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I would think Marland was the progenitor and source material, but I don't think you can discount the immense contributions of Monty at the same time (for all her sins), Pat Falken Smith and yes, people like Thom Racina, etc. who came later. Plus a lot of great staff writers in those years, including (IIRC) Bob Guza. From the copious episodes fortunately available from a wide range of these years and regimes, it was a magic time.

I would keep him gone. What he did is shameful. But oh well.

He's made it clear he doesn't want to do it. Which is very lazy. He just wants to show up in a shirt and jeans and play action hero. It's fireable IMO, but so was his pyramid scheme and antivaxx status and I still suspect he'll be back eventually despite the shít he pulled.

I've never understood it, but I assume it simply never happened because Steve Burton and perhaps Guza refused.

He'll always have a hard core of fanatics, but there has definitely been some decay in the numbers for Trump. It's been borne out in recent GOP polling, because of scandal fatigue and especially the J6 hearings. The softer GOP voters have been peeling off, both in 2020 and today. That's why he lost. He doesn't have the numbers.

The Spice Girls/Cardigans thing was him, but Jason Priestley began to EP in Season 8, I believe. He brought in Michael Braverman to try to make the show a more grounded drama. It didn't work, Braverman was tossed and JP fled the show in a very strange way at the beginning of Season 9 after an equally strange Season 8 finale. To each their own taste of course, but I remember Season 8 being dismally boring, and the longtime creative personnel were not happy with it either and have sounded off about it. Season 7 is a huge dud on many levels and completely forgettable despite the sad exit of Clare (Kathleen Robertson was focused on her movie work with Gregg Araki). But Season 8 just never worked for me on any level either. The only thing that did was Hilary Swank, and they dumped her halfway through the year very unceremoniously while trying to retool the show. She then went on to become a movie star in record time. Vincent Young was hired just because he was a very buzzy hunk in a big Coke commercial or something at the time, I can't remember exactly what, but they tried to push him as the new heartthrob and pair him with Donna to push her as the sexy lead, and they were both just dismal together. And once that ended and Dylan came back he had no purpose but hung around for another year or two with third-tier story. It was all just wretched to me. YMMV. The last year I bothered with in full was Season 6 - like Season 4 of Melrose it got campy and OTT, but unlike Melrose its characters weren't as adaptable for the changes. But it still had some good stories and great new characters like Emma Caulfield's Susan Keats. After Season 6 the show is a wash to me.

It's more that Feinberg, like most of the ex-Gawker kids, went all in on Bernie in '16 and have never recovered from that or Gawker's collapse (and it's never really recovered either, and won't last in its new form). As one of the comments notes, it's about something else: If they admit Trump is an aberration and uniquely dangerous and unlike other presidents, they have to admit Hillary Clinton and 'cringe libs' or 'boomers' were right. A huge portion of the burnout leftist psyche is invested in never, ever doing that, which leads most of them to drift to the right. It's an ego thing.

Man, I did not recognize Joanna Going who I loved on Dark Shadows 1991 and loved seeing in countless movies for years after. She's still beautiful but she changed her look really fast. I did not know about much of her voice work. Anne made a great Lois Lane.

I have never seen Birth, though I've always wanted to - the director's prior film, Sexy Beast, was fascinating. I'll have to watch it.

She stole I Know What You Did Last Summer in one scene (I think she may have been uncredited, as she was already a star by then). I never understood why they didn't bring that character back for the sequel, though I suspect they couldn't afford her.

Uh-oh!

Very, very, very sad. I may have to rewatch Psycho in her honor. Or maybe an AW episode someone recommends.

Bear in mind it's Nate Silver and quite early, but....

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That was my first instinct about this claim, as I said before. Like I said, this ain't the '60s or '70s. It would be a considerable expenditure for material the company does not care about. I think more likely it is somewhere shoved aside.

I don't think they intended that at all. I think they felt KLS as Josette was dazzling and beautiful. She was beautiful, and the character pretty much is the fair, doomed maiden they conceptualized her as. She just wasn't that deep. I don't think she was more or less boring in her original living iteration than a lot of other characters, though.

What a tragedy, for all involved. I knew how rocky a history Anne Heche had had, but as her career waxed and waned in recent years and she seemed outwardly more functional (if still very, very eccentric) I always held out the nugget of an idea of having her recur in a key role as a heavy on a soap, which I won't go into specifics on here; her career had taken enough hits that it seemed viable (though she's not just getting marginal work - she should be seen in The Weeknd's show on HBO soon, presumably after she passes). And Heche was always proud of her soap roots, AFAIK. I thought maybe she, like so many others, could always come home and do good work. She never stopped being talented. It's just sad that wasn't enough.

Tragic.

GH does not film in New York. GH has always filmed in LA. There are zero New York soaps left since 2012.

Media will piss and moan about waiting, but the public isn't baked in or settled on that (much like Afghanistan). When more comes out the story will move and the media will chase that car.