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      Debunking the rumors and outright lies about Hurricane Helene and the relief efforts

      the Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer has a regular feature called "Reality Check".  From the blurb:
      "Reality Check
      NC Reality Check reflects the Charlotte Observer’s commitment to holding those in power to account, shining a light on public issues that affect our local readers and illuminating the stories that sets the Charlotte region apart. Email [email protected] "

      Here's a new Reality Check article:
      "Helene fact check: Here are the rumors and the reality in Western North Carolina"
      https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article293523249.html

       

      Edited October 6, 20241 yr by janea4old

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        ^ Well worth reading.
        Some of the rumors and lies are insane, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene's nonsense. 
        But also other lies that might seem reasonable to the naive,
        either because they are carefully crafted lies that *seem* real, or because the lies have been claimed as true by someone they believe, or simply because these lies have been repeated so incessantly.

        It's good to have the facts onhand when talking with friends/relatives/neighbors who sincerely believe this garbage.

        Any conversation we can have with anyone, if it changes one vote --- that one vote could make a difference in a local or national election.

        Edited October 6, 20241 yr by janea4old

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          Another "Reality Check" feature (fact-checking article from the Charlotte Observer)

          "Starlink reconnects Western NC reeling from Helene. Who gets credit becomes political." 
          (bringing Starlink internet to the region after the hurricane damaged the local Internet infrastructure)
          https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article293356009.html

          The article says that Trump falsely claimed credit, saying that he requested the units from Elon Musk, and a Republican congressmen claimed Trump got Musk to do it.
          But FACT: actually FEMA had already requested Starlink for this purpose and the system was already in N.C. when Trump made his claim.

          It also says that *previously* (months or years ago) there had been a grant application to provide Starlink to the region.  Now, Republicans and rumormongers are blaming Biden admin for denying that application back then. 
          FACT: the reason the grant was denied back then:

          After Starlink filed that application, the FCC determined that it didn’t qualify for funding. According to a letter from the FCC chairperson, the agency found that Starlink:

          • Couldn’t provide internet at the required speed set by the FCC.
          • Would have imposed “high start-up costs on rural consumers,” requiring subscribers to buy a $600 dish to access internet.
          • Proposed using some funds to provide internet to places like parking lots and road medians, which are not underserved rural households like the program intended.


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            52 minutes ago, janea4old said:

            Republican congressmen claimed Trump got Musk to do it.

            Edit. My error.
            My intention was singular, not plural -- the autocorrect changed it to congressmen from congressman, as the article referred to a specific person.
            But the bigger error I made was that the article
            actually says that a N.C. Republican *state senator* claimed this.
            Not a congressman. 

            Yikes that I messed up in relaying a fact-check!

             

            (I mean we already know that Republican U.S. congresspersons are telling lies, but it's important that I not add to the misinformation!)

            Edited October 6, 20241 yr by janea4old

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              Non-profit newspaper from Asheville NC giving nonpartisan updates:
              https://avlwatchdog.org/

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                  Meanwhile, some of the Beltway is clearly losing patience:

                   

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                    The legendary Sally Field shares her abortion story. Warning: This gets considerably detailed about her horrific experience and is not for the faint of heart.

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                      2 hours ago, Vee said:

                      The legendary Sally Field shares her abortion story. Warning: This gets considerably detailed about her horrific experience and is not for the faint of heart.

                      Watching/listening, I cried a lot.

                      Then I pictured Norma Rae standing on the table holding up a Kamala sign.

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                        There seems to be a lot of butt hurt males over at TwitX because Kamala Harris dared to go on the Call Her Daddy podcast as above.

                        Who says misogyny is dead?

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                          oh wow today's question on Call Her Daddy --- and the Kavanagh hearings
                           

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                            1 hour ago, Wendy said:

                            There seems to be a lot of butt hurt males over at TwitX because Kamala Harris dared to go on the Call Her Daddy podcast as above.

                            Who says misogyny is dead?

                            The same people who were roasting Harris for not doing more press are now saying it's inappropriate for her to go on podcasts during the Helene aftermath. And of course she is still being attacked over not doing enough media...or not doing the right kind of media. It's a full court press, likely because they think if they push hard enough they can get Trump the "mandate" he is now demanding.

                             

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                              5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

                              The same people who were roasting Harris for not doing more press are now saying it's inappropriate for her to go on podcasts during the Helene aftermath. And of course she is still being attacked over not doing enough media...or not doing the right kind of media. It's a full court press, likely because they think if they push hard enough they can get Trump the "mandate" he is now demanding.

                               

                              Autocorrect can be a plague (mine changed that immediately to plaque) but it is still strange to me that Politico let "neigh on" get through for "nigh on". How about "nearly" if "nigh on" is too hard?   

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                                  Trump held a contest to join him on stage at his rally in Butler. Was it a scam? (popular.info)

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                                    GIL GERARD  
                                          Born Gilbert Cyril Gerard
                                                  1/23/1943 - 12/16/2025
                                    THE SECRET STORM   Unknown Role   Unknown Year
                                    ANOTHER WORLD    Fred Warner      1972
                                    THE DOCTORS     Dr. Alan Stewart     11/8/1973 - 2/24/1976
                                    (Dates from Chuck Snitchler)
                                    DAYS OF OUR LIVES    Major Dodd   1997
                                    DROP DEAD DIVA       George Blund     2014
                                    and
                                    LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE    Chris Nelson    1977
                                    HOLLYWOOD SQUARES  (DAYTIME)      1979
                                    BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY    Captain William "Buck" Rogers   1979-81
                                    SIDEKICKS      Jake Rizzo    1986-87
                                    THE NEW HOLLYWOOD SQUARES    1986
                                    IT'S A KNOCKOUT     1988
                                    NIGHTINGALES     Dr. Paul Petrillo    1989
                                    E.A.R.T.H. FORCE   Dr. John Harding    1990
                                    CODE 3    Host    1992
                                    MATCH GAME      1997
                                    ROCK THEATRE TELEVISION     2003
                                    TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE     Megatronus   (V)   2015
                                    FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES     2018 - 19
                                    PILOTS/PROPOSALS
                                    RANSOM FOR ALICE!   Clint Kirby     1977    NBC
                                    KILLING STONE         Gil Stone    1978    NBC
                                    JOHNNY BLUE       Johnny Blue    1983     CBS
                                    INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT     David Montgomery    1985    NBC
                                    Television Specials
                                    BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS VII    1979
                                    MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE     1979
                                    CELEBRITY CHALLENGE OF THE SEXES 5  (Billiards)    1980
                                    BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS VIII    1980
                                    MACY'S 54TH ANNUAL THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE    1980
                                    CIRCUS OF THE STARS # 5      1980
                                    50TH ANNUAL HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS PARADE    1981
                                    HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY HOLLYWOOD!     1987
                                    THE 37TH ANNUAL MISS U. S. A. PAGEANT      Judge     1988
                                    POP TOPIC TV    2012
                                    movies
                                    SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE...    Scott     1971
                                    MAN ON A SWING     Donald Forbes    1974
                                    AIRPORT '77    Frank Powers     1977
                                    HOOCH       Eddie Joe    1977
                                    BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY    Captain William "Buck" Rogers   1979
                                    BOB HOPE'S ALL-STAR LOOK AT TV'S PRIME TIME WARS    1980
                                    MONSTERS, MADMEN AND MACHINES: 80 YEARS OF SCIENCE FICTION!    1980
                                    HELP WANTED: MALE    Johnny Gillis   1982
                                    NOT JUST ANOTHER AFFAIR   Bob Gifford    1982    (Made for T. V.)
                                    HEAR NO EVIL       Dragon     1982     (Made for T. V.)
                                    FOR LOVE OR MONEY     Mike      1984         (Made for T. V.)
                                    STORMIN' HOME      Bobby Atkins     1985      (Made for T. V.)
                                    FURY TO FREEDOM         Officer     1985
                                    THE LAST ELECTRIC KNIGHT    Sergeant Jake Rizzo    1986
                                          "THE MAGICAL WORLD OF DISNEY"   (Made for T. V.)
                                    FINAL NOTICE      Harry Stoner     1989     (Made for T. V.)
                                    THE ELITE      Dr. John Harding     1989    (Made for T. V.)
                                    SOLDIER'S FORTUNE     Robert E. Lee Jones    1991
                                    LOOKING FOR BRUCE     Richard     1996
                                    MOM, CAN I KEEP HER?      Reinhart     1998    
                                    FUGITIVE MIND     Karl Gardner    1999
                                    THE STEPDAUGHTER      Jesse Conner    1999
                                    AIR RAGE     Victor Quinn     2001
                                    REALITY QUEST     2004
                                    BEYOND       General Walter North     2006     (Made for T. V.)
                                    NUCLEAR HURRICANE      Bob     2007      (Made for T. V.)
                                    PSYCHO HILLBILLY CABIN MASSACRE!     Narrator    2007
                                    BONE EATER     Big Jim Burns     2007     (Made for T. V.)
                                    ACTION HERO MAKEOVER     2007     (Made for T. V.)
                                    REPTISAURUS     General Morganstern   2009     (Made for T. V.)
                                    DIRE WOLF       Colonel Hendry    2009
                                    GHOST TOWN     Preacher McCready     2009     (Made for T. V.)
                                    THE LOST VALENTINE    Neil Thomas, Jr.    2011     (Made for T. V.)
                                    IMAGICON ADDICTS     2011
                                    BLOOD FARE       Professor Meade    2012
                                    BOLDLY GONE     Ben (V)    2014
                                    BREAKFAST WITH FLASH     2014
                                    THE NICE GUYS    Bergen Paulson    2016
                                    SURGE OF POWER -- REVENGE OF THE SEQUEL    Harold Harris     2016
                                    LOLLIPOP GANG     2024
                                    BROADWAY
                                    AMEN CORNER    11/10/1983 - 12/4/1983      PRODUCER
                                    TOURING
                                    APPLAUSE    11/29/1971 - 7/22/1972      Replacement
                                    Family Ties 
                                    Parents -- Frank and Gladys Gerard
                                    Marriages
                                         Connie Jean McVay   5/14/1967 - 4/16/1968   Divorced
                                         Constance Elizabeth Gerkin    4/11/1970 - 1977    Divorced
                                         Connie Sellecca       10/28/1979 - 6/28/1987      Divorced    1 Child -- Gib Gerard
                                         Bobi Leonard     6/30/1987 - 1989      Divorced 
                                         Janet Gerard     2007 - 12/16/2025   His Death

                                    Worked as a regional manager for a large chemical company and was up for a vice presidency. Because he hadn't graduated from college, he chose to pursue a career in acting.
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                                    REBECCA SAND
                                           8/31/1912 - 7/26/1995
                                    MODERN ROMANCES  
                                    Unknown Role   "Medal of Honor"    week of 1/31/1955
                                    TRUE STORY
                                    Joan Walters    "?"    3/19/1960
                                    THE EDGE OF NIGHT      Teresa ___ Vetter      1960 - 61
                                    and
                                    SPOTLIGHT CHARACTER
                                    ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS  "The Opportunity"    Kate Devore  5/22/1962   
                                         Kate Devore is the wife of store manager Paul Devore, and the episode established that the couple's marriage was an unhappy one. It also established that Kate was the one responsible for getting Paul his current job, with Kate stating that he couldn't get one on his own, while it was also stated that she did so to keep a close eye on him. Despite their mutual antipathy towards each other, Kate refused to grant Paul a divorce, as she is unwilling to hand half of her fortune to him.
                                            In the end of the episode, Kate returned home to find Paul tied up and the house burglarized, with Kate's safe robbed (by Paul, who set up the scenario, with some help from Lois Callen). She considered Paul lucky that the burglars didn't kill him, but instead of freeing Paul from his "capture," Kate turned heel and took the opportunity to kill Paul, doing so by smothering him with a pillow. The villainess committed the murder to avoid an expensive divorce, but as revealed in Hitchcock's closing narrative, the evil Kate ended up arrested for Paul's murder.
                                    movies
                                    NEVER STEAL ANYTHING SMALL       Coffee Vendor       1959
                                    BEDTIME STORY    Miss Trumble      1964
                                    ALL WOMAN        Kitty      1967
                                    ALABAMA'S GHOST        Groupie     1973
                                    JOHNNY, WE HARDLY KNEW YE      June Neville     1977  (Made for T. V.)(


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                                    EVALYN BARON
                                              4/21/1948 - Present
                                    THE DOCTORS           Nurse          1976
                                    THE EDGE OF NIGHT      Louise Anderson      1979
                                    TEXAS                               Waitress     ?1980?
                                    ANOTHER WORLD         Miss Estelle Devon     8/30/1983
                                    GUIDING LIGHT       Unknown Role      Unknown Year
                                    ANOTHER WORLD      Eulalie, Barry Denton's Landlady     1994
                                    and
                                    CAPTAIN KANGAROO     Goldilocks    1981
                                    BROADWAY
                                    FEARLESS FRANK   6/15/1980 - 6/25/1980     Mrs. Mayhew; Mrs. Clapton; Mrs. Clayton
                                    QUILTERS        9/25/1984 - 10/14/1984     Daughter     ****TONY NOMINEE for BEST FEATURED ACTRESS  IN A MUSICAL
                                    BIG RIVER   4/25/1985 - 9/20/1987    Miss Watson; Woman in Shanty; Harmonia Player
                                    RAGS           8/21/1986 - 8/23/1986          Anna Cohen
                                    LES MISERABLES   3/12/1987 - 5/18/2003     Replacement -- Madame Thenardier    1/15/1990 - ????
                                    TOURING
                                    FUNNY GIRL     10/20/1968 - 3/22/1969      Replacement  --   Fanny Brice
                                    THE MUSIC MAN    1973   Maud Dunlop
                                    A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/ A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE   11/30/1981 - 5/23/1982
                                                   A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD --    Ensemble; Mrs. Pavlenko
                                    THE WIZARD OF OZ     1984      Miss Almira Gulch; The Wicked Witch of the West
                                    SOCIAL SECURITY      3/30/1987 - 7/19/1987    Trudy Heyman
                                    LES MISERABLES -- 3RD NATIONAL TOUR      1996      Madame Thenardier
                                    THEATER
                                    OLIVER1     1970     Charlotte     Theatre of the Stars
                                    MAME      1970      Sally Cato      Theatre of the Stars  
                                    MAME     1970     Sally Cato; Mame's Friend       Dayton and Warren Ohio
                                    THE TAMING OF THE SHREW     1972 - 73       Kate       Guthrie Theatre
                                    CYRANO DE BERGERAC      1972 - 73       Duenna      Hartford Stage
                                    YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU      1974         Gay      Hartford Stage
                                    CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF      1975       Sister Woman      Stage West
                                    FOR THE USE OF THE HALL     1977       Playwrights Horizons -- Judy Theater
                                    SCRAMBLED FEET       1979   (6/6/1981 - ????     Village Gate Upstairs
                                    HIJINKS      1980 - 81    Fraulein Hochspits; Sailor      Westside Arts Theatre -- Cheryl Crawford Theater
                                    I CAN'T KEEP RUNNING IN PLACE    1981      Alice    Westside Theatre -- Upstairs
                                    JERRY'S GIRLS     1981 - 82    Evie
                                    A LUST FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS     1983      Doris        Pittsburgh Public
                                    THE QUEEN OF THE LEAKY ROOF CIRCUIT   1988    Rosalind       Actors TRheater of Louisville
                                    WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN       1988    Darian    Actors Theater of Louisville
                                    GEECH    (Staged Reading) 1989     Nadine    NYC
                                    A CHRISTMAS CAROL         1994     McCarter Theatre
                                    SPLENDORA   1995    Sue Ella Lightfoot       Black Box Theater
                                    THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR     1998    Mistress Margaret Page   Shakespeare Theatre Company   Washington, D. C.
                                    THE JAZZ SINGER    1999        Playhouse 91
                                    H. O. N. K. !     9National Premiere)     2000       Grace; Dot; Lowbutt    Helen Hayes Theatre    Nyack, NY
                                    A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE    2006    Gertrude Clapper  York Tjeatre at St. Peter's Church
                                    THE POWER OF DARKNESS      2007   The Mint Theatre  --  3rd Floor
                                    A HARVEST OF STRANGERS        NYC
                                    OKLAHOMA         Summer Stock
                                    A MISUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM           Helena      Michigan
                                    Family Ties
                                    Marriage -- Paul Daniels   1973 - 2022   His Death

                                    Evalyn Baron  -- 1979 New York Times Article
                                    IN the years before she turned 5, Evalyn Baron flirted with many career ambitions: detective, reporter, foot doctor and elevator operator. “But then,” she said, “I decided on something stable.” Acting.
                                    And she has worked steadily ever since. From her beginnings as the lead angel in the kindergarten Christmas play at the E. Rivers Elementary School in her native Atlanta, Miss Baron has progressed through high school productions, community theater, the Northwestern University Department of Theater Arts, Chicago's Second City Company, summer stock, the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, regional theater in New England and commercials and soap operas in New York, collecting an assortment of “best actress” awards along the way.
                                    These days, you can find Miss Baron — tall, brown‐eyed, articulate and literate — cavorting at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village with a duck and three of her Northwestern schoolmates in a lively and popular revue called “Scrambled Feet.” with myself in high school,” she said the other day. “I would pretend that I was really trying to work — make a living, so that I would constantly try to go from one play to another, keeping consistently employed.”
                                    Inasmuch as football absorbed most of the money available for extracurrcular activities at North Fulton High School, Miss Baron — the younger of two children of the late Paul H. Baron, an art restorer, and the former Sally Meyer, who worked with her husband — found herself working a lot in community theater.

                                    “I appeared as a maid in every play that was produced in Atlanta for four years. All through high school. Maids, maids, maids. Polish, French, English, Russian, American. And when I wasn't a maid I played musical walk‐ons — a fishwife or a member of the chorus.”
                                    By the time she graduated in 1965, she had been in 20 or 25 plays, had been studying singing, dancing and acting for three or four years, could play the piano, had worked all over Atlanta as a folk‐singing guitarist for a group called the Clef Dwellers and had toured South and Central America and Europe, including the Soviet Union, with a choir group.
                                    “One of my acting teachers in high school was a Northwestern graduate. He had a big impressive ring. I thought: what a pretty ring. What college did he go to?”
                                    Next stop: Evanston, Ill., where Miss Baron met her colleagues‐to‐be in “Scrambled Feet,” had the good fortune to be taken in hand by the legendary acting teacher Alvina Krause, hooked up with the Second City troupe, was a regular in Northwestern's Waa‐Mu show (a Midwestern version of the Princeton Triangle Club extravaganza), and spent her summers exercising her lyric soprano in leading roles in summer stock productions of shows like “Funny Girl,” “My Fair Lady” and “Oklahoma.”
                                    “Mostly,” she said, “it was a struggle between my desire to be a really serious actress and being asked to be in things that were comedic and musical.”
                                    Offered Fellowship at the Guthrle
                                    As her undergraduate years at Northwestern drew to a close, Miss Baron was offered a fellowship at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. ‘'Everyone assumed that I would go to New York and go into musical theater and just do what 1 already did,” Miss Baron said. “Instead, I went to Minnesota, and it was the wisest choice I ever made.
                                    “First of all” she said, “I met my husband there.” He is Paul Daniels, now the business manager of the Circle Repertory Theater. “Second, it was the first time I had stopped to consider how much I did not know. I was surrounded by people who were brilliant and generous in sharing with me all they knew. I never knew, before Guthrie, what it took to make a good piece of literature come alive for an audience.”
                                    Miss Baron received her bachelor of
                                    lb science degree in theater arts from Northwestern in 1969 and received a master of fine arts degree in 1973 from the University of Minnesota as a result of her work with the Guthrie Theater. Then she and Mr. Daniels, who had been a fellow in design at the Guthrie, moved to Connecticut, where he had been offered a job with the Hartford Stage Company.
                                    Using Hartford as her base, Miss Baron began performing at places like New Haven's Long Wharf Theater and Stage/West. “It was then that agents from New York began seeing my work and asked me to come into the city to do” — Miss Baron paused to insert a fanfare —'commercials.”
                                    “My first national network commercial was for Proctor‐Silex coffe pots. I had to say one word on camera. All those years of training and I had to say one word on camera. I think it was ‘delicious'.

                                    “And then I was playing Helena in “A Midsummer Night's Dream” at a theater in Michigan when someone screamed to me: ‘Come to the television. There you are.’ It was shocking. I didn't recognize myself.”
                                    Since then, Miss Baron has made commercials for such products as Pledge furniture polish, Viva paper towels and Swanson's Chicken. “My opinion is that commercials in this country are big business's subsidy of the arts,” she said.
                                    Work in commercials induced Miss Baron to move in 1976 to New York's West Side, where she and Mr. Daniels still live. “That's when 'scrambled Feet’ started getting together.” Miss Baron was reunited with her college friends — John Driver, Jeffrey Haddow and Roger Neil.
                                    “The common bond,” Miss Baron explained, “is insanity, and, I think, a deep regard for each other's talent. I never would have stuck with the project for three years if I didn't have a belief in it. I feel that John and Jeff are uniquely gifted writers of comedy, and Roger is one of the finest musicians I know.”

                                    Moving by fits and starts through showcases and out‐of‐town productions, “Scrambled Feet” opened at the Village Gate on June 11.
                                    “The first thing that happened,” Miss Baron said, “was that opening night I got offered the part of a murderer on ‘Edge of Night.’ “
                                    The veteran maid of Atlanta's Com‐. munity theater promptly made her soap‐opera debut as Louise Anderson, “a member of a terrorist group posing as a maid until I got a chance to murder the daughter of the household.”
                                    Miss Baron loved it. “It gave me a chance to work on emotions like rage and hatred. I actually got to work on my own death. I got to die a bloody death. Bullet wounds in a sordid warehouse. I got to work on those parts of my emotional arsenal I never got a chance to work on.”
                                    As a result of 'scrambled Feet,” other elements of television have expressed interest in Miss Baron, and some of Broadway's creative luminaries have had a chance to see her work for the first time.
                                    “I'd like a couple of more years of substantial work in New York, work that would help me grow; substantial, Broadway, legitimate, live work,” she said. “Then I would like to be able to do comedic or dramatic television and film work that would communicate what I want to say to a lot of people. I want to say that there are basic values in life and goodness, and that we're all here to, in some way, make it easier for others.”
                                    But right now, she said, “I'm where I want to be, and I'm excited about the future, too.”
                                    Evalyn Baron, who plays in “Scrambled Feet': “I'm where I want to be and I'm excited about the future too.”



                                    FOUND WOODY IN THE CATSKILLS








                                    MILT KAMEN          
                                            3/5/1921 - 2/24/1977
                                    TRUE STORY
                                    "?"    Big Patsy Janelli    2/13/1960
                                    "?"     Nick Gallo      7/23/1960
                                    "?"       Slim Madden    3/25/1961
                                    THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES       Doc    1963 
                                    DAYS OF OUR LIVES       Plato   1973
                                    and
                                    SID CAESAR INVITES YOU     1958
                                    STUMP THE STARS     1958
                                    CELEBRITY LANES     1961
                                    WHAT'S MY LINE?      1963
                                    NIGHT LINE      1963 - 64
                                    MISSING LINKS      1963 - 64
                                    TO TELL THE TRUTH     1963 - 65
                                    PASSWORD     1963 - 65
                                    MATCH GAME     1963 - 66
                                    DREAM GIRL OF '67      Bachelor Judge     1967
                                    THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE      1967
                                    HOW'S YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW?      1967
                                    THE DATING GAME     1968
                                    WHAT'S MY LINE?     1968
                                    FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK     1969
                                    PERSONALITY     1969
                                    YOU'RE PUTTING ME ON      1969
                                    LETTERS TO LAUGH IN    1969
                                    MANTRAP       1971
                                    $10,000.00 PYRAMID    1973
                                    LOVE THY NEIGHBOR      Murray Bronson      1973
                                    TATTLETALES     As Milt and Margot     1975
                                    BICENTENNIAL MINUTES    1975
                                    RHYME AND REASON     1975
                                    QUINCY, M. E.     Assistant Manager Leo Burke    (2 Episodes)    1977
                                    Television Special
                                    THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW     1960
                                    movies
                                    ME, NATALIE     Plastic Surgeon    1969
                                    THE OUT OF TOWNERS      Counterman     1970
                                    MCMILLAN AND WIFE: THE EASY SUNDAY MURDER CASE    Man with the Bag     1971   (Made for T. V.)
                                    BELIEVE IN ME      Attending Physician     1971
                                    FOL-DE-ROL       The Town Crier      1972    (Made for T. V.)
                                    GROUP MARRIAGE     Justice of the peace    1972
                                    THE JUDGE AND JAKE WYLER   Harry Gilbert   1972     (Made for T. V.)
                                    THIS IS A HIJACK      Arnold Phillips     1973
                                    W. C. FIELDS AND ME      Dave Chasen    1976
                                    MOTHER, JUGS AND SPEED      Barney    1976
                                    BROADWAY
                                    LEND AN EAR    --   Debut as a horn player...
                                    THE PASSION OF JOSEF D   2/11/1964 - 2/22/1964    Kamenev; Grigori Nikitin
                                    THEATER
                                    THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA   (Workshop Production)  1958   King Sextimus the Silent    Taminent Playhouse
                                    TWO BY SAROYAN      1961    Thomas Piper    (across)       East End Theater
                                    NORMAN, IS THAT YOU?     1976   Union Plaza Hotel   Las Vegas
                                    ACROSS THE BOARD ON TOMORROW MORNING        Garrulous Waiter
                                    A THURBER CARNIVAL
                                    THE TYPIST 
                                    THE TIGER
                                    Slick's bits
                                    Discovered Woody Allen in the Catskills and got him his first writing job on The Sid Caesar Show.
                                    Played the French Horn in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

                                    Milt Kamen, the comedian and satirist, died Thursday, apparently of a heart attack, at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 55 years old.
                                    Mr. Kamen, who often appeared on television panel and game shows and in nightclubs and dinner theaters, was known for his richly imaginative and somewhat lunatic view of life. A shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, he was noted for giving spontaneous and cheerfully irreverent reviews of films.
                                    In praising Rex Harrison's acting with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in “Cleopatra,” he remarked, “He was the only one who had time to learn his lines.”
                                    Long Walks in New York
                                    The satirist got many of his original ideas from long walks in New York and from visiting museums and zoos. Passing an ape house, he once remarked of the original film version of “king Kong”. “I was once in love with Fay Wray. I never knew what she saw in King Kong. The ape had no imagination. On their first date he took her to the Empire State Building like any other tourist. I knew nothing could come of the relationship.”
                                    Before his marriage in 1969, the comic drew much of his material from his long bachelorhood. “Who needs women,” he once quipped, “I have absolutely no desire for them—except when I see one.”

                                    Known for one of the fastest ears in comedy, he broke up audiences with tales of his childhood in the rough and tumble Brownsville section of Brooklyn. In his formative years, he said, he would lie in a gutter—“It was the only way I could, see the sky.”
                                    He portrayed himself as a man of the street, trying to become a man of the world, and failing. In his youth, he once told an interviewer, he failed as a petty thief and was picked up by the police 20 times.
                                    Got a Juilliard Scholarship
                                    Milt Kamen was born in Hurleyville, N.Y. and moved to Brooklyn at the age of 2. His salvation in adolescence was music. He played the French horn at Samuel Tilden High School and won a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music.

                                    While playing in the orchestra pit of “Where's Charley?” and watching the antics of Ray Bolger convulse audiences, he decided he wanted to be on the stage. Mr. Kamen then pawned the horn.
                                    Mr. Kamen began developing his satirical acts. He appeared at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, worked on the old Sid Caesar television show and became increasingly popular, winning over audiences at scores of nightclubs, including New York's Blue Angel.
                                    He also began appearing frequently on television, on game and quiz shows, the “Tonight” show and the “Mery Griffin Show.” In recent years he acted in plays in many dinner theaters.
                                    Acted on the Stage
                                    In 1961 Mr. Kamen was praised by Arthur Gelb of The New York Times for his portrayal of a garrulous waiter in an Off Broadway production of William Saroyan's “Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning.”
                                    In New York he also acted in “A Thurber Carnival,” Murray Schisgal's “The Typists” and “The Tiger,” succeeding Eli Wallach in the Schisgal double bill, and in Paddy Chayefsky's “The Passion of Josef D.”

                                    Mr. Kamen had recently completed writing a screenplay.
                                    Surviving are his wife, the former Margot Bankoff; his father, Morris; two sisters, Dorothy Aronek and Pearl, and three brothers, Bill, Sol and Abe.
                                    https://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2013/03/milt-kamen-stand-up-guy.html?view=sidebar



                                    ACTRESS/PLAYWRIGHT








                                    CAMILLA CARR
                                           9/17/1942 - Present
                                    ANOTHER WORLD      Rita ___ Connelly     3/5/1979 - 9/27/1979
                                    A YEAR IN THE LIFE         Laura     1988
                                    FALCON CREST       Investigator Nellie Maxwell     1988
                                    and
                                    ONE DAY AT A TIME         Waitress (2 Episodes)      1978
                                    movies
                                    A BULLET FOR PRETTY BOY         Helen     1970
                                    DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT       Harriet     1973
                                    SCUM OF THE EARTH     Sarah Pickett      1974
                                    LOGAN'S RUN       Sanctuary Woman    1976
                                    KEEP MY GRAVE OPEN     Lesley - Kevin's Sister     1977
                                    MADAME X     Kit       1981    (Made for T. V.)
                                    MAKING LOVE Susan     1982
                                    DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT 2       Emily     2015
                                    STALE POPCORN AND STICKY FLOORS      2023
                                    THEATER -- PLAYWRIGHT
                                    ALL ABOUT BETTE: AN EVENING WITH BETTE DAVIS
                                    TOM LEA: GRACE NOTE IN A HARD WORLD    (World Premiere   2013)   DIRECTOR    The Philanthropy Theatre in El Paso Texas
                                    THEATER -- PERFORMER
                                    LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE     1981 - 1983     Kitty Cochrane   The Fantasy Theatre
                                    LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE   1985      Kitty Cochrane     The CAST Theatre
                                    THE STICK WIFE     1987        Betty Connor     L. A. T. C.
                                    NIGHT OF THE IGUANA   Maxine         L. A. T. C.
                                    SISTERS OF THE WINTER  Madrigal         L. A. T. C.
                                    THE INSPECTOR GENERAL     Anna         L. A. T. C.
                                    THE WILD DUCK      Gina         L. A. T. C.
                                    THE PINK LADY      Sarah         L. A. T. C.
                                    Family Ties
                                    Parents  --    Melba Irene Brock Carr and Alton Robert Carr
                                    Marriage -- Edward Anhalt    1979 - ???      Divorced
                                    https://www.ktep.org/ktep-local/2018-03-10/state-of-the-arts-actress-camilla-carr-part-1


                                    @DRW50 @Bright Eyes @Paul Raven @jam6242
                                    On deck tomorrow and Sunday:
                                    Tony Geary, Yvette Nicole Brown, Christian Jules LeBlanc, Roma Downey, Harris Laskawy, Rachael Thompson, Jennifer Boles -- and more additional True Story updates!

                                    The FB pagethat I also upload these to has gotten reponses from several Atlanta based under fives from BTG. Many are just "Thank you" but I'm glad they are aware that their contibution to the soaps is being acknowledged. Most recent: Nydell Nalls.

                                    By slick jones · 45 minutes ago45 min

                                  • Knots Landing
                                    soapfan770

                                    Knots Landing

                                    What I always find most interesting when I rewatched Season 6 was Jill’s innocuous, unremarkable first appearance. For viewers watching it in real time I don’t think anyone would have guessed she would become a major player for the next four seasons or that her storyline would go the way it did.
                                    I think what always more confusing to me in addition to the Empire Valley mess was Peter & Jill’s elaborate scheme I.e. who knew what secret, who had leverage etc. I’ve tried rewatching most of S7 and S8 again and well after 60 whopping episodes I’m still confused.

                                    By soapfan770 · 1 hour ago1 hr

                                  • ARTICLE: ‘The Bold And The Beautiful’ Top Soap Among Women 18-49 & Women 25-54, Sets New Season Highs – RATINGS
                                    skiman12082004

                                    ARTICLE: ‘The Bold And The Beautiful’ Top Soap Among Women 18-49 & Women 25-54, Sets New Season Highs – RATINGS

                                    But none of those other shows had streaming and social media to paint a picture. Yes, do I want BTG to be higher in the ratings, absolutely. I just think there is more to it than just the linear numbers we have access to.

                                    By skiman12082004 · 1 hour ago1 hr

                                  • GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread
                                    jasonminer1974

                                    GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

                                    GH doesn't know how to Courtroom drama. I haven't seen a good one in my almost 40 years of watching.

                                    By jasonminer1974 · 1 hour ago1 hr

                                  • ARTICLE: ‘The Bold And The Beautiful’ Top Soap Among Women 18-49 & Women 25-54, Sets New Season Highs – RATINGS
                                    bongobong

                                    ARTICLE: ‘The Bold And The Beautiful’ Top Soap Among Women 18-49 & Women 25-54, Sets New Season Highs – RATINGS

                                    How much notice do networks have to give Nielsen to mark something as a special airing if it wasn't because of a news pre-emption? The Wed repeat for BTG was announced here the week before. Feels like another dropped ball by CBS regarding this show, like not alerting the Canadian companies when they planned to air reruns.
                                    The show had probably the best debut of any soap since we had access to demo numbers, and they held up well until the end of the summer before collapsing after the second full week of repeats. On linear, it has shed more of its W18-49 numbers from month one to month nine compared to any other soap debut. For what it's worth, this was a good indicator on how long the shows lasted. I didn't include The City as it was a spinoff in the same timeslot as Loving, but it did slightly worse than Sunset Beach - just a few decimals over -25%.
                                    Sunset Beach 1997
                                    1.5 (Jan 6- Jan 31)
                                    1.125 (Sep 8-Oct 3)
                                    -25%
                                    Port Charles 1997/1998
                                    1.75 (Jun 2- Jun 27)
                                    1.633 (Feb 2 -Feb 27)
                                    -7%
                                    Passions 1999/2000
                                    0.95 (Jul 5- Jul 30)
                                    1.2 (Mar 6 - Mar 31)
                                    +26%
                                    Beyond The Gates 2025
                                    0.2275 (Feb 28 - Mar 17)
                                    0.1375 (Oct 27 -Nov 21)
                                    -40%

                                    By bongobong · 1 hour ago1 hr

                                  • Rory Gibson Appreciation Thread
                                    1974mdp

                                    Rory Gibson Appreciation Thread

                                    It's awesome to see him shining in this new role. Y&R way dropped the ball where RG was concerned.

                                    By 1974mdp · 2 hours ago2 hr

                                  • R.I.P.: Anthony Geary has passed away
                                    Vee

                                    R.I.P.: Anthony Geary has passed away

                                    I'll pass.

                                    By Vee · 2 hours ago2 hr

                                  • GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread
                                    Jdee43

                                    GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

                                    The trial is boring. The writers should have watched some episodes of Perry Mason maybe.. Hopefully it can still end with Willow going crazy on the stand and screaming I did it, I did it

                                    By Jdee43 · 2 hours ago2 hr

                                  • R.I.P.: Anthony Geary has passed away
                                    Jdee43

                                    R.I.P.: Anthony Geary has passed away

                                    A solution to the Luke mess might have been to reveal that the real Luke was killed back in 1995 in Puerto Rico fighting Frank Smith, and that it was Bill impersonating him the whole time. It would explain Luke and Laura falling apart, Luke having a son with Holly (it was really Holly and Bill's), and Luke turning into such a bastard at the end.

                                    By Jdee43 · 2 hours ago2 hr

                                  • GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread
                                    carolineg

                                    GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

                                    Correct. Let's have two 40 year people dine and ditch and laugh about it. How endearing. They are so loveable.

                                    By carolineg · 3 hours ago3 hr

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