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I do look forward to this. Some see it as catering to June Brown, but I think this other woman will probably be a fine addition, and I think, as long as they move on a bit from the Edward stuff, Dot has a lot of possibilities left as a character. I liked Dot and Jim but I wasn't fond of the whole Dot as everyone's long-suffering, weeping grandmother routine that had started up in the last 3-4 years. I think this recent stuff has helped to ease this story out and while Jim won't be forgotten, it was time to move Dot on.

You're right, apparently they have. I just missed it.

That's nice. Don't show that to anyone at Y&R, they think Jill's a lonely old bag.

I'm surprised they're bringing in family for Dot that we had never heard of before, but it's probably needed. I guess those who felt she was just going to have story with sleazy Edward will be happy. It's confusing because when you look for her in IMDB you see Gwyneth Paltrow photos! Clearly she hasn't worked in TV or films in a long time.

I did like Estelle though. I wonder how popular the McClearys were, and if the show had so much of them in the last few years because of popularity or because they just couldn't come up with anything else. By the end it seemed like you had everyone but Kathy Garver as the long-lost McCleary cousin Cissy.

About a dozen or more clips of some sort of hostage/cabin drama in 1981 that I don't know very much about, starring the beautiful Richard Bekins. On these men in bondage/women tied up fetish type channels, you will always find random soap stuff you can't find anywhere else. The hypnosis fetish channel is the first time I ever saw anything of Another Life.

They were also supposedly trying to get rid of Jo for much of the 70's. I think she almost died not long before Eunice was killed off. What I never understood is why Jo kept the name "Tourner." It's not like she was widowed - she divorced him. To me that's kind of weak for her to go out with the name of some guy she was done with. I think it would have been more interesting to see her go back to her maiden name.

Catching up with Leah Bracknell. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/9050050.Former_Emmerdale_star_Leah_Bracknell_turns_to_yoga/

More on the Congressional Republicans putting the brakes on disaster relief. Funny how there isn't enough money for this but there's plenty for abstinence-only education and endless wars. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55776.html

The new credits will be debuting later today, I believe. The title card looks very drab, which is fitting. Here is a cute little map of the village. http://www.itv.com/emmerdale/about/village-map/

Brief return video for Benjamin McNair. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150186897270248&oid=190062823350&comments

I guess so.

Thanks. For some reason I thought Jo and Stephanie fought over Wendy. I guess it was Suzi. That makes more sense. I was reading a 1973 soap magazine and they bemoan the firing of Ann Williams, saying Eunice shouldn't have been killed off. This was the death that wasn't really a death, and for some reason her murder was faked, right? I think saynotoursoap and FrenchFan mentioned this.

I wondered that too. I can't remember if Lynn commented when Mary passed away. I can imagine that Lynn may not have wanted to ever go back, but considering Secret Storm got Jade Rowand back, you never know. It's still a bit off to me when I see Jacqueline Schultz as Patti, although I guess it wasn't as bad as it could have been, since Patti had no children on the show (which would have pointed out the age issue more). I have a harder time with the women who play Liza and Suzi in the last year...they got on my nerves in the flood episodes, quite a bit. Who was Suzi exactly? Cynthia Gibb played her before this other woman right?

The media, which is always happy to be sycophants for the GOP, will do their best to spin for someone like him. There are few other options at this point. The only other choice is Romney, who is mostly known for his breathless hypocrisy on health care.

Max, even quite a few Republican strategists have said, albeit anonymously, that the Medicare ads worked. So did Paul Ryan. Jack Davis is a gadfly. He likely took from both sides. The GOP spent months attacking him because they assumed when his numbers went down, his supporters would go to Corwin. Instead, many went to Hochul. In order for Corwin to have won, she would have needed just about every single Davis vote. That was unlikely. Why would they feel like hypocrites? Edwards was already out of politics by the time his affair was revealed. Primary voters had rejected him in 2008. Many people did feel disgust and regret when they learned about Edwards. Here's one of his former campaign people writing yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/25/john-edwards-democrats The other difference between Arnold and Edwards is that rumors of Arnold's infidelities had been around for years, and even made the Los Angeles Times not long before the recall election. No one knew about any of this with Edwards. Yet there was some speculation on Arnold even as people were saying he should run for President, have the amendment repealed to let him run, electing and reelecting him as their governor, touting him as their star, etc.

As a result of being on television (she has been in big dramatic shows like Robert Montgomery's, and on Your Hit Parade and many others), offers began to come from the Hollywood studios. Lynn was excited over the first one for only one reason - and it had nothing to do with a trip to Hollywood or the idea of becoming a movie star. "If I made a picture in Hollywood," she asked, "will they let me in at our neighborhood movie whenever I want to, without paying?" Her mother assured her that she wouldn't be singled out for any special privileges, and somehow the whole idea lost its enchantment for her. It was just as well, because her daddy didn't like the prospect of having his wife and daughter so far away part of the time, and Barbara Loring was unwilling, too, to upset their family life. Producers have wanted her for Broadway shows, but have been turned down. "The hours would be all wrong, and we would both be away from home too much," Barbara sums it up. Lynn adds, "I get sleepy even now by eight o'clock, so how could I stay up late every night? Only when I do an evening radio or television show can I stay awake - and that's not often, so I'm pretty excited." Normally, she's asleep a little after eight, except on Friday and Saturday nights, which are special enough to give her an extra hour or so of stay-up time. On Search for Tomorrow, work becomes fun for a little girl who truly enjoys being that other little girl, Patti, and who thinks her family on the show is almost as nice as the one at home. In fact, when both Bess Johnson and Cliff Hull (Grandmother and Grandfather Barron) went off on their respective vacations last year, Lynn broke down and cries - "because I knew I was going to miss them terribly." When Mary goes, Lynn counts the days until she comes back. Mary takes her to school when Barbara is busy, or picks her up after classes if Barbara can't make it. Lynn goes to a private school because, on days when she appears on the program, she can only attend the afternoon sessions, and must make up the work by putting in extra time with a tutor. Mary helps, too, by going over the homework with her. Her mother and her big brother Neil take over when she gets home, but she really needs little outside help. "I think Mary makes more fuss over Lynn's high marks than I do," Barbara laughs, "but we're both proud that her lowest seems to be 98. She's a good student, and particularly advanced in English - because of her reading, I suppose, and because of the many brilliant people she has been thrown together with in her work." Days she is on the show, Lynn reports to the studio at 8 A.M., rehearses until 9:30, then goes for a walk in the fresh air until close to broadcast time. Sometimes she comes back early to go over her homework, or make funny masks out of newspaper, or play Scrabble or checkers. After the show is off the air at 12:45, she has lunch, and then goes off to school. Days when she isn't in the scripts, she keeps morning school hours as well as afternoon. Playtime is 4:30, outdoors with the other kids in her building or around the neighborhood. Somehow or other, she works in her piano practice, her ballet and tap lessons (she has been studying these for the past two years), and this year she will begin to take some singing lessons. A pretty big schedule, but Lynn is a healthy child whose 64 pounds nicely balance her 4'3'' of height. Somehow, too, she finds time to answer her fan mail, all by herself, and to give time to her fan club, made up of children who admire her. "I wouldn't want anyone else to answer my mail, especially when mothers of sick children write, or letters come from hospitals or older people. I like to write my own way, so it will sound like me." Lynn is still amazed that people recognize her, although she herself is always excited when she meets some favorite of movies or TV. She and Barbara recently spied one of their favorite actresses in a Fifth Avenue store early one morning, when few people were about. "Do you think she would mind if I asked for an autograph?" Lynn asked. "I don't think so," her mother said, "because there are so few around. It won't start requests. Just go up to her quietly." The star was annoyed. "I don't give autographs, little girl," she told Lynn. "if I gave you one, others would ask." And she turned away. Just then another child got off the elevator with her mother, spied Lynn, called to her, "Patty, may I have your signature? I watch you all the time." If Lynn signed with a little extra flourish, she could be forgiven - because out of the corner of her eye she could see the big star trying to figure out just who this little girl really was! Last summer, when the family was on vacation, the women who did their laundry had a son who acted as Barbara's caddy on the golf course. Lynn played a few holes, then he stared at her and said how familiar she looked, but he couldn't figure out why. "Are you sure I didn't caddy for you before?" he asked. Barbara finally broke down and suggested that he might have seen Search for Tomorrow on television. "Why, you look like Patti Barron!" he shouted to Lynn. "You are Patti. Just wait until I tell my mother whose laundry she's doing!" Even Mary Stuart has to take bows for Lynn occasionally. The kids back in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Mary's parents still live and where she visits, don't ask if Mary is Joanne Barron. Instead, they want to know if she's "Patti Barron's mother." Mary is only too happy that she can say yes. Incidentally, Mary's parents are also proud of their little "granddaughter." Adding them to Lynn's own three grandparents and her two on the show, Lynn has a total of seven - way over the usual quota! At this moment, however, Lynn has only one daddy, Charles, who is a lawyer and the executive of a ship repair company. Her daddy on the program died - not really, of course, but in the script - and Joanne Barron hasn't yet found anyone else she can love as she did Patti's father. The day that Keith passed away in a hospital scene, both Mary and Lynn stayed away from the set. In the first place, they liked the young actor, John Sylvester, who played him, and now he would be out of the script and the show. In the second place, the whole thing had become very real to them. Mary hurried out to a restaurant, to brood over a cup of coffee and to hide her emotion from everyone else in the cast. Lynn retreated quietly to her dressing room to shed a few tears that no one could see. Even though she had read the script beforehand, and knew it was only part of the Search for Tomorrow story, that day, it all seemed to be really happening. Lynn's daddy didn't feel quite so unhappy about it, however. "I think he was a little glad she had only him for a daddy again," Barbara Loring laughs. "Sometimes, he would tease her and say, 'Well, you certainly loved your other daddy in the show today. I saw you hug and kiss him. Lynn knew he was only fooling, but she would reassure him that she loved him best. 'Well, I don't know,' he would insist. 'I saw you, and you certainly snuggled up to him.'" Lynn's two mothers, Barbara Loring and Mary Stuart, don't even tease her about her shared affections. Each knows she has her own place in the little girl's heart. As for Lynn herself, she is still marveling at her luck in having two wonderful mothers - her real Mommie, and Mary, her mother on Search for Tomorrow.

She looks like she's about to give a self-exam.

The less said about that 1986 vocal the better. The 1976 one is very pretty, and simple. I like it. I think saynotoursoap or someone else who knows a lot about soaps can tell you more.

OK.

Not that I know of.

Lynn's career began when she was four, first as a model. She was six when she auditioned for a role in a commercial film for a big electric company. The producers asked Barbara if she would leave Lynn with them and go home for some other clothes they wanted to test her in. "I'm a meticulous housekeeper, but that day I couldn't find a thing. I was so excited," Mrs. Loring recalls. "By the time I got back, Lynn had become hungry, so they had taken her to lunch and she had told them all about herself, her family, her friends, her studies. They kept whispering to me how wonderful she was. I knew it all along! Of course, she got the role, although dozens of children had been auditioned. She was calmer than I was, and not one re-take of her part was needed. Her brother Neil had been teaching her to read, and she learned the line s easily." After that, Lynn did some other commercial films, and then Barbara took her to CBS for a general audition. Lynn had had no formal dramatic training at all, but her first TV role was in pantomime, on Lamp Unto My Feet. Next, she had a dramatic part on Studio One - a real role with some lines to speak. "I was excited, but not nervous," she remembers.

I guess the doctor will get involved with Susan?

Lynn and said, "This is your mother." The little girl remembers that they shook hands rather solemnly, and that she was feeling strange about suddenly acquiring a second mother on a permanent basis - not just for one part of one show, as had happened on other programs. This was to be a mother-daughter relationship "for keeps," something like the one she had with her own mother. "I liked Mary right away," she says now. "I kept getting to like her more and more as I got to know her better. I'm still getting to like her more and more - if that's possible, when already I love her so much. My Mommie loves her, too. On Mother's Day, I do double shopping and I don't even have to make two decisions. I decide on one thing, and buy two alike. Last year, it was a little dancing-girl pin. I don't quite know yet what it will be this year." As far as Mrs. Loring is concerned, she couldn't be more pleased that her little girl has acquired another mother. "As long as it's someone as fine as Mary Stuart," she adds. "Part of Lynn's life is now spent with her, and my little girl would be bound to pick up certain traits from anyone she is with so much. Mary is one of the most natural, wholesome, charming - and least vain or egotistical - women I have ever known. Watching her, Lynn will never turn into a superficial person or a vain one. We laugh about how Mary never primps, how she seldom even looks in a mirror before she goes on the set. Lynn is usually the one who looks her over and pushes back any stray hairs or fixes a fold in her skirt. Mary dresses herself carefully, and has beautiful taste in whatever she wears, and then she never fusses over her appearance. She is always careful, too, about what she says in front of Lynn, just as I am. I couldn't be happier about the example she sets for my little girl." For her part, Mary Stuart considers herself just as fortunate. "Lynn is a wonderful little girl. I haven't any children yet and when Barbara (Mrs. Loring) is busy, I love to take Lynn along with me - shopping, or sometimes in a matinee or the circus when it's in town, or a museum, or home to my apartment to sit near me and visit while I sew or cook. We don't live too far apart, which makes it easy. I buy little books for Lynn to read when I'm too busy to talk, but she's a resourceful child who can always amuse herself. We go window-shopping, sometimes the three of us - Barbra and Lynn and I - sometimes just Lynn and I together. When I gaze too long at a dress or suit in the window of my favorite shop, Lynn will grab my arm and warn, 'Remember Richard.' She means my husband, Richard Krolik, who is a television producer. Lynn is always looking after her interests! They are very good friends." Mary is making the bedspreads and drapes for Lynn's pink and green and coca room in the Lorings' new apartment. (She is also making matching mother-and-daughter costumes for them to wear on the program - skirts, blouses and little aprons.) Lynn's new room is o much bigger than the one in their old apartment that it is being divided by bookshelves into a sitting room-bedroom. Furnishings are French provincial, and the windows are also framed in bookcases - so there is ample space for her collection of more than a hundred dolls, dozens of stuffed animals, books, toys, game and all ten-year-old's heart. Lynn has the first doll the director of her first TV dramatic show gave to her, and all the other dolls she has loved as one by one they joined her family. Grownups she has worked with - including everyone on Search for Tomorrow - are always giving her little and big presents to make her round eyes dance even more than they do normally. Bess Johnson, who plays her Grandmother Barron on the program, knitted her a sweater and hat and gloves as a Christmas present - and made an identical set for one of her favorite dolls. Melba Rae, who plays Marge on the program, made one of Lynn's dolls a wonderful reversible raincoat, just like a full-size one. The men - Terry O'Sullivan, Larry Haines, Clift Hall, and all the others - are always finding surprise presents for her in their pockets. Lynn's parents are pleased by all this, but they have definite ideas about how to bring up a little girl with a big dramatic talent. As far as her father was concerned, "Charles wasn't too sure she should be an actress at all," says Lynn's mother. "Actually, she represents my own frustration at not being allowed by my parents to try my wings as an actress. When I saw signs of talent in our daughter - and I admit I was watching for them - I was determined to give her a chance. I told her that, if we never saw any signs of her becoming spoiled, then she would have to give up on being an actress. "Fortunately, Lynn is an intelligent child who understands how lucky she is, and we don't feel she has been one bit spoiled by the nice things that have happened. The stagehands play checkers with her during the waits between rehearsals and broadcasts, and I consider that one of the acid tests. Actors don't impress them at all, and they just couldn't be bothered with a 'bratty' youngster. They treat Lynn as thought she were one of their own kids."