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Perhaps the problem lay with whoever was EP at that time (Joe Rothenberger? Fred Bartholomew?). ATWT needed someone who could have shaken up the canvas without alienating the core audience.

Pretty much. Tyler believes he has a vision -- one anointed upon him by God -- and he won't do anything to sully that vision, including hire other writers to help him.

Actually, I think even this project might be beyond her reach. Kelly needs to stick with working in retail.

I think Bill Bell was all set to fire Peter Bergman before Jeanne Cooper intervened. IIRC, she told Bell that if one had to leave, then both had to leave. Or something like that.

He looks older, of course, but he still looks very handsome and trim.

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall SOW recounting the feud in one issue.

I nominate Sally Armitage for the job.

Not just with Wendy, though. Remember when Charles Busch (that's his name, right?) appeared as a modeling agent named Peg Barlow (?) one summer when Jen Rappaport was in NYC? I don't know why, but I felt as if that story was Lorraine Broderick's.

Ah, yes, he was Sally Armitage, I think, during the big "Love on the Run" story for Luke & Laura.

Agree.

IOW, your average Tyler Perry scene.

Good point.

Exactly. And I can understand the logic, because there was a time when the only TV work AA actors could get was on shows such as "Beulah" and "Amos & Andy." As well, I appreciate the struggles many writers and producers continue to face just to get some kind of minority representation on TV, no matter how awful. However, OTOH, I feel like the only way we're going to get shows with better writing and acting is if we demand better -- from them, and from ourselves. I read not too long in some magazine -- TV Guide, I think? -- that AA households watch more TV on average than their Caucasian counterparts do and that they are more prone to watch these shows "live" than they do online or even on DVR. Surely, that must carry some kind of weight with the networks and production studios -- and if it does, then why not use it to our advantage?

I think Vanessa was in Europe with an on-the-run Dinah, but I'm not sure either. Frankly, I don't think "Holly kidnaps baby Maureen" would have been any more successful than the Nursery Rhyme Stalker story. Even though Holly was a complex, damaged soul, and losing Meg had hurt her tremendously, it just feels wrong to me that Holly -- even an unhinged Holly who is drinking heavily -- might have done something so diabolical. Unless, of course, it were another Erica/Maddie situation (ALL MY CHILDREN) and Holly was under the impression that the child was unwanted. Even in that case, though, that would have to be very clear, Holly's remorse over taking another woman's child but believing she was doing its parents a "favor" would have to be apparent in every story beat, and as soon as she realizes she'd made a mistake and that the child is, in fact, wanted, she'd have to return that baby ASAP and not convolute matters any further by holding onto the child out of fear she'll be arrested or some mess.

I could make a very catty joke about Lisa Rinna and her surgically enhanced face -- "soup cooler lips" and all -- appearing on a show called "Sing Your Face Off." In fact, I could make several catty jokes. But I won't. Because I'm a lady.

As they say these days on GH, Dan, "you are not alone". (Sorry, Carl, lol.)

IA, Carl, I don't believe Mitch forced himself on Rachel. She was desperate to save Mac, so she seduced Mitch in order to uncover his and Janice's whereabouts. However, I think the truth came out when Rachel confessed Mitch, and not Mac, was Matt's father.

But Hoda could be lured away at the right price. And to replace her at "Today," I'd tap Joy Philbin.

Of course it did. Between the hate-watchers, the ones who are happy to see any series with AA's, and the ones who genuinely believe it to be a fantastic series, I'm surprised it didn't earn more viewers.

IIRC, Keemo (Philip Moon) arrived in Genoa City in '95, so I think that story came after Tom and Lien's. I just can't say it enough, for all of his faults (and yes, I'm well aware he had several...okay, many), Douglas Marland was one of the best writers ever to have worked in television. I miss his work dearly to this day.

Wait -- you mean, there's actually HAHN fanfic? Really?

Now that we have broken down the difference between "writing" and "screen writing," will someone volunteer to run and tell TP? No doubt. These days, David E. Talbert and even Je'Caryous Johnson are doing a better job than Miss Perry. And those bruthas have to make do with discarded sets from old, cancelled UPN sitcoms and camcorders they bought down at the pawn shop.

Right. Lindsay Price joined ALL MY CHILDREN in 1991, and Ming-Na Wen joined ATWT three years earlier. I felt it was disappointing how we never saw Lien's mother (who was killed off, IIRC). Imagine if she, too, had come to Oakdale. Would there still be chemistry between her and Tom? And how would that have affected his relationship with Margo?

Writing, producing, directing, composing, set and costume designing -- Emmitt Jr. is a one-man production team. (He's also a cheap bastard, but that's neither here nor there.)

TP might not be much as a writer (or director, or even actor) but when it comes to huntin' up some fine Black men....