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It's partly the speed, I'm sure, but Ron also loves to do these kind of scenes or stories where unlikely or oppositional pairings come together in a time of crisis and outright embrace and sometimes become BFFs. He did it with Téa and Blair on OLTL during the former's fake cancer storyline, and given their history it only really worked there and on the online show because the actresses are close IRL and had such great chemistry playing off each other. But when on GH, he had Robin Mattson's psychotic Heather Webber being played for pathos by confiding in and hugging little Rafe Kovich Jr. who she barely knew? Or various incidents with Franco or Obrecht or whoever else? Come on. And it's always to service one specific character he loves and not the other. I think Haiduk is a brilliant actress - I'll never forget her cameo in HBO's Sharp Objects with Amy Adams, where she was unrecognizable and spellbinding in a very brief scene. If anyone could pick up from Eileen it's her. But reforming Kristen to this point, which it seems is what Ron wants to do, puts any recast at a severe disadvantage because it's making Kristen unrecognizable.

Finally getting to Ep 3 (and 4). Their parodying the old soap trick of hiding people's pregnancies behind jackets, bags, etc. is a hoot. Teyonah Parris is great as Monica a.k.a. "Geraldine".

They needed to keep her daughter with Cam though. And not shaft Taggert tbh

Like most of us, I have many issues with Tyler Perry but the fact that he made a point to pad her paychecks on his films (after discovering how little she got paid in the '70s) and named one of his soundstages after her while she was alive - a gesture she apparently was very moved by - softens me slightly.

Can someone pass me the current Y&R vault link in PM? Mine isn't working atm. Much appreciated.

Keep at it, fools.

An essential watch. She had the last word.

What a legend.

It's not too late to get your Neil WInters on, Khan!

Who are you again? If someone else thinks they know who it is, they're welcome to PM me and we can compare notes.

He'll never run on the GOP ticket again. I doubt he'll even ever run again, he'll just raise money on the idea. And he'll never hold office again.

LOL, any blonde will do apparently? Ulrich could not play Liza. Chamberlin, maybe.

Played by Dark Shadows' own Nancy Barrett! Part of the crux of the original Viki/Dorian animus was that Dorian always believed Viki cast the deciding vote on the hospital board to have her removed from the hospital after the Toland affair. In reality, Viki was reportedly the only one who said she should remain. It nearly killed me when - around thirty years later - Viki actually told Dorian this, onscreen, in the second Malone run in 2004. They promptly cut to commercial. When they came back to their set of scenes late in the episode after wasting time on McBain, Paul Cramer, whatever else, Dorian and Viki had simply wrapped up their conversation in our absence and Dorian was 'so glad we had that settled!' I almost threw something at the TV. It was endemic of the problems of that run.

Hoo lord!

I saw her reprise her Last Picture role in the director's cut of Bogdanovich's Texasville not long ago (a very strange and imperfect but underrated sequel). In a movie full of much more broad characters than the original, Leachman once again nearly walks away with it around the end.

Didn't little Josh come on pushing pills on widowed, depressed Eileen? Or am I going by apocrypha too much? To me it's always been a fundamental weakness that OLTL always leaned on showing off its diversity/social consciousness laurels at every anniversary by trotting out the same old name-drops of the Woleks, Siegels, Rileys, Halls, etc. and the same old picture of Carla in the hospital bed or Karen on the stand but did not preserve these original families. I never understood it. And they could always be brought back. It's not that hard. Nat Polen seems sweet and fatherly as Jim. I know Ellen Holly wasn't happy they replaced Robert Milli though (later of GL), who she found handsome and dashing when Jim was Carla's potential suitor. It's just a question of different roles for the character.

I'm pretty sure I know exactly who is doing this on various soaps' channels, and if y'all stretch a little I bet you know too.

RIP.