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Thanks. I wonder if that would have included the lesbian undertones.

I never knew that. I wonder who she would have played. She was so funny on Soap.

I thought Rishi was a likeable character and he brought a lot of continuity to the show given that he'd been there for over a decade. He wasn't a favorite of mine, but if the show is getting rid of long term characters he wouldn't have been first on my list. With that said, there are some fans out there at places like Digital Spy that trashed Rishi for years and are now very upset he's gone, so I think it's a lesson for people to appreciate some of these characters while they have them.

I keep forgetting Steve Burton is still on this show. How much of the budget is that taking up? The idea of Eve running into him might be fun but I'm not sure if anyone will care much without Charlotte Ross. At least KDP gets some work. The idea of showing various stories in a week would be better if all of those stories didn't suck.

No problem. You provide so much for fans, it's the least you deserve. I wonder if they ever even mentioned Joey in Meta's last years on the show. (I mean as Ellen Deming)

Yes.

A very rare upload here. I kept trying to remember if I'd seen it before as there are a few episodes of this era I've seen that were never on Youtube or haven't been in years, but I'm 50-60% sure this is brand new. Any time I watch this era I'm fascinated by Kathy's story (year on year of perpetual anguish), so this episode was catnip for me. Susan Douglas wails the house down! I imagine some viewers found it tiresome but I can see why she was so loved. Patricia Wheel (I remember her from some radio soaps, including Radio Mirror covers), playing a nurse I'd never really heard much of, also gives a very tender performance toward the end. As a bonus you also get some Papa/Bill/Bert scenes. The date listed on the upload is 5/22/53. This is a lovely treat. I'm always so glad when anything from these wiped years reappears. I've never let GL or ATWT go, and in these moments it's like they've nevet let me go either. @Paul Raven @soapfan770 @Soapsuds @victoria foxton @Vee @SoapDope @antmunoz @slick jones @Mitch64 @vetsoapfan @Sapounopera@Franko @Fevuh @MichaelGL @Soaplovers @Liberty City @Spoon @GLATWT88 @kalbir @dc11786@FrenchFan

Two more 1982 promos. (the volume varies on this and as it goes along can suddenly get loud) I missed a few bits but I think you got most of what I saw, and some of what I didn't. They talked about Nancy Addison. Malcolm still misses her, and Helen says she still feels like Nancy has never left. I think Malcolm also said he worked with Nancy before the show (although maybe that was Faith Catlin), as well as Ilene. Malcolm said he and Helen didn't work together on the first day of taping as it was split between home scenes and hospital scenes. Malcolm also talked about the location footage in that episode and how rare it was. And he pointed out that Ryan's Hope was the first soap set in a real city. Alan asked them if they felt the show got worse when ABC bought it. Helen said she didn't.

McConnell has also had falls. McConnell fell recently at D.C. airport prior to Wednesday’s freeze-up (nbcnews.com) McConnell will be replaced by someone who is as bad or worse. I do wonder why he is hanging on, but clearly many who get in there just don't want to leave - or aren't allowed. I am not going to say anything negative about McConnell, but I will say you can really see the difference between the two parties when you compare the reaction to the absolute glee so many on the right had about John Fetterman and Paul Pelosi.

So much of Sinead's image in the US will always be associated with her SNL appearance. There was such a visceral anger toward her, personal threats against her (including being followed after the show ended), and nothing but disdain from the show itself (there were several Lorne-patented mocking sketches, Tim Robbins, that free speech hero and the host that week, didn't even acknowledge her, and the next week had Joe Pesci giving a truly disgusting monologue about her). She never tried to backtrack, even when it probably felt like the whole country was against her. And she was completely right.

@dc11786 Never knew about the lost story plans for Rita Mae. Thanks. The atmosphere Marland wanted for the show seems very different than what it became (the more aggressive sexual content seems like it's left over from his New Day in Eden stint).

Don't forget Helen Gallagher's going to be on Locher Room tomorrow.

If this were 1995, I would agree, but today... I do get what you are saying.

I would imagine Deirdre is just happy for the paycheck at this point.

There's nothing Deidre Hall can say or do that would make a difference. This rests on Sony and Corday.

Thanks. I'm glad Melanie is mostly settled into that face.

@Donna L. Bridges already posted this in the obit thread but I wanted to post here too as I think Pamela Blair's LOVING role was probably her most memorable for her soap work. Admittedly, I have barely seen it, so I'm just going off what was said here. Some of you who have seen more may have some thoughts. Pamela Blair Dead: ‘A Chorus Line’, ‘All My Children’ Actor Was 73 – Deadline

Some rare 1982 promos here.

Nate Hochman, who received exquisitely tailored profiles from the likes of New Republic and wrote a big New York Times piece insisting Republicans were now the party of Barstool, has been dumped by the frilly fascist's campaign due to mass layoffs, and also, maybe, possibly, making and sending out anti-Semetic imagery. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/desantis-campaign-video-nazi-symbol-sonnenrad These figures keep getting laundered in the press but they can never hide who they are.

There's a tweet over GH now using "temporary writers" getting a lot of negative responses from various actors, pointing out that those writers are "scabs." I do wish more soap people were pointing out how difficult the situation is for soap writers and performers in a strike (the closest we got was Ron Carlivati's pity party).

Weigel had a very huffy response to some of this.

The story I read was that Irna tried to kill Liz off because of her hostility toward Jane House, but viewer backlash over what they sensed was coming (as Liz was in the hospital for a while) made P&G step in. House then decided to leave rather than keep staying under the situation with Irna.

The most depressing aspect of this story is knowing just how common this behavior likely has been on soaps from the start, and we're only hearing about it due to Deadline. I can't even imagine what the cast and crew are going through - their show is dying, has been dying for a long time, and they have to put up with so much harassment, knowing their main boss, who goes on about the show being a family, can't or won't care. What would Ted and Betty Corday say? I don't even want to speculate about which actor suffered what abuse. It's just devastating.