MichaelGL

Agreed Carl. Re TD: No I haven't, though I shall make my way over to the thread as we speak.

Here's my response to this week on EastEnders, which I posted on another board, so excuse the laziness! I adored Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday's episodes. Very good stuff involving the Lauren/Janine/Whitney, with the Brannings thrown in. The Brannings are pure gold these days, I love the dysfunction between them. I don't find Jay and Abi that bad, actually I find it kind of cute. Which by the way, can't be said about the stuff with Tiffany, the cutesy kid stuff is just about getting on my nerves now. That kid is given too much airtime for my taste. Janine is awesome, especially in Thursday's episode. I love the fact that she didn't back down from Rob! I agree, there's potential there, and I think the show needs to add onto it's female cast. The actor that plays Rob is incredibly convincing playing this menacing character, I'm glad the show casted him in the role. Every scene he was in, I was in utter puzzlement as to what dastardly deed he'd do next.

Kind of fits McTavish's forte, she was quite obsessed with making GL as trashy and outrageous as possible. Twins with different fathers, Quint and his mistress. Was it also her that brought back Dinah as this new trashy 20-something?

Carl, I do believe this is the scene you're referring to, the one where Roger takes compromising pictures of Reva. It was a miracle I found it, thanks to jenniferec2003 who chronicles much of the Reva postpartum depression storyline. I do kind of get a slight sick feeling watching the scenes, seeing how a manipulative Roger preys on Reva's illness and lets her strip for him. I can see how the photos that were shown to the audience were pretty risqué to some. The scene between Reva and Roger starts at 2:57 after Reva has tried to seduce Hamp, she goes over to Roger's place to rant about Vanessa.

That’s a tough question Carl, considering both did considerable damage to the show, and perhaps Kobe more so than Wilmore. However I can’t deny the significant good Kobe did for GL, which far outweighs the good Wilmore did for the show, such as casting, production values, and simply injecting the show with much needed energy. Most importantly, Kobe was an EP with focus, an EP who set the overall tone of GL during her years. This differs from Wilmore, who simply didn’t appear to have a clear and overall tone for the show, and let the revolving door of writers set it. Whether the good Kobe did for the show outweighs the bad, is debatable, but you can’t ignore that she did help the show in some way after the Marland era.

Carl, I haven't gotten around to 88, I'm trying to avoid some of Joe Willmore's tenure as EP, because to me, the show didn't really gain any true focus until Calhoun became EP. You asked about the storyline involving Roger taking photos of Reva, so far I haven't seen much of the storyline on the episodes posted.

I'm thinking the decision was more of the EP at the time, Robert Calhoun, rather than Long's, just a guess. Long seemed to find a comfortable mix between the GL of yore and the GL of that decade by bringing back characters such as Holly, Roger, and Blake during her time on the show. When Long left in 1990, the show seemed to have just a significant amount of past characters from before 1983 when Long took over. For why they never bought back CP, I guess we'll never know, it'll be one of daytimes unsolved mysteries. Is it certain that maybe CP didn't want to return? I would think that around this time, his guest appearance on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, that maybe he was looking to explore primetime or other venues of Hollywood.

I believe you might be correct there Carl, I'm not sure though. Soap Opera Central says she started "Obsessing over her new baby", I'm not sure if that's some polictially correct term for postpartum depression or not.

Finished with watching most of the stuff from GL in 1989, and now I'm moving onto 1990. Watching some of the stuff from Reva's postpartum depression storyline, and it's really intriguing. Was GL the first soap to tackle such an issue after a pregnancy? I know KZ gets criticized as being such a ham, especially when playing Reva, but seeing her play an unbalanced Reva is top notch. Seeing KZ play out the many ups and downs of Reva's personality around this time is must see tv. Here's a part of the episode, where Reva is starting to suspect that Vanessa and Josh are carrying an affair (in reality they're not), and Reva gets quite snippy with Harley.

There's not enough praise I can give this girl. She always seems to come out with an album that sings to my soul.....as cliche as that sounds. Her music really gets to me, and her voice is pure perfection. Never have I adored such a new artist like her, as I have for Adele. Congrats on her breathtaking showing on the Billboards. Favorite songs include "Don't You Remember" "Turning Tables" and "Set Fire to the Rain"

Getting caught up with EastEnders, and the whole Masood/Zanib/Yousef/Denise quad has so much potential, it's practically a powder keg. I really hope the writers don't disappoint, because I'm loving what I'm seeing so far.

But can I say how presumptuous, or ego driven that some artists have to make their videos almost 7 minutes long, or longer. That has irked me ever since the "Telephone" video.

I don't find the "Born This Way" video all that bad, compared to "Alejandro" and "Telephone" it's pretty good. I always thought she had a difficult time finding a video worthy enough to follow up "Bad Romance".

Thanks so much for the scans again Carl, you really help keep this thread alive and I appreciate it with all the information you give.

Thanks for these Carl. They're an interesting read. I've been hooked on these recent uploads of GL from 1989. Much of what intrigues me about much of these episodes is the fact that the show was going through a transition that year; from the well intentioned, but sometimes misguided EP Joe Willmore to the EP who would set in motion GL's next golden age, Robert Calhoun. Everything from the tone/direction in the writing to the simple aesthetics of the show seemed to shift into what viewers saw during much of Curlee’s tenure, like more emphasis on family and the characters themselves, rather than the trends in storytelling at the time, which pretty much defined GL for much of the mid to late 80s. One thing I am curious about is the Holly/Frank flirtation, or better yet Frank's infatuation with her. In the video below Frank seems to take it pretty hard that Holly is seemingly not interested in him. Does anyone know, how far did this story go? Or was it simply dropped entirely? I wonder if writers at the time had planned a May-December romance/pairing for Holly, involving Frank. How would GL fans have taken such a story? I wonder if Long had serious plans for the two before exiting the show in 1990, would we had gotten a Holly/Frank story instead of the Daniel St. John.

Perhaps, but from the sound of it, Janine and Ricky's grandmother is going to be a "b!tch" in some ways(compared to Pat who is pretty much the matriarch of the square). Sounds like it might give Pat a rival, being that Pat loved Frank, and this lady never did. They might have an exchange or two over their differing views of the man. I can mostly see her playing the devil to Pat's angel, in Janine's ear.

This. is. awesome!!!!!! Yes, more focus on Janine please.

Yes, I think it might have been around 87/88, a year before his return to GL in the "Beth is alive" story.

I figured much. That's the last time I ever look up Pinkerton's IMDb profile ever again. It said she was on GL in 1985

Does anyone know who's playing Beth's doctor in this episode from 1989 starting at the 5:30 mark? She seems familiar.

He was ineed the EP of OLTL at the time. Didn't Rauch work at Santa Barbara with Pamela K. Long in the early 90s? I wonder if he even contemplated the idea of possibly bringing her back to the show. Under him the show saw an eclectic mix of Head Writers, mostly a bunch of writers that didn't mesh well with the show.

Exactly, the character of Cassie, on paper had the background of someone who was raw, gritty, had street smarts. LW played her as some entitled valley girl, who could often be holier thou.

I was always indifferent towards the character of Cassie Layne. I hated how the show made her some heroine, and at the expense of Dinah Marler. Funny considering that just years before Cassie entered the picture, the character of Bridget Reardon was sacrificed for Dinah. However, if the show had simply written Cassie as a vixen, like a Carly Spencer/GH, Carly Tenney/ATWT, or a Sami Brady/DAYS, I probably would have liked the character more(For a long time the show was lacking a 30s something vixen until Dinah returned in the form of GT). Instead they tried to make her Reva-lite. Imagine Reva having to deal with a half sister who goes around town stirring up trouble, rather than a sister who just happened to find herself in peril every nine months? I did like Cassie's pairing with Danny though, and for me it was the only pairing the character had been in that made sense. How so much potential was squandered on this show after the Taggart/Culliton era is baffling. Towards the end of her run, Nicole Forester wasn't that bad as a slightly unbalanced Cassie. In some ways she was leaps and bounds over Laura Wright.

Great minds think alike Paul. In my post above I too would have had Mona hire a guy to seduce Nola, playing on Nola's fears of the past, like her one night stand with Colin Wakefield all those years ago.

I think it's safe to assume that not only Marland had something to do with Court's casting on GL, but the EP at the time Allen Potter as well. Potter had also worked with Court when he was EP of The Doctors during Court's first stint as Ann.