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There seems to be a lot of different information going around about the voting in tomorrow's Kentucky primary.

Yesterday there were a series of, seemingly, disproven accusations against Justin Bieber and 4 cast members of Riverdale. I have to wonder if there is some plan going on to try to get people to discredit real victims. Beyond that this is also showing why social media is so toxic and is a bad fit for justice.

I'd like to hear Courtney and Millee talking about their acting days too. Kathy is a character I wish I could have seen the better years of.

Did you see the cast crawl in the fall 1978 episode that @BillBauer posted? I think there was a "chief" on there - he may already be in your list though.

Watching the episode again where Iva first sees Emma again and it's clear they made retcons by 1991 - Emma berates Iva over breaking her father's heart because Iva was "his oldest." Emma says in this episode that she last saw Iva when she was 13. So she probably had Lily when she was 14. Emma says Iva left when Holden was 3. So that isn't too far a stretch from their ages here, I guess.

A lot of people either don't know or just don't seem to care.

Lynde also chose the worst time to join AW, as the show was becoming very moribund. The 1980 episodes are so often dead, in part because of the long stretches of her singing so very sincerely (the few Y&R performances I've seen with her are much more vibrant). Russ was too isolated a character by 1980 for his marriage to have any story value, and seeing her manager Jason pretending to be straight and obsess over her wasn't much entertainment value either.

So I guess that makes it even less likely we will get another check...shocker... I don't do TikTok, but the psyops nature of the platform has been overlooked and dismissed many times over, to the point of even Parkland activists like David Hogg being belittled for speaking up. Now that it's clear the thing is being used for propaganda involving Pizzagate and the Boogaloos, maybe some will finally start to step in.

Thanks for answering. I hope it works out.

They have about 8 or 9 parts (and similar for an October 1987 mashup). I love the channel switching aspect too. The only downside is it makes you depressed when you remember the days when there were multiple soaps on multiple channels.

My viewing wasn't every day but the most I remember in any real interaction was when the Labines were writing the show and they tried to have people mingle more often - I think Cassie offered him some cake and they talked while she was trying to get info for a story or something. I think they also talked a bit about their past relationship but I don't remember for sure. Overall it does seem like the show was happy to move past that period.

More ATWT fragments in this...August 22, 1991, maybe? There is a scene in this, about 17 minutes in, that reminds me of why I HATED HATED HATED Courtney. She basically tries to shame Tess and says people will think she is a great big whore for dancing with and talking to <gasp> three men! That adorable Andy was wasted with this driftwood for so many years still makes me mad 30 years later.

That channel surfing August 1991 upload series continued. I don't want to dump videos in here, but part 4 continues the Joey hospital scenes and has some good moments, including Larry giving Clint and Viki home truths, and a surprisingly poignant conversation between Kevin and Stephanie about growing up and letting go of their relationship. Part 5 has clips including early Jason (this Kevin plays the scenes like he's sweet on him...not that I could blame him if he was), the runup to Andy and Hunter's wedding, and Cassie and Bo struggling with Alex's mind games. I think this must have been August 22, as August 23 has the wedding and Jason and Kevin at the loading dock. The end also has Alex talking about what she wants to name the child she plans to have with Bo. You just have to hear the name she chooses!

Well said, @marceline . Speaking of the corrupt media, NYT is yet again trying to help Trump and stir up backlash with misleading headlines about the Museum of Natural History moving Teddy Roosevelt's racist, gross statue. The media will do anything to help him and to help the GOP. We're just getting started. Here is another example, a sickening one: Speaking of sickness...

@BillBauer thank you for the 1978 episode. I can see why Bridget Dobson disliked the "dead leaves" but I must say the full closing credits theme is gorgeous. It's similar to my issues with "Jalinda's Theme" on ATWT... The Philip custody material can feel very draining, as it's so heavy and everyone involved is (understandably) very dour; I'm glad that we got some of the scenes with Rita and Ed as a balance. I can see why Rita tested the female audience so much at the time, given how unabashedly sensual Lenore Kasdorf was in the role. It's such a contrast from most other ladies on GL, or on any of the soaps. (is this before Roger raped Rita?) Millette Alexander is great in these clips - such layered acting and you feel for Sara even though this is very warmed-over material for the character by 1978. I do like JoBeth Williams but from the little I've seen of her I wonder if she was miscast as Brandy, who should have been more fun on paper. This guy playing Peter always felt like a weird casting choice as well.

From reading the comments apparently they repainted the mural later.

Richard van Vleet was well-liked by AMC fans so his hiring seemed like an early attempt at the ABC-ification of the P&G soaps. After that I guess they just stuck with Simon, other than a year or two in the late '90s. I do wish they'd asked Mart back. That's a great idea about Joan as Elizabeth. A short-term, defined arc would have worked well.

After the heavy role they played in 2016, I can't really stop worrying about them, even if I wanted to. Beyond the political role, it's just their sheer amorality and the consequences of their amorality that makes me keep more of an eye on them - for instance, the damage Chris Hayes and others did to women by pushing the Tara Reade story. Parker Malloy had a long thread on Twitter that sort of summed up why I am wary of the kpop stuff getting too much coverage - it's a fun story, but I think it draws too much attention away from other reasons why Trump may have less support this time around. It gives him a shield.

Dean was involved in shady dealings with Alan that led to his death, I think - some of it involved smears against Elizabeth to help him get custody of Philip. Blackmail tapes involving Dean and Alan were used by Roger to force Alan to hide him and protect him during and after the rape trial and shooting, and were later used by Diane before Alan turned himself in to the police. Crazy that that subplot would carry all the way through to about 1982.

Irna would use the same type of writing with Lisa on ATWT, wanting her own place and trying to manipulate Pa Hughes into moving out. It's very clever as beyond being used to define a character, it also pushed the buttons of housewives who either had once been a Lisa or a Bert, or despised women like them.

A young woman accused Ansel Elgort of sexually assaulting her at 17 (this was in 2014 so he would have been in his early 20s - apparently this is legal in New York), humiliating her, trying to get her to send him nude photos and have threesomes with her friends. Elgort admitted to the relationship and made a vague apology for the way he broke up with her, but has denied the other allegations. https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ansel-elgort-denies-sexual-assault-teenage-girl-1234642752/ Multiple women have made accusations against comedian Chris d'Elia, which he has denied. These include allegations he tried to hit up underage girls. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-06-20/chris-delia-accusations-sexual-improprieties-twitter https://deadline.com/2020/06/whitney-cummings-responds-to-chris-delia-accusations-soliciting-teens-1202965143/

This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in politics. How desperate is he to get that Senate seat back? Is it worth THIS?

The race is probably much closer than the polls suggest but the framing that Trump should be ahead (because that's what the media wants and needs) and he needs to just get out of his own reminds me of the 2012 coverage where the press was perpetually confused and upset that Romney was on the backfoot the whole way through. I hope people are prepared to stand up to media lies as they are just waiting for another gotcha moment with Biden. Anyway, I saw that AOC was gushing about the Tik Tok/kpop stuff with the rally. I've also seen this being used to help justify the GOP blocking mail in voting, as it means a leading Democrat (in the media, anyway) is cheering on fraud. Of course this isn't the same as voting, or even close, and they are going to block mail voting anyway, but it's just another moment where I wish certain people on the left would understand framing more. They are giving Trump, and the media, an opening to act as if a rally which was very poorly attended even without the kpop/Tik Tok stuff was only poorly attended because of trickery, and it means if his next rally is bigger, he will get a huge comeback narrative and owning the liberals narrative.