BetterForgotten

Soaps were once a lot more gender inclusive vs. primerime and film when it came to women in positions of power. I guess a lot of that would stem from Irna Phillips herself being the mastermind behind the genre, but then you had someone like Lucy Ferri Rittenberg for example (who never gets much notice) that EP’d The Guiding Light over a very long period of time.

I never thought Cassie ever worked as a character, so LW's supposed value to the show never made sense to me personally.

I guess Tom Eplin actually received a similar clause in his contract which P&G had to fulfill when NBC canceled AW.

Bless her, but Marla looked like she could barley walk the last time I saw her make a public appearance. I hope she's well though.

I'd only watch if Sarah Michlle Gellar was invited.

Bless Constance, always as subtle as a heart attack, lol.

I always said that Lois/Brenda had a much more believable friendship to me than Robin/Brenda, even though I liked the latter. They just seemed like women who would click in some weird way.

I also think Curlee would have written Ned/Lois (and Lois in general) a hell of a lot better than what we got from Guza. I think Marland would have enjoyed Y&R's corporate intrigue and messy family dynamics elements.

I also don't know that Susan Marie Snyder is the most qualified person to make that statement. Is she a WGA member? She's not been active in the industry since her time on ATWT, to my knowledge. Unless that's the excuse/lie someone told her when she was let go in 1995?

I had always heard that getting royalties from characters that a writer had created on a soap was a myth. I also can't find any WGA rules/guidelines around that.

I do wonder if VM can keep up with the pace of daytime for an extended period of time again. That 2010-2011 stint was the epitome of phoning it in and just collecting a paycheck. I still have nightmares thinking about some of the awkward laughs/crackles she would randomly insert into scenes...

She probably would have loved writing the initial Carly/Bobbie story, too, given how important Blake and Holly's mother/daughter dynamic was to her GL tenure. I think @titan1978 mentioned a few days ago that she also probably would have done a much better job of integrating the 'family man' Luke that Labine had fostered, with the more darker/sleezeball Luke that Geary and Guza loved so much, based on how much she was able to believably ground Roger Thorpe. And obviously since this is mid-90's, she would have been forced to carry the Sonny/Brenda torch...

She's admitted in other interviews to being a consultant for ABC Daytime in the mid-90's (which is why she was probably considered for the GH HW role), but I don't think she was ever officially credited for writing anything on those shows.

The 2000's were a very unkind time for men's hair and fashion (hell, hair/fashion in general).

Likely, I believe she backed out to do Silkwood with Meryl Streep and Kurt Russel, directed by Mike Nichols. That was really the beginning of her 'Hollywood' era and hard work to be taken seriously as an actress. She already had problems being taken seriously for being Cher alone, so doing a stint on a soap wouldn't have helped with the movie career she wanted and would go on to have in the 80's. Her acting career would have probably been very different had she missed out doing that supporting role in Silkwood.

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And where exactly did I specify that it did? I also don’t think any of the actors who have played this role have brought anything memorable to the part.

It’s a total lack of imagination and competence. Morina and Griffith are content with just coasting and collecting a paycheck, they know they can now get away with putting absolutely no effort into anything.

Lachlan had/has a very visible receding hairline though…

The irony was FMB realized that McTavish was running out of steam during the end of that first stint, so fired her. Then FMB herself was fired like 8 months or so later.

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I hope @Dan gets to see this and add his view.

Aw, Nancy said writing GL was "lightning in a bottle, you never know when you're gonna catch it."

Nancy says she misses serial writing - and she regrets leaving her career after GL. She said she would have killed to write a primetime serial. Nancy said she was in negotiations to HW GH - this would have been after the Labine's were thrown out and Guza came in.