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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.

"Don't go away mad, Ingo. Just go away."

I think it could have been the other way around: the network wanted to do everything it could to save AMC (and OLTL), but Frons, who never saw any value in the soaps, cancelled the shows first chance he got.

Yeah, even Bill Bell knew how to write men as something other than wet sponges.

Like I said before, maybe in another thread, if this doesn't end with Marlena joining the convent, then this rehash is pointless.

If it took her that long to realize he was a dog, then she must be the dumbest woman alive.

And, if SJP has anything to say about it, it probably never will. I'll just stick with my "Golden Girls" reruns. At least there, when Blanche goes on about how gorgeous she is, even Rue McClanahan is in on the joke.

I'm so over SJP's pathetic, narcissistic need to have everyone else in the world envy her and think she is the sweetest, nicest, most gorgeous woman God ever created.

I would hope that Marlena comes out of this situation truly reassessing her life. (After all, it's not everyone who gets possessed by the devil not once but twice!). But, I know I would be just wasting my time.

IIRC, Allen Potter was a producer on ATWT during the early '60's. He also worked on OUR PRIVATE WORLD.

I'd love to know who or what convinced Corday and/or Langan to let the latter head-write AND produce the show.

Oh, JER's first HW'ing stint was "The Forsyte Saga" compared to the 20 or 22 that have come afterward. I honestly believe much of that era was about giving soft- and hard-core porn actors some legit SAG credits. Maybe it's just me, but I really thought someone at AMC would have brought back Kevin Sheffield ('memba him?) at some point. Would Ben Jorgensen have been tapped to reprise the role? Prolly not. But I really, really thought he'd pop up again (and I wasn't even a fan!).

If not for all the Eterna madness, it would have been a good-if-not-great-era for OLTL.