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It's floating around in various poor qualities online, but the only really decent quality version I know is on Plex. It's only done a few rounds of repertory houses in the US in the last decade-plus but has yet to have the major rediscovery Vengeance did for Michael Roemer before his death. Both turned up on PBS' American Playhouse in the '80s, but only Flash got a brief theatrical release. Anyway, we're way OT!

It's so good! Some of both Brooke Adams' and certainly Van Devere's best work. (I hope the even more forgotten '80s indie A Flash of Green with Ed Harris and Blair Brown, exiled to free Plex with ads, gets rediscovered next.)

We have talked this idea before (Erica literally replacing Sydney Chase for a year or more), and it's a very intriguing one. I think it would've been very bold to do and could've worked, but it also would have altered the balance and likely fate of AMC far too much. I can't see Agnes or the network allowing it.

They were promoting it at the time in the mags. It was more about "Patrick and Marty" being reunited, even though SH was playing Ian and Patrick's sister lol. I was just happy to see her, as at that time I didn't expect to see Susan back on OLTL again. The ATWT porn story always sounded so sleazy. I never understood the reasoning behind something like that, especially given their hiring an Alison who seemed totally different from Jessica Dunphy and downright drab and mousy. (The late Marnie Schulenberg was actually great in a role as a savvy publicist on OLTL 2.0, but you'd never have known it from her dreary ATWT run.)

Hayley went into the Fenmore family and corporate history chapter and verse last week, I believe. And yeah, I think they've mentioned Barbara and BRO a few times in the last six months re: Chelsea and ChelseaKat.

I think they just wanted to showcase having Thorsten back on ABC. And no, Ian was never mentioned on OLTL (or since PC, AFAIK - good riddance, he was useless after they killed off poor Eve). They also did the cute if weird bit where Susan Haskell played the Thornhart men's late sister Granya which uh, a lot to unpack. I'm still sore the soap mag item about Marco returning for Megan's death in '92 (in print in late '91/early '92?) did not come to fruition.

I would recast Maxie soon (with Molly Burnett or whoever) simply to send a message to Kirsten. This is not a guaranteed forever job and she has to get well. I'd welcome KS back someday, but IMO that's not any time soon. More importantly, while a recast can appear on recurring occasionally for holidays, etc. I would not bring Maxie back on contract or in major story any time soon. I think the character is tired and needs a rest (I also think what @titan1978 has said Lulu is very true, and she can do have more fun on her own or with others). Mac and Felicia are more than enough to hold down the family front and be there for the kids like Georgie - I consider them indispensable as foundation characters for the reasons titan also mentioned re: Felicia - and Serena Baldwin can take Maxie's place at Deception. It's time for a change.

Wow, thanks!

This bitch has been taking saline this whole time?! YOU ARE A MEDICAL DOCTOR, BRITTA

Both Burns and James Brooks were pretty blunt in those interviews in saying they thought David Groh was miscast and they had the wrong actor. IIRC there is a period article the great Tommy Krasker (of Knots Landing blog fame) put up where an anonymous exec or set source says outright they cast a dud actor. I don't think Groh was too bad as Joe (or too great), but it was a mistake to marry them so fast and I do suspect the one-two punch of being the guy who walked out on Rhoda and then beat the shít out of Nurse Bobbie did not do wonders for his career lol.

This is what always gets me with the FV-era villains, especially the ones post-Ron. There is no grandeur to them. It always ends with these penny-ante capers and foibles.

LMAOOOO at folks thanking Jordan for all her 'work' to get Sidwell. What?! Jordan has spent the last year gushing about her high-end, rewarding career with this minor league warlord and how sorry she'll be to leave it behind. Like every other day she was going on about this. It got weird! Meanwhile she's cashing them Sidwell checks! It's not that different from how she started on the show doing nothing 'undercover' with Julian for a year-plus, just living the life. Except this time she was so blatant about enjoying herself. I hope he at least left you some blood diamonds, Jordan!

Joe and Lucas are giving Instagram Gays who you can't tell apart on an overcast evening. Not since Ben and Callum Highway on Eastenders has there been such a doppelganger crisis. You will know them only by Joe's stick-on eyebrows. RIP in peace Marco.

You know Frank is feeling that BTG heat when they put out a breathless separate press release for the return of Hat Man and Kai's buddy. Maybe Bryan and Claudia will return after 40 years next.

Byrne made Elsewhen a while back on his website, I think. It's an odd one for sure but I am glad he got to do it.

For real! How does Nikki have another disease?!

I about died when I tuned in and out of nowhere Lexie or E.J. was like 'the rat Dr. Rolf was working on died!' Is this our standard for medical care in Salem now? Mad scientist Dr. Rolf and some rats? I can't see how I'm supposed to take that story seriously.

I didn't read that section that way myself. Obviously BLQ is going to suffer the consequences of her scheming per this, but we don't know what will come after that. Plus these seasonal previews are usually short-term. If FV does end up pulling the punch on Chase and Willow then I'll roast the show again. I am glad it sounds like Britt is finally going to take a hit (and I suspect lose Jason). And I hope it's true what has been rumored re: Jason's job for a long time now.

Speaking of NYC and changing things: I know Erika Slezak (and Tim Stickney) has talked about rewriting a lot of clunky dialogue (including others', like Jerry verDorn) at OLTL with tacit permission from upstairs. The one thing she never did was change actors' cues.

Looks like a goddamn labtech!

IIRC Van Devere once said she only did OLTL to make money for her downtown theater company or something. She has a very colorful history both as Mrs. George C. Scott (who usually insisted on her being cast in his projects, like The Changeling) and in more recent years, but she was brilliant in the long-lost '80s indie Vengeance is Mine with Brooke Adams, which was rediscovered not long ago.

It absolutely sounds like he's out.

The SOD summer preview in the Spoilers section is actually pretty interesting. A lot to chew on.

A fairly in-depth preview and I don't hate a lot of what I am hearing tbqh. I wonder if the longstanding rumors about Jason's change in job status may finally come to fruition here.

The beauty of it of course is that Tracy is pushing for Brook to actualize herself beyond the marriage but she doesn't know the depths of where BLQ is evidently already willing to go. She has already begun to be truer to herself or the Qs than either Tracy or Michael realize, in a very dangerous way lol.