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Watching some of this...Cady trying not to break down as she talks about how much she needed to keep her AMC job because her family was poor and her mother had cancer, and how much Michael helped her. And someone kept mentioning her red Emmy dress... I have to laugh at Michael deciding to go lie down on his bed halfway through the interview.

MTS and Brenda? I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.

I think there was some tension there as Michelle became very prominent, very very quickly. It was also a very demanding storyline. Kim mentioned in some interviews about how difficult the big climax to the Sonni/Solita story was, taking place on a rope bridge, how frightened she was because of how nervous Forbes was, and how she (Kim) had to take several swigs of vodka to get through.

With Y&R you never know what or why, you just know it's a mess. Jeanne Cooper I think once said MTS did not speak to her for 3 years and she never knew why.

They hate watch and mostly talk to themselves to get likes and responses. There are one or two posters who are worth reading and a detailed episode review, which I appreciate, but the rest is a slog.

Weren't there rumors Roberta and MTS had a falling out at one point?

That's not really an accurate gauge for the show.

And some other movie about porn actors, that also had Jessica Leccia (Natalia). It's not as explicit as it sounds - it wasn't too bad a movie either. I haven't seen it in about ten years though.

Jan Hooks would have been 63 yesterday. Robert Smigel, longtime writer and occasional onscreen player, wrote a lovely series of tweets about her, and also managed to get a Jan sketch he thought highly of unblocked in the US. Here it is. In other news, the show is doing another 'at home' episode this weekend.

Ken was on the show in the early to mid '70s. I did like Wes on GL (although the push in the press about him being the new Michael Zaslow really annoyed me and made me sour on him initially) but the best thing he's ever done was when he took off his clothes in various '00s indie movies.

Trying to recast Annie was a dumb idea - the character had served her purpose and Cynthia was too known for the role, as it had not even been a full year since her exit, if memory serves. I thought Signy did her best, but should have been a new character.

I know Warren has written a number of books over the years, but she's incredibly talented. I felt like I knew her brother just reading her thoughts. There's been some media pushback on the idea of focusing on Confederate flags at these dumbass murderous protests, which means they haven't gotten the intended results (Trump leaving Brian Kemp hanging out to dry is another example). So the "optics" game is now shifting.

Sadly that will likely never be happening in the US. Maybe this can be used to question the viability of some of these shows and concentrate the money and time on extra precautions for the productions that warrant the effort. Surely no matter how much Andy may be fond of the likes of Erika, he must know that shows like BH are at a natural end.

Ugh. I still remember the breathless overhype over Billy and Chloe and the desperate attempts to push them. It made the subsequent backflips away from that pairing all the more amusing - pretty much the only entertaining thing in that storyline.

There's some shaky audio at Eddie Drueding's channel. I have to admit I'm not that into falsely accused/trial stories most of the time, so that probably didn't help, but I think it was the leadup to the trial that may have soured me. It just felt very lifeless to me.

And Trump is of course pretending he had nothing to do with it so he can take no blame but will take any credit if a bunch of people aren't left medically scarred. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/trump-kemp-georgia-reopen-coronavirus-202117 I read that the mayor of Atlanta has been getting racial slurs and other attacks sent to her - not surprising, but sickening. Republicans are so sick that they jump through hoops to game a system that means millions of people will be forced into death if they don't want to be penniless and homeless. And no one is doing anything to help.

The cultists are flooding Twitter begging Jesse Ventura to run for President. I read that Biden did OK on Corden's show. After the Nancy Pelosi mess I couldn't watch, and I have a hard time watching any of his interviews to be honest, but hopefully it means he's becoming more comfortable oncamera again. As it at the moment the whole election rests on Trump, which is dangerous, but we have no real choice but to keep getting through and hoping there is even reliable voting available in November.

I must have stopped buying it by that point.

Thanks! I was going to ask if any of that is strike material but I can't remember if Y&R was affected by the strike.

So sad to hear this. Knight had a small role on OLTL in 1986 - there's a clip in the temp recast thread. She was a wonderful actress. I remember her best from the McMartin Trial movie on HBO.

The Wisconsin election COVID cases are starting to come in. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/wisconsin-coronavirus-in-person-voting-200769 Shitbag Larry Kudlow is pushing the narrative about how employers need liability for sending their employees to their deaths. That's what all this "opening up" is about. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/larry-kudlow-businesses-coronavirus-infections-201026

Not long. I can't remember if I ever saw her. She was supposed to be more blue-collar. The star power wouldn't have been as prominent for an Erica crossover by 1995, so the writing definitely would have to be top notch. The Rae Cummings parade was just stupid, because many ABC viewers likely had little idea who Linda Dano was, unless they were big Attitudes fans (a show that had been off the air for a decade) and then she would breeze into each town being unpleasant and having all this history no one had ever seen or heard of. This is also how the sperm/sexual assault story with Liza and Adam ended with him being put in stocks and getting a pie in the face. Shameful.