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I tell ya, the only thing I didn't love about GL in the '80's - and the story that chased me away to SaBa for a brief period of time - was Johnny Bauer's cancer battle.  That just seemed to go on forever.

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LOL...James Goodwin was likeable. It was just all the baggage around Johnny that turned me off. His family who are arguably the most annoying ever introduced, his romances with Roxie (she wasn't the only one driven insane...) and Chelsea (the faux Reardon who sung too loud in every scene...), and his "miracle" cure, not to mention the Paul Valere murder. 

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Sorry, my fault...getting the two confused as I was typing! Sonni is the "good" girl (to her father, to her family to everyone as she goes to Mass an is quiet/and in the alters she is good..) Solita is the "bad" girl (to everyone as she is adventurous and bucks authority/ and "evil" in the alters.) And yes, we were led to believe Sonni may still be fighting the Solita personality, when she is getting on the plane to leave SF they ask her is she wants "smoking, or non smoking" and you can see Sonni confused thinking about it...(Solita smoked of course!)

I am glad no one ever revisted Sonni/Solita...Rauch would have made a cartoon mess of it!

That is the rumor...I do think it interesting that Malloy would choose a party with his castmates to "break up" with someone, what, are you in high school?  Malloy always, post the first few years of Edge, to be one of those Irish guys who are complicated, especially if you get some booze into them.

But again, Sharon Rose Gabbot says he was not gay, but she, while being very open and friendly on FB with Edge fans, seems a bit eccentric.

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There's a fair amount of 87-89 Guiding LIght up. But I've never seen a playlist of the triangle. Classic GL covers some of it in A Woman in Mind. 

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Even all these years later I'm still impressed with the dogged work the man who ran the channel did, not only with so many classic clips (most of which I'd never seen until I found his channel), but he also had a blog where he tried to find positive moments in the show's last years. He truly loved the show. It was awful to learn he'd passed away, but at least he never had to see GL end.

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She's great...she just gives no f*cks and says whatever is on her mind. She tells a story about her time on AW, where they shared a studio with Bill Cosby, and Bill constantly trying to perve on her and the other actresses, which, while sad, is funny too (cause they were all, "Uh, no...YUK!")

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The time he put into the blog and organizing the clips is a true act of love. God bless the man for finding positive things to say about late 00's GL. Although I'm still a little offended that in his blog on Masquerade (Alex's arrival/Billy and Van's 1st wedding/Tony's health crisis) he says it was before Maeve learned how to act. 

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My unpopular opinion was that I enjoyed the Infinity story.  It was an umbrella story that involved a large number of the canvas...and ended with the death of Lujack.

I also enjoyed the Tory/Blake/Ross story in the early 2000s.  It had a good start, middle, and end with a twist where Tory was really fixated on Blake...not Ross.

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