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The sad part is I think Angie floats around for a long time after that pairing is abandoned. I also saw this clip. I never knew there was another plane crash with Buck in 1993 before the more famous in 1994. Bizarre. Buck was clearly a real survivor. The most interesting part of this is how Gwyn comes off as, frankly, nuts. Another unintended hint of what was to come.

@JaneAusten Rob Kazinsky, best known for his work on EastEnders, talked a bit about this (leading to many "just pay for your checkmark" comments from Elon's sycophants).

I have mixed feelings about the claims of whether Oprah is "to blame" for what has become of her former proteges. I could agree with that more in the cases of people like Jenny McCarthy, who was peddling dubious evidence even at the time, than with Dr. Oz, who for most of his years with Oprah was just the cuddly doctor talking about fecal matter. Still, I'm glad she endorsed Fetterman.

This is content I'd be very excited by if I was more interested in the current show. Still, it's not what you usually get with soaps and online content, so I still think it's worth watching.

HBO Max has been completely gutted by Warner Bros.

https://archive.org/details/all-my-children-october-3-1984 Speaking of 1984 AMC.

The story about Caroline and her racial bias regarding her children seems very heavy for a glossy soap like this. I wonder if that's one of the reasons the family was sent packing so quickly.

I'm not sure how many people see it as a competition.

Does anyone know who the older woman in this ad is?

I can't remember if this was posted before, but it's a nice profile on Christine Baranski from last year, where she talks about her relationship with Matthew Cowles.

Thanks. That makes sense. Sad to think these are some of McClain's last episodes - she seems fine. Watching some of this interview and seeing the host very awkwardly try to swerve whenever Scott tries to talk about people who ignore facts or the damage being done to the environment is something...

Oddly, Soap Central has Heather listed as a temporary replacement in March 1980. Thanks for the extra details on Laurie.

I will also say the Harley/Cyrus relationship on GL, which was the last pit stop for an increasingly degraded, hollow Harley. The only entertainment value was the insane rumors surrounding the actors at the time.

Bryan Fuller and his egomania are never going to get my interest. I am just glad this wasn't an update of the TV show, which would have upset me.

Thanks @FrenchFan @Paul Raven I liked Laurie. She felt 'real,' which was what ATWT did at its best. Just sitting around talking about her boyfriend, chatting with Melinda. IMDB gives her run as 75-79, I think (they also have some surprisingly exact dates in some cases, like a September 1978 episode - I wonder if someone has more copies out there we haven't seen and added to IMDB with them). Annie is so generic to me I didn't even realize this wasn't Julie Ridley. Martina does fit the part a bit better than Julie did, now that I look again. She also sort of has an Annie Hall chic in her styling that would be lost with Annie later on.

And now Republicans are ahead on the 538 Senate tracker. Ugh. Thanks @JaneAustenfor the Rosenberg links. We'll hope. I agree about needing a liberal - a genuine liberal, not the [!@#$%^&*] New York Times - media. That's what Air America should have been all those years ago.

I'll have more to choose, but just off the top of my head: Worst: Chastity/Cameron, Emmerdale. They began having an affair while Cameron's partner, who was also Chastity's niece, was doing anything she could to keep her young daughter from dying of cancer. The story was shocking, and out of character for who Chas had once been. She has never really recovered (and is now in another wretched affair storyline, which involved her emotionally blackmailing her mentally ill son to leave town right after losing his sister to sudden death)

That's true. I do blame the media for most of where we are - they wanted GOP-friendly landslides and the idea that "gas prices and food on the table and inflation" are the winning message of their Republican heroes. It does make me worry when I read about Nevada's early vote not being good for Democrats, or youth vote in Georgia not being great... I don't care for Nate Cohn's work so I haven't read the article, but I think he may have pushed back a bit on some of the polling. This has then led to more justification along the lines of "Democrats are spending in formerly safe House races and not releasing polling so the polls are right." This guy does push back on some of those talking points.

I remember when Schultz first showed up and she had more energy than she did when the Dobsons overloaded her with material about being frigid and repressed. I know she had the potential for more, but yes, this Dee (Marcia McClain) is a much better contrast to this Annie, and just has more life in general. She also feels very real, which is rare for soaps. I'm sorry we didn't get to see a few more characters who were being mentioned (like Kevin and Sandy), but I was glad to finally get to see Ralph and Beau. The actors remind me a bit of each other. I wonder if the casting director had a type. Beau was more charismatic than he looked in photos. Keith Charles is always charismatic. The energy level does seem less stodgy. Even Mary, who often seemed ready to go into a coma in the 79-80 scenes I've watched, is more present. I wonder if morale backstage worsened and led to what we got by that point. Only Annie is about the same...for better or worse. The scene with Melinda and Beau is nicely paced, allowed to breathe without seeming dead. And his marital problems with Annie seem believable instead of just "___ is his true love," like we got with dullard pornstache Brad Hollister a few years later. I wish that Ariane Munker hadn't been chased off the show. Melinda feels like a special character. I appreciated the moment with Bob and David (although I did laugh when David said walking Annie to school felt just like yesterday - no wonder!). The best scene is with Nancy, Joyce and Bob. The atmosphere is perfectly pitched - the warmth between Nancy and Bob, the initially friendly but increasingly strained interaction between them and Joyce, and Joyce absolutely flailing to try to explain why she wants to go to the party. The part where Nancy, after Joyce leaves, coolly works out that she wants to go to see Ralph is just perfect. It reminds me of everything @Mitch64 has written about how Nancy was written in these years compared to Marland and onward. Can anyone tell me more about Laurie? I have little to no knowledge of her. Watching this I did wonder if they might have let her go for this reason, although I hope not.

I despised what they did with Vision in the comics. How they handled him in WandaVision gives me more hope for where they will go with him here.

I'm glad to hear this. I do trust your opinion. Between my memories of all the women who voted Trump and GOP in 2014/2016/2018/2020 and the latest Cook listings moving even more toward the GOP, it's been hard to have any hope.

I think it's still being modified. Sorry I forgot to tag you. Thanks for not being upset.

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