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The Association’s songs give me the warm fuzzies, as I spent so much of my childhood listening to the oldies station in St. Louis and hearing “Along Comes Mary,” “Cherish,” and “Windy.”

Welton @Gray Bunny

ATP muddied the waters by making the matches count as “official” (although without ranking points I believe). I don’t think any other exho is given such legitimacy, but we know why that is. Just all very messy and not well thought out, but such is tennis I suppose.

No one has ever won posthumously, at least among the actors. The only posthumous nomination I remember is Rosalind Cash (Mary Mae, GH) off the top of my mind. Most of these people passed long after they left daytime. Just odd to see some of those names like Anne Heche, KSJ, and Billy Miller. Benjamin Hendrickson still breaks my heart almost 20 years later.

More from Jason Thompson:

Melissa Claire Egan’s tribute: From Bryton James:

I wonder how Maurice Benard is taking it.

He looks like the forgotten Jonas brother. I don’t think he looks bad though.

Having trouble with Twitter embeds (can’t bring myself to use the other name), but @l3neee91 posted this goodbye video that Y&R cast and crew made for BM when he left: qMY27C9WwAbvj1E4.mp4 JPAfS1d7QmWrrj9z.mp4

In addition to sad news of Billy Miller’s passing, some tragic news for fans of ‘90s R&B: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/irish-grinstead-dead-girl-group-702-singer-dies-1235592302/amp/

Wow. Really unbelievable. Michael Fairman’s article appears to be down. I’m sure he’s being overloaded with traffic.

For daytime soaps, it’s kinda up to us to preserve the genre. Can’t hope for the deep pockets to do anything. A small group of dedicated fans has done a lot to make material available on the biggest “streaming service” of them all: YouTube. Like everyone, I’d like more episodes to be unearthed and uploaded to different places (hopefully with the owners preserving copies in the event of inevitable purges), but there’s already more material up from the soaps than I can watch alongside other life obligations and the gazillion movies and TV series I still want to see. More material than I’d want to watch if I’m being honest. There’s just not enough hours in the day. Soaps have been excellent at times, but except for periods when these were exceptional (and perhaps even then in a few cases), there’s a lot of filler and repetition, as they were crafted for homemakers whose attention was divided. The hourlong push only made things worse. Ambient TV is certainty a thing and primetime shows are padded, but they are relatively low-commitment. Soaps feel like overwhelming projects to get into UNLESS you have a really compelling reason to dip into them, like family members or peers watching. (Game of Thrones was dense but so many people were watching or had read the GRRM novels and others wanted to know what the hell they were talking about). The stigmas of soaps have lessened but only the genre has been outright forgotten. “Oh that show’s still on?!?!” has become more a common refrain. When popular soap figures like Jackie Zeman pass away, you get a boost in conversation from nostalgic fans, but there is no connection between lapsed fans’ temporary chatter and the show as it’s existed for the 20-30 years. There’s no clamor to see how the show handles Bobbie. “Bobbie was still on GH?” would probably be most people’s first question. Understandably so: the shows have been garbage for a long time and they are literally all “filler,” scheduled to fill holes in daytime with a loyal yet aging viewership. The soap I find most easily bingeable is The Edge of Night. It hits a sweet spot between plot-driven and forward momentum/suspense and a strong sense of who the characters are even without having watched, and the arcs feel very clear. It’s also somewhat “dark” and has a timeless feel, and it wasn’t super earnest or domestic. As we’ve said throughout the years, it’s ripe for a reboot. The IP means nothing to most youngish people but there will always be an audience for a solid crime drama.

Knots is also a very slow burn at the beginning, even though its first seasons were more episodic, so it would be easy for someone to start it and abandon it. But so many of its heavily serialized peers are now streaming, so I wonder.

Moonlighting is in the works, according to Glenn Gordon Caron. But word was that even Family (the Sada Thompson/Meredith Baxter/Kristy McNichol series) is available on Tubi, although I can’t seem to find it via my mobile. I’d love to see Sisters and Herskovitz/Zwick series other than My So-Called Life streaming. Thirtysomething was on Hulu for a while.

I do wonder about the primetime soap holdouts (or in this case, holdout). Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, The O.C., and even Titans are all streaming but no Knots, for instance. And that’s the show I’d want to watch the most of all of the above,

And certainly Patrick Mouratoglou is under a microscope now as well. I wonder how deep this investigation goes.