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Thank you, thank you and Thank. You. For God's sake, even my 100-year-old grandmother dresses more youthfully than AS, and she's on Depends!

Okay, anyone who mentions Ann Jillian's name in my presence has to suffer through this. That's the rule:

Tell me about it! Same here!

Nancy Lee Grahn: And Patrick [Mulcahey] really fashioned Mason and Julia and their relationship. The Dobsons of course, created the characters, but he was very responsible for the writing of that. Davies: He got us early on and that sort of Adam's Rib-by tone that we had. Grahn: And the dimension and the complication and all those things. So, don't tell me that PM can't head-write! Because, this Mason & Julia fan knows better! And, of course, leave it to Frank Valentini and his Olive Garden Italian ass to put the kibosh on any sort of Mason-and-Julia-like banter between NLG and LD this time around. Bantering is only what they're best at, y'know! It's only what they're known for, what any halfway intelligent soap fan LIVES for; so, of course, it has to go! Sigh. I will never [!@#$%^&*] understand that Frank.

Which is probably for the best if even a simple good night kiss as they go to sleep in their Rob and Laura Petrie twin beds is too suggestive for them.

If that's how you feel, then you probably want to avoid watching Perry King play Dex's long-lost, Parkinson's-stricken father.

Why? I...tend to agree. This is a tricky situation, especially in the post-#MeToo era. For better or for worse, love scenes have become an intrinsic part of the storytelling on soaps, so to have an actor or actors refuse to participate in those kinds of scenes on ANY grounds is, well, frustrating, lol. But, on the other hand, if you fire an actor simply because they won't do love scenes, or because they won't show even a modest amount of skin, you're opening up yourself and your show to lawsuits. Plain and simple. IOW: as boring as JS and AS/Chase and BLQ are, we're kind of stuck with them, with how the writers have to write for them, and even with how they choose to play - or, rather, NOT play - even the smallest moments of affection between them, until something changes. I agree with all of this. I, too, respect how JS and AS feel, but you can't tell me that it's not tying a lot of other people's hands at the show. I know that if *I* were HW, I'd be hesitant to write for them AT ALL - let alone something as potentially salacious, say, as an infidelity story - for fear of how they think their kids will respond to the material down the road. (As if my job was to worry about their kids' emotional well-being, lol.)

That's what I love about classic movies: a simple look or touch can express more passion between two people than a dozen hot-and-heavy love scenes. But, like you've suggested, it only works when the couple in question has genuine heat between them.

I know of one instance in the later years when Liz Hubbard herself corrected her dialogue to say she had three (rather than two) daughters.

He keeps reminding me of Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion in that thumbnail.

Proof that Chase and BLQ are as bored with each other as we are with them. I love "old Hollywood" as much as the next TCM freak, but reinstating the Hays Code? Hell no, lol. I can't wait to hear what happens when someone explains to Chase and BLQ how babies are made.

In the past, I've wondered if LM was just working off whatever his last contract was with EON, since both were P&G shows.

Whoever said GH was trying to sell Chase and BLQ's nuptials as The Wedding of the Century was bang-on, lol. I'm sure JS and AS are lovely people IRL, but as I've said before, there is nothing about the characters they play, especially in regards to romantic or sexual chemistry (or lack thereof), that makes them interesting to me. Foster and Annabelle had more "heat" than Chase and BLQ, and that is just so wrong on so many levels!

That's funny, because if anyone ever looked like they ate too much at the fair, it was Tom Eplin circa ATWT, lol. I'll be honest: I loved watching Larkin Malloy as a kid, from EON (with Mama Khan), to GL (again, with Mama Khan), to AMC. (Our local ABC affiliate had dropped LOVING long before he joined as Clay). And I loved Keva more than I did Jeva. But it seems like both GL and AMC went out of their ways to ruin the characters LM was playing and the relationships his characters were part of, which makes me wonder if he was very unpopular BTS at both shows.

I remember when someone from the show (Goutman?) talked up how the globe in that opening was comprised of clips from old episodes, and I thought, "How am I supposed to be impressed by that, when we can barely see 'em!?"

For reasons I will never, ever, EVER understand.

You're not wrong about any of this, my friend, lol! Oh, and people need to leave LW the [!@#$%^&*] alone.

IF you have the right actor…which GH does not, lol. I apologize to everyone for coming across as bitter, but I’m still pissed about PM. And poor Dan O’Connor! It’s one thing for you and your Co-HW to be fired because your writing’s no good, but when your Co-head’s hired back and you’re not…? I’m hoping they asked Dan back, too, and he just said no. Otherwise, it just makes him look REALLY bad.

In a way, Patrick Mulcahey quitting/getting fired was a blessing in disguise for me. At least I won't have to suffer through too much more of this [!@#$%^&*].

How much time does an EP need to say, "I'm sorry, but I think our money would be better spent elsewhere. Thanks for playing, Ms. Francis, and enjoy the home version of our game!" Better yet, how much time does an EP need to pick up the damn phone, call the suits at ABC and say, "Look, Genie (and Tony) made this company MILLIONS back in the day, the LEAST we can do is give her a damn contract"? IOW, saying "I have no time now" is just another way of saying, "Go away, kid, you're bothering me!"

I swear Frank thinks he's producing "America's Got Talent: Kids Edition!" and not GH.

Frank is still butt-hurt that he was forced to give Genie a contract. That's why he had the writers give her a thankless job (as PC's mayor) and stick her with boring-ass Kevin (whom everyone knows belongs with Lucy!) instead of creating a brand-new love interest for her.

I agree! All GF has done is save GH from cancellation and become a pop culture phenomenon in the process. But I guess that means zilch compared to what Steve Burton or Maurice Benard has done for the show, right, GH?

And of course, MB, SB and LW are leading in most of these photos and GF isn't leading in any of them. SMDH.

Hopefully, it won't start with some little girl warning that "evil is coming!"