Moore returns to daytime roots

Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore returns to "As the World Turns" on Monday — a classy, classy thing to do.

Moore isn't doing it because she needs the work. She's doing it to pay tribute to the show that launched her career.

And because "As the World Turns" is going off in September after more than half a century on the air.

Moore appeared on the soap opera from 1985-1988, playing half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes and winning a Daytime Emmy in 1988.

In Monday's episode (11 a.m., CBS/Ch. 2), she plays Frannie Hughes, who returns to Oakdale "to celebrate her father and stepmother's wedding anniversary," according to the network.

Again, what a classy, classy thing to do.

WHAT A CONTRAST: So, Julianne Moore returns to the show that launched her career 22 years after she left.

Meanwhile, Katherine Heigl won't return to "Grey's Anatomy" — the show that made her a star — a few months after she left for even a single episode to wrap up her storyline.

OUT OF CONTEXT? In case you missed it, "Big Love" star Chloe Sevigny gave an interview in which she dissed the fourth season of that show — even calling it "awful."

And then she backed away from those comments. Which is no surprise, given how inflammatory they were.

But Sevigny and HBO both behaved unconscionably in blaming the reporter who accurately quoted her.

"It was awful this season, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not allowed to say that!" she told Sean O'Neal of online publication A.V. Club. "It was very telenovela. I feel like it kind of got away from itself. The whole political campaign seemed to me very farfetched. I mean, I love the show, I love my character, I love the writing, but I felt like they were really pushing it this last season. And with nine episodes, I think they were just squishing too much in."

She went on to say, "Me and the girls (co-stars Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin) definitely were not very happy with where it was going — or more kind of, 'We really hope it's going to work. It seems like they're really pushing it.' "

She added, "It's too much. But I hope the fans will stick with us and tune in next year. There's a lot of people who really love this season, surprisingly. (Gosh), I'm going to get in so much trouble."