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From what I've seen some Prince fans say, he got him involved with some shady people in the last years of his life, so between that and his involvement with the Kardashians I wonder if he's been involved in questionable business for some time. Here he is on CNN, while hiding his involvement in the bill, struggling not to react to the former sergeant who dismantles the sham bill he insists everyone is in "violent agreement" with.

I knew his CNN appearances were thinly disguised Trump propaganda. I knew it. Now I want to see if CNN has the guts to do anything.

Probably because Winton's Caleb had no real personality in comparison to MDM, other than judgmental I guess.

It was also two different writing teams. Katie may have been lying, but the whole thing was so poorly put together, it's impossible to tell. The show, all the soaps, had such a focus on trashing past character (assuming no viewers would no them) for new pets, and it backfired over and over. @Soapsuds I think those aired in May 1993 but I may be wrong.

You said it better than I could @marceline . I think Bolton mentioned in his book, from something I read online, that Trump or his people whipped up a media controversy to distract from one of Ivanka's "business" scandals. Between the media burying the Russia story, using Tim Scott to try to blame Democrats over police reform stalling, social media more upset about a Golden Girls episode removal that no one ever asked to be removed anyway, and Maggie Haberman and co trying to help Trump road-test new nicknames for Biden, today has reminded me of just how many advantages Trump has going into November. I just hope that there is still a voting system in place by November and that people will still be motivated by that point.

In order to distract from the Russia news, Trump has retweeted a supporter saying "white power" and also said "Joe Biden is shot." The media, desperate to help him and also to support racists, is happily going along, burying the Russia story. It's just sad.

Lorraine Broderick had Lyla as a selfish mother who was solely focused on her cruise ship singing career and only cared about Katie when she could enter her into child beauty pageants.

Wasn't it that she had gone too far and Marland wanted to keep her around? Or was it a ratings thing? Considering the ugly tension between Potter and Marland, she may have been a victim of a proxy war.

I was fine with Caleb leaving (although I would have recast him after a year or two, maybe), but I do think they had more mileage left with Julie and with Pete. Jason Biggs was great in the role. I guess he was not likely to stay long anyway, but they had more stories to tell - he might have added some flavor to the tediousness with Nikki and Dani, anyway. I was not watching for most of the '00s but the few stories I heard about Julie annoyed me to no end. I think was about how ill she was and how she couldn't raise Aaron for that reason. Such a fun, lively character made into a frail figure so that her son (a son she likely never would have taken back in the first place) could frown his way through Oakdale for a few years before being forgotten. They could have at least brought her back one time for his stories. Hal could be an ass but that felt very extreme. Maybe it was just the scriptwriter for the episode...

I had a few more questions, if anyone can help. Did they ever say why they recast Matthew Morgan? Was it to make him more menacing? There was, for a brief time, a lot of heavy buildup with the Ned Calder character, the main operator of the shipping fleet, he'd loved Elizabeth for years and wanted her to marry him, and so on. Then suddenly he just leaves town. Did plans change? I wish they'd considered keeping Bill Malloy around longer. Of course if they had there never would have been any supernatural elements on the show... I think I heard the first mention of Jeremiah and Josette. Carolyn says they married and built Collinwood in 1830, and Josette also has another last name ("Laflornier" or something).

Probably right before Election Day...

Geez seeing that opening again gets me emotional - it's just perfect, the shots they used, the balance in tone, how they show all aspects of soap, the ending shot... I was so lucky that I got to see this, Santa Barbara and As the World Turns On and On and the Y&R theme as my first real soap themes. Imagine what some kid now would feel having to watch that GH theme, getting a seizure, and being rushed to the hospital.

And another that will be ignored.

IMDB has him popping up into 2006. I wonder if that's an error, as it often is. I think I was out by then, but I'm not sure. I'm glad to hear that they were still mentioning Drew by then - just loved her character.

A websoap about an actor who wanted to be on GL but then it got canceled. I do love Jean Carol - I will try to see it for her if I'm on then. I hope someone will ask her about Six Feet Under and about her brief returns to GL. Justin Klosky - that's the guy who had the huge horse teeth that Conboy was trying to push as a hot new star, right?

How else can it be interpreted?

Yet these are the same media people who go on about Biden being in his basement. They have to make their narratives reality.

Here is media darling and New York Times favorite Tom Cotton telling us that DC can't be a state because it has black people.

@JaneAusten those are great insights, delivered without Alberta's heavy-handed Beltway need to show us how above it all (and above the Democrats) he is. One of the reasons I think I could believe the article is because even though the whole thing feels overwritten and also a bit like that Geraldine Chaplin reporter in Nashville and her patronizing manner toward black people, I do think the party is very tone deaf in this area and I also can't shake the feeling Trump will win again no matter how many 14+ polls I see. But Alberta was dishonest, as he did not point out anywhere that Gay-Dagnogo is exploring a run for mayor. http://blacknewsportal.com/could-sherry-gay-dagnogo-become-the-first-female-mayor-of-detroit

She's great entertainment, but given how much Monique seems to burn bridges and spill secrets about industry goings-on, I'm surprised they're willing to consider her.

It helped that Vanessa was still a childish bitch around this time. Ironically Anna's Donna would go through the same reformation process Vanessa did, a few years after Vanessa did, although Vanessa's "stuck," whereas Donna would go back and forth. I can't remember if Anna played out the end of the Ed/Vanessa story. (still so weird to think they were a couple and that Vanessa was desperate to get him and to keep him - I don't remember this being mentioned in later years)

Oh I skipped everything with Mike and Rosanna. That helped probably. I agree with you about Lisa - she became so brutally isolated, which the character never should have been. I guess Michael Swan and Margaret Reed had no idea what was coming (I think Reed said as much) but they should have had an inkling when they were basically used as extras here.

Thanks for telling me. Glad to hear this.