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Out of Pratt, Lisa de Cazotte and Carruthers, I hope Carruthers keeps the EP job. Lisa de Cazotte is just as weak, if not weaker, than Carruthers. LDC sat by from day one of Passions as JER exploited Princess Diana's death and continued to let JER do whatever disgusting things he wanted until the very end. And Pratt as EP? Good god.

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Reilly had the final say with storylines, so that cannot be blamed on her. The ultrabright lighting and bad final casting decisions CAN be blamed on her.

At least she snapped up the uber-talented George Beckett to design and recycle his old SB & BEACH sets for Passions. I can't believe those still held up and were still cool to use after all these years(Cruz/Eden and Annie's Houses were used in the Hot LA Passions house). Hopefully, Frons, deCazotte, and Carruthers will get a brain and nab Beckett to do AMC's set design. If anyone can do pretty sets that will last and look modern for years, it's him.

But his style is not "East Coast Pennsylvania." It's very "California/West Coast."

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Two big plusses for AMC actors relocating to LA:

1) More spacious digs (homes) for far less money than NY.

2) Better access to other acting opportunities (and easier to make networking connections for those endeavors).

Also...the weather's better, they can drive to work, etc.

(although personally, I'd still take Manhattan....not an LA girl at all, here).

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I agree about Beckett but can AMC even afford to create new sets though? I just assumed they would haul their current sets to LA and keep them up.

As for de Cazotte, that's the thing. She is used to being an EP whose sole function is to produce the material that is handed to her by the writer and not to question that material in the slightest. At least Carruthers fought Pratt hard on killing Stuart (according to Pratt himself). She lost the battle, but I respect her for trying. LDC would have just sat there eating her bon bons.

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The more I think about this, the more I think this move saved either OLTL or AMC from cancellation. I really believe now, since DC was right about this, that they were also right that Aisha Tyler's talk show was planned for ABC Daytime, to replace either OLTL or AMC.

The question is, which one was on the chopping block? I think it likely went back-and-forth. When AMC was really doing poorly compared to OLTL, I think it was AMC that was picked to be cut (didn't DC say it was almost canceled awhile back?...I didn't believe it then, but I believe it now). Then, when AMC came back and beat or tied OLTL for awhile, I think OLTL was the one on the way out. Recently, when OLTL moved ahead of AMC again, I think that's when they decided to do something drastic to avoid canceling either one. Apparently, this deal came about very quickly (like within the last three weeks).

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LOL. Yeah, having been there, that's true....although it depends on which side of which freeway you're on. I always noticed (having lived there for 5 years before moving back east) that in the morning, one side of every freeway was backed up while the other side was moving quickly....and in the evening, the sides reversed.

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