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Welcome back to my beloved Ron Carlivati and for show-casing my Leo! I constantly encourage Ron on instagram to keep Leo on the show. 

Anyone who doesn’t know that way back in 1975, Susan Flannery wasn’t hiding her sexuality in a fan club newsletter while talking about her ‘daughter’ needs to be educated. Susan Flannery didn’t hide. 

Another thread derailed by you know who. It’s always gotta be about ME. SMH.

James Mitchell was always out. Even in his responses to fan letters, he talked about his male partner. Susan Flannery never gave a (blank) about what people knew or talked about her. The list goes on and on. Too many to list and yes, it wasn’t hard to figure out even way back then. 

3 hours ago, P.J. said:

In happy news, it's Maeve Kinkead's birthday today! 

Maeve is lovely. I met her many times. Just a sweet lady. 

I wonder why The View’s press releases stopped mentioning Live with Kelly & Mark? The View always claims to be #1 and they used to claim being #1 over Kelly & Mark and now The View still claims to be #1 but they don’t mention Kelly & Mark anymore in their press releases. 

Just as aside: I have been in the audience at times for all of the iterations of the show and Kelly and Mark are by far, the best in terms of interacting with the audience during commercials. They can’t talk to everyone, but they try. 

YES! My beloved Ron Carlivati’s first scene back is Leo! Thank you Ron! Love love love Leo. Thank god the REAL writers are back!!!! 

44 minutes ago, John said:

 

 I think he walked because he didnt want to be a yes man to FV like Korte who is a yes woman 

Let's just say that Patrick is NOT easy to work with. He has issues. The writing team was happy.

I can see why Mulcahey was fired. He should stay retired. Please. Forever. I'm not a huge fan of Valentini but yes, he made the right decision to fire Mulcahey. 

On 5/28/2024 at 2:57 PM, chrisml said:

I'm surprised Laibson did not work well on GL because I liked his time on AW for the most part. 

Laibson was terrible at GL. His contribution to GL was what time do we go to lunch? I have a GOOD friend who was there at the time. 

Donna kills every thread. Sigh. 

2 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

I remember that time when the internet was just coming into its own and at the old GL dicussion list someone found Laiby's home number and posted it...which was a step too far. ("Sure, stranger who somehow got my phone number I would love to talk to you about what a sh@t job I am doing!") But actually Laiby was so in over his head, he actually was asking fans for suggestions.

I don't get it, he worked under Marland and ATWT during its golden period, why was he so lost? HE brought back Brown as her iconic character but had the character written like she was Iva Snyder (Nola mopping around the boarding house because her husband cheater on her....she would go snatch that b*tch bald and kicked Quint in his nuts...) Maybe it was more McTavish but that was an era that really could have turned GL around.

I remember Soap Opera Weekly doing a 2 Part interview with Laibson and McTavish and they were arrogant. Laibson said “tough [!@#$%^&*]” about a couple that wasn’t resonating. We would just have to accept the couple. Tough [!@#$%^&*] Laibson was replaced by tough Rauch a few months later. 

1 hour ago, John said:

He can HW a soap if he is allowed to write and not paired with a Co-HW who is just FV's yes woman. You can tell when PM more influenced episodes they had more family & community feel. I will miss that. I worry what EK will do as sole HW

Completely disagree. And that’s ok.

1 hour ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Please post your pictures. 

No way!! YOU do not deserve to see them. Ever!

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Anna was a flightier actress. Maeve had more of an iron rod, even when Vanessa was more lightweight early on.

I can't imagine anyone else as Vanessa either - maybe Christine Jones.

I was actually onset seeing Anna Stuart playing Vanessa. I have pictures. I agree that Anna was flightier. 

19 hours ago, P.J. said:

Is there any of Alan and Rita's affair online? I haven't found anything.

I have a whole dvd of the Alan & Rita affair.

Patrick Mulcahey cannot headwrite a soap! He can write dialogue. SO glad he was fired quickly. 

Laibson was a Producer at GL during the  Alan Potter/Marland time and he went over to ATWT under Mary-Ellis Bunim. He knew GL, but wasn’t a good EP. 

I met Laiby (Michael Laibson) at the GL fan club gathering in 1996. He didn’t impress me. He was arrogant. Why he went to this gathering of fans who loved the show and came in with an attitude astounded me. GL was not in great shape so why the attitude. Maybe because his job was on the line. He was thankfully fired soon after. I do have to say that his wife, Holly, was there and she was SO lovely! She was almost apologetic. Holly Laibson has since passed. She was a kind person. Michael, not so much. 

Thanks Paul. I’m going to move over to Guiding Light and give my thoughts about Michael Laibson because that is where I met him as EP of GL. 

Locher gets SO much wrong, even shows that he was doing pr for. He means well, Bless his heart. 

1 hour ago, Khan said:

More like IM-plodes, but okay.

We all have our opinions. You are all going to be watching my beloved Ron Carlivati’s work soon. It humors me that some people claim to not watch the show yet they comment about every episode. Ron is still there. He’s still writing the show into 2049! 

46 minutes ago, Aragorn said:

May I ask everyone who they think the next female contract player will be? Lois was dropped to recurring, so it won't be her. Of these possibilities, which one will get promoted to contract?

Molly

Blaze

Natalia

Heather

 

Blaze should die in a Blaze. I cannot stand her!! Natalia can go away with her. Awful storyline. Get rid of them. Please. 

Heather can stay. Molly’s ok.

I am Thrilled about A Martinez, a Daytime Emmy winner for Best Actor, getting recognized again. He’s a humanitarian. All around super guy. 

Ron Carlivati is setting up these great storylines and I cannot wait for his return. Very very soon! Days explodes! And yes, I have contacts with ahem people. 

Way to go Patrick Mulcahey with the wedding! He only wrote the good stuff and Elizabeth Korte wrote the bad stuff. I bet that Frank and ABC expected a bigger bump than 26,000 viewers.