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They might have. I was in and out with GL by that point, so I might have missed that.

No, I don't think they did.

I'd love to read some of those as well.

Yes, she had chemistry with Bill Timoney as well. I was just afraid to name him since it's well known around these parts that Alfred Vanderpoole happens to be my all-time favorite AMC character.

I think she works with male prisoners, but I'm not sure if the ministry is involved.

IIRC, SOW or SOD interviewed her for their big "Where Are They Now?" issue several years ago, and in that interview, she talked about her new life working with prisoners.

Tangie. I'm kidding. I tend to like her better as Liza, at least during her first run on AMC, because she had great chemistry w/ Larry Lau (ex-Greg), Kim Delaney (ex-Jenny), Michael E. Knight (ex-Tad), Jennifer Bassey (ex-Marian), Amanda Bearse (ex-Amanda) and Darnell Williams (ex-Jesse).

Didn't Irna say she came up with the story from some obscure case in a medical journal (or something)? And didn't Lisa finally learn she had some sort of tumor on her uterus? Either way, Douglas Marland, who played Lisa's doctor for that story, supposedly became a writer for soaps because of that story in particular.

Oh, between Twitter and message boards such as SON, Irna wouldn't have had a prayer, lol.

Although I'm sure Irna meant well, that "phantom fetus" storyline comes across as being too absurd.

I don't recall where I read it, but I think I did read somewhere how ANOTHER WORLD extended the Mac/Rachel/Mitch/Janice quadrangle in general, and Mitch/Rachel in particular, either b/c of some BTS turmoil, or b/c the fans' response was so overwhelming.

She was. IIRC, and this is only from what I've read, Jennifer contracted a rare (and fatal) nerve disease. However, the fans caught on, and they begged the show to reverse course. Soderberg & Sommer felt they had no other choice but to acquiesce. However, they did kill her off, finally, a short time later in a sudden and unexpected car accident. That way, they must have reasoned, the viewers wouldn't be able to stay her execution, so to speak. (Of course, nowadays, seeing a character die in a car accident guarantees nothing.)

Irna was reportedly disgusted by the Dan/Paul/Liz story, saying it was immoral (or something along those lines). Yet, when she returned to AS THE WORLD TURNS, she had both Jennifer and Kim (sisters, mind you) pregnant by Bob, with plans for Bob and Jennifer to break up for good and for Bob and Kim to end up married and happy. (Sort of like how she envisioned years before, shortly after the show's premiere, Jim Lowell leaving Claire to be with Edith Hughes.) P&G put their collective feet down, though, claiming that Kim should not be "rewarded" for breaking up her sister's marriage. I can't recall whether Irna was fired (yes, fired) immediately afterward, but that was when the story changed from the initial plan.

Yep, he is. He's talking about the story of Bob and Kim's infamous affair (which resulted in baby Sabrina, who was presumed dead until Marland brought her back) -- infamous, b/c Jennifer was also pregnant at the time, and b/c Irna Phillips had intended for Kim, and not Jennifer, to end up with Bob.

IA. I could understand the resistance if Bob and Kim had married, say, immediately after Jennifer's death. That would have seemed callous on the part of both. However, as you say, P.J., there had to have been a decade, at least, between the end of their affair and their wedding. In the meantime, both Bob and Kim had moved onto other relationships, giving viewers the impression that any romantic feelings toward each other were long in the past. In fact, IIRC, as Bob and Kim began circling around each other again after being apart for so long, Kim was actually hesitant to renew their relationship on account of long-standing guilt over what she had done (namely, arranging to be Florida on a singing engagement at the same time as Bob in order to seduce him) to interfere with his and Jennifer's marriage. IMO, that might have gone a long way toward helping those who still remembered what happened among the three of them to "forgive" Kim and Bob for their indiscretion. I must say, though, I did enjoy that brief moment during Gillian Spencer's one-day return as "Ghost Jennifer" when either she or Kim, who was hovering between life and death after heart surgery, brought up the affair and GJ was on the one hand still reluctant to talk about it and yet reconciled to the fact that it happened and that Bob and Kim found their way back to each other nonetheless. I mean, it's unrealistic to assume a ghost would still be hung up on past grievances (doesn't "going toward the light" mean letting go of life here on Earth with all its' pain and sadness?), but at least TPTB still thought enough of fans at that point to touch back on past events.

I felt Marcia McCabe (ex-Sunny, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW; ex-Alicia, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) might have made a good replacement.

Both.

Oh, my God.

Eileen Fulton and Don Hastings campaigned for years for that to happen.

I've heard (or read) that it was Douglas Marland who figured out what to do with Lesley, zeroing in on the triangle (of sorts) w/ Laura and David Hamilton, and later, on the dynamics among Lesley, Monica, Rick and Alan. IIRC, too, GH's then-producer Jeff Young was quoted as saying he objected initially to Denise Alexander's hiring -- not so much because of Alexander herself, but b/c the network lured her away from DAYS with no real plan in place for her.

The headline on the cover is a trifle misleading, though. It makes it sound as if Denise Alexander and John Beradino were 1) together, and 2) new parents.

It's depressing to me how actors such as James Mitchell had to play coy with interviewers on the subject of their love life.

IIRC, SSH's mom, Elizabeth Harrower, wrote the Lee story. But wasn't PFS the one who SORAS'ed David and married him off to Trish?

Marcus Aurelius Brady, as envisioned by Pat Falken Smith, was Roman and Kayla's brother, mentioned but never seen. However, it's long been suspected that Bo, introduced by later writers, was/is pretty much what Marcus was supposed to be. Also, unless I'm wrong, I think Vanessa DiMera was supposed to be Tony's sister -- again, she was mentioned (or might have been) but any plans to introduce her formally on the show were scrapped once PFS was out the door again.

[!@#$%^&*]. Forgot about Wendy Riche. So, that's two people who cared for the Q's. Okay, three (Claire Labine).