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Thanks for all the tweets @Vee . Those Vance clips are genuinely hilarious, even if I know nothing about this is a laughing matter. 2008 and the Jay Z flap did come to mind when I saw all the reaction to the twerking at the Atlanta rally, with "Hoes for Harris" already trending. I guess this will just give the old white people who were voting for Trump another reason to do but hopefully won't affect anything else. Her first choice of city post-VP announcement is leading many to assume Shapiro will be the choice. I hope not.

Most of the writers from the glory days are long gone. The few who are left are just cashing checks.

This organization pulled a stunt at the last minute to get Trump in and have Harris Faulkner moderate for him, not allowing Harris to have a virtual interview (she is attending Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's funeral). The orchestrator has locked her Twitter account. Some smarmy LA Times reporter tried to turn the framing around by saying this is very "weird." You can tell how much they are smarting as the support for Harris was very organic and bypassed the Beltway, which was hoping for a Trump landslide.

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I think a number of fans liked Cutter. In '94 SOD asked JFP about a Cutter/Tangie pairing, telling her they had fan support. She sidestepped (clearly not wanting to say that she thought he was beneath what she had expected Tangie to be with viewers). In a way I'm glad they didn't try to make Cutter bigger and ruin him, but he was a charismatic, believable presence. It was Charissa Cree Chamorro's character, Sophia. I agree Levy was a very good support character.

I think this may be Donna with her sisters. Gorgeous performances.

Adam McKay along with various conservative black accounts on social media have all been pushing the line of how this is identity politics and shows how broken the party is and so on, which probably means they are worried over the success. Speaking of which: I'm glad that Democrats are not as terrified of being seen as anything but serious at all times as they used to be. Yes, this has to stop at some point, and clearly it will, but this is the world Trump, and the media who would sell every organ in their body for a moment with him, created.

@wonderwoman1951 Thanks. I'm wary of both publications to be honest. @Vee I do think some of the efforts at shaming and forcing backlash will work but luckily, they don't have near as much influence as they once did. Speaking of Faux News:

I don't think it hurt Margo as much until Ellen Dolan just became so sour to watch in general, but with Harley it did take away a lot of the character's spark for me very quickly. And knowing now the choice was some type of JFP fetish (she did the same on AW and OLTL - a young heroine joining the police force and hooking up with an older male cop) makes it even weirder for me.

I wonder if this is due to how poorly received the whole Terese/Toadie/Mel/Paul story was. That's not his fault but you could tell just how much the material was ill-suited for him. You could see a big shift in the original story when you had Mel telling Toadie last week that they never should have been together. I suppose budget reasons may be at play too.

It's that time again. The Beltway doing what they do best - chastising any Democratic voters who have any hope (they never ever do that with Republicans). And the New Yorker, which I believe had the infamous cover of "black power" Michelle and Barack Obama, dishes out an incredibly degrading cover to humiliate the Democrats. They're already doing their best to engineer a backlash against the party - they must be very upset.

Gowdy Doody (remember when he was another hope of the future for the GOP) looks more like an Aeon Flux character than ever. Some on the right are gleefully trying to double down on what their favorite shiny new fascist said, but even Gowdy knew better. Speaking of fascists, you can see how much Thiel is puppeteering Trump again, not only with the disastrous VP pick, but also Trump very, very belatedly endorsing Blake Masters, one of the worst candidates of all time. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/07/28/trump-giving-blake-masters-abe-hamadeh-total-endorsement/74578406007/

@slick jones Lovely tribute to Richard. It took me a while to understand what he meant to people as he was so often treated as a joke. I'm glad I saw little or none of his NB return.

I think K&A was better than Family Ties - I never thought the cast on that clicked. I preferred Night Court as a kid, but I agree Newhart is underrated.

Anything I've seen of their ATWT run bores me to tears, although I appreciate them giving Ellen and David more prominence and I think the Montgomerys were hugely important to fresh blood and dynamics for the '80s. I am not a huge James Stenbeck fan but I do appreciate Anthony's suaveness and good looks and he did manage to make the whole international/lavish era work for the show better than some soaps managed. Some aspects of their era work better on paper than onscreen, although nothing about Brad works on paper or onscreen. If the show had not been in such a malaise, it might have managed their style and personality better. I don't know.

You're right. I think he just pops up again for a few months before Julianne's Sabrina leaves, then for even briefer periods. She may not have remembered him as he wasn't on the show as long, but Colleen wasn't averse to a few feuds in that era (allegedly). I imagine he was let go because he didn't fit the Dobsons' idea of dynamic younger leading men. He was more along the lines of the men who were cast on the show in the '70s.

HSB was more of a soap alongside a drama, and then Miami Vice was the type of sleek, atmospheric drama that various soaps (especially DAYS and GH) saw themselves as being in the same world as. GL and ATWT were never along those lines (although they tried at times), but I guess they still decided to build up that presence. I don't think GL ever really found a successful version until Harley and Mallet (successful to viewers, not me - I never wanted Harley to be a cop and similar to Margo on ATWT I wonder if that's one of the reasons the character became so dour).

@Skylover So sorry to hear this. I'm not as up on old Neighbours as you and many others but any time I see Lyn in the old episodes she's a real spark plug - and she also feels like a character who was designed for Neighbours, rather than a generic figure.

Likely Hill Street Blues and later Miami Vice.

Thanks @Matt !

I think he's done a great job as a spokesman for the party and a decent job as Transportation Secretary, but I don't think, even beyond being gay, he will ever win over voters, as he didn't do well when put in the spotlight in 2020. Kelly and Shapiro are both going to be used as excuses by many on the left or among Muslim-American voters to stay home or vote for Trump (admittedly they will always find a reason to not vote for her). Kelly was stupid to go have fun at that Netanyahu pity party. I have a feeling she will pick him because of his background but I hope not as background and actual impact on the ticket are very different. If she is choosing based on Arizona, I don't that's happening, the state is too racist. I wish she'd go with Cooper or Beshear, which seemingly isn't happening. If you pick based on trying to win a swing state, you run the risk of losing that state and losing others in the process. She's getting the usual soft sell "we can't believe she's doing this, she's so nice, we swear" puff pieces Ivanka always got. That's why the WSJ and others are trying to have the party push her out there to humanize him (what a great idea - I'm sure a deeply racist party will love her). I don't buy it. She and her husband (who every time I see him further fits the description I saw on Twitter of being a "racist Care Bear") will sacrifice anyone for power and wealth. I hope she enjoys her 5 minutes of fame before he has her hide in the corner for the rest of his career. If she's lucky he won't sic Thiel on her. Maybe she can go work for Hulk Hogan. I'm sure he'd love her. He is especially odious as he stabbed a trans friend in the back. At least that friend has enough integrity to not go around running interference for him the way I see another "liberal" friend of his is doing now with the New York Post. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/politics/jd-vance-friend-transgender.html That Megyn Kelly interview is amazing in that someone actually thought it was a smart PR move. A Bobblehead choking on her own bitterness and rejection while being shot through cement, struggling to tolerate a conversation with a deeply sour, deeply jaundiced husk whose soul is as dark as his badly tattooed eyeshadow.

The character received such vicious hate early in her run (likely in part due to her being a black woman, partly due to some terrible writing), I'm surprised she lasted as long as she did. Andy and Denise would have made sense, but the show had no interest in Andy.

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Thanks @slick jones appreciate all the work you do as always. Lady Jane was the only Jacks I ever cared much for. I never knew Tarbuck was on LOL.