Khan

I agree. You want to impress me? Read "Finnegans Wake," lol! TBH, I don't see much difference between a Jane Austen novel and any one of those godawful "Housewives" shows on Bravo. Except, AFAIK, no one in any of Jane Austen's novels ever tossed their prosthetic leg onto the dinner table.

I agree.

Me, too, lol! Too long!

I don't think it was a case of cross-promotion. I think it's just an attempt to cash in on a ridiculous trend that's been raging among women for far too long.

Look, it's one thing to discuss an actor's on-camera, physical appearance (even though I'm not necessarily comfortable with talking about issues that are out of that actor's control), but whichever steps they elect to take or not take OFF-camera to address their issues should remain private and off-limits to the rest of us unless or until they choose to make it known; because, at the end of the day, everyone is entitled to their privacy. And that's all I'm going to say to you about this subject.

Speaking as a former English major, I'll never understand the public's unyielding fascination with all things Jane Austen.

Fine. Then let KS and/or her reps share it, if and when they are ready to share it.

I mind as well. Unless or until KS herself chooses to reveal this information publicly, it's absolutely nobody's business. Period.

She'll be back.

If I were doing a parody of soaps, that (preposterous career advancements) would be one of the conventions I'd make fun of.

I agree with you both!

It couldn't have happened even off-screen, because, AFAIK, it is medically and scientifically impossible for an aborted fetus to survive beyond the abortion, let alone be implanted onto another fetus and survive full-term. AMC officially went all sci-fi with that storyline.

Chances are, if Rhonda/VW had stayed on, they probably would've had Terrance start abusing her and/or have her turn to prostitution.

Laugh all you want at DT, but he's no idiot. He knows he stands a better chance of getting steady airtime on this (or any) show if he has a white love interest who is popular with the majority of the audience. Otherwise, if he were paired with a WOC, he runs the risk of being seen only on Wednesdays like the Barber/Winters clan on Y&R.

Stunt butt.

But shouldn't someone who's "just a fun stud" at least have an ass?

I agree. Even back then, as it was happening, I didn't like what Stephen Black and Henry Stern were writing for ATWT, but at the same time, I didn't think they were so destructive that the show was being damaged irreparably. Especially when I compared it to what JER was doing with DAYS, or Megan McTavish with AMC and GL.

I don't hold what happened at FC under their watch against them, as I think FC had problems even in its' peak years. ICAM!

"Slow" is one thing. You can move slowly and still captivate an audience; just ask Bill Bell! But I thought the Pollocks' writing was tedious, lol.

We're always so quick to blame O.J. for the across-the-board decline in ratings for soaps, but I think if TPTB had not overreacted like they did and just stayed the course, the numbers might've climbed back up.

Because...

IMO, "Murphy Brown" ran for about five seasons too long. Once Gary Dontzig, Steven Peterman and Korby Siamis stepped down as showrunners after S6, the show's writing wasn't nearly as sharp as it had been before.

I thought Lynne Thigpen did some amazing work as AMC's Grace Keefer, who suffered a breakdown and kidnapped Derek and Mimi Frye's baby, Danielle, because she blamed Mimi, a police officer, for the death of her son, Tony, and wanted to raise Danielle to make up for the mistakes she thought she had made with Tony. (Jeff Beldner, Hal Corley and Michelle Patrick wrote some amazing stuff for her as well). As I've said in the past, there wasn't much about AMC after 1992 or so that I really cared for, but I do think their AA cast contingent throughout the '90's - Thigpen, Shari Headley, Tonya Pinkins, Amelia Marshall, even Keith Hamilton Cobb with his arrogant-as-hell ass - was one of TV's strongest. Another candidate: Petronia Paley, who acted the hell out of one of Megan McTavish's most tasteless storylines on GL. (Basically, her character, Vivian's, daughter fell for a man who'd turn out to be her biological father...which Vivian knew all along). Although I remember the performances in that particular story were good and getting a decent amount of airtime, I still thought it was a tremendous come-down from before, when Nancy Curlee and her team wrote such beautiful material for Paley, Amelia Marshall, Monti Sharp, Vince Williams and Nia Long. I've been trying like hell to find and watch that material again on YT, but I can't.

And yet, I'd take even that over JER's DAYS, because the difference between '80's DAYS and JER's DAYS is that '80's DAYS was still well-written, if also a far cry from the decade before.

I agree!