For the next installment of my now officially ongoing Dynasty Songs project, I picked Fallon, who's one of my favorite characters on the show (or at least the first incarnation, played by Pamela Sue Martin; the replacement Fallon, who finished the series, isn't nearly as fun or compelling). The Pamela Fallon is the cool sister that everyone wants -- she's outspoken, funny, rebellious (toward her parents, who never quite understand her), but fiercely loyal to her (gay) brother, smart and glamorous enough to run a business, but ultimately tragic to the extent that her love affairs are always a mess (that part we don't want for our real sisters, but it makes for great television). She's forced to marry a man -- Jeff Colby, a childhood friend -- whom she doesn't really love in a romantic way, but regularly gives her heart to equally glamorous crooks and schemers for whom she has a blind spot (including, most awesomely, Peter de Vilbis, played by Helmut Berger, the great actor, muse, and lover of Italian film director Luchino Visconti). As sad as I was to see her leave the show after Season Four, one of the great things about Dynasty is that characters (like those in soap operas) don't die, they're just replaced by new actors; after the recent death of Will on The Good Wife, it made me wonder if television writers in this new "Golden Era" sometimes take themselves too seriously in their aspirations to be regarded as "high art," whereas Fallon, like a true mythological god, lives forever. Listen/watch to my Death Culture at Sea ode to Fallon on YouTube or Vimeo.