6 hours ago, Chris B said:

This was a nightmare! I'm glad he let her speak, but you could tell it was because it was completely uninterested and didn't know what he's talking about. He kept digging about how she got with her husband, when any Real Housewives fan knows she got with him while they were both married to other people. It was so awkward that he couldn't catch the hint and move on. Then when he mentioned Ashley's previous love interests, he seemed to miss most of her actual love interests and even asked her about Michael Tylo who was Brenda Epperson's love interest.

I wish when doing interviews with people from shows he doesn't know he'd ask fans for questions.

indeed mentioning Michael Tylo was tactless.. come an, it was during Brenda's tenure. I wish he would have asked her about Brenda - she was such a great Ashley recast (maybe even better then the original) 

Love Eileen Davidson but don't think I can stomach another Locher Room episode. Glad that others are seeing what I see. Once upon a time, there used to be some trolls in the As The World Turns thread who would pounce if critical posts and they were especially exasperating on how they'd fawn over Locher and his livestream show.

How I wish someone could contact and convince Roger Newcomb of the We Love Soaps blog to start doing livestream podcast interviews with daytime soap stars, who deserve so much better. 

7 hours ago, Chris B said:

I wish when doing interviews with people from shows he doesn't know he'd ask fans for questions.

Some of us had asking for this for a solid year now, to no avail.

On 9/24/2021 at 5:37 AM, BigMAnOnDeck said:

2003 was Y&R at its apex and probably the genre too

Highly agreed

On 10/30/2021 at 4:12 PM, yrfan1983 said:

Jeanne Cooper said in her memoir that she helped to defuse the situation. She told Bill Bell that if he fired EB and PB, that’d he had have to fire her too.

Wow I never knew that. 

On 10/30/2021 at 11:39 PM, FrenchBug82 said:

I know Muhney is a hugely controversial actor on forums and he certainly had his own share of his issues but this seems to mirror a lot of how the similar conflict between him and EB started later on - the new guy who thinks he has the answers, the old guy stuck on his own ways and wanting "respect", the clash of egos and approaches to the job...
All these people have responsibility in the tensions generated but I suspect EB specifically is very rigid by nature and even more so as he established himself as a tentpole of the show and feels he has earned the right to have things his way.
This clashes with the guys who fancy themselves alpha males.
The male leads EB seems to get along with better seem to be the guys who don't care that much (JM, DD back in the day etc) or whose "performances" are in storylines EB is not directly involved in (like KsJ).

He always praised Doug  Davison as a great actor and to this day pissed on how TPTB handled him.

On 11/13/2021 at 8:23 AM, yrfan1983 said:

Great summary! I'm at May '96 in my chronological viewing and everything you said tracks to what I've seen.

I will only add that the slow diminishment of the character of Traci Abbott didn't help matters. I see the character in two phases: 80s Traci and 90s Traci. 

80s Traci was a well-written, well-rounded full character that propelled Beth Maitland to YR's first acting Emmy.

90s Traci was a one-note drag, singularly obsessed with winning back Brad's love and haranguing her sister Ashley, who she used to be so close to. Starting around Traci and Brad's second marriage, it became such a chore to watch Traci's scenes, which really pained me as a BethM fan.

Traci IMO was at a real nadir by her '95 return, when she ostensibly comes home to support John's recovery, but proceeds to sniff after Brad and berate Ashley... never mind that Traci has a studly husband Steve waiting at home for her!

I'm not saying there weren't some great moments, like Traci and Lauren's 94 catfight. But it wasn't until her 2001 return, when Traci took on more of a parental role, that I started to enjoy the character again.

IMO I felt Traci got more stronger in the 90s but do admit the sniffing around Brad was deterimental

On 11/23/2021 at 11:55 PM, Soapsuds said:

 

I so want to see Paul confronting Lauren. Doug's shock is amazing

On 11/26/2021 at 3:21 AM, fivethej said:

How often has Victor used profanity over the years? Came across a scene between Matt Clark and Victor from 1995 when Victor dropped F word.

WHEN WAS THAT??

On 12/22/2021 at 5:53 PM, amybrickwallace said:

If you can stomach all the gushing...

 

I saw this when it originally aired and commented on it. I have to say how gracious Eileen is to do all these interviews for her fans. I'm sure she's sick of the same question asked over and over again.😂

Here you go @clubkidjeff Merry Christmas!! Lauren and Shawn!!

 

 

2 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I saw this when it originally aired and commented on it. I have to say how gracious Eileen is to do all these interviews for her fans. I'm sure she's sick of the same question asked over and over again.😂

I mean, it is part of the job but one thing I noticed here that I appreciate is that she answers the question and is always friendly and gracious... but you know how many times she has done it because she keeps her answers short.

Other folks who do fewer interviews will launch into anecdotes and stories but here she is not far from just "yes/no" very often on the most common basic questions. She is good because it never comes off as terse or rude. She is a professional; she knows to keep the interview moving.
For instance, when they ask her which of her characters would go on Housewives. She just says "Obviously Kristen". A less clever interviewee might be tempted to explain why at length but she knows better. Answer with a smile and next question.

What is the absolute best year of Y&R for you all?

@Sasha66 I'd say 1984, as that was the year that Y&R became Y&R as we know it today.

15 hours ago, asafi said:

indeed mentioning Michael Tylo was tactless.. come an, it was during Brenda's tenure. I wish he would have asked her about Brenda - she was such a great Ashley recast (maybe even better then the original) 

She's spoken about Brenda before.  If I remember right, she met Brenda at some type of "celebrity waiter" event, and recommended that Brenda audition for the role, as she'd already told Bill Bell that she was leaving in late 1988.   

Alan Locher is a babbling fool.  I'm sure somewhere out there, a WORSE interviewer exists, but I've never actually seen a poorer one before.  🤣

If the nitwit planned to ask about Eileen's co-stars (Michael Tylo, lol), why on earth didn't he ask about Don Diamont?  That's who Eileen was paired with for several years from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, was the character who raised Abby Carlton (mysteriously known now as Abby Newman-Abbott, which makes no sense at all), and was married to Ashley during the breast cancer storyline.  Also, he'd previously been Eileen's boyfriend in real life during the late 1980s.  Instead he asks about Michael Tylo (who she never met) and J Eddie Peck (who she worked with for about a week).  He's a complete ninny.   

10 hours ago, Sasha66 said:

What is the absolute best year of Y&R for you all?

For myself IMO it would have been 1993, a year that show was on firing all its cylinders in the writing department for just about every storyline. 

 

10 hours ago, Sasha66 said:

What is the absolute best year of Y&R for you all?

Post-Bill Bell (and my personal favourite year) I would say 2001 was very good from start to finish for both Bell soaps storyline-wise and production-wise, with 1999 and 2000 not being too far behind (yes, even the sperm-caper story, total guilty pleasure of mine).

I was disappointed when they didn't show too many episodes from that year when last year's classics aired. It seems as though 2005 was a writer's room favourite year because a lot of things happened that forever changed the trajectory of some families during that year, also the last year Y&R was considered to be classic recipe by many.

Edited December 26, 20213 yr by ChickenNuggetz92

9 minutes ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

Post-Bill Bell (and my personal favourite year) I would say 2001 was very good from start to finish for both Bell soaps storyline-wise and production-wise, with 1999 and 2000 not being too far behind (yes, even the sperm-caper story, total guilty pleasure of mine).

I was disappointed when they didn't show too many episodes from that year when last year's classics aired. It seems as though 2005 was a writer's room favourite year because a lot of things happened that forever changed the trajectory of some families during that year, also considered to be the last year Y&R was considered to be classic recipe by many.

I know a lot of people don't love that period, but I started watching with 1999 episodes and I loved all of it. Some of my favorite soap opera periods, all the way until 2004/2005... 

8 hours ago, Broderick said:

She's spoken about Brenda before.  If I remember right, she met Brenda at some type of "celebrity waiter" event, and recommended that Brenda audition for the role, as she'd already told Bill Bell that she was leaving in late 1988.   

Alan Locher is a babbling fool.  I'm sure somewhere out there, a WORSE interviewer exists, but I've never actually seen a poorer one before.  🤣

If the nitwit planned to ask about Eileen's co-stars (Michael Tylo, lol), why on earth didn't he ask about Don Diamont?  That's who Eileen was paired with for several years from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, was the character who raised Abby Carlton (mysteriously known now as Abby Newman-Abbott, which makes no sense at all), and was married to Ashley during the breast cancer storyline.  Also, he'd previously been Eileen's boyfriend in real life during the late 1980s.  Instead he asks about Michael Tylo (who she never met) and J Eddie Peck (who she worked with for about a week).  He's a complete ninny.   

😂😂😂

I'm still amazed at how he was able to get any kind of work with P&G.