#Knots Landing

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"I love everything about show business, even the junk. You can't change the junk. People have tried. So, you might as well accept it along with the good. Acting is my life. The profession can break my heart. In fact, it already has several times. But I love it." Ruth Roman speaking to gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in 1949.

Born on this day: Ruth Roman (22 December 1922 – 9 September 1999). Despite working with major directors like Alfred Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train (1951)), Nicholas Ray and King Vidor and providing the romantic “love interest” for leading men including Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart, Roman arguably never quite cracked the A-list. Nonetheless, the sensual, earthy actress with the distinctive nicotine-stained rasp elevated every film she appeared in. I’m painfully aware I haven’t yet seen Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) or Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), widely considered Roman’s best films, but I love her performances in Blowing Wild (1953) and Love Has Many Faces (1965). (Interestingly, Roman almost played Stella in the 1951 film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire but director Elia Kazan insisted on Kim Hunter, who’d played the role on Broadway). Call me perverse, but I treasure Roman most as the crazed harridan mother in the bizarre 1973 exploitation film The Baby. Who else could growl lines like “Nothing happened? With your damn tit in his mouth and you call that nothing?” and “Tie her up and gag her!” with such butch, menacing authority? In the 1980s, Roman made sporadic appearances on TV in Knots Landing and Murder, She Wrote. According to Wikipedia: “Roman died at the age of 76 in her sleep of natural causes at her beachfront villa on Crescent Bay in Laguna Beach, California, on 9 September 1999.” There are worse ways to go.

Ruth Roman

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Don Murray (as Sid Fairgate) and Michele Lee (as Karen Fairgate) of the CBS prime time soap opera 'Knot's Landing' in 1979.

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meaningless television

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Murder, She Wrote episode ‘Ever After’ guest stars:

Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Orange is the New Black, Warehouse 13, Dragon Age 1 and 2, Murphy Brown, Ryan’s Hope, Heartbeat, Throw Momma from the Train, Cheers, St Elsewhere, Mrs Columbo, etc)

Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives, Everwood, Quantico, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI, Spin City, Boy Meets World, Melrose Place, Knots Landing, One Life to Live, etc)

Kevin McCarthy returns (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Innerspace, Addams Family Reunion, Batman the Animated Series, Father Dowling Investigates, Matlock, Simon & Simon, Dynasty, Fantasy Island, Twilight Zone The Movie, etc)

Michael McGrady (Ray Donovan, The Perfect Couple, SWAT, FBI, SEAL Team, Chicago PD, Agents of SHIELD, Mob City, NCIS, Castle, Body of Proof, CSI Miami, Lie to Me, The Mentalist, Leverage, Bones, CSI, 24, Providence, The X Files, etc)

One more of Kate because she's stunning.

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R.I.P. Doug Sheehan

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DON MURRAY (1929-Died ? February 2024,at 94). American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include A Hatful of Rain (1957), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959, with James Cagney), One Foot in Hell (1960, with Alan Ladd), The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Advise & Consent (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965, with Steve McQueen and Lee Remick), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Deadly Hero (1975), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986, with Kathleen Turner). Murray starred in television series such as The Outcasts (1968–1969), Knots Landing (1979–1981), and Twin Peaks (2017).Don Murray (actor) - Wikipedia

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Karen Allen on “Knots Landing” in 1979.

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Douglas Stuart Sheehan (April 27, 1949 – June 29, 2024) Television and film actor who played Ben Gibson throughout four seasons of the prime-time drama Knots Landing from 1983 to 1987. His character was the second husband of Valene Ewing (Joan Van Ark).

His first major role was as Joe Kelly on the daytime soap opera General Hospital from 1979 to 1982. He was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the role in 1982.

He also played one of the leads in Day by Day as well as Mel Horowitz on Clueless from 1997 to 1999 replacing Michael Lerner. He also appeared on Sabrina the Teenage Witch as Sabrina's father. (Wikipedia)

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Donna Mills (Abby, Knots Landing) photographed by Dick Zimmerman.

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Donna Mills

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Throwback sex kitten Donna Mills

Donna Mills