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She looks especially like her daughter in that photo. Same bone structure in the face. Unfortunately, her character also appears in a slog of a year on ATWT, 1988, which, even before the WGA strike began, seemed like quite a few storylines that consisted of consecutive episodes where you were continually waiting for something to happen. Such a stark contrast to 1986-1987 where, for a year and a half, there were so many suspenseful story lines going on and at times, overlapping. This makes me wonder whether Marland and the other writers had some sense that a strike was imminent and was stretching out stories in advance, in anticipation of 'scab' writers burning through their story projections. Consequently the '88 Writers' Strike remains the longest strike in WGA history so far. Right back at 'cha.

Watching an episode from 1988 (pre WGA strike) and there is a character named Silvia Alvarez, who runs an oil company. I was intrigued by the actress and checked for her in the credits and saw that her name is Taro Meyer, who is the mother or Kate & Allie actress Ari Meyer. An odd little irony, is that I checked the credits to see whether the actress is Latin American, I discovered that she is Brooklyn based while being reminded that her daughter Ari was born in Puerto Rico. ATWT doesn't appear on her IMDB account but her account does list Another World as part of her resume.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Chancellor Merkel's handpicked successor was voted in as the CDU's next leader.

Wait, so Amelie Mauresmo won't be the French Davis Cup captain, after all?

I fully realize that this is an opinion piece. Part of the reason why I am posting this anyway because this Op-Ed seems to suggest some of the aspects that I've been reading about over the last eight weeks or so. Also, I haven't had time to read this yet and I intend to come back and read it, and posting it here is a surefire way for me to come back around and read later.

OMG at Andy and SaltBae!

Lifetime naming R. Kelly as the source of a gun threat issued during a screening of Surviving R. Kelly. Lifetime Says R. Kelly Is To Blame For The Gun Threats At The Premiere Screening Of 'Surviving R. Kelly'

Here's a new post on the Gimelstob situation that argues that the ATP should remove him from the player's council PDQ. Tennis has a Justin Gimelstob Problem

I'd be HRC, "No thank you, next".

Rachel Miner struck me as being preternaturally talented on Guiding Light and I've wished her well in career ever since. I still wish her well, in life as well as her career. There need to be more good acting roles for disabled actors--her kind of talent doesn't just go away because her health status has changed. As long as she's up to it (and anyone who even attempts a marathon is likely up to activity), there should be good acting jobs out there for her.

Thanks Vee. If the time or inclination gets me, I may try another blog post of mini-script as I did with a proposed storyline for Y&R. Hopefully with less technical glitches next time, lol. If I do, I'd definitely snuff out a significant block of those final years, lol.

Praise be!

Someone actually admonished people to refer to what is happening in North Carolina as election fraud, not voter fraud. This person claims that calling it voter fraud gives credence (somehow) that the GOP's complaints about rampant voter fraud are legitimate when they aren't, and that what is being attempted in North Carolina, Wisconsin and Michigan is actually an attempt at election engineering by way of fraud. This kind of makes sense but what's being attempted amounts to fraud, no doubt about that.

That would've been lovely. I've thought that, in my wildest writing fantasies, if ever I had the chance to refashion a 2.0 of ATWT, even briefly...I'd open with Kim saying "Good morning dear", to her granddaughter, (Oakdale Memorial hospital's newest resident) Dr. Hope Dixon.

Yes, thanks for posting, this is what the tweet is in reference to.

Hey @Juliajms speaking of women and science, OMG at this!

The DVD sets themselves, seemed like they were on sale for mere months so maybe part of the time was taken up by selecting which videos and then preparing the videos for sale? From what I remember reading, the videos sold very well. Of course, some of those videos were scooped up quickly, then re-sold on Amazon for twice and three times the price for which it was originally sold. By the end, almost all of the DVD had been sold out. What seemed to leave many of us perplexed was the final note that SoapClassics sent via e-mail, which seemed to indicate that they were taking a brief hiatus and that they would return. In hindsight, this is probably what many companies say when they want to quell followup inquiries of any kind. It's just a shame because a lot of people felt like they were left hanging. Even if SoapClassics couldn't continue, it would be great if they could leave a blueprint as to how they accomplished what they did with P&G. Another group could benefit from SC's expertise on the matter, should anyone want to try again. Soap fans are exceedingly loyal (even when these companies don't give them reasons to be) and I think there would still be an audience receptive to the classics.

Judging from Michael Swan's comments, he thinks that IMDB expects him to do it, LOL. Since IMDB closed their messageboards and made all these changes, I'm not sure what fans are allowed to do other than submit reviews. If the fans can make those types of changes to an actor's personal page, that might be something that IMDB may want to consider changing, LOL or they could end up like those unlocked celebrity pages on Wikipedia-- sometimes the crazy, practical joke things that end up on that site! OMG, yes! There was a former soap actor who used to do interviews like this and post them on You Tube and the We Love Soaps blog. I really wish someone would do something again. I'm sure they wouldn't disappoint, none of these ladies are known for holding back.

It's a shame that those SoapClassics people just up and vanished. They were obviously able to persuade PGP/P&G to open their vaults, even for a short time. It's not inconceivable that someone on their level could manage such a feat again? ATWT had some really fun, festive party and special occasion episodes and a few were even self-contained. Is there nobody that has any way to connect with the production wing of P&G? Also, looking at that Insta of Tamara Tunie's Call Sheets makes me wonder whether if she saved any of her vintage scripts. Do the actors get access to copies of some episodes that they were particularly proud of? They probably didn't have time to watch complete episodes. LOL, Michael Swan complaining about being short-changed on IMDB. I guess that answers my question on why so few episodes are listed, I think it's crazy that IMDB wants the actor to list every episode themselves, that would be exhaustive for someone on a series for twenty, thirty, forty years! Sadly, there is likely no other way to do this, other than manually since I doubt P&G kept any database listing of every episode--that would've made everything so much easier.

Oh definitely. Sadly, I was just mentioning this in another thread about Ken Berry-- that there was a time when you used to have to possess true, discernible talent and even luck on top of all that, to make it in entertainment but now, it seems, all you need is the ability to throw a chair or a table. I continue to be flummoxed by Ben Carson. I still think he tried (and failed) to perform a lobotomy on himself and things went terribly wrong.

Admittedly, I hadn't been paying all that much attention to the G20 this year so I must admit that I missed this when it happened.

Feel free to ignore my posts, if they offend your sensibilities. @JarrodMFiresofLove I won't go round after round with you and others have expressed that they actually like to read my posts and engage with them. I won't stop posting just to suit your delicate sensibilities, so feel free to avert your gaze. I remember you stomping off in a temper tantrum from this thread the last time someone disagreed with you and you were unable to bully them into dropping their post, so feel to resort to whatever reaction suits you best. On to more interesting comments, thanks to Carl, for this Eileen Fulton interview. Only when I started to venture onto the soaps messageboards, had I heard about the 'grandma clause' and the ramifications. We all know that soap fans can get out of proportion with their reactions to...well, everything! If people wanted someone to blame, why not look at the writing? Why go after the actress? It's a shame that Gregg Marx wanted to leave since he and HBS had such great, sultry chemistry and personally, he was my favorite Tom.

To those legal eagles and others who may be interested.