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William Fichtner….ex-Josh Landry(ATWT) is joining the cast of Mom this season as a cast regular.

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Kelly Sullivan and what appears to be Heather Locklear star in Tyler Perry's Tyler Perry's Too Close to Home (this one has exactly one black castmember, so some of you might feel comfortable watching it!)

 

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Apparently some GL alum have been appearing on this talk show...including Cynthia Watros, which surprises me as I thought she left Y&R for a prime time role. It's nice to see her with Grant Aleksander again as I always thought they had a lot of chemistry. 

 

You can also learn how to make a Bauer burger.

 

 

 

 

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Apparently some GL alum have been appearing on this talk show...including Cynthia Watros, which surprises me as I thought she left Y&R for a prime time role. It's nice to see her with Grant Aleksander again as I always thought they had a lot of chemistry. 

 

She did leave Y&r for primetime. The show went a couple of seasons and then got canceled.

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Get That Life: How I Became a Tony-Award Winning Star of Hamilton

At the beginning of my time on One Life to Live, I was very frustrated. This was a time in my life when I felt extremely marginalized. The formula of soap operas makes it really hard for an African-American to get any traction. There's always a family that's central to the story on a soap opera, and if the show loves you, you will turn into the long-lost brother or you will get married, which is easy to do for a white character. But as an ethnic person, they bring you on to be smart. You get to be the lawyer or the doctor for the family. No one sees where you live, they never bring you home. There might be one episode in February where they talk about your family because it's Black History Month. Your character might be on once every three weeks. You walk into a room and you say something really smart and noble, and then you walk out. And you only make money when they write for your character. You couldn't win the game as a person of color, no matter how talented or beautiful you were.

 

But after the first couple of years, they put me in a love triangle and it just blew up. The love triangle was interracial, there was drama, there was a war between fan groups — it was the best thing that had ever happened to my career. I was featured in magazines and I was being voted a fan favorite character. I was being asked to co-host The View. At the same time, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park, being seen by the elite New York theater community and getting unbelievable reviews. I had high visibility and there were moments throughout this period where people said, "This is it." But it doesn't necessarily make you A-list. I was probably G-list most of my life.

 

In 2007, I left the soap. I wanted to evolve and do the next thing in my career. I used to joke that I wanted the Kelly Ripa deal. But I didn't see that future for me in soap operas. Why would I give up another four years of my life for a new contract if ABC primetime's not going to call me to do a job?

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Oh, my lord. I thought that was JPL for a minute. But Eddie looks okay for a feeling-his-oats college kid. (Hair makes me wonder a little.)

 

Annie Wersching (Amelia, GH; 24, etc.) is doing the audio version of the upcoming Twin Peaks tie-in book, The Secret History of Twin Peaks.

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