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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.

Whenever I see the name "Madge Sinclair," I think of the actress who was on "Trapper John, M.D." and who later played Eddie Murphy's mother in "Coming to America."

Listen, there's no other way around it: kids are going to be a part of Frank Valentini's GH, whether we like it or not. So, I say, at least create a space for them where it makes sense to use them on the regular. Including that godawful Violet, lol.

That reminds me of an old TV movie - produced by Paulette Breen, aka Claudette Montgomery #1 - starring Kate Jackson and Rick(y) Schroeder, with Schroeder portraying the young man who claimed to be Jackson's character's son, who had been abducted many years before. The title escapes me at the moment, but I do remember it coming out at the climax that Schroeder's character, in fact, had been abducted by the same people who had abducted Jackson's son; and that her son actually had died while he was still a boy. (I also remember Jackson's character watching what appeared an actual clip from early '80's ATWT on her TV, lol).

And it would drive Tracy absolutely NUTS, lol. ("First, my idiot brother gives her the mansion; now, she's giving it away to the orphans!?"). But Monica throws her (and everyone else) another curveball by asking, via her will, that Tracy be placed in charge of Quartermaine House, thereby making Tracy a sort of Miss Hannigan to all the orphans who would be placed there. And yes, Sasha would remain on board as the staff chef, lol.

I'm with @DRW50: I would've preferred that over the cliffhanger we did get, lol. For years, I thought there were two ways to explain Bobby's absence. One way would've been to reveal that Bobby, along with several other boys, was murdered while at camp (which is where Bobby supposedly went to, and not on some skiing vacay) and that his murder was so shocking for the family that they never talked about it (or him) anymore. The other would've been to say that Bobby struggled so much to adjust to life without his mom, Helen, that Joe thought it would be best for him to live with Helen's relatives in California.

Not to take anything away from Brenda Dickson or even Jess Walton, but Deborah Adair comes across more believably as Julianna McCarthy/Liz Foster's daughter. If she had stayed, I could see her mellowing out eventually - not enough to turn her into Mary Williams, but enough to make her a strong, matriarchal figure nevertheless, like Liz before her.

LOL!! But seriously. It is kind of a shame how they gave Bobby Martin the Chuck Cunningham/Judy Winslow treatment. He could've been a wonderful "older brother" figure to Charlie and Tad.

If I were HW...? Everyone would be stunned to learn Monica made provisions in her will to turn the Q mansion into an orphanage (a sort of shout-out to her own origins).

That's probably because there aren't that many people inside the hospital to worry about it, lol.

He did. IIRC, Joe's first wife was named Helen (?). I laughed when Bootleg Grandma Kate mentioned Bobby out playing basketball with the Boy Scouts. No wonder the Martins forgot his existence; the poor boy was hardly ever home, lol.