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TC Warner interviews Lorraine Broderick

Yeah, I think this was when Adam had some get rich scheme (I think? I don't remember the motivation really) where he faked his death. He somehow got kidnapped and held hostage by Billy Clyde and Christina Baranski, while Adam's wife, Erica was sexing up Mike Roy in the Chandler Mansion.

True. I think in 1982 it was really close between GH and AMC though it was the closest GH came to losing the #1 spot until Y&R in the late 80's.

GH dropped to #2 the summer of 1982 and was overtaken by AMC, IIRC.

Apparently David Lynch was a fan of The Edge of Night Lynch always planned Twin Peaks to be the soap to end them all; a show so twisted that even its own soap-within-a-soap, Invitation To Love, was eventually phased out because it exhausted the writers. “I really like soap operas,” he explains. “I got hooked when I was printing engravings at art school. This lady I was printing with was so completely addicted to two particular soaps – Another World and The Edge Of Night – that I got hooked as well. I dug them. But the frustrating thing about them is that they draw the smallest torments out forever. It works, but it’s frustrating.” https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2009/04/23/david-lynch/

Florencia Lozano said when Jill Farren Phelps took over One Life to Live, she told her to dye her hair blonde and wanted Tea to stop speaking Spanish... even though the character was hispanic. JFP also dismantled the Gannons (Hank/RJ/Rachel) on the same show. JFP also put a stop to the Gilly and Alan-Michael romance on Guiding Light years earlier, Then she put a stop to the Taggert as Sonny's step-brother and Gia as his sister story on GH. Gives Sonny a blonde, blue eyed sister instead. I'm just saying. There's a pattern.

He was upfront about it in his WLS interview. He said it was because Megan McTavish got promoted, and she drove him away in the early 90's. He went and took a writing job on GL for a bit along with Lorraine Broderick.

Wasn't Ryan Kit accused of rape? I think it happened around Halloween of that year. McTavish seemed to have a thing for women calling fake rape. She had done it years early with SMG Kendall trying to say Dimitri raped her. Broderick had some out there stories too -- the hypnotist Dr Lazzare in the late 80's then that Voodoo stuff in Jamacia in the 90's -- but she did balance it with more real stuff like Michael Delaney and the Cindy AIDS story. I do think she wrote with more depth than McTavish. Mctavish was a bit more of a gimmick writer, but the show wasn't as depressing as it was under Broderick at times. A lot of times under McTavish I didn't understand character motivation, she had a gimmick or idea and would fit the characters to it, it seemed like, where as Lorraine was more of a character writer, go into their fears and desires, and wrote from that. Overall I preferred Broderick, but both had their good points and bad points.

Thanks so much for bringing that over 🙂 In an old trivia book I have, Tonya Pinkins says she auditioned for Angie before getting Livia a decade later.

Okay, thanks. I hope it gets uploaded then 🙂

I was also looking for the Debbi video, but then I saw a comment on instagram that the chat never happened or showed up. Is this true?

I am watching the Vincent interview, and I never heard this before, but he mentioned that it was Frons idea to force out Lorraine in favor of a younger writing staff in 2010. He says they lost 34% viewership after that, which led to the decision of cancellation, and Vincent says he attributes that to Frons getting rid of Lorraine. He said "the exec" head of ABCD micromanaged the show, making one bad decision after the next for 9 years.

Jensen Ackles was also in the running for Lucky back then

I remember an interview with Rebecca Budig when they brought back Bobby Warner in the 2000's as a sort of love interest for Greenlee and her talking about what a trip it was because she grew up watching AMC and Cliff and Nina were her favorite couple.

Cliff and Nina's wedding did have the twist of Cliff find out Sybil was pregnant right before it, and Cliff flashing back to it during the wedding vows. That added some drama for sure. Will was actually off screen for about 6 months and had left town between LQ and JPS. You could tell they were going in a different direction when JPS showed up, though I suppose to the seeds were already planted that they could go there with LQ because Palmer wanted to leave him the business before he took off. Yes, around this time there was a change in both EP and writers. They didn't know what to do with Donna during a lot of the late 80s aside from being Natalie's talk-to. They do bring back and aged teenaged Emily Ann into the David, Melanie etc group later that year that gets her some more play, then of course the return of Billy Clyde and Chuck. Although the Billy Clyde story sort of ended up becoming more about Dixie in the end.

Cecily kind of reminded me an upbeat Greenlee, though Rosa Nevin had a more a joie de vivre quality than Budig. She also looked a lot like the late Brittany Murphy.

Kathy Bates talks about the prison scene she did with Susan Lucci on AMC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryk0Ho4AzP4

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/michael-e-knight-guests-on-digests-podcast/?fbclid=IwAR3hrFmeY7oeO-2kgcfWQuxgXAu7Nkj9iuAz0iALtGBlhw41lBFm7aWIc5Q

David Lynch interview with Russell Brand https://player.fm/series/under-the-skin-with-russell-brand

‘General Hospital’ To Broadcast Classic Sonny & Carly Episode https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2018/11/general-hospital-to-broadcast-classic-sonny-carly-episode

Russ Tamblyn playing another Dr. Jacoby (an obvious reference to his TP character) on GH back in 2000

One of the episodes SL submitted for when she won her Emmy:

1996 wasn't Broderick's first attempt at science fiction. LB also did that whole Damon Lazzare hypnotizing Silver story in the late 80's. Although you maybe right about it being network mandated given the popularity with DAYS at the time.

I never cared for Laurel, but I thought her murder storyline involving Jason, Michael etc was well done. I was watching some of those episodes and it's like two different shows. This was a good story, but then you had the Jamaica stuff with Noah/Julia/Mateo/Hayley/Taylor which wasn't interesting at all.