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It's nothing to do with me, it's just a very generous new user on YT who popped up on my screen. I felt people should know about the initial offerings for these shows, but the rest should probably be left to each of us to monitor ourselves.

Kristen Alderson's (Starr, OLTL/Kiki, GH) adorable daughter turns one. There's a very cute pic at the SID link of Eddie Alderson (Matthew, OLTL) with his niece as well.

Paul Krugman discusses quitting the Times and being increasingly censored/micromanaged to avoid offending the right.

Marianne Faithfull has passed away. Her theme song to Alan Rudolph's strange, beautiful 80s neo-noir Trouble in Mind: From Godard's Made in U.S.A.:

I do think Steve is coming to work more this time. I just think the character is beyond played out. I can think of nothing interesting to do with him with anyone currently on canvas, and I have serious doubts he'd ever play a story with Jason's Q memories. So I'd either bring on someone new or downshift him til I could write him out.

Astonishing that it still looks this good. We so rarely see that this far back.

Definitely a user to keep an eye on, for any soap at this point.

He went to the Phil Jimenez Art School, lest we forget (wink wink).

I hesitate to keep citing this user as they're putting up very rare soap content and they're beginning to speak for themselves all across the board. But I figure people here needed to see this one too. Definitely something to keep an eye on and be prudent about going forward. Anyway, enjoy. @DRW50 @Khan @wonderwoman1951 @SoapDope @All My Shadows @vetsoapfan @kalbir @Mitch64 @MarlandFan @Paul Raven @Reverend Ruthledge @DramatistDreamer @slick jones and apologies to anyone/everyone I forgot.

Whoa! Heads up @DRW50 @Khan @NothinButAttitude @P.J. @chrisml @Dan @Alan @Mitch64 and apologies to the many GL fans I don't recall offhand and may have forgotten. An account that has been a boon to OLTL fans recently just put this up too. And these:

IIRC people were living in the carriage house (or some iteration of it set-wise) right to the end. I believe the last known occupants were yes, Rex and the Morascos.

I'm still not convinced WTFever they were doing with Jason and Anna is over. If it is I'm thrilled, but he is still out of options and I think actually putting him with Sasha romantically would be both laughable and profoundly boring. Like you I don't mind them bonding and I've developed a minimal tolerance for her in a calm supporting role (as opposed to the litany of scenes where evil Tracy snaps at her and everyone attacks Tracy for kicking the show's equivalent of a puppy), but scenes between Steve and Sofia Mattsson are going to get real slow real fast. In other news Gio looked insanely good in that top and if they don't let him shed his shirt two summers in a row we should all riot. Braedyn Bruner is still quite good as Emma, but I don't think pairing her with a rootless newbie (however amiable and charming as Gio is) is the answer, any more than it is for him.

I thought Robin had the portrait these days. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe Ron sent it to her.

Francesca James (Marcy Wade) briefly addresses her time on OLTL in this wonderful recent AMC cast/crew panel in NYC. The timestamp is below:

I believe that's also the story with the immortal Nancy Barrett from Dark Shadows as the patient they kill after Larry (naturally) falls in love with her. I'd love to see it at all.

The stream of new stuff is relentless. Now there's more up with Jackie Zeman, '77 etc.

It's a very different energy, and frankly I find Harmon more dreary albeit talented. I'm very curious to see more of Kavanaugh in the role when she was a major heroine or troublemaker for the show. I will have to rewatch that second '76 episode from a few years ago with Harmon again to be fair - I think she was in the thick of it with Brad and Jackie Zeman's Lana later on IIRC, or I may be thinking of someone else. I know at one point in there they were teasing Cathy with Larry before she exited. The holy grail ofc would be seeing more of the great Catherine Burns as the original(?) Cathy, who we both know from Frank Perry's Last Summer. An episode of her from '69(?) actually is out there IIRC though I haven't watched it in forever. Or the Cathy rehab story with Amy Leavitt, I think.

I am barely paying attn for my own sanity at this point, but the only grace to be found in this shitshow that I can see is that amazingly, the Trump WH is yet again barely prepared to implement any of their insane goals. I really expected them to get much better at this.

IIRC the '75/'76 episodes that came out a couple years ago (still on YT now) had Tony played with both Cathys (Kavanaugh and then Harmon), who I believe he may have married briefly in the intervening time. She was a spoiler for him and Pat at that point. After losing Tony I think her character sort of petered out on the show. I haven't seen the new ep but I will say I do think Farley Granger was a talent both in movies and on ATWT, where his well-known daytime nerves have never shown for me. But the stories of him struggling at OLTL (and later ATWT, according to his memoir I believe) are of course true.

I am holding out for more extensive/ordered Marland ATWT material from the late '80s (it can be a real bear sorting through those playlists, and major chunks are sadly missing). And more of GH 1978 and the David Hamilton saga, or even '77 with the big transition and maybe the hurricane. I wouldn't say no to seeing more of the Corringtons'(?) SFT, or other classic years there. And of course Lemay AW (properly visible) is always the holy grail. I won't ask for more from my OLTL right now. What we've gotten from both the key early '90s transition and the '70s in recent times is enough to chew on for years.

Okay. It's not 2000 anymore.

It's increasingly implausible that pushing-60 Jason is going to end anyone, let alone sire the children of young millennials.

She was. She talks about it in her book and very poignantly says she would've felt out of place at some anniversary dinner with a slew of rich costars (some of whom, like Robin and Bob Woods, she still seemed very fond of) while having become a city librarian. Recently someone indicated they also may have tried to get her to appear in summer '92, when Valarie Pettiford's Sheila and Ellen Bethea's Rachel openly discuss colorism and the local legend of Carla in a scene that knocked me over with a feather. (The individual scene is still floating around on YT, though I believe much of that year is now available.)

There's crazies in any fanbase, and there certainly are in the Sprinas. The reality is Chavez and Tabyana were apparently close at GH but still co-workers first. His TV career is on the rise and he's not obligated to show up at her birthday party. We don't know these people's lives.

You're absolutely right, I forgot Paul Tulley. He was very cute from stills, if nothing else. It seems a lot of it is from Vance Jeffries' (Matt McAllister) archives per the YT user who does not appear to be him.