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Yes. I particularly appreciate the way the writers crafted Roseanne's job journey, introducing various locales and vivid new characters. Somehow, it never felt hokey to me, nor desperate ("shaking things up"/"keeping things fresh" for the new season), it all felt pretty organic. Add me to the chorus re: Jackie and Darlene's blow-up. I love how the writers are exploring family dynamics after the loss of a loved one, particularly how Jackie and Darlene who have always been so close (I don't recall them arguing even once in the original series) are now at odds.

I assume the stunt casting of glamorous Lola Falana as Charity Blake was Capitol's answer to DC/DD, at least in terms of appearances. Did SB have any black characters in front burner storylines?

I watched Robyn's Dateline interview a few hours ago, and I agree. Their friendship was long and intimate and I have a feeling Robyn knew Whitney at her most authentic self.

Yes, I own a couple of them, tucked away somewhere. I haven't read them in over a decade, but I kind of remember the one that starred Constance Ford and Beverlee McKinsey. Lemay was self-published, the plays are probably still available to order. I got mine through Barnes and Noble where my significant other was working at the time.

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽😍😍😍 The BEST.

@vetsoapfan Share with us your impressions of the post-Pinkerton pre-Strasser, Malis era of Dorian on OLTL, please.

How did Gilles' Alexis exit last season? I catch the show when I catch it, I don't really have the will to go back and catch up.

😆 Flo had to settle for a tin whistle from a Cracker Jack box.

Khan is correct. I'll always fondly remember Mr. Rasulala as Rog and Dee's slippery daddy on What's Happening!! and James' shady childhood friend on Good Times.

That's a very cute story, thanks for sharing.

Vee be he.

Anna Stuart is a hoot in that episode posted upthread, she nails icy snob. Poor Brent, Linda is always in his light, I didn't watch AW as a kid in the '80s, was this a perpetual issue for him? I hope not. Then again, Linda is also in Petronia's light, so perhaps it's not so much a height issue. I saw Petronia in Macbeth at Michael Kahn's Shakespeare Theatre here in D.C. a couple of years ago... ever radiant and commanding. My friend was in the cast and I tried my best to impart that they had a legend in their midst. I felt the same way when Joan Van Ark and Jean Le Clerc were down here doing Camino Real. My friends didn't know them from Adam and sadly sort of dismissed them as the eccentric soapy kooks in the cast who'd had too much work done.

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Would love to see that scene of Dorian getting sprayed.

I will watch this, this show tugs more on my heart than say Full House. Henry and Grandma will be missed.

😂 It's okay. I didn't KNOW him know him. I was a huge OLTL fan in high school and it's surreal to me that he's dating David Vickers.

😆 Andrew was a year or so ahead of me at Marymount Manhattan College before I transferred to SUNY Purchase. We worked together for the theatre program, helping to audition new students. I'm sure he doesn't remember me, but I certainly remeber him, introducing himself from Nebraska. I didn't know him socially, but he seemed like a nice enough guy!

The best $100 I ever spent. I have pics from the nosebleeds of teeny Miss Lucci onstage as we all roared and cried. I remember admiring this cream Bentley parked outside the Garden, and about a week later, seeing a People magazine photo of Susan and Helmut being chauffeured in it. *I just remembered how a few of us got to hang out with Jeanne Cooper for a while out on the sidewalk because the Bell soaps chartered a red double decker bus and they left for their after party and [!@#$%^&*] left Jeanne motherfucking Cooper behind.

On Instagram, @adamtghani has posted Katherine and Jill's first scenes, if you're interested. Lots of other soap content.

Thanks, I was specifically looking for these, I don't know why they didn't show up in my search. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Broadway veteran Phyllis Newman, who originated the role of Renée, has passed away at 86. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Phyllis-Newman-Has-Passed-Away-at-86-20190915?utm_source=newsletterweekly&utm_medium=email Ms. Newman can be seen four minutes into this clip:

Broadway veteran Phyllis Newman, who originated the role of Renée, has passed away at 86. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Phyllis-Newman-Has-Passed-Away-at-86-20190915?utm_source=newsletterweekly&utm_medium=email Ms. Newman can be seen four minutes into this clip: https://youtu.be/4DORoloXRBQ

Linda Dano subbed for Deanna Lund as Peggy Lowell on GH. Lund had surgery, and Dano filled in for three weeks in 1976.

And Jason, and Frankie...

Just like when folks wish cancellation upon the soaps, I say hope for improvement or just ignore the show altogether. No matter how annoying the talking heads are, the show employs a bunch of people behind the scenes (like my friend's wife, mother of their young child).