Darn

I've been watching a lot of Dynasty clips with the passing of Diahann Carroll and oh boy is she GOOD. The delight in her voice as she says "Our daddy" is something to behold. Also the show hit number one the season she joined. Coincidence? I think not!

@DRW50 this is a young Martha Byrne in a commercial for...Salt Sense at the very beginning of that episode you posted, isn't it?

Thanks @robbwolff and @Khan! I’m just glad my question was able to be addressed while the crazy lady in the corner was screaming into her megaphone about 40 year old memoirs!

So it sounds like it was not a case of GL doing better but GH losing viewers? Can anyone corroborate @Khan’s theory?

What story was it that pushed GL to #1 against GH?

She doesn't know.

Robert Newman was/is such an attractive man. Kim Zimmer is also in those pictures.

This is the funniest damn thread on the whole board. I am LIVING!

You are. That's why she never made another one. I don't recall her singing at all when I started watching in the 2000s. It seems totally out of character for Lily. Ugh she sang on GL too? Yeah Blair was singing all the time on OLTL, it never made any sense and was never any good.

I'm shocked by how much Martha Byrne sang on this show before I started watching because she is not very good. Was this a Kassie DePaiva situation where she had it written into her contract that she got to sing (and we had to hear her struggle vocals) a certain number of times per year?

If you're black you were at Tyler Perry Studios' opening. Pretty sure I was there. I don't remember anything but I'm 99% sure.

Yes. Making this deplorable psychotic rapist the lead of the show was just...how were they okay with this? Todd paid a lot of lip service to being so sowwy for what he did because he kept doing horrible things. Just over and over. And he was on every goddamn day. I couldn't take it. Then we got two of that [!@#$%^&*] running around like fcuking clowns. Besides that Trevor St. John stopped trying after a few years and Roger Howarth stopped before he left the second time. Then when he came back he was slightly better but the character was in such a stupid storyline it didn't matter.

I didn't know her from Dynasty but this seemed the most appropriate place to post this. RIP, she was brilliant and beautiful.

The sins of taking over Lily's life? I swear she died long after that story ended. It always felt to me like Rose died because Martha Byrne was tired. Rose and Lily were heavily frontburner for 3 years. I hated her by the end anyway so no big loss for me.

Yes you are. Are you not able to see the long thread you posted on the last page (which you then quoted!)? I think you have some interesting insights but when you bring content here from elsewhere your posts are a chore to read because you are not very good at sharing that content.

Man wtf @Donna B can you not copy and paste entire usenet threads here? Link to them. They probably helped the budget too.

Daytime is completely absent of a longstanding feud like theirs now. Nikki and Sharon? Yeah right.

Has anyone? I started watching Y&R in 99 and have never gotten the hubbub over Ashley or Eileen Davidson. She comes across as a cold fish and aggressively unpleasant in every scene. Like she seems mad to be there. And I've never seen her in a romance that works and that's entirely due to her. You have Kristoff, for instance, oozing charisma and she's just sort of there.

My bad, my brain just glossed over the "ern".

T'Challa is not South African. He's Wakandan (forever) though the characters in the movie did speak the South African language Xhosa. The movie, in parts, looks almost like an SNL parody of the Harriet Tubman story. I think her life is too big for one movie but I'm just glad it's finally being told at this point.

Lmao Lester looks hilarious in that promo, his toupee looks like it's about to fly off.

The most untalented writers love to put their "stamp" on a show by doing a big dramatic showy death of a legacy character. I find it weird Traci would agree to it! I know she's nice but Victor is such an ass.

Thanks. That sounds very shortsighted.

I was watching Colleen's christening from 1992 and Victor is Colleen's godfather? WHY? Were Traci and Victor close? Was this ever brought up with Colleen died and Victor got her heart?