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This is Lara Parker, isn't it?

It was her partnership with Jerry that really made viewers fond of her, I think. They had a lovely relationship. Today I have seen comments about how harmful Jerry's show was. I can see those points, but I felt like his show was so obviously ridiculous and did not try to straddle the line in a way shows like Jenny Jones or Ricki Lake did. For that reason I found it easier to enjoy.

I always appreciated his work as Len - just quietly full of heart and a flavor of the everyday. He helped make the show seem real. And his relationship with Edna was so layered. Sad few days for the Beedles era of the show.

There was something off for me in Monti Sharp's portrayal, similar to when he was on ATWT a year earlier as a villainous doctor. I remember him being positioned as the heavy in the triangle with Dara and Taggert - a triangle I never cared about, and neither did the show. I liked Dara but no one at GH had any interest in her - my guess is Guza would have dumped her immediately if he'd had the option. Philips for me played the different parts of Justus perfectly well, but he did not fit into Guza's toxic fantasies. One of my main memories of Justus of this period is Ned smirking, smugging, and judging, as he spent 90% of his time doing. I truly despised Ned in these years.

The first was not even let on the air by CBS. You can see why when you watch it.

@Vee I remember hearing this was coming, but still surprised it actually happened. I have no tears to cry for Nate Silver, who threw away his reputation for the sake of contrarian and right wing talking points. He and Josh Barro can go bankroll some podcast to nowhere.

They've played so many beats wrong with Zack's HIV story, which should have been a slam dunk on paper. I still don't see any real heart in the show.

I'd say Sonny was exactly Tea's type, but I would never have wanted to watch anything involving them. I mostly remember Damian spending his last year mooning over Katherine. I wonder if they kept him on longer just to set up his murder mystery.

He'll go somewhere. He founded or co-founded Daily Caller, a very influential hate machine. He can go back there. He can probably write his own ticket. I'm just shocked he, as bootlicker Stetler tweeted, didn't get to say goodbye on his own terms. He was, along with Greg Gutfeld, their biggest draw, by far. I wonder just how frightened the Faux News executives are about this upcoming lawsuit and what else is to come.

I see that @Soapsuds put up the photo from it, but does anyone know if any of his short films are available to watch? I'm curious as to how they are.

There's a lot of spin out there about how he's on the rise, Trump has peaked, polling must show that he's secretly beating Trump and he's winning the long game, but the man looks completely and utterly blindsided and rattled here. His face genuinely scares me. I don't believe this is a well man, and he's a danger to everyone in this country.

That's lovely.

Oh right. Sorry. That makes sense actually. When I made that post I was misremembering that Mike and Kayla were related.

That might have worked. Ron Hale was always so reliable (even if I don't think I ever believed him as Sonny's father).

I liked Simon a lot. He felt like a real person, but also had some warmth to him, even when he was often just there to be a foil to Nicola or his annoying mother. Sorry to hear of the actor's passing, especially at just 47.

For me MBE was better in the more unpleasant moments rather than the generic heroine moments. Katherine only should have stuck around for the one storyline, similar to what would have happened with later stunt castings. I do think MBE had a unique presence for that era of GH which made her stand out a bit, but I don't think she ever had an interesting pairing. I actually think a lesbian story with her would have worked, in the proper form. JER probably would have had Kayla sitting on the backburner with Mike.

More propaganda from CBS after their MTG puff piece. I think the media and their money men are unnerved that all the talking points about sainted moms and dads fighting for their kids has gotten any pushback (it wouldn't have in the '90s, the decade much of the media is still in), so we're doubling down now. Shameful. Please boycott network and cable news.

The soap press at the time also questioned why Tom and Felicia were so sexual, and panned the story. It was obvious the show had no idea what to do with Tom, and seemingly just wanted to bring in Matt Ashford. I know John Beradino's health and death didn't help, but that was far from the only problem. I still wonder why Simone was so abruptly ushered from the canvas. If it was Guza's idea, then Riche not doing more to step in was a forerunner of mistakes made later in the decade - very bad ones.

A good obit (the NYT and Guardian obits were well done too).

I know Humphries had his unfortunate moments in later years in some of his comments (not to downplay), but I really did enjoy watching Dame Edna, and I appreciated Humphries' quick wit in interviews - whether as Edna, Les Patterson, or himself - all the way to the end. Watching him toy with people he was interviewing, or who were interviewing him, kept you on your toes, made you laugh, and there were even occasions where, along with the joke, there was some tenderness, as shown in this interview (and kudos to Humphries for not treating these smaller local interviews as something to jeer at) where he talks with the interviewer about being a widow. Humphries always made clear that he wasn't a drag queen, so I'm not going to reach too much in comparing his art to today's violent attacks against drag and against transpeople, but I do think the dual life aspect he talked about in interviews is still a part of the identity and freedom which has become consumed by so much ugly propaganda on the right (and among some of the left who are always happy to help the right). I never really got the sense that Humphries tried to change his act, or his personality, to pander to Americans, so it still impresses me that after an initial rough response in the late '70s, Edna was able to find a niche in the US starting in the early '90s. That she was a semi-regular on the last season of Ally McBeal still makes me scratch my head.

I agree (although none of this can be worse than his Daytime Confidential writing), but if someone can get a writing job in today's deathbed industry, I guess they know what they're doing.

Are there even any around now? I guess the Tyler Perry shows? It's smart of him to leave a sinking ship. If he could take the talentless hack who helped hire him, DAYS might be able to wrap up on a passable note (as long as Higley, Griffith, etc. aren't brought back).

Soon, doctors in Florida will be able to kill you and just say their faith left them with no choice. Unless you want to pay with your life, avoid that hellhole at all costs.