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I don't want to clog up the thread but the same channel put up a number of other 1984 videos just now.

It seems to have gotten a flat result, if polling is ever accurate, although that's common with SOTU. The flap over the "illegal" comment seemed to distract a lot of people who should have known better.

The damage was already done, if the polling is accurate (which I hope it isn't). They knew what they were doing.

6 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I hadn't noticed Scott until you mentioned him. Is he the guy that kisses Ryan during the performance?

Yes.

4 hours ago, Faulkner said:

I was talking to a friend about how much I love the Raspberries’ song “Go All the Way.” Such an underrated band and of course he had a very successful solo career. R.I.P.

The last time I heard of Carmen was for his Trump support, which tends to make me wonder if he would even want some of us to remember him, but in spite of that, I did love a lot of his '70s and '80s work - a very rich pop. This is my favorite:

5 minutes ago, Vee said:

Carly has never stopped being obsessed with Jason, in fairness.

True. That was part of why I thought it was funny.

Imagine going into a coma in 1999, waking up terrified of the new world, asking if GH is still airing, and saying, "At least I won't have to see Carly obsessing over Jason anymore."

And then you turn the episode on...

9 hours ago, Bright Eyes said:

Malachy McCourt has passed away

I thought he was already dead. Rest in peace.

Malachy was a very charismatic, rich actor. I have to admit I hated his character on Ryan's Hope, as he was so often just wheeled out to bash Delia, but that wasn't Malachy's doing.

Thank you @slick jones. To be honest I thought he already died. A wonderful actor.

Seeing this interview (and some of the comments below the interview) with Dolores Fuller, the woman SJP played in Ed Wood, reminds me again of how generally unpleasant SJP comes across as being, in spite of the idea that sometimes goes around about Kim just being a bitch.

3 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

In regards to RH, why are the earliest months of the show so inconsistent to find online? I don't think I've ever seen the second and third episodes, and there are plenty more within the first 60 or so that are missing. Surely they must have aired on SOAPnet?

They aired. I think almost all if not fully all of the first six and a half years aired on Soapnet.

9 hours ago, Khan said:

Definitely "St. Elsewhere."  I mean, my God, they even had an arc about a rapist stalking the women at St. Eligius!  (And to this day, I still don't know if Dr. Peter White was the rapist, or if it was another guy, or if there were, in fact, two rapists terrorizing people simultaneously).  

I do think St. Elsewhere was a soap, even if the people who made it probably wouldn't have agreed. There does get to a point around season 5 where the show just gets so overly cynical, flip, and extremely bitter that it's almost unwatchable, but Fontana and Masius ended up leaving and the final season, with new producers, is more of a return to the show's early years in being more sedate (if a little dull).

The first season of the show is my favorite as the whole show has a more contemplative atmosphere and the hospital is allowed to look much more rundown, but the shift to a more soap-oriented format is probably what stopped it from being canceled.

24 minutes ago, Vee said:

It's just not that serious - Killers and Poor Things are both great movies and did well. Emma Stone's career will be fine.

I don't think it's going to ruin her career, but this type of criticism does seem to rattle her (as shown by all her regret over Aloha).

4 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

I forget if you're still a fan of his, but John Mulaney had a very successful bit as a presenter that some are saying was an audition to host next year, which he aced.

I didn't think his last special was that great, but I still enjoy Mulaney. He also hosted the "these are all the old and boring people we don't care about anymore" Oscars ceremony a month or two ago and was very good. He is sarcastic but also clearly loves film, unlike the jiggly trampoline guy.

I heard so many complaints about Killers of the Flower Moon, especially with the script, and they just seemed to chip away at the wider view of the film. Lily is a good actress, but beyond the whole controversy over the category, most of the final debate over the movie or her award seemed to be:

- if you don't support Lily Gladstone you're a racist 

- be nice to Grandpa Scorsese who is so cute on tiktok 

Neither of those do much to sway Oscar voters. The first one in particular causes a lot of spite. 

(Scorsese these days seems to be more of a brand for himself than for people actually enjoying his films) 

I feel bad for Emma Stone as I don't think she wanted to win because of the optics, similar to Cate Blanchett last year. And I do wonder if these fears are going to cause more and more people to move away from the Oscars, because you don't get any real career boost but you do get a lot of years-long, dedicated hate from losers who cosplay as activists rather than actually bringing about any real change in the world (most of them are probably hoping Trump wins for "the revolution" or because "he's funny").

These same people will likely spit on Lily Gladstone in a month as she will be wearing the wrong brand, work with the wrong actor, use the wrong word, or go to the wrong store.

I didn't bother to watch this year, and after seeing a few clips of Jimmy Kimmel's usual condescending, anti-film monologue and the shambles of the Memoriam segment, I'm not sorry. They didn't even include Treat Williams, who was in a ton of films, or Suzanne Somers, who first became known through an iconic film clip.

No clips, no nominations. I saw a tweet saying the Oscars had finally managed to get rid of all "the old." If that was the point, I hope they're proud.

I did watch the I'm Just Ken clip. Ryan Gosling has always seemed ambivalent about the whole thing, but at heart he's a showman, and I'm glad he embraced that. A genuinely very fun performance. It was also so nice to see Scott Evans at the Oscars. Fish's revenge.

About 6 years ago I found an episode of this show on Youtube and posted the link here. I wasn't sure if it was still up or not. It doesn't seem to be. I stumbled upon a copy of mine tonight and decided to reupload. If anyone knows more info on the date or year of this episode, or much info at all, I'd appreciate it.

Pay special attention to Barbara's last comments.

Thanks @dc11786

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25 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

The news that CBS is considering a new soap and consequent posts about bringing back beloved soaps in some sort of revamp got me to thinking about GL.

How about a reboot that went back to the original 1937 radio show.?

Set in a diverse inner urban area, with the lead character a minister of  a non denominational church (Rev Ruthledge) his daughter (Mary) and Ned a young man with a blank past. 

The Kranskys a migrant family with a daughter out to make a better life for herself. (maybe revamped as an Hispanic family with the parents illegal immigrants) Ellis Smith a mysterious artist with a nihilistic attitude.

All of this sounds as relevant or more so as any modern soap. Mix the inevitable social issues with traditional soapy love affairs and secrets.

Diverse casting-the Rev and Mary could be black. The Jacob Kransky character could be gay etc.

What do you think?

I think that's a wonderful idea. 

I had been thinking lately about adapting Meta's story, only in my version Chucky would live.

20 minutes ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

I know this is not the place for fan-fiction, and I'm not promoting that.  But have you ever imagined scenes which would connect early AW characters with later characters?  Perhaps characters so far apart in time, you had never really imagined them existing in the same world?  And would there be a character who could provide a bridge between the earlier and the later? 

Here's one example: Pat and Lenore (who have stayed in contact over the years) decide to meet-up in Bay City.  They go to lunch at a restaurant and, after a few minutes, Rachel and Felicia walk in.  Rachel recognizes the two women, and . . .

I'm not asking anyone to continue this scene.  But have you ever imagined how early, fairly believable characters might interact with later characters who were more over the top? And could it be presented as real and believable, without resorting to cheap humor?  For example: Marianne Randolph Halloway and Cass Winthrop?  Mary Matthews and Felicia Gallant?  John Randolph and Wallingford?   

Or was the reality of these characters (from different eras) simply too far apart for them to ever truly connect or exist in the same universe?  

I really love that idea, especially because AW seems very divided between the '60s and '70s (family-oriented with eccentric outsiders like Liz or Iris) and the early '80s to the end of the show (outsider characters, like Vicky, Felicia, Jake, Cass, Carl, etc. becoming the core of Bay City - the road paved by Rachel, I suppose).

Marianne and Cass just missed each other by a few months, didn't they? 

I sometimes wonder how a character like Lahoma would have reacted to someone like Iris. If it would have been along the lines of the relationship Iris had with Clarice. 

I never really understood why Jamie needed to be a doctor. I am aware it's easier to write for a doctor than for an author, but they had Felicia on the show and managed to write for her - they could have even used a writerly connection between them to shore up his relationship with Lisa (just don't mention her trying to seduce him).

Very sorry to hear about Steve Lawrence. I'm glad his suffering is over. There was a certain cultural sneering toward Steve and Eydie (my first memory of them is the somewhat infamous Frank Sinatra Group SNL sketch which tore them apart as worthless hangers-on [Sinatra loathed Phil Hartman's take on him]), but I find them likeable and charming, much more than a number of patter duos over the years.