10 minutes ago, Khan said:

Alan Fudge - who dated Linda Ronstadt BITD - pops up all the time in "Murder, She Wrote" reruns. He's even in one of the latter MOW's, "A Story to Die For."

I'm surprised Fudge hooked up with Linda Ronstadt. I remember seing Fudge in a 70's TV movie " The Chadwick Family". His was wife was played by Lara Parker.

29 minutes ago, Khan said:

I don't think it was a coincidence that Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, an avowed ATWT/GL fan, would later cast him on "Designing Women" as Hence Winchester, the sleazy playboy who harasses and even attempts to rape Mary Jo.

I'd forgotten about that.

I'd love to hear Linda talking about ATWT and GL.

I found Venton's audition for Moonlighting!

Willis' audition is right behind it and...there's absolutely no doubt they chose the correct actor for the role.

Venton is O.K. but he's missing that certain something.

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Today in 1984, Nola gave birth to Anthony James (J) Chamberlain. She had the Wizard of Oz fantasy and the show had a 900 number poll to name the baby. The other options were Quinton Jr and Thomas Henry.

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Yeah...Venton gives a sitcom dad vibe.

Any idea who the lady is? She almost seems familiar.

15 minutes ago, P.J. said:

Yeah...Venton gives a sitcom dad vibe.

Any idea who the lady is? She almost seems familiar.

She played Dawson's mom on Dawson's Creek. I liked her audition, but she played Maddie as plucky and fiesty without any of the snootiness that Cybill infused into the character.

14 minutes ago, Spoon said:

Today in 1984, Nola gave birth to Anthony James (J) Chamberlain. She had the Wizard of Oz fantasy and the show had a 900 number poll to name the baby. The other options were Quinton Jr and Thomas Henry

I never understood why they didn't include Quinton's real name, Sean.

Yeah, there's a Reardon brother named Sean but I'm pretty sure he wasn't mentioned by name until later.

I remember reading an interview with Long where she expressed surprise that the voters didn't pick Thomas Henry. That's what happens when you leave it up to the public, you are guaranteed not to get what you want. 😂

See also: Bo and Hope's daughter being named after Ciara!

10 hours ago, DeeVee said:

I never understood why they didn't include Quinton's real name, Sean.

Yeah, there's a Reardon brother named Sean but I'm pretty sure he wasn't mentioned by name until later.

I remember reading an interview with Long where she expressed surprise that the voters didn't pick Thomas Henry. That's what happens when you leave it up to the public, you are guaranteed not to get what you want. 😂

Or even Ryan, the surname Quint grew up with. And forty years later I still dislike it and am sad the children named after Henry were not related to him. (Coop Bradshaw and Henry Lewis)

16 hours ago, Spoon said:

Today in 1984, Nola gave birth to Anthony James (J) Chamberlain. She had the Wizard of Oz fantasy and the show had a 900 number poll to name the baby. The other options were Quinton Jr and Thomas Henry.

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Haha thanks for posting! I love seeing more of Nola's fantasies.

J and I were born in the same year, how fun

The choice of the name Marah, and its reasoning as a combo Josh & Reva's mothers' names was met with roars of laughter in our household. My sister was pregnant, expecting a daughter, and our mother said "Please do not name that child Lougery!" (Louise + Margery)

Sometimes my niece Caroline still gets called Luge. She hates the Winter Olympics.

3 minutes ago, Stevel said:

The choice of the name Marah, and its reasoning as a combo Josh & Reva's mothers' names was met with roars of laughter in our household. My sister was pregnant, expecting a daughter, and our mother said "Please do not name that child Lougery!" (Louise + Margery)

Sometimes my niece Caroline still gets called Luge. She hates the Winter Olympics.

I kind of like the name Marah (it's a real name; it's a form of Mary).

But we have talked a few times about how little care went into naming babies on GL. Like, how many Bills and Billys do you need on one show? Almost everyone named after someone--why? Give them their own names!

Some don't mind it, but I think Alan Michael is awfully clunky. The various attempts to honor Bert Bauer were always disastrous and taken back. (One has to wonder if they decided to make Beth's younger daughter Alan's instead of Rick's so they didn't have to lumber the kid with the name Bernadette). Poor A.J. Chamberlin, who ended up just "J" for whatever reason. Elizabeth, Beth, Lizzie...all in the same family. Why?

Plus, no one stepped back and realized they were giving girls of the same generation names starting with the letter "M" - Marah, Marina, Michelle. That was awkward during the Maryanne Carruthers story (which also started with an "M").

Just give kids cool, fashionable, appropriate for soap opera names. I never understood why they didn't do that.

3 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I kind of like the name Marah (it's a real name; it's a form of Mary).

But we have talked a few times about how little care went into naming babies on GL. Like, how many Bills and Billys do you need on one show? Almost everyone named after someone--why? Give them their own names!

Some don't mind it, but I think Alan Michael is awfully clunky. The various attempts to honor Bert Bauer were always disastrous and taken back. (One has to wonder if they decided to make Beth's younger daughter Alan's instead of Rick's so they didn't have to lumber the kid with the name Bernadette). Poor A.J. Chamberlin, who ended up just "J" for whatever reason. Elizabeth, Beth, Lizzie...all in the same family. Why?

Plus, no one stepped back and realized they were giving girls of the same generation names starting with the letter "M" - Marah, Marina, Michelle. That was awkward during the Maryanne Carruthers story (which also started with an "M").

Just give kids cool, fashionable, appropriate for soap opera names. I never understood why they didn't do that.

I didn't mind the name - but the way they arrived at it...

In my generation and those before it was commonplace to name the first born son after his father, but also cousins might be named after the same man if he was a belovrd incle/brother. Glad to see that gone. Led to too many Johns in my family. But maybe GL and other soaps thought it was an attempt at realism.

When I think of Coronation Street, over the years there were many women of a certain age whose names were variations or derivatives of Elizabeth. Named after both Queens no doubt. Made sense, refelcted reality.

But I agree with you. There is no shortage of names to choose from. Why make it confusing?