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With luck, the fallout from Chanel-Allie will give Tripp some edge. It would be nice if he decided the nice-guy route isn't getting him anywhere and he became a bit darker. 

Denise Cavanaugh plotted to commit suicide and frame her husband Miles for murder on EON. Viewers thought she did it, though it was Miles' sister April who ended up going to prison for killing her. As you'd expect from Henry Slesar, of course, there was a twist. 

9 hours ago, Neil Johnson said:

I remember being completely hooked on AW for all of Lemay's run as head-writer.  But I often complained, "Nothing ever happens on this show!

I think early exposure to Lemay gave me the mindset to enjoy the types of movie and TV that a lot of people criticize for plotlessness. "Nothing happened!" Me: "What do you mean, character X had an epiphany!" Looking back, it's pretty incredible that AW was so popular in that format, especially when you consider where we are today, when soap viewers bash anything that doesn't advance the plot. 

Loved seeing that old clip. I just have very vague impressions of Sam and Lahoma, but I know I was thrilled to see Lana Wedgeworth show up on Three's Company because I had such good feelings about her.

39 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

That's part of it, but not the full story.

Thank you for this. I just read a new NYT story that makes some of the same points you did – and reports that, for all this, South Africa is one of the most vaccinated countries on the African continent. 

On 11/28/2021 at 12:37 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

Wealthy nations and corporations could have given the vaccine to less wealthy nations and peoples. But no. The wealthy nations and corporations hoard the vaccines.

Then a mutation surfaces in a less wealthy area, and that area gets blamed.

While this is largely true, the fact is that South Africa has all the vaccines it needs, and last week asked J&J and Pfizer to delay delivery of vaccines because it had too much stock (reported by Bloomberg and Reuters). The problem there is vaccine resistance, not lack of availability. 

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. 

11 hours ago, Nicholas Blair said:

Susan Seaforth also had fantastic chemistry with Jed Allan.

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/

26 minutes ago, edgeofnik said:

The Gwen reveal writing was horrific ...It was strange that the whole reveal was done in two episodes - no real build-up - immediately after that WTH all 4 in jail story. Sometimes I just don't get what they're thinking. 

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. 

On 10/30/2021 at 12:47 AM, Bright Eyes said:

I haven't seen much, if any, of Rosemary Forsyth's work but she's certainly the right age and looks the part. Then there's Jaime Lyn Bauer ... maybe too glamourous? 

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. 

2 hours ago, Melroser said:

I never understood Mitch and Felicia.

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.

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4 minutes ago, JAS0N47 said:

SUSAN SEAFORTH HAYES LEADS MONTHLY RANKINGS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1984...

Love it!

7 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

I guess you could ask the same thing about Beverlee McKinsey. It's a good question. I don't know.

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."

On 9/25/2021 at 1:56 PM, Franko said:

That actress playing Mary Lou looks so familiar ... It's not Frances Conroy, is it?

If not, it's an exact double. 

15 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

VW had such strong features and I wonder if there were any looks that would really work for her?

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

44 minutes ago, Vee said:

I think both SSH and Robin came back to their respective shows feeling pressured to compete with either the tone of the show (Hayes) or in Robin's case, the network expectations. I've said for a long time that I think being cut by JFP traumatized Robin and that she came back determined never to be made to leave the show she loved again

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. 

17 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

If you can't be nice, why is it so hard to at least not send negativity and hatred towards people who are simply doing their job and doing their best to entertain you? Even if they fail at it, why be mean at fellow human beings for no reason?

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.