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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPWJFhqHGDY

Fox News comes out. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/obama-video-on-fox-news-criticized-as-attack-ad/?smid=tw-nytimestv&seid=auto

New Chip Albers clips of Curtis are up! I'll just post two. There are two others on the channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj4YCFsy1kw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axmLAo4if50&feature=channel&list=UL That crimped hair on Ann is awful. I thought Ann was gone by this time. When did she leave?

Another member of Congress ousted (and not in a primary with another member of Congress). Longtime Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes lost his seat, in spite of endorsements from Obama and Bill Clinton, in a primary fight which involved hysteria of marijuana legalization and his running an ad blasting his opponent for having a criminal record and falling down on a floor. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/drug-legalization-democrat-beats-rep-silvestre-reyes-texas/story?id=16459144#.T8ZWebBYunc http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_20687030/new-reyes-ad-attacks-orourkes-character?source=most_viewed Here's O'Rourke. Kind of cute, although the veneers spoil it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0A-1B70nw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpspC8ys_o&feature=channel&list=UL

I don't have most of the articles tom is trying to upload, but I had this one. It's the December 1970 TV by Day.

Thanks!

Donald Trump continues to push birther garbage and Romney continues to shrug this off. And what a surprise, the "liberal" media makes sure to devote several pages to talking about why it makes sense for Romney to support Trump, and to even have other Romney surrogates push their own birther theories. Romney is so gutless that he hides behind such stale and offensive conspiracy theories, and the media heaps praise on him for it. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76820.html

Kat pictures. Her face still doesn't look quite right but at least her hair is better. http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/s2/eastenders/scoop/a384113/eastenders-kat-moon-return-first-pictures.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQnu34QygU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piCI63Og3Zc I have to laugh at Chris Fountain being there when he is a bit player on that show. Collinson has destroyed Corrie.

Someone wrote into SOD in the late 80's asking about an early Leanna scene where she implied something bad had happened to her brother (or that she had killed her brother). SOD said this story was dropped when Leanna became popular. Do you know anything about this story?

I guess they were more upset if it was a younger man and an older woman in a relationship which wasn't a vamp and a naive young thing. Some of what you describe with the humor reminds me of ATWT and GL in the late 80's and early 90's - people sitting around making fun.

Who were the comical characters on Somerset?

I'm amazed that foot-kissing scene ever got on the air in the first place! On Ryan's Hope, Jill was obsessed with toe rings around this time, but I don't think Seneca ever kissed her foot. It seems like the 70's were the era when soaps were most allowed to take chances, but as we can tell here, that had its limits. I've always gotten the sense that Veleka was not popular in a lot of her roles, so I wish I could see her as Vicki. I'd love to see Tina Sloan as a neurotic bitch as well.

Gary Swanson was very handsome (the rest I was confusing with the man Gail Rae Carlson was married to). I wonder if Gene Bua's soap experiences burned him too much.

I thought she was around a lot longer than that. Thanks. So Ellen - the only remaining original cast member - wasn't even there at the end? That's a shame. I wonder why they treated her that way, since she'd been so popular on AW. Executives always ruin things.

Avis was on around a year? I can't remember. I wish I could see her. Did you see Vicki Paisley as a great character (as some soap critics did)? What about the Ellen/Dale romance? Do you think it shouldn't have been ended?

What did you feel about Audrey Landers, Sigourney Weaver, Ted Danson, Jobeth Williams? Did you think they'd go on to big things? I always wonder if the last year of the show was the big improvement which some of the soap press said. Sorry to keep asking questions.

Who were the others? What did you think of Joel Crothers?

Thanks to being styled like a hobo his entire ATWT run, Grayson looked older. Mark with martha Byrne (who looked very blowsy by that time) would have been a little odd.

Mark wasn't a great actor but he improved and I liked him on AW. I can't see him as Dusty (too young) but I wish someone had cast him.

December 99 Digest Hank Cheyne and Mark Mortimer tested for AMC's Jake recast.

May 2000 Digest - Vanessa Evigan (ex-Brittany, Y&R) was one of the actresses who tested for B&B's Bridget recast.

That's interesting stuff. I've heard her say this before (about story ideas) but hadn't ever known it was to that extent. I guess that's also why they went along with the whole Shakepeare's Sister routine with Rachel/Carl, which didn't do much for me.