It wouldn't surprise me if Oprah brought some kind of a scripted show to the daytime lineup of OWN.

I never knew that about Darnell with the death threats

When Jesse/Jenny were on the run to NYC, Darnell got hate mail and death threats. I bet Darnell, Debbi and the actor who played Tom Cudahy (I can't spell his last name) could share some interesting hate mail stories in the green room.

That aside, I have no doubt Darnell was also job hunting. He's probably tired of the commute to LA. I agree with whoever above said that he looked so much better than he does on the show. He looked ten years younger. Must be that special Oprah air. LOL!

Just a note on the Darnell Williams/Oprah tongue bath. I get what he was saying. Daytime has treated its black audience and actors as utterly worthless and disposable so to see Oprah come from nothing to become, basically, the most powerful woman in media, yeah pretty amazing. Especially so, I imagine for an actor who was getting death threats 20 years ago because of his scenes with Kim Delaney. (And need we mention the Angie/Cliff Warner hatefest?)

You're going to hate this, but Jesse/Jenny was more like 30 years ago

Frons really needs to watch this special. This is what the foundation of soaps were built on, not tweens and teens and hair models and actors who can't act so they take off their shirt all the time.

Well, considering that everyone on the show yesterday except for the husbands, Tony Geary, and Jeanne Cooper all joined their shows playing teenage characters, I think that teens and younger characters are very important parts of a soap's foundation. They just have to stop writing sh!tty stories for them.

I think it's AMC, everyone looks older for some reason. MEK also looked better on Oprah than AMC, as did SL and DM

Genie looked fan freaking tastic.

It was nice to hear Lucci and Francis acknowledge that the genre was built on the strength of the women. Unfortunately that message has fallen on deaf ears.

+1.

You're going to hate this, but Jesse/Jenny was more like 30 years ago

That's not possible because that would mean that I'm forty...

GO TO HELL!

I think it's AMC, everyone looks older for some reason. MEK also looked better on Oprah than AMC, as did SL and DM

Genie looked fan freaking tastic.

It's the Oprah air, I tell you. It's different there. I bet even Michael Nader started to regrow hair.

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That's not possible because that would mean that I'm forty...

GO TO HELL!

LMAO, join the club, I'll be 40 in 3 years, yikes

LMAO, join the club, I'll be 40 in 3 years, yikes

I didn't really think Nader looked good lol His body, maybe, but in his face he looked like one of those guys who camps out under the big tree at the end of my street.

Darnell was foine, though. He looks better now than he did 30 years ago (). It's funny because usually when a soap star falls off of the radar for a long time, they usually age like us normal folk do, but considering DW was only doing a guest appearance here, indie movie there, he looks like he's been right in the soap spotlight nonstop since the 80s.

I have caught it online, bits and pieces that have amounted to the whole show.

It was a LOVE LETTER to all that is good and grand in daytime drama. La Lucci, Jeanne, D&D, MEK, A&G, All The Husbands...it was absolutely amazing.

It's clear to me that two characters strike Oprah Winfrey as something of an inspiration for her life: Erica Kane and Katherine Chancellor. Erica's life is what Oprah aspired to (ie: having it all) while Katherine's survivor instinct, I can imagine, helped propel a young Oprah Winfrey from backwoods Tennessee to university, Baltimore, Chicago, America and the world.

Jeanne Cooper's statement about Katherine: "Hope, strength and vision to a lot of people" translated to Oprah with Cooper noting "You've felt it!"

I think Oprah identifies with daytime because it is in her roots, it is a part of who she was and the woman she is today. I think she did a marvellous job saying thank you to an industry that seems to have given her so much, just as it has for all of us. The difference is that Oprah left daytime before the party was over, so she has nothing but fondness for the genre, something all of us could probably benefit from.

Jeanne Cooper's statement about Katherine: "Hope, strength and vision to a lot of people" translated to Oprah with Cooper noting "You've felt it!"

I loved that whole part, especially as JC said that her wish for Katherine was also her wish for the audience, for Oprah, for everyone. Just beautiful words.

I have caught it online, bits and pieces that have amounted to the whole show.

It was a LOVE LETTER to all that is good and grand in daytime drama. La Lucci, Jeanne, D&D, MEK, A&G, All The Husbands...it was absolutely amazing.

It's clear to me that two characters strike Oprah Winfrey as something of an inspiration for her life: Erica Kane and Katherine Chancellor. Erica's life is what Oprah aspired to (ie: having it all) while Katherine's survivor instinct, I can imagine, helped propel a young Oprah Winfrey from backwoods Tennessee to university, Baltimore, Chicago, America and the world.

Jeanne Cooper's statement about Katherine: "Hope, strength and vision to a lot of people" translated to Oprah with Cooper noting "You've felt it!"

I think Oprah identifies with daytime because it is in her roots, it is a part of who she was and the woman she is today. I think she did a marvellous job saying thank you to an industry that seems to have given her so much, just as it has for all of us. The difference is that Oprah left daytime before the party was over, so she has nothing but fondness for the genre, something all of us could probably benefit from.

True. I didn't get to see the episode, but in November she also did a "class reunion" of former talk show hosts with Donahue, Geraldo, Ricki Lake, SJR, and Montell. Oprah will always be identified with daytime TV.

I thought Jeremy married Erica. Guess not.

Nah. The closest they came was when Erica staged the prison break wedding... but she "fainted" before anything was made official.

That was so campy.... the helicopter, Erica's turban, the theme from Halloween!

I thought Nader looked awful. Not only was the hat a mistake, he's missing a tooth as well! The guy who played Travis....what happened to his head? It was HUGE! David Canary looked well and rested.

Damn right. And that formula has worked perfectly well for her so screw the rest.

Honestly, this thread is starting to display exactly what I think has killed soaps: a lethal combination of nostalgia and provincialism. Instead of just enjoying the fact that ANYONE - let alone someone with Oprah's resources and reach - chose to highlight the genre we get "This should've been a week of shows!" "MOAR Chancellor!" and "Where was OLTL?"

Well next year Oprah will be gone and no one will give any of these shows or actors the time of day.

I agree. Yeah, it would've been nice to include other soap representation, but the fact that she devoted ANY time for one full episode is something we should be grateful for instead of the endless "Shame on you, Oprah" bulls&it. Nobody else is doing it, we should be happy such a high-profile talk show did this at all.