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Christopher Atkins would have been much better off auditioning for Steve Williams. Yeah, Steve is supposed to be older than Paul. But, you know, in this case, I wouldn't have minded.

Actually, Ron did go somewhere: the junk pile.

I think I used to play this particular game a lot as a kid; and if I'm not mistaken, I think I once made highest scorer on it, too.

My favorite blurb is about Walter Curtin pulling out the scarf and crying into it every time he was alone and away from Lenore.

Agree. It just amazes me how adaptable EON remains in this day and age.

AFAIC, Mario Cantone can have a seat. Twenty years from now, we'll STILL be talking about Ruth Warrick. Him? Not so much.

Unfortunately, there ARE clouds on the horizon: Griffin and Kendall have reunited...but Sara Kennicott, Dan's daughter and a new nurse at PVH, has learned she is pregnant as a result of her and Griffin's drunken one night stand.

How fitting she's a yoga instructor now after that downward dog of a performance on DAYS.

But only after Zach became mentally unbalanced (an unfortunate side effect of David's miracle resurrection tonic) and kidnapped her.

Frankly, the "front row" would have to be Susan and Agnes, with everyone else standing behind them. Any other configuration wouldn't have made sense to me.

It didn't go on, because TPTB simply failed to develop characters who could carry on the legacy established by the vets. Even if AMC were on the air today, I'd fear for a show where the likes of Ryan, Marissa, and even Greenlee are the best they can do for tentpole characters.

I'm not talking so much about Michaels' looks as I am about his accent. Tim was born and raised in Pine Valley; yet, he always sounded as if he just came off the train from Bensonhurst. And as for Scott, the ONLY actor (aside from Philip Amelio) who was good for that role was Shane McDermott, and look how well THAT turned out.

I wasn't as disappointed, if only because I thought Tommy J. Michaels was all wrong for that particular part. AMC needed to recast a lot sooner than they did (and with someone better than that Fergus person).

That's part of it. However, the other part is ... well ... it's like this: once upon a time, all you had to do to win Erica's heart was "show her a good time," to use the expression. You whisk her away to Paris, let's say, or you surprise her with a mink coat or a diamond ring, and she's yours. And it worked, really, because Erica was young(er), and more self-centered, and she equated materialistic displays of affection with sincere emotional attachment. Unfortunately, the problem with men like Jack and David (and please, I don't mean this disparagingly at all) in later years is that they would keep doing it, again and again, forgetting the fact that Erica could pretty much acquire that sort of stuff on her own. But Nick...? See, Nick left Erica in '78, because he would indulge her and her childish games no longer. He was too old for that and had too much experience under his belt to put up with someone who was not ready to be a woman. However, by the time he did come around to proposing to Erica -- in '95, I think, or was it sooner? -- Erica had matured, however reluctantly, to a point in her life where she could appreciate the sort of marriage that Nick had wanted in the first place. Not that Nick wouldn't have been the ultra-romantic kind (really, think of it in terms of Lucci's own relationship with Helmut) but where the "old" Erica probably would have panicked at the first sign of things slowing down a bit, this Erica would have appreciated a quieter marriage that was built less on showy passion and more on mutual respect and stability.

Don't get me wrong: Erica was my entire reason for living at one point. However, Joan Rivers' "murphy bed" comment from two decades ago wasn't too far off the mark. I still think the only viable romantic relationship left for Erica was with Nick Davis (and if Larry Keith had been alive, you bet I would have advocated bringing him back for AMC's finale). Megan McTavish ruined Erica's reunion with Mike Roy, and Brandon Kingsley was just too long ago (although, I would have LOVED to see him come back and possibly romance Kendall in a May/December relationship). But Nick? He understood her better than even Jack, I think.

True that. In a way, Erica was like Grand Central Station: sooner or later, every train passes through.

LOL!!!

That is sad to hear. It seems he had a successful career as a talent agent, though, so at least he stayed "in the business".

Judge me if you must, but I'd sure love me some Philip Brown.

I guess someone forgot to tell Pamela that her wig was on backwards.

For once, I would love to see an actor who isn't being politically correct in terms of the sort of people they are attracted to. Don't get me wrong, that Biff Warren otherwise seemed like a real sweetheart. But let's get real, okay, Biff? What you're looking for in a woman (or man, let's not judge) is someone with a firm body who (with all due apologies to Ms. Dorothy Parker) can speak eleven languages but can't say "no" in any of them.

Alan Spaulding running for political office? I don't think so. As I see it, Alan was the type who believed that the people with their hands in the politicians' pockets were the ones with real power. I wouldn't have minded a "Manchurian Candidate"-esque story, though, where Alan uses a rising young politician - a protege of Mike Bauer's, for example - as a pawn for some huge political manuevering.

You know, maybe I wasn't watching those scant, few clips of Steve and Rachel that were available for awhile on YT as closely as I should have, because, to me, Jacquie just seemed so DULL.

Personally, I never understood Jacquie Courtney's appeal to viewers. She was too milquetoast even for a character that was SUPPOSED to be everybody's beloved virginal heroine. OTOH, though, I think Lemay and Rauch were far too willing to dismiss her, if only because, like it or not, viewers cared about her and wanted her to stay put.

Aside from the longer hair, which I'm not crazy about (on her), MG looks great. Good photo.