So what did Ellen's family think of this untraditional celebration?

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That is just not so according to one Ellen Marcus, an employment compensation lawyer.

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In terms of the soap operas that her appearance so evocatively recalls, she seems to be more the hapless Sue Ellen Ewing than the scheming Alexis Carrington.

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