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I guess some would say Henry Slesar, although he only really got one long run at a soap.

As good a writer as Marland was, I feel like his writing for GL characters was (in the episodes I have seen) oddly flat, with a few exceptions (like Nola, Tony [although he got on my nerves] or KV's Morgan). He seemed much more at home on ATWT.

Ben's a pretty common name though. I sometimes wonder how Jerry ver Dorn survived on GL throughout the '80s. I can only assume he was beloved backstage. I remember when he gave the goodbye to Charita Bauer when she passed away. He'd only been on the show 5 years! Yet they had razed through so much of their cast in that time, somehow he actually had become the elder statesman. I'm not sure any other soap has ever gone through their cast in such a short space of time.

Quality is probably one factor (although for me the quality has not been that great since about 2009), but most of the people who used to post here have pretty much left the site. I think James Hooton is one of the best actors on the show and that's something they don't really have a lot of, so I'd keep him for that reason. His family unit has a lot of potential if they work with it (admittedly they probably won't). The biggest problem with Joseph is they aren't likely to bring in any other Tates so he is mostly stranded beyond Debbie. He hasn't been destroyed the way Robert has been, but he is also less likely to stay around, because he isn't part of a popular m/m pairing.

Looks like Phaedra has found a new reality TV gig.

Rita's hair and dress look a bit drab for her but Jackie does look very chic, and she has such life in that photo. I really would love to see those early Jackie scenes, as she could have easily been a character many viewers found irritating, but Cindy Pickett seems to have given her so many layers. Her acting in the 1979 episodes is always so brilliant.

Thanks for the recap. The live episode, the flood, and Sunny's rape are what I most heard about the NBC run.

He was 5 or 6. I liked the final week too.

I thought Karen Witter was great, but I thought that she got the essence of Tina more under Rauch and whoever was writing in 1990/early 91 (even if I thought her stories were not that great). Tina from late 1991 on felt like an increasingly different character, backed up by how wrong Malone got her in 94/95 and in 2003.

Is this John Reilly in this ad around 6:45?

31? Wow. I thought she would have been mid-20s.

Is this Victoria Rowell in the Chevrolet ad?

The people who will use this probably don't care whether the killer was here legally or not. IT will just plan into their plans to severely curb legal immigration.

Foster Friess, probably best-known for telling women to put an aspirin between their knees, lost his primary for Wyoming governor in spite of a Trump endorsement and big money. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/trumps-billionaire-candidate-foster-friess-loses-in-wyoming.html https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/20/wyoming-governor-foster-freiss-megadonor-789854 I get them all mixed up. I thought at first he was the one who seems to be involved in whatever money things Bernice's wife Jane gets up to. Still funnier than 90% of SNL's Bernie material: When told that he seemed less than relaxed, he replied: “I’m not stiff. I do yoga.” Asked to define himself, he offered, “I am not a Romulan. I am not a Vulcan.” (“Star Trek!” he cried, when his reference was met with a blank stare.) He tried again. “I am a sentient being,” he said.

That Rolling Stone article really shows how schizophrenic that site has become, as they veer from harsh callouts of pop names they don't like to forced and embarrassing fawning over the blatantly pushed media narratives of the day, like Ariana Grande and Camila Carbello.

She does. Margaret Colin looks good too. I'm glad she seems to have aged naturally. I'm glad they seem to still be close all these years later, considering they only had about two years together on ATWT.

I saw a bit of Ariana Grande's much-hyped tribute on the Tonight Show and it sounded like more of the overwrought, empty oversinging she always does. No soul. I have HEARD how terrible Madonna's tribute was, but I won't be watching it.

When Lorna was written out in late 1996, going on the run from a demented Cindy Harrison, they said Jenna was going to help her hide.

I know how this will be used, which is unfortunate. If this is true, then this does make me realize one of the reasons why so many in the industry seem to be wary of her.

Thank you for sharing these. I hope the fans are enjoying the anniversary.

Thanks. Somebody probably already posted this months ago but I just saw it on Danny Hill's channel today. It's part of the episode where Eunice and Doug talk about Sam being alive and they plan to tell Jo.

Does @juniorz1 still post here? I hope they are seeing these. I know they loved Hogan and Sunny.

What was the story with Danny and Angela anyway? It's a shame he didn't stay around - Liza and Stu could have used more family (and he's kind of cute - is he the one who later played Cain Devore on OLTL?). I keep forgetting Olympia Dukakis was on the show at this time. I've so rarely seen any material with Mary Stuart where she really got to act, so this was a wonderful treat. And it's so nice to see Susan Scannell too. How long did this Suzy last? Did they only do the "next on" previews when these episodes were repeated (was it USA they were repeated on?)? I see Robert Lupone is Tom Bergman in one of these episodes. I didn't realize Stu had so much of his family around at this point. Yet they were all written out and so little was done with them. What a waste. (it's weird seeing Lupone in a good guy role)