14 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

The award for worst writer in TGL's history has A LOT of nominees, LOL! I'd put Jeff Ryder, Megan McTavish and (particularly) Ellen Weston--among several other names--in the ring.

Going back into the show's glory days, James Lipton's work was always mediocre on every soap he wrote, but he thankfully did not last long on this one.

Agree. Hurst wouldn't be on the list for me compared to any of the above.

1 hour ago, vetsoapfan said:

The Guiding Light.

So Lipton wanted a hurricane in Springfield circa 74? How odd...

9 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

What show are you referring too?

I went to my notes to see but I didn't find it, so I will be dropping that from my comments in future about James Lipton. I still find it very odd that he is a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmys when he was only a moderately successful actor & not successful as a writer at all. Of course he was a huge success as the host of Inside the Actors Studio & wrote a successful book about it "Inside Inside" but neither of those things would fall into Daytime Emmy territory! 

Coincidentally, while looking for this information I found one of the examples of it being wrongly claimed that Agnes Nixon put all of James Lipton's characters on a plane & crashed it. 

10 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

So Lipton wanted a hurricane in Springfield circa 74? How odd...

His writing choices on soaps never seemed too bright, LOL.

 

@Contessa Donatella, thank you for explaining to me what block voting is and how it works as it pertains to soap operas.

Annette

"I'm sure this times it's forever.." (with jazz hands!) ROTFLMAO.  At least Alex didn't have to kiss Reva's ass.

Edited May 15, 20241 yr by P.J.

 

@DRW50, what a nifty find! Thanks for sharing!

24 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

what a nifty find! Thanks for sharing!

Glad you enjoyed it. Nice to get to hear him talking a bit about how quickly they find out about story twists and about what his character was going through. I wish some of that material was around. Or the GL-themed song he sang in his nightclub act. 

Stewart was written out with so little fanfare in '84 I wonder how many knew just how popular he was.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

 

Lovin it & sharing it!!! WTG! 

32 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Lovin it & sharing it!!! WTG! 

No problem. Any vintage soap morsel is worth watching and sharing.

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

Thanks for sharing! I wonder what year this was? By the fashions, I would say late 70s but he said TGL had only been on 20 years. Even if he was only counting the radio years, that would put this at 1972. 

7 minutes ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

Thanks for sharing! I wonder what year this was? By the fashions, I would say late 70s but he said TGL had only been on 20 years. Even if he was only counting the radio years, that would put this at 1972. 

The references to Mike being shot after winning a big court case seemed fairly recent, so I guess around then (was that 72?).