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Neither can I, lol! As Rose Nyland once said, "Hubba hubba zing zing! Baby, he's got everything!" (He also got a raw deal when he was on KL, but that's for another thread). I hope it ends with BLQ taking away his video games.

In the past, I've worked with people who were associated with the PP guys; and at the risk of telling tales out of school, your coke references...? Not that far off the mark.

I guess I pleased the gods with my ritual sacrifice. I mean, yep!

Maybe it's because I've watched too much of Donna Mills on KL, but I have to wonder just how pure PP's motives were in bringing back AMC and OLTL. Did they really care about servicing all those disenfranchised fans, or was it all just some shell game (or tax shelter, or dummy corporation, or whatever you want to call it)?

Unfortunately, I don't think she was alone. We know already about Norman Fell's suspicion that they delayed officially cancelling "The Ropers" on purpose in order to avoid bringing him and Audra Lindley back to "Three's Company." But Joyce DeWitt has talked at length about the misogyny she suffered at the hands of NRW, right down to not even being told the truth about whether they had planned to spin off Jack (which they did, with "Three's a Crowd"). Dave Powers, too, talked about how Jenilee Harrison in particular suffered during her time there, as she was thrown into a very tense and awkward situation with no experience or support from anyone. And even though I still think Suzanne Somers (and her husband and manager) overplayed their hands in trying to get her a substantial raise and part ownership of the show, I do believe how NRW and ABC responded to those demands - not just firing her, but reducing her final appearances to cameos (taped on a separate set and then inserted into episode tags, without a proper goodbye scene) in order to "punish" and demean her, and then suing her or threatening to sue anytime she played a character that even resembled Chrissy Snow a little bit in subsequent pilots for other networks - was juvenile. (Again, I'm not saying they didn't have good reason to fire her. I just think they could've been more professional about it). Ironically, that isn't how the show's creator, Stu Silver, intended the show to be. He created "Webster" as a modern-day Tracy/Hepburn comedy for Alex Karras and Susan Clark, who had a deal for their own show with ABC. Then, Emmanuel Lewis impressed ABC executives with his appearance in a Burger King commercial. IIRC, the network snapped him up immediately, with the idea of creating a show around him. Instead of creating that show for him, however, they decided to add him to "Webster" - or "A (Whole) New Ballgame," as it was dubbed originally. Naturally, Karras and Clark were upset by the network's decision, as what became "Webster" was not what they had signed up for; and for a long time, there was tension among the three, until someone (forget who) basically told the grown-ups in the room to stop taking their frustrations out on the child. (Besides, I doubt a show starring just Karras and Clark (and Henry Polic II) would've lasted beyond a half-season anyway, lol). As did "Mama's Family" and (God help us) "Out of This World." But, like I've always said, the bars for quality and for success were much, much lower for first-run syndication shows in the '80's than they were anywhere else, lol.

I agree. 9/11 and its' aftermath sowed the seeds of chaos, confusion and division that have held this country in their grips ever since. In every sense, the terrorists have won.

Which is why it pisses me off to no end how shabbily TPTB have treated her over the years; because, IMO, she, and not Gloria Monty or Douglas Marland, is the one who saved GH from cancellation.

Oh, if only she knew, lol. Because, with David Groh, it's a safe bet that the story will end in either heartbreak or violence or both. (See: "Rhoda," "Murder, She Wrote" and "Law & Order," lol).

And that was just off the top of my head, lol! There were tons more men on several soaps - not just GH (still love me some vintage Stuart Damon!), but AMC, OLTL, GL, DAYS, Y&R - that I found to be incredibly sexy. Not just because they were handsome, or because they were in good shape, but also because they were self-confident. (In many cases, self-confident to the point of being cocky, which brings up all sorts of personal issues that I need to discuss with a licensed therapist, lol). But @Vee and others here are right: JS/Chase comes across too often as a manchild, trapped in a sexless marriage (to one of Tevye's daughters) that makes all those rounds of Doctor you played as a child with your next door neighbor's kid look like Emmanuelle by comparison. Which is why it confuzzles the hell out of me as to why anyone would want Willow - even Good Willow - to get dicked by that boy. I mean, seriously, make that make sense for me, lol.

Well, the drugs were bound to wear off sooner or later.

That's what GH needs: a young Terry Lester. Someone who generates heat (and story) just by walking into a room. Someone who could share chemistry with just about every woman in Port Charles (and even a few men, lol). Because, hunny? Cameron Mathison? Ain't it.

Proof that the '80's were a messed-up decade: More people watching Silver. [!@#$%^&*]. Spoons than were watching "Newhart."

I learned that the day you first raved about Chandler Massey. (I'm sorry, but as far as young leading men go, he isn't fit to clean young Larry Lau's shoes, lol).

I guess I'm just "old school," for lack of a better word, when it comes to my favorite daytime hunks. Roscoe Born, Philip Brown, David Canary, Terry Lester, Mark LaMura, Larkin Malloy, Richard Shoberg - to me, those were MEN. Josh Swickard is a boy. A cute boy, but a boy nevertheless.

I love how Susan Lucci basically dismisses the PP revival and how it resolved the ABC cliffhanger, lol.

Honestly, I think the British dude in those Thomas English Muffin commercials has more goin' on than Swickard, lol.

No, I'm okay with never seeing Jason and Britt have sex, lol! RE: GF's 50th anniversary next year - I'd love to know WEHT Stacey Baldwin (a.k.a. the first Laura) and whether she'd be up for a cameo appearance if/when we get to that milestone.

I swear, I've seen snuff films that took more care in their production and gave their actors more to work with than what Frank, CVE and Korte keep giving GH and its' actors everyday. (Yes, I've seen a few snuff films. I was a freshman in college, everyone on my dorm floor was bored one night and, well, you can fill in the blanks yourself.)

Yep. I'm not suggesting Peter Porte is the second coming of Roscoe Born, but like most actors on soaps today, he could be so much better if he had actual rehearsal time with the other cast members and directors.

Chase is hot?

And she wouldn't have so much as blinked, too, lol! I think your last sentence should be applied to every scene, even the ones that could be knocked out in no time at all. The truth is, if you're watching a show for the plots, then you're watching a bad show, because a GOOD show, and a good soap in particular, isn't about the plots; it's about the relationships between the characters, and what they say about our own relationships. You don't need characters spouting off reams of clunky exposition just to keep the audience abreast of everything (and believe me, that's about 80% of GH these days, lol). Just write the hell out of the relationships between or among the characters, give the actors some subtext to play with, and the exposition will take care of itself.

I mean, you're not wrong, lol.

To think: so many Y&R sets have come and gone in such a relatively short period of time...yet, like the heartbreak of psoriasis, Crimson Lights persists.

Ah, one of the big stories from my long-cherished GL long story document, lol. (And to answer the question: yes, she'd be viable. After a period of mourning, of course.)

Yep. Along with the librarian from St. Louis, the movie executive's wife from California and the lesbian dairy farmer from New Hampshire. Seriously, they could do a spinoff all about those damn clones and I'd totally watch, lol.