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"Perfect world" scenario: MB hosts a special AMC reunion with Rosa Nevin, Lauren Holly and Robert Duncan McNeill...and Alan Locher is banging on his door, begging to be let in. ("Maurice is conducting the reunion instead of me? Wow, that's crazy!")

I'm not sure about Susan Lucci. As much as I worship her, I also know she has a hard time being candid.

This. All of this. Bag of chips and drink included.

Agree. I actually think Tiffani was more suited to playing a role like Valerie than she was playing Kelly. I just wish the rest of the show had been as good. Let's put it this way: I stopped watching "90210," "Charmed" and "Buffy" for many reasons, and none of those reasons had anything at all to do with SMG or Shannen Doherty.

I've got news for you, dude: most actors have big, honking egos.

Is there any chance at all that we'll see any of his former AMC co-stars on this thing? Better yet, how 'bout a reunion with Frances Fisher, who was once Lucille Ball to his Desi Arnaz in that TV movie? I'd love to see them have a sit-down in light of "Being the Ricardos."

Exactly. If they were still in their teens or twenties, I'd be fine with it. But, coming to blows over a woman at THEIR ages? Give me a damn break!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I really don't care how you behave in your personal life, or even how you behave when you're on the set (provided, of course, you aren't being abusive toward your crew or fellow actors). All I care about is whether you can deliver on camera. Shannen Doherty and SMG could be two of the bitchiest bitches who ever bitched, but both have proven that they have the goods to back up their behavior. You wanna stop watching their movies and TV shows, because you hate them IRL? That's your business. Me? I'm just gonna thank whichever gods I need to that I can always count on them NOT to bore me -- because, AFAIC, that (boring your audience) is the ultimate sin.

"Teases"? More like, "Warns Us" or "Threatens Us With".

I don't think Agnes Nixon would've wanted that either, lol. But I DO think she'd want ANY new version of her creation to be something that, at the end of the day, honors the best in us and not the worst.

Same.

Let's be honest: BE's time on AMC was doomed from the start. First, she was supposed to be a Liza recast, or was heavily rumored to be. Either way, the thought of anyone other than Marcy Walker playing Liza was unappealing to most long-time AMC fans. (As Jamie Luner would learn all too tragically, lol.) Next, just before she premiered, Chuck Pratt had to change her character's name, from "Taylor McBride" to "Taylor Thompson," either due to legal reasons, or because fans pointed out that he had used the exact same name once on MELROSE PLACE, I can't remember which. (It's never good when the HW has to change your character's name before your first episode.) Then, as if AMC fans weren't having a hard enough time warming up to her, BE shoots her own self in the foot by dissing her co-star, the very likeable JR Martinez (ex-Brot), as being not up to her standards, or some mess. (She did say that while she was still on the show, right, @Vee?) By the time they flirted with pairing Taylor with Tad, nobody cared. So much so that the b***h literally vanished after being attacked in the ladies' room by psycho Annie, never to be seen or heard from again.

That's what I loved about the girls at Loretta's beauty parlor. I mean, where else on TV were you going to see Gloria DeHaven* or Kathryn Grayson? Especially during the pre-AMC/TCM '80's, when the old MGM musicals had been relegated to "The Late, Late Movie" on most local TV stations? There was so much about the Cabot Cove shows that I loved. I hated seeing those aspects phased out, even though I understood why. (*Yes, I know Gloria DeHaven was on RYAN'S HOPE. You know what I'm talking about, lol.)

Really? Wow. I had NO idea. I just figured it was a demographics thing, lol. I do know that MSW supposedly paid its' guest stars well, which is why so many were eager to do it, despite it being "uncool" by Hollywood standards. Megan Mullally, for example, has talked about how appearing on MSW saved her from giving up the business altogether. Agree. Not that Jean Stapleton is a terrible actress -- because she isn't -- but I think her Jessica would have been more comedically bent. As it is, I always have a tough time believing Angela's Jessica in any story that involves espionage. It just seems to be too outside the wheelhouse of a retired New England school teacher turned mystery novelist and amateur sleuth. But, if Jean's Jessica had been involved in such antics? Jessica would've looked even sillier.

Well, it's true that once Angela Lansbury took over production, Jessica became a more seasoned world traveler. However, I think Fischer did a much better job convincing viewers that the show wasn't so studio-bound. You watch those shows from the later years, when Jessica is supposed to be in Egypt or whatever, and there's just no way in hell you believe it, lol.

I'm just glad Dominic isn't a girl. Otherwise, if he were, and she grew up to be the usual female soap character w/ multiple marriages, there's a good chance her name would've ended up being Dominique Newman Abbott Winters Chancellor Baldwin Grainger Williams Romalotti Brooks Foster Locke McDermott Billingsley Jablonsky Jablonsky Taylor Rivera.

Maybe. However, even during its' final seasons, MSW remained a cash cow for CBS on Sunday nights. I can't see CBS or Universal slashing its' budget so much that they could no longer afford "name" guest stars, if it meant potentially crippling the show. If anything, I think less older stars were featured, because of a concerted effort from all parties -- CBS, Universal, even Angela herself -- to make the show more appealing to younger audiences. That's why you saw Jessica begin spending more and more time with people who were young enough to be her children. They skewed younger and they made Jessica appear younger as well.

True. Of course, Julie Harris was ALSO a respected stage actor, but she never won for her work on KNOTS LANDING. No, they weren't.

From what I recall, Joyce Whitman wasn't man-hungry like Sue Ann, but she was definitely sarcastic. On the one hand, procedural shows like "Police Woman" were still very popular, so I get why the producers of "The Betty White Show" would make their show-within-a-show a takeoff on that genre. But, on the other hand, I think it would have made more sense to have Joyce work as a nurse on a medical show (think "Trapper John, M.D.") or even a perennially low-rated soap opera, like GH or THE DOCTORS. For the early part of her career, Betty White had an almost saccharine image; something which "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" wisely subverted with Sue Ann, the "Happy Homemaker," who was more like the Happy Home-WRECKER. They could have done the same thing on Betty's own show, with Joyce's image as a benevolent, saintly nurse serving as a dichotomy to how she was in her own, personal life.

I think the general consensus is that Janice Lynde was better as Leslie. Victoria Mallory was beautiful, but she was very wan or colorless. In the scant footage that I've seen of her, Bond Gideon's Jill comes across like Jess Walton's: a scrappy, blue-collar girl trying to "make good." Brenda Dickson was Brenda Dickson, of course, but to me, she was too glamorous to be Jill even the first time around; and Deborah Adair...? Well, looking at HER Jill, you'd never think that the character supposedly grew up on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks.

I remember "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel" chiefly for two reasons: one, it guest-starred Strasser, back when she still knew how to be subtle in her acting choices; and two, it served as a prequel of sorts to "Prediction: Murder," which had a mystery so obvious that I wonder why it took Jessica an entire hour to figure it out.

Best answer? Gail Kobe didn't give a [!@#$%^&*].

So, they lured Kim Delaney back to daytime after these many years, and they let her slip through their fingers again. God, I hate this industry.

Probably. After all, Shannen only left, because the issues (whatever they were) between her and Alyssa Milano had become insurmountable, with Holly Marie Combs stuck in the middle. I do know that Shannen fought hard to improve the show, though, just as I'm sure she would've fought to keep "90210" from slipping into tacky melodrama. If she HAD stayed, neither show would've have gone downhill as fast as they did.

I think the only reason why Barbara Bel Geddes won HER Emmy was because it was for a breast cancer story, which was a kind of story that the primetime soaps generally avoided.