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I don't think they intended that at all. I think they felt KLS as Josette was dazzling and beautiful. She was beautiful, and the character pretty much is the fair, doomed maiden they conceptualized her as. She just wasn't that deep. I don't think she was more or less boring in her original living iteration than a lot of other characters, though.

What a tragedy, for all involved. I knew how rocky a history Anne Heche had had, but as her career waxed and waned in recent years and she seemed outwardly more functional (if still very, very eccentric) I always held out the nugget of an idea of having her recur in a key role as a heavy on a soap, which I won't go into specifics on here; her career had taken enough hits that it seemed viable (though she's not just getting marginal work - she should be seen in The Weeknd's show on HBO soon, presumably after she passes). And Heche was always proud of her soap roots, AFAIK. I thought maybe she, like so many others, could always come home and do good work. She never stopped being talented. It's just sad that wasn't enough.

Tragic.

GH does not film in New York. GH has always filmed in LA. There are zero New York soaps left since 2012.

Media will piss and moan about waiting, but the public isn't baked in or settled on that (much like Afghanistan). When more comes out the story will move and the media will chase that car.

I'm sure he'll be fairly closedmouthed, but the media is going to keep whining in the meantime.

Heads up:

I'll just disagree with how the public is perceiving this and leave it at that. Not everything the doomers say is real and happening in the mainstream, and while yes, plenty of press are practicing GOP stenography while trying to fill column lengths until DOJ comments, the onus in the public eye remains heavily on Trump, not Democrats, despite Republican demands for explanations. Whereas for guys like the usual Do Something brigade, they always need an outrage point to fix on and act like it's the prevailing wisdom. Their entire trade is finding (or inventing) a way Dems have fùcked up and how they, the loud white guy (usually), can fix it. Waiting on DOJ means they can act like 'Dems are screwing up again!!' with little to no evidence, as Pelosi, etc. have all commented adequately. And when DOJ does comment, this will all go away and they'll find something new to complain about and forget this existed.

Oof, I had no idea.

tbh I'd welcome Tia back on a soap, even GH in better shape. I've never forgotten Cassandra from Wayne's World and her singing voice.

I have a hard time thinking Ron would go silent on this unless he either didn't know, is getting canned bc he's too expensive, or both. The last time I remember him going dark was when GH cut him loose.

Yeah, and I just can't see them bothering. Toss them, yes, but wipe them systematically - I can't see them giving a shīt.

I don't even know who these people are tbh. I've literally never heard of it before, it is not that influential in media outside some deep corners of lower Manhattan. I've heard of Red Scare, but not these people. It is interesting that this mess involves Peter Vack formerly of ATWT and Rockstar Games' Bully though, who I last saw performing hardcore porn in an indie a few years ago.

As expected, Sean Kanan (A.J., GH) will reprise his Karate Kid III character in the next season of Cobra Kai on Netflix.

The progressive discourse is largely against them on this one, though. People are very happy about the bill, so that leaves McKay, Sirota, etc. struggling to gnatfuck over the parliamentarian (which, if it had been overruled, would've lost us Manchin's vote and probably others). Oh well.

I'll just say I have a hard time believing P&G went out of their way to wipe everything. This isn't the '60s or the '70s, and the needs and time expenditure are different. Someone has an archive somewhere, and whatever the actual company doesn't have left there's always more among random affiliates, private collectors, performers, personnel, etc. I just can't buy that in this day and age. Not because I think they care about the soaps - they don't - but it just seems like there's too many ways in this day and age that this stuff could slip through the cracks and survive.

Tragic.

On a side note, given my now-ending bout with COVID over the last 9 days I am banking a lot of stuff about Knots Season 5. I doubt I'll do full write-ups on each of the episodes I've watched, but I'll try to sort of blend them together to save space. Or maybe I'll do something more staggered. We'll see.

Adam McKay and David S*rota are, predictably, not happy with the Inflation Reduction Act even though virtually every other major climate activist is. They are getting ratioed overnight and a lot of blowback and mockery from people who might normally support them. Josh Marshall has taken him to task repeatedly, leaving McKay retreating to 'well I just have a lot of questions':