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An article about the importance of going back to telling people that they can make a difference in the environment. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/21/earth-day-individual-climate-impact-198835

He very much made the right decision there, considering what happened to Dan Gautier. Even with Holroyd in the role, Goutman and Sheffer failed Paul as a character. I don't even want to go back and watch any of that. One of the worst headwriting and production teams in soap history.

I never really felt like they served the same story purpose (Andy and Molly had been split for a year before Jake arrived), but I do think the vets were phased out in favor of shiny new hires.

Valente was producer before MADD - she fired Valente. DeFrietas then came back, stayed about a year after Behr was fired. She was in charge at P&G through Behr until P&G dumped her around the mid 00s. So she probably did have some involvement in his exit. But he did come back during her tenure as well. I think Lucy Johnson may have made that quote.

DeFreitas was originally let go by Valente. Behr brought him back about two years later. Goutman then made him the heavy to Ben and Denise (I remember the forced attempts by some of the soap press to claim that Andy faking paralysis was clever because John had done it too - ha), and soon after Sheffer arrived, DeFrietas was fired again. Given Sheffer's obsession for "men with balls," I wouldn't be surprised if he felt Andy was too puny and weak so therefore had no place on the canvas compared to his nasty, mushmouthed thugs like Craig and Dusty. And since Goutman didn't give a [!@#$%^&*] about the show's history or anything but his own ego, Andy never came back.

From what I've seen of Christine's first run as Gwyn, she was more of a camp bitch, albeit one with vulnerability. Savage's Gwyn was pluckier, with a more visible heart of gold. It's like the two versions of the "tough gal" in a '40s movie. There's an episode, dubbed in Italian, where Savage's penniless Gwyn walks the streets to "Another Day in Paradise." Savage's Gwyn was pals with brassy sidekick Norma - Tudor's Gwyn never would have done either of those. I think Roya and Lisa were both excellent as Ava, but Roya's Ava was more internalized, colder to the world. I wish more of the episodes she had filling in for Lisa were available.

I know Lemay said he felt he had no choice but to write melodrama, but I don't see how the Janice story is any more extreme than the Sven saga, or introducing a sleazy boyfriend for Marianne solely to give Pat a breakdown and a murder trial. Or the Olive mess. The Mac and Rachel breakup was somewhat contrived, but the performances made it worth watching. Christine Jones was just exquisite. My complaints with that story are with the lazy, stale aftermath - anything after Janice died doesn't work for me.

The same place where Genoa City has a bustling international airport. Y&R gave up realism when Victor Newman arrived.

While we're talking about Mary and whether or not she was well-liked enough - when she died, SOD mentioned that a year or two before, she had been given an Emmy in a private ceremony, presumably with some of her colleagues involved (I can't remember the article). For someone who was the central figure of a soap, wrote an autobiography, recorded an album and toured, she seemed to also be a relatively private woman (for instance, she never gave interviews about her battles with cancer), so that probably impacts memories of her.

Well, thanks for finding the page, anyway. Sorry for not saying that before.

Best of luck to her but those posts make me likely to never, ever want to read her Facebook.

If they were sticking to the unfortunate segregated writing choices (and considering the amount of hate mail and death threats that occurred when they tried to pair Neil with a white woman, I guess they had their reasons to do so), then this probably would have made more sense. I would have considered pairing Olivia with someone else after Nathan died, not Malcolm or Neil. The character was a dud, but I wonder how a relationship with Kurt Costner could have gone. There would have been tension with Ashley, I'm sure Dru would have been distrustful of him, he'd lost his wife and child (I think...) so he could have bonded with Olivia and Nate, etc.

I don't really remember Malcolm and Olivia getting much of a response - to me it felt like not knowing what to do with the characters (especially Olivia) and one of the signs of how lazy and incestuous the writing was becoming for the show's black characters. I was never that fond of the Dru and Neil marriage as I felt like he just nagged her all the time and didn't want her to be herself. I can't speak of their second marriage as I had quit watching by then.

The character lost some support in the last decade (partly due to what seemed to be contempt for her from the powers that be - her maternity leave stories were so spiteful), but she was popular most of the time. For me ATWT lost its foundation for good when MADD and Felicia Menei Behr decided the show should just be an ABC soap. Any identity was gone and never returned.

The only reason I knew was because Google said which character Victoria was meant to play. So it was time no one should be wasting, really... It says a lot about roles for older women in the industry that LAD would have come in for such a thankless role (no criticism of her on my part).

I think to a lot of GL fans of that era (I am including myself in this), they are more likely to ask Meryl Streep what it's like to have Maeve Kinkead as a sister in law. You can see a tiny bit of them here around 29 minutes. It's always seemed odd to me as well.

Lesley Anne Down replaced her.

Thanks. I always got the first part mixed up.

Same old NPR, pushing right wing talking points. I have never forgotten their shilling for the Iraq invasion.

That episode was up on Youtube for a number of years. I can't remember the date now. I think sometime in fall 1987.

His scene starts about 3 minutes in. (Julia's vapid face is such a fantastic invitation to watch this episode, isn't it)

I think by the end she also felt a loyalty to the idea or history of the show, more than what she had to work with. I think that's what she suggested as the reason why she was still there at the end. I remember her confronting Michael Logan (when he interviewed her) over his negative comments about her work as Justine, and her basically saying it was garbage and she did what she had to do to get through.

Oh sorry - I thought you meant he made a guest appearance on OLTL as well.

I remember DeeDeee talking about how Bell liked writing for Colleen Casey. If so that's the only real reason I can guess why she was on as long as she was and why poor beautiful Andy was stuck with her. She's certainly not a bad actress by any means, but she's very glossy and generic in a way that is badly out of step with the show at that point. She seems like she should be shilling orange juice in between all her Sweeney Sisters musical numbers.