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I think Robin played Dorian too OTT at least half the time from 2003-onward. I think it was because she was very scared she'd be let go again - that really hurt her. David Pressman had a cameo in a 2003 storyline, playing a Shakespeare-spouting homeless person Antonio and Jessica consulted re: Keri's death when Antonio was being blamed. He was not much of an actor, but I realized later that didn't matter - it was the show paying tribute to their beloved crewmember.

Good luck explaining this away:

BTS footage from OLTL staff legend and camera operator Howie Zeidman. I've never seen this.

LOL:

Michael Graziadei (Daniel, Y&R) is a murder victim's shifty uncle on the new season of True Detective.

Welp:

That's the brief and polite version.

Passions on paper, as a story bible, had many of the building blocks of classic soap: Its characters, families, future twists (Ethan being a Bennett, etc). The problem is JER never had any interest in decent writing or talented performers. He was a deeply screwed up Catholic with both prudish and perverse impulses re: sex, women, and anything 21st century and giving him his own show was never going to end well.

Daytime programming ennui and a misplaced and expensive loyalty to Jim Reilly, who NBC adored in the 90s and early 2000s.

Major bombshell tonight:

The pace never improved, lol

Today in news too bizarre to be false - Coming to America 2 is apparently actually happening, and Shari Headley (Mimi, AMC) is name-dropped among the original cast supposedly being asked back:

Travis Schuldt made Eric Martsolf look like Laurence Olivier. Martsolf has always been a way better actor.

Meanwhile, back in absurdist hell:

Looks like Jonathan Bennett (AMC) may be on Celebrity Big Brother - with no less than the immortal Tiffany Pollard, Stephen Baldwin, Trump Jr. paramour Aubrey O'Day and Sean Spicer. Yikes! (But he's also on Supergirl, so I guess he's doing not entirely terrible.)

They do mention Roseanne fairly regularly.

That's exactly what he'll do and his base will agree, of course. But no, in this case most of the media won't - they know what it means, they know it is Trump's only figleaf to pretend he has a 'win' and they have been calling it that on social media for days. That's how most of us became aware of this option in the first place. His base is, beyond a certain hardcore, immovable (though some are flaking off). The rest of the country will call this possible outcome what it would be - no wall, the shutdown ended and Trump posturing again. That is the overwhelming polling result and the final analysis. And there have been a slew of stories in the last week - and month, really - about Trump being helpless and defeated in this fight. Even the Wall Street Journal, of all places, calls it what it is: