Like the Sands of the Hourglass...
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No Island this Time
Frances Reid, lead figure in housewives’ stories for 4 decades, has died at the age of 95. As Alice Horton, she was the last original cast member from Days of Our Lives, appearing in the first episode on November 8, 1965. Course, with her membership in the mob-run Screen Actors Guild, this has been a no-show job since 2007. A standout citizen of Salem, Alice was the calm center with tasty doughnuts around which her 5 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and friends of all of the above rotated calamitously. Along the way her son, who was presumed killed in Vietnam but actually had amnesia and extensive reconstructive surgery almost hooks up with his sister, who then becomes a nun, she was almost killed by a robot that dispensed medication, unlike the robots who kill old people to take their medications, she helped a wrongly arrested man escape from jail by drugging his jailers with doughnuts. In another episode, she was believed to have been murdered by the Salem Slasher, only to be resurrected on a remote island designed to look exactly like Salem. Reid also appeared in the 1966 John Frankenheimer thriller Seconds as the wife of banker Arthur Hamilton, who is drugged by the Company, given reconstructive surgery and forced to live out a new life as Rock Hudson, so she was well prepared for life in Salem.
Or
No Island this Time
Frances Reid, lead figure in housewives’ stories for 4 decades, has died at the age of 95. As Alice Horton, she was the last original cast member from Days of Our Lives, appearing in the first episode on November 8, 1965. Course, with her membership in the mob-run Screen Actors Guild, this has been a no-show job since 2007. A standout citizen of Salem, Alice was the calm center with tasty doughnuts around which her 5 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and friends of all of the above rotated calamitously. Along the way her son, who was presumed killed in Vietnam but actually had amnesia and extensive reconstructive surgery almost hooks up with his sister, who then becomes a nun, she was almost killed by a robot that dispensed medication, unlike the robots who kill old people to take their medications, she helped a wrongly arrested man escape from jail by drugging his jailers with doughnuts. In another episode, she was believed to have been murdered by the Salem Slasher, only to be resurrected on a remote island designed to look exactly like Salem. Reid also appeared in the 1966 John Frankenheimer thriller Seconds as the wife of banker Arthur Hamilton, who is drugged by the Company, given reconstructive surgery and forced to live out a new life as Rock Hudson, so she was well prepared for life in Salem.
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