Contessa Donatella

We just had Susan Batten yesterday. Is it time already for another?!!

God love her! A fave of mine, too!

Not sure if this is where to post this. Not sure if it's old news to you. Just saw it because of Rinna & her Mom Lois.

Apart from gossip & apart from his intensity & talent & that his day job is being a aircraft mechanic, he is just a very good looking man & he always has been. Elsewhere this morning a picture of him was posted, shirtless, black jeans & it could have been new, old, Bobby Reno or Stavros Cassadine, etc. Just not something that could be told & we happened upon his finding this signature look of his when DOOL gave him a makeover to play Bo#2. Cut his hair short, added mustache & beard, groomed closely, Voila! It's hard to remember how much hair he had when he played Sam.

Right. I referred to it as a suppertime soap. Perhaps it was not meant to be between 6&7. Perhaps it was meant to be primetime. But, neither of us thought it was daytime & I certainly did not say that it was. Yes, Pete was with Paul in FRFP. I'm sorry if there was some confusion. None of those soaps had anything to do with the original discussion. Yes, again, I think that was an ABC poster who was in the original framework of the posts, about OLTL & MM there, and alleged that Brian Frons interfered with the writing of the ABC soaps. I can check it if you're concerned about Brian Frons for some unknown reason. No one was connecting Brian Frons with AW or MM at his time at AW. Posted yesterday at 12:13 AM On 7/4/2022 at 8:02 PM, John said: Brian Frons who was ABC Daytime Prez at the time (2002-2012) butted in on all the shows and told them what to write. Not sure about AW in 1997 if it was the writing or P&G. What were his AW stories? So, that's the way in which this OLTL poster brought up Brian Frons. I hope this make it clear for you.

Yes, I remember reading it, too. And, it would have been likely that it was JFP's decision. But, maybe it wasn't her first day. So far as I can see in a very quick look JFP was hired in May 1995 & C.Tucci's last day was Jul 5, 1995.

I found out that I STILL cannot stand Susan Batten.

I have always maintained that it was simply not credible that Jake would rape Marley when she told him she wanted a divorce, or at all under any circumstances! I found out just this year that the HW at the time Donna Swajeski agreed! She refused to write the story. NBC was once again so hot to trot with violence against women, where they actually believed that violence against women was good for ratings, insisted that the story would be told. Eventually 2 things happened. They made Swajeski write the da*ned story & Swajeski quit.

Well, it was Paul Michael Valley's choice but he made it because he was furious with JFP for firing Chris Tucci on JFP's first day at AW. Tucci & PMV were an item then. I wholeheartedly agree about Paulina. Jake all the way! I'd go over that cliff with them again tomorrow! Vicky & Shane, okay. Vicky & Grant very okay. And, I've mentioned him but what about Evan? I still think Vicky & Amanda could have squared off over Evan. And, Jamie is never a bad idea. The thing about Tommy is that he was a good friend, a good scene partner & full of chemistry with all those dames! But, Tommy was more successful with the ladies than Jake was! 😆

Have a number of people played gay Sonny? I see him with Will & think he has looked different ways at different times.

Thnx for all the info. It is definitely the MM-JG-Gottlieb New Orleans suppertime soap I am referring to that MM used part of its bible & the characters Shane & Lila Roberts during his brief 6 months at AW. I didn't say anything about Frons & any soap. And, I know of course about Rauch & Lemay's FRFP & TX and about WR creating Port Charles. I don't know how Brian Frons name came up. I think that was an ABC poster who knows MM from OLTL. And, I had no idea that the Bourbon St. soap was meant for FOX. They, of course, had wanted a soap lineup of their very own for so many years. Very interesting. They should've put it on the air!

Joseph, I wish I knew how to tell you to find the current GH episodes. Here they're on ABC broadcast network & then they are also on Hulu streaming network. Why did they kill Abby. That is THE question. Marci, who was just most recently playing her didn't want to work permanent full-time on contract. She wants to be available for other projects. The other actress who had also played Abby was the same way. The show was frustrated with trying to schedule stories for couples when half the couple is working on recurring instead of on contract. That's the reason. To me they should have just recast & FOUND someone to work on contract. Anyway, Morgan was just on for the day. There are no plans to have her back. I wasn't playing. It was just sheer stupidity on my part. In case you can't tell I'm disgusted. But, I do appreciate that we are all human. Today I feel very human! Great clip!

If only that had been it! 🤣 No such luck! I just got carried away with myself & plopped myself down one place, thinking I was another. Oy Vey Y'all, I am honey & I am making a mess! I live to be forgiven.

Sorry.

It was a sheer delight to get to see Morgan Fairchild today & I loved that she called everyone either "Honey" or, "Oh, honey!" Susan Batten's character was as odd as is her reputation! I was glad to hear that company name again, Society Set-ups, doesn't that just sound like a rotten deal coming someone's way?! I just found out that at the end of THE CITY, they wanted MF to come back briefly as Sydney Chase & she would not so they had the "Happy Now" killer do her in!

I said it was black sheer at the top of a style of cocktail dress that no one gave that kind of party anymore! MEOW

Yes, Terry Lester played Royce & had his own special DID explosive 🎶come out come out where ever you are🎶. One day Emily & Royce looked like they were going to be living happily ever after & then, KABOOM. Dramatic explosion, amazing acting! I loved that storyline of Lucinda's "real" family!

Ahem. RKK with Lisa Rinna, yes, I am not surprised that that has come up also. Among other things he got Lisa into some trouble she wouldn't have had without his able assistance. Should've just said all of this in one big rush! Last, but certainly not least, and as far as I know it's last, there could have been more (horrors) but the very dear Crystal Chappell had a hell*cious time with RKK, too. I know the producers were pressing him for really HOT STUFF but he was actually rough with her & I do mean in a bad way. I don't think she ever talks about it so I hope she still loves me! Plus, he just treated her, like the other women, poorly on set, between scenes and IN SCENES! At the same time he was courting a fellow cast member who was less than 18. Jake's rape of Marley is one of my new favorite out to dinner stories. I always maintained that Jake would not have done it. Just found out that the HW at the time, who I love for other reasons, Donna Swajeski, maintained that there was NO WAY Jake would have raped Marley at the spectre of her divorcing him & she refused to write it. (Hooray!) However, they kept at her until they did 2 things, they forced her to write it & she quit! Yes, she was Ally Fowler #3, at least I think it's 3, at any rate she was AMAZING. I wish she'd been able to stay in a family like atmosphere like AW & gotten mentored & not gone through so much angst with family not at their best. She just got married & I posted her announcement. If I recall correctly she was a redhead naturally, so that would make her Ally to Laura Moss's Amanda. We had the blonde pair, then the brunette pair with Christine Tucci & then the redhead pair before they brought Sandy back & had an older Ally but blonde again.

Yes, and I for one had something tacky to say about it!

I'm just doing my recap: - Ciara, without baby Bo or Ben, and in a black sheer at the top number I'd have thought more appropriate for a cocktail party like no one has anymore than a beloved relative's final resting place. What do I know, Ciara has always had a distinct taste of her own even when she was about 4!

WOW! I have goose bumps! DOOL just ended on the kind of calm, unassuming, cliffhanger statement that will blow you outta the sky! Shazamm!

We were in another thread mentioning the dearth of "big bads". Whoever would have thought that the US daytime market would run out of supervillains!?