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A clip of Luke Perry around 2 minutes in. The guy who played Jim was just gorgeous. It's a shame they didn't try more with the character.

There were reports in SOD that she would be recast around 1986 or 1987, but I guess they decided to just age up Alan Michael and bring him back. A waste, as always.

Ken was convinced that his wife Janet was in love with Ed, because of their past history. I think he shot Ed.

Save the post office. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/why-postal-service-worth-saving/610672/

I always think of that uploader who put the closing credits of an episode of ATWT from 1976 or so that his mother (?) had been in and had a copy of - I still wish the full version had shown up. We see so little of this time period. It does feel like the show went off the rails somewhat, but still not to the point where CBS would need to cancel it. I don't know how much of that was down to P&G's usual stubbornness, but something should have been worked out.

It's some pages back, so we may as well bring it up again. Here is the video.

Mark probably didn't have the chops, but then Grayson didn't either. At least Mark looked good on an underwear packet, and he did improve during his time at AW.

I know the old story was that Elvera Roussell was fired to show that anyone could be fired (which if true shows the lack of logic going on with Kobe and P&G considering she'd only been on the show 4 years and they ended up dumping most of the characters on the canvas anyway...), but she still had a lot to give - it seems like she was becoming more and more interesting as she left.

It's unfortunate that Andy Cohen needed to make it all about himself (again) instead of putting more focus on the blood restrictions that continue for gay and bisexual men, or about the coming rules @victoria foxton mentioned that will allow hospitals and medical professionals to discriminate against lgbt people.

I don't think I get that but hopefully it will appear somewhere.

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.