I echo your comment a hundred times over. I’d love it if Tamara were ‘suddenly’ discovered by someone like a Spielberg or Aronofsky or even tapped to star in a major television show on cable like HBO. I’d love to see her in something like “Game of Thrones” with my Danish hottie Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Yes, a love interest for my Ser Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer. Someone other than his sister, Cersei. Tamara would fit in well there. I’m wondering if she’d do full frontal nudity?

Dianne

Me too. I remember though, if you’ve read my tribute page to Tamara, I wasn’t sold at the beginning. I hated the infamous “Wedding Dress” fiasco. That should have spelled the end for Carly and Sonny, but Tamara made it work. Despite everything she made me love Carly more. I was getting a little tired of her when Sarah Brown was playing her but Tamara humanized her in a way that made me see and feel for Carly. That was one of the reasons I became a hardcore Tamara Braun fan. And I agree that Carly hasn’t been the same without her. There was some glimmer with Jennifer Bransford in the part, and I’ll continue to give her the due she’s deserved. She had hard shoes to fill. Jennifer was trying using the same things Tamara did in the part and that was her theatre training. However, when Laura Wright stepped in and said, “I’m going to be playing my Carly closer to the original….” I think the writing was on the wall. You knew Carly would never be the same as when Tamara/Jennifer was playing her.

Dianne

So am I. And I agree. Almost all the fan-made sites have either shut down or no longer update. I’m always glad for my long-time visitors. So happy to be able to stick around for you guys.

Dianne

The photographer doesn’t think he/she owns this site, the domain is registered with something called Privacyprotect.org that keeps my sign up information private. That includes my name, address, phone number, etc. They somehow seem to think they own my domain, the one I’ve been paying for for the last six years. What I’d like to say to them is that if they want to pay me back the money I’ve put out, they can then own it. Until that time, it’s mine. Also they can pay my webhosting fees if they like. Then they can own the content. Until they do though, it’s all mine. The photographer said he/she tried to get in contact with me directly through this website, which I personally don’t believe since all my email forms are working correctly. Alternately, there is also the nature of my Facebook, Twitter and Myspace accounts being clearly visible all of which if he/she didn’t get an answer from a personal email, he/she could have gone the route of posting to one of those….had he/she taken the time to do so. He/she contacted the Privacyprotect.org thing for the purpose of being difficult. Instead of being considerate which I did by not removing his/her name on the photos… in effect giving this person the credit for the photos, he/she did not give me the same courtosey by trying all avenues including my social networking connections to get in touch with me to kindly ask me to remove the photos. I receive all alerts through my cellphone. All my social networking things are connected through my phone including all my email addresses. That’s what I meant about all my forwarders (email redirections to another central account). Thing that gets me about this is that I had no issues with any of the “Little Chenier” or “Limbo Lounge” stills I posted. In fact, I was asked to remove some “Limbo Lounge” things I had up here due to the director’s personal contact information being on them, but the person who contacted me gave me other HQ versions of the same stills for my site. So there was some amount of cooperation. In fact I was told that it was appreciated that I was giving the film such attention. According to Debby O’Connor, I’m somehow disrespecting Tamara with troweling the internet and taking credit for other people’s work, which I did not do. Apparently she may not understand the nature of a fan-made website. Anything added furthers the knowledge of that performer. It’s a dedication to them. I’ve been online for six years and Hurley three before me before she decided to give her Tamara site up and gave me her content. So that’s approximately nine years we both dedicated ourselves to Tamara and her career. Lastly, it’s not like I don’t have all the relevant notices up in terms of the copyrights and disclaimers. I said I don’t own anything, rather, this is a storehouse of all that stuff out there on the web. Like Noreen said to me in a private email, a lot of people don’t have a lot of time to go surfing the net for information. They either go to the actor/actress official site or a fan site to get the information they want. Usually this has to do with the fansite having the information readily at hand. Then the links provided can start their search. So I’m not entirely sure that this photographer or O’Connor completely understand that this is the most direct way of getting Tamara’s fans to where they want to go. I don’t know. Sorry for the longwinded response Cindy, but these were some things I thought needed to be said.

Dianne