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Yeah, and those are so disappointing, too. They don't have the budgets, the star power or the ability to tug at the emotions the way, say, "Lace" or "The Thorn Birds" did.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if CBS and Lorimar had just left Earl Hamner and his original vision for FC alone, and not tried to force it into being another DALLAS or DYNASTY, I think they would have had something special on their hands. Hamner was a wonderful writer, capable of crafting stories and characters filled with humanity and truth. FC needed to reflect that more for sure.

IDC what anyone says. I know all about the history of Steve, Alice and Rachel, or at least as much as I could know under the circumstances; and I STILL say having Alice become involved in a May/December relationship with the right actor as Jamie, if told slowly and carefully, would have been FIRE.

I'm not ready to throw in the Twitter towel just yet. It's taken me this long to get close enough to so many TV writers at once, and dammit, I'm not letting go!

Agree. Sometimes I think the Academy award actors hoping that'll be that and they'll never have to bother with them again. And sometimes I think they just live to [!@#$%^&*] with Glenn Close, lol.

I remember watching "Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan" when it premiered on CBS and thinking Valerie Bertinelli was the greatest.

Something tells me she's about to give Carly an...

Even James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten admitted (to Soap Opera Weekly?) that they knew they had messed up when they introduced the Rapid Aging Serum. Of course, it wasn't as if we could have waited years (even with SORAS'ing at play, it would've taken years) for Clone Reva to age naturally, so IDK what the alternative might have been (aside from, you know, not doing the story at all).

I dread ever hearing the words "The role of Erica Kane will be played today by Philece Sampler." (May she RIP.) Ah, yes. The girl who once played a Kris Monroe lookalike on "Charlie's Angels."

And she's also set to appear in a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along"?? Take it from me: some folks just ask for trouble.

Who knows? If we dig a little deeper, we might turn up some footage of her pitch-hitting for Susan Lucci or Kim Zimmer!

The "suits" at SONY are fools not to find some way to release and monetize the Y&R and DAYS vaults. Letting viewers watch this (or watch this again) on some platform would not, in any way, jeopardize these shows' continued success.

Marla Adams and Melinda Fee look as if they're the same age. If that were Brenda Dickson's Jill listening in on John and Dina's phone conversation, she'd just roll her eyes and her jaw would drop occasionally in amazement/disgust over the things that Dina were saying. But Melinda's Jill looks like she's waiting for the two to wrap things up so she can go to the can.

If SON were like DAYS, she'd be Orpheus. Except, I'm sure at least a few DAYS fans are always glad to see Orpheus again.

If I were hopping aboard Y&R as their new HW or EP, I would MAKE bringing back Phillip Chancellor a top priority. I didn't care for his back-from-the-dead story (which I jokingly guessed (minus the "gay part") weeks before it hit the air, btw) but he's out there, he still has ties to GC and (unlike a certain, former "naked heiress" who shall remain nameless) I think he still has story potential, too, even under those weird circumstances. And even though I'd be VERY reluctant not to recast Phillip, if bringing back TB were part of the bargain that I'd have to strike with CBS or Sony, then fine, I'll work with what (little) I've got. But my point is, if they went to the trouble of bringing Phillip back from the dead (and as a gay man), then they need to use him. And Jill! They need to use Jill, too! I've always held in my back pocket a story where Jill loses everything and has to go back to working in a salon to survive.

You promise?

Even though the housing discrimination story w/ the Benjamins appears to have been truncated, it was still bold of SFT even to try tackling a topic that remains controversial. If only today's soaps would attempt such risks.

At this point, the British royal family would have been better off just going off to Aruba for an extended vacay.

They better do the "Way We Were" sequel while Streisand and Redford are still alive.

Yep, just as we had suspected: Taylor has been a figment of everyone's collective imagination the entire time.

Exactly.

I really hate that the Pollocks wrote Dan Allison into a corner. He could have become a great, long-term villain or anti-hero - a John Dixon to Matt Powers' Bob Hughes or Steve Aldrich's David Stewart.

It's that "if it's on the Internet, then it MUST be true" line of thinking that has gotten this country into the messes that it's in today.

It also wasn't the show to have people come back from the dead. (Hi, Phillip!) Yep.