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Metro Court's newest slogan: "Come for the amenities, stay for the girl fights."

If Team Trump isn't looking to ditch JDV right now, they're even bigger fools than I thought.

Budgetary wizard or not, Frank Valentini is becoming to liability to GH, and to ABC.

Whoever Kamala Harris picks for her VP, I hope that her campaign continues to hammer home for voters not just that they are not Trump/Vance, but that represent a new, fresh form of leadership.

Meanwhile, the show she works on shoves her to the background after her onscreen love interest leaves and props a homophobic stage mom character. I'm gonna go ahead and say it: that girl is too good for GH.

I wonder if that was the moment when Patrick Mulcahey said, "[!@#$%^&*] it, I'm done!" (Or maybe not. It probably happened after he was out of the building already).

Let's be honest: Janet Spellman-Drucker is now EP for three reasons: 1) whatshisface was fired; 2) she probably was the production team member with the most seniority; and 3) if Team Corday or NBCU went looking for other candidates before hiring Drucker, no one either from within the organization or outside of it wanted the job. IOW, she's not there, because she wowed her bosses with some amazing vision for the show.

If it was Lisa Whelchel - and I won't say it couldn't have been Lisa - then she is one stupid lady. Blair Warner worked as a character because you had Tootie, Natalie and especially Jo there to serve as contrasts. The bulk of Blair's humor came from her "stuck-up rich girl" sensibilities clashing with their relatively more down-to-earth ones. Take that away, set Blair off in her own little world and you have a character and a show that would get very irritating and fast. Frankly, I'm surprised Kim Fields went along at all with the others' plans to reboot/revive the show, given how hard she has tried over the years to distance herself from the character of Tootie. She must've needed the money desperately, lol. I think the closest Nancy McKeon ever came to having success outside of FOL was on "The Division," the police drama series that aired for several seasons on Lifetime and also starred Jon Hamm and Taraji P. Henson. Aside from that series and her TV movies, however, it does seem as if she never could escape from Jo's shadow. They wouldn't need to have a daughter each, though, since Eastland went co-ed at the end of the old series.

Well, anyway, it's better than what she REALLY wanted to say:

Meg Bennett looked so young and pretty as Liza, I almost can't stand it, lol! But - thank God - we didn't have to hear them play "You Can Love Again," or does that treacle come later in their storyline?

Nah, I can't see Lisa Whelchel being that greedy. I think she knows Blair (and she) would be nothing without the other "girls," and that a Blair-centric spinoff would be DOA before the first episode even begins. If anything, I think she and Nancy McKeon are the ones who can't get past the betrayal. (Mindy Cohn appears to be fine either way). Of course, we all could be wrong and it turns out to be Nancy, lol. The thing is, if someone were to do an FOL reboot/revival series that followed the ladies' lives today, what would it even be about? Would you have them move back in with each other and do some weird FOL/"Golden Girls" mashup? Would the show be all about their running Eastland today, with Blair as headmistress, Natalie as journalism advisor, Tootie as the drama teacher and Jo teaching history or English or some crap? To me, that latter idea smacks too much of "AfterM*A*S*H," lol. I say, go back to the beginning (well, back to season two) and do a pure reboot set in the present, with a new Edna Garrett, a new Blair, a new Jo and so on.

I think I read somewhere that CBS wanted to pick up ODAAT for a tenth season, but that Valerie Bertinelli and Bonnie Franklin were eager to move on. (If you ask me, I think that was for the best. By the ninth season, the threads were really starting to show). The thing is, the longer a show runs on TV, the more expensive it becomes to produce. So, I never understand why the networks would allow shows to go on for so long when they're clearly past their prime unless it has to do with contractual obligations. One good example: "The Drew Carey Show," which ABC renewed for three more years (and at a hefty price) after its' sixth season. However, no one apparently counted on the show's ratings dropping, which they did during the next (7th) season. By the end of the eighth season, the show wasn't even in the Top 100 anymore! ABC tried to get out of its' deal with WB, but when that proved impossible, the network basically burned off the last season during the summer, often airing two episodes per week. Ooo chile, you ain't kidding about that, lol! I finally watched some early "Gunsmoke" and MAN, that show was DARK in the beginning. I wonder how the radio series' originators, John Meston and Norman Macdonnell, felt about the changes to the show's tone over the years.

Tootie, no!

20-21 cast members is entirely too many for a half-hour soap that's been on the air for less than a year. I don't know what Agnes Nixon, Douglas Marland or ABCD was thinking, bombarding viewers with that many characters, when they don't know any of them and don't care about them.

God bless that man. God bless his indefatigable courage and strength. He literally brought this nation back from the brink for no other reason than he believed in his country, and he believed in us. And while I also acknowledge that he has made his share of mistakes, I believe that one day, history will look upon Mr. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., of Scranton, PA, as one of the best presidents this country ever had.

At this point, is there anyone left who hasn't been offended by something that man has said or done?

And, in a nod to history, you could call the spinoff "The Innocent Years."

I think it helped to have a lineup that was pretty strong. Even CAPITOL, arguably the weakest CBS soap, had its' moments (and glamour and panache to spare).

Several of my FB friends believed Joe Biden was a "bad candidate" for that very reason. (One in particular - who, by the way, is not at all sorry to see Biden go - also cited his administration's border policies, which my friend (and former classmate) called "cruel"). I, myself, reasoned that that was one area where Biden was perhaps too "old school" to understand the complexities of the situation. What might have been true about Israel and Palestine in the '60's, '70's, '80's and even '90's isn't necessarily what's still true today. Nevertheless, I didn't believe that was enough to keep the man from serving another term as our president. Plus, for those younger voters, it's just a change from having to choose between two, old, white guys, which, I will admit, was always going to be tough to get them to do, especially if they're old enough to remember Barack Obama. Now, it's Trump and Trump alone who is looked upon as the Old White Guy in the race; and that, coupled with J.D. Vance proving already to be a mistake as his running mate, means his campaign team's job just got a whole lot harder. That's why I think it's crucial for Harris' VP pick to be a relatively safe choice: white, male, Christian (although, not necessarily evangelical) and heterosexual.

Indeed!

That, too. Either way, many women and young girls who are in sex trafficking are not in it because they enjoy having sex; and our society's insistence on branding them as harlots and jezebels who deserve whatever retribution comes their way is just plain wrong. If I were on Team Trump, I would be thinking very carefully about our options regarding JD Vance. He's giving me Sarah Palin vibes, and we know how that went down, lol.

I mean, the montage of scenes and character shots in that promo was fast-paced enough. But that music! That might have worked as a "sting" at the end of a particularly suspenseful scene, but for a promo, I think something a bit more soothing, for lack of a better word, was needed.

And if that's not possible? For God's sake: KILL. LEO.

Yeah, I think I read something in reference to that last night. Apparently, SF law enforcement officials were upset with Kamala Harris for years, because she, as D.A., would turn loose sex workers they had caught in undercover stings? Ultimately, I believe most who go into that side of the sex industry do so due to pressure or out of necessity, and not necessarily because they genuinely want to make a living off their bodies, so to speak*. So, I can't say I understand law enforcement officials' frustration there, lol. (And just where do I get such a notion, you ask? Two words: Karen. Wolek.)

Team Kamala to NYT Writer: "Thanks, boo, we got this!"