BetterForgotten

I know he didn't arrive until a bit later, but I always assumed they fired Courtney in preparation of bringing on Paul Rauch to produce the show. Someone mentioned there was a hilarious hospital brawl between Dorian (Strasser) and Karen (Light). I've always wanted to see that.

I love how Maureen and Kim couldn't help but laugh at how stupid the Nursery Rhyme Stalker storyline was. Maureen's always had a great sense of humour about it. LOL!

Larry Bryggman, Liz Hubbard, Eileen Fulton, and Kathryn Hays are the ones I'd most love to see.

I believe Betty Rea was casting both shows at that time.

LOL, even Kim said Marj was playing a different character from Beverlee.

Maureen Garrett still looks great.

Looks like Jerry verDorm is also taking part in this.

Robin Mattson brought such humanity and compassion to that role (in her initial years), I don't know if it was ever really appreciated as it should have been.

Honestly, Maureen is the only one I care about. Kim and Robert were on The Talk a few years back for that CBS Daytime reunion thing they did, and while Liz Keifer has always seemed like a nice woman, my Blake is Sherry Springfield. Pleasantly surprised by Maureen though. She's usually a very private person, so it's quite a treat.

The fact it lasted as long as it did probably spoke a lot about the clout Agnes had at ABC at the time. ABC certainly had a lot of faith to keep in as long as they did with ratings never really moving substantially. Hell, they put the final nail in Ryan's Hope (which they owned outright at that point) coffin by switching its time-slot just to appease Agnes as well. It was definitely majorly ignored by the soap press (for the most part) and by the viewing audience for it's entire run. Had this been the late 90's and certainly today, no soap would last as long with those conditions.

Ha, that was me, but I’m sure others felt that way too. I know Agnes wanted her soaps to be based in close proximity to one another, but Corinth always felt like it should have been a sleepy New England town vs. being sandwiched between Pine Valley and Llandview somewhere in Pennsylvania to me.

P&G’s focus is on consumer packaged goods - that’s their business. Distributing their soap opera library no longer services that core business, so it’s not on their radar or priority list. As a soap fan it sucks, but I totally understand that these shows were never meant to be a core part but of their business operations. They were created to service their core business but obviously can’t anymore and didn’t do that very well by the 2000’s. At the same time, they’re not selling that library of content to anyone else, but, that assumes anyone has even even tried to buy it from them in recent years. It’s not like P&G is totally against selling off parts of their business. They’ve divested a lot over the past decade - namely selling huge chunks of their beauty business to Coty Inc.

He worked very closely with Curlee and Demorest. Curlee’s spoken about working closely with him before and what a source of solice he was when battling against network interference. Reilly also enjoyed working with JFP, btw...

I got around to watching Judith Light’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony last night. She received her Star in September of last year. Anyway, Brynn Thayer was in attendance and Judith called her a sister in real life as well. I know they’ve remained close since their time on OLTL, but it was a sweet moment. Karen is one of those characters I’m glad never returned. She’ll always be remembered for her one epic stint (even though Light didn’t originate the role) that was never tarnished by a crappy return or bad recast after her original run.

FOTH just seemed perfect for Wendy Riche’s interpretation of GH, which at the time was a departure from what the show had been used to. Autumn Breeze definitely has a timeless quality to it though.

Yes, not to mention her relationship with Cissy was never as strong as they wanted us to believe...

That's what I was saying - why would she rush to to resurrect her career if she has little control over it anyway? One of the reasons her spark may be gone is because she's not in control of anything in her life or career.

She's very much dependent on the team around her as she's never really been in control of her career (or life sadly). After being treated as commodity by both the business and her own family for so long, it's no wonder she's not rushing to resurrect her career.

Beyonce pivoted into being an albums artist vs. a singles artist. She's what Madonna became in the 90's after her singles domination in the 80's.

In her field of dance/pop and the MTV era, she is unrivaled. But it's never really fair to compare very different artists.

I think the best thing was she didn't apologize for any of it. There's been a few essays written about it, and how dangerous a precedent it would have been had she disowned it and said she was sorry for doing it. At her peak, Madonna was cultural, she wasn't just a mere pop star and she was fully in control of her message. We've not seen that since. Her final video collaboration with David Fincher (who also directed Express Yourself and Vogue). The SNL performances of Fever and Bad Girl are some of her best TV performances - very stripped down, very much driven by her interaction with the SNL band, and showing her charisma on full display.

Does anyone know if Maeve Kinkead wasn't fond of the way Pam Long wrote for Vanessa? Looking at her Emmy speech again, she thanked Doug Marland for creating Vanessa and Nancy Curlee for giving Vanessa "new life." Someone in the comments mentioned she hated the drug storyline and most of what Long wrote for her...

Yes, the OLTL selections were probably some of the best from what I saw. My first exposure to the Karen Wolek and Marco Dane, character-types I'd rarely ever seen on daytime before or since.

I forget about P!nk all the time, because well, all of her music since M!zundastood and Try This has been so damn forgettable. It works for her because she still has a strong following, but after M!zundastood (still her best album, IMO) and after Try This sold disappointingly, she gave up trying to bring anything new to the table and has played it safe and catered to soccer moms ever since. It's a shame, because had potential to be so much more, especially after she flipped the script from her first album and into M!zundastood.

It's sad she was never really able to regain her 99-04 spark again. Even before her recent troubles, her career has been on a downward trajectory - these last two albums were huge flops. She's so irrelevant to the current pop scene that she may never be able to make a significant mark on it again, especially as she pushes 40. Though, I guess other than Beyonce, no one from her generation of pop has really been able to sustain a career with much momentum.