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I did see some. Lovely to watch them watching the old clips.

Kim worked well with everybody. She was a real find. What a surprise that ever-misogynistic JFP did not appreciate that.

I do think Mallet worked better in that format than the tedious pairing with Harley. I wish they had paired him with Mindy instead. The moment with the two of them together after Francesca left was one I still remember.

@slick jones Yes. He was a lawyer. Thank you for sharing that Another Life interview. I'm glad someone conducted interviews with a number of cast members while they were still with us.

If only they had been so thoughtful with many other stories in that timeframe.

@slick jones I know it's not exactly proof, but someone claiming to be Bernard Grant's child said on Youtube that it is Philip Sterling in that 1960 GL episode uploaded a few months ago.

Mark James Dead: Grammy-Winning 'Always on My Mind' Songwriter Was 83 (hollywoodreporter.com)

That's pretty much the only Mallet story I ever cared about, although I haven't watched it in a very, very long time.

There's just so much entitlement surrounding Joss, because of who her mother is, and what that is meant to mean for how we see her. Very unearned. Has Joss ever had a story, or a pairing, or any relationship, that most viewers responded to? I know many of her fans hate Trina and want Trina off the show, but nothing is going to change when Trina leaves (which presumably won't be long), because she is so vacuous. Even Bill Bell, nepo king, was not threatened by how much more talented Tricia Cast was than LLB, and instead kept them in close story that benefited both actresses and characters.

'She was wonderful.' WXYZ legends reflect on impact of anchorwoman Doris Biscoe https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/obituaries/howard-fineman-dead.html I remember Fineman getting a great deal of mockery for his coverage during the W years, but still, I'm sorry to hear he has passed.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tony-lo-bianco-dead-french-connection-seven-ups-1235921243/

RIP Tony Lo Bianco. Tony Lo Bianco Dead: 'French Connection,' 'Seven-Ups' Actor Was 87 (hollywoodreporter.com)

Thanks. Given how beloved Alice was by the heartland viewers I suppose it was something of a risk to have her with a black best friend (to this day soaps don't really know how to write those friendships - GH recently had a black woman calling herself a "bitch" as she asked her white BFF to forgive her). I guess that friendship was forgotten about as Susan Harney came in.

@Efulton Thanks for the quotes. When he talks about the black character, does he mean Linda? Peggy was already mostly gone by the time he came in, wasn't she? It's a shame all that I have seen of Linda is a few scraps near the end of her run (and she didn't even get an exit, IIRC). I do think if they had framed Michael's story within the context of the fallout for his parents, audiences would have accepted it, but then it's easy for me to say. It's just depressing to think about in a time when soaps are increasingly hesitant to even acknowledge that gay men exist (Emmerdale just dumped three gay men in a month and the only two left are barely shown or have no life).

I think the show is less out of this world than it was in some past eras (Brash and Cwiliky, or whatever their names were, were seen as the last good writing team on DAYS, and even they had to bring in a flying saucer), but that doesn't mean much when your headwriter is a thin-skinned no-talent who last had an interesting idea when George W Bush was in office. And to be fair to him, even if he did finally leave, clearly Corday and Sony don't care about their show having any quality - just burning out episodes 50 years in advance.

Thanks as always @Huntress

It's not great (and has the inevitable struggle of a wacky sitcom trying to address topics like suicide), but definitely interesting.

I know the talking points against this are that now Democratic voters are more likely to vote in all elections so it doesn't matter - I'm not sure I believe that, but I do remember Democrats doing well in a lot of 2004 special elections and still losing in November. Hopefully the environment is better this year.

https://deadline.com/2024/06/frasier-cast-dan-butler-edward-hibbert-season-2-1235970224/

Apologies - I had forgotten Pete was not the father. I still don't know why that family was written out so quickly, but then I've barely seen them.

This is another reminder of the creative teams at GH being stuck 20 years in the past.