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Not much to tell, he was a nice guy, a year or two ahead of me, we weren't buds or anything. But I'll never forget the sound of his voice introducing himself to the auditionees: "Hello, my name's ANNdrew RANNells and I'm from OH-maha Nuhh-BRASS-kuh..." That's exactly what I heard in my head when I flipped to the Tony's one year and stared at this familiar face singing, wondering where I knew him from.

Of course Katherine Helmond maintained steady gigs on Who's the Boss? and Coach for several years after Soap, making the occasional film/TV movie. She's great as Goldie Hawn's mother in Overboard. Catherine Damon joined the cast of Webster in its final two seasons and passed away a year later. Robert Mandan, Donnelly Rhodes, Inga Swenson, Dinah Manoff and others I'm forgetting off the top of my head would show up later on Susan Harris' other series.

Small world, I knew Richard once upon a time, never knew that about him! I went to MMC for a year before transferring and worked in the theatre office/auditions (along with Andrew Rannells). Another former soap star who worked in the office before I got there was Irving Allen Lee (EON, RH). Richard probably knew him. I heard some really touching things about IAA, very sad that his life was cut short.

I think it has a lot to do with his hairline and hair color, we're used to the contrast of the dark gray. I went to their website and there's video of the reunion if anyone's interested. I didn't know that Louise Lasser was using a wheelchair IRL. She was in one when she guest-starred on Girls and I assumed it was just s/l dictated.

That warms my heart, and you took the words right out of my mouth re: RM.

I howled when she spat out that spaghetti. Her Melinda was quite like a precursor to nutty Alex Olanov.

Kate O'Mara (Caress, Dynasty) talks about originally being tapped for The Colbys: https://youtu.be/sNuABkbT8xE?t=5m11s

Dee Dee had a tough go of it, and I'd be interested in hearing more about her too. More likely, they'd do an Unsung on her aunt, Cissy Houston. Cissy has done so many interviews and a couple of autobios, so I doubt there'd be a lot of new information shared. Unsung episodes seem to barely scratch the surface as is, and with the requisite focus on Whitney and Bobbi Kristina, that hour would go by in a flash.

I hate that I have to wade through a bunch of Duck Dynasty crap whenever I do a Dynasty search. I should do that thing where you can exclude all searches with the word "duck". At any rate, Cecil's video will with the clip of Blake shouting at the camera re: Rhinewood... so bizarre and nonsensical, particularly to our modern knowledge of hidden camera footage.

Geesh Brian, might we want to brush the sleep out of our snaggles before diving into Dixie's mouth like that?

Pop aired "The Will" this morning. Great episodes with fun foreshadowing from Alexis and Fallon about whether or not Alexis would come into a lot of money in a few days, finally "come into her own". Does she, and how!

Stephanie Beacham's missing photos: http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-06-16/precious-photos-belonging-to-famous-actress-found-on-rubbish-tip/

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was a fan of that line, she actually recycled it on DW from her earlier series with Dixie and Delta, Filthy Rich.

Peter DeAnda next to Ms. Holly.

My first time watching on WETA in ages, 9-10am on a Saturday morning. The WETA airings have always been behind, and these surely are a few years old as Pauline is still around. These episodes are NYE, Sharon is pregnant and wants to go visit Vicki with Dennis (I gather she thinks she's really pregnant by creepy dude who was just confronted by his daughter's black boyfriend about them trying better to get on). I gues said bf's brother's dog had been terrorizing the Eastend before getting taken out. Why is Phil so moody and upset? Holy [!@#$%^&*], the credits just rolled and unless my Roman numeral game is off, these episodes are from 2005!

I didn't want to sound sour, but I co-sign on the Cornelius winning thing. Seems terribly unfair to all of those out there who have never had a chance, let alone a nice run on an ABC series (daytime, primetime, ANYtime). Did Forbes get his finger reattached? I don't understand... so he makes pretty looking premium firewood... that clients then proceed to burn up?

Oh wow! Damn, I hate that I don't get Retro. How cool to see Susan in color pre-surviving AMC b&w kinescopes,

Haha, YES!

Naylon probably tore the floor up at discos all over Manhattan in the '80s. He's also in the infamous clip of Jennifer Holliday singing I Want to Be Where You Are on GL. BTW, Eugene is Tom Wright aka James "The Jackhammer" Shakar from Troop Beverly Hills.

I'm not sure, but there's a good deal of Beverlee in the Barbados s/l on YouTube. I don't know how long that s/l lasted once Alex got involved. From what I've seen, it seems to have started and wrapped up rather quickly in terms of her facing Brandon and all of the truth coming out about Victoria, Penelope, and Conrad.

Ditto, I thought they were going to change mid-scene and I grinned when Roya popped up in that very Roya-Ava outfit. I remember her coming back but I don't recall what was going on with Lisa at the time, I'm sure my mother mentioned it from one of her SODs. If I ever have a daughter, Roya and Ava would be in strong consideration. BTW, I noticed this is a French dub. My French isn't great but with the (imperfect) closed captioning on, I can sort of follow along better than I can in Italian.

Funny, I just caught some of Lydia's episodes on YouTube last night. There were at least three: https://youtu.be/wWalpnoA_MY?t=2m24s https://youtu.be/zhIjyTolp4U https://youtu.be/TbSE7LjQzjs

The entire series is on YouTube but dubbed in German.

Adorable little Eastenders fans: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7012932?cps=gravity_3967_3272333503347103730

When Genie first appeared on All My Children, I was in the room watching with my mother and she commented about rumors of the show's plans to make her "the new Erica" as it looked like Susan might permanently leave for primetime. Was this legit soap magazine speculation or just my mom and her friends at work hypothesizing?