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Two women vying for the likes of Joe Carlino/Joseph Barbara? Now that's ridiculous!

I wonder what Pat Kearney had on Deas to get him to agree to an interview.

I've heard that rumor as well.

Was that the entire cast? If so, it seems incredible to me how a half-hour show from that period would have so many actors/characters.

I'd laugh if that weren't so damn true.

If you do, could you please record it on your cellphone and upload it here for us to see? It would so make my month.

What can you say? They have it coming.

Kimberly McCullough might have been a good Dorie von Halkein.

Agree. I'm trying to think of a way to make that happen, though. Maybe she hangs herself at the sanitarium? Or a fire breaks out and she perishes from her burns and smoke inhalation? However it happens, though, I wouldn't want it to be one of those sudden escape/hostage/shootout situations.

Why does Bern hate John?

By 1989, I think, George Reinholt probably had been humbled enough by his post-soap life to return to AW and be more of a team player. So, yeah, AW should have made the effort, especially once Douglass Watson had passed away, to rehire him. But why go to the trouble of saying David Canary's Steve was an impostor JUST to facilitate Reinholt's return? I think you could just say that Steve had faked his death in that car accident -- perhaps, stemming from trouble that first arose shortly after his helicopter crash, but had reared its head again once he had returned to Bay City -- in order to protect his loved ones, and then go from there. (Specifically, resolve the trouble that had been hounding Steve all those years (even when he was back in Bay City -- you could find a way, for example, to say his enemies had rigged that construction collapse that almost killed him and Rachel), maybe have it impact several characters' lives, then have him re-settle permanently in Bay City.) To me, a SECOND presumed death would be easier for most viewers to take than an impostor storyline. But, hey, if the trade-off is having Steve back, alive, and with Reinholt back in the role, then it probably wouldn't matter.

Actually, I think a relationship between John (Hudson) and Pat -- or even a triangle between them and Sharlene -- might have been interesting, so long as they were allowed to remain adults throughout the whole thing and Sharlene didn't have revert to "Sharly" in order to ruin Pat and John's closeness.

Lemay might have done wonders for a lot of soaps, lol.

I'm curious about that myself. I've come across very little of his work outside of DAYS, but it just seems to me that he and Mary Stuart would make an unlikely pairing, to say the least.

Yeah, I can't see Jim and Angie hooking up in some May/December romance -- and I wasn't even alive when Maeve Kinkead was on the show!

Me, when I heard the news of O'Reilly's firing: "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!" (Of course, I'm sure he'll be back on TV in no time. Still, a victory is a victory.) The next jackasses are already there. And their names are Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. I, for one, wish this would also spell the end of those damn "Killing" books that O'Reilly slapped his name on. If there's one thing I can't tolerate, it's someone pumping out pseudo-history books that are poorly written and heavily biased. Stay classy, Billy.

Yeah, I've read how even Dorothy Lyman herself didn't recognize her own character when she returned for the 25th anniversary episodes; and watching those scenes, it does seem as if she's channeling "Naopal" more than anyone else.

If GL had cast John Driscoll as Jonathan rather than as Coop, then Jonathan would have ended up the same way on the show AS Coop: wallpaper, and then dead. (Sorry, but I think there's a reason why Driscoll ended up returning to his home state and joining the Nat'l Guard.) And at the risk of incurring everyone's wrath: I would have killed off Michelle Bauer -- BUT her death would have served as the catalyst to bring back Ed and possibly Mike (who would have investigated his niece's death in a mob hit and helped bring the killers to justice).

Meg Snyder. Just saying. Exactly. It's almost like what happened, according to Christopher Schemering, when ABC lured Denise Alexander away from DAYS, where she'd been portraying the popular Susan Martin. In one of his books (forget which one), Schemering says GH's then-producer Jeff Young objected not to ABC's hiring Alexander but to hiring her without having a developed character in mind beforehand. Subsequently, Alexander's Lesley apparently languished on the show until Doug Marland came in and wrote the Laura/David Hamilton story for her and Genie Francis.

I feel that's because they all expected her "name value" within the soap community to be enough to lure in viewers. But the truth is, as...problematic as the stuff Bob Guza wrote for her at GH was, it was still more nuanced than anything ATWT, B&B or DAYS threw her way.

I love ya, Bernie, but...have a seat. And I KNOW better than to get my hopes up, but man, it would be so sweet to see Bill O'Reilly gone from Fox News. (Next on the hit list: Sean Hannity.)

I wouldn't have minded seeing Sarah Brown on GL, although I'm not sure I wouldn't have cast her as Nola's daughter, Stacey, instead.

Actually, I think it was Ann Williams' children who'd suggested that their mother was fired because (according to Williams) Mary Stuart was jealous of her onscreen sister's popularity on the show.

I've wondered that myself. From a physical standpoint, Howard McGillin seems a more suitable replacement for James Houghton as Greg Foster than Brian Kerwin or even Wings Hauser (who, IMO, would have made a better Snapper than the Hoff). Moreover, I've seen some of McGillin's work on primetime shows from the late '70's and early '80's, and while he wasn't the BEST, I don't think he would have been worse than anyone else on Y&R at that time. So, why didn't he last long on this show? Maybe, as you've said, Bill Bell just grew tired of his original characters after multiple recasts and needed to shake things up?

You know, there might be something to the rumors that Trump suffers from some form of dementia, because, for some reason, I feel like that (and not because he was showing disrespect) was the reason why Melania allegedly nudged his hand. Also, how old is Barron again? Because, WOW, he's tall.