Members marceline Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 That and the fact that Disney bought ABC. That's when the Connors went to Disneyland for vacation. I remember reading that's when the network started interfering with the show and Rosanne started rebelling by pushing crazier and crazier stories. Thanks again Disney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Richard Culliton is a controversial man around these parts, isn't he, lol? I, for one, think he isn't as bad as others might. At a time when there was less network and sponsor interference, he, along w/ wife Carolyn and Gary Tomlin, and later w/ Pam Long, did very good work at GUIDING LIGHT. And the work he did for ANOTHER WORLD during the '80's? Probably the most AW-esque that show had been after Nixon and Lemay. Culliton, IMO, is a good, character-driven writer who probably would have a much greater reputation if he had more supportive, less interfering bosses. Don't accept everything he and/or his wife gives you, but certainly be more supportive and constructive in collaborating with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Precisely. Lucci and Gilbert both are refugees from the soul-crushing Mouse Regime. Give 'em a bottle of wine and a pint of Haagen-Dazs and those two will make Helmut and Allison jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Maybe Sara can help get Susan a role on the Big Bang Theory. (I know Susan doesn't need help getting work, but you know what I mean). Seeing her as one of their crazy mothers would be entertaining, unless we've already seen all their mothers, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 It's the "with us or against us" mentality. Jamey wants people to have fits and throw tantrums. He wants a good old fashioned black funeral where someone tries to climb inside the coffin or throw themselves in the open grave. He wants big crazy public scenes. Hence, all the focus on rallies. Anybody who reacts like a functional adult is a traitor. Plus Strasser and Zimmer are on OLTL and Lucci is on AMC, therefore they are brazen and soapy and Lucci is evil incarnate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Susan Lucci joins the cast of USA's "In Plain Sight" as Mary Shannon's narcissistic aunt. I'm just saying. You mean, like Jenifer Lewis did on "Meet the Browns"? Because, you know I'd be the one to shove Miss Jamey into the open grave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 A letter from Jamey to La Lucci. I didn't read the whole thing because it went on and on. http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2011/05/27/dear-susan-lucci-my-only-agenda-is-saving-the-soaps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Daytime superstar Susan Lucci visited The Talk on Thursday and got fans buzzing about the possibility of All My Children continuing on another network. Before that, she mentioned not believing the AMC cancellation rumors initially because they came from a blogger, who she thought had a "negative agenda." As the blogger most likely in question, Ms. Lucci I must respectfully say, my only agenda has always been helping to save the soaps. Like millions of soap fans, I adore these serials. Their characters are like family to me; their amazing stories, like treasured heirlooms. The not-so-great tales are like any family secrets, painful, and I'd like to forget them if at all possibly, but some drunk relative keeps bringing them up at the Fourth of July barbecue. Ms. Lucci, growing up in a sports-obsessed town, straight out of Friday Night Lights, an overweight black kid who would rather read Soap Opera Weekly than play center on his high school football team wasn't in danger of winning any popularity contests. Soaps were my salvation until I could save myself by heading off for college to pursue a writing and broadcasting career. While most of my peers at Southern Arkansas University were inspired by great writers like Samuel Clemens, Charles Dickens, Berstein and Woodward, I wanted to be the next Agnes Nixon or Bill Bell. This was a fact that netted me more than my fair share of eyerolls, smirks and giggles, but I didn't care. I knew soaps had the same transformative power of the best newspaper articles, plays or movies, because they had transformed me from someone who felt painfully unworthy, because I couldn't hit a fastball like one of my cousins— nor did I want to—into someone who believed I could escape small towns and small minds to lead a fabulous life full of romance, career success and the occasional battle with a Sweeps month serial killer. Have I been highly critical about AMC's storytelling in recent years? Absolutely. I've been hyper critical of all bad soap stories, because I've born witness to the amazing sagas this genre can tell, as have my droves of readers and podcast listeners. I would debate the snobbiest of film or theatre buffs on the social themes, characterization and acting chops displayed in such stories as Cindy Chandler's (Ellen Wheeler) battle with AIDS and prejudice in Pine Valley or Bianca Montgomery's (Eden Riegel) coming out. I'd even defend the splashy, escapist romance of Erica Kane and her Hungarian count Dimitri Marick (Michael Nader), or the delicious, melodramatic villainy of Erica's badseed daughter Kendall Hart (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alicia Minshew), and the campy hijinks of Opal (Jill Larson) and Palmer (the late James Mitchell), which is why stories about poisoned pancakes and unaborted fetuses made the whites of my eyes go black. Never have I once criticized All My Children's veteran cast for the state the show was in. Although I have blasted TIIC's penchant for putting vapid newbies front and center at the expense of said veterans, such as yourself, Debbi Morgan, David Canary, Michael E. Knight, etc. Have I reported on AMC executive producer Julie Hanan Caruther's inability to bring this show in under budget? Of course I have, because it was the truth. Countless sources have detailed to me what a major headache AMC's budgetary woes have been for Disney in recent years. ABC didn't move All My Children across the country for the weather. I know Hanan Caruthers is popular with the cast and crew, but in these hard economic times—for all of network TV, not just daytime—it was her task as showrunner to do whatever it took to keep this show financially healthy. She didn't accomplish that. Not that it would have made any difference, since Frank Valentini reportedly has done his job managing One Life to Live's finances effectively and his show is getting the boot as well. Ms. Lucci, you've mentioned ABC showing you a document stating AMC's financials were sound, however since the cancellations of AMC and OLTL were announced, Frons himself has said in countless interviews they weren't, so I am puzzled as to what exactly you read on my blog that "wasn't true"? I'm sorry, but once again these people lied to your face. Back in 2008, I was the first person to report that ABC was forcing its daytime employees to take massive, across the board pay cuts. Mere hours after that report went up, ABC Daytime released a statement to Soap Opera Digest saying what I reported wasn't true. The next day, Agnes Nixon confirmed my story to Advertising Age. I was also the first to report that All My Children would be moved to Los Angeles. ABC Daytime told Soap Central that report was "rumors that had been in the zeitgeist forever." When the move was announced, just days later, I reported that ABC came dangerously close to cancelling both AMC and OLTL, a fact that was angrily denied to the soap press, including me, in phone conversations with ABC Daytime's Vice-President of Publicity and True Lies Jori Petersen. The PR peeps at ABC Daytime wanted me to be quiet. They even offered me greater access to their stars, interviews, etc. if I would basically just pipe down and be another publicity vehicle for ABC Daytime. As you've probably noticed, much like Julia Roberts' character in Something to Talk About, I have a problem eating poop politely, even for a Kim Zimmer interview. Since I broke the story of the AMC move, I've ran numerous reports on Frons' aggressive development of vehicles to replace ABC's soaps—long before the mainstream media decided to go there—hoping that if I got the word out, fans and the industry could fight back a la the efforts to save primetime shows like Chuck and Fringe. Silly Jamey, tricks are for kids. Over and over again my coverage of the state of ABC Daytime, my calls to action, were dismissed. Then, after Brian Frons broke the hearts of millions of soap fans by announcing the cancellations of two soaps at once, he went to Deadline and in one fell swoop, confirmed each and every expose, rumor report and breaking news item I've reported about ABC Daytime on this blog since 2008. I am sorry Ms. Lucci, but the agenda you should have been focused on was Brian Frons', not mine. I'm simply a loudmouth, black, overweight fanboy from Texas who didn't want to see his 'stories' go away. I'm not the one with Erica Kane's blood on my hands—Mickey Mouse is. At any rate, I still love me some Erica Kane and you, La Lucci, and pray you're right about someone picking up AMC, not to mention OLTL and GH, if and when it comes to that. In the meantime, I'm gonna keep on blogging and keep on watching you both on AMC and in interviews like the one below: Dear Ms. Lucci: Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. J.G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 LMAO Khan!!! I read this and actually felt sad for him. He really is a very insecure, needy person who seems to have built his entire life around this. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 I find it funny that this is the first he's heard of this. La Lucci has been mentioning this "blogger" for the past 6 weeks on her book tour and thereafter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Lord have mercy. Lucci's driver: "Hey Susan, I loved what you said about Jamey Giddens on The Talk yesterday." Susan: "Who?" Regardless, I'm revising my diagnosis from Narcissistic Personality Disorder to Histrionic Personality Disorder. "HPD is characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood. These individuals are lively, dramatic, enthusiastic, and flirtatious." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 I'd revise it once more to Frigging Moron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 Imbecile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 That's not in the Manual. I can't help but find irony in the fact that people keep criticizing SuLu for showing discretion and filtering her reactions. See what the opposite looks like? Who's more credible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 27, 2011 Members Share Posted May 27, 2011 When the Trekkies can point at us and laugh? We've got problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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