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ICAM, @DramatistDreamer!

That has "Sheri Anderson" written all over it, lol! Too bad ABCD never thought to hire her or Thom Racina to head-write LOVING or TC. LOVING, to me, always was a soap opera in search of a theme. Anderson/Racina could have given that to them in the form of romance.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Bridget Dobson is one very complicated lady.

I think there was a bible written for "Manhattan Lives," because someone (it might have been Sheri Anderson or Gene Palumbo) told the press that their plans for the spinoff included a Trump-inspired family named (IIRC) Waterfield.

Who knows? Maybe Sharon killed her father accidentally and then blocked it out.

Thanks again, @dc11786! For sure, if LOL had managed to stave off cancellation at least for a little while longer, CBS would have pressured Cathy Abbi/Ann Marcus for more action-oriented storylines similar to the ones that had been successful on GH. Already, you can see with the disco set how LOL, like every other soap on the air at that time, was courting the GH audience. A star-crossed romance between a skinny white boy with a frizzy perm and a flaxen-haired, chubby-cheeked girl ten years his junior was sure to follow. And I can just imagine uninitiated viewers tuning in for the first time after watching those promos, thinking they are going to watch another Y&R and getting BAMBI FACES LIFE instead, lol.

It is time for Danny to admit the obvious: Christine is too nice and dull for him.

Why do I find it unbelievable that Sharon has any occupation, let alone one as a psychologist/coffeehouse owner, lol? Sharon should be more like Nikki, just sitting around and playing "Lady of the Manor" all day, while her man does the actual work.

I would say (with great reluctance) JFP. Whether or not she coasted on Robert Calhoun's accomplishments, or she owed her success more to Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest's writing than to her own skills as an EP, I think it would be hard to deny that it was the last time that GL would be successful at the Emmys, in the ratings or with the critics. As for the others... Ellen Wheeler was in over her head, producing (with no experience) a show that was beyond help, or hope. Just about any other producer would have known better how to handle the transition to Peapack. John Conboy and Paul Rauch were old-school producers, but neither had a vision for GL that was consistent with its' core themes. Michael Laibson probably would have been more successful as EP. However, P&G was interfering too much by that point. Also, he had to work with a HW who possessed both a dark vision of humanity and a huge axe to grind with the show she had worked on previously. Joe Willmore was another old-school producer like Conboy and Rauch, but he did not have any vision for GL, let alone one that was wrong for the show. And Gail Kobe might have pulled GL out of its' post-Douglas Marland funk, but she also decimated much of its' core by 1985/1986, causing the ratings to flatten and to stay flat for the rest of the decade, and making her probably the most destructive EP that GL would ever employ, with Wheeler a close second.

AW's milestone episodes always were so underwhelming to me. That one was no different.

Thank you, @dc11786, for clarifying that for me. I knew I must have mixed up things somehow, lol. Regardless of how I had conflated them in my memory, though, those promos were just weird to me. If not for the fact that LOL was long gone and that tapes of past episodes are scarce on the Internet, I would have been intrigued enough to tune in and watch the show "live" just to see what the heck was going on, lol. One other question: in another promo, or maybe in the same promo(s) as mentioned before, there is a shot of two people, a man and a woman, laughing and carrying on while showering together. Who are they? I mean, whoever they are, they certainly were/are having a great time, lol.

For those who are interested, here is some of Ms. Uggams' work on AMC. Uggams portrayed Rose Keefer, who was Belinda (Amelia Marshall) and Noah's (Keith Hamilton Cobb) mother. Years before, for reasons I cannot remember, she had left her kids for her sister-in-law, Grace (Lynne Thigpen), to raise. Now, Rose was back in Pine Valley, but trouble had followed her in the form of her criminal husband. Belinda, Noah and his wife, Julia (Sydney Penny), were all caught in the line of fire, forcing Noah, Julia and Rose to enter the Witness Protection Program. I know I do not say much about mid- and late-'90's AMC, but I think Lorraine Broderick and her team - and Jeff Beldner, Hal Corley, Frederick Johnson and Michelle Patrick, in particular - should be commended for this material, because they did such a beautiful job writing for this group of characters.

Question for longtime LOL fans: what was the deal with the Asian hitwoman? In one of the very few LOL-related promos that I have viewed on YT, there was/is an Asian hitwoman who apparently has been contracted to kill one of the men in Rosehill. Who was her target, and did she succeed?

I agree. John Conboy never understood that GL was not Y&R or CAPITOL. It did not need more gloss; it needed better stories.

The Affordable Care Act appears to be following the same arc as many "entitlements" that our country once balked at but now cannot fathom doing without. If I were a Democrat running for office, I would hammer home that fact along with reproductive rights and the inextricable links between them and the ACA.

Does anyone else remember when GL devoted an ENTIRE. EPISODE. To cast members building homes for Habitats for Humanity?

No, I don't. There was speculation, though? I think it would have been odd to see "Dr. Alan Quartermaine" now playing "Dr. Ed Bauer," to say the least. Plus, given SD's health at the time, I am not sure he would have been up to relocating to NYC and playing any role on any soap full-time. I agree. There came a point in GL's final year or two when it was obvious they no longer had a long-term plan for anything and instead were making up stuff based on which part of Peapack they were filming in that day.

This makes me laugh for some reason. Did Jean Holloway think she still was writing THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS?

Yes, they do. As a matter of fact, a distant cousin of mine was released so he could attend my maternal grandfather's funeral, wearing handcuffs and being escorted the entire time.

Yes.

Wendy Riche does not need to return to soaps. She has more than earned her retirement.

I agree. Peapack was an embarrassment for everyone concerned. Nevertheless, a lot of people were depending on its' success in order to maintain their livelihoods. In the end, you can't fault anyone responsible for trying to do whatever they could to keep GL going and keep everyone employed. They just needed more competent leaders at the helm. Gil Gerard would have made for a better Clint Buchanan recast on OLTL. I, myself, would have reached out to Mart Hulswit to see whether he were interested in returning to the show. He might not have been a hunk, but I think Ed was past being a romantic lead anyway. Plus, having him there with Maureen Garrett as Holly might have made the Sebastian storyline less absurd.

My wish for GH in 2024 is the same wish I have had for GH for the past several years: that 70-80% of the current cast is wiped out in a hurricane that unleashes a new strain of Lassa Fever that occurs while a serial killer is simultaneously threatening the citizens of Port Charles.

Ah, the strange, sad case of one Bambi Brewster, lol. I do not know much about the character or her storyline - all that I know, I have gleaned from reading about her on message boards - but she might be a classic, textbook example of a minor/supporting character who becomes a lead literally overnight. In fact, I once joked that the show should have been renamed LOVE OF BAMBI.

I said the same thing as the storyline was playing out. If GA was not interested in returning, I said, then recast Phillip, so there would be a point to the "Who Killed Phillip?" storyline. I also said he even could return using a different name, like Scott Marler ("Scott," for Jackie; "Marler," for Justin), to illustrate how repentant he felt about the way he had treated all his loved ones before he was "killed" and that he wanted to clean the proverbial slate. Not an ideal situation, mind you, but at least there would have been a purpose to "killing" him off.