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Frankly, when I read that Joe Biden had pardoned his son, I cackled. Like you said, @Juliajms, there was a time when I might have questioned his actions. Now, however, I'm just praying Biden can keep this going until Inauguration Day. (Go 'head, Joe, forgive all student debts on your way out, lol!)

Oh, no. Not Wayne, too. Not when we're still trying to process losing Drake. Damn, this one REALLY hurts. RIP, sir, and my condolences to everyone who knew and loved him.

LOL!! Ha! OKC Mayor David Holt is a good guy - I went to school with him all 12 years, consider him a good friend - but that man will hold a press conference/photo op just about anywhere, lol. I still think GL could've made the Peapack model work for them story-wise by having Springfield devastated by some tornado or flood that would explain or justify the less glamorous settings.

Oklahoma is nothing BUT dirt roads; and yet, we still manage to find places to congregate, lol.

When it comes to naming businesses, DAYS is the absolute worst, lol.

Believe me, I hate loose ends, too, lol.

And no one CARES who's revealed as Austin's killer either. I know I don't.

LOL!!

IMO, Maeve Ryan was one of soap's greatest (and most unsung) matriarchs, because she was direct with everyone, but never out of maliciousness, and always from a place of love. And I truly believe that was due to Gallagher herself, someone who did not brook foolishness from anyone. She clearly gave so much of her own inner spark to Maeve; and as a result, I think that's why RH fans love and miss Maeve (and now, Helen) to this day.

Helen Gallagher was a real, one-of-a-kind talent, who imbued RH and Maeve Colleary Ryan with so much spirit and truth, and who really kept that show together when it all had fallen apart. St. Patrick's Day is my favorite day of the year because of her and her annual performances of "Danny Boy" at Ryan's Bar. I will miss both Maeve and Helen always. RIP.

Carly doesn't seem to be the type to have girl BFF's. But that's just me.

I think that was my reaction as well. I wasn't necessarily SAD to see him or Jerry Falwell die, but I wasn't exactly doing the Carlton either. And that's how I feel about Chuck Woolery's passing. I loathed his politics, but I honor his contributions to the game show genre.

Wait, what? CBS is getting rid of PlutoTV? Oh, HELL no!

That's okay, @P.J.. I like to pretend he never wrote for that show myself.

I agree!!

As much as I love Douglas Marland, I think he was asking a lot from GL fans by having Carrie, a relative newcomer, mixed up in so much story. In the time she was on the show, Carrie managed to kill off Diane and Joe, fall in love with and marry Ross, develop DID, sleep with Josh and tank Justin and Jackie's relationship (and if Marland had had his way, Carrie also would've murdered Jackie and then have her alters confess to it at the trial). And that's just what I can recall from off the top of my head. Again, placing Carrie/Jane Elliot in the center of so much action was a HUGE ask. I think we needed at least two years just to get to know Carrie before plunging her into so much drama.

Did CBSD do anything to up their game? Or did the ABC soaps just sort of peter out? In a way, it's fitting for CBS to be the home these days for shows like "NCIS" and "Tracker," to name but two. They're sort of carrying on the tradition created by "Magnum, P.I.," "Simon & Simon" and, to a lesser extent, the original "Equalizer." Again: CBS might be very conservative in terms of their programming, but theirs is a meat-and-potatoes approach that serves their core demographics rather well.

IIRC, Forrest Compton also played the minister at one of Blair's weddings? And in honor of his being there, the OLTL crew played the EON theme at the studio. Or so it said in one of those soap mags. Personally, I wouldn't have minded him on AMC as a Paul Martin recast - perhaps, with a stepchild or two he had acquired while away from Pine Valley. I also thought he would've been good on SFT as a new romantic interest for Jo, newly divorced from Martin.

This story won't be worth a damn if they don't show Doug and Julie dancing to "The Look of Love," or Doug singing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" to little Hope.

Nevertheless, I can just imagine Dena's one-sentence pitch for that story: "Hope is whacked out on Ambien." I think the only story of Megan McTavish's that I remember liking even a little bit was when she had Marian hook up with Stuart - but even THAT was questionable material, as didn't Marian sleep with Stuart the first time thinking he was Adam? Oh, the things you could get away with, pre-#MeToo, lol.

Look, I will always love Michael E. Knight. AFAIC, he's the funniest actor ever to work in daytime; and his work as "Tad the Cad" in that triangle with Liza (Marcy Walker) and Marian (Jennifer Bassey) will always remain a gold standard for the genre. But I cannot and will not support keeping him on GH in any capacity. He (and Rena Sofer) deserves much better than that.

TBH, watching Genie Francis play Ceara on AMC always was jarring. For one - and this is true of every other role she's had on daytime - she never seemed able to shake off the aura of being Laura Spencer. For another, she was playing a type of character (the scheming vixen) that really didn't suit her, or play to her strengths as an actor. The incest storyline and romance with Jeremy seemed like a good opportunity to reset Ceara as someone more within GF's acting wheelhouse; yet, if you go back and watch the scenes where Ceara confronted her abusive father, played by Stephen Joyce - that is, if those scenes are still available online - you can see that GF was let down by some directors who allowed her to make questionable acting choices (to put it mildly, lol). To this day, I believe it was her performance in those scenes, as well as ABC's belief that she was worth more to them as Laura than she was as another character, that sealed her fate, as I don't recall AMC doing much with Ceara after that storyline (her wedding to Jeremy in that ultra-matronly Geoffrey Beene gown notwithstanding).

My initial thought upon reading the news: "Well, Christmas came early for @Vee!" But seriously. I didn't like watching Chad Duell at the start, and I definitely didn't like watching him as he grew less and less enchanted with playing Michael either. If they recast Michael and bring him back down the road, fine; but, for the moment, I'm not sorry to see him go.

I agree. And I don't believe their drama shows that weren't soaps did much better. We've said it before, and we'll say it again: "Murder, She Wrote" literally kept CBS going through some very dark times for the network. Yet, despite everything that went wrong for the network during that period, it's also an era I remain very nostalgic for. ABC was mostly junk, IMO, before "Moonlighting" and "thirtysomething"; and NBC was where you could find the shows that were so groundbreaking or so out-of-the-ordinary that they verged on being bizarre; but CBS in the '80's was home for solid, meat-and-potatoes television that didn't insult your intelligence too much or made you think you were strung out on acid, lol.

His work on SANTA BARBARA (as the family friend who molested Sydney Penny's B.J. as a child) wasn't any better. I don't remember liking Nicholas Walker as Matt Kingston/Max Holden. I've always been loyal to James DePaiva, who knew how to make Max rakish but never to the point of making him smarmy. Similarly, what I loved about Andrea Evans' Tina was that she never was an out-and-out villainess. She LOOKED vixenish with the tight dresses and big hair, but she really was a nice, if needy, young woman who made foolish choices. (Like I've said in the past: yes, she could lie with the best of them, but she never lied to be malicious. She really believed in her heart that she was doing the best thing for everyone concerned). Karen Witter and Krista Tesreau's Tinas, on the other hand, just came across to me as total bimbos and not really worth my interest.