ABC Daytime to Make Major Lineup Decisions in Coming Weeks

[DRW50]

It's all so cynically done. On the one hand, you have a lot of soaps which don't require their men to bother to give a performance or to go to a gym or to even look their scene partners in the eye, yet you also have people like James on OLTL who just wander around stupefied in their underwear and remind me of Coco's porno moment in Fame.

The worst part is when waxed insipidness and smugness is mistaken for characterization, which seems to be happening more and more (Ford or Cookie Cutter being the most recent examples).

Gerald Anthony was sexier than most of the men hired by OLTL in the last decade, with the exception of Mark Lawson and one or two others.

[DeeeDee]

[Soapsuds]

For Valentini

[LoyaltoAMC]

The hot guys with little talent don't survive if they lack charisma or sexual chem with their female co-stars. Yes, Marc Menard, I'm looking right at you.

[All My Shadows]

Boyd/Aidan should have happened, but nope...

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Not that I find him attractive, though OLTL seems to think so, but John Paul Lavoisier has survived just fine despite no acting talent or chemistry with any woman.

[Soapsuds]

Here you go AMS...and I agree with you

And can you tell me why?? Cause the guy is ugly and cant act s h i t.

[OLTL_fan]

I couldnt wait for his 13 weeks to be up.

[quartermainefan]

He has comedic ability though, and I think that talent and his likability with RSW kept him on the show all these years. Rex is not really a romantic lead, and JPL is more of a character actor/supporting actor than a leading man. He has the body of a leading man, but the quirkiness of a sitcom actor. I disagree that he has no acting talent.

[Soapsuds]

He was awful. He made JPL look like an oscar winner.

[Jonathan]

AllMyDays@GH, where you at with your cheer?

[DeeeDee]

You weren't alone.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I've never seen any talent or charisma with Minshew either...

And then I look at Vanessa Marcil, who used to have a lot of charisma and chemistry with her co-stars despite minimum acting talent, and I wonder, what happened?

[DRW50]

JPL's idea of comedy acting is making stupid faces. The only thing funny about him is the thought of him being an actor.

I think he just knew how to schmooze. He has killed so many stories over the years and was the lead in a story which cost the show hundreds of thousands of viewers, and he is rewarded for it again and again and again.

[Soapsuds]

Exacrly