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Mal Young obviously recognized her talent and featured her a lot, but didn’t help her by making her this sainted figure who was moral center of the show giving heartwarming monologues to the camera like she was Alice Horton. (For JG, that role became Billy for a while.) Now Mariah is in a same-sex romance they can’t fully dramatize (even though her blistering coming-out scenes won her that second Emmy) and now is just a talk-to like her mom.

The rest of the 2020s and the 2030s are gonna be rough with 20th-century icons leaving here.

Funny that he and Betty White had somewhat similar trajectories in their final years. Both lost spouses to cancer in 1981 (!) and never remarried. Never had kids of their own. Devoted lives to animals. Died just shy of 100.

Eric Turner has posted his magazine covers:

Wow. An institution in and of himself.

Such a depressing yet powerfully beautiful song:

Mannarino is serving body:

It’s funny: RC said that, working under Labine and crew at OLTL as an assistant, he saw all of the network notes on scripts, etc. and absorbed key takeaways on what they would and wouldn’t approve well before he wrote for the show, which gave him an advantage, especially as he rose to HW. Not absolving him of responsibility, but his work is telling of how these networks see these shows. His stories of rape just sail through…

Yeah. I don’t see it picked up by a news source but outlets are often very late to the game when it’s not an A-list soap star or someone who is still on a soap (where you get cast tributes). This was what a Google search turned up. I see IMDB and Wikipedia have made changes. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/hyannis-ma/nancy-frangione-11413676

What?!? Ok it’s getting crazy with these premature soap deaths. Such vibrant presences like Andrea Evans, Jerry ver Dorn, John Callahan, Lisa Brown, Carmen Duncan, and now Nancy…

Time flies. I didn’t realize Olympia is about to turn SIX.

I guess it’s in part because he’ll have to get his kit off for Ryan Murphy. I don’t think he’s overdeveloped or roidy-looking quite yet…

I remember the quicksand obsession.

TSJ’s body looks great. He’s obviously committed himself to fitness while on the show because he didn’t look as ripped in his earlier shirtless scenes.

The drums in the intro are so killer:

He was so touching on This Is Us. So glad he had that platform to share his talent:

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