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What is wrong with the Liberty biberty guy? He is so funny on those commercials. But his acting on B&B is painful to watch. Is he being directed to act in such an affected way?? And if so, why? Something tells me he's capable of playing this stuff straight, but somebody's advising him to do it "stupid." Weird for sure.

Well, I think TPTB probably believed it would be impossible to create a soap opera where the star was an antagonist. How do you make such a mean neurotic woman the center of the show? Perhaps a decade later, they would have tried that, and it might have worked. But in 1980, they probably thought that would be impossible. And they may have been right.

Would the fate of Texas have been different, had Donald May been cast as Alex Wheeler from day-one (rather than as Alex's brother later in the series)?

Yeah, I Googled it. Literally all the links are about Guiding Light. No links to any authentic Greek people or families. Wow, making up a fake ethnic name. Rather cringy, I think. I doubt that would be done on any television show today.

Interesting. So is Kouperakis a real Greek name? And I'm still interested to know -- Was the Coopers' Greek heritage part of the family from the beginning, or was it a later retcon??

What were the circumstances that resulted in a family named Cooper having such strong Greek heritage? Was there a name change somewhere in the family's history? And was this Greek heritage made evident from the Coopers' introduction? Or was it a later retcon? And was the Cooper being Greek thing believable to the fans at the time?

So sorry to hear this. I enjoyed his message board for many years. Thank you for responding to my post.

Not sure where to post this question, but this thread seems like it might be an okay area: Does anyone still post on Danfling's Soap Opera Message Board? I was a regular poster there for many years (despite Danfling's insistence that only soaps produced in NYC are "real" soap operas). I always just ignored all that, and discussed whatever I wanted to, and Danfling never deleted or censored my questions/comments. But I digress. The last time I was on his message board, I caught a virus on my laptop. And because of the chain of events, it was obvious the virus originated from that message board. So I haven't been back. I think his message board was/is using very old technology that did/does not screen advertisers or pop-ups for possible corruption. Anywhoo, anyone still post there? How's the conversation?

Not at all. She's old, and she over acts. Plus a few years ago, she came in and took the show away from Maggie who is the real leading lady of the show.

What is wrong with the Liberty biberty guy? He is so funny on those commercials. But his acting on B&B is painful to watch. Is he being directed to act in such an affected way?? And if so, why? Something tells me he's capable of playing this stuff straight, but somebody's advising him to do it "stupid." Weird for sure.

What does everyone think of Julie? Is it time for her to be written off?