This is somewhat off-topic, except for two common denominators:  ABC and Sam Hall.  The daytime soap One Life to Live (OLTL), which debuted on ABC in July 1968 is celebrating 40 years on the air with a couple of special episodes, the first aired today, and the second tomorrow.  In short, as one of three salutes to the show's history, OLTL is revisiting a time travel-type concept, which first played out in the late 1980s, when Sam Hall was head-writing the show, by having two 2008 characters going back to 1968 (after being struck by lightning).  Both characters see and recognize characters from their present as different characters from the past, e.g. as on DS when Vicki confused Josette with Maggie, Naomi with Liz, etc.  In another salute, Vicki Lord Buchanan ... (more husbands' names) ... Davidson has died and is reuniting in Heaven with characters from her past, including the actor (who left the show a few years ago) who originally played her daughter Jessica now appearing as her daughter's now-grown daughter who had died at birth--at least in Heaven.

I don't know that any of this was planned with regards to DS, but the show is clearly honoring its own history as well as ABC's history with doing things that no other network did back then (not until Passions, on NBC, anyway.)

Just thought I'd share... 

Brian

He complains he has a hard time getting into "OLD" shows.  One good thing though, (the boyfriend)  He loves Grayson. Any definitive Grayson ep's one would recommend , please do.

Okay, from this middle-aged gay man who watched DS in 1968-1971, just tell them both that they're not really gay unless they can appreciate older movies, color or B&W, and not just DS but all those great old Bette Davis/Marilyn Monroe/Joan Crawford/Doris Day--dare I add more?--movies.  It's not all about Andrew Lloyd Webber or Madonna.  You're not a real "gay" until you can appreciate the history of entertainment that speaks to gays.  And more:  drag queens used to do showtunes and actually sing live!  That's real drag!  (Not "To Wong Foo" or "Priscilla" but "Outrageous.")  And Julia Hoffman is the ultimate drag queen - just because she's played by a woman doesn't mean she's not a queen!.  LOL.  What else?  Oh, yeah, "Satan in High Heels."  "Polly Magoo?"  Oh..and one more...they should check out the Carmen Miranda DVD collection.  Now there's a real female drag queen!!! who came years before Julia Hoffman.  LOL.  and IMHO.  Brian

Four women and one bathroom has the potential to wind up like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan It's just plain ugly.

LOL...same with four men (which I haven't done in 25 years--share rooms, that is) but worse with only two gay men...we boys--me included--have to have the mirror time in bathroom to get ready. 
Brian

Hi, Magnus, still here, just very busy and looking for a retreat from work.  Hope you were able to get that DVD player hooked up, sorry I couldn't be more help.

Brian

I'm finally thinking about flying from Florida to CA for the fest in July, but I can't find special room rates for the Fest at the Marriott.  I CAN get a great flight on Delta for less than $1000, which is my primary concern, but I'd rather not pay $200 a night for a room.  Are there special rates for the Fest that I don't know about, and a code or other wording to get special rates?  Thanks for any thoughts/info.  Brian

I, too, remember Ruth Lyons and the 50/50 club, which was broadcast live (I think at noon) from Cincy on WLWC (I lived north of Dayton and we had one of those old-fashioned antennas which, to this day, is still anchored to the side of my deceased parents house in which I grew up!).  And Bob Braun, et all. And there was Bonnie Lou, the singer and yodeler!  Those were fun shows to watch when I was a kid back in the 60s.  For what its worth, I may as well add that I also remember watching George Clooney's father Nick on news broadcasts from Cincy.  And the best was Phil Donahue, who orginated his talk show on WLWD in Dayton back in the 60s!  As I recall, hiis show followed Paul Dixon's....Dixon at 9 am, and Donahue at 10.  Dixon used to make jokes about the "screw" that held his toupee on...

Okay, not DS but I had to share.  (BTW, referring to another thread, i knew Keith Prentice, also from Dayton, back in the early 80s.  Not much I can add to comments about him, but he was always talkative and pleasant to me, and shared many stories about his work in Sound of Music, on DS and in Cruising.)

Brian

Back in the late 60s, Dad got home from work by 4 pm (an electrician, he started his day at 7 am, ended at 3:30, with a one-half-hour lunch), and Mom was expected to have dinner on the table when he walked in the door.  Well....in 1969 DS aired in Dayton at 4 pm, and I was allowed to watch it on the brand new 25 inch color television in the living room...and dinner was delayed to 4:30 or 5:00.  There was never any censoring of what I watched.   Fast forward to late 1990s...Dad would see a picture of Jonathan Fird as Barnabas and he would remember the character as "Barnaby the vampire."  (I remember we had watched HODS on CBS late-night once or twice in the late 70s, so that was his frame of reference).

Dad passed in 2002--and he was in awe of DVDs and surround sound; I wish he had been able to experience more modern technology!  Mom passed on February 1 this year, but she also always recalled and appreciated my interest in DS and movie musicals right to the end.  My parents, born in the late 30s, were open-minded, progressive thinkers...and they "got it," i..e., they didn't buy into all that religious crap about DS and other such shows/movies/comics and how such entertainment would send us to hell.

I love them both, may they RIP!

Brian