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ANNA HOLBROOK!!!

She was completely amazing on AW.

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Craig Lawlor.

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Craig was wonderful. I really liked his relationship with Abigail. I didn't know if he wanted to leave or if they fired him.

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I always thought Carrie Genzel looked a lot like Nancy Addison Altman, they would have been a perfect mother/daughter duo on some soap in the 90's.

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Craig was wonderful. I really liked his relationship with Abigail. I didn't know if he wanted to leave or if they fired him.

His relationship with Ben Hendrickson's Hal was love.

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Omg. Deee, I was just coming on here to say Lawlor, too. I really loved his scenes with Hal, too. They had such a great chemistry. And Adam/Abigail: :wub: He did return for an episode or two when Margo gave an organ to Katie, but he looked horrible. Scruffy facial hair and bones-skinny. *shudder*

Kristina Sisco had a really short run as nuCharity on PSNS, but I wish they would bring Abigail back. Now would be the perfect time. Without spoiling anything, someone from her family's returning soon. Adam just left, but he could always return in the form of Degnan, or Lawlor.

MichaelGL, I loved Rotondi, too. Although....his breakup scenes with Jennifer were hard to watch (the ones right before he died in the car crash), but it might've been his inability to act like he loved Kim O.'s Jennifer, because from what I've heard, she was a biznitch times ten.

Some others I was thinking about today (from ATWT, of course): Peter Parros, Anne Sayre, Elena Goode, and there's another one I can't remember right now, but I'm sure I will tomorrow...and I'll post then. ATWT's never been one to cater towards and African-American audience for long, but when they do, it's horrid. The only exception: the whole hate crime with Teague, which Peter Parros's "Ben" was a major player in. He could act his way out of a parking ticket; I love that man. He's had a commercial and an appearance on CSI: Miami, but that's about it. Not spoling anything (again), but since ATWT missed out on long-term opportunites with him recently, I think he would be a good fit at AMC.

Anne's going to be on "Gotham", so she's not technically a one-hit wonder, but I was still amazed at the small amount of work she's done since leaving ATWT. Yeah, her character was a bit on the cheesy side, but that woman knows her stuff.

Elena started out stale, then became really really impressive at playing a manipulating maneater/bitch, but towards the end, writing stunk and I think she left because of it. I haven't seen her much, save for a Dominoe's (or was it Pizza Hut) commercial, but I could see her eating up some good bitch-character work over at DAYS.

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Camren Duncan, Renee Goldsberry, teenage danielle frye on AMC, Davetta Sherwood, Wayne Northrop, Joan Pringle, Taurean Blaque, Jonelle Allen, Ben Masters.

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Wayne Northrop,

defiently not a 1 hit wonder. He was an original cast member of Port Charles in between his Days runs. He played Rex Stanton, the lead villian

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Oh and I wish Alice Barrett (ex-Frankie AW) would pop up somewhere on a soap, in a major role.

ANNA HOLBROOK!!!

She was completely amazing on AW.

And even better was that whoever cast the both of them knew what they were doing. They both looked like they were related.

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defiently not a 1 hit wonder. He was an original cast member of Port Charles in between his Days runs. He played Rex Stanton, the lead villian

yea he did join the cast of PC, but was not an original cast member. he just an actor a soap should pick up!

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I think someone else already mentioned Chad Brannon. I've always thought, with the drug addict write in, that he would have made a great and darker version of Brady Black on Days.

Also, Julianne Morris. The character of Greta was kind of vanilla, but JM could act and should be on a soap right now. We all know she's been trying lol

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Kathleen Cullen, the original Amanda Spaulding.

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Charity Rahmer.

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Nancy Frangione as Cecile DePoulignac on Another World.

This is one of those times when Steve Frame is needed to back me up on how tremendous this bitch was.

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Agreed, I think Blake became a woman who learned from her mistakes and grew up. I too wanted them to be the core couple after the Tori thing, as a matter of fact, around Wheeler after Simon left I wanted them to move into the Bauer house..( I would have Blake say that this is the closet thing she knew as a home )SORAS the kids, and bring Sam back..Dinah would have a very contentious relationship with her, as she would be jealous of Ross and Sam's relationship, and Blake and Dinah would have that tension (ya, know cause she killed his brother) it would be a core family that had some fissures leading to good drama. But now, Wheeler and company though the Coopers should be the core.

By Mitch64 · 51 minutes ago51 min
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Agree that great minds can think alike :)
In terms of Derek, I see the show doing one of two things based on the most recent episodes that featured him.
1) They do the gradual fade-out of the character until he stops appearing and is occasionally mentioned by Jacob (i.e. still living and existing in town, just not being seen). We saw some evidence with him having a group of co workers he's friends with, plus a female co worker interested in him... so possibly we see him regain his walking and go back to his life with the Fire crew and eventually we stop seeing them on air.
2) His mentioning to Jacob that he hopes to win Ashley back signals that perhaps the dark side we saw glimpses of has been hidden and will rear itself if she appears to be moving on with a new guy.
In terms of Ashley, the show seems committed to keeping her character on the show especially since she was shown in the Thanksgiving episode having a quiet day with Jan and Mona as they discuss Black Friday shopping, food, and other day to day matters... so I think delving into her backstory in terms of who her father is would be a good place for the show to go while keeping her as a good friend to Naomi, Shanice, and a good nurse during medical stories.
Perhaps one of the children of the handsome new doctor could be her love interest down the line.

By Soaplovers · 1 hour ago1 hr
As The World Turns Discussion Thread

Re: 1978. I'm glad the unedited version of the episode complete with commercials is available. The one that has been posted several years ago had several segments missing. I like Barbara's long hair here. Dr. Steven Farrell didn't last very long I take it since she is re-connecting with Tom (Tom Tammi) by 1979. The actor playing Steven (Phil Peters) was the real-life husband of Lenore Kasdorf (Rita GL).

By SoapDope78 · 1 hour ago1 hr
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Oh, how I wish we'd gotten to see Ross deal with his teenage sons. I loved his relationships with Phillip and Sam, but he really deserved to be seen with his own kids (other than the horror that became Dinah). The boys simply disappeared off canvas after either the Nursery Stalker or the affair with Tori.

By P.J. · 1 hour ago1 hr
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What I liked about Bloss is that I liked how they grew to be the stable couple- the closest to an Ed and Mo in their prime. Especially after the Tori story when their extra-marital exploits were in the past. I wanted them to SORAS the three kids, along with Dinah and with Phillip's family as Ross's extended family would really be solid core family material.
With that said, I was rooting against Bloss in 1999 as I really liked the Ross/India pairing-- but that just turned out to be a waste of MKA.

By Spoon · 1 hour ago1 hr
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They did reveal Austin's shooter...about a year and a half later.

By DRW50 · 2 hours ago2 hr
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My Queen Kylie is always trying to get a Christmas hit, so spin it:

By te. · 2 hours ago2 hr
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They did actually resolve who shot Austin over a year later (it was Cyrus, as part of his hasty exit story). That was a last minute save though clearly when they forgot lol.

By Vee · 2 hours ago2 hr
Talkin' 'Bout TV Movies

I love those old TV movies, especially the ones from the 70's and 80's. The ABC movie of the week had a ton of them. Like
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
All My Darling Daughter's (1972)
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped (1974)
The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan (1979)
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Death Cruise (1974)
Here is the 70's ABC opening. The theme music "Nikki" was composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter with Angie Dickinson.

By SoapDope78 · 2 hours ago2 hr
Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

The return of sitcoms' popularity in the mid-'80s was a real thing, but the crash of the wealth-based nighttime soap genre was resonate and self-induced.

There was an effectively grim finality to the mood of the cliffhangers in the Spring of 1985: Bobby's death, the Moldavian massacre, the return of Val's babies... and they felt as if they could have ended right there (and perhaps they should have, although I would have sorely missed S10 of Dallas, S6 of FC, and Season 9 of Dynasty , and the next five years of KNOTS as they singularly maintained quality).

But, wow, these shows just fell apart post-Spring 1985. They stopped being character dramas after a while, and just started trying to "impress" viewers in some superficial way and to "fake it" somehow.

What a painful, unnecessary slide it was. But once these shows seemed to lose their identities, their sense of self, their momentum into the dung heap couldn't be slowed.

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