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Guza didn't create Courtney and Kristina, though. They came along during the JFP/Megan McTavish era, when it seemed like everyone on GH suddenly had a long-lost sister, lol. Granted, I wasn't watching GH regularly back then, but the second and third Guza eras just seemed so nihilistic to me. It was as if GH was becoming TV's first daily snuff film. That's that Olive Garden mentality kicking in ("When you're here, you're family!").

Leave it to Miss Lana Turner to be photographed in mink and pearls, while Miss Jane Wyman settles for wearing my old bedroom comforter from Linens 'n' Things, lol.

Or, they could've located it in Missouri, since it seemed to be so easy for characters like Josh and Reva to travel to Tulsa and Cross Creek (which does not exist, by the way).

I forgot about the "Where's Betty?" campaign! Thank you for reminding me, @soapfan770 (...I think, lol).

I agree. In some ways, yes. Biden's shared Clinton's ability to speak to the working class and to bridge the gap between moderates and progressives, who've been fighting over the direction of the Democratic Party pretty much since Carter. Even as Obama's running mate, however, Biden had the baggage of being a longtime D.C. politician. Conversely, when Clinton burst upon the scene, in '92 or so, he was seen largely as a newcomer, and an outsider. Rank-and-file Democrats hated him and Hillary. To generations of disaffected voters in flyover country, however, who had endured 12 years of Reagan-Bush politics, he represented youth, vitality and change. Moreover, Clinton was an Ivy League graduate, but he was savvy enough to downplay that accomplishment to those who otherwise would've been resentful; so that what got put over instead - the saxophone-playin', Big Mac-eatin', JFK hand-shakin', big boobied 'ho-lovin' redneck from Little Rock - was what helped him win over voters in the so-called heartland. More than any other politician in recent times, Bill (and Hillary) Clinton understood that the media, conditioned to seek access rather than just report the news, was the real enemy of government in America; and that if you want to get the country on board with the most progressive policies, you have to thread it through the economy. Most average (white) Americans don't understand things like affirmative action, reproductive rights or gay and transgender rights, because, nine times out of ten, that doesn't affect their lives or the lives of anyone they know. But they DO know their own pocketbooks. So, if you can show them how supporting those broader concepts can impact their finances in positive, meaningful ways, you just might grab them. That's what I mean when I say it's gonna take another Bill Clinton to win back the working class. It's gonna take someone - someone young, male and white, I'm sorry to say; and who comes from the middle of this country, rather than from the east or west coast - who will take the gloves off as far as the GOP and the establishment media are concerned; and who will know exactly how to reach Billy Bob and Karen, because they've been around them their entire lives and they know exactly how Billy Bob and Karen talk and think. BTW, how old is Parker Short?

Now you see why Phylicia Rashad won't talk about him, lol. Brace yourself, because it's only going to get worse, as more and more celebrities decide it's better to appeal to Trump supporters than to continue the resistance. Like I said upthread, the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" mentality has officially taken over.

Seriously, they could've had Linda/Rae just pop up all over the damn network looking for her kid. ("Tonight, on 'The Drew Carey Show'....") I think the only stunt worse than the one for Linda/Rae was the time CBS devoted an entire night's programming to Liz Taylor and her missing jewels.

Interesting how Barnard Hughes and Elizabeth Wilson played LC's parents in the first pilot. A year later, I think, the two would co-star - again, as husband and wife - in "Doc," also on CBS.

I still argue that Jack Scalia and Susan Lucci had chemistry in spades but that Chris Stamp was just too ill-conceived to work.

I wondered that myself. That "look" would have been all wrong for primetime, as viewers would've thought they were watching a sitcom.

LMAO!!

Linda Dano/Rae Cummings' hopscotching across the entire ABCD lineup was such a joke. I'm honestly surprised they didn't have her pop up and looking for her long-lost child on other ABC programs as well.

I am praying - PRAYING - that Michele Val Jean will convince her good friend, Patrick Mulcahey, to join the writing staff, if she hasn't already. Mulcahey is one white writer whom I trust to write for people of color with dignity.

It really is a shame that they didn't give Tom Selleck a contract. Of course, if they had, there might not have been a "Magnum, P.I.," lol.

ICAM!! This election proved John Edwards correct: the Democratic Party has lost touch with the working class. It's gonna take another Bill Clinton to bring them back.

Someone else has said that, too, although I can't recall who it was atm. I thought Bill Bell's dialogue on Y&R was very dull and affected, too. Then, I heard Y&R WITHOUT his dialogue, and I realized just how integral the dialogue was to his storytelling. Maybe his characters didn't talk the way real people talk, but no one else in daytime has used dialogue to reveal characters' inner thoughts and feelings the way he did either.

I cannot WAIT until someone ends Drew. Of course, with GH being GH, they'll chicken out in the end and say it was Cyrus. Nevertheless....!

I'm not surprised. When they brought back Peri Gilpin, Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert for S2, I knew the revival was in trouble. I tried, but I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea of Frederick dropping out of Harvard and becoming a firefighter. It still doesn't make sense to me. And everything on the revival that isn't Frasier and Frederick has proven to be even less essential to the revival than it was in S1.

James Lipton was a very good dialogue writer for THE DOCTORS. That's about as far as I'd go in praising his writing, lol.

GR isn't my cup of tea, but I don't hold him responsible for making Leo such an unbearable character to watch. He's only playing what's written for him. The truth is, they've had several opportunities to make Leo more sympathetic, and they've blown each and every one of those opportunities, too. So, yeah, I'd agree: Leo's gotta go.

The four who wrote that article got what they wanted, which was Donald Trump back in office; so, now, I'm gonna politely ask them to leave Joe Biden the [!@#$%^&*] alone.

I'd put up with the one-dimensional writing and bland production aesthetic (not to mention, the Teen Scene From Hell) just to watch Jane Elliot and Laura Wright spar on the regular. God, I love JE. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: give her your worst and she'll still knock it out of the damn park.

It can't be soon enough. It's bad enough when Ron Carlivati stumbles into a joke that only he finds amusing, but he always makes it worse by beating the rest of us over our heads with it. (Newsflash, Ron: if the joke doesn't land the first time, it's never gonna land).

There's a lot that I miss about OLTL, but one of the things I miss the most is Wanda.