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It didn't make any sense to me either -- that and Sam probably never should have returned, as his story was over. Perhaps they knew he'd taken over for a brooding guy with dark hair once already, or they knew Brian on AMC was a country singer (wasn't he?) so they could use him again on AW.

Oops, he was on AW before AMC. So maybe AMC hired him for those reasons...

Didn't he have a big role in that Circuit movie that got a lot of hype/derision in gay movie circles in the late 90s? Kind of random.

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I know this is a Joan forum so am posting it here

After her Dynasty singing debut, I am not sure Joan Collins really belongs in a cabaret act. I was actually following links which led me to Lynday Carter which led me to this.

Daytime Fan, maybe in the plastic surgery thread you can discuss Lynda Carter's wonder looks.

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I'm assuming Joan's act is pretty much a carry over of the touring engagement she had in the UK. Probably minimal if any singing, but yes of course this is Feinstein's so one would expect at least a little warbling.

I saw Lynda Carter on one of the morning shows being interviewed about WW a while back, she looked amazing. There's something about those dark brunettes like Lynda, Joan, Susan, Dixie Carter, et al, who hit a second wind of attractiveness in their 50s... where one appreciates their looks even more as they've earned them. Growing up, Lynda was pretty much our area's sole claim to Hollywood fame. She and her family live in posh Potomac, MD (home to Darren Star, where he was inspired to create 90210) and were neighbors to the Kennedy-Shrivers. Almost everyone has their Lynda-sighting at the mall story. ^_^ She gained local, even national, infamy for a while there when her husband Robert Altman (not THAT Robert Altman) found himself in a bit of legal hot water.

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I don't think there was anyone prettier than Lynda Carter during her WW days. The eyes, the smile..the woman is amazing. I am not sure who Susan is, but I would not put Dixie Carter in the same sentence with Lynda, and as pretty as Joan Collins is, she is no Lynda Carter either. To compete with Lynda Carter circa 1977 or so, you have to be like at Jaclyn Smith in Charlies Angels levels of beauty.

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I wanted to BE Wonder Woman when I was a kid. But the local toy store sold out of WW costumes. So I made myself the WW crown and bangles from cardboard, fashioned an outfit from some blue underpants and red T-shirt, and used a piece of rope as my lasso. Wunduh WOO-maaaaaan!

Lynda Carter may not have been a Shakespearean actress, but she had "it," warmth, presence and a captivating smile. She still has those things actually.

Can't believe somebody changed the titled of thsi thread. Why? It makes no sense.

In honor of Stylish and Magnetic Women and the fact that I am watchng early 90s AW...

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OK, so Iris looks like she is wearing somebody's curtains but.. it was the 80s.

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Susan is Lucci. I think Dixie looked great mid-'80s-early '90s after she'd had her face done. Around the time Lynda was battling alcoholism, she'd gained a bit of weight and cut her hair shorter and did not look as sensational as she looks even today, so the beauty of any of these ladies ebbs and flows, but I totally see where you're coming from. Lynda's in that tall, lean, goddess category. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rm5TBE-7qk

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I love them too. I think the key is that the Great Women of Soaps, the Best of Stylish, Magnetic Women in Daytime all had their own identities. They had their own looks, they had attitude, they had spirit, they had personality. They LIVED. They were active agents in control of their own destiny.

The only shows that put women in that kind of role are B&B and DAYS with AMC to a lesser extent (and that's only in regards to Erica Kane).

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