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I remember that. I totally believe the rumor that Vanessa made him change it.

Krista has aged enough that I think the recast can work fine. I do think it's a shame they've lost several key actors in these big roles - Thorsten Kaye is just a different character altogether - but given the alternatives and the overall quality of the show, I can't be inclined to care much. So long as she never plays Billie Reed again.

Smart - Youngkin is running from Trump.

I feel for her and the longtime audience but she's been a mess a long time.

You tried it, ho! You better run!

The one and only Tamara Tunie (ATWT) appears here in the trailer for Netflix's, uh, iffy live-action remake of the classic anime Cowboy Bebop. I'll give it a chance for the actors, but it's hard to improve on perfection and looks a bit like a fan film to me.

Lukewarm(?) Take: Manchin is drawing Infrastructure Decade out as long as humanly possible because he knows that once he does, he faces renewed pressure re: the filibuster and voting rights which McConnell has already feared will buckle him and Sinema, specifically re: a bill Manchin put his own name on. Biden said last(?) week, on television, that he can't force anyone's hand on the filibuster until infrastructure is complete. When this bill fracas is over it becomes a game Manchin is not wholly prepared for.

From some time ago:

I don't trust him in the slightest, but he does have patterns. He's also shameless. Case in point:

Some of it he's since indicated he's malleable on. He just loves puffing his chest out for West Virginia. There's going to be cuts, but I think folks who follow every one of his grand declamations only make themselves crazy at this point. Manchin is above all noxious performance art.

It's lovely to see Isabella Gomez again. I have no relationship with the old show but I suppose I'll look at the new one once.

The [!@#$%^&*]?!

I know people conflated her being asked with their allegedly having plans to re-introduced Alex and Ava's kids before cancellation, but I don't know if she ever was. I'm glad she's happy being done with the business, having been in it since infancy. I'd still insist on her (and Mantooth, and others) making a guest appearance for a LOV-themed Halloween special if the ABC soaps ever came back around in some form, lol.

I was under the impression she wanted a break too, but she did take AW right after that.

My understanding is that Sadie spent the first several weeks or months telling the sad story of her long-lost daughter Clara. Then Carla Benari showed up at Llanview Hospital as a seemingly unrelated character in story with Jim Craig and Price Trainor. I don't know when they pulled the rug out with the famous reunion scene reveal but it wouldn't shock me if it was the same year's November sweeps.

I believe she was hired from the very beginning, but didn't appear onscreen until October. OLTL first aired in mid-July.

I know Holly was not happy Milli was replaced. I do think the plan was probably always to ultimately put Jim with Anna, but who knows.

Pluto is a godsend for MST3K, RiffTrax, Dark Shadows and classic Doctor Who, among others. They also do 90210 and Melrose IIRC. The super low-rent ads they run in the abrupt commercial breaks crack me up, but I can keep Pluto on all night when I get sleep or am feeling low. My idea of hell would be ABC, etc. licensing out soap reruns only from 2000-on which is probably what I can see happening, lol.

There was never much there to Jordan to begin with; she was never popular. She was and remains a C-player with minimal story, even when Vinessa Antoine was in the role. People make more of Jordan now than she was because Antoine went on to better work. GH doesn't invest in Black characters, then or now.