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Yes, YRBB, we certainly do learn a lot from the great members of the SON community...including, apparently, the fact that so many beautiful young men today cannot afford to buy shirts.

Thank you so much. So Nightwing/adult Robin had different colored outfits, gray and red and gray and purple? What about the fourth picture, in which Michael Hamm is wearing boots, jeans, a vest, and has a little star over his shoulder. Do you know what character that is? I am not entirely sure. The first thing that comes to mind is the Wolverine version of Deadpool (also played by Ryan Reynolds) That is my best guess. Thanks!

Thank you so much. So Nightwing/adult Robin had different colored outfits, gray and red and gray and purple? What about the fourth picture, in which Michael Hamm is wearing boots, jeans, a vest, and has a little star over his shoulder. Do you know what character that is?

He's beautiful but...what superheroes is he playing here? The only one I can really identify is Aquaman in picture three.

No, it's not Vigard, but she reminds me of Rebecca Mader, an actress who would play on Lost and Once Upon a Time, decades later. RM is too young to have done this in 1981, however.

A very young Leigh J. McCloskey, who would end up as Damian Smith on GH, and Nick Benedict, the second (and weaker) Phil Brent from AMC

This is cute: wanna-be superhero Michael Hamm (seen above in his Spidey uniform) with Stephen Amell of TV's ARROW.

This guy loves to role-play as superheroes, and I think he's just cute as a button.

Wesley Pfenning was the worst, IMHO, and a painful, baffling choice for the role, but at least she did not last as long as Linda Borgenson, who was lethargic and colorless, and who had no chemistry with anyone. And no, I have not seen that youtube channel, but I shall check it out. Thank you for the heads up!

Interesting series of youtube videos, showcasing the various actresses who played Alice Matthews Frame on AW. Really, there's no competition. Jacqueline Courtney was the definite Alice. Some of the other "actresses" were horrid.

Model-actor Max Emerson: beautiful and goofy. What's not to love?

I'm computer-illiterate and had no idea how to post pictures on the net, so I wanted to experiment, and figured...why not try to share some hotness with my man-loving friends at SON? The only problem is, I am not sure how risque the pictures are allowed to be, ROTFLMAO, so I hope I have not crossed any lines. I wanted to post one shot I found, of a really sexy guy, but he's shirtless and standing in a bathroom, and I wondered, "Will this picture make everyone think I am a degenerate perv???"

But the show was in a better place. The stories might've sucked then but c'mon. You know you'd trade those rough years in the 80s of GL over GL from 03 to 09. At least the show still had a bit of heart then. At least the sets still looked plush and the acting was on point during that time too. The Peapack years pained me to no end. Well, that's like telling me I had to prefer rose-scented excrement to original-scent (LOL) excrement, after it had been lying out in the Peapack sun for too long. The 1980s on TGL pained me more BECAUSE the show still had some external trappings of its former, glorious self, but was an empty, rotting shell. By the time the Peapack years rolled around, I felt the "real" TGL was long dead, anyway, and so what Ellen Wheeler did to the bones was almost irrelevant. I meant compared to 2003-2009. ((Whew)) Thank you for the clarification. I withdraw my battle cry.

Understanable. However, I am sure many of those fans probably recanted their statements if they watched the show from about 03-09. While the show was overall in a better place in 1985, I can't really say that bizarre OTT trash like the Charlotte Wheaton storyline was that far removed from GL's last decade. Um...you thought TGL was in a good place in TGL? Now you've done it. This will be my first cat-fight on the SON boards!!! (I jest, I jest. Sort of, LOL!)

Was 1984 the year Hilary was killed off? If so, that explains it. I thought 85 was when fans started to hate the show b/c of Blue Orchid (or whatever it was called) mess occurred, which I know many GL fans loathed. Yes, I believe Hillary died in 1984. Fans were already in revolt over the mass cast/vet purge, and by 1985, with so many of the legacy characters killed off, long-running actors fired or replaced, and the writing in the toilet, TGL had become unwatchable for longtime fans.

When I think of ATWT, the *real* ATWT, I always think of the original grand, sweeping theme. TIIC for the last decade of the show simply did not understand its legacy, did not care about preserving it, and/or were too incompetent to manage the series well. Katie mourning for Nancy while Penny, Don, and Ellen were MIA says it all, alas.

I'd guess Larkin's appearance in later years - either that or the show just not remembering. I think many say 1984 was the downfall. Yes, for me the signs of the apocalypse were there in 1983, but by 1984 was show was being decimated, and by 1985 it was basically in tatters. It only started to revive in 1989.

Yes, after 1985, AW's writing and stories just got worse and worse.

It would have used three of the soap's most beloved actors, and it could have played effectively on the long-running Alice-feud. Alas, TPTB did not know what they were doing at that point, and they missed out on a golden opportunity.

Thank you for the article. Sad to read about the struggle of her last months - and hearing this about her mother suffering from dementia even moreso. It sounds like her daughter loved her a lot. Yes, Courtney's last few years must have been very hard. I've been in the situation of having to care for a parent with Alzheimer's, and it is a grueling, 24/7 job. I was happy to do it, and glad I did it, and I know it was the right thing to do, but it was extremely difficult. I do hope Courtney is at peace now.