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[Maxim]

Which show do you think she destroyed the most in your opinion? If the word "destroy" is inappropriate maybe we can change it something milder. Like... Bad influence.

Edited January 9 by Maxim

[Contessa Donatella]

Well, I'd choose the word "damage" & ANOTHER WORLD which might seem odd since she was only there for 2 years but I believe it to be so. However, I also acknowledge the immense damage she did at GL. OLTL is a more general sense of bad things done. AW has the money spent on a terrible new opening & problematic new sets, the character damaging Sharlene/John/Felicia debacle, the death of Ryan & the gruesome onscreen murder of Frankie Frame which was one of those rare occasions when many stalwart fans left & for them, effectively AW ended with the murder of Frankie & not June 1999. 

[Maxim]

Thank you for your take. Now do you think your opinion has any weight when you haven't won a single Emmy award and JFP has won a dozen? (Just joking)

[Contessa Donatella]

Not only that but I have not even garnered a single nomination! (Always ready to joke around.)

[Maxim]

I believe you will some day darling

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And that gives you all the validity you need. 

[chrisml]

In the Marcy Walker interview above, Logan openly talks about JFP's misuse and mistreatment of her (which was publicly known), but then when he would interview JFP later on, he would claim she got a bad reputation because she's a woman. LOL. I think she got the same treatment as the men. She was allowed to go from show to show and cause havoc (on and off screen) and then get fired. During his time on YR, Rauch was still being asked about decisions he made on AW--the same way JFP was asked about GL  and AW.

[Mitch64]

Well, GL patterned Marion's "look" after Jilly, so that says a lot about the feeling she left at her old place.

[Maxim]

I've seen some pretty disturbing clips from that storyline. I know all of it is available on youtube. Is it worth watching? 

[chrisml]

Yes with the caveat that it is again a story about rape/violence against women. Frank Beaty is exceptional and should have won the Emmy over Jerry ver Dorn. 

[Mitch64]

It is pretty good. Despite the victim being less then compelling..if it wasnt McTavish I would have thought that the writer was trying to say something about violence against women, as the villain dresses up as of course, an ugly woman (mirroring his views on women) but it was just a twist on a back from the dead disguise but it was a good one. There was one scene in particular where Brent reveals himself on a desktop screen, that is a cross between the Wizard of Oz and a Meta comment on soap's recasting.

[Sapounopera]

And I couldn't agree more.

[Maxim]

Thank you. I think I'll give it a try. 

[kalbir]

JFP stepped up her block voting game at Santa Barbara (their Emmy/SOD run was 1988-1990 and that overlaps w/ JFP time there) and by the time she got to GL she had the block voting game on lock.

[Contessa Donatella]

I've always loved that their first win, Bridget produced one of the submitted episodes & Jill produced the other. Given the situation, it just fit so. 

[Alan]

In a vacuum, this was a good story if you could pretend that it was not happening on GL. Seeing how other soaps have attempted sci fi, I can appreciate that JHB and BE elided the more fantastical elements having Dr. Michael do them off-screen. For example we never saw the clone emerging from a dry-ice filled chamber, with arms outstretched like Frankenstein's monster. Bear in mind, I was a teenager when I was watching this unfold and I haven't rewatched the story except for clips here and there. Subsequent attempts to do fantasy with Reva like San Cristobel and time travel were crap.

I love this mainly because a few years earlier NBC tried to lure GL fans to SB with the Lenore Kasdorf promo below. Turnabout is fair play!