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I agree, and I think both could be true: Jane Wyman needed to reduce her work schedule due to health concerns, and CBS/Lorimar took advantage of that in order to cut costs, too.

Sadly, it won't. If anything, it'll convince the donors and others even further that they were right to push Biden out of the election (never mind that Kamala would've been on standby had he been unable to fulfill his duties as president).

I am as well.

I wonder how Mariska feels about "The Jayne Mansfield Story," the late-'70's made-for-TV biopic starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger that, IMO, was as trashy and exploitative as it gets.

It's "C.S.I.: Port Charles," lol.

True, lol. IIRC, Rita Moreno said in an interview that part of the problem was that Susan Harris was ill during the week they taped that episode and therefore was unable to make needed script changes. I wonder what might have happened had they been able to delay the taping until she felt well enough to work more on the script. I feel like "Nest" might've sold with Moreno and Paul Dooley (although the patient with DID would've needed to be eighty-sixed regardless, lol).

It also helps that he's no longer married to a religious hypocrite. Well, I've always believed that if the mob is going to be a regular presence on your soap, then you can't portray them honestly. Instead, you have to make them more Runyonesque figures, objects of humor and parody, rather than the vicious sociopaths they truly are.

To say that the backdoor pilot failed is almost putting it too kindly, lol. Poor Paul Dooley and Rita Moreno. They worked really well together, but that entire episode was just...ugh.

ICAM!!

Theoretically, I would agree, but it seems like Paul Avila Mayer and Stephanie Braxton did such a number on Hogan, Sunny and Liza that reuniting Hogan and Sunny would've been a toxic situation.

The acronym "HBO" has become like "AT&T" or "American Express." No matter how hard you try to erase it from our culture, it never really goes away.

And then, to finish up the story: Phillip returned to Springfield several years later to clear his good(-ish) name in some ridiculous retcon that is best left forgotten...Beth couldn't accept that Phillip had returned to his family against her wishes, so she divorced him, went wacko and hooked up with jerk whom their grade school-aged daughter later offed...Rick married and divorced Annie in Chicago, I think, and did some other stuff that I tuned out of (on account of being disgusted with the show) before he realized he couldn't get arrested in Hollywood and came back...and AFAIK, Neil Everest stayed dead, but his daughter did not; and in fact, she went on to become a trailblazing, multiple Grammy-winning artist under the name "Billie Eilish."

I think early RH had arguably some of the most complex characters on daytime; people who were truly neither all saints nor all sinners.

All these years later, and Shelly Burch is still one of the most striking women I've ever seen.

A very underrated writer/director, IMO. Of course, not all of his films were successful or memorable, but the ones that are - "Kramer," "Places in the Heart," "Nobody's Fool," etc. - are masterpieces.

I feel like Earl Hamner and his crew brought in Richard* BECAUSE they knew almost right away that Robert Foxworth was so dull as Chase. At any event, Richard, IMO, proved to be much more interesting as Angela's chief adversary. (*Or brought him back, depending on whether we're including the original "Vintage Years" pilot).

Frankly, I think it's dead in the water.

Oh, I think Benz would have been all wrong for Kendall. Terrific actress, but not at all what I'd picture Erica's long-lost daughter to be.

In a way, Denise's inability to decide on which college to attend (before deciding to attend her family's alma mater and the college everyone knew she'd be attending anyway) was a clear signal that the poor girl was a flake and not "college material." Denise Huxtable was someone who peaked in high school, lol. With guest stars Deborah Adair (ex-Jill, Y&R; ex-Tracy, DYNASTY; ex-Lucy, MP; ex-Kate, DAYS), Christopher Allport (ex-Tim McGowan, AW) and John de Lancie (ex-Eugene, DAYS)! "Frame" is one of those MSW's that you THINK is gonna be paint-by-numbers (no pun intended), and then it surprises you with one of those twist endings that often made episodes so enjoyable. I seriously wish they had gone for a Steven/Bart/Sammy Jo triangle instead, with Steven and Sammy Jo fighting over Bart, lol. And I still think Claudia burning to death at La Mirage was DYNASTY's dumbest cliffhanger. The perfect time to kill off Chase, IMO. Alas.

What can I say? I did my best.

LOL!!

I'm happy to read whatever you provide, @Paul Raven.

I don't know what else to say except we have lost another legend at a time when it feels like we are losing too many. I love that Denise Alexander never played Lesley as some perpetual victim, but as a woman and physician with integrity and backbone. Rick and Monica made an absolute fool of her with their affair; yet, Lesley was someone who never made you pity her. Ladies and gentlemen, we aren't just losing veteran actors here. We're also losing vital parts of this genre's legacy, and that just breaks my heart. God bless Ms. Alexander and her loved ones. May she RIP.

ICAM. KL needed to end in '93. I'm just glad David Jacobs resisted CBS' efforts to convince him otherwise.