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And John Littlefield was Gary on AW. Don Scardino has a credit in the Godspell documentary You Had to Be There. I don’t know for sure whether it is archive footage or a modern interview. https://youhadtobetheredoc.com/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31726535/

From the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/life-and-letters/gloria-steinems-final-essay "Many feel that all the progress we’ve made is being reversed. When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come." Steinem's essay is very brief and focuses on the positive rather than commenting on any recent regression.

Gloria Steinem has died.

Michael Park will be the alternate Galileo on Broadway (Raul Esparza is the regular typical Galileo). Danny Strong (Doyle on Gilmore Girls) wrote the book of the musical. https://www.theatermania.com/news/michael-park-will-play-broadways-galileo-galilei-at-certain-performances_1852270/

I was surprised to learn that Kale Browne and Paul Michael Valley had performed together. From November 1991 in Lilana Novakovich's column in Starweek: "I have a scoop for Another World fans. Kale Browne, who has played Michael Hudson since 1986, has decided to leave the show when his contract expires in December. He will miss his castmates and his years on AW, but feels it's time to go on to other things "Kale and his actress wife Karen Allen (Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Glass Menagerie) and 13-month-old son Nicholas will now divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and New York. His last public appearance for a while is a singing engagement with Paul Michael Valley (Ryan on AW) at the Arcadian Court Room in Toronto on Saturday, Nov. 23. The two shows are at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m and tickets are still available by calling 861-6611."

The Good Wife and its spinoffs were/are made in New York -- despite the title could Cupertino be as well?

I knew Rachel had been blind after Steve's death in 1983 (leading to Mac's pretending to be English and clean-shaven) and had had vision problems after some Carl-related incident later. I had not known or remembered that Rachel needed surgery on her eyes in 1978 after being kidnapped by Sven. Presumably this was the storyline that provoked the joke. Maybe they were imagining a scenario in which Iris died for the donation to happen. Or else they were just being ridiculously silly.

From an interview with Christina Pickles when she was on St Elsewhere. I had not realised that she was brought up in Yorkshire. Jim Bawden, Toronto Star, February 1986. Pickles has done TV before, but in New York on daytime soaps Guiding Light and Another World. "The second was a piece of cake. I'd stand on a designated corner and be picked up in a limousine and scooted off to a Brooklyn studio. A few rehearsals and we taped it almost as a live show. "I played Countess Elena de Poulignac who was on the prowl for younger men. The lead's son grew up one weekend. Friday he was an adenoidal teenager. On Monday he was a 20-year-old hunk I seduced. Eric Roberts was around then. He got fired because the producer said he couldn't act. Nancy Marchand had a wonderful death scene singing Bye, Bye Blackbird. "We never took it seriously until the red light went on. One story line had the character Iris donating her eyes to Rachel for a corneal transplant. Iris had little piggy eyes, Rachel, great staring bulbs. The wonderful actor, Douglass Watson kept laughing hysterically and saying 'They won't fit!" It was that kind of work day."

Thanks! Glad to see you got into Ross Petty's pantomimes. He also played Killjoy in his 1997 Jack and the Beanstalk (in which Camilla Scott played Princess Apricot -- she was also apparently the Genie in his Aladdin the following year but I didn't find video of that one).

Yayoi Kusama has died at 97. I enjoyed the documentary about her work -- for some reason I had not realised how old she was. Infinity Mirror Rooms artist, ... CBCInfinity Mirror Rooms artist, Yayoi Kusama, dead at 97. H...Artist Yayoi Kusama, who has died at 97, was one of Japan's most revered contemporary artists. Her work was exhibited around the world, often prompting long queues as people flocked to see her colourf

I was surprised and saddened by the news but Jane Fonda's words are what made me burst into tears. There may never be another Dolly but I hope that perhaps in her memory we can keep her influence moving through the world.

I wasn't familiar with Berjer and never gave Bridget's accent a second thought, although I don't think they ever had her mention her life in Scotland at any point.

I also couldn't remember for sure because there was definitely a certain amount of Amelie-speaking-through-Amanda but by checking the AWHP synopses I picked a date that sounded like it had a flashback and got lucky. I think it's so peculiar that Amanda got not one but two storylines where she so strongly resembled a man's wife that he tried to force her to do what he wanted. Granted, Dustin Trent just wanted her to impersonate his wife Julia in order to get control of a large amount of money while 200-year-old disfigured creep Jordan Stark wanted his true love Amelie to inhabit her body so they could be together again, which I admit are two different kinds of obsession. I just spent more time than I really wanted to watching the scenes where Dustin coached Amanda on how to mimic Julia well enough to convince her father it was Julia. It made sense really that Amanda didn't find it easy to do -- Dustin had chosen her based on the physical resemblance and not on her ability to act like a different person -- but a more gifted actor could have made a compelling distinction between Julia herself, Amanda, and Amanda struggling to impersonate Julia.

Julia's maiden name was Hollingsworth. @DRW50 's question about Amelie in the AW thread motivated me to hunt out this bit where Dustin Trent mentions her father is Mr Hollingsworth.

Exactement! And Edward (ou peut-être Edouard?) Gérard. His son, Michaud Christophe, was, however, Francophone. Oh! What about Cecile's bio father, Louis St George? How French was he?