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My mother was just wondering yesterday where Susan has been. Eerie. I'm glad she made it through.

China itself seems to be regressing/struggling at home and on some of their Belt and Road stuff, although I agree they are in a better position than we are. It feels like the end of empires, period. We seem to be heading into a very catastrophical (is that a word? is it spelled wrong?) time around the globe. It won't take much longer before breaking point arrives. What I don't understand is why Mark Harring went along with the calls for Northam to go when he knew he had his own blackface incident. Wouldn't it have been better for him to own up to his past at that time? Instead he just let the left create a narrative that is also going to take him down.

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Sam Lloyd, of Scrubs and many other shows, is battling cancer. There's a Gofundme to try to help cover his bills. https://www.gofundme.com/dhfz9q-save-sammy Also Linda Ronsdadt has a new interview out.

I think they were both colder, which suited Lily more. Martha was just kind of weak and whiny, especially in the earlier years. (I do think Heather became more vulnerable as time passed - Noelle never had the chance because the writing was so poor) Sometimes I sound like I am trashing his era of the show, which isn't fair of me because I love a great deal of it (it's also the time period that got me hooked on ATWT in the first place), but episodes like this one can make my teeth clench. You need more characters like Lucinda who get in there (I think that's probably one of the reasons Lucinda was such a fan favorite even though she could sometimes be a terrible person - that and Lucinda always paid for her sins). I do think that by the early '90s the ice had begun to crack and characters were allowed to be more open with their anger, more snippy, etc. I'll always wonder what would have been...

I remember liking him as Gary - he was a much better actor. I guess Ted kind of fit KL more though.

Thanks again. I wonder if that was a thread they planned to do more with if they'd gone to syndication. It's a shame that didn't happen. Did that Brian character stay around to the end as well? From the writeup on the video: AUDIO ONLY of this episode of the fondly remembered CBS Soap Opera which aired from February 1954 to February 1974. In this entry, Dan and Kevin (Bernie Barrow and David Ackroyd) discuss Dan's hoped-for parole; Mark and Laurie (David Gale and Stephanie Braxton) discuss Mark's new job as a parole officer; and Amy (Lynne Adams) receives a surprise baby shower with Laurie, Joanna, Mrs. Post (Sue Ann Gilfillan), Valerie (Lori March) and Lisa (Judy Safran) in attendance For some reason I thought Jada was playing Amy again by this time. Clearly not.

Thanks. Ugh. I think ATWT did this years later with John Dixon and Carly (although he wasn't the father in the end). So the happy ending was just them reconciling and him being able to walk again, but he still wasn't the father? Sorry for all the questions.

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In this particular case it seems like one of those nominations that is meant to be a "gotcha" to liberals, as she is a woman and a minority. And the media will dutifully push a narrative of "Democrats in disarray" and of how Democrats will be seen as racist and sexist if they don't support her. Oddly enough the hard right senator from Iowa also seems critical of her (although she will vote for her in the end, of course), which kind of steps on their narrative. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ernst-pushes-rao-on-rape-position

Yet I bet most of these people (if these are real) will vote for him in 2 years.

Another munecojim upload that didn't seem to already be on Youtube. Another episode reminding us that Marland-era Oakdale is the politest place on Earth, as various characters apologize to a bratty teenager for not wanting to attend her sham of a wedding reception for her sham marriage to a sleazeball who treats most of them like crap on his shoe. And Dusty trying to have a party with her after she schemed into his bed and faked a pregnancy? He's very forgiving. I found Meg intolerable to watch when she spent all that time going around whining to people about Tonio. Was it the strike writers who broke that up by pairing her with Josh or was that always planned? I wish Lisa had gotten her claws out but by this time Lisa was too nice a lady... Find a man who looks at you like Seth looks at Sabrina, or just find a man who looks like Seth, period. At least this episode helps fill in the blanks of why they fell for each other. Watching episodes like this I'm reminded of @Mitch saying Sabrina should have been a schemer - it would have added some spice to the story and made sense given her past. Julianne Moore does a pretty good job in that scene near the end when Sabrina is trying to deal with her feelings for Seth. (I love the music they use in that fantasy scene...so classy and quietly heartbreaking) I just have to shake my head at Lily getting a brand new location and a guest cast who are all there to do what the old faces in Oakdale were already doing, like pining over her or worrying about her. And of course she has a big birthday celebration, even with strangers. Martha Byrne did a good job in the scene where Lily couldn't cope with the birthday celebration. Holden is, as usual, worth punching in the face. Tom really comes across as a prick when trying to "win" Margo back. I wonder how viewers at the time felt, as it seems very alien to most of what Tom had been, and Holmes lacks the natural charisma of the last few Toms. He is better when they put him more into family mode in 1988. Whenever I watch the episodes from this era I appreciate the way they handled Craig's disappearance - never trying to convince the audience he was 100% dead, instead playing out, in real time, the pain and numbness his loved ones felt from not knowing. The Shannon and Duncan material always sticks out like a sore thumb when going back and watching these episodes.

Construction on "the wall" is starting, and the toll it will take on the environment is going to be immeasurable. He's a real [!@#$%^&*] - smug and proud of it. A few days ago he was jeering a woman who works as a security expert in probably the most blatant example of "mansplaining" I've seen in a long time. This is what our media, and Lorne Michaels, want us to support. This is their GOP and their America.

It's nice to see you here. It's been a long while.

If neither man is governor, who takes over? The AG, Mark Herring? The hit pieces on him will start soon then, I'm guessing.

It's amazing how desperate the media whore branch of the GOP is to get AOC's attention, I imagine because they simultaneously envy her and desire her. She does reply to some (like this jackass who only got famous because Pete Davidson is a mess and because Lorne Michaels, like the media at large, loves Republicans and wants them to win), but she has continued to ignore Ben Shapiro, which I'm happy about. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/dan-crenshaw-nfl-patriots-70-percent-tax/

Just as expected, the same people who are out to get Northam are also out to get Justin Fairfax. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/washington-post-justin-fairfax-assault-accusation-1145317 That's why those on the left who rush blindly into moral superiority situations often do more harm than good. (and I'm not surprised that the Washington Post is helping the right wing cast doubt as they tend to support conservative views anyway)

It's always odd when I hear about the tension because I never feel it onscreen. Sometimes you can feel some kind of hostility, no matter how much actors try to cover it up. I guess that may have been one of the reasons the characters were separated for so much of his last year or so on the show though.

Kim Rhodes is pretty active on Twitter as she has her own podcast.

@safe Bernie Barrow is in this one. That's another rare find. So awesome to get to hear these. I didn't know whether they had organ music or not by then. I guess they didn't. The music sounds surprisingly futuristic for a soap. Then again this was the '70s... I know it's been discussed and I've just forgotten, but what secret was Amy hiding? Was she artificially inseminated? Is that why Valerie (who sounded like she could cut a bitch) was so rattled when that woman was going on about how she would get "AI"? Was Kevin paralyzed at this point?

Thank you for letting us know. She was very special to watch. Such a spark, from the very first time she appeared as Iris. She was different to Beverlee in many ways, but one thing they shared was an incredible charisma and a natural chemistry with everyone around them. She brought so much to her work in the role, making Iris believable while wooing men, bitching at Pauline, being frenemies with Rachel, plotting coups at Cory Publishing, or running business at the hospital. Of everything I most enjoyed the moments when we'd get to see Iris' vulnerability. I was just watching some of her scenes again last week. I never get tired of them. AW had such an underrated cast who always made a little go a long way. Carmen was one of those who made that the most true. As Khan said, I hope she knew how much AW fans appreciated her. And I hope she knew newer fans, like me, were hooked years after the show was just an entry on her IMDB page. Was it her choice to leave? I can never remember. The worst part of her exit story was that it was the end. A return would have made it more palatable. Imagine if in AW's last episode Rachel and Carl had gotten a call about business at Cory, and when they got to the main office, the chair spun around, with Iris smiling at them like the cat that got the cream. I'll never forget that interview Malone gave when he was briefly writing for AW where he (most likely through P&G mandates) said Iris couldn't come back because the show was no longer focusing on older characters.

That would make sense. I used to think Brown or Russ Feingold would be good nationally but the latter's time has passed (and I think he was too "pure" to ever truly be a strong politician). I wish I believed we had a fair primary and that those who caused so many problems in 2016 weren't going to do the same again.

Chuck Todd has such an awful voice for television. So whiny and weaseling. This man is a failure in every way. Only in our craven media market and on the especially craven NBC would he have a career. Sadly it seems like Bernie's sycophants already have the pitchforks out for Sherrod Brown because he doesn't want to give out rainbows and fairy promises about Medicare.

It felt like some kind of attempt at social commentary, and the class divide, which was very "in" at this time. The show also focused on this by having Anne lose all her money and her home. It just didn't really fit KL, in Anne's case because you knew she wasn't going to be homeless for long, and the outcome was her spending way too long with an annoying overweight comic relief figure, and in the case of the Karen story, because the family of the boy she unintentionally killed seemed to be straight out of someone's basement production of The Grapes of Wrath.