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I am happier today, and sober (gasp).  

 

Dude, there are good people everywhere....and bad people everywhere....

 

You just have to search for decent people, and any place can become livable. 

 

I lived In Lakeland, FL for 2 years.  It was a fun place to live....right between Pleasure Island and Ybor City.  I was 20.....,.You get the picture. 

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GF has complained in the past how her DAYS character, Diana Colville, was...well, was never REALLY a character.  She NEVER knew exactly who Diana was.  This was true all the way to her final scenes, when Diana suddenly packed her bags and left town (with her hair dyed brown, no less), suggesting that "Diana Colville" might not have been her true identity after all!  (Or so she claimed in an online interview with the Academy of American Television).

 

Frankly, I think DAYS hired GF in much the same way that GH had hired Denise Alexander back in '73.  In both situations, it was more about luring away a popular actor from a competing show (although GF hadn't been on GH in at least three years, she was still connected to the show in viewers' memories and hearts), and less about finding the best actor to play a particular, well-developed role.

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And that's probably true.  It never mattered whether GF was right for Diana and for DAYS.  They just wanted to get GF/GH/Luke & Laura fans to tune in.

 

OTOH, AMC did a little better by her, giving her an actual character (Ceara Connor) with a real backstory and agenda for being in Pine Valley -- even if, IMO, GF wasn't entirely suited to portray Ceara as conceived.

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And Genie still holds that Ceara is the best soap role she's ever played, but it seems that character became a muddled mess pretty early on as well. Genie said Agnes was pretty involved in Ceara's creation, so I have to wonder if this character ever turned out the way Genie/Agnes anticipated. 

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Frankly, I don't think so.  I suspect the writers crafted the child molestation story for Ceara, because they realized GF didn't have whatever it took to portray Ceara as the "scheming vixen" type she was introduced as.  But I could be wrong.  (That's not a knock on GF or her talents, by the way.  It's just that she's more suited to portray heroines over villains).  Either way, it felt after awhile that Ceara, and Ceara/Jeremy, had fallen through the cracks -- which might have been okay with Genie, who wasn't carrying the show on her shoulders like she had on GH, and who was allowed to pursue other endeavors (such as theatre) while living in NYC, but it certainly was a waste of actor and character.

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And back then they worked much longer hours. I remember Drake once said in an interview they could start working 7AM or something and be done 11PM. Go home and sleep for a few hours and then back to the studio, and they also worked on weekends when they shot big events. These days an actor can be done for the day by lunch, or they don't start until after lunch. Plus they have alot of weeks off when the studio is dark.

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I think so. JLB when she returned said she did a rehearsal with Melissa Reeves and then was told it was a take and that's what aired. They may not be doing it all the time, maybe just when they think a dress rehearsal is good enough.

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