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Although I am sure SCOTUS will reverse CO and ME's rulings and put him back on the ballots, I am glad to see some states take a real stand against insurrectionists like him.

I barely remembered that show, so I looked up an episode on YT. Clearly, KA did it for two reasons: 1) the money, and 2) Shelley Curtis, who worked on that show as well as on DAYS (and later, GH). Otherwise, LS is the kind of slick, low-budget, New Age-ish program for single (white) people that could have existed only in the late '80's and early '90's.

I agree.

I think the only daytime soap Brian Gaskill has not appeared on was VALIANT LADY. And he probably had a recurring role on that one, too. So, it is all. Your. Fault.

"Look, Raven, I really don't want get into an argument with you right now, I have to pick up some milk at the supermarket!"

Deacon and Sheila's storyline better not involve a pregnancy.

It takes a special kind of evil to make that happen.

And if you are Brian Gaskill, you try and you try and you try and you try and....

Well, if at first you don't succeed....

No, it was not with GL, @Mitch64. It was with AMC. I still am not sure whether she was fired or she quit, but as we all know, she did not take too kindly to having one of her stories altered in the wake of the Murrah Building bombing in OKC. (In her original plan, Janet Green was going to stop Trevor and Laurel's wedding with a bomb hidden inside a package. However, after the real-life bombing, I think it was changed to a gun). So, I suspect she took the HW'ing gig at GL at least partially out of spite, because God knows she did not have the right temperament for that show.

I agree. There is a lot that Jesse did, both during the years he was presumed dead, and after he had returned to Pine Valley, that I still have trouble believing.

I might have some details wrong here, but... Angie, now reunited with not-dead Jesse, gave birth to a daughter, Ellie. (Angie's pregnancy had been particularly difficult, because she also was battling a disease that had left her blind). Jesse, who had delivered his and Angie's baby himself, noticed that the newborn was not breathing. (Angie was unconscious during the delivery, IIRC). Despite attempts to revive the baby, Ellie was stillborn. That was when Jesse buried Ellie in a shallow grave at a nearby park. Believing that Angie would be devastated by the loss of their baby, Jesse, with help from Brot, switched Ellie with another newborn that Maya, a unwed, teenage mother, had abandoned around the same time as Ellie's birth. Together, Jesse and an unsuspecting Angie named the baby Lucy. And then it goes on from there. Needless to say, I was not a fan of the story, or of much of Jesse's story once he was resurrected...but that is another post for another day. I think it was either David Kreizman and Donna Swajeski or Lorraine Broderick.

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?