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Isn't this the one where someone's cancer was cured by a holy light? :S

Nelson or one of the current soap scribes called Pam Long one of the GREATS--only having watched her AWFUL run at OLTL I'm left dumbfounded.

Thanks for those!!

Well and of course Max Martin, the svengali behind most of Britney's early hit sincluding One More Time (not to mention Ace of Bass, Backstreet, NSYNC, etc) and now doing more rock pop ever since his string of hits for Kelly CLarkson just had another number one--with So What for Pink (coming after their collaboration of U and Ur Hand...)

CCT if you have time--Iv'e been slowly making my way thru them--that yotuube poster has TONS of eps from April thru July of 83 with much of that story)

There's an all too brief, but interesting Yearbook style ad for Loving's TV Pilot movie and premier week at the 6 minute mark of this fun 1983 ep of AMC on Youtube "> " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">

Amy P is co-HW till she leaves when she has her baby--according to Ent Weekly tho the credits only list Seth. Tina of course writes the skits she's in which explains the big jump. I thought the weekend update was really poor--tho I assume having Sarah Palin bobbing her head to a rap was the most innocuous thing they could do that she agreed to. And yeah nothing else stood out except I stand by thinkign Kristen was brilliant as Suze O--but that may just be a personal thing I felt bad for Brolin, an actor I like, because with Palin having a cameo, Baldwin havign a cameo, and Mark Wahlber spoofing his own complaint only a few days before about that sketch last week, Brolin was left with basically nothing to do

Did they stay steady tho? Ent Weekly mentioned how the drop off after the first (nearly always political) skit has been far sharper than ever before for the show--dropping over 70% sometimes by the end. I have to admit we watched the first half or so at a party I was at on Saturday--but after Weekend Update no one wanted to continue watching and we turned it off (Kristen's impersonation of Suze O was, however, *brilliant* and not just cuz I had already had several drinks by then...)

Interesting that none of those people were hired--and that I don't remember Laurie McCarthy writing at all

I *LOVE* Pausini! I just can't listen to Celine though I admit I find her goofiness oddly endearing... (and I do own a few dance remix singles that remind me of clubbing in Montreal... *shh*)

Surely this is just being exagerated by the UK press--considering Hollyoaks airs at what like 5--and nearly every other UK soap has had gay kissing now--and EastEnders is known as one of the grittier ones... The BBC has been flooded with 145 complaints after screening a gay kiss on EastEnders before the 9pm watershed. The 'offensive' scenes were screened on Tuesday's episode of the soap and showed Christian Clarke (John Partridge, 36) and Lee Thompson (Carl Ferguson, 27) engage in a passionate kiss. In a statement the BBC defended itself by saying it was down to parents to decide whether the content of the show was suitable for children to watch. But some viewers were left deeply unimpressed. One viewer wrote on the BBC’s Points Of View internet messageboard: 'I am appalled by the display of homosexual kissing before the watershed shown on EastEnders. 'This is disgraceful whilst young children are watching and sets the wrong example.' Another, Pat, wrote: 'I had to explain to my seven-year-old son what was happening. 'He now thinks he is gay because he kisses his dad.' And another angry fan added: 'I think pre-watershed standards have been irresponsibly lowered in recent years.' Tuesday night's scenes saw Christian and Lee caught in the act by busybody Dot Cotton as they kisses on Arthur Fowler's memorial bench. She tells them that she is as liberal as the next person, but does not approve of canoodling in public places. The latest outrage comes 21 years after EastEnders screened the first gay kiss in a British soap. Back then, Colin Russell – played by Michael Cashman, 57, who is now a Labour MEP – gave Barry Clark (Gary Hailes, 42) a kiss on the forehead. The move resulted in a record number of complaints and there were even questions asked in Parliament about whether the scene was appropriate. In a statement the BBC confirmed it had received complaints - but refused to say how many. The statement read: 'We approach our portrayal of homosexual relationships in the same way as we do heterosexual relationships. 'We believe that the general tone and content of EastEnders is now widely recognised. 'Parents can make an informed decision as to whether they want their children to watch.'

Building back up the campus was *really* smart I think--this was aroudn when I got into the show (with the AMC Carter Jones crossover--I wish some of that was on youtube) and as a yougn teen I admit it appealed to me and seemed different from AMC with its campus focus (though soon OLTL would--for a while--build up their campus too.

You guys are making me wanna buy all the DVD sets... Hrmm I wonder if there's anyway cheap. I have like 5 of the old video tapes from the 80s that I bought used in Jr High.... Adam and Eve oddly, sounds a lot more like the kinda story that Strange Paradise was doing--you knwo the cheapo Dark Shadows rip off with a Dr Moreau/Sci Fi bent filmed here in Canada that Harding Lemay (!) wrote for. I saw two months of it when we got Drive In Classics, a Canadian cable station, for free and I admit, while it had NONE of the atmosphere of DS, in its own campy way I found it a lot of fun and not as awful as many soap books (none of which seem to have seen it) did.

I've only seen a few dozen episodes (well prob close to 60) but always intended to get all those DVDs and make myw ay thru... I don't remember hearing about an Adam and Eve story--what was that?

Love that video remix -- and it goes to show how you can make a GOOD video with zero budget when the label is being arses and you have to fund it yourself in the middle of a major tour Still really into Myleen Farmer's new album--the album more than the single but I still like the video

Interesting--sadly I only saw Taggart's later era teamed up with Guza--but I think she's a great writer. I didn't realize they wrote for RH and ATWT together

Well the first 6 months of City *were* weak--maybe not weak but they were obviously trying to find their footing--and I guess that's when Harding watched? However, even then with Nick, Angie and Jesse, etc I'd argue he was wrong. And he did say he disliked it--which I obviously don't./

Haha love your new opening (I always smile when I see how you've inserted yourself into it--very cute). i agree with everything you said. I know Haridng Lemay apparantly told ABC, when he was consulting, that it was an awful show and proved that you needed families to be the center of a soap--I don't htink he coulda been more wrong. They managed to show how you DIDN'T need families to be a core and couls still have a sense of community (setting it in the same building was a spectacular idea). I admit it's nearly entirely my lvoe of this show that gives me so much patience with Brown and Esenstens's other projects.

While I liked Morgan Fairchild on the show--it only really came together when Tracey joined. I didn't know her or her character from Gh but I was enthralled--I seriously have thought about becomign a GH watcher a few times just to watch her again but... A few things to remember about the City. I still don't think it was given its fair chance. It started off rocky--and making a serial killer storyline that was a close clone to the just ended, and superior Loving Murders was an idiotic move--but the last 8 months or so were pretty much brilliant by my mind--it did exactly what it had set out to do. It also at the time was the ONLY ABC soap to see its ratings consistantly climb each week in those last months--albeit by very small degrees. But they had already decided it was to be replaced. Apparantly it was an expensive soap to film--and I think the fact that many considered it still more Loving, a soap that had been given more than ten years to succeed, and for whatever reason ABC didn't own it but Agnes Nixon's company did (ABC owuld own Port Charles--and they could shoot it on GH's sets) was a big factor for hte quick cancellation. It was repeated on our local ABC at 1am or so and I actually thought the late night was an even better time for it. That's another factor--it was force into the loser time slot that already was bad for Loving but maybe even worse for a "youth" soap.

It's kinda funny people are already calling this a comeback when it doesn't seem to be any change or progression from her last album...

It sounds like a weird mix of two album tracks from her last album--Radar and Ooh Ooh Baby

I've seen 6 or so eps of the show--it was reaired a few years back on Hallmark Channel orsomething and I *loved* what I saw--it definetly had potential compared to some other shows that tried for Dallas' success. And the old movie is a classic (although less soapy than I expected all things considered)

Well Addie did play up the college setting (something I liked) which is true for these eps--as you say. It was only a month after the new and final openign came in--which was Fran's doing wasn't it?

Thanks! The episode I found on video had no end credits--but was from March. The other two stories left me just as baffled and with no memories of them--Trucker and Stacey investigating some secret place of Caboott's with a crazy lady threatening to shoot them--and AVa Rescott withher husband in a wheelchair talking to her mom worried about Carly being in Chicago--then flash to Carly wandering the streets of CHicago, drinking from a bottle and flashbacking to running over some guy. I started watching Loving briefly around the time I was started AMC--Fall 1991 when Ceare and Jeremy first crossed over (before Jeremy stayed) but then musta stopped till the following Summer or Fall when the week long Carter Jones/AMC cross over happened and that's when I became a regular viewer

I just found an episode from late march, 1992 and was wondering if anyone remember what was going on? it's the wedding at Pins between Dinah Lee and "trucker". But "Trucker" is really Clay Alden--and it's all being staged for Hannah's benefit--with Gwenyth helping and threating Clay to make Dinah Lee leave or she'll tell Hannah. I don't remember this story at all and was wondering if any fans on here remembered why they were hiding Clay's identity from Hannah?