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Thanks to @victoria foxton for posting it elsewhere. I loathed Scott on Guiding Light - let's just say it's a good thing I did not have Internet access in 1993 and 1994 as I was furious about the Billy recast [I did not know just why they recast] - but he was a key player in one of DS's most complex, and in the end, riveting storylines. His arrival offered viewers a turning point for Angelique and how they were allowed to see her - for the first time, we were given the chance to see Angelique truly getting what she had always wanted (love, happiness, a real home) and we saw that she was willing to relinquish her powers in order to keep that life. Sky's grievous betrayal of her helped viewers to see the emotions she had felt with men like Barnabas, only now they could be fully on her side. And it was the absolute perfect conclusion to the Leviathan story that cold, methodical figures such as them were decimated by a figure who never let herself live by reason or caution and was instead, when crossed, the purest, deadliest form of hatred. The story also opened the door to much more complex writing for female characters, which would continue to the end of the show. And without Scott, and his chemistry with Lara Parker, that all would have been more difficult to put across.

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I notice Dave Wasserman has spent months going out of his way to tell his followers the worst scenarios for Democrats in the House. He's probably right, but, like many Beltway pundits who make $$$ off the GOP, there's a glimmer in his tweets that makes me think he will be happy to be right.

Nice to see the original airing of this rather than the Soapnet repeat. Another World - November 15, 1988 - YouTube

Thanks. I wasn't sure either - it's annoying as she looks so familiar to me. Anyway, here is Anna Maria Horsford: Fortified Oat Flakes Cereal Commercial (Mid-1970s) - YouTube

Glad you enjoyed them. It's a shame Youtube doesn't allow them now. I haven't watched that era closely but I do think Monty's run had some good spots, at least once she came back down to earth.

Susan Pratt is a good actress but she seemed to have a long history of playing annoying characters who had very vocal hatred from the audience. I remember when she briefly returned to AMC in 1997 to make sure Erica knew she couldn't contact Bianca (post-babynapping) and Soap Opera Weekly got angry letters from fans saying she had killed Laura.

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Is this Melinda Fee in the United ad (it's around 10 minutes in)? October 18, 1976 ABC commercials - YouTube

The voter suppression continues, even as puff pieces about Manchin and his bipartisanship continue to be belched out: Meanwhile, your latest reminder of what horrible people the Bushes are (and always were):

Jon Ralston is still seething over all the abuse he got from Bernie dead-enders over some questionable claims he made about supporters throwing chairs. It's unfortunate he does not have enough perspective to step back and realize smearing all progressives and agreeing with someone as consistently brain dead and malicious as Maureen Dowd. That's what you get with the 'liberal' media though. They hate us and they will always hate us.

The article feels navel-gazing and pointless, but I do agree with them (and yes, Dolly probably would too) that it's not a good idea to try to deify her or to make her into some way of being. Of course most people don't do that, but as the years pass, I notice that various political sites and culture sites have been writing to smaller and smaller audiences. I'm sure soon enough we will have Twitter trends demanding we "cancel" Dolly (probably because she says she doesn't know kpop, or something). The good news is Dolly won't give a [!@#$%^&*].

That's the most upsetting part of the whole thing. Joe Manchin is very wealthy, and I imagine Sinema is doing alright as well - they don't have any real reason to care about stopping brutal voter suppression laws. They are set. Damn the rest of us.

What type of stories did Meredith have?

I doubt Ripa or Consuelos give much of a damn about Twin Peaks. They are probably trying to make AMC into Riverdale, which has been a big, overexposed, horribly written and acted waste of airtime. Their involvement (his in particular) are why I am reluctant to watch this.

Budig struggled with men before Duhamel, so I was not that surprised. I thought she worked well with J Eddie Peck too.

I don't get Peacock. I always liked Punky Brewster. I've heard mixed things about the revival but I hope it works out. I never have had much use for Freddie Prinze Jr though.

Thoughts on the newest episode:

This is going to keep happening, and likely keep causing either more heartburn and dead legislation, or just no efforts to even pass a lot of legislation. I keep seeing people try to put this on Kamala Harris and say that she and Biden should just overrule the parliamentarian and you would only need 40 votes to pass legislation in that case, but that would be a huge landmine and would probably lead to our two honorary Republicans, Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin, switching parties. It's becoming a never-ending cycle on topics that Biden knows won't work (like trying to put the $15 in the relief package), but end up happening anyway because they want to try to appease the left, only to just disappoint many of them even more. And Manchin, our self-appointed voice of conscience (unless it involves his daughter...), along with Sinema, who is more suited to Hot Topic than to Congress, continuing to thwart common sense legislation for the sake of posturing. I know this guy was another Bernie dead-ender, but I tend to agree with him here:

@Vee I have defended Politico in the past as I think they have produced some good work alongside the vacuous material, but this stuff reminds me of why I have been reading less of their site. That column is embarrassing, especially the references to a "cult of Ron Klain." Seeing supposed journalists trying their best to whip up melodrama and hysteria because they are addicted to drama and want to seem cool and fun is incredibly sad.

Yes. I can't remember where I read it but I do remember reading that she was unhappy because she had assumed they were bringing her back for a story arc, not just a Cliff exit.

Muneco Jim put some episodes back up, and I was watching some that I hadn't seen. This is the New Year's 1993 episode. Given all the depressing stories at the start of the year (Louie's cancer, Stacey's gaslighting, Ceara's death), it makes sense to do what they did here and devote a huge chunk of the episode to the singing and dancing troupe of Dr. Ron Turner and Five Guys Named Moe" I know very little about this character - I guess he must have been just about done by this time. Isaiah Washington played him briefly, but this actor seems to be Jeffrey D. Sams, who was in the Broadway revival of Moe at this time. Others in the revival were, per Wikipedia, Jerry Dixon, Doug Eskew, Milton Craig Nealy, Kevin Ramsey, and Glenn Turner. Not sure which of these guys were there with Sams. This must be the most airtime black performers got on Loving until later in 1993... @Vee @SFK Loving - January 4, 1993 - YouTube