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Meanwhile, Laurie Metcalf has another Broadway project in the works. Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow to Star on Broadway in 'Hillary and Clinton' (Exclusive)

Even when Erica had other rivals and when the characters didn’t orbit one another, the show would always acknowledge that Erica/Brooke didn’t much care for each other. That continuity was always strangely satisfying.

They were obviously not going to work on a soap after their ordeal with their own one, but the Dobson's would have been interesting at AMC as well. I think they would have gelled well with Agnes's sometimes broad humour approach and they showed at GL they could also handle more contemporary issues. Their ATWT had issues, but a huge part of that seemed P&G wanting to follow the trends GH/ABC was successful with at that time.

Mulcahey seems very no nonsense. Nixon's working style just rubbed him the wrong way. He's spoken very highly of Marland, the Dobson's, Nancy Curlee, and even Bob Guza - perhaps they gave him a greater level of freedom to express his creativity.

I think Patrick Mulcahey's commentary about Nixon's feedback on his LOV scripts was that she was a severe micro-manager and her feedback ultimately wasn't helpful to him. Found it, it's from a Santa Barbara fan site: http://santabarbara-online.com/InterviewPMulcahey2.htm How did you start in Santa Barbara ? Thereby hangs a tale. After working with Douglas Marland on Guiding Light and then on Loving, which I hated (and where Agnes Nixon was like some psychotic schoolmarm on speed, making copious condescending red-pen "corrections" in the margins of scripts - "You used the same word on page 2 and on page 34 ! Too repetitive !") - after that, I decided I was done with writing for soaps. Douglas was the best. He'd taught me more about writing than any ten literature professors ever could have, plus I'd won an Emmy. I figured I'd never have another experience like that, so I decided go back to what I knew best : waiting on tables and writing plays at night and being a starving artist again.

Strasser did some of her best work (and probably the last time she got the chance to) in that 1995 DID storyline, the reveal aspect at least. But yes, Malone could be a deeply convoluted and heavy-handed writer.

That period had some of the show's best production values.

Too bad it was a fluke. She's such a joke these days, but then again, that's how she seems to see herself anyway....

I have to believe she'll just wrap of this season of BB and won't be around for the next one (if there is one).

Julie Chen leaving 'The Talk' after husband Les Moonves exits CBS Hopefully this also means she's out of Big Brother and the entire network...

The Redstone's really need to force her ass out ASAP.

Didn't Angela also do a musical TV movie for CBS after MSW was canceled?

Poor LBT. But I'm not so sure about this claim in bold.... "Designing Women was my flagship CBS show, and Evening Shade had just been lauded as the best new comedy of the season."

I do wonder if Julie will be like Camille Cosby and continue to stand by her man in the most offensive way, or will she eventually try to break away from him for the betterment of whatever is left of her career (not that it was ever much anyway).

Flashback to Cher and Peter Bogdanovich's feud from the filming of Mask. Loved how she gave no [!@#$%^&*] and wasn't about pleasing a director she had a terrible experience with.