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Shazam tells me it is "Inside My Piano" by Marc Jordan.

I can't speak for anyone else, but my gripe with DePriest is generally with her choices in characterization. The day to day pace and tone was better than it had been in rudderless 1985, but she got rid of characters like Quinn and Maisie and Zane and Sally because she didn't want to have clutter in her vision of focus on the Cory/Love-Hudson/McKinnon families (some of which she had to beef up by creating new characters (Mary, Reginald, John) and declaring them back from the dead) . She also didn't seem to understand the appeal of the publishing industry and although she had Amanda and Sam working at Cory she didn't have many other characters there and turned Jamie into a doctor out of nowhere. And I think we have discussed here recently her simplistic and possibly misogynistic approach to sexuality, sexual assault, and trauma.

At the time an actor who shall remain nameless shared with me the bitchy quip "he may have been Harding Lemay then, but he's hardly Lemay now."

I will grant you Rex Allingham, but Vince didn't have a doppelganger as much as Reginald paid a guy to pretend to attempt to murder him so he could blame Vince for it. And it should have been more affecting that Reginald, after creating this dastardly plan to incriminate Vince, at the last minute had to leap between the assailant's knife and his granddaughter Victoria and wound up injured. I don't recall Reginald having any double.

OMG, I had never made the connection between the Vulture and the Phoenix before.

Michael bought the stables from Donna for $250k that summer. He told her it was for sentimental reasons but really it was because he somehow knew it was key to the plans of the mysterious man known as "the Vulture" who naturally turned out to be Reginald. I am surprised that Reginald's piano playing sounded just as loud in the stables as in the rest of the house. It's so weird and clunky that he addressed Rachel as if he had been aware of her back in the day and not as Mac's or Steve's or even Russ' wife. At first I assumed that what you were describing was Reginald knowing Rachel as a sculptor. She normally used Davis as her professional sculpting name. But I see they had a poster board in the gallery that said Rachel Cory on it as if she were showing under her married name. And Reginald talked about her looks and nothing to do with her artistic fame at all. Typical Margaret DePriest if you ask me.

Oh! Didn’t Reginald Love ridiculously play the piano loudly in the middle of the night once to assert his dominance? ( Not at the Cory mansion, obviously. At the Love mansion.) Found it, about 40 minutes in at the end of the episode.

Well, one time ...

Really nice. I like Stephen Yates here a lot. And it was interesting to see David Thatcher trying to persuade Cass to "reinvest" money. This was not long before David tried to solve his cashflow problems by smothering Uncle Kevin. I remember at the time that it felt like Mac was stumbling around in the snow alone interminably. And based on the weekly synopses it was at least two weeks. I came across the Feb 10 episode that Eddie Drueding has uploaded, and it shows the scenes before the funeral service where we saw Rachel decide she couldn't accept it in the Feb 13 episode.

Watched most of this episode from December 1981 and can't understand what anyone is thinking. Is Louise trying to poison Alice and Mac, or is her tea simply not to their taste? Is Alice so completely lacking in self-awareness that she thinks it is reasonable to be engaged to Mac while complaining to Steve that seeing him [Steve] talking to Rachel makes her jealous, or at least reminds her of when it made her miserable before? I can perhaps understand Alice having that feeling. It's immediately confronting Steve about it that seems weird and inappropriate. And with Amanda Rachel is obviously going to be in Mac's life as well so so how can Alice be comfortable marrying Mac?

Based on reading the synopsis it seemed pretty minimal. Liz talks to Susan about Rachel, and spends a certain amount of time urging Susan to socialize (and asking for Russ's help getting Susan out) in order to get over her break up with what's-his-name. It was unclear to me whether Rachel and Susan had met when Rachel suggests fixing her up with somebody. And there's a mention of another scene where Susan is with Alice when Rachel comes to the hospital for a pregnancy test. Apparently Susan and Alice roll their eyes when Rachel is overly confident that she will get a positive result. I didn't notice anything else, but I didn't read into 1970.

According to the AWHP synopses, Susan was Russ and Rachel's dinner guest on April 9, 1969.

It's funny, I think of Jenna as replacing Lisa as well. So I was surprised looking at the AWHP to find that there was almost 2 years between Lisa's departure at the beginning of 1989 and Jenna's arrival at the end of 1990. There was something mysterious about Jenna's parentage that I don't think was ever resolved. Maybe it was intended as a red herring to prevent us from realizing who Felicia's daughter was too soon. I think I remember reading somewhere that Lorna was not originally intended to be Felicia's daughter. I wonder if they would have gone back to Lisa if Alicia Coppola had not been cast. Although really a brand new character was more fruitful in terms of Felicia developing a relationship with her.

I disliked the way they introduced Lisa as Jamie's literal "dream girl". Joanna Going had some appeal but her storyline was too focused on how her getting over her trauma would make Jamie happy. Her psychic abilities were suitably vague and mostly useless even at their height. According to the AWHP synopses she inaccurately identified Tony Carlisle as the Sin Stalker. Later she tried to psychically communicate with a comatose Vicky and couldn't get anything because she was picking up all of the patients in the hospital at once. (I think Ellen Wheeler's Marley had more accurate psychic twin information.)

This story sounds as if she completed her contract with AW in contrast with being fired from OLTL after 13 weeks.

Her sons were apparently born in 1971 and 1974, if this page is to be believed. I keep hoping to find more late 1983/early 1984 to see the introduction of David and Kevin Thatcher, Sally and Peter splitting up, Donna's interference.

Carl didn't kill Sally. Her car accident was ordered by Reginald because she had witnessed some other murder.

Based on the AWHP synopses, Judith Barcroft was still playing Lenore during the trial in early 1971, but she was replaced by Susan Sullivan in May of that year. Robert Cenedella was HW until August when Harding LeMay came in and got fed up with Walter's everlasting weeping into Wayne Addison's scarf, which does appear to have gone on for months. Most of the characters of the DePriest era erred on the side of being one note, if anything, so it is interesting to me that the criticism of Brittany is that she was all over the place. The throughline was always stubborn determination to get Catlin back which was rewarded in the end. I feel as though when the character was introduced the idea was that Brittany and Sally were both supposed to be blameless victims of circumstance and the triangle was supposed to be like Frankie/Cass/Kathleen where Cass was through no fault of his own torn between two women he honestly loved. But because Brittany had no history on the show she had no built-in fan attachment the way Kathleen did, so she was loaded up with deafness and her dead baby Evan to make it plain that she must be deserving. Except other than the time she saved Kevin from being lost in the woods (which is also when she miraculously recovered her hearing for some reason) I can't think of a situation where she was portrayed as putting her own feelings and needs second to anyone else's. Now to be fair after she trapped Peter into marrying her and he became abusive to her and threatened to take her baby away from her, obviously it would make sense for her to be in a state of terror where she wouldn't have the capacity to do anything other than look after herself, but she had plenty of time before she was written into the abuse corner to do something more constructive than just try to win Catlin back. Maybe she became more obviously manipulative as time went on, and then we were forced to sympathize with her because Peter was so awful to her.

Well where she ended up was in a modified happily-ever-after offscreen appealing her attempted murder conviction with Catlin and their baby. The character was introduced as a spoiler for Catlin and Sally and I think part of the miscalculation was in trying to make Catlin's past too wholesome. (The other was turning Peter into a cul-de-sac that wiped out him, Brittany, and Peggy Lazarus.) If they had written Brittany as a girlfriend he had abandoned when she got pregnant instead there would have been more complexity to play.

Has anyone read her memoir? I see some interviews from last year where she talks about a published revised edition.

She has said that while she liked the actors she worked with, the storyline and the studio and the long days took an emotional toll and she asked to be released from her contract. SERIAL SCOOP: What was your experience like at Another World? Did you ever have any regrets about joining the show? SHARON GABET: I liked my work the first few months. I thought it was some of the best work I've ever done - when Brittany was deaf and describing her ordeal with sign language. Then AW became a nightmare. I had to commute to Brooklyn, my new daughter was young and I never saw her, the hours were so long. I was very unhappy. Linda Dano gave me the name of her shrink, I was so unhappy. I got pregnant again and left as soon as I could.

Indexing HW would be a good feature, although I don't know how typical it is for the casual viewer to be aware of the HW. I was also thinking about whether there could be a way to search for specific storylines, which could require a lot of very fuzzy searching. In the current world if I want to find video of a storyline, I typically have to look up when the characters were onscreen, check the synopses to try to pinpoint when the storyline was in progress, and then search YouTube by date which may or may not yield results. (Although in the dream world for this plan the video is absolutely available and the indexing review can be done.)

I would make everything available with thoroughly indexed metadata by scene by actor, character, and date. Users would have the option to watch by episode or by following a character (or I'll be generous, pair of characters so that any scene including at least one of them is in the playlist) sequentially from a user-specified starting point. User has the option to jump to the next scene or episode at any point, or to change between the linear episode option and following character(s). "My" show is Another World and I refer to the AWHP a lot so I would like to have some linking from the episodes to that kind of information from within the streaming service but I am also very sensitive to spoilers (I have been maddened reading sprawling novels when I am tempted to look up information about a character to understand who they are and I wind up coming across information about where they wind up that I don't need to know yet) so ideally there might be spoiler protection in the linkage so you can proceed with caution. But to be able to know how people are related and how many times they have been blind or had amnesia (looking at you, Rachel Cory) would be good.

That presumes a lot of knowledge about when they were on the show that isn't listed unless you cross-check the character guide. Even though Matt and Robin married after the show was canceled, how would I tell whether they were even on the show at the same time without looking it up separately?

Separate pages under Miscellaneous for Backstage Romances and Marriages. Raising my eyebrows at David Forsyth and Anne Heche. Marriages doesn't distinguish between people who were already married when the other one was cast vs people who met on set. It also takes some work to figure out which characters were onscreen couples. In some cases the spouse had a very minor role. I had (ridiculously) forgotten about Tom Eplin and Ellen Wheeler being married.