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She didn't even say anything that bad. He is just pissy and sour. He probably also sees what a uniformly negative response the season has had. And the ego "why is she doing this with my signage behind her." Who gives a [!@#$%^&*]? Does he think people will assume that means he agrees? Is his signage meant to be that holy? Any time I see him he looks and sounds completely spent.

Thanks @Franko It's a bit Stairway to Stardom but I imagine it took a great deal of time and energy.

@Wendy @Jdee43 Any other Santa Barbara fans, that show had a ton of dropped stories, didn't it? I am trying to remember if Pearl's brother (Kyle Secor) even had an exit from the show. What about that whole story with the Vietnamese woman who may or may not have been Cain's daughter?

I'm curious - what do you mean by suspect? I just assume more people are home because the economy is so bad.

While we were talking about GH, I should mention the original dropped plans for Valentin, where Matt Borlenghi was, IIRC, in the makeup chair when they told him they had scrapped the story.

I think it was meant to be a full story. This was around the same time as another dropped plot, where Paul and Mary Williams began mentioning Patty again for the first time in many years, and viewers saw a woman in a phone booth who called Mary or Paul.

I believe they were only married for a very short period of time. Such a waste all around.

Josh Duhamel has gone on the famously apolitical Megyn Kelly's podcast to chide celebrities for being political.

I think there's a lot they could still do with Nina at the moment, while Willow is still there. Ava, I just don't think the character has ever made sense and I think her storylines have been exhausted. I won't ever be upset about Maura having a job of course, and I enjoyed her scenes with Lucas today.

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I would say the stories become more generic, less layered. You go from Natalie's rape to Adam gaslighting terrified ingenue-of-ingenues Dixie.

That era also fascinates me as the show is moving into a very unique area for a soap - so much of the show taking place in New York alongside Pine Valley - and making it work. In both 1982/1983/1984 and then in 1987/early 1988 the show seemed to be finding a difficult balance until the balance was shattered. The show then becomes so streamlined after the 1988 strike and some of the negative response to choices made in late 1988/early 1989. I can understand why, but I think the show loses a richness and identity. I didn't realize how much was dropped due to the strike. I forgot there was a Pamela return. I wonder if Khami was asked to return (she was just recurring on GL around this time). If they weren't interested in Jeremy/Natalie as a serious pairing pre-strike I guess that helps explain why no one at the show seemed to care about keeping them together after their wedding.

I am, yes. I was trying to remember if that Eric/Caitlin (?) story was real. The whole Geri story was endless and confusing. I felt like we heard about her every time we saw Victoria and Cole for years on end. Then because they dropped the story, they suddenly claimed that he'd slept with Nina offcamera, months earlier.

Thanks. I'd add the vampire story for Diego on AW. I think AWHP mentioned that Ben McKinnon and Thomasina Todd kissed but that was quickly dropped. (was it Ben?) Y&R - bringing back the actor who played Lauren's stalker Shawn as a love interest for Ashley in 1996 B&B - wasn't there some story that went nowhere with Russell Todd as a neighbor and stalker of Taylor?

@Maxim I'd forgotten about this meme (which I just saw again recently) - something else Elaine became famous for. You will see why about 15 seconds in.

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Would this include stories which were initially started but then stopped without any explanation or just stories that never made it to air even in short buildup?

It absolutely did. I can understand that the show had been moving away from Jaleesa more and more each season, even with the Sinbad relationship. I wouldn't have wanted them to just write her out but the method they chose was almost worse. Where can you go from there? They weren't going to be having a Taylor Time spinoff. And I don't remember much of any buildup. It made as much sense as if she'd married Mr. Gaines. That actually could have given her more storyline...

Thanks. Kamhi mentions playing the wife so she may be wrong, I'm not sure.

Katharine Kamhi on All My Children, Guiding Light, Oprah cameo & Sleepaway Camp memories! - YouTube Katherine Kamhi talks a little about her brief appearance on Y&R, mainly that it was very hard for her to deal with the much faster pace of daytime in her years away. She says even though she didn't work with Peter Bergman, he remembered her from AMC and helped her get adjusted.

Katharine Kamhi on All My Children, Guiding Light, Oprah cameo & Sleepaway Camp memories! - YouTube Katherine talks a bit about playing Marcy Campbell. She said she got the role because a casting person was recommended to go see her in an off-Broadway play. She mentioned that she later did an After School special with Ian Ziering. She's still good friends with Jennifer Gatti and Paige Turco.

Katherine Kamhi (ex-AMC, GL, etc.) said she taped scenes for GH last year due to an actress who got COVID, but her scenes didn't end up airing. It's around 30 minutes in. I'm guessing NLG but who knows. Katharine Kamhi on All My Children, Guiding Light, Oprah cameo & Sleepaway Camp memories! - YouTube

Watching this interview with Katherine Kamhi, and around 30 minutes in she talks about her brief time on GH. She says she played the wife of a man who pretended he had a bomb so she could get healthcare. I remember that aired during the 2008 portion of the writers' strike. Do you remember what her character's name was? I was trying to remember to help add to her files for @slick jones info. She also said that last year she taped scenes for an actress who had COVID, but the scenes didn't end up airing. She had to memorize 60-80 pages overnight and that was so hard she didn't ever want to do it again. I wonder who it was. I am guessing NLG just based on her look. Katharine Kamhi on All My Children, Guiding Light, Oprah cameo & Sleepaway Camp memories! - YouTube

You're right. Most before 1979 is gone. There are or were some episodes from before then but not many. Ideally P&G would try to find, restore and release those few pre-1979 episodes, but good luck with that.

Katharine Kamhi on All My Children, Guiding Light, Oprah cameo & Sleepaway Camp memories! - YouTube Katherine played Pamela Kingsley. She auditioned to play Cassie on OLTL, and this led her to AMC. She said that she asked a recurring actress at the time on OLTL to help her learn soap acting. She said that Tudi Wiggins and Michael Minor were very kind to her. She praises Susan Lucci highly. She also praises Mark LaMura. She was neighbors with him when they were on AMC. Alan asks if it was uncomfortable to play love scenes with him given the age difference. She says that AMC didn't give her any material along those lines until she had been on the show for a year. She didn't have a problem playing love scenes with Mark because at the time she thought of herself as being older. She auditioned for Sleepaway Camp while still on AMC. She had to ask AMC about doing it. They told her she could, but that they'd be driving her back and forth. She said that when she was playing Pamela, women in the supermarket would try to hit her with their purses and she would have to tell them she was just an actress. She mentioned sharing a scene with Oprah. She said that was when she was about to leave the show - she'd been away to do films and they asked her if she wanted to go, so it was a mutual departure. They asked her if she would film a scene with Oprah because Oprah was getting her own show. Her first reaction was what kind of a name is Oprah. She said Oprah was great. Many years later, she got a call from Oprah's producers as they were doing a show about an actor's first scene and wanted her to be in the audience to surprise Oprah. She went to the taping with her daughter, who was 6 months old at the time. She said Oprah loved her daughter and went around holding her. She still has a photo of Oprah with her daughter. When Alan asked her if she preferred her AMC or GL role she said her AMC role as she got to do a lot more and she was the only teenager opposite all the adults. She said that when she had a brief role on Y&R, she reunited with Peter Bergman and he helped her adjust to how much tougher the pace for soaps was by that point.