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Very good episode today. The writers are hitting so many important beats saying goodbye to John. And the flashbacks. I loved all of them. Greg Vaughan looks fantastic and was a welcome sight. Chandler still smirks in his acting. He hasn’t overcome that acting tick. He’s looking older but that fits in with Ari being aged upward. Dee is doing tremendous work.

Regarding the NBC years of SFT. Joanna Lee did a good job. She gave Jo a great story and ratings rised but Joanna left because she hated the pace of daytime. I remember seeing Joanna Lee’s great big red hair one day outside the studio. lol Her hair exited the studio before she did.

Going back abit, the Search actors HATED the Nicholson, Braxton, Avila Mayer era. I was in NYC during that time and spent alot of time outside the studio and got to know some of the actors. They were miserable. Marcia McCabe, in particular absolutely hated the Sunny suicide story. She was very very vocal about it.

Well goodbye to my beloved Ron Carlivati. He’s moved on very quickly to another job. I hope the Latest Plan To Save Days works out. I truly do. How many times have we been through this? The exact same people who approved Body and Soul and Ron’s other stories are still there. Thankfully Drucker will be gone in the coming months. She was just riding it out until her retirement. I don’t expect anything miraculous. Prove me wrong, Paula & Jeanne!

I do not believe that Joanna Lee was fired. She left on her own. She was frustrated about the constraints of daytime. The cast loved her.

Jerry and Beth were fabulous people. His luncheons were fun. Marie, his fan club president, put on a great gathering. Unfortunately, your scenario about Jane is not what happened. The blowup I witnessed was not during an important scene. Actually the scene was quite routine and it was before Carrie split into different personalities. I was the only visitor, standing way off to the side. Jane would have had no idea that I was there.

I have every Soap Opera Now issue. SON had biases. It was an interesting publication. They pushed their agenda and who they wanted to spotlight.

Jerry verDorn himself on The Locher Room said that he never knew which version of Jane he’d get. It was clear that he meant the actress, not character. I never implied anything else. I posted about what I personally witnessed, which goes along with what Jerry said. They obviously respected each other but that doesn’t mean everything was smooth sailing. Speaking of Jerry’s fan club luncheons, they were great! I went to 2 of them. (Not the one Jane was at). Marie Lukasik, Jerry’s fan club president, was a friend of mine. She could get members of Jerry’s fan club into the studio to watch a taping. Thus my encounter watching Jane’s antics.

Make no mistake. When Jerry said that when you never knew which Jane you were going to get, he definitely meant Jane the actress and not Carrie the character. I personally witnessed one of her blowups onset. 10 minutes later she was all smiley. Actors on the sidelines were talking about her behavior. That is not 2nd hand gossip. It’s my own personal eyewitness account.

You are not wrong. I was there. I attended Roger Newcomb’s Nuke get togethers and let’s just say that Martha’s ears were burning.

A certain someone is posting to herself, again. We all know it.

Wow! Alison Sweeney was great today! Definitely Emmy worthy. Glad Sami’s back for now.

Was Michael Muhney not available??

Logan could do snark. It took Strasser awhile to get back into Dorian. I missed Princi.

One can repeat the same things over and over and over and over. It doesn’t make them true.

Go Brad Bell! For such a terrible writer, he gets ratings and a 3 year renewal!

Jill Farren Phelps got Ellen Parker an Emmy Award! The decision to kill off Maureen was brilliant. The story, the fallout, the writing. So many deserved Emmy Awards.

Didn’t James DePaiva throw a couch in frustration of Linda Gottlieb?

JFP’s best friends in life are women. Do research. And some of her best friends are the women who starred on the shows that she produced.

No, I wasn’t there but put me in the ‘I Know Things’ category. 🙂

I found Maureen dull. And I do laugh that firing Ellen Parker freed up money to hire Justin Deas. They were hardly on the same salary scale.

I’m done reading the Texas book and ready to pass it on for free, if anyone wants it. It was good. I enjoyed reading it because I watched the show. Like others have said, I wish it had gotten more in depth of the problems that made the show fail.

Too funny. So Ellen Parker “thinks” Jill had to free up money for Justin and it becomes confirmation. Was Ellen in on the budget discussions? lol I was a watcher of GL during that period and Maureen was indeed totally boring.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who has 8 weeks of vacation saying that they are overworked.

Just to go back to Beverlee. Bev’s last episode aired on 8/17/92. Going back a year from that date, she appeared in 113 episodes. She could not have possibly been working 4 days a week from sunrise to sunset. Facts matter.