Kick in the Pants

[bellcurve]

GH: James Gandolfini as the Grim Reaper.

In GH's final mob story, Gandolfini comes to town and kills every single mobster in the city of Port Charles.

[AllAboutAngst]

Can we steal people from other shows?

To bring some life to GL I would say

ATWT desparately needs another lead actress. Maura is great and so is Elizabeth Hubbard, but now that Martha is gone, there is something missing. Someone like Finola Hughes maybe? I'm trying to think of someone younger than Elizabeth Hubbard but slightly older than Maura.

I don't watch General Hospital, but I did watch Santa Barbara, and I think Nancy Lee Grahn would be great on Young and the Restless with Peter Bergman.

[Khan]

I'd like to see someone like Stefanie Powers or Ann-Margret join AMC, if only for a limited time, as "Ginger," an entertainer best known for her work in Frankie-and-Annette-esque teen "beach" comedies of the 1950's and '60's. Ginger publishes a new, tell-all memoir, where she claims, among other things, she and Eric Kane, then a film director/producer, secretly wed when she was eighteen, making her Erica's legal stepmother. The big revelation in Ginger's book, however, is that Eric confided to her a tremendous secret: Erica is not his biological daughter, but a child he and Mona had adopted, because Mona was unable to conceive.

[SFK]

I know, at first that seemed off to me too, but Joan has a good 20 years on Lesley.

[SFK]

As fun as it would be to see people like Stephanie Beacham, Kate O'Mara, and Joan Collins go up against Erica Kane or Dorian Lord, the Bell soaps are currently the only ones who can do these ladies justice. IMHO.

Has anyone seen that 20/20 interview with Susan Lucci and Joan Collins? When asked about Susan, Joan's like, "Susan who? ... Soap opera!? Are you joking? ... Susan Lucky, funny name."

I'd love to find an unedited version, this one has all the Lucci portions cut out, but here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QbPr2SvJCs

[Vee]

OLTL: Victoria Rowell.

It was a good rumor, it'd be a better reality.

[MichaelGL]

GL: Ric Hearst as Alan-Michael Spaulding

ETA: I hate what they did with him last time around and that Harley is currently off the show. I always loved the dynamic between A-M/Harley.

[Cashton]

I want Cady McClain on Y&R. She can play anyone, but I'd like to see her play an Abbott or perhaps even a relative of Phillip Chancellor.

And I've said it before, but Kimberlin Brown would do wonders on any P&G show, but I know they couldn't pay her quote. She immediately infuses a certain intrique and depth into any of her characters. With great writing, she's amazing.

And Martha Byrne, I'd love to see her make a glorious comeback and kick some major ass in Genoa City as well - she's be a good match for Jack, Micheal or even Paul!

[applcin]

I've been dying for David Andrew Macdonald to be on OLTL. I had a split second of ecstasy a while back until it turned out those were only ESPN promos he did with ABC actors. I hate the fact that I have to tape the travesty that is GL again just to see him.

I miss seeing Larkin Malloy. Even if he showed up for a brief stint somewhere, like as a doctor, judge, whatever, it would be cool.

Back when I used to still watch and care about GH, I would've liked to have seen Michael Sutton play a Stone lookalike (maybe his cousin or something), if only to end Robin/Jaborg.

Stephen Schnetzer (back) to OLTL for Dorian but not as Marcello Salta.

[Cat]

Oh, I don't doubt that. But JC might not want to be seen to be Lesley's mother's age. She is Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Carrington Dexter I-forget-what-else, after all. And Alexis never ages. She is always glamourously, gorgeously, sophisticatedly fortysomething.

True Joan Collins story: my first job ever was at the literary agency where she was represented. My second day there, she calls up and I'm manning the phones. I almost fainted with joy. Then I accidentally asked "Mrs. Collins" to hold. Oh yes I did. I called her Mrs. FYI, it is ALWAYS "Miss Collins." She reamed me a new a$$hole and then reamed my colleague one when she came over to help me out. And you know what? That's ok. Because I got it wrong. And she is the incomparable Miss Joan Collins.

[DaytimeFan]

Yes, Alexis is ageless...Alexis is forever...Alexis is Alexis. OK, if not Jackie's mother, she can be her aunt and remain totally, utterly, fabulously, ageless.

That's a terrific experience. Even when getting screamed at, you don't mind because it's Miss Joan Collins screaming at you.

My own Joan Collins story: During the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006 Joan attended a party hosted by George Christy which I also attended. Well, I spied Joan across the room all alone, her husband had gone off to get her some wine, got myself together, walked across that room and said hello. At first, I thought she looked at me like "WTF is this idiot saying to me!?" but then she she gave me this wide smile and laughed. We had a little chat and I made a joke about a certain actress Joan knows and she cackled with glee. Soon after, her husband returned with her wine and I said by goodbyes to which Joan proclaimed "Darling, you're fabulous!"

Fabulous isn't even the word for Miss Joan Collins.

[Khan]

If Miss Collins returns to daytime at all, it must be to Y&R, and her character must be a Tina Brown-esque book publisher who persuades Nikki into writing a tell-all about her "years of hell" with Victor.