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That's the most absurd remark I've heard since Serena Southerlyn asked, "Is it because I'm a lesbian?". No, Roseanne. You were fired, because you compared a dark-skinned woman to an ape.

Well, this oughta make him [!@#$%^&*] in his white sheet. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-house-judiciary-committee.html

Jeffrey Meek? Maybe (even though, I'd known him from SFT and "Raven" and couldn't stand him on either show). Hunt Block? No (and that's because I still remembered him from KNOTS LANDING). It might've seemed weird to have him play ANOTHER lawyer named Scott, but I think Kin Shriner would have been another suitable replacement for Joseph Breen.

I tend to blame the ultimate failure of that character not on replacing Joe Breen, but on replacing him with Doug Wert. As a character, Scott might have survived Marland's death and the inevitable change in his direction, but replacing Breen with a weak actor like Wert guaranteed Scott would not be long for Oakdale. (I can't recall who was and wasn't available at that time, but I would've replaced Breen with someone like James DePaiva (ex-Max, OLTL).) Moreover, haven't I read somewhere that Scott eventually left town with Rosanna? Yet, when Rosanna returned, I don't think we heard one word of what had happened between her and Scott.

Agree.

Yeah, Scott could have come to Oakdale, passing himself off as Chuckie in order to con Lisa and Tom; and then -- SURPRISE! -- he learns he is really Lisa's son after all. Initially, Douglas Marland had it in mind to resurrect Chuckie. Then, he went in a different direction, and retconned a secret pregnancy for Lisa that occurred between the end of "Our Private World" and her return to Oakdale. My guess: he changed his mind, because he had already done something similar in the Frannie/Sabrina story. Early Lisa makes Y&R's Sharon look like a [!@#$%^&*] recluse, lol.

I'm probably the rare individual who preferred Ellen Foley to Markie Post on "Night Court." Maybe she didn't share the same kind of chemistry w/ Harry Anderson that Post did, but, hell, not every sitcom needed a Sam-and-Diane ("Cheers").

I've wondered that myself. Michael Shea could have faked Chuckie's death in order to raise him away from Lisa. Then, after Shea himself had been murdered, whoever was secretly taking care of the boy (perhaps Michael's mistress?) either could have continued doing so, or they could've turned over Chuckie to the foster care system.

Of course, we'd all be remiss if we didn't include this, the first of many catfights between the two Mrs. Carringtons. IMO, it was the best, because it was the culmination of months of animosity between Krystle and Alexis, with Krystle discovering how Alexis had caused her to miscarry her and Blake's baby.

I still laugh about the YT user who asked, "Did she just pull out that [document] from her [vagina]?" Boy, how that earring of Alexis' just flew across the room, lol. No, if I had to choose a favorite moment from this series, it'd be this one:

Poor Claire. Poor, naive, aging boozehound Claire. The beauty about Irna's (and Bill Bell's) writing is that you never need the images to understand what's happening. Dialogue moves so much of the story. IDK who was HW'ing at that point, but they definitely copied that signature style quite well.

Even if there was no collusion going on between Trump('s people) and Putin('s people), moves such as these do NOT help their case any. What a moron.

Perhaps. OTOH, even Irna Phillips might have had difficulties writing for many of PASSIONS' so-called actors.

NBCU/Comcast is probably still paying off Reilly (or his estate) for his last contract with the network.

Agree. When it became clear no one was taking the show seriously, that's when everyone started touting PASSIONS as a parody of soaps rather than as a soap itself. Unfortunately... No. It didn't work as a parody, or as anything else. The writing wasn't good enough, and the acting wasn't good enough either. PASSIONS was just a bad, bad show.

Yes. There's only one man on daytime who STILL could make my toes curl, and that's Philip Brown (ex-Buck, LOVING/THE CITY; ex-Brian, KNOTS; ex-Neil, THE COLBYS; ex-Steve, SFT; et al). I saw him again recently on a commercial and...uh huh.... I read that, too. God bless Bev, but I don't think that would have worked. Chris Bernau always found the humanity within that character. He could make me care about Alan even when Alan was behaving abominably toward others. I think Daniel Davis' interpretation would have been too smarmy and Snidely Whiplash-esque, much like Ron Raines' version became. OTOH, I wouldn't have minded DD putting in a short-term appearance as Eric Luvonaczek (sp?). I think he could have played the struggling (musical) artist/sniveling heel very well.

Agree. Marland dragged out the Joan Dancy and Carolee/Steve/Ann storylines for so long that they lost all momentum, thereby ensuring that neither ended excitingly. (Plus, I think he was so bored with that story in particular that he just stopped writing it.) Add in some very lackluster performances and you have a very unpleasant experience for this avowed Marland fan. I hate making excuses for any writer, but I wonder whether Marland was trying to adhere to TD's established style of slow-moving storylines and learned (the hard way) that that style was not the kind of writing he did best.

Isn't that how Trump always works? Like I said upthread, Trump never admits defeat on anything, even when it's painfully clear that that's what it is.

Yep. I'll bet if John Robinson were still alive, he'd be just as shocked as everyone else how eerily prescient his episode of "Trackdown" has become.

Pelosi is playing Trump's game, making shady digs at the fact that everything Trump has came from his dad. Right on, girl. IOW, Cohen has not a thing to lose.

When I was in school, it seemed like every African-American girl was named Erica.

But seriously. Schumer was correct to say that Trump is using us as leverage for his stupid wall -- and we aren't off-the-mark for comparing the moment to a soap opera, because that's exactly how Trump sees all this. In his mind, Pelosi and Schumer are the Jeremy Wendell to his J.R. Ewing; and he's just raising the stakes before the shocking end-of-season cliffhanger (where Southfork -- er, I mean, the United States -- will burn to the ground). It will never sink into that man's head that this is not DAYS, and that the President of the United States cannot use ordinary citizens as chess pieces against one party or another. Not when the livelihoods of men and women are at stake -- a far greater risk to our security, IMO, than some perceived terrorists and drug-dealing thugs we THINK are crossing illegally over our borders. We are not pawns; we are flesh-and-blood human beings; and many who work for our government stand to lose incomes, careers, houses and everything else to a madman who sees a damn wall (or fence, or barrier, or glorified child-safety gate) as being more valuable than citizens to whom he is most certainly accountable. If you continue to support and defend this man after this debacle, then you aren't just dumb. You're as unhinged as he is.

Who are we kidding? There's only one theme that fits the exchange between Trump and Schumer:

Translation: "If I give up on the wall, I'll look like a loser -- and I'm not a loser, Daddy, I'm not!" No matter how Trump and/or his PR folks will spin it, the fact that Pelosi and Schumer's message drew higher ratings than his will be what hurts him personally most of all. I love it.