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Hmmmm. I guess the Bells didn't come a-knockin' again after she got canned from GL. Thankfully for her, she landed AMC again and reprised Liza Colby for almost a decade before she left show business in the mid-2000s. Hopefully, the GL experience taught her some humility, as that was the first soap gig where she had been fired, and that even an Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy doesn't always spell job security. Thanks for the response.

I see your point, and sadly, I have to agree. He wasn't a cookie-cutter type "hunk", and his unconventional look made him stand out and seem more, I don't know, normal to the audience. Of course, the networks, sponsors and the like all want the cookie-cutter type "hunks".

LG's Gina was like a china doll, fragile and looking for love in all the wrong places. Her gradual change into a villainess was very believable, and LG played the raw hurt perfectly. Her SOD win for Best Villainess was very well deserved. I'm not exactly sure what the reasons were for her being let go and replaced by RM, and I'm not sure how she would have worked with Justin Deas and all the wacky storylines that were going on then. RM was very good at playing the comedic stories, and she had the chemistry in spades with Justin Deas. She played the dramatic plots very well, too, like when she learned the truth of her connection to Lily Light, and the rape of her niece, Hayley. The dynamics between Gina and Santana seemed to change with the change in actresses. When it was LG playing Gina, she was the weak, clingy one while it was Ava Lazar's Santana who was the cunning spitfire with a backbone. RM's Gina then became the strong, calculating one while Santana (then played by Gina Gallego) became a sniveling mess. One thing never changed with either Gina - both were driven to do what they did, however shady, for Brandon. Both actresses played Gina's love for her adopted son beautifully.

Does anyone know if he was ever asked to come back to ATWT? It would have been interesting to see him in the last years of the show's run instead of Roger Howarth's histrionics.

What did she say?

God bless him. He really ranks as one of the greats of the genre.

I never saw any of that on GL, so I can't comment. LOL According to a recent interview, Richard Eden (Brick) and Jane Sibbett (Jane) did not get along off-screen at all: http://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/05/exclusive-and-unusual-interview-with.html

To each his/her own!!

I found a 1996 clip of Robin Wright (then Robin Wright-Penn) from June 1996 on Jay Leno, complete with a clip from SB: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw2l0b_exclusive-video-interview-with-robin-wright-about-kelly-capwell_fun

Victoria Lane - now SHE was even more of a clingy mess than Santana!!!

I thought Margaret Michaels was miscast, because she didn't look or sound Hispanic. She was indeed very pretty, and I think she would have been fine as another character. My favorite Santana was the first one, Ava Lazar. Her Santana was a spitfire, independent and had a backbone, and you could see why men from Mason to Cruz (pre-Eden) wanted her. Gina Gallego seems like such a sweetheart from all the interviews and articles I've read, but it's true that her Santana was a clingy mess. I haven't seen enough of Wanda de Jesus yet to make an informed opinion.

It was indeed Wanda de Jesus. I recall reading somewhere else that when the role of Santana was being resurrected, the Dobsons wanted to re-hire Gina Gallego, but were overruled by the network.

Thanks!! Thanks. That's a shame that the part didn't last long. It would have been cool to see her butt heads with fellow lawyer Cass.

Cool - what year was that family tree from?

I think he is. I know Ernest was also a Scientologist, but I'm not sure if he is one anymore. The late Fred Berry became a Baptist minister before he passed.

I was going to say the same thing. He looks great - barely changed at all.

Between stints on GL? Was she on any other soaps?

Let's hope the folks at TV One are reading this.

I didn't even know Rebecca Hollen was even on ATWT.

The Cleveland Press - from my hometown, and a paper that went under in 1982. Thanks for sharing.

Think those outfits are busy enough? LOL

I second that emotion!! All were great programs!!

We can only hope!! Plus, it would be fun to see how he would interact with Amaro, Rollins and Barba, who all joined the cast after he left. Maybe Stabler could come back as a witness in some capacity. My feeling is that Stabler felt so guilty over shooting that girl in the squadroom in his final episode that he couldn't make himself come back there at all. So this could be a way for him to face those demons as well as facing Liv again as well.

That was a terrific episode, and Ernest, Haywood and Danielle all look terrific. It's nice to know that all three of them are still tight. I hope they do more profiles on TV shows.

If he even came back for ONE episode, that would bring a lot of closure to not only Benson but to the audience. But with Meloni tied down to a new Fox sitcom, he may not be available. We'll see.