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The Beltway is wasting no time in dusting off their old Trump scripts (and many before Trump of course) to make sure we "understand" Marjorie Taylor Greene and her appeal. When one of the fascism enablers is pushed back on this, she, shockingly, has little to say.

Thanks @vetsoapfan . That's what I thought. I suppose the Victor stuff may have been the final straw, and what he remembered, but it sounds like a great deal built up before that point.

Unfortunately the original article seems to be gone. It was for Attitude, from 2014.

America is a deeply anti-Semitic country today, let alone in 1990. There's a reason soaps only had a handful of Jewish characters, even less in major roles.

The first few clips of this have Tommy Lee Jones briefly talking about the changes to his character at OLTL as well as fan response to him. @vetsoapfan would you agree that they only made his character "bad" right before he left? The summaries I'd read didn't suggest this to me... Behind the scenes of Wendy Williams at OLTL:

I'd say by late 1990 Harley was one of the show's core young heroines (she was one of my favorite characters when I started watching around this time), but admittedly that's just my perspective. I could have seen him working with Mindy too, but that probably would have been even more of a no-go for P&G.

I think she was able to make him Jewish, but she wanted to make him a major character and pair him with Harley. P&G or whoever said no way.

That was the actor's choice, but I do miss him.

You're right. She did the same at Guiding Light and Another World, to increasingly diminishing returns (she was canned the same year she did this at AW).

The show had started moving Roger and Holly back together before Michael Zaslow's diagnosis. I imagine he would have played out the story we saw with Dennis Parlato's Roger.

Not a bad trailer.

This episode is probably already around in full, sorry, but this clip has about 6 minutes (at the start) of a 1992 episode.

I agree with much of this article, especially the quotes from Michael Cashman, but this type of article is 15-20 years out of date. The time of extinction has long passed. Even the mention of Housewives, a franchise that is heading toward its last years, is about a decade old. Russell Davies basically said a decade ago that UK soaps were going to die if they didn't make changes (none of the changes he suggested were followed, sadly). I'm surprised they think that Amazon's Lord of the Rings show is all that talked about. Beyond hate channels I never hear any talk of it.

At about an hour and 46 minutes there's a very childish office fight with Ted, Mason and Kelly. It's strange picturing Kelly screaming and throwing things around in a tantrum fight with her brothers, but if I would have cast anyone to do that, ice queen Eileen Davidson would be near the bottom of the list. What exactly the thought process was in choosng her, I will never know.

Thank you for all you do @slick jones I know it must be annoying when you're tagged and it's something you already have, but you just keep on trucking.

The GOP has already bragged about their "don't say gay" bill plans if they take back Congress, but the strategic figures of the party are planning much more, saying outright they are just going to start arresting people. It's horrifying, most of all because so many do not care. I guess they don't think it will affect them, until it ultimately does.

Most of the Doctor Who-themed dances on Strictly are cheap and not worth sitting through, unless you have fantasies about 1966-era Cybermen having juicy asses, anyway, but this one was a huge step up - terrific costumes, makeup, lighting, music, and prop work.

I don't know how much of it I fully believe, but t's McCarthy coming out so clearly saying they will not raise the debt ceiling and will demand cuts that makes me more wary...that and Saudi Arabia blatantly sabotaging Biden.

I don't think Corrie brought back any for their 50th, although they have since. Sadly, Emmerdale of all the soaps is most dearly ashamed of its past.

I saw this going around. I don't agree with all the details (especially when it segues into "wobbly" Democrats), but it does make me wonder.

I have tried to watch some of the week, but I am mostly thrown by how lacking in any real emotion or drive the show is. When Kim Tate is one of the only characters on the show who has any believable sense of grief (over someone she didn't even like), something is wrong. I was especially appalled by the behavior of Chas.