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Oh, wow.

Anyone know the Pine Valley/Jack episode days? That stuff I'll watch. If it's too hard to pinpoint don't put yourself out, I'll track it all down.

Alternately, at this rate Zaslav could burn the masters to fuel his fifth yacht.

Jesus, both Haiduk and Martsolf look rough.

Given the uber-messy state of the gaming industry, from consumers to devs to labor to development cycles and content, there are absolutely Y&R-style stories to be told about the video game business. I can imagine seeing one of the leads or their company blundering in with some sort of high-end, edgy game that goes sideways due to content or one of the devs' pasts or all of the above, just like the many ups and downs with Tuvia and Safra or whatever else. But Y&R just pretends to tell 'business stories' now in all the perfunctory ways people have already mentioned.

Honey, everyone has been talking about this news for 4-5 pages.

Unbelievable stuff. And as someone who's been screwed in other ways not connected to this strike but not dissimilar in this business, just harrowing to read. Matt Damon was misquoted on this by Deadline to make it sound pro-studio and his lawyers came down hard on them to correct it. I think these are his full remarks: The great Lois Smith, Llanview's own Aunt Betsy Cramer from OLTL and a legendary character actor of cinema (I could not believe OLTL got her at that time for such a silly part), quoted by Mark Ruffalo: LOL at Cox calling out the DGA. You can never muzzle him.

3/10.

I would argue there's only a handful of eps in the last two seasons of TNG that are relevant to DS9. Those eps mentioned certainly are, as is "Journey's End" with Wil Wheaton's return and the penultimate episode of TNG ("Preemptive Strike") which IIRC both deal with the Maquis, who are an ongoing issue in DS9.

Thank you for this. I will peek at FC here and there sometime soon, though I am not picking it up like I did KL or more casually, some periods of Dallas. (I am getting back to KL shortly, BTW - a lot of stops and starts re: availability) I do know Bill Duke has talked about how the Lorimar soaps kept him employed and paid for much of the '80s and IIRC he credited Jane Wyman and Larry Hagman in particular for their support of him and kindness, while he regularly heard derogatory and racist remarks from the crew, Teamsters, etc. Later he of course became more famous for his acting work in Predator, etc. but he still directs and acts today.

I thought we all agreed this recast didn't happen.

Heather Tom did very well as Kelly, actually.

I didn't see this speech, so apologies if it's up again:

Jill is still such a jewel. She was wonderful in The Haunting of Deborah Logan. I don't want to know what she had to pitch to Andy on though.

There's about a zillion broke-ass actors striking.

How some of these characters lasted aeons is a tribute to the comforting inertia of the medium at that time. Of course, I say that but you could apply it to half the played out stars of Y&R and GH.

It's not an acting choice, IMO. She has no range. People saw this character as a dayplayer and glommed onto her, and now we have too many vocal fans for this character whose performer has exactly one note onscreen. This is why some people stay dayplayers. I am all for Selina Wu being a force onscreen with the right actor and all for more AAPI characters, but I have never found LL very good.

Someone out there is likely to have a lot of this material, especially when it gets close to an end. Some fan, crewmember, whoever always does. The question is whether we'll ever see them.

HMK is indeed quite bad.

Llanview's own Nathan Fillion (Joey Buchanan, OLTL) is joining the latest attempt at Superman from James Gunn. Fillion will play Green Lantern Guy Gardner.

New Rolling Stone interview with Ncuti Gatwa:

I'll just quote my post from the OLTL thread:

My first Tinas were the '90s Tinas, and I am still very partial to Karen Witter. But Witter's Tina is ultimately built on a fusion of the changing times and Andrea's own work - she perfectly synthesized the era to the kind of quirky tics and breathy neuroses Andrea created first. When I first saw Andrea Evans as Tina I didn't really understand that or appreciate it. I just knew this Tina was incredibly squeaky and mannered and it drove me up the wall for a time. Later, I understood it. Because Andrea Evans offscreen was not Tina Lord - you look at any interview with her, and from voice to presence they were very different people. She transformed when the camera was on in a way few still do; it was a whole performance, full body and spirit. Yet there was a core underneath, it wasn't all artifice or screwball energy. She had humanity and depth. You can see the same in her Y&R work, which I saw during the pandemic - another whole different person. There is something very sad yet appropriate to Tina that Andrea's last stint on the show had her wearing a gorgeous, flowing blond wig to hide the effects of her illness. I will always remember her smiling at Roger Howarth's Todd and booping his nose, almost certainly unscripted. She always made it look so easy.

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