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February 10, 201114 yr

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I thought Elsa was talking about this photo! But then I saw you posted the Vanity Fair one on the previous page in the Plastic thread! LOL.

In both of them she does look great. Black looks phenomenal on her.

Black does look phenomenal on her. On a lot of people black washes them out but on Joan it just makes her look...luxurious? She glistens and gleams and shines. Delicious.

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February 12, 201114 yr

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I'm putting this here because it involves (faux) fur, and Melissa Leo was on a soap.

Have you heard about this odd campaign Melissa is doing to try to get her name recognition up? Apparently it involves posing in several somewhat odd ads, with "Discover".

http://www.laineygossip.com/Melissa_Leo_puts_out_her_own_Oscar_ads_08feb11.aspx?CatID=0&CelID=0

I love Melissa Leo and have for about 15 years, and I hope it does get her more work (I love her even more after learning that she invited a young gay student filmmaker to live with her after his parents disowned him for being gay), but these ads I don't get. The Discover makes me think it's a credit card ad.

I actually like how she looks good in the faux fur and such but thanks to the outfit and the makeup it ends up looking like she is an 80 year old actress looking back on her heyday.

3 weeks later...

February 28, 201114 yr

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Only to be outdone by this Tweet: "Laughing so hard at Kirk Douglas that my dress came undone - almost did a Janet Jackson!"

February 28, 201114 yr

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What the f**k, Missy?!

March 1, 201114 yr

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What the f**k, Missy?!

OH! Did Joan Rivers comment on this lavender confection on FASHION POLICE?!

March 1, 201114 yr

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I like the color but the dress looks cheaply made.

March 1, 201114 yr

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Another World's Cecile is one of my favorite characters ever...

But how can no one mention either Miss Amanda and Ella???

Loved them!

Edited March 1, 201114 yr by Melroser

March 1, 201114 yr

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I think it's great she refuses to let herself go, but something about this all says "Mae West" to me.

March 1, 201114 yr

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Another fave of mine was Carrie on the short-lived Central Park West

March 1, 201114 yr

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Screen legend Joan Collins was taken out of the Vanity Fair party in an ambulance after a too-tight dress made her woozy during the fabled A-list post-Oscar bash.

The "Dynasty" diva, who had joined Graydon Carter's viewing party and dinner at Hollywood's iconic Sunset Tower Hotel, started to feel faint at about 10 p.m. and rested on a sofa in the hotel's Tower Bar before her husband, Percy Gibson, called an ambulance. She was discreetly helped out of the back of the hotel.

Collins, 77, who recently completed an acclaimed run at Feinstein's at The Regency, told us by phone yesterday, "We had been there for seven hours, and I started feeling dizzy. I tried to get some air, but I felt really faint. I wanted to leave in our limo, but Percy decided to call an ambulance. We went to the hospital, and they did all the tests before the doctors told me I was absolutely fine and released me."

She added, "The truth was, I made the wrong decision to wear a very tight dress, and had something rather like a Victorian swoon. The good news is, I am in good health and feel fine today."

March 1, 201114 yr

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But how can no one mention either Miss Amanda and Ella???

Loved them!

Its too bad this how sucked so much all season because the final few episodes with Amanda vs Ella was great. I wish they had brought that up earlier. Ella could have gone after Billy Campbell's character too to piss Amanda off.

March 1, 201114 yr

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Glad to hear JC is ok. If it was a slim-fitting dress, I'll bet La Collins wasn't eating for many hours before the event so that she could slide into her outfit. Empty stomach + champagne + tight dress = recipe for disaster. Take it from me, lol.

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Its too bad this how sucked so much all season because the final few episodes with Amanda vs Ella was great. I wish they had brought that up earlier. Ella could have gone after Billy Campbell's character too to piss Amanda off.

Ella v Amanda was EPIC and it should have been the storyline for the show from episode one. The show would still be around if they'd allowed that to flourish. I love the look on Heather Locklear's face throughout this whole scene. She transforms herself into Amanda. It's really something to see.

Glad to hear JC is ok. If it was a slim-fitting dress, I'll bet La Collins wasn't eating for many hours before the event so that she could slide into her outfit. Empty stomach + champagne + tight dress = recipe for disaster. Take it from me, lol.

I bet that dress had a corset in it. Empty stomach, champagne, corset, tight dress = feeling dizzy. I love how attentive her husband is. Well done Percy.

March 1, 201114 yr

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Ella v Amanda was EPIC and it should have been the storyline for the show from episode one. The show would still be around if they'd allowed that to flourish. I love the look on Heather Locklear's face throughout this whole scene. She transforms herself into Amanda. It's really something to see.

Yes, and Katie Cassidy really was impressive.

March 7, 201114 yr

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Only to be outdone by this Tweet: "Laughing so hard at Kirk Douglas that my dress came undone - almost did a Janet Jackson!"

She looked like crap. She has no taste, bar a few appearances here and there. Obviously learned nothing from Nolan Miller.

Edited March 7, 201114 yr by Sylph

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Agreed, I think Blake became a woman who learned from her mistakes and grew up. I too wanted them to be the core couple after the Tori thing, as a matter of fact, around Wheeler after Simon left I wanted them to move into the Bauer house..( I would have Blake say that this is the closet thing she knew as a home )SORAS the kids, and bring Sam back..Dinah would have a very contentious relationship with her, as she would be jealous of Ross and Sam's relationship, and Blake and Dinah would have that tension (ya, know cause she killed his brother) it would be a core family that had some fissures leading to good drama. But now, Wheeler and company though the Coopers should be the core.

By Mitch64 · 56 minutes ago56 min
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Agree that great minds can think alike :)
In terms of Derek, I see the show doing one of two things based on the most recent episodes that featured him.
1) They do the gradual fade-out of the character until he stops appearing and is occasionally mentioned by Jacob (i.e. still living and existing in town, just not being seen). We saw some evidence with him having a group of co workers he's friends with, plus a female co worker interested in him... so possibly we see him regain his walking and go back to his life with the Fire crew and eventually we stop seeing them on air.
2) His mentioning to Jacob that he hopes to win Ashley back signals that perhaps the dark side we saw glimpses of has been hidden and will rear itself if she appears to be moving on with a new guy.
In terms of Ashley, the show seems committed to keeping her character on the show especially since she was shown in the Thanksgiving episode having a quiet day with Jan and Mona as they discuss Black Friday shopping, food, and other day to day matters... so I think delving into her backstory in terms of who her father is would be a good place for the show to go while keeping her as a good friend to Naomi, Shanice, and a good nurse during medical stories.
Perhaps one of the children of the handsome new doctor could be her love interest down the line.

By Soaplovers · 1 hour ago1 hr
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Re: 1978. I'm glad the unedited version of the episode complete with commercials is available. The one that has been posted several years ago had several segments missing. I like Barbara's long hair here. Dr. Steven Farrell didn't last very long I take it since she is re-connecting with Tom (Tom Tammi) by 1979. The actor playing Steven (Phil Peters) was the real-life husband of Lenore Kasdorf (Rita GL).

By SoapDope78 · 1 hour ago1 hr
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Oh, how I wish we'd gotten to see Ross deal with his teenage sons. I loved his relationships with Phillip and Sam, but he really deserved to be seen with his own kids (other than the horror that became Dinah). The boys simply disappeared off canvas after either the Nursery Stalker or the affair with Tori.

By P.J. · 1 hour ago1 hr
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What I liked about Bloss is that I liked how they grew to be the stable couple- the closest to an Ed and Mo in their prime. Especially after the Tori story when their extra-marital exploits were in the past. I wanted them to SORAS the three kids, along with Dinah and with Phillip's family as Ross's extended family would really be solid core family material.
With that said, I was rooting against Bloss in 1999 as I really liked the Ross/India pairing-- but that just turned out to be a waste of MKA.

By Spoon · 2 hours ago2 hr
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They did reveal Austin's shooter...about a year and a half later.

By DRW50 · 2 hours ago2 hr
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By te. · 2 hours ago2 hr
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They did actually resolve who shot Austin over a year later (it was Cyrus, as part of his hasty exit story). That was a last minute save though clearly when they forgot lol.

By Vee · 2 hours ago2 hr
Talkin' 'Bout TV Movies

I love those old TV movies, especially the ones from the 70's and 80's. The ABC movie of the week had a ton of them. Like
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
All My Darling Daughter's (1972)
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped (1974)
The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan (1979)
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Death Cruise (1974)
Here is the 70's ABC opening. The theme music "Nikki" was composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter with Angie Dickinson.

By SoapDope78 · 2 hours ago2 hr
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The return of sitcoms' popularity in the mid-'80s was a real thing, but the crash of the wealth-based nighttime soap genre was resonate and self-induced.

There was an effectively grim finality to the mood of the cliffhangers in the Spring of 1985: Bobby's death, the Moldavian massacre, the return of Val's babies... and they felt as if they could have ended right there (and perhaps they should have, although I would have sorely missed S10 of Dallas, S6 of FC, and Season 9 of Dynasty , and the next five years of KNOTS as they singularly maintained quality).

But, wow, these shows just fell apart post-Spring 1985. They stopped being character dramas after a while, and just started trying to "impress" viewers in some superficial way and to "fake it" somehow.

What a painful, unnecessary slide it was. But once these shows seemed to lose their identities, their sense of self, their momentum into the dung heap couldn't be slowed.

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