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I'm pleased as well for Debbi. You GO, Angie!

VR reminds me of Mama Khan's best gf in that photo.

I know Ice-T said he was comfortable with a supporting role, but I would not mind seeing SVU re-tooled to focus exclusively on his and Kelli Giddish's characters. Their chemistry as partners -- not ROMANTIC partners, but partners on the force -- is fantastic.

Maybe Victor Jerome threatened to hurt the Ryans, either financially or otherwise, if she didn't continue the affair? I dunno, it's the best explanation/justification I can come up with. *shrug*

Could Delia have had a child before Johnno? Yes. Could that child have been fathered by someone else? Yes. Especially if it occurred one night, let's say, when Pat and Delia had had an argument, and Delia had sex with a guy (who turned out to be Jerome) in order to "punish" Pat. However, I have a hard time believing Delia would not at least have been tempted to pass off the child as Pat's in order to hide her ONS and keep her tied to the Ryans -- which, after all, seemed to be her whole reason for living. If she could have faked blindness in order to hold onto the guy, she could have pretended Ava was his daughter as well.

Well, at least Ryan's Bar looked good.

Better yet, he could have created a new character for IK.

IA.

I never thought of that possibility -- but you know, now that you bring it up, it IS a tantalizing thought.

IA.

I think if he WERE to announce he was gay, he might lose some of the mystique for me -- you know, "forbidden fruit" and all that.

GH probably needed to ask Agnes, though, since she still owns LOVING (and THE CITY) and their storyline included the Alden mansion. But as for RH -- they didn't need to ask, because Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer had sold their show to the network back in '79, I think.

I never understood why either. When Bob and Kim DID reunite, in '85, viewers weren't exactly unhappy about it.

Not necessarily. Ron COULD say Delia had Ava before she even married Frank and that Bob helped her get rid of the baby. And now that that's out there, I'm going to crawl under a rock.

IA. Let her appear on RH2 as Lizzie.

Never mind, I forgot about the lawsuit. (Let's hope Ron and Frank haven't.)

The length of IK's "stay" on GH doesn't bother me (although I'd like to think she would play someone who WASN'T Delia OR Roxy). It's the fact that Delia and Ryan's Bar are being tied to such a miserable character, family and storyline on a different soap -- and that Ron and Frank are the ones doing it. For God's sake, first OLTL, then LOVING, and now RH. Can't they just utilize GH's own history and leave the other ABC soaps the [!@#$%^&*] alone?!

This is only a rumor, right? I mean, we don't know for sure that Delia is...ugh...I can't even say it.

As do I. Thanks, Carl, for sharing this article. As Delia said, this was a real find -- and you're both right: no way would the soap press be as objectively critical about a show today. No. Way.

Wasn't Lucy Deakins' Lily involved with Dusty? If so, then maybe Marland might have continued on that course.

I do, too -- but only under certain conditions. IOW, I don't want a "return to Peapack." Nor do I want a set-up similar to the PP revivals of AMC and OLTL, quite frankly. (Their production values weren't that impressive to me.)

For me, GUIDING LIGHT ended LONG before the final episode...but I definitely understand how you feel, Julia, in regards to feelings of withdrawal. Four years later, and people STILL can't wrap their minds around the fact that the show is gone.

LOL!

IIRC, Constance McCashin or Lisa Hartman Black said in an interview how they joked about Ciji and Laura being lovers. Even to the point of turning their backs to the camera during one scene and then turning back around to reveal mustaches.

I almost feel as if the writers had intended to make Ciji and Laura a lesbian couple BECAUSE Richard made such a deal about it. (And really, who could blame him? I felt the overtones between the two women were strong and undeniable.) But CBS and/or Lorimar were just too skittish to let them go ahead with it.