She's married to fellow CATS star Terrance Mann (also famous as Javert in Les Mis and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast)

Also the alien bounty hunter in Critters.

And Rae Cummings' faithless husband Daniel Faulkner on OLTL.

But I just look at him and see Critters.

HAHAH i look at him and see the Rum Tum Tugger--and in my great love of Broadway musicals I don't even LIKE Cats. He just looks feline to me lol. I forgot he was on OLTL for a bit

OK this drug storyline is bugging me. We haven't had any singing lamp posts like my fave drug storyline--Timmy Dhillon doing acid on AMC when i was 13 or 14 or so, but still WHAT exactly is Cole taking? just pain killers? OxyC? or? I mean a specific would add some reality--and what was with Star's talk to him. How did that help--I'm gonna have to live with yoru decision? how is him doing durgs the same as her deciding she couldn't look after a child and giving him up for adoption. I'm confused.

All I care about is that

Rachel Gannon is coming back

All I care about is that

Rachel Gannon is coming back

Wow! I didn't hear that! That should be good.

Really?!

Can we please have someone new in the role, like

Kent King

, and not

that haggard Ellen Bethea

?

Rachel Gannon could be a great, integral, viable character again, but to do that, she needs to be played by someone that TPTB would consider "marketable" and Bethea's Rachel seemed too matronly the last few times she appeared

.

Really?!

Can we please have someone new in the role, like

Kent King

, and not

that haggard Ellen Bethea

?

Rachel Gannon could be a great, integral, viable character again, but to do that, she needs to be played by someone that TPTB would consider "marketable" and Bethea's Rachel seemed too matronly the last few times she appeared

.

I'd agree. She does come across older than she should be and lacks the sex appeal that her subsequent recasts had. I cant see her as a viable choice to make the role integral bc she just isnt all that interesting

She is being recast. However, I never accepted anyone in the role but Bethea. And frankly, Kent King is both a) too young and

boring as hell. I hope they pick someone more interesting.

Edited January 20, 200916 yr by Vee

Well I'm glad she's being recast, that gives me hope. I'd even take a new face, but Kent King has finer features where I could see some kind of resemblance to Hillary B. Smith, and of the few options I have to think of in daytime, I could see her doing Rachel some justice

.

Rachel is supposed to be a lawyer, isn't she

?

Kent King has potential, I think. The unfortunate thing is that her last two characters haven't been written very interestingly. Lainey was an ice princess, but over the years King loosened up in the role, and I liked her more. But she had no family. On PC, I really didn't like King's performance, however. But on OLTL, with family relationships to play and history with other characters, I could envision King being a little warmer and more at ease, able to laugh or at least come across more comfortable on the canvas since Rachel was a fairly integrated role

.

Rachel had relationship with Kevin Buchanan, a whole drug/prostitution storyline, and Georgie Phillips murder, which took Rachel off the canvas. But Rachel is real, with flaws, that could be mined for a lot of drama, especially since drugs are coming back to Llanview and attaching them to Rachel's brother Matthew. I do think Rachel is a better character when she's caught between the forces of good (Nora/Bo) and the forces of "shady" (RJ, who I was hesitant to label a force of "evil" because he's better than that) because it brings more layers out of her

.

She is being recast. However, I never accepted anyone in the role but Bethea. And frankly, Kent King is both a) too young and

boring as hell. I hope they pick someone more interesting.

Well thank God they're recasting! I hated EB as Racheal and always preferred Sandra Grant and even Mari Marrow in the role. I wish we could get one of those two back.

Rachel is one of those characters who lost her way. Mari Morrow never seemed like the child of Nora and Hank to me, and all she had was the drug addiction story. Sandra Grant only had the very short-lived prostitution story before she sat on the backburner for over a year. Then she was sent out in a humiliating way for JFP. Between the lack of material for black characters and RC not doing the best job in how he brings old characters back (Tina, Carlo, Sarah), I'll have to wait and see on Rachel.

I'm also bummed this probably means goodbye for Layla, since we probably can't have two black women on the show at the same time.

Edited January 20, 200916 yr by CarlD2

The whole Tess/Jess storyline came off as complete overkill and over the top yesterday with the scenes in the cage and etc. I'm still waiting for when the sh!t hits the fan, but whoever decided to include those scenes more than once in an episode should be fired pronto.

I liked the writing of the Starr/Cole scenes. Not what I would have expected.

Loved the scenes at Rodi's, but WTF was Kassie DePaiva wearing? She looked like a nun.

I hope writers don't have Marty push Blair too far that she resorts to the same old tired schemes we've seen before in triangles, all just to hold onto John. I hope Blair remains the bigger person in this, bc I'm loving this new reformed smarter wiser Blair.

Loved the scenes at St. Anne's. Mark Lawson did an excellent job.

I would say this about the Jess/Tess scenes, I loved how they paralleled Brody's scenes with Wes. They both have a lot to deal with right now.

Kent King is 34

Ellen Bethea is 41

Marri Marrow is 34

I couldn't find an age on Sandra P. Grant though.....

I'm also bummed this probably means goodbye for Layla, since we probably can't have two black women on the show at the same time.

Weren't Layla and Evangeline on the show together at the same time, at least for a while?

Yes, you're right. I forgot about them because they were sisters, and their stories were supposed to tie in together.

Layla had no story. She was just Evangeline's Mini Me (or Antonio's, or Talia's, or Adriana's). I would not miss her. People talk about the character's limitless potential, but the actress being a spitfire off-camera does not translate to a dynamic character. Susan Misner was a talented Broadway dancer, but that didn't keep her character (Grace Davidson) from being anything but bland and totally disposable.

As for Jessica's DID scenes, I have found the business with the cage and the expressionistic mindscape to be surprisingly cool from the start.

Edited January 20, 200916 yr by Vee