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3 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Speaking of Liz... Her birthday was just the other day. I believe today is Martha's birthday.

Yup, Liz's is on 12/22 and Martha's is on 12/23.

7 hours ago, Manny said:

From what I remember of Ashley Hamilton, he was not good and switching to Eddie Cibrian was a great move.

Given how quickly the recast happened, I wonder if Cibrian had already auditioned and was runner-up for the tole originally.

@Taoboi, they don't pay you enough!!

54 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

That's why I always laugh when I read that passage from Lemay's book where his son says to him, "Dad, you're pissing your life away on this stuff." Just a few short years later, he was pissing right along with him. 

Always watch what you say!!

Thanks for the update. Hopefully, we'll have a date soon.

3 minutes ago, Khan said:

I think the only type of story that Harding Lemay wasn't capable of writing was a YOUNG love story.  Lemay himself once said that he found it difficult to write for younger actors, because they didn't have the life experience that their older colleagues had to draw on (although, he did cite Ray Liotta (ex-Joey) as a notable exception).

I wonder if that's a reason why he ultimately hired his son onto his writing staffs.

No matter what, the friendship between Matt and Nick was one of the best parts of the show:

Here's a nice picture of Susan Harney with Ted Shackelford, courtesy of AWHP:

Many happy returns to La Lucci!!!

3 minutes ago, Khan said:

ICAM.  Kevin and Laura just don't work for me either.

Does anyone know why GH never reunited Kevin and Lucy?

AW should have ended before the gorilla showed up!

Here's another one - Lily and Holden.

Totally right about Gina. She never would have gone that far.

It's hard to remember that Eddie Cibrian was not the original Cole and that Ashley Hamilton was. It seems that he had been there from the beginning.

5 minutes ago, Dion said:

Is Debra Messing playing a midwife? I don't recall anyone else ever having a midwife on a US soap, only ob-gyns or someone (usually the father) totally inexperienced delivering the baby lol

Carolee Aldrich (Jada Rowland) on The Doctors was a nurse who eventually became a midwife.

I'm also surprised that Eden and Cruz were not brought back and/or reunited at the end of SB - or even mentioned. A Martinez has said he wasn't even asked back at the end, and he would have gone back for the final episodes if he had been.

Members of the original cast:

No Grant Harrison???

Thanks, @MissPalmer, for posting the article.

2 hours ago, janea4old said:

20 Dec. 2021 from head of WHO:
"But an event cancelled is better than a life cancelled. 
It’s better to cancel now and celebrate later, than to celebrate now and grieve later."

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-for-geneva-based-journalists---20-december-2021

That's a great quote - and one that sadly should have been taken more seriously from the beginning.

I would love to know what went down on Passions that Luis/Sheridan was not endgame after years of building them up. They had such a huge fan base. McKenzie Westmore has been vocal about her displeasure of those two being kept apart.

Did Susan Harney's Alice have any good stories?

2 minutes ago, Manny said:

I think you are right. I did not see the movie, but it sounds like a fair comparison. 

I think RVJ said so in an interview. For whatever reason, the writing was never there for TC. He had potential to be an interesting character and RVJ always gave good performances, but he was thrown under the bus for Julian.

I think TC was modeled after Richard Williams (who Will Smith is getting massive praise for playing on film). In the months before the show was canceled, Rodney Van Johnson was taken off contract and it was announced he would be recurring, but I don't think he was ever seen on the soap again.

1 minute ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

This was really hard to watch tbh. Eileen was fabulous but he was so annoying

That describes the lion's share of his episodes!!!