where my crush on alec baldwin began

Grey's is a repeat tonight, kittens, so Aunt ReeRee has a story for y'all.  Gather 'round.

Way back in the day, there was a nighttime soap called Knots Landing.  It was the bomb.  Knots Landing was a spinoff of Dallas – you know, the show about the Ewing family.  

Well, Gary Ewing was J.R.'s black sheep-of-the-family alcoholic brother.  He married Valene (Val) and his mom, Miss Ellie, bought them a house on a cul-de-sac in California, which became the setting for — you guessed it — Knots Landing.  No apostrophe.  

Knots Landing was the best.  It had everything a nighttime soap could ask for — alcoholism, mobsters, lots of affairs, faked deaths, drug addiction, assassins, amnesia, kidnapping, abuse, and my favorite storyline EVER — a murder where the body was buried beneath soil where cement was going to be poured the very next day.   Of course, when the cement cracked BECAUSE THERE WAS A DEAD BODY BENEATH IT —  the cement had to be repoured and the body was found. TO THIS DAY, when I see a crack in cement I think, "well, it's only a matter of time before they find the body."  I'm not kidding.

But my second favorite storyline concerns my boyfriend, Alec Baldwin, in which is what I believe to be the first role I recall seeing him in.  He played Val's crazy evangelist brother, Joshua, for a short time on the show.  For some reason, he decided he was going to throw his wife, Cathy, off of a building in front of a billboard with her name on it!  Does it get better than that?!  Yes, it does!  His mama, Lilly Mae is there and disowns him, then he falls to his death!  I saw this clip on a link from Go Fug Yourself the other day and it brought back such memories, I was in Alec Baldwin heaven.  So good and so bad.

Kittens, I give you Alec Baldwin playing a southern evangelist and saying "mama."  And playing Cathy is the one and only Lisa Hartman before she was Lisa Hartman Black and she totally has Rod Stewart hair.   

You are welcome.