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Its interesting to read the outlines on the another world site from the first few years regarding Alice. Even though she was a background character for the first three or years of the show. The show wisely still incorporated the experiences her older sister pat had to develop Alice. Alice being unable to emotionally committed to either her first boyfriend and her second boyfriend made perfect sense if you take into account witnessing all that pat went through with tom Baxter, the abortion, her killing him and almost going to jail. For Alice...the natural response was to go the opposite extreme and become all about nursing with little to.no time for.men. Rachel was able to take advantage of this fact to snag Steve for awhile. And it made sense Alice would have a nervous breakdown in 1974...and given the whole fire and aftermath...develop ptsd in 1979. I think had harney stayed on..the ptsd would have played out and not been forgotten once that brief recast took over. Did the brief recast they to play the ptsd or was it abandoned the moment she took over?

6/1/15 RHOC season 10 per Big mouth Tamra!

So I hear that part 2 of the RHOBH hit 2.9 million viewers according to recent reports today (facturing in DVR ratings).. I'm sure Bravo and Andy Cohen think it is due to Brandi and Kim... but I think the fact that Eileen effortlessly dragged both bitches without breaking a sweat had something to do with it. When Brandi G says Eileen doesn't bring anything to the table, I think she's dead wrong.. Eileen brings ratings and the ability to spot BS a mile away. Very few can do that, and if I were Miss Glanville.. i'd be worried that Lisa Rinna was bought on and causing just as much drama as Ms. Glanville did.. Conflict causers can be replaced in a heart-beat... just saying

Fernanda was close to.being a housewife for season 6 of OC yet was dropped.at the last second to a friend of status. And I'm all for unmarried women being on the show...but I think.being single and having no kids kind of defeats the purpose of the shows being about all aspects of their lives. Brandi on rhobh should just be a friend. We cant see her as a mom, her pod cast and book.thing really didn't excite nor did her scenes with her parents. At best, she's friend material..not diamond holding material. Same with Carole on new York. All she seems to be featured doing is playing a kooky writer with writers block and chasing younger men...same with Sonja. And Jo was unmarried when OC started...but she was the only one...and was engaged when on the show. Though I like the promising new casting for NJ...

Was being the key word...once you aren't married then out the door you go. It isn't called the women of Atlanta or whatever city...its called real housewives..

Actually, i think vana Tribbey was a good choice for Alice. She and Rachel had a good vibe as rivals though not sure she had chemistry with Mac or Mitch...Tbh. I've never seen harney except in an episode where she was going through PTSD after the fire. I wonder how Jacqueline Courtney would have played that. Also, I think Alice would.have stayed on long term had Courtney not been fired due to her popularity and the charisma she eluded. Even lemay had to admit she had that certain something that made people watch. And from the few scenes I saw of her...I think she did well with lemays material..though I think Nixon wrote her better as a character then lemay did..based on the few scenes I saw of Alice during the Nixon era.

I hope future entries onto.the Atlanta franchise are at least married, with interesting lives outside the drama. No more of these single girls. So bye porsha, Kenya and Claudia. And also phadedra since I doubt she'll be standing by her man lol

Remember the old days when a season was between 10 to 13 episodes? Maybe they should revert to that again. Though the downside would have been losing the first few episodes of season 5 of RHOBH which was a throwback to the old style of the franchise.

Sadly, I dont think Hilary.. Rand Paul.. nor Ted Cruz fit my checklist of my fantasy president.. don't know if anyone would LOL Just like the perfect love not being anything more then a fantasy.. so to is the perfect president LOL http://www.chicagonow.com/confessions-coffeeholic/2015/03/ted-cruz-my-fantasy-president/

I did happen to watch some of the January 1969 episodes, I do agree with previous posters that Liz seems isolated in some bizarre kidnapping plot. In the episode I watched, she has concluded she has to pretend to accept what her captor is saying instead of fighting him outright. How much longer does this last? The one thing I wish modern day soaps would go back to is the voice over technique. What I mean is as the character is looking into the camera, we hear a voice over of their thoughts as opposed to having the character talk out loud.

To me, it seemed like Eileen should be a moderator for reunions. The way she would effortlessly follow up on statements that Kim and Brandi made was awesome. Eileen was giving Kim that look of 'are you kidding me' when Kim stumbled through that apology.. but sometimes you just have to accept the apology.. given that Kim has never apologized on camera before at all. I think Kim and Eileen didn't click.. but there wasn't any hatred between the two of them.. that there appears to be between Lisa R and Kim. Also, Kim tried that whole.. focus on your own home line on Eileen.. and it didn't have the same effect on Eileen as it did on Lisa R.

Ah..so nice that bravo rewards bullies with pay raises and peaches/diamonds/oranges/apples.

Only thing that would have made Eileen's effortless shut down of Brandi epic was if during the segment where Brandi was slamming Eileen's decorating style.. Eileen could have said 'at least I own a house to decorate.. how's that rental working for ya'. I have a feeling that had Yolanda stayed for the whole reunion, I don't think Eileen would have been able to fully shut down Brandi..imho. I don't think Yolanda would have tried to block Eileen from speaking like she did with Joyce, but I know that she would have tried to further excuse Brandi's behavior.

I think the actress playing Carla is the reason why Carla hasn't quite been ruined and still has an essence that can't be destroyed by producers/writers.. etc.

I'd prefer something closer to this type of comedy then the more mean-spirited stylings of 30 Rock, Parks & Rec, etc. However, my favorite sitcom is The Middle... it has the quirks/sentimental elements of a Full House along with the more cynical elements of the above mentioned shows... it's a perfect melding of those two types of genres.

The first two or three seasons when Stephanie was the cute little kid were decent...but when mihelle grew up...that's when the show veered off. I think Stephanie had the most developed character of the three girls..imho

Vicki's mother died recently as well as the mentioned Brooks situation. Tamra is a grandmother, plus lost custody of her children. Apparently she's being playing nice with Lizzie, Shannon and newbie Meghan. Rumors state that she's fallen out with another housewife just recently.. not sure if during the trip to Tahati.. or afterwards... rumor has it Vicki and her are still not getting along. . Katie H. apparently did drop out, unknown what will come of what she filmed. Rumor has it she and Heather had issues during filming. For the most part, there has been drama.. but it hasn't been too toxic... and there have been some fun moments, too. Heather has been groveling/trying to be besties with Shannon... while Shannon/Vicki are still getting along. And I guess the women took a trip to Napa Valley early in filming. All rumor thus far.

She's coming back as a friend. There has been some interesting behind the scenes drama at the OC during season 10 filming.

Was holla ever cute? At least nene and Vicki had cool catch phrases. I can't wait till Vicki is on our screen..but I have a feeling she won't be doing a lot of 'woo hoo' this year if reports r true maybe Shannon or jeana can cheer her up

I think Eileen needs to channel Kristen a bit more at these reunions since her peacemaking and common sense approach r lost on these women. I think Kyle looks a combo of work done and losing too much weight. Anyone over a certain age needs a little extra weight on them to look younger especially in the facial.area

Brandi's 'slaying' and comebacks are as old as that tampon string. Plus, she's only 3 1/2 years younger then Kyle so that line really fell flat for me. The fact that most of these women (kyle and Brandi especially) can't seem to argue without swearing, threatening bodily harm, etc.. just shows how much they lack in intelligence. The only reason Brandi swears and threatens bodily harm is because she can't articulate verbally so she resorts to name calling, threatening bodily harm, etc.. I doubt Brandi could even hurt someone. She's all bark and no bite. For me, Kyle has a mean streak... but she is so emotionally that she can't properly harness that mean streak. Kim, on the other hand, has no trouble harnessing that mean streak. It's ironic seeing Kim and Brandi so buddy buddy when during the season 3 reunion, Kim was the only one to rightfully defend Paul and Adrienne.. and went after Brandi. With that said, Lisa R looks like she's a train-wreck.. and can easily replace Brandi as the stirrer of drama. Brandi has run her course, it is time to send her on her way. It worked for the OC when they sent Gretchen and Alexis packing so I think it can work for BH, as well

Co-sign on that!

I think why RhOc worked last season was due to Shannon. She came on, didn't want to.hide anything...and worked to.improve herself and her marriage. Plus, the other women under estimated her. Will be intrigued to.see how season 10 will.handle new housewife katie h quitting midway through filming. Rhobh worked this season due to Lisa r and eileen.. it would serve the show long term to axe Brandi since Kim actually behaved somewhat when Brandi wasn't around. Rhonj should have added a newbie or two during season 4 and 5 to keep things from getting stale. Rhony..too many cast mates and only two r married. I would have dropped Kristen and Carole..and had bethanny as a friend..since it appears that bethanny can't feature her child, isn't sharing about her relationship that has since ended..etc. Rhoa...too much shade and teams... can porsha and phadra...have Kenya and Claudia as friends...and cast well off housewives who r married.

Reading some of the past pages, I noticed that the most popular of the Sally Frame's was MPK.. and seeing her youtube work.. I agree she was pretty good. I've never seen Taylor Miller's take on Sally, but everyone seems to think it was subpar so I'll have to agree. What were the thoughts on the other actresses who played Sally Frame? I know there was one that eventually played Cindy Brady in a Very Brady Christmas, plus one or two grown versions before her.

Yes...I remember Garrett saying she would have stayed if Holly was shown getting stronger after the roger ordeal. I'm surprised Maryland had trouble writing such complex characters like Rita, holly, and Jackie. I think the only reason Nola was so fleshed out was due to Lisa brown more so then the writing itself I know the actress who played katie said she regretted staying after the dobsons left as well. Hence why I think Pam long and Marland would have worked well since she was great with emotion and heart...and he was good with plotting.