at playing neurotic heroines. When GH began writing Lesley that way, their ratings shot through the roof, just as she was an integral part of DAYS becoming a hit.

I remember reading something about KMG had to get surgery on her nose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjASSrzGz2c&list=UU9v5N3_Pmbzr65Eju1oTgsg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xZUCXc12n0&list=UU9v5N3_Pmbzr65Eju1oTgsg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyUXt7IyN0A&list=UU9v5N3_Pmbzr65Eju1oTgsg

The belly dancing was so fun to watch, as was the banter between Lorie and Lance ("Rich American...a whole dollar!" "I've had that dollar for six years!"). I remember reading about how Lance would randomly burst out into song - I'm glad I finally got to see it. They switch from romance and comedy to drama so effortlessly.

She wasn't the choice of the establishment. I guess she just knew what her campaign should be. The results were much closer than expected so that may not bode well for November. There's been a lot of talk in their papers about how this election every Democrat running statewide but one is a woman or a gay man. So I do wonder if that may get any backlash.

Great to see some of Peggy Cass. I've always wanted to see some of her work on this show. I thought Mel looked familiar. Robert Burton was on For Richer For Poorer. He and Jada Rowland do good work here. I'm just glad they didn't "redeem" him or have Carolee fall in love with him, like a soap would now. What he did was brutal and dehumanizing and not presented as anything else. Rowland really is superb. I think Doreen could have been a fun villainess if this wasn't so ugly. Really strong scenes throughout this - I should mention the Maggie/Steve scene too. The opening and closing theme are poignant and appropriate for the tone of the show. It's too bad they didn't have higher ratings at this point. The quality is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjLBUu5OG-U&index=2&list=UUGxJeDjZ65VEz81qzAubTJA Very funny. That "consulting soapalogist" is likely more qualified than anyone running soaps now...

Those episodes can be a tough slog. It's nice to see the end of Dorothy Lyman's run. I got the feeling they hadn't planned to write her out, as they were hinting at a future relationship with the Holloway father. Then...she was gone, reunited offcamera with Willis. And the Holloway father was soon on his way out. I felt like the Holloway brother, Rick, was sort of the tagalong in the family, the one who never fit in. Yet he was the one who lasted longest.

In the last primary night of this election year, scandal-plagued MA Dem John Tierney somewhat unexpectedly lost to Shane Moulton. The idea was that Moulton would do well and make it a real race, but most thought TIerney would pull through and then retire in 2016. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/article_c4d883e4-38f4-11e4-aa6c-001a4bcf887a.html Moulton is 35, which perhaps means more people who aren't entrenched in DC and out of touch with the real world are going to have a voice now. Interesting article from a few days ago. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/09/05/seth-moulton-curious-case-john-tierney/

This has been around and around but this one is in better quality than the last on Youtube.

The screencap is for MissLlanviewPA. This is Louan Gideon material.

This comes after the last page. Scimitar" in 1979. "Then it grew into a great big friendship, and finally it grew some more." After the tour, Sherry got the biggest break in her life. She landed the lead role of the rich and beautiful Liza Sentell in "Search For Tomorrow", the longest-running soap opera in television history. Lanning remembers that she earned the part when the nature of soaps was drastically changing. "When Sherry started, that as the beginning of the studios taking it, as you might say, out of the kitchen," says Lanning. "They used to have the 'core family' that you might see for 20 years. And maybe the daughter was having trouble with her new husband, so the whole family would sit around the kitchen table and discuss it. And that would be the whole episode." In the late 1970s, the soaps became more exciting, and plotlines on "Search" included kidnappings, shootings, boat explosions, ocean cruises - even journeys to China. "They started to cost more money, and they started to become more important," says Lanning. Plus, Sherry - the fourth actor to play Liza since "Search For Tomorrow" began in 1951 - brought a new element to the role. "The producers noticed she could sing, so they introduced a story line about her singing career," says Lanning. One episode even featured Sherry performing alongside the "Velvet Fog" himself, Mel Torme. It was good thinking; ratings for the show soared. Lanning got a part on the show, too, playing the New Orleans villain, Nick D'Antoni. He and Sherry very quickly became full-blown stars, the king and queen of daytime dramas, appearing on talk shows and in all sorts of entertainment publications. (A typical story: "My Boyfriend Treats Me Like a Real Lady" in a 1979 issue of "Daytime TV" magazine. On June 30, 1979, Sherry and Lanning took two weeks off from their hectic schedule, flew to Memphis to be married at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, then rushed back to New York. They lived in an apartment just one block from Central Park, and later bought a penthouse a block west of Broadway. Fans often couldn't separate the actors from the roles they played. "Liza was like Cinderella," says Lanning. "Because she comes to town and meets the richest guy there, Travis Sentell [played on "Search" by actor Rod Arrants]. And I'm the guy hired to keep them away from each other, to add danger to the situation. So when we would go out in public, she would get cheers and I would get sneers." In a 1979 interview, Sherry told a reporter, "You know, if you're in a play or prime-time series and people stop you for an autograph, they call you by your real name. But if you're in a soap, they call you by your character's name. You're in their homes every day, and that's how they think of you." Despite her growing celebrity status, friends say Sherry never let it get to her head. "We could be eating lunch somewhere and fans would come up to her and ask for her autograph," says Kenworthy. "She was always recognized by a lot of people. But she made a point of staying in contact with those in her life who were really important to her." Even so, Sherry definitely had star power. Former teacher Martha Wallace remembers when she and friends went to visit Sherry in New York. "We were sitting at a table, and all of a sudden this vision of loveliness stepped off the elevator," says Wallace. "She had a stunning white chiffon dress with a white shawl, and she looked like a movie star. All the men in the place turned to look." Lanning was on "Search For Tomorrow" just one year before his character was killed off. ("They had to kill me," he explains. "I was just too bad.") He then went on to star as billionaire oilman Justin Marshall in the soap opera "Texas". Both husband and wife now had great roles, but it was hard work. "You get up when it's still dark, and they pick you up in a car so you won't be late," says Lanning. "You're in makeup by 7 a.m., and you're rehearsing by 7:30. And you're always carrying your script with you, because some days you might get 30 pages of lines to memorize." Brother Bill Mathis moved to New York for several months around this time and stayed with them, getting a glimpse of the not-so-glamorous life of actors. "Sherry was studying every night," he says. "We might go out to dinner or something, and by 7 o'clock she would go into her bedroom, shut the door and go over the lines for the next day." Plus, there were publicity stunts dreamed up by the studio's PR departments, such as singing in various shopping malls in New Jersey or flying overnight to Florence, South Carolina, for a March of Dimes telethon. In July 1978, she guest-starred in an episode of "Switch", the detective series featuring Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert. And in the summer of 1980, during "Search"'s off season, she traveled to Dallas to perform in a two-week production of "Brigadoon". The November 1980 issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" featured Sherry in an article on TV's "Sexy Soaps". In 1982, she was profiled in a "TV Guide" story called "It's Fine With Sherry". But things WEREN'T fine. That same month, in a cover story in "Happenings", an entertainment publication, Sherry expressed a desire to try something new. "If I can manage to find a way to do other things and continue on 'Search' for a little while, that might be a possible solution," she said. "I'm just now beginning to discuss this with the show - and myself." And she told a "Press-Scimitar" writer, "The longer I'm away from the stage, the more I miss it. I'm craving to get back in front of an audience." In 1985, after seven years of playing Liza Sentell, Sherry left "Search For Tomorrow". She told reporters, "It will give me a chance to take a career breather. I'm physically exhausted, and I want to spend some time with Jerry as a housewife before deciding what I want to do next as an entertainer." Act Four: Coming Home The rich tapestry of Sherry Mathis' life began to unravel. On April 18, 1986, her beloved father, Milburn, died. "Sherry depended on her father," says her sister-in-law, Carol Mathis. "Not that she wanted him to tell her what to do, but she ran stuff by him, and she would talk it out with him. And right at the time when she was leaving the soap opera and searching for whatever it is she wanted to do, he was not there for her." Sherry developed a strong interest in psychology based on the theories of Carl Jung, reading all the books she could on the subject, and even traveling to Zurich, Switzerland, to study at the Jung Institute there. She wasn't entirely finished with show business, though. In March 1987, she and Lanning flew to Palm Beach, Florida, to join in a special 100th birthday tribute to George Abbott, singing show tunes from some of the producer's many Broadway hits before an audience of more than a thousand of Abbott's friends. But Sherry never appeared on stage after that. She dabbled with painting, jewelry design, and other hobbies. At one point in 1987, she approached patent attorneys about marketing a device she had invented. Called a "Lite-Mother", it was a small pyramid covered in silk, with colored lights mounted in the base. You inserted a cassette tape, and lights flashed across the surface of the fabric. After spending money on patent searches, she stopped pursuing this venture. Around this time, she took classes at Columbia and had the credits transferred to Memphis State, so she could graduate in 1988 with her friend Sherrie Kenworthy. But her life in New York was "beginning to get rocky," according to brother Bill, and she decided to return to Memphis in 1991, moving back into the family home on Vinton with her mother. She and Lanning were divorced in 1992, after 13 years of marriage. "By that point, I think she had lost her focus and wasn't sure what she wanted to do," says Kenworthy. "He wanted to stay in New York and act, and she wanted to come home." She would not live here long. In 1993, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Sherry had finally met a challenge that her strength, talent, brains and beauty could not beat. Independent to the end, even in her last days, she didn't want people to know how sick she was. Her friend Anita Grayson Daily was living in Colorado and called her. "Sherry said, 'Sweetie, I'm really sick' but she never told me she had cancer. She said, 'I'm going to be fine, I'm okay.'" Hal Morse knew otherwise. "Who knows why we do things? I made it a mission to go by two or three times a week, and we talked and renewed our friendship," he says. "She was a special person in my life, and I wanted to be there for her." Sherry Mathis died in Methodist Hospital on January 23, 1994. At the funeral service held at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, brothers Charles and Bill delivered loving eulogies about their sister. She was laid to rest that afternoon on a hill at Forest Hill Cemetery, close by her father. Among the pallbearers was her lifelong friend, Hal Morse. "She did so much in the short time she was alive," says Daily. "She was a dear, dear friend, and I would love to have her in my life right now." "What little time she had, she used it well, didn't she?" says Sherrie Kenworthy. "She made quite an impact in those 44 years, on a lot of people, in a lot of ways." CURTAIN

This comes after the next to last page. "mediately, when she got a lucky break - almost literally. Just a few weeks into the production, one of the lead actresses twisted her ankle during the first act, and Sherry was hustled into a too-small costume and pushed before the audience. "Before I realized what was happening, I was on stage, and thinking frantically, 'What's my first line?'" she told "Memphis Press-Scimitar" columnist Jane Sanderson, who followed Sherry's career closely. "I don't know what it is, but something inside starts to respond. It's like a machine taking over." A critic for the "Hollywood Reporter" was in the audience that evening: "The night I caught the show, Sherry Mathis replaced Victoria Mallory in the role of Anne, and it's difficult to imagine anyone doing it better. Miss Mathis is a most attractive and engaging performer and sailed through the role as if she had been doing it all along." It just so happened that the play's composer, Stephen Sondheim, was also in the audience. After the show, Sondheim came backstage and, wrote Sanderson, "complimented Sherry highly, stating her performance was so good he couldn't believe it." Sherry brushed off her good fortune, telling Sanderson, "It was a lucky thing for me. What 50% of this business is anyhow is luck." If this were a movie, the next scene would have Sherry starring in her own Broadway play. Real life doesn't work that way. "A Little Night Music" closed in August 1974 after a nine-month run, and Sherry found herself taking small jobs here and there: doing voiceover dubbing for a forgettable Columbia Pictures film called "Emmanuel", playing in a short-lived off-Broadway play called "Parto" for just $150, even performing in a television commercial for Ajax Cold Power detergent. That first TV role paid her precisely $105.99. "Any time she got a part, she was glad to get it," says brother Bill. "From her perspective, anything she did helped her grow in acting." She played carhop Darleen in a curious Broadway production called "Truckload" - a musical based on truckers and truckstops (this was the 1970s, remember, when convoys and CB radios were all the rage), but the play folded almost immediately. She then landed the role of June Ann in the Burt Reynolds movie "W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings", and is shown kissing Reynolds in the back seat of a car during a drive-in movie. "I think her face is on the screen for only about ten seconds," says Bill Mathis. "She didn't pursue that; they pursued her. She went down to Nashville [to film it] but she"

amybrickwallace asked me to upload this. It took me a while to get it up, as I don't use Photobucket as much as I used to. I hope this works.

Maybe this will finally get liberals to stop oohing and aahing over this misogynist blowhard. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-maher-rand-paul-2016