6 hours ago, Khan said:

Actually, it was Yvonne DeCarlo who performed that number in the original production. Stritch is known for "The Ladies Who Lunch" from "Company."

I know she didn't originate the song, but I think it became associated with her in her last years (the NYT interviewing her and her saying that she didn't think anyone under 80 should sing it).

12 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@Maxim @CrazySexyQ If you need a laugh here is yet another out of control Maria and Tina sequence.

One Life To Live- Tina Cuts Maria With A Pair Of Scissors 1987 - YouTube

Ohhh that was a delicious scene! I wasn't really familiar with Maria at all, but now I am LOL. I want to know more about the beef Ritchie and Luna had...

Love it @Maxim !

2 hours ago, Kane said:

Bo and Nora are my favorites. Viki, Dorian, Marty, and Jason are also high on my list and I enjoy Asa a lot, even though he can be jerk.

I completely forgot the men... (which is so unlike me) - JASON! YES. YES. YES. Number 1 for me! Asa - the GOAT... I also kinda adore both Clint and Sloan - I'm a mini Viki inside. 😁

1 hour ago, alwaysAMC said:

Love it @Maxim !

❤️

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I know she didn't originate the song, but I think it became associated with her in her last years (the NYT interviewing her and her saying that she didn't think anyone under 80 should sing it).

I would agree! All it would take is for one grade schooler to sing it at some beauty pageant or talent contest to make me hate that song forever, lol. (It'd be like the little girl who sang "I've Cried My Last Tear" at my mother's former church. Your LAST tear? You haven't even cried your first!)

Edited March 23Mar 23 by Khan

On 3/22/2026 at 6:16 PM, alwaysAMC said:

Ohhh that was a delicious scene! I wasn't really familiar with Maria at all, but now I am LOL. I want to know more about the beef Ritchie and Luna had...

Love it @Maxim !

I know right?!

I had no idea who Maria was last week, but now I'm all in. And @Khan says Viki went after her without even needing an alter. Delicious. One of my favorite Viki stories was her locking Dorian up and torturing her. I so badly wanted her to admit that there was a part of her that got off on it. Just like Jessica hid behind Tess to make Natalie's life miserable.

@Maxim I'd forgotten about this meme (which I just saw again recently) - something else Elaine became famous for. You will see why about 15 seconds in.

This 2012 Ellen Holly interview for We Love Soaps had been put up in parts but now they've put it up as one video.

The Ellen Holly Story: In Her Own Words

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

This 2012 Ellen Holly interview for We Love Soaps had been put up in parts but now they've put it up as one video.

The Ellen Holly Story: In Her Own Words

This is amazing. Thanks for posting the youtube link. So worth watching!

12 minutes ago, janea4old said:

This is amazing. Thanks for posting the youtube link. So worth watching!

Thanks for watching. Ellen had a story no one else can understand.

Finally getting back to OLTL '91.

I'll talk more about these eps at length in a couple days but @EricMontreal22 will be pleased to know of yet another florid Malonian fantasy episode being part of Cord’s sendoff. It's a strange choice for ushering in his dramatic exit after many years on the show, beginning on a Friday over what I believe was Thanksgiving weekend (November 22nd). Here it's a redo of Casablanca, as “Tina’s”. Interestingly, just as with the pirate past life romp a month before, Karen Witter's Tina is once again the one cast in the masculine role - Tina becomes the husky-voiced, hardboiled club owner a la Humphrey Bogart, while Cord is the aristocratic old flame a la Ingrid Bergman and Jake is his drunk co-pilot (while Blair then appears on his arm as Cord's new woman)

Sometimes this kooky fantasy/pastiche stuff didn't work, but sometimes it really did. My jury will be out as I head for Monday (in 1991).

Thanks @Vee

Jake appeared so infrequently by this point I didn't realize he was used in a fantasy sequence.

Just now, DRW50 said:

Jake appeared so infrequently by this point I didn't realize he was used in a fantasy sequence.

It surprised me too, but Joe Lando did recur off and on throughout the last few months for drop-in stuff while imprisoned (including Jake's insane dungeon interludes with evil dominatrix Ilsa, which seems to be directly lifted from the "She-Wolf of the SS" exploitation films). He then appears for a few weeks during this Cord/Blair stuff as they head first to Tokyo then to Jaba City to spring him.

Jake does get a great moment while they're hiding out in a Jaba City cafe where he (like Megan before him) clearly twigs that something is up with Blair and Cord and tells her to cut the bull and watch her step. If Lando's career wasn't already taking flight by this point (I think he was already out after pilots or movies, and he would do the Dr. Quinn pilot film not long after this) I wonder if they'd have tried him with Mia Korf. There was something there. But she clearly had it with all of the men they put her with.