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  1. ATWT was one of my Gram's (RIP) favorite soaps. So, sometimes I'd read some ATWT in the soap mags and watch casually so she could chat with me about it.

    (I was more an ABC [AMC] girl turned NBC watcher [Days/Santa Barbara] in my teens/20s - college].)

    I mention this because I'm surprised to not see Melanie Smith vs. Kelley Menighan (formerly-Hensley) as Emily on here.

    Smith's version seemed like the intense sexpot, impulsive type while Menighan just seemed neurotic, losing the intensity. Not to mention the actresses did not even resemble each other whatsoever.

  2. The 2023 edition of TCM Remembers is now up. Soaps-wise, it includes Sharon Farrell and Shirley Ann Field. (Also includes some expected big names, i.e. Matthew Perry, André Braugher, and Tina Turner, to name just a few more.) Set to a cover of the Tom Petty song, "Learning To Fly"; the artist covering it is Christina Perri:

     

  3. A car has apparently crashed into an SUV in President Biden's motorcade tonight. From what I read, Secret Service drew their guns on said car, but I don't know much else.

    But it seems no one was hurt and the investigation is ongoing.

     

  4. 2 hours ago, j swift said:

    I mean, it is nice that Maggie has a reason to exist, but how is Sarah's relationship with Xander related to anything about Micky, or Neil as paternal figures? 

    Neil shouldn't count, either. When Sarah was a teen, she discovered Maggie's affair with Neil and, thus, hated him. So much so, teenage Sarah - just before leaving in 1990 - set it up so Maggie would see her in bed with an unconscious Neil. (If I recall, he was drunk or drugged?)

    (And apparently Sarah found a portal in Tennessee, where she lived with sister Melissa, that kept her from aging in almost 30 years. Lucky her!)

    Either way, she was furious on behalf of her father, Mickey.

    So, the crap when she came back when Maggie gave her Neil's stethoscope was ridiculous when you look at actual history. Neil even once tried to use that connection with Sarah, and she shut him down fast. (Not to mention, Neil himself was a retcon. Evan Whyland [then played by Lane Davies pre-Santa Barbara ] was the actual sperm donor. The writers pulled the Neil angle out of their ass during the Maggie/Neil affair.)

  5. 8 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

    Oh, that was so sweet, it put a smile on my face the entire time watching that video. Thank you for sharing this @Wendy. I am going to go to YouTube and send the video to some others who I know can use a little emotional lift.

    Great idea!

  6. 19 minutes ago, janea4old said:

    Thank you for this!

    I highly recommend just sitting back, and watching the entire 18.57 minutes.
    Pure joy.  I felt years of tension leaving my body. 

    You're very welcome! :)

    I figured we all needed this...

  7. 3 hours ago, Vee said:

    I guess I should revisit Homicide - I know him best from so many other things.

    If you can, do so.

    Frank Pembleton was so dynamic. Still get chills when I remember the character's stroke.

    And while the series had seen some decline in quality in later seasons, one exception was "Subway" in Season 6, with an equally-great performance by Vincent D'Onofrio, as a guy who either fell or was pushed (though it seemed the latter) into a subway track and certain to die once his body was freed, as Pembleton stayed with him 'til the end.

    That episode got a Peabody Award and a making-of documentary.

    Just sad it is not streaming anywhere. The only way to rewatch is buying the series DVD set.

  8. So the theocratic Texas Taliban Court voted to murder a woman in the name of a fetus that faces certain death itself.

    This is a HUGE REMINDER about keeping religion OUT OF GOVERNMENT.

    If ladies don't want to become property of the state of Texas or other backwards red states, it's time to wake the hell up and vote these MF'ers OUT.

    Thank goodness Kate Cox has gone out of state to avoid giving said Taliban their jollies: A dead woman in the name of Jesus.

    https://t.co/bvpOmEN7gR

     

  9. And a stark reminder of just why Democrats keep over-performing in elections: The Christo-Fascist right-wing Texas Supreme Court - at the urging of criminal Texas AG Ken Paxton - has blocked the ruling of a lower court judge who allowed a Texas woman, carrying a fetus with Trisomy-18 and certain to die, an abortion.

    And doctors have stated if this is not done, the woman could lose fertility, face sepsis, and worse.

    Instead, a criminal AG and the Texas Taliban are in control. (The stay is "temporary", with "no regards to the merits of the case", meaning this is ongoing, but no time line was given for when the stay would be revisited, and the woman is already 20 weeks along.)

    In the end? THIS is what is driving voting turnout, and the media is frantic to try to shrug off abortion because Dump means money.

    But so far, it's not working. And may that continue. And may this story above keep in the headlines to remind so many just what is at stake if the GQP and/or Trump prevails again.

  10. So the Friends pilot is on now on Nick At Nite, and I completely forgot that John Allen Nelson (Warren Lockridge #1) played Paul the Wine Guy, a co-worker at the restaurant Monica worked at who she dated - then found out he was a player.

    (Wonder if he ever got a piece of the show's residual pie for that role?)

  11. 8 hours ago, Franko said:

    Steve Olson, Days. I'm still wondering just what went wrong in 1972 to abandon him and opt for SORASing Mike Horton and David Banning, which would cause a massive ripple effect and imbalance.

    Devaluing Steve had the largest effect, but we can't also forget his female contemporary, Sandy Horton.

    Well, Steve's last appearance was in freaking 1979. And Stephen Schnetzer played him!

    Being gone so damned long, the show should/could beg Schnetzer to come back - with a family in tow - or recast with said family and put a bit more focus on some Horton relatives. Steve would have a LOT to catch up upon with sister Julie, half-sister Hope, and his various nieces, nephews, and cousins, etc.

  12. Mason Capwell and Cruz Castillo on Santa Barbara could maybe qualify.

    Mason started out as somewhat of a rich sleaze, but his issues with his parents and his romances with both Mary and Julia fleshed him out, and he was hardly ever not front and center, especially with Lane Davies in the role. Gordon Thomson was also really good. Ironically, the one you'd think would have been just as great, Terry Lester [especially since - on paper - Mason and Jack had similar qualities/family structure], seemed to make Mason more of a comic sort of character [yes, the writing, but still].

    And Cruz, well...he seemed on the periphery - until he sparked with Marcy Walker's Eden. Then he [and they] was/were everywhere. One could argue to the show's detriment, since, when Eden left, the character of Cruz floundered [with bad writing by then] and never really recovered.

    Which is why I'm not surprised that A Martinez left for LA Law at the first opportunity.

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