Lisa Rinna on ACCESS HOLLYWOOD

Carly caught in tough spot on GENERAL HOSPITAL Jax walks into a conversation between Sonny and Carly today on GENERAL HOSPITAL, which leads to an ultimatum for his bride. "If she tells one more lie," warns Laura Wright (Carly), "he's done." And Carly has told a boatload of them. "Sonny forces Carly to admit that she's the one who leaked the rumor," says Wright, referring to the compromising tabloid photo of Jax with Sonny's fiancée, Kate. Carly realizes, "Wow, I'm going to lose this guy," continues Wright. "So she vows, 'I'm not going to do anything wrong.'" GH: Medicalizing Spinelli "For a twenty-something, Spinelli is socially delayed, sexually naive, speaks of himself in the third person, uses formal pedantic language, and refers to other people by descriptive, perceptive monikers he supplies. He is also a good-natured, computer genius and a loyal, caring friend who can be honest to a fault. Even by soap standards, Spinelli is a little 'off the beaten path,' but should Spinelli’s quirks and eccentricities be diagnosed or turned into medical fodder? Can’t someone just be different or unique? So what if Spinelli processes information or expresses himself differently than the other citizens of Port Charles." A looking at "breaking news" interruptions Sometimes, "breaking news never quite breaks. That was the case Wednesday when local TV stations in Milwaukee interrupted regular programming for coverage of a missing plane that was never actually missing. That, of course, led to the usual round of calls and e-mails from disgruntled viewers. One of those disgruntled viewers called to complain Wednesday that GENERAL HOSPITAL was disrupted by Channel 12’s coverage. As a regular soap viewer, she admits she’ll keep on watching GH despite the interruption. See. That’s where they got you. Andrea Evans on THE VIEW today Andrea Evants, who plays ONE LIFE TO LIVE's recently returned vixen Tina, will be a guest on today's episode of THE VIEW on ABC. Fringe Festival play with a Y&R twist The annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which begins on Aug. 3 in Scotland, will include a wide assortment of productions, more than 2,000, some of which may eventually find their way to New York. Among the offerings is "7 Sins," written and performed by James Judd. The show is a comical look at his own life, one that seems reasonable enough in some aspects (he went to law school and practiced as a criminal defense attorney) and completely mad in others (his mother paid him to skip school, watch THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and later act it out for her). Next SAG-AMPTP Deadline Is July 24th! SAG Presented Counter-Proposal Today; Will AMPTP Negotiate Or Just Walk Away? Nikki Finke updates the latest on the SAG/AFTRA saga in her Deadline Hollywood blog. Oz soap opera NEIGHBOURS to be aired on social networking site Australia’’s popular soap NEIGHBOURS will soon be posted on a social networking site. The producers of the series made the decision because a large number of unauthorized broadcasts are already occurring on the Internet. Ben Liebmann, production company FremantleMedias vice president of licensing, says that they want to utilize multiple platforms for its programs. He, however, did not divulge the name of the website on which the programme would be posted. The cross-over list MarkH provides a detailed list of all the daytime soap crossovers in history. The Drama's Always On The Unemployed Soap Opera Viewer (who is now employed) blogs: "While I was watching GL, The Unemployed Boyfriend wandered by and asked why I wasn't looking at Spinelli. Ah, that is because when I turned on GENERAL HOSPITAL, all I saw were the Zaccharahs zaccharahing at each other. By 'zaccharahing' I refer to any scene where Trevor, Claudia and Anthony are all present, snarling and threatening meaninglessly. It's enough to send anyone to Peapack for the hour!"