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LBB was too hammy and too over the top for acting on television... Broadway is where someone like her should stay so we don't have to be subjected to her 'acting'.. and based on a few interviews I've watched of her.. she comes across as someone that hasn't run into a mirror she didn't like.

McKeon was the exact opposite.. she was almost too low key to play Marah and very cynical in real life interviews.

Kimberly J Brown was the perfect Marah.. she played a Marah that had qualities of both Reva and Josh.

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LBB was too hammy and too over the top for acting on television... Broadway is where someone like her should stay so we don't have to be subjected to her 'acting'.. and based on a few interviews I've watched of her.. she comes across as someone that hasn't run into a mirror she didn't like.
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Kimberly J Brown was the perfect Marah.. she played a Marah that had qualities of both Reva and Josh.

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He should have taken his own advice and left ATWT after a few years.
Nixon and Marland were vastly different writers so it isn't a surprise that they had little disagreements. It sounds as though he didn't like his work being micro-managed, but at the same time, he was working for Nixon since she did create the show. And his day to day scripts were a bit too exposition heavy (it always drove me crazy watching episodes of ATWT where the characters had unrealistic conversations with one another).

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