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I'm just glad they quit before they subjected us to the house/industrial version.

You haven't been boring me!  I've always felt that MK was one underrated daytime diva who deserves some flowers.  Same goes for Maureen Garrett and about a dozen other performers.

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Of course my knowledge of music theory is next to nothing, but it seems to me if they had stripped it down to a more piano-y version, instead of trying to follow every rock/funk/jazz trend that breezed by, they might've been better served. 

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Maureen and Maeve were almost too good - it was easy to underrate them. We were lucky to have them in daytime as long as we did, and especially lucky for the gems they were given in the late '80s and early/mid '90s.

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LOL...maybe not as much "boring" as rehashing something you guys discussed 400 pages and 10 years ago.

At times it does feel like Maeve and Maureen got overshadowed by the likes of Lenore/Lisa/Kim when discussing even Guiding Light's best actresses. I don't know what the 90's would have been like if Vanessa and Holly hadn't returned. 

And they managed to do without meltdowns in a red dress *coughcough*

 

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I never knew there was an Alex dream episode. Must have been a lot of fun for the cast to get to do something different. I wonder if this was before or after Santa Barbara's dream episodes of that period.

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Thanks for sharing!!! I do remember watching this at WOST way back in 2006. If I recall the details right the episode aired on 1/20/89 and I think part of it was/May have been preempted on the East Coast due coverage of George Bush’s inauguration but  it did air in full in the west. 

I love the self-referential humor involved in the episode too. 

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Funny episode..I love the Bauer sequence! I am sure Parker loved lampooning her  Mrs. Cleaver role...though Jay Hammer continues to annoy no matter what.  It was a bit clunky to have Alex hit her head on a rock to put her to sleep. 

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That's wonderful for both, but that doesn't mean I have to like their characters.  I don't care if I meet an actor or actress in real life. Hopefully they are nice if you do meet them....(and this coming from someone who met Lynda Carter a decade a go and freaked out..but you know..she's Wonder Woman!)

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I always liked Fletcher on GL. I didn't know so many people disliked him. I thought there were many missed opportunities with the character (following through with the Maureen/Fletcher relationship as an example). I think the only character I actively disliked was Buzz because of the damage the actor and the character did to the show. I would also say Johnathan but I had given up GL for the most part by then.

I know it's fashionable to bash Kim Zimmer and Reva but I don't think the problem was ever Zimmer. It was the writers and exexs who didn't know to balance the show or the storylines were just not appealing. I think it's telling that I wanted Michelle Forbes and Cynthia Watros's character to succeed in making Reva suffer. That seems to be less about Zimmer and more about their talents especially Forbes. 

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I don't give a flip what is fashionable. Or two hoots either. But, I'm sorry, but it was not the writers or the execs who somehow, perhaps accidentally caused Reva to eat her show. No, it really was Kim. She in fact did have a group of fans who would at her say so call the studio because she was not on the front burner for one day. ONE DAY. Even one day when she was not the one driving story was one day too many. This is not an exaggeration for effect. 

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