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https://deadline.com/2023/09/herb-alpert-foundation-entertainment-community-fund-strike-1235545823/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/steven-spielberg-kate-capshaw-donate-writers-actors-strike-funds-1235587341/

If you mean me, March 1977 Daily TV Serials. I can scan the blurb if you wish, but here's the writeup: The Edge of Night presented one of the most unusual episodes ever seen on a daytime TV serial in late November when an entire show consisted of only two on-screen characters for the entire thirty minutes. It was the show in which Nancy Karr spent her last morning with husband Mike before packing her bags and moving out. Serial historians can remember that only once before - on Another World with Steve and Alice Frame - has a soap opera presented a two-character episode. Edge's episode was superbly written by Henry Slezar [sic], and magnificently acted by Ann Flood and Forrest Compton. This was material that's indeed worthy of Emmy Award consideration this year!

The corporate media machine is desperate for Republicans to win, at any cost.

I know DWTS is desperate for people (although they got a few names this season), but I am surprised they booked a Housewives Husband. I wonder how many of the New Jersey men, especially Joe Gorga, are seething. I wonder if all the breakup stuff with Kyle was part of a PR ploy for this...

At least Joe Manchin can be proud, as he and his daughter continue sucking up money.

They uploaded a number of 1986 episodes over the last week.

Thanks. I'll have to look through some of my scans again, if I ever find where I put them. I'm always grateful when the random '50s soap episodes pop up, but I'd be so happy if any '70s moments resurfaced, especially for AW.

Thanks @vetsoapfan so much. I should have tagged you, but I didn't want to annoy people with my OCD questions. I had wondered if that might have been somewhere in those clips (I thought it might have been the episode before he went to prison where he asked her to smile), but since those were so many clips, I wasn't completely sure. It's a shame that this never got any recognition in soap magazines, the way that the Edge episode did (I saw that mentioned in that "101 greatest soap moments of all time" SPW issue). I guess Rauch's and Lemay's hostility toward Courtney and Reinholt overshadowed any memory or discussion of this moment. Two-hander I mostly just know because that's how EastEnders episodes along those lines are often described by fans, although they don't do them very often now.

An episode of Workers' Playtime, a BBC radio show that was started up during WWII and stayed on until 1964, lifting the spirits of many during brutal times. This is from 1949, and was recently found with help from a Radio Times campaign. @VeeYou may be interested as it stars Beryl Reid, the doyenne of Earthshock. Treasure Hunt - Canvas (bbcrewind.co.uk)

I have a feeling they know they'll never be getting Susan Lucci.

Loathsome even by the rock bottom standards of the Washington Post. They will do anything to help their hero Glenn Youngkin.

Drew is more known and had also pulled out of an awards show hosting job because of the strike. That show has been on fumes for many years now. I guess CBS has literally nothing else.

Any Kimberley Davies fans may enjoy this - a pilot she did in 1998 (with Mark Hamill, Rachel Bilson, Richard Burgi, among others).

Linda and Alicia are one of the best mother-daughter duos ever on soaps. I'm glad they are still close. Alicia was just riveting to watch. She deserved a bigger career. I would love if she interviewed Nora Dunn, who played her on SNL, but I know that isn't likely.

That "Sarha's been kidnapped" line reading cracks me up.

Thanks. I thought about asking but didn't want to pester as I'd sent a few other questions. And thanks for recapping the Anna Stuart/Linda Dano podcast a few days ago.

November 8th-12th 1976 was the week that Edge episode aired. I looked under some 1972/1973/1974 synopses for AW but could have missed something.

I was looking in an old soap magazine which praised the Nancy and Mike two-hander on Edge of Night. They said the first time this had happened on a soap was Steve and Alice on AW. Which episode was this? I am trying to remember if we'd talked about it before.

I didn't realize until now that Jon Hensley was only 20/21 around this time. He always played as older to me.

I think it may be down to Anna arriving as Robert's ex, while Robert's rooting interest was with Holly and eventually, Anna's with Duke. Anna and Robert were not primed as a couple fans were meant to root for.

Thanks.

Thanks @Soaplovers for your insights. I haven't watched these since the Soapnet airings so the insights are a nice memory jog. I agree that this was the best period for Ronnie, who was so warm and kind and deserved more focus. I fully agree Denise should have been tied to the Matthews rather than a family that was already fading out by the time she joined the show. I never can remember whether Denise wanted to leave but by 1988 it was clear they had lost interest in the character. All of the Sharlene and Frame Farm history in this period gets confusing.

One of the worst PR videos I've ever seen. Not that it's going to affect them much, career-wise, but they were just half-assing the whole way through. This whole mess has led people to compile various clips of the way Mila Kunis was spoken about when she was on the show (joining at 14), the way Ashton spoke about 15-year old Hilary Duff, etc. I remember those times, and yet it still makes my blood run cold. (not that today's times are much better)

https://moviessilently.com/2023/03/26/dynamite-smith-1924-a-silent-film-review/ Dynamite Smith, a film produced by Thomas Ince (one of his last films) and starring Charles Ray (one of his last big movies), with Bessie Love in support and Wallace Beery as the villain, was found earlier this year in the collection of the late David Wyatt. They cleaned it up as best they could and added some English translation for the Dutch subtitles. They also made it free on Youtube if you want to watch.