Contessa Donatella

Okay, but that is not definite. What is definite is NOT Victoria Lord or like her & she does have some kind of history that we don't know about with Monica. (I'm kind of rubbing my hands together with glee thinking about this idea of Erica Slezak soon playing a whole new, I hope, challenging role, even if short arc.)

Brenda doppelgangers! Brenda bots! Michael & Willow were definitely carrying on while she was pretending to be with Chase because she thought he might be dying. But, I don't see either karma or irony. Michael & Willow were both clear that they wanted to be with each other & would be as soon as they finished this pity pretending when Chase died.

Why in the world would Van not recognize Holly?

Well, just d'oh. What can I say? I had her filed in my head as a Frame & I was just gloriously wrong.

Gwen is a Frame.

I wanted to be able to choose either Richard Bekins or Stephen Yates. What does a girl have to do around this joint to get a question asked that she actually wants to answer!!! Oh, crap, Cass, of course. Gwen was kinda cool. Did anyone really buy those romances with Ada?

You & EFulton have the situation well in hand. I have been meaning for a few days to make this post. I know that some of you know but maybe not everyone does. In 1999, 2000 & 2001, some of us, AW fans, raised money to get a Central Park Bench. The fan who spearheaded this effort put it this way. To provide a permanent memorial site that could be visited. It took us that long to come up with $5000 & that next year when we got together, which we did in June 2000 & 2001. We held a dedication ceremony. There is a plaque. There are step by step directions. People go & while there, they take a picture & send it to me. But, my friend Barry even made an appt with Lemay. They met at his apartment & he signed some books. Then they walked to a nearby restaurant, ate., more talk, went back & stayed just a little longer. B

I didn't understand the unfairness idea, either. I was hoping Xanthe might expand. I just thought it was pretty much a yes or no thing, either a certain writer created that character or they did not, because presumably someone else already did. Is there a grey area?

"My memories say hello. They ask about you all the time."

And, next I suppose you're going to tell us that Van does stand-up.

Emmy-winning casting director, Mark T. hit another home run!!

Truly, Nola, as a successful romance novelist would have been a dream vehicle for that character!!! And, actually, even if she were struggling, to get established, if she had writer's block, hey, it would all be great story fodder. I think sometimes that our soaps came to be failing from impoverished imaginations. So many characters in tiny, bland boxes & only able to do or not do certain painfully proscribed things & not anything other.

That would have been fabulous. Mitch's AlternaLight continues to grow ... Personally loved Nola, Bridget, sharing of Peter, Van ...

Hmm, agree to disagree. I put Pilon way down below many bars. I understand the critique of Raines, although I personally think he suffers as badly as he does among so many fans because he followed someone who was so dayum good!!! I find the same to be true of Marj. Bernau & Bev, superlatives, beyond the best that one could be, etc. I know I'm biased but to me GL's Best & Brightest were, in no particular order: Bernau, McKinsey, Zaslow, Garrett & Kinkead. (Apropos of nothing in particular.)

If I understand correctly Jean Passanante did so in the midwest & created Janet Ciccone on ATWT as a representation of herself. Wait, this is the reverse of what you asked. She did grow up around ... Oops.