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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXZAldlMzVo&feature=related

I have this song on my iPod.

As a bit of trivia, this song is considered the first Disco song to go #1. I love early disco when it was fun and silly. Later disco became more about the thump thump thump of the beat.

The first major of the year. It starts on Sunday night! I can't wait!!

Who will win???

None of these guys!

Rafael Nadal is the king of tennis. These wannabes and has beens are just there to serve his career and provide victims that he can crush.

Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's son David tuesday and through youtube links I was reminded of this brilliant song from the underappreciated Rick Nelson (or "Ricky" if one insists)

Eh...blah...could care less. ...I'd rather have a movie like Dallas is having with its new show. I took me a lot of time before I liked Dallas The Early Years Movie.....no thanks Dynasty.

wow, the idea of a Dynasty movie set in the early 60s sounds great to me. It would be like a lurid Douglas Sirk drama, a Written On The Wind with Alexis decked out like Jackie Kennedy on fashion steroids I assume.

who would play Blake? Jon Hamm (is that his name? ) he has the perfect hair for the role.

I may faint if this happens! Just thinking about it is too much already

Move over, Dallas!

There's another classic prime-time soap from the '80s headed for a big-screen reboot…

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I just got word that a Dynasty movie is in the works.

Words cannot express how much I am dying over this news. It...is...beyond!

Dynasty creator Richard Shapiro tells me the movie, a prequel to the hit '80s soap, will be set in the 1960s. "It's not the wild and crazy 1960s, but the early Kennedy years," he said. The story will focus on Blake's discovery that he's heir to the Carrington empire and his love affair with Alexis.

The original Aaron Spelling-produced Dynasty series centered on Denver's oil-rich Carrington family, headed by patriarch Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) and his secretary turned second wife Krystle (Linda Evans). The star-studded cast included Joan Collins (as Blake's first wife and catfight queen Alexis), Heather Locklear, Diahann Carroll, Pamela Sue Martin, Jack Coleman, George Hamilton and the late Rock Hudson.

Shapiro said the script will soon be shopped around to studios. Casting hasn't begun, but Shapiro said their hope is the film will be the first in a Dynasty franchise.

"We've given thought to the movie before and we've been approached by a lot of companies, but no one seemed to have a proper fix on it. Then suddenly we said, 'Let's do it [ourselves]!'—and we're the ones to do it," Shapiro said.

"It was my daughter Florie's notion to do a prequel, and that sounded very very good to us. It's how young Blake doesn't realize he's the son of Tom Carrington, but then he finds himself at the head of this company and surrounded by assassins and people who want to do him in."

Dynasty premiered exactly 30 years ago—Jan. 12, 1981—and ran until May 1989. It even spawned a short-lived spinoff, The Colbys, starring Charlton Heston.

A Dynasty reunion miniseries aired in 1991.

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b220158_shoulder_pad_alert_another_classic.html#ixzz1ArxZq4j2

oh wow, 30 years

Ha ha ha, "Georgetown salons."

This guy is such a dick. He is a malignancy on America just for foisting Sarah Palin on us. It was only a few years ago he was for repealing DADT, but as the Tea Party showed disdain for his bullshit Mavericky ways (which he never was), he has knelt and genuflected at the fundie altar of shmuckitude. And I like how he threw in their the whole "small town" bit, trying to once again say real Americans come from small towns, while big cities produce these faux-Americans. I guess that is why he and his rethuglican brethren have blocked the passing of the bill to get the 9/11 first responders medical aid: they came from New York and therefore are not real Americans.

I stumbled upon this and was shocked that tv icon "Ginger" was so talented

I have to give Glee a lot of credit. This would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, and it's so old fashioned and clearly not all at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_5RBPrK2o&feature=player_embedded

I don't care for the guy singing the female role, because he sounds too much like a woman to me, but I think there is a general aversion to bass and baritone anyway these days with everyone trying to sound like a woman with a falsetto (yes Justin Timberlake, I mean you)

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The perception that the rich hoard their money and don't invest it back into the economy is ridiculous. Yes, of course these people seek to make more money - but do you think they plant it in their money garden and $100 bills grow up around them? Come on, they build and expand, and that always means more jobs for somebody. I'm far from rich but I don't begrudge those who have it, particularly those who invest it in the economy. They are businesspeople and that is what they do... They are consumers, like us. And when times are tight and they've got to give more up in fees, taxes, etc., they turn tight-fisted just like us.

Nothing in any available data backs up a single thing you've said. All that has happened since the advent of Reaganomics is a consolidation of wealth, and the rich getting richer with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population hording a greater percentage of the wealth. There is no investment in the economy with the newfound tax-free dollars. And if you are like me, and see Reagan as the god of all things Republican, you would listen to David Stockman--the father of Reaganomics:

“Two years after the crisis on Wall Street, it has been announced that bonuses this year will be $144 billion, the highest in history. That's who's going to get this tax cut on the top, you know, 2 percent of the population. They don't need a tax cut. They don't deserve it. And, therefore, what we have to do is focus on Main Street, and that means getting our house in order fiscally, not tax cuts that we can't afford.”

Not at all... I just miss Presidential Presidents, not losers with no plan, no hope, and an uncanny ability to turn everything he touches to crap.

I never unfairly bashed Clinton back in the day... every criticism by me and everyone else of him was dead on. He was generally considered a smooth talker, a liar, and a perv in some circles. But he did (and still does) love America, cares for the people, and respected the office he held. Hillary would have, too, had she not been pushed aside by the party and the media. I don't agree with much of the Clinton agenda, frankly, but I have no concerns of an America in their hands. In fact, I believe the Democrats would still hold both houses of Congress if Hillary had been elected.

A poor vote when I declined to Vote for Gore? Hell no. Gore remains one of the biggest idiots ever to run for high office. And in case you haven't seen any recent polls, the number of people who would vote for Bush today vs. Obama is about equal. People DO actually miss Bush... especially after two nightmare years with Obama running the ship aground...

I long for a real President... don't you? Honestly, how can you defend Obama's record? Hell, pass over whatever it is you're smokin', dude! I want to be in your happy place, too...

You know, many economists said Obama didn't go far enough with pumping money into the economy. I do know he wants to let the temporary Bush tax cuts expire for everyone making 250,000 and above while continuing the break for the other 95% of the country, and republicans have taken the position that if the top tier do not get the breaks, no one will. This despite of record profits for the corporations and a greater amassing of wealth by the top percentile than at any time since the Depression. And we know how that worked out. His health care bill sucks, but he was not able to get what he wanted because republicans cried socialism and he caved.

You do know that the Bill Clinton you speak fondly of is the same Bill Clinton you undoubtedly wanted impeached, right? People who miss Bush are idiots. They miss perpetual war and Dick Cheney allowing oil companies to dictate policy? They miss the Atty General using his office to indict democratic candidates who dared oppose republicans? They miss cynical and phony Orange Alerts? Well, no one ever went broke underestimating the American People. What do they miss exactly?

Hey Carl...

From where I'm standing, I sure do miss Bill. I didn't always agree with him, but he knew how to bring everyone to the table and get things done. I'll be the first to admit that I didn't appreciate him then like I do now. And I'll be the first to admit that I miss him...

Oh, so you admit to unfairly and wrongly bashing the Democratic president then? So then, you made a poor vote when you declined to vote for Al Gore and instead opted for some dunce who bankrupted the country with his wars of revenge and choice?

Well, Scotty, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. The fact is that the majority seems to agree with me on the issues and with politics in general. The election bears that out, eh?. I respect the office of the President, however I have little respect for the joke that currently occupies the office. Every time you and your ilk reach back to Bush in an attempt to prop up Obama, it screams of desparation and insecurity. Obama is a failure, as is the liberal agenda he espouses. Democrats lost control of the House because of his failures, and Republicans will capture the Senate and possibly the Presidency in two years because of his arrogance and refusal to listen and accept the will of the majority in America.

But but...I thought not listening to the will of the American people was the sign one was a great Decider!

Tina said it.

Sarah said you can see parts of Russia from parts of Alaska, and that is true... somewhat, anyways.

Well, no one refudiates that. People refudiated the notion that this qualified as a foreign policy credential. Maybe I am wrong and we should ask our North Korean allies if they think she is to to snuff.

Tom Delay was found guilty and faces potentially life in prison.

I guess it was those renowned liberal Texas judges and juries that had it in for him.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/24/us.delay.verdict/?hpt=T1

Maybe FOX can have him offer some fair and balanced political wisdom from behind bars.

UGH.

Margaret Thatcher was right, the EU is destined to fail!

I don't see how the Union can succeed without a uniform monetary policy, and if a country gives up its right to decide its own monetary policy, is it even a country, or just now a vassal of some sort?

See if you can keep up with this complicated choreography.

I love 70s music. So much of it was upbeat and fun.

I haven't heard this song in 20 years..excuse the title

RIP Dean

If this is deemed offensive, please delete.

I think Paul Michael Valley made a conscious decision to leave the soap biz. He went into teaching acting, I believe, and theatre acting and directing were prob always his first loves. Also, his hairline receded and he prob didn't want to bother with painful hair plugs so the "soap hunk" parts prob dried up.

I used to be friendly with Paul. He is a very nice guy, saintly almost with the most even temperament you could find. It is impossible to make him angry and if you do he will seethe for a split second, focus, and then realize it is poor form to yell and return to being the always agreeable diplomat that he is and try to reach consensus.

Last I heard he lives now somewhere south of NY (one of those states not sure which). He ran into a lot of bad choices in the mid 90s and his own personal demons stuck with him well into the 00s. Last I heard he is ok now, married and I believe has kids. He was never bitter about not being the soap star anymore and knew you had to be 25 or get lost for the most part. He stuck around NY into the 00s with a theater troupe doing workshops and plays and acting lessons.

well for people who are really interested, Larkin Malloy teaches acting every Wed Night on west 43rd street just off 8th avenue.

I have been in the Player's Club, and it is a great building. I loved Lois Kibbee. She was so perfect on this show and OLTL.

I hope this is the right thread for this. I watched this live when it aired 15 years ago (a great show) and recently saw it again for the first time in years.

That's so well said.

I always liked the episode where Blake had amnesia and Alexis was with him and they were back in their early married years, because I think that's what Alexis would have been if life had been easier for her. She was so content.

I love the sequence when Blake got his memory back, it is a literal example of melodrama: drama set to music. Starting about 2:45 this clip just lets music do the narrating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nCs_VAzhw&feature=related

So wait, was James Farentino actually AFTER Joan in the credits at some point?! I thought Joan always had the 'And' credit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDHNHMchqQ

Dr Nick might have missed the first episode of season two, but that's about it.