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I get what you're saying, but the specific deaths she spoke about were written in ways that do seem spiteful (and Cady McClain may have implied as much). Bringing this back to GL, McTavish also said she did this to Nadine. Anyway, I will stop now as this wasn't even my post to reply to in the first place so I shouldn't be talking all over the place.

@YTG Thanks for finding all this info.

Amazed at how good Don Hastings still looks and sounds at his age.

Just this year Megan McTavish's memoir, where she talked about how much she enjoyed killing off a character due to her dislike of the actor, was a topic of discussion on here. It may not be common, but it does happen.

Demi Lovato's Ex-Fiancé Max Ehrich Arrested for Allegedly Attacking His Mom

This was already posted elsewhere, I think, but not here. GH's Rory Gibson said he tested for Vaughn before he was cast as Michael.

https://deadline.com/2025/10/david-del-rio-fired-matlock-sexual-assault-billy-martinez-1236574763/

https://deadline.com/2025/10/david-del-rio-fired-matlock-sexual-assault-billy-martinez-1236574763/

Thanks for reminding us.

I don't know if they saw the Bauers as a family they had to erase or if there were a lot of factors coming together to decimate the family. They may have had issues with Marsha Clark. They may have had issues with Don Stewart. They assumed Charita would be there for a long time to come. Then there was them supposedly firing Elvera Roussel to show that no one was safe...which was just stupid for many reasons, among them that they got rid of most of the cast anyway, so wouldn't firing all of them already tell them they knew they weren't safe? Would they feel threatened while in the unemployment line? With that said, I think they may have also felt that similar to what they did with the Hughes on ATWT around the same period, that newer, younger viewers didn't want to see the old guard. They wanted hot half-naked bodies in glamorous locations.

Thanks.

@JAS0N47 Thank you for finding all this information and honoring the memory of the various soap writers who would probably not be remembered otherwise. I never even thought of how difficult it must be to find info on various writers, especially those who used pseuds. Was Katherine Penders a sister to Maura Penders?

Vincent Irizarry and Robin Mattson on Donahue (along with former SB star Robert Newman).

Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer on Donahue (and also former/future GL stars Robin Mattson and Vincent Irizarry).

Peter Bergman and Taylor Miller on Donahue, also featuring Vincent Irizarry and Robin Mattson (when they were on Santa Barbara).

Gloria is another AMC heroine who seemed to lose a lot of her personality after the "redeemed by rape" story, but Teresa Blake was such a unique presence that she still managed to keep the character interesting for me (maybe other than when she was paired with Tad).

I remember some people saying her work on Where the Heart Is was her best work. And like you mentioned I've heard some praise of her AMC run. I also thought she'd already passed away. Well, she's still talked about frequently on here by AW fans, so she will always have a legacy. Thank you for always keeping us in the know @JAS0N47

Mary as Lacey's mother would have been a stretch... I do wonder what they would have done with Mary at that time but she was probably better off waiting to play Meta.

@Maxim Thanks as always. Never saw just what a mess Nora was early on. Valerie Pettiford is divine. She deserved a much better career. And better than whatever Y&R is doing with her now. The little old lady was Dr. Ruth, a longtime sex therapist who was a pop culture storm in the '80s and '90s. She was a very kind woman, reportedly. Mary Gross once mentioned doing an impression of her on Saturday Night Live, with a long speech about her relationship with her mother - she was mortified to learn Dr. Ruth was in the audience that night, as the real Ruth's mother had died in the Holocaust. She sought Ruth out to apologize, but Ruth had nothing but kind words for her. She passed away last year. Here are a few clips of her near the start and end of her peak of fame.

That site was hilarious. I wish it was archived. In the "choose your own adventure" story, the homeless shelter had her name up in neon lights, she was barely ever there and when she was she treated everyone like peasants, she thought Laura was a dull frump, and she was a drunk, enjoying the bar at the Valley Inn with Marian. In one scene, she threw herself at Michael's boyfriend Brad, who politely got the hell out of there. I don't know who got her best. I might say Washam or Agnes. It's tough to tell what to blame writers for and what to blame network for. I thought a lot of her material under Broderick in the mid '90s was uninspired, but she's better served in her '80s run, and when Broderick brings her back near the end of the show. I think Brooke just lost her spark from being on so long, the parade of men, and being a heroine. Heroines were not usually all that well-served on AMC.

I do kind of like that theme, but this made me laugh because it really does ramble on. At one point as it gets so rushed I expect this guy to pop in:

They also teased her with Dimitri before they decided to write Michael Nader out, which would be teased again on PP AMC.

I just saw that. I wonder too. I'd say maybe Cora but I can't see her dressing that way...and she hadn't been on the show for a decade. I love the Mamie plate. I don't know if that was intended as something they hoped black fans would buy, but it shows how smart the show was to put her between two worlds. It's a shame they just wrote her out in 1995 after they took her too far into a story they weren't comfortable with.

By that point he was on Valerie or Valerie's Family or whatever it was called by then.

I still think this was a test run for OLTL. I think it works for Loving because Loving had no set identity, and I think the visuals are better. My only complaint is it looks and sounds like Lifetime ads. @Maxim As you enjoy the similar OLTL open you might like this too.