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It's one reason why I think Paul Avila Mayer and Stephanie Braxton's tenure is looked upon very unfavorably by SFT fans. Well, that, and the cameos from the WWF wrestlers.

I mean, if you're gonna bring Lexie back from the dead, you can't do it with some mealy-mouthed nothing who'll fade into the cheap woodwork within six months and then be promptly killed off (again). NuLexie's got to be portrayed by someone who can bring the fire and heat that served the character well in her biggest, most OTT moments.

Honestly, why are we still paying attention to this jackhole? He's off the show. Time to move on.

I love how all the actors in those photos look so natural and normal. No plastic-looking hunks or bimbos in the bunch.

I have few memories of the Sunny/Hogan/Liza/Lloyd quadrangle, and none of them are good.

Yep. The Dobsons believed that Caroline had long-term potential, but Anne Howard Bailey and Charles Pratt, Jr. were just so terribly short-sighted.

Agree. Wisner Washam (and Agnes Nixon) could dream up the more larger-than-life stories, but Lorraine Broderick knew how to ground them with character-driven scenes. Agnes. Not sure where she got the name from, but I know she was credited for it.

Not always. In "The Seduction," for example, she portrayed a TV news personality, who was stalked by a psychotic photographer, played by Andrew Stevens. (And then there was the time she portrayed Sandra Bernhard's lesbian gf on "Roseanne," lol.) Granted, it was all before my time, but from reading synopses and such, it seems like Alice sort of devolved into a victim, or at least one of those hapless, put-upon types that always had to suffer nobly. I think casting someone like MF and then writing to her strengths -- if not as an outright vixen, then certainly as someone who could be very sultry -- might have prevented that from happening. Certainly, any smart HW would keep the Rachel/Alice rivalry alive, since they were (or could have been) to AW what Viki and Dorian were to OLTL. But, Alice, as played by someone like MF, could be spun off into other story orbits as well. And if, in my fantasy version of AW, my dream storyline (Alice and an adult Jamie involved in a May/December romance) had ever gotten off the old ground, for sure, you'd want someone like MF playing Alice, if only for the chance to see her and VW go head-to-head in scenes.

Sharon Gabet as Barbara (even a temp Barbara) would have been awesome. Also, I wish P&G had lured Julia Barr (ex-Brooke) away from AMC to play a Dee recast. That would have awesome as well.

Translation: she and several of her classmates are involved in a call girl ring headed by her school's headmaster. If she were up for working on soaps, I'd cast Jasmine Guy (a.k.a. Whitley Gilbert-Wayne, "A Different World") as nuLexie.

Robin Givens would do anything. And I mean anything.

Forget about Jeff. It's been how long? And we STILL don't know who the hell is Liz's mom.

Look at you, thinking Ron Carlivati could ever come up with something different. That's adorable.

What I remember most about Malone II was how, in an interview with (I think) Michael Logan, he insanely compared himself and what he was doing with Charles Dickens.

Must've been a pretty slow year.

Just because JY liked it, that doesn't mean.... Ah, hell, now you've got me defending Jacob [!@#$%^&*] Young.

Perhaps, but to me, it feels like a cheap and easy way to achieve what simple, good acting and writing could if they actually put forth the effort.

Well, knowing Ron Carlivati, he'll have the devil exorcised from Marlena in time to hear Marilyn McCoo perform "One Less Bell to Answer" at the movie's red carpet (swatch) premiere.

Are you kidding? The devil's getting a piece of the backend. Just like it's always done in the film industry.

For God's sake, they could have had KA Hunter emerge from a chic beauty salon saying, "I feel like a new woman!".

Call me a prude, but I really don't need to see anyone in the buff. I just need to see good actors in a good story.

As Locher himself would say, "That's crazy!!".

Possibly, yes. Recently, I learned Schnessel briefly wrote for ATWT (under Douglas Marland) after exiting OLTL. I'm curious as to whether CBS/P&G planned to have him replace Marland as HW. Of course, if that was their plan, his untimely death likely scuttled it.

Agree. It's cruel to ask her to play this storyline given her RL circumstances. But, on the other hand, tactfulness was never one of Frank Valentini's strong points.

If he does recast, might I suggest Daniel Lissing ("When Calls the Heart")? Sure, Lissing is younger than Ingo, but in this case, I truly would not mind. Jax is that superfluous to me.