11 minutes ago, P.J. said:

The movie was The Cradle Will Fall. What a shitty thing to do. I'm not Elvera's biggest fan, but she deserved better than that.

I'm not sure I disagree with not bringing back John for the 60th. Truth be told, one-off type returns annoy me. For example, while Adam Thorpe returned for Blake's wedding, it was to interact mostly with characters he'd never interacted with. Kelly didn't have a family base to interact with.

I agree - she did deserve better.

Kelly isn't someone I would have brought back either, although I guess he could have had closure with Nola.

Here's the interview with CTE

I'm only at the part where Carl got cast as A-M, but I can't help thinking:

They had Brad Pitt auditioning, who was clearly wrong for the part, but instead of creating a character for him, they did it for--Frank D.

For some reason, this is hilarious to me. 😂

I could see Brad Pitt as Dylan, maybe, but as Alan-Michael? No, lol.

3 minutes ago, Khan said:

I could see Brad Pitt as Dylan, maybe, but as Alan-Michael? No, lol.

Clearly, Carl's resemblence to Chris was a big advantage to getting that part.

I'm guessing that they knew there was something to that Brad Pitt kid and they should call him back in even if he was wrong for the part. Possibly if another part came up later that would be right for him.

Maybe that's how he got the brief stint at AW, which I think happened around this time.

6 minutes ago, Khan said:

I could see Brad Pitt as Dylan, maybe, but as Alan-Michael? No, lol.

Or Ian Ziering's character.

16 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I'm only at the part where Carl got cast as A-M, but I can't help thinking:

They had Brad Pitt auditioning, who was clearly wrong for the part, but instead of creating a character for him, they did it for--Frank D.

For some reason, this is hilarious to me. 😂

Brad floated all around the soaps in the mid/late '80s but never seemed to get a permanent gig. I guess they just didn't see it (to be honest I never quite have either).