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LOL I'd forgotten this moment from the great original Exorcist commentary and featurette:

Nah. It was my own idea to pair them ten years ago as screwball opposites with an intriguing older irresponsible woman angle. Today both actors and characters are beyond spent and don't need new story to write them out. You can revisit that idea when there are fresh options (and hopefully a more invigorated Kirsten Storms if possible) after Maxie spends 3-4 years offscreen. And she was horribly treated by fans, something KS IIRC passively encouraged. That being said, no, I do not think she should return. An actor like Lilley being decent in a role or badly treated by the show, or just a nice person IRL (hi, Martha Madison), does not mean they should be given the job or change the fact that certain characters are burnt out and need to go for awhile or in some other cases permanently. I think people are sick of Michael in general, not just Chad. Michael is a wimpy joke at this point. He needs a break. Not as long as Maxie, but awhile.

Maxie and Michael both need to be rested a minimum of 3-4 to 2-4 years, respectively.

Linda Blair's IG tribute.

I didn't know Friedkin had actually gotten around to filming his new version of The Caine Mutiny. I look forward to it. Thread from GDT:

@DRW50

This isn't even the tip of the iceberg with Friedkin! (And I actually think Al is pretty good in Cruising, but they did not get along.) Friedkin made a strong comeback even in his late years with Bug and Killer Joe, a film I am still scared to see but hear great things about. I'll have to do it now. Also revisiting the two cuts of his barely-released serial killer/death penalty critique, Rampage. And yes, his Boys in the Band is so good. Ellen Burstyn put out a nice statement today - those two had quite a history, both on and off-set of The Exorcist (where he permanently injured her back during a stunt in one of the movie's most famous/infamous scenes).

Madison is blandly serviceable at best to me. My Sarah choice will always be Gina Tognoni.

One of the greatest of all time. I thought he couldn't die.

I think it's probably just a dumb glitch and customer service reps not talking to each other.

They did about 80 permutations with the devil before it was over. Whether RC initially was into it or not he certainly ran with it whole-hog. And I'm sorry but I don't buy that he isn't for most of the actor swapping. He originated the trend forcefully and proudly at GH. Having little cameo gigs from Eileen Davidson alongside Stacy Haiduk and then inventing a whole new and even more obnoxious character for Rob Wilson seems right up his alley. His ego long ago made him a firm believer that for soaps he is the last man standing, the true north and that he can and will sell an audience on any choice or die mad trying.

I mean, we've noted the Cullitons' kid being hired and he mentions friends and family being hired over minorities in several tweets. On this Jamey is right - nepotism and friends and family rule the day in these lucrative positions inside an incestuous, closed industry. We were just talking about it not long ago. (He was also one of the above with Ron, of course.)

Nora's contract coma on OLTL was longer. Six months. But that's probably not the longest either.

I don't recall offhand but it's entirely possible and does sound familiar. I recall Mary Beth Evans turned down the Paige merry-go-round at one point - such a huge host of names spun around or cast for such a pointless placeholder character, up to and including the period when (as we've learned recently) Frons' ABC was taking it out on Hillary B. Smith for advocating for the OLTL cast in labor negotiations by coming very very close to killing Nora off and supplanting her with Paige.

Zimmer was blamed by the show and/or network for other people taking cuts, which she's said in her memoir was untrue - she outlined the timeline fairly clearly, IIRC. And Jerry verDorn left for the same reasons. She also said they tried to blame his exit on her.

An anonymous actor quote from the very latecoming SOD article:

And she was right. Ellen Wheeler doesn't get a pass for being an incompetent EP and bad businesswoman just because she was on Another World.

His statement is clearly looking for a fight, IMO. And full of blaming everyone else. But it's also yet another sad indictment of the state of the genre - is Alarr of all people truly the first and only Black EP or co-EP in soaps (not counting stuff like Ishmael Reed's experimental avant-garde soap Personal Problems from over 40 years ago which almost no one has seen)? GH has hired and possibly fired a handful of new Black writers in recent years, too.

I'm still not convinced Adrienne's dead.

I was thinking the same. Excepting the GH fixation with the OLTL 2, it's exactly like DS which would regularly bring back actors in the exact same era/timeline. And I know exactly who SourceRyan used to be before his rebrand on another site. We've all seen people come and go. But I wasn't aware it was any big secret. I don't believe he's been active here in ages though, unless he has some new alias.

Oh lord! I do miss them. I'd still do that Angie Hubbard special guest spot in an abortion rights story with Brook Kerr's character on GH any day.

I've never liked her as an actress, so no from me.