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I know it was always going to happen, but I wonder if that whole flap with Kathy Hochul endorsing the Buffalo mayor who lost his primary had any push.

Kudos to Stacey Abrams and her organization. It's funny how many in the Beltway ridiculed her, and continue to dismiss her, as she has done so much to help people (including delivering the Senate majority), while those we are still told are superior to us and trying to "save us from ourselves" are doing this:

I was just thinking about Irene's wedding and Jon being heartbroken over the whole thing (I think it was Jon). I hadn't thought about any of that stuff in a long, long time.

I have a feeling it was just Kate Collins fans. I also wonder if, due to Kate becoming more matronly in her appearance in her last year or so on AMC, some fans thought she was older than she really was.

It's been about a decade since I followed anything RW-related but was Dom one of those who pretty much regretted the experience? I'd think Aaron is some kind of far right city council member somewhere these days... Given what a trainwreck Puck is and Rachel working for Faux News, unlikely to return, I wonder what they will do for San Francisco. Hopefully just ignore their existence.

Soap Opera Magazine 1994 issue - readers were given 3 options about recasting Iris when Carmen Duncan announced her departure: 1. 50 percent would do anything to see Beverlee McKinsey return to the daytime role she created. Even though it's been nearly 15 years since Beverlee was last seen in Bay City, her portrayal of the complex Iris is one of the best in soap history. 2. 10 percent think the show should advantage of the situation by hiring a younger actress to play Iris. This group believes Kate Collins would be an excellent choice. 3. 40 percent really don't want the show to recast this role. Even though it's a pivotal one, fans have been lucky enough to have both Beverlee and Carmen play the part - and topping both of them would be next to impossible. Instead, Iris should just leave Bay City in some dramatic way.

@I Am A Swede

Michael McKean tweets about GH...not in the most flattering terms. I guess Frank will be happy one of his faves was namechecked.

I had a soft spot for Krista as Billie - she had a very ugly story, while heavily pregnant no less, and somehow she made it work (when Billie was forcibly hooked on heroin). I can't see a lot of viewers accepting her as Taylor, and I'm not even really sure how she looks these days. Good luck to her. As someone who never had much use for Taylor, or thought her stories were ever that great (many of them were ludicrous), I can't be upset.

That theory makes sense. Unfortunately, so much time has passed now that I would be surprised if these issues are addressed in the next Congress - at least the filibuster. If they are afraid of losing the Senate majority in 2022 they may not want to temper with that issue (even though McConnell will likely ditch it himself at some point - or his replacement will). It just pisses me off, because people say why don't Democrats pass popular legislation. And when they try, they are shut down by their own.

How heartless can you be, you and your big money backers, to step off your damn yacht long enough to demand that poor people not even have dental care?????

Sam Stein buries the lede in yet another piece on how terrible the Democrats are and how everyone will blame the Democrats:

Maggie Haberman was gushing over that article, which tells you all you need to know. The media would sell their children for every single Republican majority leader they can sing the praises of. They wept over the glories of Boehner, Paul Ryan, etc. The one thing I agree with Trump on is how much the media in this country needs to be clamped down on. Just not in the way he wanted to do it.

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2021/break-the-floor-dance-company-sexual-harassment-allegations.html

Jason Sudeikis tonight. He was one of my favorite cast members, but I am not going to let myself have very high expectations . We'll see... This cut for time piece is one of the few sharp parodies the show has done in a while (usually their parodies in recent years are soft-focused).

It's been a while but I think she was not asked to join The City, but she said that was fine with her because she needed a break. She joined AW in early 1997, so she probably had about a year and a half break. I wonder if she was ever asked if she was going to join The City before it was canceled.

I guess that explains why Jack and Louis have such hair changes. A few of us were wondering about Michelle. Is she gone for good? I can never tell with this show.

I think the producers wanted a fresh start - my guess is they didn't want any characters too closely identified with Loving. Alex had been around for a good while, but he was also played by Randolph Mantooth, a name in his own right.

The news about Peter Scolari really got to me too. I used to sit and watch the Bosom Buddies reruns on USA over and over. I just thought he was cute and funny and he had such screen presence. I haven't watched a lot of his later work but whenever I saw him he'd make me smile. So sad.

Frances Fisher (DAYS, GL, EON) is also in Rust.

@Nicholas BlairThank you for the details that synopses can't cover. I felt betrayed when P&G/Valente dumped many of my favorite characters in 1995, so much so that I never fully connected with the show again. Yet I can at least step back and acknowledge many of them had reached a natural end or needed a rest. That does not seem to be the case here. It's a shame so many have no interest in soaps beyond the basics, as Irna's brief return to ATWT is a story that would be fascinating to see in a docuseries form. I guess at least we will always have the tribute episode GL did for her in 2007.

She left Search before it was canceled, although she likely saw the writing on the wall. IIRC, she was offered the part of Amanda Spaulding on GL in 1995, but declined, as she needed a rest.

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/20/meghan-mccain-fumes-over-her-princess-of-arizona-snl-portrayal-laughing-stock-of-the-country_partner/ These parodies were extremely mild, especially compared to SNL of many years past, which would have roasted her alive. She has no talent, no value as a human being, and is married to a hideous lump of dogshit. Now that her father is gone, she can only get by on being a professional victim for people who probably spit at her whenever she leaves the room.

I have never liked Greg Berlanti or his assembly line shows, and this is what you get with an assembly line. Still I am horrified at these stories. Ruby Rose was painted as some kind of a diva for what are clearly very unsafe working conditions with a sea of bodies to show for it.