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Wow. I had no idea. I assumed it was just somebody who did extra work on the shows.

The mention of the Clark sisters made me look up the performance. I first saw this when Wendy Williams brought the wrath of the "saints" earlier this year. It's pure electricity. (I guess their other sister no longer performs with them)

The show really needed a better hairstylist at this time (for the men and the women). Didn't the show start getting a makeover a year or two after this? It was much needed. Hair issues aside, Mark LaMura is so gorgeous and charismatic. He really pops. If risque cable soaps had ever established themselves he would have been perfect for one. It's nice to see more of him with Ellen. I wish I could see their early days. Devon...bleh. It's terrific to see all these episodes.

That was very moving when she thanked the interviewer at the end after all the decades of people dismissing of ignoring her.

Thanks. This is the one I guess: I have never read her book so I had no idea how extensive some of her problems with other producers were as well. The saddest part is the journey from her being passionate about the show to knowing they didn't care and just trying to hang on as long she could. I wish they'd asked her about being asked back in later years. Or about the rumors about being asked to join Loving. I wonder how much of Jean Arley's exit was down to celebrating Ellen Holly and Lillian Hayman. I figured she was mostly let go because of ratings issues.

Was Joe Stuart also the one who did the dressing room (or was that when Doris Quinlan was still there?). Stuart sounds like he mostly brought problems to the show.

Does she say anything about Paul Rauch in these? I've watched several and she is a brilliant actress and storyteller even here. It's just difficult to watch them more than one or two here and there because of the pain she feels.

I mostly just expected speakers who would focus on Aretha and her life, rather than bashing black women, or talking about Trump, etc. I do agree that there were many there who did right by her, but those who were more focused on public response got the response they were looking for, and that is what ended up getting the coverage.

The press would be more invested if a "reasonable Republican" had given the speech. They don't like Obama. It will only interest them in the context of Obama vs Trump. I saw one article almost slobbering as it said everyone had been waiting for this day to come. Sadly he doesn't have much credibility on any side. It's disgusting to see how many in the press are just treating the whole thing as a "win" for the GOP and about how this will help in the midterms, and so on. It's all a game to them. They don't care about this man clearly being a stooge and a crony and a far right extremist.

There are about 20 videos on that channel with Ellen, if anybody wants to see them all.

Now I want to see it even more... That's a great story about Jacqueline Courtney. I guess Irna had the right instincts, as she often did. If she hadn't pushed so hard then we may never had the Alice we knew and who was so important to AW. I think I've asked you this before as well, some years back, but Irna said something in an interview about some type of living off the land story with Carol and Tom. Did that go anywhere?

That sounds...odd. I wish I could see it. I'm sure Pat Bruder was terrific. I'm trying to remember if the Stewarts was the family I read the anecdote about where even the child actors were brought into the room and they were all let go at once. I'm sorry if I asked this before, but were you bothered by the scene that upset some, where David took Ellen to a bar or restaurant to tell her Paul had died?

Once Upon a Time definitely had a rabid fanbase. I remember the "Swan Queen" fans (who wanted the Evil Queen and the Jennifer Morrison character to be a couple). They would get into Twitter fights with cast and crew (like one of the dwarves) and brag about confronting producers at events to talk about how they let lgbt representation down or were queerbaiting, and so on and so forth. It was a mess. I grew to accept Liz Keifer, but Sherry was always the true Blake to me. She was riveting to watch. More than she ever really was on ER. The part was perfect for her. I still miss GL and I still think of all the soaps it was one of those that could find a following if it came back in some form today. The others I'd pick would be Edge of Night or OLTL.

Glad to see those 1981 episodes up again. They were up on a now defunct channel with two OLTL August 1981 episodes and some ATWT 1992 episodes. Those episodes were re-uploaded by munecojim but these hadn't returned. I think the last time they also revived my old "Is that Carla Dragoni from Intervention?" query.

When she was announced as coming back the press statement suggested to me they planned for her to be a bit of a pot-stirrer or bitch...but most of what I've seen onscreen was not that at all. Maybe it was lost when McTavish left.

Thanks for finding that. Wow. Her career, admittedly already on a downward slide, still suffered enormously. I always thought it was just down to puritan hypocrisy in an election year. I had no idea he'd gone out of his way to ruin her because of not getting kissed up to enough. Just pathetic. And it really shows how dangerous he was to women in the industry to have this much power.

What did you think of him with Hayley? When I started watching AMC, he was with Cecily, and i mostly found them dull and irritating. But I can see where he could have worked in another role. I still wonder what went wrong with Cecily's return.

I never knew that about Alice. Wow. If that had happened it would have altered AW forever - and it probably would have meant the show would not even have survived the '60s. What was the 'bottle of hope' scene?

Collins is lucky because now with Jon Kyl I don't think they need her vote. Then again she is a phony, so she may vote for him anyway. I'm glad that the Democrats are fighting, but it's disheartening to realize none of this matters - he will be confirmed and the public won't care. The best to hope for is that those on the left who love to stay home if they aren't being given their cookies every day might be pleased enough to show up in November.

I mean odd as in before the last few months, I always thought he would just be forced out or retire for the usual money reasons, not on the back of sexual harassment/assault allegations.

Indeed. Given that Irna also had a woman's wheelchair accidentally pushed into oncoming traffic by a group of children, I guess she had a taste for the macabre. You can kind of see it in fuller form in her proteges Bill and Agnes.

He'll probably need it when Julie cashes out.

Given that CBS has been on a gradual decline for years, I wondered when Moonves would finally go, but it's still odd to me this is the way it will be. https://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-board-negotiating-100-million-exit-ceo-les-moonves-report-2018-9

Yes.