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Sorry Xanthe, yes Julie Phillips. She wasn't given much of a chance. And the original girl was kind of cute and pathetic "mooning over Joey" as Rose described her.

No offense taken Xanthe. And I shouldn't have said Mary Page Keller was *the best* But she was my favorite. And it didn't come easy. A dark haired Sally? What the hell? I should also revise my opinion a bit. I loved Jennifer Runyon, the dumb blonde bimbo who was decidedly NOT a dumb bimbo. She my favorite Sally up to then and I would have been more than happy to have her continue the role in perpetuity. There was an earlier Sally another person mentioned. Sorry I can't remember. She was a bit of a stoner type and had potential. She became friendly with Blaine. I remember wishing she had lasted longer, stoner type that I was With Mary Page Keller, the change in appearance was jarring but she pulled it off so well and the chemistry with her real life future husband was so natural. Then AW made one of the biggest mistakes ever with their choice of Taylor Miller, who I adored on AMC. Wrong for the part and way too old. Do any of you remember the old Compuserve AW boards? There was a great discussion about which actress would have been a better recast Sally.

I've been all over the place with soaps, seen bits and pieces of most of them since being a pre-schooler in the 1960s. For One Life, if I had to choose it would be the late 1970s when I was growing tired of AW. The Judith Light/Gerald Anthony era. I kept up though. Loved the Gottleib era as well, but that remote was also busy on other shows. I became a more faithful viewer post 2000. With many complaints. Thank you for asking

Mary Page Keller was the best Sally ever.

Was this before or after Bilitis did her stint on AW?

Does anyone here remember the tornado that caused Kim to lose her memory? I have a vague and probably innacurate recollection of weird organ/ synthesiser music and an image of Kim being twisted and turned via the technology of the time. I'm probably wrong Later I remember Patty McCormick, Little Miss Bad Seed, as a temporary recast Kim, regaining her memory after being injured from the tornado, and quietly telling John Dixon to get lost.

I hadn't realized Maeve got an Emmy nom for it. Good. You're right though. Fifteen years earlier on any soap an incident like that could have driven story between them for years. They all played it well. It felt like a big deal. POOF! It was forgotten.

Burlington, VT – WVNY-TV that's my area. Thanks

Vanessa got f%$# when they made her a pill addict who caused Reva's miscarriage. It was great TV but Vanessa's character was the real victim AFAIC.

We called that show The Knish

Disney+ is also asking for a price increase.

I live in Canada but was born in The United States, in Norwell, Massachusetts. I have dual citizenship. I agree with you and I see your vision among my American relatives in New England. I have other relatives in Pennsylvania who don't see it as clearly. Some of them object to the different skin-colors within the marriages of our family. One or two have decided to sever ties due to marriages with "Jig$#@%s"

Tammy Blanchard was well-cast as a young Judy Garland.

Perhaps not a masterpiece but thinking back to when Nancy F replaced Susan Keith as Cecile, I was upset. It always took me a while to warm up to recasts, if I ever did. But Nancy Frangione didn't take long to become my then favorite. A week? Two? A month at most. I believe it was a scene between Cecile and Jamie played by the great Bekins where she lets him know how she used him. She had me. Cold as ice, resting b@!*& face. Yet she could grab my heart in an emotional scene. She was so badly wasted on her returns to the show.

Alex needed more restraint. The actress was capable enough. I love it when the viewer sees how much fun the actors are having and we can feel they deserve to cut loose. I see that with Phil Carey as well as Erika S when everyone was so critical of her later Niki portrayals, but I felt they had earned their fun.

Senior moment on my part lol

Was that before or after their server crashed from all the cancellations? (or was deliberately shut down)

As said in your other post, the way now is pressure on adverstisets

Time to take it up with Sinclair's advertisers

Good lord, Zaslow is freaking brilliant.

I'm trying to think of a well-known or current actress I can compare to Deering to give the connection. She was a different Holly. A blonde bimbo in a way. Very pretty. Much more vulnerable and immature. Almost a temporary character until Garrett took the role and gave it depth. Now I will look at that video you so generously provided. Take care.

But I would have looked at his Playgirl centrefold - to point and laugh.

I hated that brat Nicholas. And Susan Richardson got on my last nerve.

Around the same time there was a convincing physical fight, with what appeared to be real punching, between Roger and The Great Hulswit's Ed. The show might not have been running on all cylinders yet but people were taking notice. It felt like The Dowdy Soap but that was part of the appeal. It felt more real

I would have been in my teens then but I remember my grandmother referring to Elvira Roussel as Miss Piggy. Looking back I believe there might have been some viewer backlash at the departure of Lenore Kasdorf. GL was kind of a dowdy soap back then except for Rita. I also remember people saying Maureen Garrett wasn't pretty enough to play Holly after Lynn Deering. That changed when she was given a chance to act but I still remember the stark physical differences between Holly 1 and Holly2. I give wide-eyed Deering credit for at least trying to act like a rape victim but she wasn't much.