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MZ daughter on the Locher Room gave the impression that she wanted to call out Les Moonves, Mary Alice Dwyer-Dobbin, and Paul Rauch and put them on blast for what went down w/ MZ but she held herself back.

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 It was reported in the soap press that Frank Beaty was dressed to look like JFP but I wouldn't have gotten that if it had not been written about. Michael Logan certainly reported on it and reported on it with glee.

In another Locher interview, James Harmon Brown said that Paul Rauch had been finally convinced to let Michael Zaslow tell his ALS story through Roger, but the network would not okay it. I don't know how true it is because then Rauch would then side with the network later in the press when all that awful stuff happened. I wonder if the network/MADD wanted Fiona Hutchison fired. Liz Keifer would drop these cryptic remarks but not give these full story, so this one had me intrigued. 

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Funny, I'm having deja vu, too. Of people who needlessly try to stir the pot on message boards. 

It is the most uncomfortable feeling. I'm sure you can imagine. Really awful.

 

Rick was once Freddy!

In the moment they want to honor some character who is old or died, but then they are like, "No, you can't have a soap hero or heroine with that name!" So they change it.

I remember Douglas Marland complaining in soap mags when they changed Kelly Louise to Stacy. He had a strange fondness for double names (Lesley Ann, Kelly Louise, Alan Michael). The one name they never changed that they should have was Alan Michael. Poor character lumbered with a name that sounds like a pair of shoes being thrown down some stairs. Though I have no ideas for what they could have called him instead. 

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If it's what I'm thinking of, it's Bridget/Kat/David/Hart/Dylan at the boarding house, Mindy throwing a sledding party where Eve ends up cutting up pictures of Mindy&Nick, and AlanMichael and Blake winding up at the Bauer cabin and screwing, and getting caught by Eleni, which enables her to blackmail him into a divorce. To say it's a nothing-burger is kind of generous.

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Thanks. 

They really did seem to give up on Jenna after she and Buzz reunited. So her activism for Zaslow may have been the reason. 

Jenna was never much of a character, but Fiona had a natural spark which left as soon as she was paired with Buzz. I know Fiona enjoyed working with him, and I'm glad, but much as I grew to tolerate them, there was something, anything else to do with her.

Maybe have her get involved with Matt, in a money scheme if not romantically, to cause some tension with Vanessa.

Thanks. 

Curlee must have been the writer interested in Alan-Michael and Blake as I can't remember if they ever interact much after she goes.

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Guiding Light had this fixation on reusing names. 

Alan-Michael 

Harlan Billy (giving us HB, Billy, Bill and Bill's son presumably HB IV)

Marah--combining Josh and Reva's mothers (Martha and Sarah)

Hope Santos (Michelle and Danny's daughter)

Michelle (for whatever reason being named after Mike)

Henry Cooper Bradshaw (and Henry Lewis, who Marina had named for uncle Coop)

Phillip and Harley's son is Alan-something and they called him Zach

Cassie named her son Roger Joshua (which why she'd name him after the father Hart hated, I don't know)

Vanessa named her daughter Maureen

Peter (Thorpe Lewis) Reardon---Peter was Hart's given first name

Shayne (Good Lord, in case we EVER forgot Reva was a Shayne)

Rick (named Frederick for Papa Bauer)

William (Edward) Bauer aka Ed

Lizzie was Elizabeth Lillian, IIRC

Anthony James Chamberlain (AJ or the infamous J)...and I'm probably forgetting more than a few others.

 

I mean, I get some of them, but it's like the writers just didn't want to step outside the box. I do disagree with Marland on renaming Kelly Louise  Stacey. It signaled the end of Nola's obsession with Kelly. It was always kind of creepy that she picked that name.

 

 

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I liked Alan-Michael. It always made him seem a bit immature and like he had a foot in two worlds, which is something the show never did enough with.

Keeping Kelly Louise would have been dumb because she was named that partly down to Nola being fixated on Kelly. I wonder if Marland was still upset he never got to pair them properly.

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I don't know what is going on with you, nor do I really care, but if this is your way of trying to make life difficult for me, or get in some kind of dig, i assure you this is the least effective slam ever, in the whole world. Thanks for playing. You can pick up your complimentary swag as you leave. And may your leaving be soon & final.

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I really like Alan-Michael too.  I'm in August 1995 right now and Susan Bates arrived, and Nick/Susan/AM/Lucy are starting to pal around now.  During this time, Nick has purposefully called AM 'Michael' twice now, and each time AM asks him why he's doing it, and Nick said he shouldn't be reminded of his horrible father by using Alan.  AM reluctantly agrees and says Nick can keep calling him Michael... we'll see how long this lasts, but sounds like it gets dropped if AM continued to be AM for y'all

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LOL...no Spaulding wanna-be is going to rename Hope's son, even if Hell froze over.

Alan-Michael may sound clunky to people at first...but it grows on you. If you want to pity a kid (other than little Freddy...), consider the case of Little Billy Lewis, who put a stop to that himself around age 9. 

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Does anyone remember a character played by Annabelle Gurwitch? She's listed as playing Gina Daniels. In her book, she says she played the part off and on for three years. 

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