Wendy

I have no real attachment to any of the mayoral candidates in NYC. But, like @Vee, I loathe the perv known as Andrew Cuomo. With so much chatter that Cuomo would be tough to beat, I am heartened that voters made it clear that they have had their fill of Mr. Touchy-Feely. Let him and his brother go suck up to the right as fellow slime RFK, Jr. did. You know it's coming.

This should automatically be grounds for impeachment. But you know this Congress won't do jack. Just empty words. Because rules don't apply to Diaper Donnie.

I think that was because of Jennifer Aniston. After all, her dad, John Aniston, was on Days, so TPTB of Friends probably wanted to highlight that connection, and since Joey would not be able to remain with the other five friends to work at Days, as it was based in California, the decision was probably made to just say Days was a soap set in NYC. And the above would also explain why a real NYC NBC soap, Another World, wasn't used. No John Aniston. (And then there's that Drake Ramoray/Drake Hogestyn connection, too!)

Both Taster's Choice coffee and Country Crock commercials in the '80s had continuing "soap" like arcs, too! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=taster's+choice+soap+opera (List of Taster's Choice videos, one even featured Jane Seymour.) The Country Crock ads, it was just the hands of the couple, but there were a whole series of them. A link to a couple (no pun intended - in one video link) is below:

Oz, to me, is like the evil mirror to Law & Order, since both Kathryn Erbe and Chris Meloni (obviously Det. Elliot Stabler on L&O: SVU/L&O: OC) played such horrible criminals on that versus their white-hat characters on the L&O franchise. And Lee Tergesen, while not a main L&O cast member, often was a guest star in the franchise, and also on Oz. Ditto the great Rita Moreno, who also appeared on L&O: CI as the schizophrenic mother of Det. Bobby Goren/Vincent D'Onofrio. Lots of overlap between those two shows, not to mention more such overlap with Homicide: Life On The Street.

As one that watched the Law & Order franchise, including Criminal Intent, I never knew that Kathryn Erbe, who played Det. Alexandra Eames, made an appearance on Another World, but this clip from 1988 shows she did, along with pre-fame Luke Perry:

Sorry, @brisbydog, but I disagree about Sarah and Xander's crimes being made equal. Sarah kept a secret. Yes, it was wrong. But that didn't justify Xander almost beating Phillip to death. No one put a gun to his head. As for a certain someone on the horizon, I will agree with you in that I look forward to that like I look forward to a root canal. But I fear that tired dance is once more coming.

My late mom had his "Lightnin' Strikes" record. She loved that one.

Hell, Amanda Setton herself is a recast. What's Adrianne Leon up to these days, anyway? In any case, it's General Hospital, not The 700 Club. If Amanda Setton won't do the requisite soap plots/mchanics (including love scenes), she needs to find a new line of work.

Eh, just kill Spinelli.

What I'm about to say may be very unpopular, but while I do feel for Deidre Hall as far as her grief for Drake Hogestyn (shared by much of the cast!), well...while I get not everyone will be buddy-buddy behind the scenes, isn't she paid to act as MARLENA and not Deidre? That's what acting is about: Playing someone that likes other characters on screen, even if that's not the case off screen. I don't know: The whole thing with Kristian/Hope was strange and stood out big time. It just seems unprofessional. Ditto Marlena/Maggie. Maybe both actresses now despise each other, but MARLENA AND MAGGIE were friends. Earn the pay check and act friendly, ladies! (Still, nothing tops prime time's The Good Wife and the whole split screen debacle with Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi. And my philosophy is the same there: That was ridiculous, petty, and both women should have just sucked it the hell up for the audience and actually worked together.)

Season 2 adds four new cast members: https://tvline.com/casting-news/the-pitt-season-2-cast-new-medical-students-characters-hbo-max-1235458816/

For once, it wasn't Hunter I recalled Luis Guzman from, but the I Love The... series on VH1. Still, thanks for the usual shout out, @slick jones!

In the current environment, while it's small, there is a crumb of good news: Apparently, San Antonio voted for a DEMOCRATIC mayor, Gina Ortiz, beating the "right-hand man" of Gov. Greg Abbott, former Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5337199-gina-ortiz-jones-wins-san-antonio/

The second photo featuring the late John Spencer is from the Law & Order episode, "Prescription For Death", which was the (second) pilot/first episode all the way back in 1990! He played the father of a daughter that had gone to the ER for a mere sore throat but ended up dead because the doctor on call was drunk and had given her medication that she had an adverse reaction to, after receiving some other medication. So, he will always have that great distinction in addition to The West Wing. (The first pilot, "Everybody's Favorite Bagman", was filmed in 1988! The show was offered to CBS, but they passed. In syndication, it is oddly placed as the sixth episode of Season 1. And Roy Thinnes played DA Alfred Wentworth there. When NBC picked up the show two years later, Thinnes declined to return, and that's how we got Steven Hill's DA Adam Schiff.)

I am so damned embarrassed to be an American with that...thing...at the helm.

If those two crazy (and I do mean crazy!) kids can't make it, where's the hope for the rest of us?!

Yes, JJ is leaving. SOD just broke the news.

Wow, I love that current and former actors are participating in this. I barely recognize Staci Greason! She looks fine, just very different. But I will be happy to hear anecdotes from her. I shipped RoJohn and Isabella hard back in the day, and I sobbed buckets in my dorm room at college when Izzy B passed. Honestly, I'm interested in everyone's stories. Drake seemed like he was well loved among the cast.

Maybe because 60 Minutes has kept the same formula for almost 57 years? Usually, there is more than one interview/topic discussed, like a real magazine. Dateline, 20/20, and so many others have all fallen to the one-subject formula: True crime. I mean, I'm a Forensic Files junkie and loved original America's Most Wanted back in the day, but even I think the TV market has been over-saturated with all crime, all the time. There was still that element when these shows began, but they were a segment of an episode, not the entire episode. Maybe the audience is just getting bored with such a fixed formula. If stories were intermixed with crime, some feel-good segment, and maybe something to do with lifestyle/music/and yes, as much as I have come to hate it, political issues, maybe these shows could rally. As they are - again, minus 60 Minutes - they have become tired and predictable.

Don't know if this exactly fits here, but it is connected: Does this abandoned building look familiar? It is one of those explorer videos - and the outside may look VERY familiar if one watched GH in the '70s and '80s!

Just some clarification: David Hasselhoff was hubby #2! Per Google, she was married to another man in October 1981 and divorced him in 1982. So, Michael E. Knight was hubby #3. Here I thought Vincent Irizarry was still married. Shrug. Maybe he dated Hickland in between her marriages to MEK and hubby #4, Todd Fisher? (Yes, brother to Carrie and son of Debbie Reynolds...)

Loved Valerie Mahaffey as crazy as a box of frogs Sandy Cooper on Wings. 2025 needs to chill out already. May Ms. Mahaffey rest in peace.

Yeah, Loretta Swit's passing stings. My late dad LOVED the show (he died last November) and watched it religiously. In first run and repeats. And I was literally born the day after the show's premiere, so I grew up with it! I know many loved later, softer Margaret, but I loved Early Hot Lips. In real life, I'm all for less misogyny, but to me, the early years of M*A*S*H were just funnier. May Loretta Swit rest in peace. Thanks for all the memories connected to my dad!

As one that loved RoJohn/Isabella back in the day, the Brady/"John" scenes were so well done, yet still a gut punch. Maybe because, the scene where John told Brady about Isabella's hopes as she was dying from pancreatic cancer just seemed...sadly ironic, since Drake - in reality - died of the same awful disease that was fictionally used for Isabella. Of course, absolutely no one could have predicted that eerie irony 32 years later, but still. That said, Eric Martsolf - as like everyone else holding vigil with "John" - did a wonderful job. I only wish that the show would cease with "John's hanging on!", etc., since we know the reality of the situation. Still, everyone and everything surrounding this goodbye has been handled so well.