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I switched to GL during a commercial on NBC one day and saw Lisa as Nola. She certainly didn't look like a standard soap vixen, but I thought she was magnetic -- and continued to be, as she evolved her character into a heroine. What I saw of her on ATWT was just as compelling. I think her movie fantasies on GL remain a high point in the genre. RIP.

Yes, she did. She even livened up boring old Mark Tapscott (Bob Anderson) when they were paired. And I thought she and John Aniston had a great connection, though the characters made no sense together. The only man I didn't think she had chemistry with was Jay Pickett, who played the young doctor she had a flirtation with in the early '90s. But I think that's because he wasn't much of an actor and didn't give her much to play off of. She also had great friendship chemistry with Suzanne Rogers and Mary Frann.

It's probably hard to believe if you only know the Julie of the last 20 years or so, but back in the day Susan Hayes sizzled with everybody.

Long-time General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher is out at the ABC daytime drama. He was let go after not complying with the production’s COVID vaccine mandate, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Rademacher’s final episode on the show, where he’s been a regular for most of the past 25 years, is slated for Nov. 22. Reps for ABC confirm that Rademacher ended his association with General Hospital prior to Sunday. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/general-hospital-ingo-rademacher-out-1235044072/

Gwen's entire story has been odd and disjointed. I thought the character and the actress were a breath of fresh air when she first came on, but she's been on a steep downhill curve since she got involved with the Devereauxs. I like all the actors involved in the storyline, but the writing for them has been terrible.

I'm a bit surprised that Corday hasn't mandated vaccines at DAYS, given they have so many elderly cast members. (If NLG is indeed correct.) At 96, Bill Hayes is the definition of high risk.

Rosemary Forsyth captured the icy side of Laura, but precious little of the warmth or sexiness that Susan Flannery brought to the role. Jaime Lyn Bauer was just another character entirely, I don't think she captured even the slightest essence of Laura ... though, to be fair, JER wrote her as a weak, simpering woman, which was about as far from the original Laura Horton as you could get.

Happy Halloween!

Redeeming AW's Rachel and shifting the show's focus from Alice and Steve to her was certainly risky, and it paid off both critically and ratings-wise ... at least for a while. Days moving from the intense psychological drama of the 70s to the action-adventure format of the 80s could have been deemed a risk, and it worked for them. Marlena's possession was a big risk and it paid off handsomely. Having Marlena kill off a bunch of characters as the Salem Stalker was a big risk -- so big that the show decided to reverse itself.

Michael Muhney (ex-Adam, YR) was in several episodes of the Apple TV series "Truth Be Told" starring Octavia Spenser this season.

I never understood Mitch with anybody, except maybe Janice. Contra seemingly everyone else here, I thought Espy was a block of wood on screen. Good looking, yes, but just a painfully bad actor. I felt bad for his scene partners, who had to do all the heavy lifting in every scene. I saw zero chemistry between him and Wyndham, and him and Dano. He must have been popular, though, they kept bringing him back.

I wouldn't call her a "hit" recording artist, but I bought and very much liked Patty Weaver's album circa 1982. .

Love it!

I don't think VW bothered to submit herself for Emmy consideration after a certain point. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the case with Beverlee as well -- I don't know how any Emmy voter could have looked at a scene with her and thought, "Nah, she doesn't merit attention." If not, it's an exact double.

I think this late-70s look worked well on her. (Wish I could find a better picture.)

I think SSH's reason for going OTT is much like Strasser's. Reilly said he couldn't write for SSH -- meaning her character was too intelligent for his dumbed-down plotting -- so when he eventually brought her back she determined she was going to give him the cheap theatrics he adored. And she's never looked back.

Marlena's ex-priest son is now based in Africa, which was where the priest in The Exorcist movies first encountered the demon that inhabited Regan McNeil. It would be nice if Greg Vaughan came back to play some role in this.

I was so excited when Malone was announced as the incoming HW, given what he did during his first OLTL run. Boy, was I disappointed.

Amen.

Ray Liotta was asked about his time on AW in a Rolling Stone interview publicizing his role in the Sopranos prequel: Sometimes, actors who come out of daytime soaps talk about the discipline it gave them. Did you pick up anything from your days on Another World that proved useful later in your career? I remember when I got offered it, I was like, “I don’t want to do a soap opera. I want to go and do a Scorsese movie.” But I got Another World six months out of graduating. It happened really fast. It just so happened it was really, really good training. These were unbelievable people I was working with, these great stage actors, really seasoned, and our producer made sure they would be free to go and do plays when they wanted to. So I learned a lot being around them. I really liked it. It didn’t bother me at all.

Because I thought your comment that "Stock footage of Paris really gets some people going." was at least partially in response to my post about "A real, live outdoor scene." If it wasn't, my apologies.

I was referring to the Carver-Price scene. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTBHzSSlArL/

A real, live outdoor scene!

She rips off whatever's hot at the moment, so yes, today it would be a Chicago Fire/Med/PD theme. A few years ago, it would be flash-forwards and backwards a la This Is Us. A few years before that, probably zombies to ride on the coattails of The Walking Dead.

Wow, I never thought I'd see this again ... the infamous scene where Linda takes Mike to bed to prove to him that he's a "real man." It plays on a whole different level for me know that I know Wesley Eure is gay.