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I wish they had brought back Penny or Don, or anyone really, but for the most part I thought it was OK. I was glad they remembered her daughter Susan, as that story was what set up the early tensions in the show.

Shocking...

I didn't mind the endings for Lucinda and Barbara, partly because I just assumed they would still have adventures and lives, partly because I was happy they got stories in their last year. I really wasn't that fond of Bob and Kim moving, although if they had brought people back to wish them well, instead of just ending on a dollar store globe, I would have been more invested.

She also says the cast had a lot of jaded or bitter people, I think, which is, as you say, interesting, as you often hear about how close they were. I guess that wasn't th case with the people she work with.

The sad thing is Goutman did bring Rosemary Prinz back for Christmas 2000. I guess by the end of ATWT he just didn't give a damn about the show. I was always a fan of Lyla, and I enjoy her with Casey, but, as you said, most don't. I just go along with it because it's not worth arguing about...there's enough toxic arguments on here lately.

I think this is December 1995 material.

I don't follow Mary Elizabeth Winstead that closely so this may not be any big revelation, but she recently talked about the unpleasant Passions set and how she broke her contract after a year to get away from it.

Don't count Ron out yet.

Thanks. Mark Lawson never gets a break. Lulu is one of those characters we were meant to like, but I never did (I think she peaked when she was the kid who never, ever spoke). I don't think she's missed.

She starts to adopt her own style around early-mid 1985. @Vee I was wondering if you had any thoughts on Casey and his early stuff with Frannie...I always enjoy seeing Casey but I guess you can kind of see why the show moved on from that pairing (at least they always kept up their friendship).

Considering DAYS had a young woman raped in Alice Horton's living room not that long ago, they haven't changed in the ways that they should have.

Sinema is now in a position where she can do and say whatever she wants as she knows the Beltway can and will make her a martyr because of the bathroom incident. They are clinging to dear life to a narrative that Manchin and Sinema are the conscience of the party. So yes, I have no real expectation they will do anything but tank bills (especially her) to show how maverick-y they are. Then there's this, which sounds like the usual from those who hide behind Manchin:

I think Bob gives a speech in the last Thanksgiving episode the show did which mentions his kids - I don't remember if Haiti is mentioned there though. I do think they mentioned something about it before Frannie returned. I think Steve/Iva would have gone further as a story, if Frank Runyeon hadn't had such a clash with them and been on his way out. The others I don't think were meant to be long-term. Frost plays Betsy in a softer/more passive manner in what is available of her 1984 and early 1985 work. She gradually becomes tougher, and becomes friends with Craig, which viewers never would have accepted with Meg Ryan still in the part.

I haven't seen enough of them - they seem alright here, and I have generally liked Sam more than most (although Kelly Monaco seems to be...not having the greatest last few years...). It just sticks in my head when I think of them together. So whatever happened with Dante and Lulu anyway?

Have Sam and Dante discussed her relationship with his father? Isn't that a bit awkward? I know it's a soap, but she bore the man's child and its death haunted her for years.

The scenes in this where Chris unknowingly sent a smutty e-mail to various department heads instead of his girlfriend are some of the biggest (intentional) laughs I've had from a soap in a long time.

The main difference is Corrie still has some characters one can care about, and tries to maintain integrity in some of them. EE is entirely hollow at this point, lurching from one plot device to another even as none of it makes sense or is worth watching. The worst part now is the incredibly pathetic obsession with bringing up past moments as a checklist - it's like mainlining Wikipedia summaries as scripts.

Almost all of Theda Bara's films are lost, but two minutes of Salome were found and have been posted on Vimeo:

She played George, a mentally unbalanced, hired thug. I best remember her for getting in a vicious physical confrontation with Lucy Cooper over baby Marina's well-being. Sad to say, I loathed Lucy so much at this point in time that I was rooting for George to get her good. This was the peak era of JFP trying to get SB people onto GL - beyond Wolter, and Deas, and Walker, and Marj, there was also the guy who played Bunny, and she tried to hire A Martinez.

They are having a long fall from grace, as they were mad that few of the Democrats they backed in 2020 were doing what they wanted. I imagine they will go begging the GOP for support, even if it means having little voice and going along with election fraud hysteria and authoritarianism, with zero policy beyond the inevitable tax cuts for the rich.

Emmerdale tends to have a better track record with well-crafted stunts than the other soaps. The problem is it doesn't matter if the characters aren't worth investing in, which is mostly the case now. I will say that the stunts on Emmerdale and Corrie are ITV-driven, not producer-driven. The producers have little power in any major decisions. @I Am A SwedeThey were also nice enough to post the last page of the article. I couldn't get it to post here for some reason.