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Thursday 

Steffy is THE ONLY one I could tolerate this episode. Brooke lost me with her - I know Zende would not take advantage of her... He is not like that... Brooke, how can you be so irresponsible to say something like this? How exactly do you know he is not a rapist? How do you tell a rapist from a normal person, Brooke? Please do tell. GIRL... You have been raped TWICE... You of all people should KNOW never to say THINGS LIKE THAT. And then her whole rant to Poppy... was just... Brooke, get a grip. You don't blame women and their mothers in situations like this - NO, NO, NO. This is disgusting. Brooke should check her emotions and think before she speaks - she is not 25 anymore - she is a grandmother. Act like a grown person, for God's sake.  The stupid writing is making me not like her character at all... And KKL is MY GIRL, you all know that. And she will be Forever in my heart. I just LOVE her. And I thought Brooke was going to be the TRUTH-teller this time... but NO... they had to ruin it with this rape-apologist shi-te. 

P.S

So, yeah... there is snow in Hell, cuz I am on Steffy's side 100 percent with the Sheila thing. And Steffy is the only one who has been acting logically the past few episodes.

On 5/15/2024 at 9:24 PM, Fevuh said:

He looks a lot like Indrid Cold / grinning man connected to the Mothman.  Creepy, and there are theories that Indrid Cold / the grinning man was an alien.  No joke.  

Oh my God, why did I had to google this... Now I will have nightmares

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

6 hours ago, Jeff said:

Good.  He better not come back to "Hinn" (I can barely type that without )

 It has the same effect on me too, my friend! 

I've been reading strange things since this whole ordeal has happened. People who just days ago were bashing PM and asking him to be let go since he is not that good... are changing their tune to... Poor victim PM, I am not watching without him... All over social media and boards.

It's kinda shocking to see the same people, same names, same avatars change their mind just like that because the narrative is different. What this says to me about people... About certain type of people. LOL. Human nature never seazes to amaze me.

I again have stated I believe PM would have been a great HW. That's what I believe and I stand by my words.  I think some people were too harsh on him too early and now backtracking and acting like they knew all along he was sabotaged and etc.

But I remember what I read and I remember who said what... Sadly.

3 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Interrupting this 80's edge discussion to go further back to Slesar's beginnings at the show. 

Millette was a popular 60's soap star. She returned to ATWT after her initial run, the went to EON for 2 gigs before GL snapped her up for her long run as Sara.

The Record Hackensack New Jersey 16 May 1968

Edge Of Night' Star Shines All Day By JAY RAE OFFEN Staff Writer

PIERMONT - - Soap opera queen Millette Alexander makes housewives feel better when she plays Julie Jamison on TV's "Edge of Night." No matter what a woman's problems, she can tell herself, "At least my life's not as bad as Julie Jamison's. No one's blackmailing me. I'm not a murderess. I'm not going to jail." Julie Jamison's soap bubble troubles runneth over on screen. Offscreen, the most striking quality of the actress who portrays her is her happiness.

That's the way it is with the real life of Millette Alexander. With a husband she calls the doll of the world, four children, a 19-room house, a job she loves and the world's most adoring audience, her woes won't match Julie's. But Millette would never call her life placid.

"With four children of our own and five children who belong to the couple who live with us and work for us? Then there are seven dogs, and four cats, one pregnant. It's not placid but there aren't any murders." In contrast, TV Julie's life is nothing but toil and trouble.

Divorced from a guitarplaying no-goodnik, she comes to "Edge of Night" as the new nightclub singer at the Riverboat, a gambling den. Good-guy Orrin Hillyer sees her and falls in instant love because she looks just like his dead wife. Former husband shows up to make trouble. Julie passes out from one drink (she's allergic to alcohol). While she's unconscious, former husband is killed in a fight.

When she wakes up, real killer persuades Julie she did it, then blackmails her. Orrin lends her money, marries her secretly, and the plot thickens.

Back In Script

That's one plot. There are at least four more that make up TV's cops and robbers soap, "The Edge of Night." Only the daily watcher can keep track of all the problems. Even the writers get confused sometimes and add things that can't happen yet.

But the most amazing thing that's ever happened I during this soap opera's 13 years is an act of reincarnation that wrote Millette back into the script after killing her off. Audiences liked her so well as Laura Hillyer, first wife of Orrin, that she's been revived as Julie, Orrin's second wife. Millette first became Orrin's wife, Laura Hillyer, two years ago. Laura had troubles too. She was a faithless wife who chased a disc jockey who loved her money but not her.

So she killed him, then died, herself, in a car crash. The TV ratings hit an all time high. Nine months later, Millette was back in town as Julie with a Southern accent and long yaller hair. The dialogue ran, "Have you seen that new nightclub singer? She's a dead ringer for Laura Hillyer." Indeed. Trying on a new, ash blonde wig for the secret wedding last week, (Julie tones down her yaller hair for love), actress Millette said she was not bride-nervous.

She'd done it all before. At Laura's wedding. Millette received pot holders and hankies from believing fans. Anticipating more wedding gifts for Julie, she said. "It's weird in a kind of wonderful way." The world's most devoted audience, soap opera fans are all kinds of people.

Tallulah Bankhead watches. So do teenagers and retired men. They love soap operas. So do the actors, who adopt each other as family and sometimes act together for years.

For Millette, her working life in "Edge of Night" is strenuous. She commutes from her Piermont home to a CBS studio two, three or four days a week, depending on the script. She's in her dressing room by 8 a.m.,rehearses all morning, dons makeup and costume, does the show from 3:30 to 4. then has a pre-rehearsal from 4 to 5:30 if she's acting next day. Evenings, she memorizes 20 or 30 pages of dialogue. An actor with a poor memory doesn't do soaps.

It's gruelling, but actors love it. Millette has never really had a vacation from her career since she graduated from drama school at Northerwestern University. She admits her four children slowed her down a bit. But she did head and shoulders TV commercials and radio commercials throughout each of her pregnancies. Time Out For Baby The day that Will, her third child, was born, she taped a radio commerical.

"I kept teasing them to hurry up, that I was in labor. When we finished the taping, I said, 'Now can I go home and have my baby?' and I did!" As with any woman, all days are not all smiles. Millette copes by crying, woman's first right. And she relies heavily on husband James Hammerstein. "When I'm most upset, that's when he's most calm," she says.

Hammerstein is director of off-Broadway's "The Indian Wants the Bronx." Because he understands that the show must go on, he understood why Millette went on with a temperature of 105 recently. The last stronghold of live acting, soap opera doesn't allow for sickness. "They were wonderful to' me though," Millette says. "They got a doctor and set up a cot next to the set so I could rest.

Millette Alexander is a pretty woman with a girl-next-door look. What keeps her from being the girl next door is her whole life style and a high energy level.To relax, she gardens and translates modern paintings into needlepoint canvases. "I woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning one night and thought, 'Wow, wouldn't Picasso look great in petit point?' What girl next door would do a thing like that?.

You can interrupt every day any time my friend, this is a fascinating read. Thank you.

Thank you @Toups

Thank God they don't choose actors by ass sizes in 2024. Lol.

Some people linger in the house long after they have left. Especially those who don't use deodorant.

Thank you @Errol! 

I am one of these people who truly believes PM would have made an amazing head writer IF he was truly given the chance. Was he? I can't say for sure, but from what I am reading... I am starting to think he was doomed from the start.

Just as people can speculate that he would have never been good HW... I think this toxic ego driven environment would make even Chekhov struggle to write.

And how can we judge PM as a head writer and say the show was not better or good with him in it... When he was not really IN IT. I am asking myself this rhetorical question. Not wanting to start an argument.

I am of course basing all this on what I'm reading here and also common sense with how this situation has unfolded.

I see people writing RIP GH on social media. This makes me sad. I know GH will not die from this... But...  

17 minutes ago, Broderick said:

I ain't telling you.  I want you to be as surprised as possible about who did it, and how the Perpetrator managed to accomplish it.  lol.

It's all been laid-out for us, but we're bad about *assuming* everything is the way it initially appears.  And nothing really is.  

How beautifully said.

10 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I'm trying to decide what I'm going to have for dinner.

I think it's going to be enchiladas, beans and rice plate.

 

Looks good. I had potatoes with vegetables and some tomato and feta salad for dinner. And a glass of chocolate pudding.

1 minute ago, Broderick said:

For those of us who didn't know Sharon Gabet was coming back (and in 1980, that was every single viewer, lol), Raven's reappearance at an opportune moment for one of the suspects came as a complete, unexpected shock, which blew one of our "study hall theories" of "who done it" to hell.  

OMG... Is it RAVEN... No... Don't tell me. 

Just now, Soapsuds said:

He was but the guys here at SON ate it up!

Did you call me gay?

1 minute ago, Broderick said:

Let's just say Raven will play a significant role in the denouement of Margo's mystery and will also be a central character in the mysteries that occur in the summer and autumn of 1980, and in each event the groundwork is all CAREFULLY laid without us really even being aware of it.  

I am soo excited.  Thank you! 

1 minute ago, ranger1rg said:

Yeah, I agree -- that is not a flat ass.

Yeah... It's kinda bizarre to read a comment like that about RJ of all people. 

God only knows how all of this is affecting the whole cast and crew... things like that and changes so abrupt for sure can make people... metaphorically speaking... dizzy and just... unmotivated. 

13 minutes ago, Broderick said:

I'm glad you're having fun with the show.  It brings back so many memories. 

In 1980, there was obviously no such thing as a "spoiler".  I was a teenager at the time.  My siblings and I watched the show most evenings, and several of my classmates were watching as well.  It wasn't at all unusual for us to sit around & speculate as to where Henry Slesar was going with the storylines.  "It HAD to be Eliot Dorn.  But how did he get out of there without the doorman seeing him?"  "It must have been Nola Madison!  But didn't a reliable witness see her somewhere else at the time?"  No explanation appeared to make sense, but suddenly EVERYTHING makes perfect sense.  It's really a masterclass in mystery storytelling, in my opinion.

Without spoilers, it was VERY HARD to figure it out.  And that theme remained true throughout 1980.      

Now I'm sure Nola isn't the one... Or IS SHE... Was she in her Ms. Cory disguise... I'm just joking. Don't tell me! I am getting so hyped up for 1980 reading your take! Is Raven going to rock the city once she is back? I am already counting the episodes to her return.

Just now, BetterForgotten said:

Frankly, Frank is the common denominator for why this show has sucked through several writing regimes at this point. I’m not sure why ABC and Varni don’t see that and continue to safeguard his job.

Van Etten back is not going to change a lick, and Korte has been on staff for like 30 years - she’s a company woman that will write whatever she’s being told to write. 

This sounds like the show truly lost... a chance to be better... today. Which is devastating. 

God I hope we hear an interview from PM soon. 

Just now, BetterForgotten said:

I hate to say it, but this is what I’ve saying all along with watching GH. There was a clear power struggle at play - and the show was suffering for it and it showed on-screen IMO.

I am not surprised PM quit, this is consistent for when he is being sabotaged behind the scenes.

 

God Damn... this sounds so real.