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I can't recall exactly. (Maybe someone has a scan of the interview in question?) But I believe it was along the lines of, "Well, I guess I COULD have stayed in California [instead of returning to NYC for GUIDING LIGHT] and went to B&B...". Again, I can't recall the quote, but the insinuation was that B&B was, by her estimation, an unchallenging show to work on.

Marcy Walker caught some flack, too, when she made a disparaging remark about B&B during an interview with Michael Logan for TV Guide. Walker denied making the comment, but Logan said he had it on tape.

I don't care what ANY one says, Andrew Kavovit was fantastic as Paul Ryan and I wish he were back on TV.

Wait -- Shabba-Doo abused "Sunshine" from "Harlem Nights"? Oh! Lawd! What in the hell is wrong with some of these folks?

Thanks, danfling! I always thought they re-casted with Michelle Phillips. I had no idea Sheila MacRae was on SEARCH.

You think he was tending to all those 13 children? Stop. Just stop. If say anything more about PMT, I'm liable to find his greasy ass and drag him out into the street by his chest hairs.

Unpopular Opinion Time: I think DYNASTY missed a GIANT opportunity to shake itself (and viewers) up when they didn't kill off Blake Carrington in the Moldavian Massacre.

I look at Tina Andrews and I can't help but remember when she appeared as J.J.'s pregnant gf on "Good Times."

He did WHAT??? Oh, HELL no! Somebody need to cut that s.o.b.!

IMO, that is indicative of DYNASTY's biggest overall flaw. They were so hung up on dramatic, jaw-dropping, story twists and turns, they often left character development and narrative logic by the old wayside.

Plus, Alexis never saw herself as "bad" anymore than J.R. Ewing (or Angela Channing, or Abby Ewing) did. She ALWAYS believed she was justified in what she did.

Thanks, DD! It's moments like THAT that make me love Marland's work all the more, lol!

They could spin it however they wished, but the truth is, Felicia was an amnesiac for the second time, and that tells me the writers were stumped as to what to do with her.

Eileen Davidson looks as if she is grabbing her crotch, or about to. Either way, it probably does little to discourage the notion that she had undergone gender-assignment surgery. (Or maybe the pose was her tongue-in-cheek of acknowledging the rumors? Who knows?) Wasn't Nicholas Walker on SB that last year as well? IIRC, he played the man who had molested B.J. as a little girl.

[!@#$%^&*].

That isn't saying much, IMO. I think Harrier and Edmonds ran neck-and-neck in terms of mediocrity. It's like Guza's GH vs. Carlivati's: both are bad, but each is bad for its own reasons.

I feel like that's b/c Marland fell for Martha Byrne the same way he did for Lisa Brown at GUIDING LIGHT. It seems as if Agnes Nixon and Bill Bell were the only two (aside from Irna) who could look to a certain character or actor as a "muse" w/o veering into "Mary Sue" territory. I mean, you could TELL how Bell in particular felt about Y&R's Victor, but he never pretended his motivations were pure and altruistic.

I don't THINK so, but I might be wrong. Does anyone with a better memory (or actual VHS tapes) know?

I hope she does a better job playing a girl in need of a face scrub than she did playing a baby momma and potential whore.

I know you have to write to the strengths of an actor, even a recast, but I often feel as if doing that is the reason why so many of RH's oft-recasted characters seemed so inconsistent (for lack of a better word). The quality between one actor and the next varied too much, IMO.

It's nothing, though, compared to how Marland originally saw Lily and Holden (or "Clem," as he was SUPPOSED to be named). In the original story projections, their relationship possessed a real fetishistic (sp?) streak, including one scene where Lily actually whips the "Holden" character w/ her riding crop.

I think so, too. According to at least one interview I've read over the years, Marland was deeply dissatisfied with ABC pressuring him into truncating the Lily Slater story on LOVING. (Supposedly, ABC wanted their MOW, "Something About Amelia," to be the groundbreaker in stories about familial incest, but I don't know whether that was the truth.) Re-telling the story with Angel and Henry Lange, therefore, was Marland's way of rectifying the error -- just as the DID story w/ Royce Keller was supposed to be his way of re-telling a similar story w/ his GUIDING LIGHT character, Carrie Todd Marler (played by Jane Elliot), as he saw fit.

Actually, P.J., I don't think it was. IIRC, Lily and Dusty were supposed to be endgame (yes, I know, that dreaded word, lol) with Holden as the obstacle. That's why he came across so strongly in his first meeting with the two. However, it became apparent to Marland and then-EP Robert Calhoun that Martha Byrne generated more 'heat' with Jon Hensley than she did with Brian Bloom. Holden truly was supposed to be Lily's biological uncle until that point (although, that was a secret that wasn't supposed to be revealed right away). Altering Iva's parentage, therefore, allowed them to proceed with Holden and Lily's romance "down the road" w/o undoing the bulk of Marland's other plans, including Holden and Emily's ill-fated relationship and Lily's losing her virginity to Dusty, which had been included in his original, long-term story projections. Ironically, Robert Calhoun admitted in one interview during that time how "green" Colleen McDermott was as an actress, but that he remained excited about her and wanted to get her into acting classes right away. Guess the classes didn't take, huh, Cal?

Others might disagree, but I think TL made for a better replacement (even if Davies was the "once and future Mason"). But I also think all three men had chemistry with Nancy Lee Grahn (Julia).