Please help in wishing Tamara a very Happy Birthday. She was born on this day 42 years ago in Evanston, Illinois. On behalf of TAMARA OBSCURA and OBSCURE MEDIA & TAMARA SOAP MEDIA I’m hoping she has a wonderful day, celebrating with those she loves and a glass of rare wine. I also hope she eats a ton of cake (vegetarian style) and just has a great day. You deserve it Tamara.

I just thought I’d post this for those who don’t know what’s going on with these two soaps. One has a lot to do with Tamara in that she played a major character on ALL MY CHILDREN as Reese Williams. As you likely know by now, both soaps are on their way back to the airwaves. Well, sort of. Prospect Park and it’s Online Network have signed a deal with HULU and HULU Plus as well as iTunes to bring the shows to the fans online. Further Prospect Park has just announced they have sold the rights to air the shows in Canada via the FX channel. A great thing for us Canucks who up to this point have been left out of the loop. To watch the shows in either the United States and Canada, follow the links below.

• ALL MY CHILDREN ON HULU
• ALL MY CHILDREN ON iTUNES
• ONE LIFE TO LIVE ON HULU
• ONE LIFE TO LIVE ON iTUNES
• ALL MY CHILDREN & ONE LIFE TO LIVE ON FX CANADA

For Tamara’s fans in Canada, you can see her episode of SUPERNATURAL replayed on Sunday, 17 February 2013 at 8:00 PM and at 5:00 AM, early Monday morning at the following times:

• Rogers Cable: 48, 281 and 575
• SHAW Direct: 528 or 275
• Bell TV: 627 or 1748

If you are on any other provider, please check your guides.

I wanted to let you know that I’ve renewed the domains of tamara-braun.com and tamarabraun.org for another year. This means TAMARA OBSCURA will be here for another year to keep you up-to-date on all things Tamara Braun. You’ll also be able to view the gallery and the main media site at OBSCURE MEDIA and TAMARA SOAP MEDIA. I hope we have another productive year here as Tamara continues to pursue other interesting projects. I know I can hardly wait. Thanks guys for the ride so far, but as they say, it ain’t over yet!

All I can say is that Tamara was a whole ball of fun in this episode. I adored her as Cindy Cassidy who is as Tamara described her, “A washed up country singer who has quite a contentious and sassy relationship with her father. One of three sisters, I played the firecracker.” And did she ever. The only issue I have with Cindy is that she called my Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki), “Ken doll.” Too funny. For some background information on the episode I thought I’d give you a crash course on SUPERNATURAL‘s history. Someone attached to the Cassidy family made a deal with what is known as a Crossroads Demon, someone who can grant any wish, however, you have to sell your soul to them. As a part of the deal you’re granted a ten year reprieve in order to live whatever life you wished for, but as part of the payment when the deal is up, the Crossroads demon comes for you. In the episode it’s revealed that the demon was THE demon of Hell, Crowley played by Mark L. Shepard. For the past four years Crowley has sort of been the Big Bad of the show. He’s caused Sam played by Jared Padalecki and Dean Winchester played by Jensen Ackles more than their share of trouble. When the deal comes due the demon sends his/her hellhounds to bring in the deal maker who is then pulled into Hell. It’s not the nicest of deaths but this is Crowley. Want to know the kicker of this episode? Jensen Ackles got his first start on the soap opera DAYS OF OUR LIVES where he played the part of Eric Brady (now played by Greg Vaughan) who had fallen in love with a certain Taylor Raines Walker, then played by Katherine Ellis (August 6, 1998 to May 24, 1999). Of course we all know Tamara went on to play the part. I’m wondering if Tamara mentioned this to Jensen who has gone on record as saying if this SUPERNATURAL thing didn’t work out, he could always go back to the soap. Not now Jensen, and SUPERNATURAL has just been renewed by the CW for a ninth season. Lucky for us fans. Now onto the irony of this situation. You know my love for Mitch Pileggi and how I want Tamara and Mitch to do something together? Well Mitch once played Sam and Dean’s grandfather, Samuel Campbell. A further six degrees is that this coming week on Mitch’s show DALLAS, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) goes on trial for attempting to murder Mitch’s character Harris Ryland. Why is it six degrees? The name of the episode is called…you guessed it Trial and Error. You can’t make this stuff up.

• [ 1234 ] SCREENCAPS: SUPERNATURAL – E8X14 TRIAL AND ERROR
• [ 0001 ] MEDIA CLIP: SUPERNATURAL – E8X14 TRIAL AND ERROR

Here she is, Tamara in SUPERNATURAL. Her character’s name is Cindy. I’ll have screencaps and media a little later.

According to Tamara’s latest Tweet, her SUPERNATURAL episode airs this Wednesday. SUPERNATURAL airs on most CW stations in the United States and on CHCH in Canada at 9:00PM EST. As always TAMARA OBSCURA will be here to bring you Tamara’s scenes. Until then, be safe. Here’s hoping it’s another hit. Last week’s episode of SUPERNATURAL, Everybody Hates Hitler was a pretty good one and I’m hoping there is more Sam and Dean bonding.

Here you go. I finally have Tamara’s episode of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS for you. I hope you love her as much as I did. Again she looked luminous. I loved everything about her in this; hair, makeup, wardrobe…let’s face it, I loved Tamara. She was so cute and showed her softer side with Ronnie. I would love to revisit her again, hopefully. As I said in the post below this one, feel free to tweet the powers that be and let them know how much you loved Tamara, Perhaps we could get her back as a regular. Remember be courteous.

• [ 1677 ] SCREENCAPS: NECESSARY ROUGHNESS – E2X14 THE FALL GUY
• [ 0001 ] MEDIA CLIP: NECESSARY ROUGHNESS – E2X14 THE FALL GUY

I’m in the process of getting Tamara’s episode of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS converted, capped, and clipped. Because I live in Canada I had to stream it and it’s been a bit of a process to get a copy worth using. Please be patient while this happens. In the meantime I’ve mocked up a proof sheet so you can at least see what she looked like. I’ve chosen some of her main scenes. You can click on the smaller version to look at the larger. I know this wasn’t what you were expecting but it’s the only thing I have at the moment. I do promise I’ll have Tamara’s whole scenes and the caps for you sometime tomorrow. Keep checking back. Onto what I thought of her. Tamara had a lot of Rose from FREDDIE in her. She had a lot of that kind of quirkiness, and as Tamara said in her most recent newsletter to her fans, an inappropriateness to her. She was funny and lively. I loved her wardrobe and her hair. She just looked luminous as you’ll see when you click on the proof sheet. My own personal favourite part, the one with the devil horns. So cute. I’m still a little unsure as to whether this is just a one-off or if Tamara will be back. Here’s hoping it’s more than one episode. If you want to tweet the powers that be at the show to tell them how much you loved seeing Tamara, you can do so here @NecRoughness.

While watching my new Blu-Ray copy of the film Black Hawk Down starring the gorgeous Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister, Game of Thrones, currently being seen in Mama and soon Oblivion), I thought I’d post this. The good news: I have the promo from Tamara’s episode of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS. The bad news: Tamara’s not in it. It’ll give you a little primer for the show though. Again, sorry I don’t have anything with Tamara in it. Don’t forget it airs next Wednesday at 10:00 PM EST. That is February 06, 2013. What do you think of Callie Thorne who plays Dani? I think she and Tamara could very well be sisters.