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Just now, Wendy said:

The 5th circuit has reinstated the Texas abortion ban. Surprise, surprise. NOT. The 5th circuit is the GQP on steroids.

The old, rich, white male Republicans win...AGAIN. Yeah, who didn't see that coming?

29 minutes ago, Wendy said:

And, per Wiki, he was on the 12th season of America's Got Talent as...a singing Trump impersonator (and eliminated in the quarterfinals). Umm...yeah.

I think I will have nightmares tonight. You really can't make this stuff up.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the 1/6 committee's endgame is. They keep saying they don't want anything like that to ever happen again. But they don't really say anything about accountability, or prison. I don't know what to believe.

5 hours ago, Pine Charles said:

Can you link that interview again??

I'm not @FrenchBug82, but here:

https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/ruth-warrick?clip=79038#interview-clips

17 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Ooof to the Summer stuff.  Now that you are telling me this it is sort of coming back to me.  It was just a very b story at the time.   Didn't Summer tragically die?

Yes. It turned out that Nikolas had hired Summer to come to town in the first place. (Which made no sense, but nothing about the entire story did.) 

Meanwhile, Stefan was not a fan of Nikolas (Tyler had just returned to the show - his first return) falling for newly returned Emily (Natalia Livingston) and was determined to stop it. There was some party and Stefan, trying to bump off Emily ended up killing Summer instead. Lucky (Greg Vaughan at the beginning of his GH run) found her. That's all I remember.

Just now, carolineg said:

Jax dumped Brenda at the altar after she kissed Sonny and she left town.  It wasn't all that dramatic, but a crappy thing for Jax to do knowing her history.

Thanks. What a cop-out.

Getting back to Summer, the absolute lowest point of an already low story was she and Luke re-enacting the legendary night at Wyndham's Department Store. Yes, they danced to "Fascination". It was completely gross, and I think the message boards at that time had a field day!! 

Just now, Franko said:

Leslie, Brad Maule and Jackie Zeman were all robbed in '95. (Sorry, Rena.) 

Yes, they were. (How did Rena win over Jackie again?)

Just now, carolineg said:

Do you think the show was willing to let Genie go easily because they got Vanessa?  Worked out well lol

It worked out well in the short-term, for sure. I don't even remember how Brenda left in 2003.

GH definitely has a long history of not appreciating Genie. She should and deserves to be to GH what Susan Lucci and Erika Slezak were to AMC and OLTL. I always thought that Laura was a much more interesting character than Luke (or Stefan, for that matter).

10 minutes ago, Pine Charles said:

Yes, she’s fine.

Just fine.

NOT Daytime’s answer to Meryl Streep. 

Some of her acting with the other alters was cringe-worthy, IMO.

Personally, I think Meryl Streep is kind of overrated, but I see what you're getting at.

Before she returned to AMC, Marcy Walker reunited with her SB boss, JFP, at GL. Apparently, the GL stint was the nadir of MW's daytime career. She may have been half of Eden/Cruz, but I don't think she could really be called FOJ. 

2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Oh, sometimes I forget how provincial soap fans could be, particularly CBS daytime soap fans. 

P&G CBS soap fans, not really Bell CBS soap fans.

Just now, carolineg said:

I don't remember the details of the story but I remember it being awful.  

I believe it started out with Luke hiring Summer to dress and act like Laura (Genie Francis had just left the show after playing the reviled mental breakdown story). It never got better.

2 minutes ago, Pine Charles said:

•Erika Slezak isn’t THAT great  - and didn’t deserve all those Emmys.

She's a fine actress, but shouldn't have won in 1995 - Leslie Charleson deserved to win that year.

32 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

I think Lemay's original instinct that Steve/Rachel/Alice was played out was correct.  

They were front and center for about 7 years, right? It's amazing that they kept that up for so long. It probably was past time to move the characters into other orbits.

30 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Almost every story was decent too except for the Lucky/Luke/Summer stuff. 

That whole story was such a dud. No offense to Brittney Powell. She could have been good with Greg Vaughan, but he made his GH debut too late to save that story.

1 hour ago, FrenchBug82 said:

1000% accurate.

Wasn it actually one of the reasons (making Thorne a sexier lead) Thorne was recast in the first place or did Trachta leave of his own accord and they just went that route for the recast?

I believe he was fired. I still remember all the picketing around the studios after that happened.

29 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I always crack when Skye calls her a manipulative, lying, man stealing, illness faking whore.  

Same here.

43 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

The only good thing about being ancient, LOL, is that was around to witness so many memorable historical moments!

Not to mention telling us about them!!!

2 minutes ago, Vee said:

She would come in, mix it up and leave. That I'm fine with and it suits her; there's a proud tradition of that with characters like Tracy, Marco Dane, etc. She should still be doing that tbh. But on contract as an 'honorary Quartermaine' or with Luke - please God, no.

She'd be a much of a beloved character as them if that had happened.

19 minutes ago, j swift said:

I'm trying hard to discern if John Randolph was one of the luckiest guys in Bay City, or one of the most cursed. 

I'd say both!!

8 minutes ago, carolineg said:

To me, RC is very cold as an actress.  Very old Hollywood.  I never really connected with her as Skye.  And while I liked Jax/Skye and thought they had good chemistry, the whole romance felt super rushed so they could be married before Brenda came back.   On the other hand, the Brenda/Jax/Skye stuff really gave RC some of her best material on GH and some of her best scenes are with VM.  The scene where Brenda hands a drunk Skye a drink is one my favorites.  It was a brutal and bitchy take by Vanessa, but Robin was excellent. 

RC never originated a soap role, to my knowledge. She was the second (but not last) Skye on AMC and had the unenviable task of filling Alicia Coppola as Lorna on AW. It would have been nice to see her take on a brand-new character.

Elie Mystal made a good point - swift action would be arresting Bannon, etc. at 12:01 am. Why are Dems so namby-pamby?

3 minutes ago, carolineg said:

It's a shame RC never got another chance for an Emmy because she really was a good actress.

Yes, she was. She was often understated, which I think was often lost on Emmy voters. RC wasn't flashy like VM.

12 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

You know it!

I wish Variety, The Hollywood Reporter or Deadline would do an in-depth, soaps-only article on the vaccine dilemma. It would make much better reading that than what SOD has become in recent years.