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Speaking of "T's" can we bring this back to the TribuTe Thread?

You guys are mean! LOL @ "Ricky Torres is among us". Wow

You know I love you! You're so exuberant and energetic about things, which is fantastic!

Unfortunately, it's all going to waste on that dead end Kendall Slater character.

ETA: Sweet Jesus, bless this post! This is my 6,666th post! Hallelujah, to God be the Glory. Amen Amen Amen!

Gross.

ELLEN!

I've said this before, but I LOVED Ellen when I was a kid and was heartbroken when she left. I remember a reference to Mark and Ellen traveling the world, and I turned to my mother and asked her exactly how long does it take to do that so I can know when she'll be coming back.

This was it for Erica and modeling, right? Or the catwalk incident was. How long after this was the catwalk?

You mean the scaffold, right? Because every time you runway model you're on a catwalk

I remember it, and remember not being overly smitten by it. Megan McTavish, right? I applaud them for doing something with Myrtle, but it was a tad ridiculous.

Another reason I hated the Richard Culliton era. Dropped storylines and unresolved beats. If you don't right off recall, you'll see where I'm going in just a second...

Brooke and Edmund hired a singer to perform at their engagement party at the Valley Inn. As they were preparing, they brought her into the dining room, showed her where she'd be performing and this and that. Cut to the end of the episode, everyone's arrived, the dinner's underway and they announce the singer. "The singer" turns around, and it's Vanessa in wig and costume holding Greenlee at knifepoint.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE SINGER?!

And do his eyes constantly dart over to look at his card while talking?

Ooooh... you and my mother, boy... She'd bring that up every time Phoebe walked into a scene.

Anyone who watched while they were in school, did any of your friends? If not, did you tell them? I always kept it to myself LOL but I did have one teacher in 4th grade who watched and we discussed it sometimes (on the down low, of course). Thinking back, it's so hilarious what we used to talk about...

I didn't really talk about it. It was just one other thing I watched and didn't really know there was a STIGMA attached to watching soaps until I got more into "grown up" television such as cable and primetime shows around 12 or 13. Up until then, I was PBS, TBS and Nickelodeon in the afternoons... and syndicated cartoons on WNYW 5 (FOX) WPIX 11.

However, one little anecdote, I was in junior high if I recall correctly. I was talking to a teacher in class and mentioned All My Children. This kid who bullied me on and off over the years overheard this. He's all, "You watch All My Children?!" I'm like, "Ugh! Yeah... and?" He's like, "Thats the one with Phoebe?! I love her!!"

I may have been very cavalier about the show's demise, but I will say that All My Children has been a significant part of my life. It didn't dawn on me until late. I saw my mother around 9pm and told her the news -- and it was weird hearing it come out of my mouth. It was then that I realize how that was our second language. I honestly didn't realize the connected we shared through this show. Largely because over the last 10 years or so, our schedules have become so varied that we don't have conversations about the show (or even watch together) like we used to. However, thinking back, there's always been All My Children in my life. My mother started watching ABC soaps while she was pregnant with me and during the first year I was born. She had taken a year off from work to concentrate on being a mother. When she went back to work, the company (which is a very prominent corporation) had always had four big screen televisions in this spacious employee lounge. One would be set on ABC soaps, another on NBC soaps, another on CBS. My mother wound up sticking with All My Children because it was on during her lunch time, and there you go.

Flash forward several years, my father bought a VCR, and by first grade, I had become aware of All My Children because my mother would tape it and watch it at home in the evening. I remember it being in the background and catching moments in stories such as Mark's cocaine addiction, Cindy's death, Jesse/Angie/Yvonne (which began my love affair with Vanessa Bell Calloway for the next 20 years), I even remember getting off the bus and coming in from school the last day before Christmas break and seeing the cast sing Christmas carols on the Wallingford staircase on air (in the old days of 1:15 early dismissal before vacations).

Then by 1989, I was in fifth grade and in that "tween" phase. I didn't exactly want to watch Mister Rogers Neighborhood after school (he'd come on at 3:30) , nor did I want to watch boring talk shows such as that Opera Winifred woman (which cracks me up considering how much of an Oprah whore I turned out to be! ), so I just gradually started watching tapes of sitcoms I had recorded over the week. I would have to remove my mother's All My Children tape, place it on top of the television, put my tape in and there you go. By this time, we had moved. While it was into a bigger house, we had yet to have cable access in all the rooms (only downstairs and in my parents' bedroom). So at dinner time, my mother would come home, put her All My Children tape back into the VCR and watch. Now, the thing is -- if I wanted to watch television during dinner, no problem -- I just had to watch All My Children since my mother was also eating while watching.

Ugh! Whatever!

Lo and behold, within that year, not only was I happily watching it with my mother in the evening... I was coming home from school, watching it by myself in the afternoon AND THEN re-watching it with my mother at night! By 1990, it was as much my soap opera as it was hers. I was addicted. That year, I had gotten in trouble in school. As punishment, my mother revoked my television privileges for close to the entire month of November. This was during the Tad/Dixie/Billy Clyde storyline when Billy Clyde had that shootout with the cops at his cabin in the woods where he was holding Dixie captive. Well, shi, honey, I wasn't missing that. So I remember being crafty enough to negotiate with my mother that I would be able to listen to AMC in the hallway outside of the family room while she watched -- since "listening" isn't "watching" television. She agreed.

Little did she know, I had been watching AMC during my entire punishment. I'd come home, immediately watch the tape, and then be done with enough time for the VCR and TV to be stone cold by the time my mother came home around 5:30.

I don't think he's "at" AMC as much as the show has bought some of his material. That's an enormous list of composers just for one show. So I just think Pilato and Walker bought some pieces he composed as well as others, rather than Davich specifically writing music for AMC.