Sad news. Kathryn Hays has passed away. I was on the phone talking to my mom when I heard her sister all upset. My mom explained that Kathryn had died and that's why my aunt was so upset. I said, sadly, "Who?"
Kim Hughes on AS THE WORLD TURNS. From THE DAILY MAIL:
As the World Turns star Kathryn Hays has died aged 88.
The soap star passed away on 25th March but no cause of death has been revealed.
The actress -
who worked on the long- running show for 38 years from 1972 to 2010 -
began her career the 60s with roles on shows such as Hawaiian Eye, Dr
Kildare, Route 66, Bonanza and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
She appeared in the Star Trek episode The Empath as Gem.
In
2010, Kathryn spoke about playing the now iconic role of Gem in the
show: 'I've often thought that was an interesting role for me to play. I
loved playing that. It was technically very interesting,' she said to We Love Soaps.
Adding: 'That show was fascinating to work on from a technical point of view. It was so different from a regular show.'
She
went on to appear in shows in the 1960s and early 70's, including
Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Guiding Light and more.
In 1972, she was cast as Kim Sullivan Hughes on As The World Turns; her final episode as that character on September 17, 2010.
I came in on Kim as a child. She was with Nick and they ot married in Greece -- which was a big deal because they really went on location there as both my grandmother and my aunt told me.
I watched ALL MY CHILDREN as a kid and was into Jenny's storyline -- she'd run off to NYC after Liza did her part to destroy Jenny & Greg. And in NYC, she met her best friend: Jesse. Darnell Williams changed the face of soap operas. There were Black actors and actresses before then but Darnell was a star. And he won not one but two Emmys for playing Jesse. Debbi Morgan would join the cast as Angie and Jesse and Angie were the first Black super couple on daytime soaps.
But over on AS THE WORLD TURNS, they were trying to integrate young characters -- Liza, Greg and Jenny were all in high school together at Pine Valley High. So they had Kim and Nick as a couple and Nick's brother or cousin met up with Kim's step-daughter Betsy.
Who played Betsy?
Meg Ryan. She's do on to do an episode of CHARLES IN CHARGE and some CBS sitcom but then, in the blink of an eye, she'd become a film actress and, shortly after, a movie star.
Lisa - the Erica of AS THE WORLD TURNS (Erica meaning Susan Lucci's Erica Kane) -- bickered with Kim. Eventually, Kim would be replaced more or less by Barbara. Kim remained on the show but Barbara really did fill the role of the woman -- not girl -- who was the focus. Kim was kind of like Nancy by that point -- the matriarch that people spoke to -- as opposed to a character with an active storyline of her own. That's probably not a real challenge in terms of acting but role like that does require a charm on the part of the actor -- an ability to establish a relationship with the viewers. Otherwise, no one cares.
It's to Kathryn Hays' credit that she was able to carry that aspect of her role off for so long, viewers really loved Kim.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Friday, April 8, 2022. We're staying brief to make one key point: NYT owes NYP an apology.
Do we ever learns? Or maybe the better question is: Do they ever learn>
As
2001 drew to a close, the US press began destroying their own
reputations. It was one act of professional suicide after another.
October 2001, for those who don't know, is when THE NEW YORK TIMES ran
their first cover story linking -- falsely linking -- the 9/11 terrorist
attacks on the US to the government of Iraq.
There was no link.
Saddam
Hussein ruled Iraq at the time. He did not allow al Qaeda to operate
in Iraq. Had they operated there freely, they would have overthrown him
because he was over a secular government and because they were
sympathetic to those who were not in power in Saddam's Iraq.
But
NYT, THE WASHINGTON POST, the broadcast networks, the cable networks,
etc, etc repeated one lie after another to start that illegal war.
It's
probably hard if you weren't there when it happened and if you weren't
of an age to have grasped it as it happened -- hard to now understand
what took place. Back then, the media could talk of nothing but Iraq.
That's the same US media that ignores Iraq today that barely noted that
the war hit the 19 year mark last month, that acts as though US troops
are no longer in Iraq and that the US created (imposed) some wonderful
government there.
They lied. They lied over and over.
Liars got rewarded.
Kevin Drum is at MOTHER JONES. No consequences. It's not just big media that rewarded liars, little media has done the same.
But they lied.
Oprah
didn't suffer. She brought Judith Miller onto her daily program to lie
and when an audience member challenged the lies Judith was spewing,
Oprah attacked the audience member.
No one ever took accountability.
And
the media suffered. In the aftermath, they wanted to pretend as though
there was no reason for so many to distrust them and even now they act
that way. Especially now. They don't mention Iraq and they hope
everyone else has forgotten.
But that was a sea change for perception of the media.
It
appears it was also a behavior shift because the media had not only
done nothing to restore trust in their own profession, they have
continued to present lies as fact and ignore reality while silencing any
questioning.
The rolly polly and disgusting
Brian Stelter of CNN was speaking this week about disinformation. No,
he wasn't finally taking responsibility for his multitude of
journalistic sins. The idiot really thought he had a soap box to stand
upon and lecture others from. A conservative student commented with a
list of the most recent appalling journalistic sins -- or some of them,
there are far too many for one person to ever list unless they're
delivering a 24 hour filibuster -- and Brian avoided the question and
wanted to instead wanted to talk about Ukraine and how others worked
with FOX NEWS there regarding a journalist and -- I'm sorry, we aren't
that stupid.
And we're not whining, "Why can't you all work together!"
In
fact, the problem has often been that you do work together -- right and
left -- such as when you sold the illegal war on Iraq.
Working together is frequently the only work you ever do.
You're certainly not working for the public good.
You 'work' to advances causes and candidates.
You're not telling the truth. You're actively suppressing the truth.
Anne
Applebaum, after disgracing herself as THE WASHINGTON POST for years
(Bob Somerby long ago dubbed her Annie Apples_ wanted to tell people
this week that there was no reason to cover Hunter Biden's laptop and
the proof of corruption it contained.
It appears that some media have a new narrative after admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop is legitimate after all.
According to Atlantic Magazine writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne
Applebaum, the story never did matter because it was just not
interesting and “totally irrelevant” to her. Strangely, however, it once
did. Applebaum pushed the false narrative as she was slamming others
for publishing “Russian disinformation” and using the Hunter Biden story
as an example. It only became uninteresting when it turned out to be
true. The one convincing assertion, however, is that it was simply not
viewed as “relevant.” What was clearly relevant for Twitter and most
media outlets was the election of Joe Biden. Otherwise, as captured by Gaston de La Touche, it is a matter of sheer boredom.
Applebaum was at my alma mater, The University of Chicago, for the Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy conference on
Wednesday. The conference appeared largely an echo-chamber, a
disappointing lineup for UChicago which is known to value a diversity of
opinion. Applebaum slammed Fox and its viewers: “Those who live outside
the Fox News bubble and intend to remain there do not, of course, need
to learn any of this stuff.” (For the record, I work as a legal analyst
at Fox).
What an idiot and what a
liar. She's at THE ATLANTIC now so she can probably lie more freely.
But the country's not better off because of it.
Hunter
Biden's laptop was a news story THE NEW YORK POST can claim credit for
having broken in October 2020. I keep waiting for their triumphant
column. If i'ts run, I haven't heard of it. To be honest I don't have
time to comb through the web for it and depend on friends to keep me up
to date.
So when one called last night and
was reading from THE POST online, I was really sad. I thought it was
Miranda Devine and I thought she was a better writer than what was being
read. She is. It was by John Stossel. I loathe John and always
have. He can argue he's been mis-portrayed by the media and that may be
the case. I loathe him because he's an off-putting ass and that's from
his on air personality when he used to be on 20/20.
Is he as big of an idiot as I've always thought?
Yes, he is.
I
was going to destroy Mrianda for the column I thought she wrote. But
it was John. Writing at THE NEW YORK POST, he wanted you to know how
bad it was with the attacks on THE POST.
I'm tired of stupidity.
Ava and I covered the most important point regarding THE NY POST and the laptop and the media's response.
Do not offer that the report was dismissed.
That's not good enough.
If you're on some basic cable show, that might pass for informed.
You're not informed.
And only John could be so stupid to write for THE POST and to leave the most important detail out.
Yes,
as we all know, the report was censored -- TWITTER and FACEBOOK. And
as we all know, opinion columns insisted it wasn't true.
That's not the worst thing.
The
worst thing? THE NEW YORK TIMES did a 'report' that they called an
investigation and the 'report' centered on how supposedly people working
at THE NEW YORK POST were furious with their paper over that story and
did not feel it was accurate or truthful or even journalism.
NYT relied on no named source and most people in the kow say that NYT did a work of fiction (I believe that they did).
So grasp that NYT did not investigate the laptop but they did make time to 'report' on a rival paper, to attack the rival paper.
That's out of bounds. I twas out of bounds when it happened.
But that was part of the attack strategy to dismiss the story.
THE
NEW YORK TIMES owes THE NEW YORK POST an apology because when they ran
that article -- unsourced -- attacking the paper's integrity, they made
it personal.
Again, they owe the paper an apology.
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