An update on the progress of Tamara’s DAYS OF OUR LIVES clips as Ava Vitali. I’ve been having trouble trying to locate a few of early April 2008 episodes. I have at least three hard drives the clips are scattered over due to having to move my data from different computers after having issues to do with hard drive failures, or having to reformat hard drives, to other computer issues. I’m in the process of locating those and I’m hoping to be able to begin clipping up April’s episodes sometime this weekend. I had another appointment today regarding the vertigo and I have another early tomorrow. I know Tamara is on GENERAL HOSPITAL tomorrow due to the preview I’ve seen. I’ll have that up sometime tomorrow late. Thanks for understanding. This of course is barring anything else that might either befall me this weekend, or if I can find the clips.
Category: Days of our Lives
There’s not much in the history of soaps that is worth celebrating, however, today is one of the most monumental moments in soap opera history. On this day nine years ago ALL MY CHILDREN reached an unheard of peak with the first LGBTQ wedding. With the first real “out” character of Bianca Montgomery played by the beautiful Eden Riegel, soap scribe and ALL MY CHILDREN creator Agnes Nixon created for her one of the most controversial soap heroines. It became difficult to tell Bianca’s story without really allowing her the same moments in the story as her fellow characters did in terms of getting married and settling down to have a real family. It wasn’t until 2008 when the show brought on Tamara fresh off of her role as Ava Vitali on DAYS OF OUR LIVES to play the character of architect Reese Williams who would sweep Binx off her feet and make an honest woman out of her. The nuptials of these two characters made for one of the most history making moments in television history with finally acknowledging the relevance of same-sex couples in a medium that only acknowledged the classic heterosexual unions. I choose to forget what came after since it was sacriledge what was done to Reese and Bianca. Instead I choose to focus in on the incredible moments in television. So here’s to Tamara Braun and Eden Riegel. Thank you for braving to bring us something that is of historic value, showing it is not wrong to love someone who is of your own sex. In fact it’s, well…. normal. What a wonderful moment to remember. Thank you Tamara and thank you Eden.
I’ve completed clipping and uploading Tamara’s episodes of DAYS OF OUR LIVES as Ava Vitali from March 2008. It’s been a tough go getting all these clips together and straightened out. Having moved computers at least twice since 2008 I’ve had to save my data to three separate external drives, and I’ve had a hard time finding all complete episodes. The original episodes were pretty badly clipped up as I was doing all that work on Windows Movie Maker. I’ve since bought a new program that makes the clips much cleaner as you’ve seen from her current work as Kim Nero on GENERAL HOSPITAL. There might be some glitches in the editing due to trying to get them done. I know there’s one with a bit of a commercial with a cute animated bunny. But then who doens’t love animated bunnies. Enjoy.
I’ve completed uploading of Tamara’s February 2008 episodes DAYS OF OUR LIVES in her Emmy Award Winning role of Ava Vitali to the media section. March 2008 to come soon.
Finally is December 29th’s clip, short as it may be. Overall I thought Tamara was really good, though I’m getting a little tired of her lack of airtime. I’m hoping they start ramping up her story soon.
