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Better yet, DAYS should just crib off the final months of SFT and have everyone in Salem live in the same apartment building. That way, there's a damn good reason why everybody's home looks the same, lol.

I doubt his work as Nico Kelly or as Desi Arnaz makes MB the next Lee Strasberg, lol. I thank everyone who filled me in on BC's history...I think, lol. And WTG GH! I used to believe that "Baby M" was the most hideous story about surrogacy that I had ever seen. But no more!

Ah, that kinda tracks with the backstory that I had made up in my head years ago to explain/rationalize Heather's behavior. I figured that Alice's first husband (and Heather's biological dad) had walked out on them years before, and that Heather's stepfather was a drunk who had abused Heather sexually from the time she was a little girl. Furthermore, I figured that Alice was a decent person at her core, but that she had felt overwhelmed by being left with a young daughter to raise and no money or support from her family. In turn, because she was so busy ekeing out a living, Alice never had the time to give Heather the attention she really needed, turning Heather into a very needy child, who learned to "stretch the truth" if she wanted any attention from others. Also, Alice was always afraid of being left alone again, so when Heather, now a teenager, finally found the courage to tell her mother about the abuse, Alice called Heather a liar and believed the husband instead. Even after Heather decided to leave home (by forging that recommendation letter that got her the job as Peter and Diana's nanny) and the stepfather ran off shortly thereafter with an underaged neighbor, Alice still believed that Heather was just a sick person who lived in a world of make believe rather than admit she let down her own child.

Those flashbacks remind me once again how there used to be so much heart on DAYS. It felt like a show that was written, produced and directed by people who actually CARED. Oh, I'm so glad, lol! Seriously, @JAS0N47, if I were head-writing or producing DAYS, I'd definitely have you on staff as official historian.

At the very least, Ron Carlivati needs a Co-HW or EP who can push back against his insane af ideas and say things like, "No, Ron, you can't have John Black lose his [!@#$%^&*] just from looking at some dumb playing card. We don't have the budget, the time or the right quality of actors to play this stupid homage to 'The Manchurian Candidate'."

CUT TO: "BREAKING NEWS: GH Alum Bryan Craig IN at B&B!"

I must admit that I, too, thought Mark Derwin and Kimberley Simms had a certain appeal as a couple. More so than Derwin and Beth Ehlers.

Could someone fill me in on Bryan Craig's BTS antics? I know many were glad to see him go, but I never knew why.

You know, I could see Ron Carlivati writing a story like that, lol? Leo would undergo some sort of "Clockwork Orange"-esque aversion therapy where he'd be reconditioned to be not so pervy. And RC and the rest of the show would play it all for laughs, too. What is there to give up? She's literally giving away her inventory to total strangers on the street, lol!

I don't remember much about the Mallet/Francesca storyline - didn't she marry some mobster in order to protect him or something? - but I do remember wondering why the show was asking us to care so deeply about two characters who didn't have any real ties to the rest of the canvas.

Judging from what Chris wore to the Daytime Emmys, their advice fell on deaf ears.

Not like that's gonna stop Leo (right, Xander?).

Some people just can't get enough attention.

It better not be Patrick J. Gibbons!

By the time Dan O'Connor's first DAYS script airs, he could be back as Co-HW at GH. I'm just saying.

"BREAKING NEWS: Later this year, DAYS fans will be seeing double when Greg Rikkart, who already plays Leo, takes on a second role as Leo's long-lost twin brother, Lance!"

At this point, Rona Barrett's ghost would be more welcome than Perez Hilton.

Frank Valentini looks...overwhelmed in that screenshot. If he isn't talking about John J. York or Roger Howarth, then he's probably talking about someone who was superfluous before, like the dude who played "Magic Milo."

Love can move mountains, and love can save the world, but love cannot get DAYS back to reality.

I agree - and I think a grown-up, rich and fine-as-hell Brooks Prentiss is JUST the man to give it that kick, too!

Perez Hilton is like DAYS' Leo, but without the charm.

And to think: Bill Bell was so impatient with his show's ratings in the beginning that he asked CBS to cancel it, lol.

Are you sure about that, @Taoboi? Are you REALLY sure about that?