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[DRW50]

Thanks. I can't ever get enough of JFP era Buzz...

He puts them up later, yes. 

There are so many I wish we could have had. 

[P.J.]

I'm actually amused at how he's yanking Nadine's strings. God I hate that woman. And he's up in Vanessa's face---if looks could kill, Buzz would've been chum.

[P.J.]

it's the April 29 episode. It's also Barbara Crampton's first episode as Mindy.

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[DRW50]

Thanks @P.J. . I remember briefly being pleased at Crampton's hiring as I had enjoyed her on Y&R. Emphasis on briefly...

[P.J.]

Oddly, in hindsight, I don't think Hamilton was a bad actress. She just didn't jell as Mindy. She doesn't seem to fit as a Lewis, and she seems too young for the role.

Crampton needed more challenging writing, she's not suited to a "good" girl type. And she seems too old.

[Khan]

You think Ann Hamilton and Barbara Crampton weren't suited to playing Mindy?  I still SMH over reading in SOD that Kate Collins (ex-Natalie/Janet, AMC) had read for the role shortly after leaving her show, lol.

[kalbir]

 

I saw part of Barbara Crampton run online and she didn't work for me as Mindy. I kept seeing her as her Y&R character Leanna. She was also about 5 years too old for the role.

Were there any Friends of Jill that were in contention for Mindy in 1993?

[P.J.]

YIKES.

[DRW50]

I wonder if someone was just trying to be kind to her...

She would have made more sense as Trish, although I'd never want them to have anyone but Rebecca Hollen in that part.

[DRW50]

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[Mitch64]

I HATE Buzz and Deas "Look at me Im ACTING" acting...but early Buzz was funny and entertaining as he was supposed to be annoying scam artist and everyone in SF looked at him like he was Mars. It's later when we are supposed to see him as this great romantic hero who was always right, even when he treated both Nadine and Jenna like crap....that I hated him, and then they turned him into the 5th Street Bob Hughes..ughhh. 

I didn't watch the clip but if it was the one when he is working at Lewis Oil and acting like he was talking on the phone to impress Van, and she calmly walks over and says "This might help" while plugging the phone in the jack...was hilarious. 

I liked her as Mindy..she had a hard act to follow with KS...(not Anne Hamilton) I think if they wrote more of an edge to her (a pissed off Mindy is sick on men telling her what to do, and is not going to take anymore [!@#$%^&*] from Alex) it would have worked. Plus, she actually had chemistry with MOL, who also needed a partner with an edge to wake him up...(the Rick Abby thing made my teeth ache...) 

[Khan]

IIRC, though, Kate Collins didn't really want the part.  She had made up her mind already to leave AMC and NYC behind and relocate to Chicago to be with her now-husband.  So, I'm guessing it was more or less her agent or rep who put her up to reading for Mindy.

[wonderwoman1951]

i’m confused. please explain. 

[SoapDope]

Lee Lawson (Bea) Cool Whip Commercial 1974. She acts a bit weird when she taste it.....LOL

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[Mitch64]

After a year or two, I would say during McTrash's stint, Buzz became this super duper father, community anchor.  There was a couple of times that someone would mention Buzz's past as a sh*t head, (amazingly during ConWest when Frank and Rick had an actually real conversation about their fathers' failings, and how neither Buzz or Ed were  solid dads like "Ross") and Deas did play his wisdom giving later as world weariness (that may have been after a director told him to "tone it down" and he checked out.) 

LOL..if that was Tom Reardon I too would have left him to rot at the bottom of Lake Elizabeth!  Bea was an interesting character, when Charita gone she was the natural persons to fill in at least part of the matriarch gap...she ran the BH and could nurture all of the boring new "hotties" that came to town..they brought her back to usher in Parker as Mo...and then she was on recurring when they brought in Chelsea but as soon as Long came back she was out. Long seemed to want to place Sara in that role,(cause it's all about Reva) but she was confined to the Shayne Lewis orbit and did not have an effect of the rest of the town. 

If you watch Marland's staff, Bea was more of take no [!@#$%^&*] Mom, and Long made her more passive.