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If Irna had still been writing I wonder if she may have done a story where he came back to Oakdale with a younger woman and Nancy was wary.

Once Marland came in she seemed to tone down so this kookier persona was fun to watch. Lindsay Frost was too butch for the Meg Ryan hair - at least they let her transition out of it. Lindsay's a wonderful actress, which is why I prefer her Betsy, but I'm still a little surprised they cast her as she's so different from Meg. Even here she's so much more serious.

Thanks for letting us know. Once they get more episodes I'll definitely be interested.

Great find. That second one - "I coulda been a contenda."

Thanks. Must have been weird for fans seeing him alive and dead...

Elijah Cummings.

Not to mention they were asking a man who is no longer with us to apologize.

I thought they had a lot of chemistry and the relationship worked perfectly as part of the cloud of doom consistently hanging over Melanie Smith's Emily. Hearing that Smith did not get along with Beecroft sort of made the tension onscreen more believable.

That "diverse coalition" strikes again...

@marceline that is a very powerful ad. And they could have gone on and on. I'd never seen the cartoon of the Grim Reaper coming to murder everyone involved with each campaign. Absolutely disgusting. The longer this goes on the more I believe someone is going to be incited into assault or murder. I remember the bros talking about how the CNN report on them contained nothing but harmless comments. I guess they will make the same claim here, but I just hope there are enough voters in Nevada who might see this and slow him down (he's projected to win but with enough support ebbed elsewhere he might still lose some delegates).

Recent interview with James Taylor about his demons. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/james-taylor-i-was-a-bad-influence-on-the-beatles-lennon-love-and-a-life-in-song

Is this Thom Bierdz in the Citrus ad around 7 minutes in?

From what I remember Susan and Kim were both written in a very juvenile way in their feud scenes, which was out of character for Kim. What do you expect with hacks though. Anyway...

It still amuses me that purer than pure Bernie has also appeared on that show.

Some truly sickening people went to a Biden event today with a coffin. I'm not going to blame any campaign for this as there's no real evidence of who the group supports, but it's just another reminder of why I don't consider myself very tied to what this party has become.

Looks like it may have been a real person, but I still wonder. People would not be as wary - well some would, but not everybody - if the campaign didn't have a history of overstating/lying about black support. This happened again just earlier today:

In theory I agree with the strengths of Bell's character interactions, but by the mid '90s I think the canvas had become too isolated, with long periods of time for characters like Nikki and Katherine stuck at home, or interacting in ways that started to seem a little like thin gruel (like Nikki going to beg Victor to get a vasectomy, or Katherine mostly just seeing John again to talk with him about plastic surgery). Kay Alden did a good job opening the show up a bit.

If Soapcentral is accurate, her last is in late October. I agree about the Lisa and Lucinda rivalry. Instead we just had Lisa bitching at Carly.

Thanks for the photos. Are all the lgbt characters gone from GZSZ?

Thanks for sharing all this good material, both of you. Eileen is certainly very...dramatic in that cover. Very very rare to see 1984 material that hasn't already been passed around. @safe this episode has Richard Backus (probably the only bright spot of all that part of the story, aside from Kim Johnson Ulrich). It's fun to see Lisa scheming, even if the silliness is laid on a little thick. I enjoyed the scene where she was so reluctant to call Lucinda a woman. Jason Kincaid did a decent job playing foil to Eileen but they made the right decision recasting with Gregg Marx. Kincaid may have been better off being cast in a comical supporting role - maybe someone at the Argus to help with dull Brian. The real meat of this episode is the Karen/Dusty/John material. So beautifully acted and heartfelt. Larry B may have seen the soaps as slumming, but he always gave his best. Kate McNeil and Brian Bloom are also very moving in their scene together. A great deal of potential was lost when Marland downgraded this whole setup for Holden.

No, because of the primary system. Trump generally gets what he wants in primaries. The cultists don't. They tried this game in 2018 and they mostly lost their primaries, and the few who didn't went on to lose in November. The few exceptions, who were elevated as stars, like "The Squad," have, other than Ayanna Pressley (who is not a cultist), all mostly become meshed in scandal and controversy and haven't lived up to the hype. They couldn't even beat Dan Lipinski, and my guess is they won't this year either.