Faulkner

Laura Wright posted this. He looked so hot and healthy here:

From Julie Berman (in response to Scott Clifton’s post):

Beautifully written tribute from Scott Clifton… wow.

Rebecca Herbst has worked very closely with all of the actors who’ve passed this year (especially Sonya, Billy, and Tyler), as someone noted on another board. She’s so quiet on social media, but I wonder how she’s doing. They must be so drained having to post these remembrances. And John Reilly and Stuart Damon both passed not too long ago in 2021. Jonathan Jackson has paid tribute:

I don’t know why, but this death has me unusually bummed. Maybe because I watched him grow up and develop or that he was something of a contemporary? Or that I knew his lengthy struggles and held out hope he’d overcome them? 50 is no age at all. He could have potentially done great work for 30+ more years. Vanessa Marcil has been posting a lot of photos of her and Tyler to her stories.

Gosh, what a tragedy. Been down a rabbit hole of clips and he developed into such a honest, emotionally rooted actor. Underrated, if anything.

They had such intense brother chemistry, and it was so interesting to see their relationship deepen with Tyler and Jonathan back in their roles as better, deeper actors. I would have loved to see Tyler and Nicholas Chavez in scenes together.

Remembering these scenes from years ago. When GH was wonderful…

Another gut punch. And God help the GH cast.

They are so good together. But these choppy scenes again?

David Ortega

Totally. She’s not even a cast member on one of their franchises anymore. They’d avoid so much bad press if they simply cut ties with her and didn’t bring her on stuff like UGT and WWHL. Unless it’s one of those “she knows where the bodies are buried” situations…

The Vanity Fair article is out and it mostly focuses on OG RHONY, Bethenny’s crusade, Eboni, Leah, and Ramona. Kind of a nothingburger to be honest. (It’s paywalled so use your favorite archive site.) Not a lot is revealed that hasn’t already been rumored or speculated about, but Bravo is very brazen to still be in the Ramona Singer business: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/10/real-housewives-bravo-reckoning

Very sad. He just seemed so doomed.

The most famous Night Court ensemble continues to dwindle. Just Larroquette and Warfield left of that core group.

@Soapsuds:

Same cancer that Christian LeBlanc has. So many untimely losses in the NYC news market this year.

I actually think, of the two brothers, Nick needs the break more, although that’s a minority opinion. I feel like Adam’s return—a total “In Case of Emergency Break Glass” move that previous regimes had been avoiding—was in part to give Nick something to do, as he had been flailing for years. Instead of dealing with the problem of defining Nick as an adult pillar of the show, no longer the dimpled studmuffin, they’ve defined him as the anti-Adam. He hasn’t quite worked in most of his romantic pairings, try as they might (aside from Sharon, which feels a bit lackluster). The Sally pairing is so painful that I regret having suggested that he hook up with Sally when she was beefing with Phyllis. He’s not given opportunities to be a father to his young kids, and he seems more like an older brother to Noah than a dad. He does shine as Faith’s dad, but the show doesn’t feel committed to Faith either. In relation to Victor and NE, they can’t decide whether Nick is the vengeful son or the ambivalent outsider. Whereas Adam is defined almost to a fault. Mark Grossman has chemistry with several people and Adam is an active, dynamic character who can drive more story. I’d love to see all the Newmans go, but I think oddly Adam has more potential on this low-budget version of Y&R.

Not that I’m defending the story, as it’s lame, but I think soaps have to allow people to do horrible things, even if they “set a bad example,” as these incidents surely happen IRL. Victor is a horrible person who had Phyllis raped, etc., so it wouldn’t surprise me if he pulled something like that. I think we’ve gone so far that mere dramatization of ghastly behavior is seen as endorsing it. Sometimes soaps cross the line into glamorizing horrible stuff (like the violence on GH), but that’s poor execution. The other characters should be the ones taking Victor to task. The problem is after a week or so they’ll be back kissing his @ss, in the same way Phyllis has suffered few real consequences for faking her death. There’s no stakes because characters come through stories completely unfazed. She’s been the one the show has considered most expendable until VERY recently. I suppose Audra and Claire Grace have given her new life.