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Not sure about these, but... From SD..Tracy will have no big storyline that I know if this summer (from anon insider) Me: Duh! She will just have scenes with Lulu and some funny scenes with Alan And it is looking like more than one person now is saying the HS will blow up and it is part of summer stunts. And.. June 13th Max wants to take Sonny fishing. Diane tearfully confides in Jason the importance her father had in her life. A terrified Patrick confesses to Liz how much he wants his baby with Robin. Elizabeth reassures Patrick that Robin and their baby will be fine. Patrick and Robin have an intimate conversation after the ultra sound indicates things are fine for Robin and the baby. Spinelli does his best Jax imitation. Maxie causes Spinelli to "lose his cool". Claudia and Nadine have a catty encounter over Nikolas. Jerry discovers Claudia is alive and well and ready to gamble. Lucky and Sam get themselves arrested in Mexico. With Luke out of town, Tracy must battle the Zacchara's for control over the Haunted Star. Me: Sounds too good to be true. I thought Tracy only had scenes with Lulu and Alan next week. More Tracy and the Z's do battle about the Haunted Star and that is why it blows up. This is a minor story and will only take a few days and thats it.

Yeah didn't JE say that they used to have like 60 pages of dialogue on a heavy day back in the day. Now if they have 15 it is heavy day due to the era of soundbites, etc. Stace--that person posted that last night. Some others don't think the HS blows up. I am hoping she meant that Tracy has very little coming up over the next two weeks. I think she will be on one day this week and none the week of the 16th. Only plus side for me is I won't have to worry too much about catching up on 13 episodes of GH when I get home. I fnished packing pretty much for me and the boys. Not too bad. 4 checked bags for the four of us. The medicine/toiletries/makeup stuff is always the worst part to pack for me. I gotta pack the kids backpacks with snacks, nintendos, etc. Not looking forward to that long ass flight tomorrow at all. almost 4 hours to NY and then 3. 5 hour layover in Newark and then 8 hours to spain. OY!! I will miss you guys. I guess I won't be missing too much Tracy stuff though. I will try to check email a few times when I am gone if anything pops up, let me know! Breakroom anyone for a few? It is 1:30 central time...

Now that was just beautiful Remos! I think I am giving up GH for good and just reading your daily entries. You are on fire! En fuego!!!! I am stunned by how much I could feel that scene!

Evening! I got done packing one kid. Two more to go tonight! Here is my painting I just finished. It is from a Nordstrom ad that i copied. http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r37/hoo...gh/IMG_0003.jpg Since I haven't been writing worth a flip, I decided to paint instead! kristin--I am going to read that letter right after I pack the next kid. nothing for us anywhere tonight in info that I see!!

Just more Soapdish fanfic Now they are saying all the robin/patrick and liason wedding rumors were done to catch people who worked at GH giving out info. And lots of people were caught. Crazy!!! I am not feeling too hopeful about our girl getting much of anything this summer at all. She is not even being mentioned anywhere!!! Scotty is supposed to take over as DA when Alexis resigns. I would take some Tracy/Scott, some Tracy/Trevor--hell even Tracy/lulu...just Tracy something!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way, she is in SOD this week again in a photo with JI in the courtroom for Monica's trial with a question posed to JI about "Does he think Tracy has wreaked havoc on the Q mansion" He said it is so loney it is a welcome change, but on any given day he might say Tracy and LUke deserve each other. At least our girl is visible in the mags! And it was a good hair day for her!! And I just have to say that not only am I a shoe nut, but makeup is slowing creeping up to a close second! I love Benefits makeup!!

Agreed!!! I think you should print out the annals (okay maybe censor a few of them) and send them to Guza and Frons and tell them this is how GH should have been written!!! They totally take the easy way out...they could have made it about ELQ even. I guess Tony did allude to that in his article that Jane will be back early cause either Tracy gets sick of him or doesn't like how he travels.... I'm sticking with the Remos version!!

Hey TQ pals! From an insider this morning who was just giving scene specifics. All I could get... Gotta do my last ditch spoiler ho thing before I leave... Do you know if they ever reveal why Tracy came back early? Is she in a fight with Luke or did she come back to watch out for Lulu or something or to clear Luke? They already revealed why Tracy came back early on Tuesday June 3. Cause she didn't like the Sri Lankan bar crawl? But she never said they were in a fight or anything, only Lulu did. They're not fighting. That's Lulu projecting and running her mouth about things she knows nothing about. It's really as simple as Tracy not liking Luke's version of life on the run.

Any chance for a quick br chat? 8:30 pm. Can you believe I have kids over again at my house tonight? I am wiped. BTW--Let me son do this rinse thing to make his hair brown. He is smiling from ear to ear. So happy!

Happy birthday DEB!!!!! Hope it was a good one!

Hey guys! I feel so out of touch. Wasn't online at all yesterday from like the time we left school til this morning briefly to find nothing about Tracy and then I have been gone all day today. About 55 kids showed up at the swim party. So many hours of sun..I am so tired. And me, miss sun paranoid with my 50 sunblock on always, forgot and put my hair up in a ponytail mid-way through and got all sunburned on my back where my hair usually is!!! My son is still there. I have so much to do for my trip sunday and I am toast. Can't move. So tired. So nothing sounds good at all for our girl coming up. Will she even be on next week? Maybe once? Ugghhh!!

Morning all. WOke up with a migraine. Bumping the thread. Nothing new today. nex--thanks in advance for the clips. Will someone emali me the links to the clips that I miss when I am gone? Thanks!

Hee hee--did some blogging duty before my art class! I missed the blog...my multiple personality disorder really thrives in the blog environment!! No staying up til 5am again for me. This chick is going to bed early tonight!

Remos is smokin' hot these days!!! All I know is I need to borrow Lukey!! LOL Ms. Q--No new screwed up haircut so that is good. New outfit with like 3/4 sleeves too! Remos--so glad you said that about the rings. Was going to ask. Did on SD but nobody gives a flip there about details like that.

How disappointing. Hopefullly next week (since no more TQ this week) we will see like Nex said that it was a front or something. I am so sticking in Remos/QT blog world and am so glad Remos that you set it up as a front for her to come home. That is where I will stay. Glad Alan was on at least. Looked like a cute jacket TQ was wearing and she didn't mutilate her hair from the screencaps I saw, but they were HORRIBLE shots of her with the worst expression.

Standout Scenes GH: Luke Reaches out to Tracy (Photo of Luke with the ring box open and the back of Tracy's head on the couch) caption: Tracy can deny a lot of things, but not her true feelings towards Luke. When it comes to Luke Spencer, GH's usually confident Tracy Quartermaine turns--as unlikely as it might seem--into an insecure woman in love. "I wouldn't take Luke back if he begged me on both knees," she told an appartion of Alan. Of course, at that moment, in walked her husband, brandishing a floppy flower. "What if he limped in on one bad knee?" her spouse asked sheepishly. The Qs actually rallied around Luke, but he knew their support was only making Wife angrier. What he needed was alone time with the little woman. "It's just you and me Tracy," he said, his adoration showing. "That is a fact of life, and it's one that I'm not going to let you deny for one more day." Despite longing to hear those very words, she refused to put her faith in them...or him. "I know I"m nobody's idea of a great catch, but I"m better with you. I'm so much better. We're a perfect match damnit. So here I am before you, deeply flawed, offering you my broken body and battered heart, and this...Won't you please wear it again?" He reached into his pocket and pulled out her wedding ring. WIth her eyes welling up, she said "SO would you prefer we ignore our fundamental but very real differences?" He shot back with a grin, "Yes, I prefer we ignore them". Sitting next to her on the sofa he implored her. "Come on spanky, I can get this right. GIve me a chance to treat you the way you deserve to be treated." It was over 30 years ago that Anthony Geary auditioned for the role of Tracy's husband Mitch Williams. Thank heavens he didn't get that role! IT's almost as if the decades Geary and Jane Elliot (Tracy) didn't spend as on-air husband and wife have just added more color to their characters and , thus, to Luke and Tracy's unconventional, but undeniable love story! Our couple is getting such love in the media lately!!!

Okay from SID June 16th issue Ins and Outs Photo of JE in the oopsie daisy jacket from that one photo shoot spread with her on the prop cart. But just of her face with the caption: Life on the Lam was short-lived for blue-blood Tracy under the photo. Headline: Tracy's Back, but not Luke IN: Luke is still on the run, but Jane Elliot returns as his wife, Tracy, on Tuesday, June 3rd. "Tracy is going to be all over this summer," says headwriter Robert Guza Junior. "Among other things, Tracy takes it upon herself--with some what comedic results and, at other times, somewhat serious results--to try to be a mother to Lulu in Luke's absence." Meanwhile Luke may be out of sight, but he's not out of mind. "People are going to go after him," says Guza. Myth or Reality section: The truth behind daytimes' hottest gossip (photo is small one of Tracy, Luke, Edward from will forging day) General Hospital created the role of Tracy for Jane Elliot (REALITY) Steve Carlson (ex-Gary) has the scoop. "When they were recasting Gina Dante, I did a screen test with about 10 girls for the role. At the end, they said "Do you want to do one more?" We have a gal here and she is not right for Gina Dante, but we think she's a good actress and we want to see her on camera." In waltzed a blonde Elliot, who Carlson was really taken with. "Sometimes you just run across somebody that's just a cut above," he says. "At the end of working with Jane, I said, "Listen, I don't care if she's blonde. Dye her hair. This is who I want." They said no, they had other plans for her. They ended up creating the character of Tracy for her, and here she is, to this day". More to come in a bit

From a poster who is now been validated as legit on SD.... Hi everyone, I was getting a little disheartened earlier about giving spoilers because they seemed to make people more upset than happy but I can see they are appreciated. I would just ask that people give things a chance to air before they rip them. I don't reveal all details because that would spoil it too much. Not to say things may be disappointing or not play how you would like them to, but give them a shot. And to the person last night that was really polite in asking me about Tracy, I went back and asked. I only got this tidbit, sorry it's not more. -Tracy is involved in the Johnny/Lulu story. Tracy has concern about their dalliance and in Luke's absence steps up to stop what she thinks could be dangerous for Lulu. Alan again shows up to help her throught this. -RoseDewittBukater

OMG Remos!!!!!!! I think you have found your true calling!

Nex--Tracy is only on today this week supposedly. Lainey--Cute article in this week's SID with Jason on the cover about Dimax. I will try to type it out for you as my scanner is broken. Also, Spinelli in his quest to pick up girls tries to pick up a girl on Wed. and her lesbian girlfriend comes into the bar and plants a kiss on her. Thought you might be interested in that. That is probably GH's big delve into a storyline featuring a gay character. They do such a great job don't they? NOT! Kind of like the heart month where Epiph had her heart attack for an episode and never to be mentioned again but to plug a cambell's soup can. Good JE stuff in SID. WIll type it out in a bit... Someone brought this over for me from somewhere Thought you might find this interesting from the Wiki on Doug Marland: Although the changes at General Hospital were a success, Marland was not interested in moving to Los Angeles, where the show was produced. In 1979, he assumed the head writing reins of New York-based Guiding Light. Marland's run on GL produced popular storylines and characters. One character Marland introduced was Nola Reardon, played by Lisa Brown. The uncoventional Nola started as a villainess and became the heroine of the show. Another story was an envelope-pushing story that featured the character of Carrie Todd Marler (played by Jane Elliot). Carrie was diagnosed with multiple personalities, and Marland had barely delved into her psychosis when Elliot's contract was abruptly terminated by Executive Producer Allan Potter in 1982; Marland resigned in protest. Just because I think it is a sound set of guidelines that all the soaps should be following these days. There are always exceptions and deviations from the rules, but this is a good starting point: How Not To Wreck A Show By Douglas Marland Watch the show. Learn the history of the show. You would be surprised at the ideas that you can get from the back story of your characters. Read the fan mail. The very characters that are not thrilling to you may be the audience's favorites. Be objective. When I came in to ATWT, the first thing I said was, what is pleasing the audience? You have to put your own personal likes and dislikes aside and develop the characters that the audience wants to see. Talk to everyone; writers and actors especially. There may be something in a character's history that will work beautifully for you, and who would know better than the actor who has been playing the role? Don't change a core character. You can certainly give them edges they didn't have before, or give them a logical reason to change their behavior. But when the audience says, "He would never do that," then you have failed. Build new characters slowly. Everyone knows that it takes six months to a year for an audience to care about a new character. Tie them in to existing characters. Don't shove them down the viewers' throats. If you feel staff changes are in order, look within the organization first. P&G [Procter & Gamble] does a lot of promoting from within. Almost all of our producers worked their way up from staff positions, and that means they know the show. Don't fire anyone for six months. I feel very deeply that you should look at the show's canvas before you do anything. Good soap opera is good storytelling. It's very simple. Douglas Marland is considered by many as one of the greatest head writers ever. Marland was a former head writer of As The World Turns, Guiding Light, and General Hospital. He worked as a writer on Another World and co-created Loving. He won multiple Emmy awards and Soap Opera Digest awards. Marland, a former actor, loved daytime. He passed away on March 6, 1993. This article was published in the April 27, 1993 issue of Soap Opera Digest. Thanks to SEW for providing a copy of the article.

Okay it is no 4:38am. I have not slept yet. I have to get up in two hours, so why bother right. Wow just caught up with the blog/annals---Damn Remos! I think we unleashed the floodgates and you have a whole new genre to write! LOL!! Go Lainey--keep egging her on! I might have to go wake up my husband!!! KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Next stop--catching up on Funny's fics!!

OMG I have to go to bed. Some really nice person who just got the SID typed this out for me on SD just now (nice people come on at 2:45am) I wish I believed Guza Ins and Outs SID Tracy's Back, but Not Luke! Luke is still on the run, but JE returns as his wife, Tracy, on Tuesday, June 3. "Tracy is going to be all over this summer," says HW BG. "Among other things, Tracy takes it upon herself--with somewhat comedic results and, at other times, somewhat serious results--to try to be a mother to Lulu in Luke's absence. Meanwhile, Luke may be out of sight, but he's not out of mind. "PEOPLE are going to go after him," says Guza. LUSAM = PEOPLE I guess.

Hey all! IT is 2am, can't sleep. Pissed off. Tracy will only be on tomorrow this week. She is busting in on Lulu/Johnny but Ghost Alan is on tomorrow too. I can't believe she comes home and is only one once this week! Bummer!!! Had a great trip! Missed you guys! I really did!! I can't wait to catch up on all the fics and the annals and the blog. Remos--sounds like some great stuff/Funny still have to catch up on yours too! LadyA--Thanks for that caption and LOL on the shoes TL-Great pics!!! Gosh Dana looks so much like you in those photos it is uncanny! You are one hot mama there with those legs!!! Ms.Q--Glad you had a good trip. Now I am reading all kinds of stuff about the HS blowing up going boom. Logan trying to rape lulu and claudia kills him. Scott makes a comeback. But TQ will not be on much. I was in such a good mode before I left with all the Tracy info...but now...uggghH!! Good thing for our own little blog/annals world! Trying not to be discouraged. Edit From some insider The only information I have on Tracy is that she will be trying to help Lulu stay out of trouble with very little success. She also makes it clear she does not want Johnny in the Q mansion. I dont know anything beyond that, Midnight Blue

Just poppin in to say bye! Have a good weekend everyone!!!

Someone mentioned grammar to them. I am guilty of typs too! However, I am cautiously optimistic because when things sound too good to be true.... Lainey--I agree...Diane was acting very mobby today. Showing up on the docks telling him to get an alibi.

listening to JJY on a blogtalk radio show asking him a question...if he liked being in Luke's hell dream!