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Needless to say this info was quickly removed.

I saw some tweets today suggesting Disney would not want her to go because she is filming Snow White and it will complicate COVID protocols. If that's the case, it is less surprising, but what a PR mess all around.

I'm reminded of Eddie Drueding (without whom I would not be as into AW as I am, so I wanted to agree with the people above who credit fans for doing as much for the show as they have) talking about Matt and Sofia by saying Matt wanted a second helping of "convent girl." This really was a trope for AW in those last 10-15 years.

Jenna basically replaced Lisa's role in Felicia's life. Joanna Going was a very appealing actress, but Lisa was a very wan role. Joanna had no chemistry with Larry Lau, and as that was the main purpose of the character beyond the Sin Stalker story, it was a significant handicap. Soaps generally do NOT do well with giving characters psychic powers, especially if it is not a character like Celeste on DAYS who exists solely for supernatural storylines. Short-term characters are one thing, but giving a long-term character psychic powers means viewers will always wonder why this did not help save them or save others from trouble. They did a little more with Frankie, but frankly, anything that ever worked with Frankie I would credit to Alice Barrett, not the writing. Susan Keith should have had hazard pay for carrying so much of 1980 AW on her back.

I would have killed him off as I felt JR was too powerful and this drained the canvas of vitality, but honestly, JR was an international icon, so it would never happened.

I miss those Hollywood Reporter blind Oscar ballots. I wonder if we will get any in this last week. In other news:

Sadly, yes. Thomas Middleditch was accused of sexual harassment, is still doing the talk show circuit, and has a CBS sitcom which may get a third season. CBS is just full of (alleged) perverts and harassers. It makes me ashamed for the years I spent watching so much of the network.

So much awful news from Ukraine, I don't even know why I'm still surprised at anything, but: As others said above, I don't really know what can be done about Putin, other than sanctions. He will eventually take over Ukraine, and then it depends on where he decides to go next, and how long before various parts of the West fall back into line in supporting him for oil and gas and bribes. I don't believe he would hesitate to use nukes. I'm already seeing talk that this is exactly why we should nuke him first, but I don't even want to contemplate that.

Sorry about that. What I have to do is click the link, hit the play button on the screen, then wait a minute or so.

Uploaded toward the end of last year, missing the final segment. The date is June 26, 1989. I looked and didn't see this posted, and I don't think the episode is around, but others like @DramatistDreamer may know more about that than I do. https://archive.org/details/vts-01-0_202112

I don't know if this is already a thread, but I didn't see it, and, frankly, that doesn't stop others from doing the same. If it is, feel free to lock this, not that you need my permission. We all know the basics - Harding Lemay was a playwright! Henry Slesar wrote thrillers and mysteries! Bob Guza did something I don't give two shits about! And so on. Rather than just providing a list that we've already seen 15 times, I thought this thread could be a more detailed place for either your thoughts on their other projects, or links to some of it. I'll start off in what made think about this thread - watching a Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents episode that was written by none other than Anne Howard Bailey. Unfortunately, the writing quality is about on the level of her soap work, but still, it's interesting to compare:

Don Young, the very long-serving Congressman from Alaska, has passed away. I doubt I agreed with Young on much of anything, but I also have little doubt that whoever replaces him is going to be much worse. (it's also why I'm not a big term limits person - it would just get us even MORE of Boebert, MTG, Cawthorn, etc.)

Yes.

Thanks. That Danny Strong quote sums it up so well. Emma's comment is a heartbreaker.

Ugly smears and hysteria going around about Judge Brown. We'll see if Manchin and others in that ilk cave in.

I enjoyed him on To the Manor Born, but I remember him best for his small but crucial part on Survivors, which really helps to set up how you could never predict anything on that show.

The amoral Franklin Graham is over there too, which also concerns me.

Washington Post continues to sink to the bottom. I think I hate them even more than New York Times, because they have so many "writers" who are way too online and think they are [!@#$%^&*] adorable.

It is, like so much of American policy, out of sight, out of mind. They want to just forget the death and illness, even though it is still ongoing. They also bow to pressure again and again, as shown with the vote yesterday calling for the end of mask mandates on planes. An older woman who is a friend of the family talked recently about when she went to the store, wearing her mask, and some teenagers were laughing at her, and coughing near her or on her. It's so demoralizing, because, as so often happens in this country, hate won, bullies won, cowardice won, misinformation won.

Last I heard she was living in a caravan. That's it. They have now brought Louise Jameson in as Rhona's mother, and they have Paddy's father, and Rodney, Eric, and Faith, but that's not enough to make up for what you mention. I think another problem is the soaps no longer are willing to write older characters as older characters. You have people who are 70 or 80 written as being much younger. There is no real sense of generations, history, or community. Speaking of that, I just saw that a few weeks ago, someone put up an episode from September 1989...VERY hard to find anything from that period. There are some audio and visual issues, very tinny sound, but I think you will still enjoy it.

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