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Susan Plantt-Winston auditioned for the AMC role of Edna Thornton before they instead cast her as Claudette.

This made me laugh...nice that something can these days...

Ah yes, Broadway legend Kelly Sullivan. That brings back memories I'd blocked out for a decade. I remember the devotees pushing and pushing people to eat that [!@#$%^&*] up because it was supposed to be camp heaven. Garbage.

Oh there were so many, I was just curious how fans felt about what the critical moments were, and how many were down to him (like if it was him or Valentini who needed to keep bringing back Howarth and Easton).

What would you say the other mistakes were?

It was the Netflix deal that kept them going more than flop Riverdale.

That would have been a good spinoff. It's too bad. There are some characters at present I think have personality (Mac, Felicity, some of the new band, and the vets), but I get what you mean, especially the plot-heavy element.

Good eye.

This is one of my favorite (maybe my favorite) periods for Laura, for the reasons you describe so well. It's also why to me Laura was always one of the most honest and believable characterizations on the show - contrast this to later years where characters in the workplace who want and need tend to either be babied a bit by the writing or are treated as bitches. I had forgotten Chip was still there as some of these other stories were starting. He and Sumner are two very different forks in the road.

I see the remaining Bernie deadenders are cheering because he held the whitest rally possible in Philly, and are making yet more empty promises about youth power...the same youth who never showed up for him in 2020. Posted and deleted by one of Bernie's cowardly team members. Their obsession with Pete will never leave.

The first, but not the others. Thanks.

Most of it is scattered all over Youtube.

Oh you're right - he was in that therapy story, wasn't he.

@Vee This is a lovely tribute to Malone. You and a few others have had so many insights on Malone's work over the years, enough to where I couldn't begin to say anything that hasn't already been said. I am one of the fans who thinks the 1995 DID story was a mistake, but I do understand the intent. Malone and Linda Gottlieb stepped into a huge creative void in 1991 and remade the show in their image, one of the final creative teams in soaps to be able to fully do so. Characters like Andrew were very dynamic and unique for daytime, and I'll always be grateful for the love and care Malone imbued into him. (the other OLTL story he remade for AW was Marty's rape story, with Toni - pretty badly done, unfortunately). We've had so much loss from daytime lately. In many ways the last few months have felt more like the end of the genre than the last four soaps staggering along over the past decade has.

An unsold pilot with David Lewis in a supporting role.

If I see David Kelley's name I don't watch. That show led so many women to sickness and mental illness.

https://people.com/movies/gary-busey-charged-four-counts-sexual-contact-harassment/

So glad to see these back @Vee !

Even a memorial service, small (due to COVID) with Victoria and Diane sharing memories and the Woolpack declaring a minute of silence for here would have been something...but considering how the show has treated the Sugdens for decades I am not shocked.