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I need to pull out that People book again. The photos are damn better than any soap publicity photos taken in a good long time, but I agree the ones that cleverly show some element of the character are better.

I'm sure she says in her long interview she did at that website a year or two back--but this interview implied she was. It does seem like Disney/ABC made major WP and/or HW changes all within 4 weeks on all three major soaps, so... The same site had an interview with Pam Long, mainly about GL but she mentions her 3/4 of a year at GL under JPH. She says she barely remembers it, but admits she didn't think she even decided some of the key stories and while she's very gracious, she says it was that her and JFP creatively had different visions and she felt usually on soaps either you need a stronger EP with the vision and a HW to write it out, or vice versa, but two strong figures doesn't work. With the Labines at OLTL, JFP came in fairly early in their run, and I'm sure that played a big part with them not working out on \OLTL.

Yes Culliton brought him back--he had a few scenes in the hospital, I think they thought he might have been a donar for... Hayley's daughter? I can't remember. He had like one scene with Bianca and was never seen again.

It's really a pretty fascinating interview. I never thought before that with ratings tumbling, Disney made big changes all within one month on every major soap--Behr was fired from AMC, Labine from GH and Malone from One Life (though she admits that after Josh Griffith left she took over as essentially co-headwriter which she now thinks was a big mistake).

I just remember Timmy hallucinating on LSD and seeing a lamp post singing Christmas carols...

This is old, and probably has been posted, but a fascinating audio interview with Susan Bedsow Horgan about her time writing at OLTL as Gottlieb was transforming the show, and later EPing it http://brandonsbuzz.com/brandons-buzz-radio-the-archives/may-17-2011-former-one-life-to-live-showrunner-susan-bedsow-horgan/ I didn't realize they went to Agnes Nixon to get appoval for making Victor a pedophile and that she consulted on the story. And we have Jean Passanante to blame for Patrick's Penny Brown Penny nonsense.

If it was early 1993 wasn't that when McTavish fully took over and Nixon was less involved again? I thought ti happened mid '92, but...

I love that they actually truly focused on her therapy and *showed* it which makes for riveting drama and, yes, still can give some sort of message. Unlike say Connie on GH's very brief hypno sessions, or Jess/Tess' off screen work...

Thanks--I watched pretty faithfully back then (and remember the funeral), but thought I missed something. They taped in the same city--it just seemed dumb that they didn't

Hrmm. Not sure, but there is no doubt that the Linda Dano story didn't work, IMHO. Sure, Myrtle is beloved, but after her appearance on AMC, there was no real reason for AMC viewers to follow her to OLTL. Sky hadn't been on AMC for a while (and the replacement Sky we had gotten before was fairly well liked, I believe--granted she was the first Sky Iknew well), and I don't even remember if Sky made an appearance on AMC leading up to her moving to OLTL--not that I remember. It seemed like when Angie joined Loving and yet should have spent a few weeks at AMC first to actually get viewers interested in following her to a new show (or in many cases, I suspect, even aware that she WAS going to a different show.) And then of course there just was the execution--maybe all those shows was too much to handle, but it made the AMC/OLTL babyswitch in comparison look like the best soap story of all time.

This is an awesome find! Thanks so much Carl. One thing that always strikes me about older articles with photos of soaps, is that the cast was never that attractive. Yes, they *were* attractive, but you don't get that model-perfect (and boring) look that you see on any soap you watch now.

Agreed, absolutely. Has anyone commented on Amanda Setton on The Mindy Project yet? She seems fine--the pilot had potential, I thought.

Has the Spin City episode that revolves around an AMC writer been posted yet? Appearances from Edmund and Gillian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Yu2UX3mj0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6OdxEjc9pI&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdu7eSS0h6I&feature=relmfu

BTW this was the era that ABC Daytime was using a lot of movie music (the Halloween theme in AMC most famously, but other examples). The synth music when we first see April's dress is from Giorgio Moroder's excellent synth score for Cat People a few years earlier. Nice to see this even if the era was odd (big business stories never fit Loving too well IMHO). Nice to see the Loving pilot being uploaded--it's such an odd hybrid, but has some nice stuff (i own two copies of the commercial video tape, LOL)

That's really touching--I hadn't seen it

Ha!! Did she ever say anything publicly about Rock's AIDS, do you know? Kinda ironic she was so associated with him back in the day, and of course her ex, Ronald Reagan was so cowardly when it came to dealing with the AIDS crisis.

Even though I worship her camp performance in Magnificent Obsession?

Ha I don't know enough about FC to have read them

Ha this sure was rambling... I'll definitely try to get something out--I just get discouraged when that happens (the only time my comp seems to freeze is when I'm almost done an exceptionally long post).

I actually posted a long review of the early episodes last Friday that froze my computer. But I will try to get back into it. The show definitely seemed to hit its stride in season 3--was that when soap scribe Ann Marcus was one of the main writers (I believe she defected to Falcon Crest for a bit, though she was back at Knots I think near the end). I'd love to know just how involved Jacobs remained with the show. It sounds like creatively he was at least a bit more involved with it for most of its run than he was with Dallas.

Ugh they better release this on DVD soon. I found the other week a torrent of Season 3--in near unwatchable quaity, yet I tore through them in about five days. It's by far the primetime soap (aside from Peyton Place) that appeals to me the most.

I know she didn't have all that much control, particularly if she was apparently booted from the writer's room during Pratt's reign, but I can't help thinking some of that was due to Agnes Nixon still being around to SOME degree. While other shows were dropping vets who had apparently had lifetime contracts--like Anna Lee (I think that's her name--I didn't watch GH regularly), AMC had a habit of keeping them on contract even when they could barely work near the end (like with Ruth Warrick and James M), which I think showed a lot of respect. And it was great to see Myrtle working till basically the end. The problem came that they never really built up other characters, or even introduced, or re-introduced others, to fill these positions, but I doubt the network heads in the past 15 years would have taken kindly to them wanting a contract role for someone over 70. Opal seemed like she could have filled that spot, or helped to.

Don't think this full special was posted before, TVGuide just finally put the full version up on their youtube channel a month back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l77edp52-g

Well exactly, it's based on classic royal families--think of the Egyptians to take it back to the most incestuous. However I don't think ugly people are more likely to resort to incest out of desperation or something

Toups, I read the first book after seeing the first season, and then read half of the second book, but decided to hold off till I ahd seen the second season, and have since finished the second book. I'm 99% sure that in this thread any spoilers (certainly the ones I recently stated--like the much improved story for Dannii) for the book are merely ones about differences in the show.