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Keep at it, fools.

An essential watch. She had the last word.

What a legend.

It's not too late to get your Neil WInters on, Khan!

Who are you again? If someone else thinks they know who it is, they're welcome to PM me and we can compare notes.

He'll never run on the GOP ticket again. I doubt he'll even ever run again, he'll just raise money on the idea. And he'll never hold office again.

Played by Dark Shadows' own Nancy Barrett! Part of the crux of the original Viki/Dorian animus was that Dorian always believed Viki cast the deciding vote on the hospital board to have her removed from the hospital after the Toland affair. In reality, Viki was reportedly the only one who said she should remain. It nearly killed me when - around thirty years later - Viki actually told Dorian this, onscreen, in the second Malone run in 2004. They promptly cut to commercial. When they came back to their set of scenes late in the episode after wasting time on McBain, Paul Cramer, whatever else, Dorian and Viki had simply wrapped up their conversation in our absence and Dorian was 'so glad we had that settled!' I almost threw something at the TV. It was endemic of the problems of that run.

Hoo lord!

I saw her reprise her Last Picture role in the director's cut of Bogdanovich's Texasville not long ago (a very strange and imperfect but underrated sequel). In a movie full of much more broad characters than the original, Leachman once again nearly walks away with it around the end.

Didn't little Josh come on pushing pills on widowed, depressed Eileen? Or am I going by apocrypha too much? To me it's always been a fundamental weakness that OLTL always leaned on showing off its diversity/social consciousness laurels at every anniversary by trotting out the same old name-drops of the Woleks, Siegels, Rileys, Halls, etc. and the same old picture of Carla in the hospital bed or Karen on the stand but did not preserve these original families. I never understood it. And they could always be brought back. It's not that hard. Nat Polen seems sweet and fatherly as Jim. I know Ellen Holly wasn't happy they replaced Robert Milli though (later of GL), who she found handsome and dashing when Jim was Carla's potential suitor. It's just a question of different roles for the character.

I'm pretty sure I know exactly who is doing this on various soaps' channels, and if y'all stretch a little I bet you know too.

RIP.

I've heard the story about them lowballing Pinkerton before. Doris Belack wouldn't surprise me.

Meanwhile:

You're going to see more than one debate over nuking the filibuster and more than one round of Dem Senators saying they don't want to before something either does or doesn't happen for good. So get used to it now.

I was under the impression Tony got tracked down in Vietnam or some part of Asia, running a bar with his beautiful Asian assistant. But that's all apocryphal stories and may be wrong. He is still going by "Harris" here so I don't think he knows he's a Lord yet. He came on in April of '75, I think.

Jentleson knows of whence he speaks.