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@Vee Clearly someone's PR people got on the line. Ryan Murphy Launches $500K Fund To Support Casts & Crews On His Shows – Deadline

Demi Moore's memoir probably tells you enough about Ashton as a person (that and other people who have said he's extremely unpleasant to deal with). I'm already seeing "truthers" on the corpse of Twitter trying to make Masterson their new cause. This is also a reminder of just how much for show a great deal of the high profile human trafficking activism is.

@marceline Sorry if you have already seen this before. It's a pilot with two scenes for Renee Elise Goldsberry. She plays the lead character's ex-wife, in a fun reversal of the usual sitcom cliche of the ex-wife from hell. (it's also a surprisingly good pilot)

Yes, I miss their videos and commentary too.

Thanks. I didn't know her well enough to decide. I'll edit that video out.

This is another where I'm not 100% it wasn't up before, but if so it's been put up again.

Can't remember if these had been up before and were reuploaded.

Corrie: Julie Goodyear appeared in less than a dozen episodes in 1966. Pat Phoenix, then the biggest icon of the show, encouraged her to spend more time on the stage to hone her acting skills. She returned in 1970 and became a huge icon herself for decades to come. Anne Kirkbride appeared in one 1972 episode. 3-4 months later, she was brought back, and remained on the show until her death in 2014. Helen Worth joined in 1974 as a supporting friend to Tricia, a character who was meant to be the hot new thing. Tricia only lasted a few years, but Worth is still there, with her kids and grandkids driving major story for years. Sarah Lancashire had a bit part in 1987. In early 1991, she returned for a part that was only meant to last a few weeks, but the writers enjoyed her work and kept writing for her. She became one of the main faces of the show until Lancashire left in 1996. Lynne Perrie appeared for most of the '70s as a supporting figure/antagonist in the factory. Near the end of the decade, the show decided to expand her part, giving her a son and permanent husband (ignoring past continuity as a result). She stayed on the show until she was let go in 1994. Liz Dawn joined not long after Perrie, also as a factory worker. Her part was also steadily built up, cemented by finally making her husband Jack (played by Bill Tarmey, himself responsible for several Corrie bit parts over the years). Jack and Vera would go on to become beloved by viewers until they left in 2007 and 2010. Julie Hesmondhalgh joined Corrie in early 1998 as Hayley, in what was initially treated as a transphobic joke. The show decided to keep her on and she became a firm viewer favorite until she chose to leave in 2013.

Probably not, but he was at his worst in that period.

Swajeski wrote Michael as such a sanctimonious piece of [!@#$%^&*], she made me despise the character.

I suppose there was also Sharon Crossthwaite, although that was early on.

I thought it looked a bit like Deborah Shelton, but there's no real reason she'd be on there.

I didn't read the article either. I posted the tweet mostly because about as honest as I've seen the Beltway be about why they hate Biden and want him to lose. He doesn't make them money on book deals and there also isn't an in-house group who buy the books in bulk as often happens with the GOP.

A reminder of just why the media hates Biden so much.

Nathan Louis Jackson Dead: ‘Luke Cage’ & ‘SWAT’ Writer-Producer Was 44 – Deadline

That's nice to hear. I wonder if her recent return was a revelation to some of the newer or less involved people now at the show of just how good Veronica is.

This seems to have been translated from the original language, so maybe she said something different initially, I'm not sure. Article Kristen Meadows (santabarbara-online.com)

And in Alabama (again): https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1193749552/alabama-congressional-map

Carolee Campbell was brought on as an extra/day player on The Doctors and her part was slowly built over a number of years.

They sort of hinted as Reuben/Josie too. I think, beyond what you mention, they just weren't going to give a black character a more central role. I did like Ronnie a lot. I wish they'd done more with her. She was very sweet.

There's also been even more of an uptick in posts on places like Deadline framing the unions as out of control and selfish and starving the working man, no one in the public cares about their fight, and the latest, that other countries will just pick up all the slack and nothing will be made in the US again. I think they've decided they can just wait out the year and starve everyone out (as they said they would do months ago). I wish I could believe it won't work.

https://archive.org/details/wdsusoaps-541988 I was watching this episode earlier today (5/4/88) - I know this was a bit of a lull period as the Pamela story had recently wound down and Eden and Cruz were in one of their rare happy places, but I wonder how much was also on hold due to the strike. How much do you think was affected by the strike? (I can't remember if they were the reason Hayley was killed) This episode really makes me appreciate all the more the natural chemistry Lane Davies and Nancy Lee Grahn had and what a believable quality NLG brought to the pairing and the show. (although SB had a number of actors good at finding the everyday in absurdity) Their stuff here is absolutely beautiful. I had forgotten until today that Kristen Meadows said she left SB because of death threats from Cruz/Eden fans. That's horrible, but nothing I ever see of Tori suggests she fit into the show. She just seems so whiny and drab. I had no idea until today that the wonderful Susan Brown played her mother. Glad Susan got a paycheck, but what a waste. On the positive (?) side, Warren Burton seems much less flaming here than he did on GL and to a lesser degree on AW. I was going to ask if Tori left town with him, but it looks like she didn't? I wonder if there was a dropped story here. Who is playing the older woman TJ (bleh) is paying off? Judith McConnell and Jed Allan's chemistry tends to make me forget that I probably couldn't tolerate CC if I were her, even if Sophia wasn't a saint either. Ross Kettle really couldn't play anything beyond dream prince, could he? I don't know what it is about the combo of JFP and Vincent Irizarry. I had no problem with him as Lujack, or David Hayward, but similar to his run as Nick, I wanted to dropkick him off the screen here every single time he appears. Endless sanctimony and sourness.

I believe so. The shift to making Cindy so similar to Alex Olanov (which Kim Rhodes somehow made work) and the unfortunate rape story with Toni felt like Malone re-using his OLTL material.