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Um, enjoy...?

Oh, Lord, the fights that must go on between those two (and you KNOW they do). Jessica: "Hey, don't give me any lip!" Rib: "I can't! You took it already!"

Good point(s).

I must admit, there once was a time when Maurice Benard would have balked at playing Sonny as an amnesiac named "Mike" living in some Mayberry-ish small town.

It's kind of like what Douglas Marland said about the Jeff/Heather/Peter/Diana baby drama when he took over head-writing GH. To him, Peter and Diana unwittingly adopted PJ/Steven Lars solely because the writers wrote it that way. It didn't feel organic. (I think the words he used to describe the plot were "too mechanical.")

Random thought: in the beginning, I suspect Aaron Spelling was somewhat hands-off with "90210," because this kind of series -- one centered around the day-to-day lives of teenagers (albeit, teenagers living in Beverly Hills) -- was foreign territory to a producer whose only other younger-skewing show up to that point had been "The Mod Squad" back in the '60's. However, once "90210" took off, and Spelling's personal fortunes had reversed (after the industry had already written him off as a relic and a has-been), he began asserting more and more creative control, interfering with Darren Star's original vision for the show, and causing the show's quality to decline in the process. Again, just a random thought. Make of it what you will.

I don't mind a surrogacy story for Chance and Abby, but drawing Amanda, Devon, Mariah and Tessa into the drama seems so unnecessary. Those two couples deserve stories of their own.

2022 better not take my girl. That's all I'm saying.

Nah, as long as Aaron Spelling's name was attached, I knew the potential was nonexistent, lol. God bless that man, but the shows he produced after parting ways with Leonard Goldberg were just the worst.

"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.