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Josh basically did create and raise a clone to fúck. I have no idea how Reva ever got over that. I only initially tuned into GL to see the clone mess and later, Crystal Chappell who I'd loved on OLTL. It was just a debacle AFAIC.

I believe Marcy was killed.

Marcie reappeared at least once or twice in the following year - IIRC the teens turned up in Marcie and Michael's new town, ran into her at the hospital, and she promptly gave birth then and there.

Paul Rauch's GL was tacky, hot neon shít. Brown and Esensten, mediocre writers at best and terrible at worst, were perfectly suited for his latter-day decline. Embarrassing. Who gave a fúck about an island kingdom of faux-British prigs in the middle of nowhere that had nothing to do with the town or characters? Certainly not me, and I was not some longtime viewer - I was their supposed 'new audience' and I thought it was hilarious and tuned out. It's because of Paul Rauch, San Cristobel, the clone, etc. that it took me years to give GL or its past the time of day. JFP had a few very specific skills she honed over many long years that are sometimes noticeable, but as someone said long ago - I think it was Marcy Walker (who had a disastrous stint on GL and knew it) - her being a good line producer didn't make her a good all-around EP. She reached the limit of her talents around 1992 and dealt GL one of several death blows. Later she moved on to crippling AW and my show (OLTL), and then spent years helping to dismantle GH and finally Y&R. She hasn't had anything novel or legitimate to offer the genre in decades and her reputation is well-deserved. I'll stop before I segue into how she made half the female leads physically embody her onscreen and get paired with her favorite leading men, or digress into the Kale Browne Welfare Program on ABC.

I know, it's Bob Woodward, but this is a must-read (as is the second link):

I think Sloan was very good in the role and sure, attractive physically, but Lillian as a person always just seemed off and strange to me, very affected. Including in that storyline. I think the energy she and Parker radiated was very different and I just find her colder. YMMV.

Tina Sloan never exactly struck me as sexy.

Roger Howarth (Kent) name-drops his Loving stint in a new interview:

She had been mentally ill a long time - she also appeared on Intervention - and I believed Clooney's fair-minded response to her claim. That said she shouldn't have been shot, pop gun or not. It's sad, I always liked her.

New production photo and discussion is at the link. I guess I'm ready to get back to finishing off Season 10 now - somewhere.

I never got the impression Yglesias was a BernieBro, but maybe I've missed something as I've paid less attn to him in the last 6-9 months. Meanwhile, more bad news for Trump:

These time schedules seem a little... conservative.

Aretha was apparently a fan of Ariana Grande and they socialized, so I guess that's why she's on there.

Wanted to bring this back - the mystery voice of "Phillip Jeffries" (who is not Phillip Jeffries) talking to Mr. C in Part 2 of Season 3. Theories abound as to who the caller really is, but the most popular one of late is that this voice belongs to Grace Zabriskie, a.k.a. Sarah Palmer, the apparent host for Judy. Judy is linked to BOB as his/its 'mother' and/or mate. Mr. C was also searching for Judy and/or access to the White Lodge, though he did not seem to know exactly what Judy was. He funded the 'glass box' experiment in New York which led to what appeared to be Judy appearing in the box and killing the two youngsters in Part 1 - this suggests that this is what it means when the voice references New York. Here's the original, distorted voice: Here is a pitch-shifted clip: After hearing Grace in a podcast interview, I highly suspect this is her voice, given her clipped way of normally speaking and certain intonations. Meanwhile:

How can it be streamed if someone doesn't have Bounce?

As a late viewer I never understood how Blake got from the original character to Keifer's glorified housewife. She's a decent actress but I've always been uncomfortable envisioning major story with her in the role (like the truly bizarre one I once dreamed up for the family and her twin sons). I loved Marj as Vanessa on AMC, but that was a very specific, campy character. I had no real experience with McKinsey's Alex on GL until the advent of online videos, but once they came into the picture and you could see and hear her - she was indomitable. Then you turn on CBS and poor Marj is up there doing a blowsy, campy old loon and I'm like, 'are you fúcking kidding me?' Marj is very good at certain things but it was night and day. And her stories in the 2000s didn't help. Like the one where she doses Alan with hallucinogens and she starts popping up in his visions in ridiculous costumes! Don't get me started on Alan either. I like Ron Raines as a performer but he was wildly miscast as Alan - watching in the 90s he was so campily nefarious and bombastic he just made me laugh. It was even more embarrassing after I got acquainted with Chris Bernau's work (I'd only seen him on Dark Shadows until the 2000s). When RR turned up on OLTL 2.0 on Hulu as the big bad guy behind a global conspiracy that was fine, because he was suited to that sort of Snidely Whiplash figure - but Alan wasn't that.

Matt Yglesias has been crashingly negative in recent months. I think 25%-40% is closer. The fact that the GOP and WH, internally, are expecting a bloodbath says a lot.

I do enjoy Sessions being humiliated on the daily. But oh God, the times are so much more dangerous, and that includes both men.