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I do remember her appearing in Dr. Quinn in the '90s, which my mother watched religiously, in part due to Joe Lando lol. (This was a year or so before I started really watching OLTL and the ABC soaps, though my babysitter had watched it, Marland's ATWT and Y&R religiously) I looked that up again on YT just now - she was amazing. It's a pity she chose to retire, but I guess her health made that a priority.

Jane Wyman will always have my admiration for her amazing work in Douglas Sirk's films. What little I've seen of her on FC is quite formidable in a different way too.

I'm all for them adding an AAPL contract player, finally. He's very hot. I am not for him being used to push Trina off into the ethnic sidekick role for good and get her away from a hot lead Frank would prefer be with a white girl. Playing a spoiler is fine, but I've seen that other kind of game before and we all have. So we'll see what plays out.

People love to blame this on Obama, but it's been an issue far longer than him. And Obama, though he did make some mistakes, had the right idea on Fox - to freeze them out completely. But Jake Tapper and most of the regular media cried foul and Obama had to walk it back. They should've stuck to it and it should be done again, because Fox is ten times worse today (and it was awful then).

Oh, Ron. How many exorcisms is this now in the span of 6 months? I can't believe they botched a reprise of this so badly, even for DAYS.

They're clearly feeling the heat. Good.

I think there's a lot of pushback. But I think there's just also a lot of profound exhaustion on everyone's part - understandably - as well as profound institutional inertia. A number of Democratic politicians - not the bulk of the party, but certain folks - wanted to believe 'it can't happen here' to any number of things that have, in fact, happened, and just want to roll things back to the easier long-bygone times of relative bipartisan comity in Washington, where both parties come to the table, negotiate fairly and each side resumes their cliched roles of social conscience and 'principled fiscal conservative.' Except there are no more principled conservatives, and being social consciences is no longer enough. I don't think this inertia is Biden's fault, though I do think his rhetoric and action could always stand to be stronger in some areas, like most presidents over the years. He wants to do a lot more, but he's stymied by some people who are either truly corrupt (Sinemanchin, the GOP) or a handful of others who simply do not grasp or do not want to grasp the existential crisis we are now in. They want to go back to 'normal' as described above, and that means moving as little as possible outside the norms of what we are used to expecting from regular order in American government in terms of shaking things up or making bigger moves. But there is no going back. We have to do better, not just on action but on messaging, something a lot of Democrats are often inept at or approaching from a perpetual post-Reagan defensive crouch towards the media and 'fiscally responsible' GOP. And we have very little time in which to do better on these things before the hole gets deeper and tougher to climb out of. I don't think things are as apocalyptic as they are sometimes made out to be. But they are very urgent, and very serious. Certain things are cyclical in politics, like always, and will continue to keep cycling back and forth. But for other things the cycle might change, or stop. I think it's okay to take breaks as informed citizenry from following the cycle every second of the day. I keep a close eye on things, but I take mental health breaks for myself, for the trauma of the last few years, for my family's illnesses and my own struggles. If I tried to keep following everything Joe Manchin said or did everyday based on what he watched on Fox News last night, I'd lose my mind. I stay engaged, but I catch my breath and step away from time to time. I keep putting one foot in front of the other and that's all those of us on the outside can do, aside from helping, contributing or campaigning in our own ways.

I know! It's ridiculous and played by a well known TV host. It's like if John Tesh or Arsenio were Sonny's body man back in the '90s.

Come on.

With Stephen Smith, the out of town enforcer, being tasked to handle the leak of a fúck vid of some teenagers! Come on.

I didn't know about that at all, but my viewing around then was up and down. I thought Jax was the only leading male they'd ever claimed was seeing hookers on the show, because by the early 2000s TPTB hated Jax lol. Boy, do I know what I'd do with all that. But this doesn't need to be my dumb fanfic thread so people can PM me if they want to know, lol.

Exactly, he has always had those casinos! I'll never forget the one on The Island. And probably cathouses. But come on, nobody's gonna tell me those establishments don't run drugs and women out of them. I would make all this a key plot point when Scorpio rededicated the PCPD to taking him down - unearthing it all and then laying it out for them like The Wire - which would make the audience and probably the network howl in protest. But hey.

Agreed. She could be better utilized. I've been saying for years, Sonny's organization has got to still be running drugs, weapons and women. It doesn't make any logical, real world sense for them not to be. The entire underworld in PC (which has been dominated by Corinthos-Morgan for decades) cannot be contraband/black market products. I could've sworn that as late as the late '90s/early 2000s, he and Jason were explicitly providing 'protection' to the local sex trade per stuff with Tammy, Mike, etc. I could swear that used to be discussed onscreen. My headcanon remains that Sonny's organization still runs the things he claims to have wiped his hands of, just through intermediaries and associates while he piously turns his head.

I can't fault them for hyping up a return the fans would actually like. It's not like anything else on this show is worth watching.

Unless something has changed in the last few years, IIRC Carlivati (like many other HWs) doesn't live anywhere near the West Coast or the taping of DAYS. He is not in the studio or on the floor.

A major tragedy. Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has died in an accident. Meanwhile:

Awful. RIP.

Ironically, one of Ron's worst stories before everything got really rough at OLTL for the first time was when the show hired a young girl to play a deranged teen, Lola Montez. The actress: Camila Banus.

It honestly feels like someone has it out for Linsey Godfrey. I remember how they did Sean Kanan. But who knows, she may just be loving having fun with this nonsense, as I imagine many of the actors on the show do.

Speaking of JL's family keeping archives, as we've noted before Ellen Holly has claimed to have a number of her key/early episodes via local affiliates - maybe as kinescopes, I'm not sure. I'm willing to bet if they have some, a lot of other actors do, across many shows.

It was always intended to be three seasons, owing to Stewart's age - they said so from the very beginning. I do enjoy it a lot, and Trek content is pretty much nonstop on CBS All Access/Paramount Plus atm.

On Ron's shows the character that objects to the 'fun' story is always the bad guy, a moralistic scold who will be shown to be a hypocrite. On GH this extended to Cameron Webber opposite Nicolas Bechtel's scheming Spencer, back when the wooden little boy playing him still had baby teeth.

A bold move, Cotton.

The shock twist of a barely-committed actor who is commuting for his real job not being onscreen is not one Ron wrote.

King shít, A+