GL: Frank Dicopoulos pitching ideas to save show

[ReddFoxx]

I think he should let it go, but I can understand why he's holding on. It's not exactly a good time to be unemployed.

[Mitch]

I agree...and I didn't mean to sound so harsh. I think its terrible that all these people are out of a job..but it was "acting," as a profession he chose and acting is not a stable profession....even for good actors, of which Frankie D is not. So I wouldnt compare it to one of us, slaving away for companies and then finding out that you are on the streets. He knew this could happen everytime his cycle was up, and I think its just part of his total selfdelusion that he never questioned why he was still working on the show, even though he plays a expendable character and he doesnt bring much to the table. Especially when people like JVD, who played a cornerstone on GL, and for friggen sake, Michael Zaslow got fired!!!

Frankie aint going to be going into brain surgery that is for sure.

[RoseVioletDaisy]

Wow, I'm not sure delusional even covers that. I feel bad for the guy in a way. He really has no prospects in this business whatsoever. On the other hand, he's probably had 15-20 years more employment than his talent merited in the first place. Maybe he should just call that a win and get a paper route.

I think Otalia had potential to be something good as one part of GL, they certainly couldn't carry their own show, but whatever potential the story had was squandered with one bad decision after another. Even before the bad decisions really started flying though, Natalia was already a drag on it. She's a weak character played by a relatively weak actress and no match for CC. I could've worked between Olivia and a stronger character.

[DRW50]

If they were going to bring Company on as a show it should be with the Reardons.

[DAMfan]

Maybe they could run Classic GL on cable or put them on DVD - maybe could could do a TV movie like a GL christmas show and maybe they can still do GL conventions being that the 2009 fan event is sold out - Dark Shadows went off 1971 and stars and fans are still coming in 2009 - I just don't think GL is dead and it will go on in some form or another.

[All My Shadows]

Some kind of retooled GL spin-off makes no sense to me. Nobody watches GL. Half of nobody is gonna watch a show that is, essentially, half of GL, or a quarter of GL or whatever.

If soaps "have" to evolve into something else, why must the current soaps be stripped of every last thing that makes them what they are in an attempt to keep them going into the next wave? Imagine if all radio soaps tried to make it as TV soaps. Just cancel the damn things and start anew. I don't get why soaps have to be on foreverrrrrr, especially considering most of them have changed so much anywayyyy.

[MarkH]

Lemme just say you all crack me up! And that is a good thing! "Recurring DA on OLTL" I'm still giggling

[marceline]

Hey I agree. I have no problem with cancellation but its well-documented on this board that I am a hard-hearted shrew who doesn't appreciate historyyyy.

[tanyia2]

Should I laugh or cry at this thread?

Frank D really needs to give it up. I don't know how many more ways the fans can tell this poor delusional fool that the Coopers were part of the reason the show is going off the air.

I think Nelson Branco was right when he said that a soap star was harassing the executives at ABC for a job.

Word of advice to Frank D.: Night school is your friend

[Vee]

He's going to end up just patrolling Peapack by himself in a jeep, making citizen's arrests, staying in-character as Frank 24-7, living on garbage and leftovers. With Ville Vallo's theme song blaring from the speakers as he cruises through the town.

[DAMfan]

About everyone that watches GL now - record and watch the show at all hours - the GL fan gathering is sold out for 2009 and more want to go - so GL could still live on with classic DVD and I would still like to see GL holiday shows with the characters - even when GL stories were bad - they least had many good actors and characters I cared about.

[EastMA2]

You guys crack me up! Especially RVD with the paper route comment. I've never understood how Frank managed to last 22 years on this show. I can only surmise that HE was paying them to be on the show. I do give him credit for being a staunch GL supporter, but as an actor, nope.

I would have loved to see the show continue. But it's done. It's over. Any re-incarnation of GL would never have nearly the budget that the show had with P&G and CBS behind it. And we all saw how terrible the show got with that little budget so GL in any other form would be even worse and further decimate the show. We have to accept that it's over and GL will most assuredly always hold the record of the longest running daytime drama.

[DAMfan]

My favorite GL story was Alan and Hope on the Island of Hope and would love to have it and other romantic couples on DVD. I want to watch romance not game shows with clam people who want $20.

[Gray Bunny]

I agree with everything Mitch said in regards to "Frankie D" (how funny, I once called him that years ago on another message board... first time I've seen someone else use the same name!) and the non-potential of an Otalia spin-off.

Granted, I haven't watched GL really for the past 2 years, but I think the whole appeal of "Otalia" was that 'forbidden love' aspect; that longing to be with one another but scared of one's own inner feelings because they've never felt that way towards someone of the same gender before. If they were to become some lesbian desperate housewivesy drama, and become some happy two-mommy family, it would lose that tantalizing, forbidden feeling, and instead be a story about two middle-aged dykes raising a kid. Ho-hum.

P.S. Making Frankie D's wife cry because the Coopers are not the heart of GL... priceless

[Mitch]

Oh my, if you went on the GL Board on Television without Pity you would have a bunch of people screaming bloody murder! The board, which used to be kind of fun has totally become the Otalia board and any other discussion not in context to that are ignored. They have nicknames for all the characters "Dimples," being the most cloying for Nat...and they all want Olivia and Nat to settle down and be happy...they are the gay versions of the Mattessas, the Manny's and the Rassie's! Nat is simply not an interesting enough character to sustain this storyline with that kind of energy, which makes me wonder what the writers would have done had GL gone on. The only solution would be for a few months of happiness for these two and Nat kicks the bucket, leaving our Boobalicious Bitch Goddess to go back to her bad, bad ways.

Just a note, I am not proud of making Frankie D's wife cry, the email wasnt even directed to her..It was about 15 years ago (McTrash was writing the show) and Frankie came to a GL mail list and gave us his email address asking us for feedback on the show. Now feedback to me means the pros and cons, but Frankie, in his self delusion, thought we would all write good things and how much we loved him and the Coopers yadayadayada. Now, remember this was not a "GL is great board," there were a lot of people with a lot of different opinions and we would argue back and forth and the snark was flying and it was fun. So Frankie comes in to this den of vipers and I told him exactly what was wrong with the show, and at that time it was once again, besides the sloppy writing, that the Super Dooper Coopers had taken over the show..I was polite in saying that they had their place, (I still dont think belong they are warmed over versions of the Reardons but I was being nice) but they couldnt take the place of the Bauers and other families and Frankie was aghast that I didnt like the Coopers and told me the Coopers were the heart of GL and his fans told him so (LOL!!) Well, now, I had to respond and tell him that the Coopers day was over as soon as both BE and MK left the show, which is hindsight, while truthful was rude, and not something I would write to an actor today. I later learned from other posters that the doufus read the note to his mommy, uh wife, and it made her cry! THAT made her cry?????

Ever since then I cant watch him without realizing that he really is just as dense and goofy as Frank and he aint acting (as if we didnt know.) This latest move just confirms that...(I can imagine the looks on the P & G execs faces when seeing Frankie's "brilliant," ideas for a reality show or a show about the Coopers..."Who IS this numbnut????")