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They should bring Blake back for good.

Jason Sudeikis had a (very good) Mitt Romney impression in his last years on SNL. I think that is the reason Mitt has been doing this. I am happy to ignore millionaire cosplay, but Sinema being involved, especially at this moment, really shows her contempt for the public and her desperate need for attention. As for Virginia, I don't believe that poll is accurate. Northam did win by a bigger margin than polls expected, but this year I think is going to be very close, similar to 2013. I know many would say Macauliffe should not have run again, but the media is desperate for a Republican comeback and landslide - Yougnkin was going to be a frontrunner no matter what.

@te. Thank you for finding that episode. I think saynotoursoap once had an episode with Patricia Breslin's Meg up, unhappy in her marriage to Lee, but I'd never seen this one. She seems so happy here, and it's a bit of a heartbreaker contrasting that to the sorrow from Lee and Jessie. I know Jessie was long-suffering, but Emily McLaughlin plays her material in such a mature, restrained manner that you can't help caring for Jessie and feeling everything she is feeling. Indeed, this episode is full of people who behave like adults and look like adults, rather than middle-aged overgrown children. For most of the years I've watched GH, that has not been the case - even by the end of the '70s, that was no longer true. Whenever I watch episodes from these years I remember what Chris Schemering wrote about how much more effective, experimental, and entertaining GH's organ music was compared to the other soaps. I would tend to agree.

I suppose he's hoping it will be seen as something of an event.

Thanks for finding those.

Robin made the right choice. Other than Justin Deas, who got 15 years of steady employment and a chance for Margaret Colin to get to not have to take anything going, most of JFP's big hires at GL did not have a happy ending.

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.

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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.