Rauch gave almost a comically brief and dismissive answer.

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LOL. Gotta love "The Lillian Layman Special."

Edited September 22, 200916 yr by bellcurve

All I know is the man turned me off GL for years due to the crappy stories, endless babies, pastel pantsuits and neon lighting. Kim Zimmer looked like [!@#$%^&*] for his entire run. You got the impression that Cassie and Beth were blow-up dolls for him. Big busty blondes.

Amen to that. It's the most assinine discussion currently circulating SON.

Not for some in my heritage historically its always been a valid argument since slavery books are still being written on the subject even now with the Presidency of Obama

however, I do agree that the points should have been made by now and it should end...

As for Rauch, he comes off as a power player one of the "good ole' boys" and after reading responses here of posters who are familiar with him he doesn't seem to champion diversity which makes me understand more why his Victoria Rowell response seemed so dry... and the "I've heard about" leads me to wonder if he likes her...

I liked when he flipped the script and asked Branco questions...

I can't remember specifics of his past history because I really just recall him in this interview however there is his quote I really like

N. Branco: What do you know for sure?

"Story is everything Yes, execution is important, but good storyline is everything. End of story. Period. Because story is life."

Edited September 27, 200916 yr by Cyberologist

All I know is the man turned me off GL for years due to the crappy stories, endless babies, pastel pantsuits and neon lighting. Kim Zimmer looked like [!@#$%^&*] for his entire run. You got the impression that Cassie and Beth were blow-up dolls for him. Big busty blondes.

Yeah, Nelson went all Oprah on him with that, "What do you know for sure?" bit.

I meant to mention this in my earlier post, but I'd love to hear more about Ruach's proposed soap, Grosse Pointe. Does anyone have more information? It's interesting that Rauch says it was to replace Capitol when many of us have been under the impression for years that Capitol was safe until Bill Bell came along with his idea for B&B.

I meant to mention this in my earlier post, but I'd love to hear more about Ruach's proposed soap, Grosse Pointe. Does anyone have more information? It's interesting that Rauch says it was to replace Capitol when many of us have been under the impression for years that Capitol was safe until Bill Bell came along with his idea for B&B.

Well it's not uncommon for a network to look at several bibles/proposals before making a final decision.

Claire Labine's Celebration was also alleged to be in contention to replace Capitol on CBS as well IIRC.

I agree about Thursday's show being produced horribly. But Y&R doesn't do scenes like that very often so it's not a huge problem. Most of the time his production values are top notch.

IIRC, Alvin, a year ago you were talking about Rauch as if he were the best thing since sliced bread. His history on other shows and his age didn't seem to bother you back then...

Maria said "Hopefully we can get to that soon". Paul said "We will update them. I promise". It sounded much more definite from Paul, and he's the one in charge of the technical stuff.

Oh for God's sake. The only two black characters that have been let go by MAB and Rauch have been Tyra and Ana, and they were almost universally disliked by viewers. And Lily is the lead heroine of the younger crowd (regardless of how un-black you think "CKLily" is, the CHARACTER is black). Yep, they REALLY hate the black characters.

Why do you even care about how many black characters there are? Personally I couldn't care less about skin color.

I guess that's an easy opinion to have when the majority of characters (or in most cases all characters) on the screen are white...if the skin color of characters is such a blase non-issue, then why is it that most of the time the ones with prominent on-going storylines are only white?

I guess that's an easy opinion to have when the majority of characters (or in most cases all characters) on the screen are white...if the skin color of characters is such a blase non-issue, then why is it that most of the time the ones with prominent on-going storylines are only white?

Amen. It may not matter to some viewers, but it matters to others. And it certainly must matter to the folks behind the cameras because if it was such a non-issue, daytime would be a lot more colorful. I mean, is it really so much to ask for in 2009? We're not looking for talking dogs in front burner storylines here.