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I read (I think in Soap Opera Digest) in a brief interview that Tom O'Rourke was asked to come back to Guiding Light (for 4-6 months) in 1990 but he had signed a contract with NBC to play in Working Girl with Sandra Bullock so he had to turn it down (Hence Christopher Pennock got the role and did it for 11 months).  Grant and Jerry said (in different Locher Room interviews) that Tom was fired (in 1983) and Jerry said he played the bagpipes on his way out as a joke. 

Eve Stapleton did have a goodbye scene where she said Ben called her and asked for a reconciliation and she was going to leave to be with him (around June 1983 I think). 

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I think someone once said Eve's last scene is at a ball with Ross and as they are dancing she tells him about leaving to be with Ben. I get confused about just when she and Ben got back together as I thought they did when he briefly returned in 1982.

It's a shame Tom couldn't return in 1990.

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I saw her loving blog tribute about him years ago. I recently revisited it and she says that through her contact with a psychic, she claims he has confessed from beyond the grave that he cheated on her through out their entire marriage 

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lol...I forgot...I always secretly wanted Stacey to come back to town and adore her Aunt Vanessa. Either because she'd been raised by Quint, or as a rejection of Nola's general nuttiness. Or even just to piss Nola off. Seeing Nola go ballistic as Stacey played Van's mini-me would've been hysterical.

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I like that..I wanted Tammy Blanchard to be Stacey (instead of her from nowhere character they had to do weird things to tie to a family, and then it didnt matter...I think she could have gone toe to toe with her cousin Dinah. Dinah running to Nola, Stacey running to Van, and both cousins annoyed with each other would have been a good twist on the Van/Nola history.

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Well, she was stuck in that dumb "record producer" storylines (not too many major production companies put up shop in a medium sized midwestern cities..Dahlia could have just been starting a singing career in the region ...) and then tied to being a spoiler in the Jesse (SNORE) Chele thing, and then they grafter her on to be Ben and whatsherfaces daughter....she never had any ties to major characters or families so she did her best.

 

I saw..read some interview where Brown was kind of ..."Ohhh Tammy..that girl" and not in a bitchy way but that she was a handful that needed a lot of work. That might have made a good dynamic if she was cast as Stacey..Nola being exasperated by her just like Bea was with Nola.  I didn't think she was the greatest thing on earth while at GL either but then, while I found TP to be the successor to Pacino as everyone goes on about either.

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It did not help that they tied her to the obnoxious-ness that was Hunt Block. I loathe that man. I can't recall any of her story really, I mostly remember she ran around like a Amazon version of Dinah, without a lick of Wendy Moniz's talent.

*sigh* TP was way overrated. And I just scanned some weird eppys with his abusive adoptive father (?) Ritchie Coster, Reva and Jon. Ugh. Just Ugh.

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I might as well try, it's driving me crazy. Does anyone know the song playing under the Billy and Vanessa scenes at 29:15-30:14 and again at 36:28-38:05?

I even sorta know the lyrics. I've googled and googled with no success. It's a country song, and sounds a little like Lorrie Morgan, but with less twang. *sigh* Vanessa is so dang smiley it makes me hurt.

Timeless and true

that’s my love for you

long ago

you left your mark so deep in my heart

that I never got over you

no matter where I go

your memory haunted me so

like a song without rhyme, a day without time

a story untold

like a river

 

Look at us now, you and me

maybe this time we’re meant to be

after years, going our separate ways

time could never erase

what must have must have been deafening

here you are back in my life

everything feels so right

now whatever life brings

remember one thing

I want you to know

like a river

like a river

youre like a river wide and (deep)? in my soul

you’re like a river wide and .(deep)? In my soul

 

 

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