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Donna on the other hand... is blind to it. She can hardly see anything past her own nose. All she does is blab-blab-blab in this high pitched tone. My skin crawls when that woman screeches.  

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The late Philece Sampler was miscast as Donna Love but she was phenomenal in the clips I have seen from her time on Days of Our Lives as Renée Dumonde (later DiMera) in the early '80s, especially her gathering Salem together at a party (ostensibly, celebrating her marriage to Quinn Redekker's Alex Marshall, another great character!) to blast all of them...

To think of what came soon after... 

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I have these 2 particular things I say that say a thing without saying it.

If anyone asks me what kind of a writer James Lipton was, I am quick to reply that he was amazing as the host of Inside The Actor's Studio. 

Same reply about Philece as Donna, except Renee on DOOL

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I love it when you give these fascinating replies. Only you can say this. Phrase it so clever and witty.

And it's so true.

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Is Donna aware at this point that Iris knew Michael on the Riviera, or that they had a romantic relationship? I feel like I remember her being absolutely cordial to Iris until she had that info.

Thinking about Donna and Iris in this period makes me a little bit wistful for the days when Donna was chummy with Cecile in order to try to break up Peter and Sally. 

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Another World - January 5, 1989

May the real arsonist please stand up! 

Well, today I plan to be brief. This was somewhat of a filler episode in my opinion.

Nothing that interesting happened, other than Pilara and her boyfriend got held for questioning and the boyfriend took the blame for the fire to get Pilara out... but then backtracked and started trying to get himself out of it. Yawn.

I really miss seeing Mary's reactions to all of this and I don't really understand WHY she is not here. It was her storyline, till she went to see MJ and now it's Vince dealing with all of this.  I want to see Mary soon - quite honestly, she may be my FAVORITE CHARACTER! I love her relationship with Vince, I find them wholesome and just... real.

In the other storylines, we had the youngsters going for drinks - all of em - Caroline, Evan... Cass, Nicole... Amanda was on a second fake-date, once again ruined by Sam. For some reason I don't find Sam and Amanda interesting. They are the only 2 characters that I am starting to really dislike. Even the horrid Jamie and Vicky are charming to me, because I know messy people like that. Amanda and Sam don't work for me. I am starting to root for Iris to succeed in breaking them up. 

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 I'm just tired of them having the same conversation every single day - how he wants to be ARTIST and how she wants to be JOURNALIST... blah-blah-blah, kiss and make-out. BOOOOORING. 

Ah, I forgot... some guy kissed Nicole while Cass was not around! Ooops. That was sort of the highlight of the episode for me. It was a boring episode. My husband liked it. I didn't. I missed everyone I love on the show.  

That's it for today, folks.

Overall - 6/10! (boring, but the dialogue was not bad)  Don't hate me. 

Highlight - Nicole getting kissed by someeee guy. 

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One of  the biggest mistakes was how AW never took advantage of Denise Alexander's Mary. Thy failed to tie her into stories, and they wrote off characters (Cheryl, MJ, Scott) and left her isolated. She was such a likeable and enjoyable presence. I wanted more of her. I could take or leave Vince, but Mary I really liked. She had such chemistry with Hank Cheyne and it's so annoying they never capitalised on it to further the mother/son bond.

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I agree completely.  In my opinion, Denise was simply cast in the wrong part.  Denise is a romantic leading woman type of actress -- not necessarily the star of the soap, but one of the female romantic leads.  And any 60-minute soap would have at least two or three of this type.  Mary McKinnon was not that type of character.  Mary was a go-to talk-to character -- more similar to a younger version of Ada Hobson, Helen Moore, or Mary Matthews.  Denise should have been cast as a more impactful, dynamic romantic type.  Perhaps a returning Missy Matthews (to tangle with Liz) or even Alice Frame (despite the darker hair). Denise's character should have completed with Felicia or Sharlene or Iris for a man.  Or even competed with Rachel, after Doug Watson died.  Great actress, the right show, but cast as the wrong character.  

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