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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.

Despite it all, I do think Stuart was perhaps the best EP the show ever had. That period with Gordon Russell as HW is the most interesting era of the show for me. JC - They really did try to make her happen, but seemed other female leads were just more popular with the show's audience at the time. Did ABC knowingly fire her because they knew they were going to bring Paul Rauch in?

And god bless Jackie Courtney who certainly put up with a lot of crap on her own over the years, but wasn't she having an affair with Joe Stuart for much of his time producing OLTL? One has to look no further than Karen's infamous courtroom episodes to see the moment where Pat was shoehorned in to give Courtney a big (and less effective) moment of her own. "YOU KILLED MY SON!!!!!!"

I guess Holly and Hayman could have rightfully wondered why Agnes couldn't find room for them on her much higher-rated and higher-profile soap (AMC). But I do respect them for not wanting scraps after they were fired from OLTL - LOV changed its identity a million times during its run, who is to say they wouldn't have eventually be treated the same way there? Holly definitely didn't see playing Carla as just another job, so I guess that was part of it. It was personal to her in a way.

I think it was said that both Holly and Hayman took it as an insult that they would be asked to join a low-rated soap like Loving that had basically fizzled soon after launch (though it hung around for a over a decade despite this). Though Holly did recur on GL for a few years here and there. I guess she may have done that to keep her health insurance and what not.

I didn't know Dionne and Aretha did a live duet of this. I still prefer Dionne's version/arrangement as I don't feel Aretha suited Bacharach/David's type of music, which was tailor made for Dionne. Aretha also did a rather messy version of Walk On By:

It was the era where everyone tried to emulate Reilly's ratings success at DAYS, but no one knew how... To be fair to GL though, 1997 was a bit of a bounce back for them, but it all deteriorated by early 1998.