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Nah, I'm going to stick with Michael/Matt.

Sorry, I just thought Pat Petersen couldn't act.

I'm with cuz, I say Matt. Having a same-sex couple where one is a schemer and conniver would've been so groundbreaking. Heck, having a same-sex couple on the show would've been groundbreaking.

But at least you're staying on-topic about a character who appeared, however briefly, on MP. Which is more than I could say about 99.99% of my silly-as-hell posts around these parts. IA that Rhonda could have served well as the voice of reason and calm in the constant, unrelenting storm of cray. IMO, a show like MP, where almost everyone seemed to be engaged in a never-ending game of "Can You Top This?", needed someone who spoke for the audience, in a sense, and just plain stood above the fray. If not Rhonda, then, okay, let it be SOME one.

I especially love those movies for their melodramatic titles, like, "A Friend to Die For," or "Circle of Evil."

I think Scott should do a gay porn version of "Captain America." (No, really.)

IIRC, yes. In fact, I think it was Winther who brought Dorothy Lyman (as well as Robert Gentry, Debbi Morgan, Linda Gibboney, and maybe a few other former AMC'ers) to the show.

I have no idea whether this is true or not, but I feel like one reason why the story was quashed was b/c it hit too close to home for Joan Collins, whose sister, as we all know, is a bestselling novelist.

It was as if the writers and producers thought the shock of the news alone ("ALEXIS' SISTER HITS DENVER!!!") was enough.

IKR? S2 was good, if over-the-top at times. By the time S3 rolled around, though, it's like they forgot everything that had improved DYNASTY.

IMO, GENERATIONS had some potential -- not a lot, but enough -- but I feel like its' creator and HW, Sally Sussman (now Morina), got in its' way. She had plenty of good ideas, but not enough talent and expertise to execute them properly. To me, it says a lot that I enjoyed the show more when Jorn Winther was installed as senior EP.

Lilimae: Ask me no question, I'll tell you no lye.

I don't know whether this counts, but I do recall an episode in S3 where Abby befriends a wealthy, old man, played by Lew Ayres, by pretending to be his lost love (or something). She began the relationship in order to get her hands on his money, but the more she grew to know him, the more her inner sense of decency and her conscience got the better of her.

Thanks, slick!

I'm sure others will disagree, but I think he looks pretty well for someone his age. His hair is thinner, of course, and his stomach is bigger -- but hey, the guy's in his, what, sixties? Seventies? You can't expect him to look EXACTLY as he did on RH. Wait, this photo was taken in 2004? That's...ten years ago. Oops. Maybe I should reserve judgment until we've seen a more recent photo?

I know who you're talking about...and yep, she was.

Despite the fact that he and Doug Marland butted heads over the show's general direction, Allen Potter probably was GL's best-ever EP.

So did I. Same. I was fine with Buzz, b/c I happen to be a Justin Deas fan. But, you know, even with Buzz, a little bit always could have gone a long way.

If I'm not mistaken, that's the trial where Jack admitted on the witness stand he had raped Kayla years before.

IMO, the last "good" EP GUIDING LIGHT had was Robert Calhoun. I realize his successor, JFP, oversaw GL through its' final "golden era" of the early- and mid-'90's. However, it was also during JFP's regime when we saw the departures of Ellen Parker and, most notably, Beverlee McKinsey -- two exits that, IMO, would prove costly in the long run. Moreover, there was an almost unseemly amount of turnover on the writing team under her watch, resulting in instability and weakened ratings. If the latter part of JFP's time had been more stable in the writing department, I believe, we never would have experienced the disaster that was McTavish/Laibson. OTOH, Calhoun was there at a critical time for the show, as Kim Zimmer was on her way out. Although it might be exaggerating to say GL had become "The Reva Show," I WOULD argue that it had become a bit too reliant on KZ (and on Reva) to carry itself. Calhoun changed that dynamic, refocusing and restructuring GL into the most ensemble-driven show it had been since the "Four Musketeers" era. All the major families -- the Bauers, the Lewises and Shaynes, the Spauldings and Chamberlains, and so on -- were kept "alive" in major, ongoing, umbrella stories that played on history and never alienated (or seemed to alienate) this-or-that audience group. More importantly, Calhoun was the one who promoted Nancy Curlee to Co-HW (w/ Pam Long) who, in turn, spearheaded the returns of Michael Zaslow and Maureen Garrett -- probably the smartest moves GL could have made at that point in its run. If anything, I think JFP coasted on Calhoun's successful, but brief, tenure, using elements he had set in place to keep the show going into the mid-'90's. It's only when she began augmenting those elements -- killing off Maureen, allowing Bev McKinsey to slip out the door, introducing several rather polarizing actors and characters (I'm not naming names) -- that she began encountering problems.

Same. That's why I hate to see what has become of her on GH and especially on Twitter. I mean, even her guest spots on "Murder, She Wrote" have been more entertaining than what she's been doing lately on GH.

Reading that perturbs me. To think, we could have had Judith Light on ONE LIFE TO LIVE longer than we did.

Thanks, bl. I'm not kidding or exaggerating when I say Rebhorn was one of the many reasons why I wanted to write for the soaps BITD. I had always hoped of writing something special for him.

True. So very, very true. Bradley Raines (GUIDING LIGHT) and Henry Lange (ATWT) were truly reprehensible individuals; yet, Rebhorn was able to imbue them with enough pain and empathy that you felt for them in spite of their actions. Whenever we talk about the overall quality of acting on soaps these days, James Rebhorn is one performer who comes to mind immediately as I remember what USED to be the going standard. I am going to miss seeing him on TV shows and in movies.