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Sockpuppet day.

It's not about what you've seen. She has a long history at various forums and is banned for reasons that pre-date you or your personal experience. Please accept that and move on.

K*la is a well known troll. People are telling you the truth. Her name is banned. Try typing it.

Seems neither Tom nor Meg are long for the show at this point. I wonder how many mental health hiatuses Meg actually had in the last 3 years here - it seems like more than one and several breaks for Elizabeth MacRae.

Fair enough! Oh man:

My first thought. But if the person I think it is really wants to be a leader they should put their name to it. It's not like they're a stranger to publicity, and they're almost up there with Lucci. It would be hard to ignore. I am not going to attribute to illness for Ken Corday what incompetence, disinterest and decades of buck-passing and studied denial and avoidance have always given us before.

There was never anything like this before that I know of. Nothing that went to the outside major trades about a harassment scandal in a very charged time post-MeToo. Of course Corday has no idea what to do and is freezing up. He can't treat Variety or Deadline like Digest, threaten to pull their access and launch another Plan to Save Days interview where he always pretends to be the dad who went away on a business trip for six months but is home now and all is well.

In fairness I believe they also tested Zaslow with ES early on. He was all over the mix before they settled on Jenny.

Oh, you tease! Though I have a hard time cheering on creative changes made during a strike. I remember when Frons tried to ace out Carlivati in '08 for Gary Tomlin.

Frank better not turn Kelly's into another gray set.

Burn it down! Ken has always been a joke.

Didn't they also test Clint and Pat early on, or am I crazy? It was wild to discover that apparently Ivan Kipling's weird run-in with the teen scene lingered into 1985 and maybe early '86, supposedly with Cassie clearing his name in Laurel's death before he left town and that possibly facilitating a break-up with Rob. Am I correct that after Jenny faked a marriage to Brad and left in '85, that they returned to David/Jenny for one more remote in '86 in Vienna?

Who's gonna pardon him??

So a surprising beat suddenly gets played in a March '85 episode, relatively early in Rauch's tenure and remolding of the show IIRC: Larry has gotten engaged to the doomed Laurel Chapin and is set to marry her on April Fool's Day (no comment). It's congratulations all around, including from Wanda who has just one central misgiving about someone I never expected to hear Rauch's era bring up: What about Karen? At this point Karen has been gone from the show for over two years, I believe. Who's the Boss? is already a hit sitcom for Judith Light; she's not coming back. But they play this beat anyway and it's not a passing mention; Larry has to work to convince Wanda that he wouldn't drop Laurel the instant Karen waltzed back into town and that he feels certain Laurel doesn't have as dark a past as Karen. Which makes me wonder: Were they pondering a recast? Or was the parallel all just setup for what I see was apparently Roy Thinnes' second return as Alex Crown (Laurel's ex, the mob boss I think) and second death? Here's where we get into the weeds: Janice Lynde's Laurel had been on the show since late '83 or early '84 by this point, and I believe she dies around Christmas '85. I would assume most of the Coronal/Chapin saga from the previous creative regime had already played out by this point, yet at this juncture there clearly there is a bit more to come. I'm just surprised the implication in this scene is that with less than a year left in Laurel's tenure and her being phased out, Larry still doesn't know about all of her past with Alex Crown.

It should not be possible for Kristen Blake to enter a court of law without bursting into flames.

....Unfortunately, it is also Gregory.

Yeah, that's why I find it likely there had to be some bad vibes around him of some kind even if I don't recall the rumor. It's too bad. I do think Gregory Harrison has chemistry with Jane Elliot despite thus far having played one of the most boring characters on the current show. It is weird to see Tracy and Alexis in a love triangle together. But I'd still probably find someone else lol.

I'd never heard anything about DG being difficult, but I wasn't that plugged into the show at that time and it wouldn't surprise me if he was reported to be. I do think his energy was volatile and that Chad was prettier and more of a conventional young lead for soaps (though also very talented when he started).

You could do it now but I think you'd have to write them both out for awhile after, lol. Which is probably okay given Michael needs a long break. I still wish we knew if anything bad had gone down with DG because I'd still have him back.

And I suspect they were actually toying with it when Drew Garrett and Lexi were in the roles and on the run in beachwear together. Soaps know how that stuff plays visually to an audience and I didn't think it was coincidence. As you mentioned, Chad and Lexi had it too back then.

Apparently official per his IG, and shocking. Here's a screencap (enlargeable by double clicking): @DRW50

Oh God, that's even worse.

Donna, it is not Calista Flockhart. You know very well that it is not Calista Flockhart, famous primetime TV star of Ally McBeal and longtime spouse of Harrison Ford. Judi Evans plays Bonnie Lockhart, who has been around for 20 years.

I was watching a June '92 ep the other day and it still amazes me that Linda Thorson hung on as Julia Medina well into summer of that year - I think she departs very shortly after this after being a red herring in the first Carlo murder mystery (not sure how she leaves). I keep wondering if she did much of anything for most of '91 or '92 up to this point. There's a lot of odd stop/start subplots or story points for various classic and/or Rauch holdover characters in this early Gottlieb/Malone period - Alex, for example, pingpongs from Bo to Carlo to her latest obsession here, Herb Callison (as well as Cain Rogan, IIRC).

Frons wanted to keep the OLTL scabs in '08, IIRC.