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You know, when I was very, very, VERY young, I used to watch Powers Boothe play Philip Marlowe on HBO, so it was a little weird to see him play someone SO not like Marlowe years later in my high school sociology class. Anyways. Speaking of trash, that's pretty much how I would sum up ANDIE after viewing just one, complete episode: it was trash. I mean, I think Douglas Marland put a ton of great elements into it that, under other circumstances, would have made for a very compelling show. But Marland was let down by the "actors" (not to mention, by the production team, who likely thought his writing was not "sexy" enough and would've turned it into straight-on hardcore porn if given the opportunity).

I've heard that, too, and I think it was Trish Van Devere (whom OLTL canned before the first episode), but I wouldn't quote me on that, lol. Ah! I thought that was how it might've been set up. I know I read somewhere that Agnes Nixon altered some family connections, either because Ruth Warrick didn't look old enough to be so-and-so's mother or grandmother, or Warrick herself had reservations. Thanks, @All My Shadows! The thing is, Joanna Miles might have favored Warrick in terms of looks, but she looks to be more like one of her contemporaries, rather than her offspring. Plus - and maybe this is just me - but she reminded me of Joan Bennett an awful lot; and considering that DARK SHADOWS was still on the network at that time, that might've been ABC's concern as well, lol.

I'm just saying, lol!

I really hope they get Jonelle Allen and Anna Maria Hosford to make appearances on this show. Clifton Davis needs to be reunited with his two best scene partners, lol.

How do you know, though, Sharon wasn't imagining those other people in the room?

Yep. I can even see how it might begin, with Willow waking up one morning (after having sex with Drew) to find Drew dead from a gunshot wound or a knife to the chest in her bed.

He also played the guy who tried to set up a new chapter of the KKK in the Jeffersons' apartment building, and whom George performed CPR on when he almost died of a heart attack. ("You should've let me die.") I agree that James Karen probably came across as too old to be Ruth Warrick's on-screen son. (Joanna Miles, too, comes across in that episode as being too old to be her daughter. Or, was she Phoebe's step-daughter? I've never been clear about how the Tylers were related to each other on the show). Heck, Karen could've played Ted Brent, lol!

Are you talking about the one starring Powers Boothe as Jim Jones? Because, if you are, then I agree with you 1000%. It was late '70's TV trash.

It might sound racist, but it's the truth: Black. Don't. Crack.

I don't know whether that rumor was just that. When it comes to JFP, there's a grain of truth to every rumor about her; and frankly, I can see her approaching LW with that kind of offer. But I think I would've approached LW about succeeding Jessica Collins as Avery before tying her to MTS/Nikki.

I can see the headline now: "NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE: Why 99-Year-Old Clifton Davis Refuses To Leave 'The Best Job I've Ever Had'!"

She was warned about this...

And I don't blame her for taking the role. (Work is work!). I just blame MAB for not setting aside her feelings. Instead of figuring out how to MW's Diane work on the Y&R canvas, she just wrote her into such a corner that they had no choice BUT to kill her off. I don't blame ya, lol!

That's good to know, because I think Eric Braeden and Tom Eplin are gonna need a place to crash for awhile.

Amen! Julianne Moore's long past the point of needing to talk any further about her time on ATWT. Yet, she does so, and without hesitation or shame, too. That means a lot to someone like me, who's been influenced more by these shows than by anything else out there in the culture. And I love the fact that she's never referred to her gig as a "stepping stone" to more "legitimate" acting roles. To her, ATWT was a job like every other she's had in the business. Not too many former soap stars share that attitude.

That would be my advice to every halfway decent actor who's been on soaps: DON'T COME BACK. I know it's scary out there, especially with Los Angeles now reduced to ashes. Trust me, though, you're better off no longer being a part of this industry.

If I could, I would ask Ron Carlivati, "What did you THINK would happen when you started writing that [!@#$%^&*]? Were you giving TPTB an excuse not to renew your contract? If so, then well played!"

It still tickles the hell out of me to think that B&S [!@#$%^&*] is likely what got Ron canned from DAYS. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

Or...? Cameron isn't just a fig newton of her imagination.

If they wrote it that way in order to punk Laura Wright, then they are no better than Ron Carlivati and his endless "fat jokes" for Sean Kanan.

Which is why I never understood why so many BTS - including Gloria Monty! - hated the Quartermaines and wanted them removed from the show.

Tamara Tunie is bringing the soap matriarch vibes and I love it!

This is why I urge script writers to read their scripts aloud, lol.

That's what I love about Maura West: she will commit 110% to whatever she's asked to play, even if what she's playing ain't worth the recycled paper it's printed on. CBS and Y&R handed MW the rawest of raw deals by asking her to take on a role like Diane Jenkins, a character that was (IMO) impossible to recast after Alex Donnelly and Susan Walters. As I've said upthread, I think Y&R would've been better off bringing her on as Sharon's long-lost half-sister, because Sharon (again, IMO) needs a family outside of the Newmans.

What I love best about that scene between LC and Maurice Benard was how LC was able to convey Monica's anger and grief over the many losses in her life - an especially bitter pill for her to swallow, considering how Monica had never had a family to call her own before she joined the Quartermaines - without resorting to histrionics. She raised her voice, yes, but never to any ear-splitting decibel. She simply looked MB in the eye and told the truth. That's how it done, ladies and gentlemen.