Contessa Donatella
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1 minute ago, VanessaReardon said:
Donna, if you label yourself a Scholar, why are you so uninformed?
VR, Groan.
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On 9/26/2019 at 3:45 PM, Mitch said:
I do think that GL's worst exec was John Conboy, who did not GET the show at all, and he came at the crucial time to not only derail the show, (despite Rauch's interference Taggert was doing well) but make it almost impossible to save the show, from the budget being busted, to the return of Brad Cole, to Maryanne Curathers (blowing decades of GL cannon) to making Alex Reva's stalker, drugging Alan, then being under Alan's thumb and then making her a Drug Dealer, to bringing back Eden (Taggert got rid of her) giving her a storyline which made Ben a serial killer who gets berated by Jeffery on his death bed, and Ed slapping Michele... Mac and Cheese Alan....Terrible stuff..(I cant even bring up the Teen Gay Rave, Marah's outdated Day Glo Fashion Show, the possessed TIki God Head, and the goofy drug thing...) And he only had two years.????
I agree with every word of this. And, just thank goodness he did not have any longer.
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VR, We have to come to some meeting of the minds. I am a human being & I make mistakes at times. Most of the time I do not. Here, for example, everyone but Karen Harris is on the GL writing team. I have blog sheets for each of them. This is an error & I have to remove Karen's sheet. Karen wrote for GH, WGA West, Life in General a web series that is hilarious, non-daytime television shows, AMC and PC. Doing the best you can & correcting errors when you find them is not an issue of embarrassment.
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10 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:
I like Kim/Reva. But no character should be front and center all the time. Jeva's played out love story. Plus those awful scfi/supernatural stories did her no favors.
Yep. I gotta agree with you on that. Clone Reva, stepping through the painting that looked just like Olivia, time travel, being Amish ... OY!
5 minutes ago, VanessaReardon said:A book is just that. A book. One persons perceptions and recollections. People mentioned in the book will always have different recollections and dispute the book. Take it for what it is. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
Well, that's well said.
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5 minutes ago, AdamNewmanFan said:
No no no her hubby tony morina is the EP with josh lol
Okay, thanks, I've never even heard of him. Where else has he worked?
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On 10/9/2019 at 7:19 PM, Donna B said:
VanessaReardon, The next time you talk to Marcia McCabe, ask her about knowing this P&G writer, Tom Petitjean. I believe he was a friend of hers & of Chris's.
So, Vanessa, did you ask Marcia about Tom Petitjean?
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On 5/30/2019 at 10:31 PM, vetsoapfan said:
TPTB must have erroneously believed that endlessly ramming Kim Zimmer down the audience's throats was the key to ratings' success...but actually, the last time TGL was respected and GOOD was when she was NOT part of the cast.
It's really interesting how many huge GL fans got sick or were sick of Reva Shayne. But, Zimmer says in her book that she -and her fans- do not have any tolerance for being on the backburner. If she goes 3 days without story she goes into the main office complaining!
Holly, Harley, Blake, all big fan favorites.
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2 hours ago, jam6242 said:
I believe Kitty somehow had a tape recording of Tom and Laura talking about Mickey being sterile. She and Bill were arguing over that when she had her heart attack. Bill kept silent about it during his trial because no one wanted Mickey to find out.
Mickey and Laura had bonded while they were working on Susan Martin's insanity defense (for shooting her husband, David). Bill was out of town at that time.
Now that does sound familiar.
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4 hours ago, Faulkner said:
Saw that Debbi Morgan has published a memoir. Has anyone read it, and is it any good?
https://www.amazon.com/Monkey-My-Back-Memoir-ebook/dp/B00LD1OF6U/ref=nodl_
I ordered this. Thanks for the 411 about it.
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On 7/12/2008 at 2:57 AM, Paul Raven said:
The Doctors final weeks from SOD summary
Billy has been murdered.Phillip tells Paul that Felicia Hnt has been impersonating her daughter Adrienne,Paul goes to arest Felicia ,but she has vanished.
Felicia has aged and begs Jean Marc to give her more serumbut h says it's too late.Felicia vows that Jeff will not marry Adrienne and rushes to tell him the awful truth-that it was she he came t love.
Before she can sa anything,Jeff welcomes her to Madion an tells her how much adrienne means to him.Felicia realises Jeff will never be hers.
So Adrienne an Jeff are married.Paul arrests Felicia for the murder of Billy Aldrich.
Paul arrives home to find Natakie holding a pair of black shoes. She tells him she remember seeing those shoes run by her the night of Billy's murder.Paul isBilly's other killer!
Adrienne declares her love for Jeff at the New Year's Eve reception.She says she's loved him since she was a little girl and knew they would be together.Jeff believes her,not knowing he fell in love with her mother.
Luke tells Julia he's not sure about them.Maybe Natalie is the one for him after all.
Danny tells Kit that Robin may come back to Madison.Mike and Kit make it clear to all they're in love.
With Felicia exposed,Jean Marc drops his plan to experiment on Althea.
Ivy leaves Madison to try her luck in New York.
Steve and Carolee take stc of a dismal year - his illness and Mona and Billy's deaths.Both believe the worst is over.
Matt and Maggi agree to remarry.
Barbara Morgenroth and Leonard Kantor were the final writers.
Gerald Straub was the exec producer.
In the 90s I got to know Barbara Morgenroth. She was another one of the honchos who spent time in RATS & the various soap forums on, like, AOL, Delphi and Prodigy. A friend of mine and I ran the one on Delphi. Unlike Tom Petitjean, Barbara didn't bother with a pseudonym. Same thing with Michael Kape, 1/3 of "Soap Opera Now" (Don & Joanna being the other 2/3s), he came to all our chats & he never bothered with a pseudonym either. Barbara was a wild woman! She was full of ideas, very political, but an Orthodox Jew, all at the same time.
Kim Zimmer told an anecdote about Alec Baldwin in her book. Apparently a whole slew of the women his age caught a glimpse of him when he was there to audition, They all went running in to say, "Hire HIM!"
1 hour ago, Khan said:"David [O'Brien] is a bachelor, but he's housebroken!"
WTF?!
David O'Brien who played The Sin Stalker on AW under Margaret DePriest's first serial killer story?
Barbara Morgenroth Image
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On 11/2/2017 at 11:01 AM, BellaCuore said:
The Official "Off Topic" Thread
Get to know other posters and speak of anything other than soap opera's, primetime shows or politics. Great way to make new friends, get to know one another, get advice, share life experiences and much more.
Van Halen has throat cancer?!! Did I just read that right?
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As the Santa Barbara Cruise approaches Lane Davies speaks about his memories of the show from Soap Opera Central.
In Cary Elwes book to commemorate the book and the movie, he invites everyone into the text. Robin Wright auditions with many for the part of Buttercup the most beautiful girl in the kingdom. Her thoughts about why she got cast are that they were worn out and they just had to cast somebody. Later she tells us about going to supper with Andre the giant. Apparently he ate everything and then asked for seconds!
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On 9/29/2019 at 12:05 PM, Donna B said:
Largely there's Gordon Thomson, Robin Wright, memories of Paul Rauch, A Martinez, Marcy Walker, Dane Witherspoon, Jane Sibbett, Kimberly McArthur, ...
A relative of Bridget's
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1 minute ago, beebs said:
What are you doing???
Playing music.
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5 minutes ago, beebs said:
I don't know, I don't find them to be the ones who are tiresome, personally.
Unfortunately, that figures.
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17 hours ago, AdamNewmanFan said:
A scholor who is a couple of years behind lol
We got morina and griffith now
Sally Sussman Morina and Josh Griffith? Great. I hope they're telling good stories. I love Sally Sussman. Do you think she came back because they let Angelica go? Or did that timing not match up?
23 hours ago, slick jones said:Pratt and Phelps have been out for 3 years. again, misinformation.
Gyah, you are tiresome. So is your friend Vanessa.
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Zimmer's book, that one with the long title about her whole diva life, and Hinsey's book, are both interesting, but, both, frankly, mean. It shouldn't be a surprse to anyone that Hinsey's is. But, Zimmer's is, well, confusing. ... She blames Wheeler for being a female EP when she's used to male EPs. She blames Wheeler for being younger than she is. Heck, she even blames Wheeler for being in better physical shape, weight, etc. than her. She blames the Costumer for not doing well with the "chubby girls". She blames Wheeler for crying, when what I hear is that they all cried, in a high intensity, highly emotional environment.
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10 hours ago, Days22 said:
After the lady of the night or whatever Marlena wasn't even shown as possessed until a day or two before Christmas so Ken has no idea what he is talking about per usual. Says a lot about TIIC. I so need to help get this show cancelled.
Corday's AUS interview seems to be lacking in some ways!
Days of Lour Lives, a theme
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3 minutes ago, Faulkner said:
I’m certainly not the biggest fan of her work, but even if her book was defensive and utterly delusional, I’d be interested in what she has to say.
Melody Thomas Scott has a memoir set for next summer.
I’d read a Scott McKinsey book about his mom.
Anthony Geary is notoriously private but when he retired from GH, he said he was interested in writing a memoir.
Hey, yeah! I would even pre-order a Scott McKinsey book!
Geary, I would get around to buying it.
I'm still "off my feed" if it comes to JFP. I can't do any better. I would read people talk about her, not hear her.
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11 hours ago, robbwolff said:
Despite what Zimmer said in her book, I can assure you an episode aired on CBS television in February 2007. Search for it on You Tube. It's there. Yes, there were webisodes, but GL devoted an entire episode to show their volunteerism. And Zimmer is featured in the episode.
I can't find it. Can anyone find the "GL Gives Back To The Fans" anniversary epi in Feb. 2007 on YT? I would enjoy seeing it - again - now after time has passed.
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4 hours ago, Paul Raven said:
Jada Rowland
Denise Alexander
Denise would be great.
Jane Elliot
Jerry verDorn
Robert Newman
Martha Byrne
Bill & Susan Seaforth Hayes have written 1 book together & are working on #2. Does anyone know if they are memoirs?
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