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She is. It looks almost nothing like itself, but that is the official line.

The brownstone is technically back, it just only houses Liz's family now. But yes, the big plan in the FV/RC era to remodel and repopulate it with people never happened, just like the big mooted Laura/Lucy Deception revamp.

Come to think of it, you're absolutely right. I had never seen her treated so shabbily onscreen before or since, and the timeframe checks out.

Hillary critiqued the network and the shooting schedule, but not Frank itself. That may be it. I do know ABC really fùcked with her during her contract coma in the mid-2000s, when Nora was within a hair's breadth of death for months. She never mentioned FV when discussing that drama, but it was also while the show was still on.

That's been the last 30 years tbqh

A long time coming and very sad, but I'm glad he's at peace. I can take or leave a lot of her music, but the stories and feature articles, etc. about Gaga's long friendship with Bennett and how it kept him engaged and happy in his twilight years with Alzheimer's are really touching and beautiful.

Like many other actors at OLTL and GH, FM claimed Frank promised him the moon when his contract was getting ready to come up then froze him out when it came time. I always got the impression Frank had little time for Forbes' frankly extra ass plus his vocal outbursts about story (I had little patience for him myself but for different reasons). He allegedly couldn't stand WDV at GH for similar reasons, and him also having issues with Zimmer who is not known for being a shrinking violent tracks as well. Though Kim is the only one of the three I like. But super extra actors are not the only ones who've told these contract/re-up stories about Frank at all.

Use nitter, per a suggestion from another poster. It's what I do.

I think she's fudging the timeline in her head slightly (the WGA strike hit onscreen in early '08), but I remember well all the onscreen antics she mentions that I think were part of the Killing Club mess. I also recall them openly auditioning Natalie recasts. As I said in the OLTL thread, FV's casual disinterest in the entire thing and in her value reminds me a lot of what I have heard about him re: contact negotiations many times. Same with the Zimmer story that came up in another thread. FV presents as an iceman but if something gets under his skin (William deVry, Forbes March IMO) it stays there.

Two extremes of sadness and comedy from ex-OLTLers today. First a long, sobering thread re: the strike from Melissa Archer: FV's casual dismissal of the whole process and struggle sounds a lot like what I've heard about him and re-up negotiations before. Then, this amusing anecdote re: Kim Zimmer (Echo) -

A sobering long, candid thread. @DRW50

LMAOOO! Oh, Kim.

I don't think so, no. He used to be a lot more loose. He was the creepy young wild man in a zillion things.

A reasonably insightful article about the dynamics between the streamers and conventional networks, discussing why the networks are still siding with the streamers even though the strikes could hasten the demise of network TV.

I love Jeff Kober in his many storied roles in genre film and TV in the '80s and '90s. On paper, he was a potential get for GH as a short-term villain. In practice he mostly comes off as a blowsy old man whining through utterly inexplicable scenes in which at-risk, elderly Cyrus complains that he didn't mean to run over his and Tad Martin's dad in the family driveway. I blame the show more than him for his poor usage and the overall lame character.

3/10.

I honestly doubt it. I don't think they'll consider touching HP for awhile (if at all) until that case is settled.

As some anecdotes over the years have proven out (including Billy Warlock's BTS story at OLTL), at times Frank's only criteria for a hire is 'can they speak' and 'are they available today?' He is about keeping the trains running.

I think sometimes Teschner still makes great hires (Chavez, William Lipton, Tabyana Ali, Avery Pohl). Many other times since FV took over, it feels like FV is absolutely overruling him and exercising the same taste he often exhibited at OLTL and on I Wanna Be a Soap Star. Frank's taste is often tacky, peppy, hardbodied or blonde. No one can tell me Mark Teschner hired Jordan #3, Sasha, Willow, Rafe or that little fool who played Oscar, to name a few.

I'm sure she's a very nice woman who doesn't deserve a lot of vitriol against her personally. Doesn't mean she's right for the part! People tried to get me to support Burgess Jenkins at Y&R too. Remember that? Billy Abbott as Father Time? Remember when we thought that was the oldest Billy could possibly look?

Time and again my preemptive blocks on transparent new accounts keep proving me right. Y'all gotta stop being so obvious. 😌

Yes. She's wrong for the part. What are you going to do about it, John?

What!! Sorry, allow me to rephrase:

Thanks! I'll try that.

Twitter is almost completely impossible to access or navigate for a non-user at present; only direct links to specific tweets work and you can't navigate a person's feed, read replies or view a hashtag at all at present. But there is this: