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1 hour ago, teplin said:

Oh no. I loved her in 24 and Bosch, and an assortment of other roles. I had no idea she was ill. 

Yes, her Julia in Bosch was awesome. Sigh, 45 is just too young.

Someone has a YT channel devoted to Cruz/Eden, but they also posted some good Mason/Julia clips. I know everyone loved Lane Davies' Mason most. So did I. But I always did like this scene with Julia and Gordon Thomson's Mason after Eden's last "death", when she fell over the cliff.

Nice to finally see this scene again:

4 minutes ago, Keri said:

Was JM a recast?

Yes.

Rosemary Forsyth, known as one of the handful of actresses to play Dr. Laura Horton on Days, had the role of Sophia before Judith McConnell. But she - if I recall - was disguised as Dominic throughout her short tenure.

2 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

This is why WJB had him as the pool boy and never gave him meaty material. He knew DD wasn't that good of an actor. You'd think Bradley Bell would've learned from his dad. Apparently he did not.

If I recall reading right, he basically played the pool boy/gigolo type in his very first role as Carlo Forenza on Days. So at least that "type" seems to be in his wheelhouse.

I read his character was involved with Gloria Loring's Liz Chandler.

(Reading this, there seems to be a LOT of actor overlap between Days and Y&R as much as there is with Y&R/B&B.)

Lisa Marie Presley seemed like such a "little girl lost" to me. Losing her dad so young, then having her son commit suicide, it just seemed like she was destined for heartbreak.

I hope she rests in peace and her surviving children find comfort now.

My heart also goes out to Priscilla Presley.

Jill Biden has basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer. Luckily, it seems this type is very treatable!

But this family has had so much tragedy.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Kelley is still formidable.

Usually recurring stuff like this is often a precursor to a regular role, so I hope it works out for her. And say what we will about Dick Wolf but he always employs NY soap people (Alana de la Garza is on there as well, I believe).

Dick Wolf has, at one point or another, employed both soap and theater folks in the greater New York area. LOL!

I even recall, and this is WAY back, the late Benjamin Hendrickson getting a guest turn as a defense attorney on original recipe Law & Order, around 1991-ish. (Ironically, it was the same episode that first featured Jerry Orbach - a season before he would become a regular as Det. Lennie Briscoe (Season 3).)

In the episode with Hendrickson, he played another defense attorney named Frank Lehrman. It was funny/weird to see him on the lawyer side of the show! (The episode was "Wages of Love" from Season 2, the show's answer to the Betty Broderick case, which occurred in 1989.)

As you point out, there are many more.

Looks like Bo was part of this story, too.

This clip of someone trying to blackmail Alex (from 1984) and then Alex wanting to celebrate with Gwen Davies (Anne-Marie Martin, who would later be more known as Dori Doreau on the short-lived Sledge Hammer! - and ex-wife of the late Michael Crichton!) really encapsulates Alex Marshall's smarmy charm and is just fun. I miss that.

(Funny how there is another Alex and Gwen on the show now. Too bad they suck.)

Our long national nightmare...is ongoing. But at least there is a Head Clown in the GQP MAGAt Circus.

Here's to two years of Hunter Biden, dysfunction, grievance, and NOTHING of worth being accomplished.

Buckle up!

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Adblock. For years.

Yep. Same here. It's a godsend.

This is BEYOND pathetic at this point.

Enjoy two years of dysfunction, chaos, and NOTHING getting done, America!

This is pathetic.

For all the "Dems in Disarray!" articles the media adores, that just proved more projection. The GQP couldn't find its own collective ass with a flashlight at this point.

I knew we'd get nada done with this crew, but I expected AT LEAST some bills discussed/debated, not just total NOTHINGNESS.

Same song, different musical spectrum! Happy New Year!

I was born in '72, so a bit before my soap-watching time, but I believe Addie and Doug named their baby Hope because Addie - I think - had battled cancer and wanted to reflect...well...hope?

But I think it was a factor...

Anyone that knows otherwise, feel free to correct this!

I guess this constitutes politically adjacent than actually political. But climate change advocate Greta Thunberg recently got into it with Andrew Tate:

Her reply is here, with the tweet she is responding to embedded:

But wait! It gets better. See, the 33-year-old man decided to try and shame Thunberg with a video, apparently saying stupid sh*t. Unfortunately for his dumb arrogant ass, that video pinpointed his location.

In Romania.

Where this would later happen:

Karma is a sweet, sweet bitch!

I am a Mason/Julia fan and am glad Cruz/Julia never went romantic. It's refreshing to have a solid friendship between the sexes without having romance sully it.

Cruz was intertwined with Eden for so long, his individuality seemed lost. And I don't think something with Julia could have fixed that. (One could argue the same for all the pairings, M/J included, but at least Mason/Julia were divorced for a time and had some breathing room.)

It's too bad that Cruz could not have something focused on HIM. Had he been able to develop as an individual a bit deeper, maybe the writers could have branched out THEN bring on a new romantic option for him.

As it was, I completely understand why A Martinez opted to jump to L.A. Law.

2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Smart move, those of you who have it it on DVD or digital download. Honestly, I didn’t envision the day when the special would leave broadcast television. I guess I should have known, given the fact that the special began on CBS, then moved to ABC after decades of being on the same network. Still, it’s weird that Apple TV+ would be the platform. At least last year, people could watch/stream on PBS networks and the PBS website. Now, completely corporatized. SMH.

I don't have Apple TV. But if you have an account from iTunes, you CAN watch the special on your computer for free. From the 22nd through Christmas Day. I just watched it last night that way. (Even if I do have it on Blu-Ray.)

Awesome clips. Thank you!

I never realized Gentry was that old! He killed it as Ross Chandler on AMC. Especially the whole rape storyline with Natalie. (Though I think that killed the character in the long run.)

Of note, he and Kathleen Noone were reunited on the Season 6 episode, "Unacceptable Loss", on Hunter. (Not to mention, Darnell Williams and Dorothy Lyman also appeared on the series in separate other episodes. Someone must have liked AMC at Hunter, whether the latter was an NBC show or not.)

May Mr. Gentry RIP.

8 minutes ago, Vee said:

I can't remember: Was Epiphany ever part of the hospital crew that used to always go do Ladies' Night or whatever at Jake's? Or did they always leave her as the taskmaster in those years? I had many issues with Guza II in those times but I always appreciated the hard pivot to re-centering the hospital and hospital-related characters after the show bottomed out in '05, even if it was partly a very calculated attempt to capitalize on the new success of Grey's on the network. It was smart.

I recall she was constantly harping on Scrubs and their supply-closet shenanigans, but she was an ally there. But yeah, early years, she seemed to be the gruff, no-nonsense nurse with the heart of gold.

Here was a great, poignant scene with Epiphany and Patrick after Robin "died":

This shocked me. Fifty-five is just too young. May Sonya Eddy RIP.

TCM has just uploaded its annual TCM Remembers retrospective for 2022. Anne Heche is included, as are Ray Liotta and Mitchell Ryan, who also had soap ties before (and after - in Ryan's case!) they made it "big":

It's all about individual taste, as - while nice looking - I didn't think Joe and Kelly were all that compelling.

As much as I wanted Kelly (at one point) with Ric, as the flirtation seemed to be going somewhere, I think her relationship with Robert bore more fruit, especially since it also involved Eden and tested the Kelly/Eden bond.

(Robert becoming Quinn ultimately messed with that dynamic, IMO, but with Roscoe Born's animosity with Paul Rauch, I doubt things would have ended satisfactorily, anyway.)

Carrington Garland's Kelly seemed to spark with anyone, be it Robert/Quinn/Craig, and if there was a huge mistake the Dobsons did, I think it was firing her for Eileen Davidson.

I think Carrington's Kelly and any pairing could have - along with Mason and Julia - weathered the loss of Cruz/Eden, but the damage was done.