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Sadly, no. Adam is only going on a break. It's just more hackwork from "Queen Kate," as some fans call her - the most overrated soap producer going.

I see that James Carville is a guest on the loathsome hatemonger and enabler Megyn Kelly's podcast. Just another reason he is not worth listening to.

Sorry if this was already posted - it's a piece showing Montauk filming in 1984 (for the Beth and Lujack story). With Bob Calhoun, Judi Evans, Vincent Irizarry, etc.

I haven't watched the 1978 episode yet but I see it was uploaded by Obsolete Video. I used to check out their channel more hoping they would post some soap content. I'm glad they finally did (I hope that won't be the last they try, considering the way Youtube is going).

Thank you. Such a rare image here. Denise and Susan somehow make those outfits look lovely.

I hadn't thought of that. It is unfortunate how much malice and spite tends to still go among soap fans even after these shows have been gone for over a decade. I know a few wonderful soap channels that disappeared for this reason. I'm not sure which option I prefer. I just hope the material may show up again someday.

With munecojim's channel now gone, so are years of Loving episodes. I didn't save a ton of their channel as I didn't have the space, but I think I saved most of the Loving material. If they don't start a new channel somewhere I will try to upload what I saved, if no one else does.

I read that munecojim is now gone and Bob TV is gone again too. So is ClassicOLTL. I don't know what's happening. I find it hard to believe P&G suddenly cares about their soaps. Is this another type of crackdown from Youtube? Old episodes of GL, AW, ATWT, etc. are the main thing that has kept me going in recent years with the soap landscape such a wasteland. That and the excitement of knowing something new may be uploaded somewhere. Now people are going to be much more scared to put up any content. We are given so little to enjoy these days but corporations want to squeeze out every last drop.

Thanks. I thought so. Also, is the other man Henderson Forsythe?

Is Forrest Compton in this ad?

Oh I never got to watch most of them either. Oh well. It's a shame that GH episodes have joined the list of no-nos in recent years. @AdelaideCate007Archive.org seems to let you upload them.

I was joking about the castle and Beau/Pam/etc. as I think you've talked about how bad that stuff was before. I agree Michael Swan probably would have been better-suited to a more dashing era of GL - maybe a rival to Quint.

I see that Lisa Rinna's daughter is 'dating' Scott Disick. I feel like Lisa is going to regret many of the choices she has made with her children. Disick has a very dark energy around him, as do much of the family IMO.

@OzFrog https://slate.com/culture/2020/11/leta-powell-drake-interview-viral.html

Brief clips from an episode...and look, @Mitchit features your two favorite character groups of this era. I wonder if the actors ever got tired of some of these songs. I think that is the second or third time I've heard that song.

Sorry to hear about your ex, @Vee. I hope all will be well. Sheila Kelley will always be Gwen on LA Law to me. Must be a terrible time for her (and poor Richard Schiff).

Musk is a complete scumbag who only got where he is because of loans from the Obama administration (no word if they also bought his hair transplant). I'm so tired of the limp dicks of this country hyping him and his sham, exploitative businesses.

I still hope they turn up someday, just for the sake of completism. I also want to see more of Terry's mother, who was interesting (mostly because of the odd choices of the actress).

@NothinButAttitudeI think it may have been me. There was a Soap Opera Weekly item at the time which criticized the show for this choice.

It was always very limited and lazy to assume Kamala Harris was VP to run up the score with black voters. I think she was a big part of why Biden did well in the suburbs and probably a key factor in Georgia as well. There's a lot of effort to prove she didn't help enough when most VP candidates are not there for that purpose. The main problems are downballot - they will be lucky they won't have Trump on the ballot again in 2022 (and possibly not 2024), as he clearly drives up GOP turnout, but they have huge messaging problems and that's only getting worse.

I'd also be interested in knowing Lauren's thoughts on working briefly with Monti Sharp. (Lauren had a very sudden exit from the show - I believe she signed a new contract then was fired not long after - but I assume she will talk about that anyway)

My best to you and your family. I was reading an article about COVID cases in the Midwest, and how many people there don't care about wearing masks or not eating indoors, etc. because they don't want to live in fear, don't want to make their children live in fear, figure it's going to happen anyway, etc. It's very sobering, because you can tell even if there is a reliable vaccine, many will never change. I also read this tonight, from a nurse.

I didn't know whether to put this here or in the BLM thread, but the Proud Boys went around tonight in DC stabbing and assaulting people, with the cops on their side.

That's a good point. I didn't want to ramble on even more than I already had, but I should have said I feel like the plot device facility for Lucinda ramped up heavily around the time of Duke's arrival. Up to that point I think Marland gave her a little more character-based writing. Of course, the show became more blatantly plot-driven in general around then, IMO. I don't mean to make requests of anyone, but I almost never make the chats. If any of you happen to be on the one with Cassandra and Lauren and Napiera, can you ask Cassandra and Lauren what it felt like to play rivals early on and if they got any type of fan response? And also just asking Cassandra what fan response to her was like, as she seemed to be very unpopular online at the time (the character, not the actress), from what I remember, until they moved her away from the Lily and the Andy and Ben storyline.

Marland was involved with firing Liz from The Doctors, IIRC, so there's some baggage which likely overshadows her memories of those years. I do think Liz had very exacting standards for Lucinda. For instance, when they had the story of Lucinda going to therapy (which I think Hubbard had asked for) and they had the flashbacks of Hubbard as Lucinda's mother, she was unhappy about choices like bottles of beer laying around to show her mother was a drunk, as she thought this was cheap and so on. I do wonder if she sometimes felt like Lucinda was a plot device, rather than a character. As much as Marland always took care to give her some lovely moments (especially when Lucinda lost Walsh Enterprises), I can see her point. These standards are one of the reasons I'm half-surprised she stayed through the show's last decade, but I guess by that point the financial compensation was too important to give up.