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OMG Y&R Brenda Dickson!

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Say Judy Garland or Barbara Stanwyck fans, and you might have something there.

except JG has HUGE amounts of fans...

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One of the cases where Branco did a great job and delivered a poignant interview.

Dickson's take on Jill and the explanation for her shift of portrayal are revealing and fit her on-screen persona back then. Apart from her enormous delusional drama queen factor I'd like to see her back on TV in a role which isn't entirely herself.

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What a nutjob. Could anyone tell she was heavily marketing her DVd release? She mentioned it in almost every answer. Also what a contradiction - she goes on about living this glamorous life and then talks about having slept on the floor in her mom's house and that she only has a house because her mother died (someone should do an autopsy on that woman....)

Just about everything she said about the ratings and her departure from Y&R are complete delusional fabrications....

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The scenes where I can't see anyone else but Brenda as Jill are the truly high camp moments like the one where Katherine forces her to work as a maid and she fantasizes electrocuting the old dame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mruYO5GZnFE...feature=related

I have a hard time watching Jeanne in scenes where Katherine is drunk. She reminds me so much of some of my relatives who were alcoholics, and sadly, some of them weren't as successful as Jeanne in keeping off the bottle.

I wish we could have seen more of the tender side of the relationship between Katherine and Brenda's Jill. Sometimes I wonder if that developed more in later years because Jess plays up that side more than Brenda did. One of the things I miss the most about Brenda's Jill is that her Jill took Katherine all the way over the edge, whereas Katherine has slowly become a saint since the late 80s. I think the flawed, self-destructive Katherine was riveting TV.

Carl, you did have some of that... but it was very early on, in 1974. Kay would quickly turn on her and be vicious beyond belief. I SO WISH we could see a repeat of those on soapnet, or SOME network. There WAS a scene on youtube where Kay is drunk in bed, and Jill is ""tucking her in", and you see some tender moments there, you also see Brenda ahve this wonderful WTF? look on her face when she takes a drink of water. Priceless.

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What a nutjob. Could anyone tell she was heavily marketing her DVd release? She mentioned it in almost every answer. Also what a contradiction - she goes on about living this glamorous life and then talks about having slept on the floor in her mom's house and that she only has a house because her mother died (someone should do an autopsy on that woman....)

Just about everything she said about the ratings and her departure from Y&R are complete delusional fabrications....

OMG. I thought the exact same thing but couldn't bring myself to articulate it.

Carl, you did have some of that... but it was very early on, in 1974. Kay would quickly turn on her and be vicious beyond belief. I SO WISH we could see a repeat of those on soapnet, or SOME network. There WAS a scene on youtube where Kay is drunk in bed, and Jill is ""tucking her in", and you see some tender moments there, you also see Brenda ahve this wonderful WTF? look on her face when she takes a drink of water. Priceless.

I shouldn't admit this, but I can scarcely imagine what I'd be willing to pay for the entire series on DVD. They could totally clean me out if they wanted to. Just decimate my savings :).

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