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KH bore a striking resemblance to my own mother (alive and well) both physically and in personality as well, so I can relate to some of that emotion some of us are feeling.

She improvised the ending there, IIRC. (I don't remember if Marie Masters improv'ed hers.) It's a great scene, but I do have a hard time with Kim saying she doesn't trust any of the Stewart women given her background with the older daughters.

Loath as I am to link Axios, this clip is still instructive for anyone still asking what McConnell believes in: Power, and nothing else.

I liked Mimi (and really liked Gigi, part of the time when I could stand her) but I don't think Farah has any interest in coming back full time, it seems like her poker career or whatever is her life now. And I don't think that character really has an imprint beyond FG's very specific personality, so I wouldn't recast.

I'll be getting back to my Marland binge today for her.

I cannot believe this is all still going and they still haven't retconned Ben being a motherfucking serial killer. Ron must really, really take the response to the OLTL rapemance and Franco personally. It is ludicrous to suggest Sonny's only options are the much older man, the gay villain stereotype and a woman. Come on. If they broke those two up and gave him an actual separate romance, which I doubt knowing DAYS, it will be someone new or it will be a Paul recast.

Well, their next game does have Zach Tinker so there's that!

Curiously, the last frame is a 2022 Zoom call between Kyle, Laura Dern and Lynch. Rumors are always swirling about TP but my assumption was anything substantive that could happen was delayed by the pandemic. There are new and fairly serious rumors that Lynch is debuting a secret film he's made during COVID at Cannes (which may have nothing to do with Twin Peaks). We'll see what occurs in future. @DRW50 From last year, though it may mean nothing of course:

Those look like video game models from Until Dawn.

Kathryn Hays was an incredibly beautiful woman with not only timeless grace, but a blunt candor and authenticity to her work and persona that you couldn't fake. We loved her for a lot of reasons. But to me the enduring mystery is something older. The aura and heart in her work obviously fascinated Irna Phillips, who created the enigma of Kim Sullivan we now constantly struggle to decipher today, given the lack of classic episodes available to us during her inception. Kim was Irna's doppleganger/fantasy self, the unwed woman or mother, a woman who had affairs, was fallen yet still the heroine, something which usually seemed unthinkable for Phillips' seemingly moralistic view of many of her characters. To her, Kim was the 'lady in the mirror.' That's the story I am still eager to know more of. Hays' class, warmth and loving strength onscreen was immortal and I'm glad we got to see her again on the Locher Room before it was too late. I thought she had a lot more years. I guess what she had was just enough. Knowing her, she'd never want us to complain. RIP.

Trina was framed while SM was in the role. And Spencer has been doing dumb shít for Esme for months.

Incredibly sad.

Oh, dammit. She had so much grace and class, but also incredible grit onscreen. I'll try to reserve my longer comments for when this inevitably becomes a bigger discussion either in this thread or another one. I'm so glad we got to see her on those Zoom interviews. You know time is going to keep taking these people a lot of us grew up with from us, but it never gets easier.

Not exactly unclear who she's talking about.

Tonya Pinkins talks extensively about AMC and her career here at SOC.

I didn't see this up, so: Tonya Pinkins talks to SOC. She also talks at length about AMC.

She said something along those lines, according to Wikipedia.

She deliberately went into semi-retirement until Falcon Crest in the early '60s.

Well, one, that doesn't really make sense because she's been on about two weeks. It was plotted well before Mikayla left the screen. And two, frankly I think the recast was very strong in that scene and IMO at least as strong if not moreso than SM.

Ron has been doing the offscreen conversation stuff since late in his OLTL days, when he and Frank Valentini were cutting a lot of narrative and scheduling corners with performers seemingly to keep the budget on track re: guarantees, etc. It's gotten far worse at every show since. DF and MM have chemistry. So did MM and JKJ. What else is new? It doesn't change the fact that she's always been mediocre at best in a role that has no personality there to speak of, and aged up even more for their daughter. She's been around almost twenty years and I'd still dump Belle in favor of Carrie and Christie Clark anyday. Beyond the heat with certain actors there's no character to Belle.

Me either. Wise words from Mr. T: