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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.

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He is generally blamed for the death of the party.

I imagine the McColls all being gone by that point probably played a big part too. I never can remember if Cris Leblanc wanted to leave or if he was let go.

The New York Times is so easy to focus on, due to the disgusting Haberman and similar enablers of fascism, that the many dregs at the Washington Post get a pass. Here is one of the worst of Politico doing the usual wagon-circling.

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I tend to wonder how much Eileen will want to say anyway - I remember at the Paley Center she was very gracious. The Eileen who gave sassy comments in magazines or books is someone from 20, 30 years ago. I am sorry she isn't getting a better interviewer but mostly I just hope she's doing alright, as I guess we all do.

Royce Keller on ATWT.

IIRC, Mark Pinter said that after Marland arrived at ATWT, he told Mark that he was writing Brian out of the show, and that it would take about a year. So I guess most of that story was planned in advance.

Another lowlight for the wretched Maggie Haberman.

That was said at the time, IIRC.

All this seemed to really kick into high gear with Gottheimer and his friends refusing to support the drug pricing legislation. That is not about "solving problems" for anyone but your big pharma donors.

Thanks. Lynn is who I was thinking of. I didn't know about Mary. The '70s seemed to be much more lax on actors finding acceptance in porn and outside of porn, either because of lack of knowledge, or because it was seen as artistic at that time, at least in some quarters. The Moral Majority + the cheap-ass look of video took all that esteem away.

He did some gay but also quite a few straight films, which was more common back then. We probably can't link to the site but if you search IAFD Wade Nichols they have a full list of his films.

They're around if anyone wants to see them. He mostly did straight porn, I think. I assume it was down to the people up high never watching those types of films and Dennis presumably never alienating anyone to where he would be made a liability. He had a tough job to take over a beloved fan favorite's role, and mostly did it without any real missteps.

Do you mean on EON or on soaps period? I think HTSAM or LIAMST had a porn actress in a central role. I'm not 100% though...maybe it was just an exploitation actress.

Their Twitter account did put a tribute to him, with an old photo of Michael and Brenda. I was surprised they did that much.