Has anyone mentioned that woman who was the second Cassie on GL? God she was awful.

Didn't she actually get an emmy nomination? I always thought they did it out of spite after LW left. Nicole Forester if I remember,

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David Gregory was very poor casting for what the show wanted Ford to be. Even at the start, he failed as the love-to-hate sleaze. No charisma or energy.

The second Frank [Ryan on RYAN'S HOPE], Andrew Robinson, was a character actor in a leading man's role. And they worked for like 5 months to get him to accept the role. Odd.

Yet, for whatever reason, I enjoyed AR as Frank because he wasn't the traditional "leading man." He might not have been drop-dead gorgeous, per se, but when I think of a guy such as "Frank Ryan," a highly principled cop-turned-politician from a staunch, blue-collar, Irish Catholic family, with an all-too-human weakness where his love for independent Jillian Coleridge was concerned, that's who I have in mind, more or less.

This is going back even longer but I never liked Kate Jackson as Daphne on Dark Shadows. That was such an ingenue role and she was never an ingenue. She just seemed ill at ease.

It's a shame Kate Jackson came along in daytime when she did. She would've been perfect as a acerbic, no-nonsense, slightly neurotic "career woman," but I don't think soaps were writing those kinds of roles for women until she had already transitioned to primetime.

Yet, for whatever reason, I enjoyed AR as Frank because he wasn't the traditional "leading man." He might not have been drop-dead gorgeous, per se, but when I think of a guy such as "Frank Ryan," a highly principled cop-turned-politician from a staunch, blue-collar, Irish Catholic family, with an all-too-human weakness where his love for independent Jillian Coleridge was concerned, that's who I have in mind, more or less.

I think that could have worked, but he was painted as the epitome of charisma, movie star looks, etc. I don't think Robinson was that actor. He was very good though.

More on RH...

Ann Gillespie as Siobhan. Everything the role was not supposed to be.

Carrell Myers as Siobhan. I have no idea why she was hired. I tell myself some psychic knew Marg would be on China Beach with Dana Delaney a few years later, got confused, and cast a Dana lookalike.

Steve Webber (GH): Scott Reeves is all kinds of horrible in this role. Stiff, wooden, bored, and dull. Nothing like the Steven we used to know.

Not that we knew much about Steven Lars. (I barely remember Reeves' predecessor, Shaun Benson.)

I've always felt Steven Lars (yes, I'm calling him "Steven Lars," get over it) should be more like his namesake grandfather, GH's original leading man and hero, Dr. Steve Hardy. Steve was an upstanding guy (not to mention, smolderingly sexy), but he also had a passion for his occupation (and for Audrey) that flared occasionally in moments of temper and frustration. IOW, Steve Hardy could be downright mercurial when he wanted to be, a sort-of combination of ATWT's Drs. Bob Hughes and John Dixon.

OLTL:

Laurence Lau as Sam Rappaport

Billy Warlock as Ross Rayburn

Lenny Platt as Nate Salinger

Bruce Michael Hall as Joey The Priest Buchanan

Jack Armstrong/Ken Kenitzer/Tim Gibbs as Kevin Buchanan

ATWT:

Jake Silbermann as Noah Mayer

Definitely Amanda Baker as Babe. She had non of the charisma, talent, fire, or sex appeal that Alexa H did. Bland personified. Lauren Woodland would've been a much better choice. Sabine Singh as Greenlee was turrible too.

AMC also never got it quite right with Colby IMO. Ambyr Childers grew on me eventually, but the Brianne girl right after her was dreadful(how she lasted as long as she did, I'll never know), and the current one is just flat out annoying.

I loved Jennifer Bransford as Carly but look wise she was ALL wrong for the role and doomed from the start coming immediately after TB.

Patton was so wrong as Will, even his hair tried to get away from him!

Story goes Kelli Giddish was supposed to reprise Di but ran into scheduling issues screaming from Chuck Pratt's horrendous scripts so Heather was a last minute recast and also I believe they cut some of her scenes out.

Fixed.

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Susan Batten as Connor Walsh....damn you FMB!

OLTL:

Laurence Lau as Sam Rappaport

Billy Warlock as Ross Rayburn

Lenny Platt as Nate Salinger

Bruce Michael Hall as Joey The Priest Buchanan

Jack Armstrong/Ken Kenitzer/Tim Gibbs as Kevin Buchanan

Oh wow I have to agree with all of these choices. Id have to throw in the obious choice of Kassie DePaiva as Blair. She made it work, but she is so radically different from Mia Korf

I think that could have worked, but he was painted as the epitome of charisma, movie star looks, etc. I don't think Robinson was that actor. He was very good though.

Unfortunately, ABC reportedly pressured Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer to replace him, because they believed he was too closely identified with his role in the movie "Dirty Harry." (I don't know who that line of thinking insults more: viewers, or actors like AR.)

Roger overrated Howarth as Paul Stenbeck Ryan

Kelly Hensley as Emily Stewart

Susan Batten as Connor Walsh....damn you FMB!

Yeah, gotta go with that one. If Allyson Rice-whatshername wasn't FMB's cup o' ramen, then she should've just fired her and ordered her writers to send her out of town.

Unfortunately, ABC reportedly pressured Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer to replace him, because they believed he was too closely identified with his role in the movie "Dirty Harry." (I don't know who that line of thinking insults more: viewers, or actors like AR.)

He did say that people in the street knew him from Dirty Harry, I think, but I do wonder if that was just an excuse from ABC.

Karen Morris Gowdy as Faith

I would also say Justin Bruening as Jamie (too flat and boring - nothing going on underneath, when the role needed a strong vitality to offset that the character was a traditional young leading man)