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data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw== But how great would it be to wake up in an alternate reality to news that Sony/CBS has hired Curlee/Demorest to take over Y&R and given them complete creative control to do as they’d like? data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw== On the one hand, it wouldn't be anything at all like Bill Bell's Y&R. But, on the other hand, at least Y&R would be watchable again. Catherine LePard? From "7th Heaven"? Wow.

He also fathered Harry Connick, Jr., which, in many ways, was an equally egregious act.

Frankly, I think GH's reluctance to dismiss Kirsten Storms only tells part of the story. I think the other, perhaps more significant reason why this show won't at least "rest" Maxie, if not kill her off, is because she has B.J.'s heart.

I agree. You know, Kristina Wagner being off GH wouldn't be the worst thing to happen in the history of the show. I'm just saying.

To me, Victor always has been someone who wanted a wife or girlfriend whom he could pet and pamper and spoil. He had that to one degree or another with Lorie, Julia, DEFINITELY Nikki, Hope, Sabrina and even Ashley, who probably was the most independent mate he'd had up to that point. If Victor and Christine had become a full-fledged couple, you know it would've imploded the minute Christine put her career as an attorney over Victor's demands.

I'm sure he will lure her away at some point. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if you look up one day and see either Nancy Curlee's or Stephen Demorest's name in the credits. Believe it or not, I actually like Tom Degnan. I liked him on ATWT, and I liked him on OLTL, too, even though, in both cases, he got saddled with bad storylines. Not the world's finest actor, and probably not at all convincing as a villain or even anti-hero, but definitely someone who could've grown into another tentpole actor/character, if given the right opportunity on the right show.

Frankly, I thought pairing Victor and Christine was a mistake even then. It just didn't seem right for Christine, who always has been independent and self-reliant, to hook up with an alpha male like Victor.

First of all, @JaneAusten, I'm glad you're still with us and hope you're taking care of yourself and that you will be on the mend soon. I, for one, would love to have an in-depth discussion about the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. It's a subject that the media, I'm afraid, is not doing a very good job of explaining to the public. They seem to want to reduce it to "heroes and villains," when, IMO, it's much more complicated than that. So far, the only public figures I've heard from who truly get that there are many, many factors at play are Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. As Obama himself said, "Nobody's hands are clean in this."

Exactly. There's no time anymore to work with these actors (especially ones with little-to-no experience) in developing characters who aren't just variations of previous roles on other shows.

Wow. I mean, she ain't exactly wrong, lol. But...wow. And poor Felicia. All she could do was flee the church in tears. Another woman might have snatched Maxie by her highlights and dragged her from the pulpit, kicking and screaming every step of the way.

I'll admit it's weird to see the dude who played the janitor in "The Breakfast Club" and Molly Ringwald's brother-in-law-to-be in "Sixteen Candles" now play a villain on a soap opera.

To this day, I wonder if Connie Wilkes was supposed to be an impostor all along, or if that was a rewrite intended to get her off the show. (IIRC, it was Tad who recognized her).

I agree. The same goes for everyone else who works in this industry. The pressure is on them everyday to get episodes done as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Under those conditions, it's a miracle they can remember anything at all. Which is why I think the remaining shows need to follow the late Lisa Brown's advice and really find the time again to rehearse. Actors struggle all the time with memorizing lines, but if they had the time to work with the directors and the scripts so that they would know what they're supposed to be doing in a given scene, I think recalling lines would be a lot easier for them.

Ah, yes. "Phantom of the Erica," lol. Next to kidnapping Maria's baby, that probably was the lowest point for La Kane. ETA: I take that back. "Jane Campbell" trumps them both.

Question for any and all SFT fans out there: how did y'all feel about Mary Stuart's musical performances on the show? Did you enjoy them and look forward to them, or...?

I was reading an interview the other day with a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (can't remember his name atm) who wrote a book on Donald Trump and who said a judgment for more than $10 million is precisely the outcome that Trump wanted, so that he run go to the press and to his followers and proclaim our justice system to be rigged and that the amount was unfair because it was decided by a "New York jury" - meaning, of course, too liberal, and too ethnic.

In that case, maybe they should ask Ken Corday to produce the show. I'm kidding.

Me neither. Mulcahey's hiring had to have been ABCD's doing; and given Mulcahey's aversion to network/sponsor interference, I would not be surprised to learn that the network had to promise him some measure of creative control in order to get him to sign on, too. I just hope the first check clears before Mulcahey is forced to quit. #grabthatdough

I agree. That plot-driven decision had ABCD's fingerprints all over it.

Just more of the magic that Tom Langan brought to DAYS, lol.

Frank Valentini basically took Mark Teschner's job away from him - but, hey, at least Mark's still getting a paycheck! As soon as I remembered him from Lifetime's "My Crazy Ex," I knew Frank had screwed up again. Boy, Patrick Mulcahey's got his work cut out for him, if he thinks he can work with Frank and whichever other C-list actors he chooses to cast for roles. You know, I'm watching again Frank's Q&A with the press (which plays on a loop here at SON, if you haven't noticed, lol) and...I don't want to be the one to start any rumors or anything...but am I the only one who thinks the grind of producing GH is beginning to get to Frank a little bit? He seems much more gaunt and more "out of it" than I've seen him in the past.

Lucky Spencer is not an easy role to (re-)cast.

That's probably where Ron Carlivati had intended to go. I still would love to know how this cheap-ass show plans to stage a scavenger hunt when all they have in the way of sets are one multi-purpose room and a park bench with astroturf underneath.

Chances are, if you were a female, and you were hired to do a guest spot on "CHiPs," you were pretty much just another cutie for Ponch and Jon to quibble over.

Now that bugged the [!@#$%^&*] out of me - and I wasn't even alive when he still was on the show! IIRC, there was a scene on GL where Roger had a bonding moment with Fletcher and Holly's newborn daughter, Meg, who was born with Down Syndrome. In that scene, Roger promised always to look out for Meg, because he knew what it was like to be "different" from others. To me, that scene, along with the scene that @Mitch64 described upthread, really captured the essence of Roger Thorpe. He might have done some very dastardly deeds in life, and hurt a lot of people along the way, but you knew he'd always look out for the (metaphorical) underdog, too.