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That's always been my theory as well. However, I've always believed that any Alan recast (after Christopher Bernau) needed to be British and/or classically trained. Someone like Jeremy Brett, for example, or Edward Woodward (even though Woodward would've been too old and Brett passed away in '95). He didn't have to have dark features, but he needed an ability to project a quieter sort of menace than Raines was CLEARLY incapable of. And even if GL had to go the musical theatre actor route, for whatever reason, they still could've done a lot better than Raines, lol

Frankly, cottage cheese would trigger Laura.

Yep, Donald Trump in workout gear, lol.

When it comes to Ron Raines, I could look past the cartoonish bombast and utter inability to generate heat with any of his female co-stars, but you know what I couldn't look past? His stout-ness. Call me shallow, but he was entirely too fat to play Alan Spaulding.

True. But, you know, even if I were to look past the "baby fever" angle, the whole story just...lays there for some reason. There's no real suspense to grab you; no urgency or desperation (although, the actors are doing their very best); no real stakes. In a way, it's like the precursor to the unfortunate "baby Cabot saga" that seemed to eat the show alive during the Sheffer and/or Passanante era.

There's always Sweeps Week! ;)

Of course, the far-left didn't care too much about those red flags. They just wanted to "own the Libs" like everyone else. (Progressivists. You gotta love 'em.)

From said memoir: Unfettered is [...] 213 pages of what the country already knows about Fetterman: that he’s driven by interpersonal grievances, insecurities, and immaturity. IOW, John Fetterman is Donald Trump in track shorts. And speaking of his choice of attire: I realize that what one chooses to wear in the halls of government has absolutely nothing to do with how one actually governs, but refusing to wear a simple suit and tie to your job as a United States Senator doesn't make you an iconoclast or maverick. It just makes you look like a giant d*ck.

Amen.

And to think the original plan was for David and Lesley to have an affair. Not only would that have made no sense - Lesley wasn't THAT stupid, lol - but it also would've ruined her and GH.

It reminded me of what the Pollocks got away with all the time on THE DOCTORS: long ass flashbacks that don't really add anything to the scene except time. Because, if you remove the flashback, what's left? Monica finishes packing Alan's suitcase. The end. Oh, well. At least I got to see a young Patricia Elliott (ex-Renee, OLTL) in that Aim toothpaste commercial (not to mention, a shirtless James O'Sullivan (ex-Jeff, AMC; ex-Pete, OLTL; ex-Jerry, SOMERSET) in the commercial for One-a-Day vitamins, lol).

This is DAYS, the show that said you could brainwash anyone with simple kitchen appliances. An actor's nail polish or lack thereof should be the least of our concerns, lol.

"We're Knot Done Yet": the name of this lovely podcast AND what JVA tells her plastic surgeon at every appointment. In other news, Michele Lee is reminding me more and more of my old music teacher from elementary school, and I couldn't STAND that bitch.

I apologize if this has been covered already, but does anyone know whether Douglas Marland was HW'ing by that point? If he was, then I see what he meant when he said (in so many words) that he had inherited a mess when he started at GH. Aside from Alan and Monica, none of that material seems very promising. The story with Mark Dante and the Corbins is the wrong kind of predictable (y'know, the kind where you know what's going to happen, but you just don't give a crap?), the stuff with Scotty and Laura is cute but toothless, I don't know WHAT the hell Gina and Steve Carlson's character are arguing about and Rick Webber has to be the dumbest man alive not to see David Hamilton twirling his invisible moustache over how to make a killing off Lamont Corbin's declining health. (By the way, "LAMONT CORBIN"? What is this, "The Shadow"? And "Corbin Limited" sounds like some jive I'd hear over on Y&R.) In a way, it's kind of like watching today's GH, right down to the dialogue that's serviceable and pushes plot along but says nothing about the characters' inner lives.

No offense to the actors involved, but dear God in heaven: I don't know HOW viewers managed to get through that storyline with Maggie, Frank, Cal and baby Jill without running into oncoming traffic. Then, to make matters worse, they dragged poor Diana into the mess! I don't care WHO gets that damn baby! Just wrap it up and move ON already!

Poor HBS. To have to put up with Stephen Burleigh, who stuck his knee between her legs while rehearsing a love scene on THE DOCTORS, then told the director that's what he did with his wife; Kincaid, who had more hair on his chest and upper lip than Koko the Gorilla; Kale Browne, who taped his lines all over the OLTL studio floor, because he couldn't ever be bothered to [!@#$%^&*] memorize them; and Robert S. Woods, who apparently thought it was still 1979 and that he was still smolderingly sexy, so why should Bo Buchanan be stuck being in a happy marriage with Nora? After all that, no wonder she jumped at the chance to play a lesbian on VENICE, lol.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think ATWT always laid it on a little too thick whenever it came to Steve and Betsy? It's like even they weren't sure Steve and Betsy had "it," lol. And Jason Kincaid wasn't the worst actor in the world, nor was he the worst actor to portray Tom Hughes (although, that brief scene with Margo/HBS probably isn't enough to judge). But I think I do see why he didn't last long. Justin Deas' counterculture Tom as the product of Bob and Lisa was enough of a stretch, but Kincaid comes across even quirkier than Deas! If I had my druthers, he would've played Hal instead - sorry, but I never warmed to Benjamin Hendrickson completely - since he does appear to share some chemistry with HBS.

Not to me! To me, he'll always be this guy:

Despite her Mormon background, Ellen Wheeler's GL often felt like a game of Spin the Bottle.

So, JFP finally said goodbye to that Liza Minnelli hairdo she's been sporting since God knows then. Good for her.

IKR? Becky Lee was way more tolerable than Luna, and as Ordell Robbie would say, "that girl was as country as a chicken coop."

"Interchangeable blondes" is straight from the Paul Rauch playbook. (Apparently, that s.o.b. taught Frank very well, lol).

Luna was always a character I could take strictly in very small doses. Her and Max's relationship never should've progressed beyond, say, a one-sided crush on her part.

"Willow Tait took an axe/and gave her lover forty whacks/and when she saw what she had done/she gave her mother forty-one."

I can't think of a Slesar-penned story on EON that I wouldn't love to see or see more of. What I've seen remains so remarkable to me. Slesar worked very carefully to make EON distinct from other soaps - not just in terms of content, but also in terms of style. His EON was so pulpy, yet so psychologically acute. I think the only material that comes closest in matching that was the stuff Bill Bell and Kay Alden penned for Y&R in the '90's and early '00's.