God she is HORRIBLE. And yes I do remember her. One of my earliest memories was Jill being shot in the shower.

And Y&R isnt Horrible at this moment..lol

I'd love to see her back. At least something to look forward to or to get me watching again.

And Y&R isnt Horrible at this moment..lol

LOL

Stroke out? Lmao

LOL...I kept looking at it and kept saying whats wrong with it..but couldnt put my finger on it....I knew Dixon was wrong...but just couldnt see it..lol

LOVE the videos! Yes, I said stroke out. I can imagine that MAB would keep taping if it ever happened on set, call it REALITY TV and make a special episode out of it. It would blow the Billy Xmas show out of the water!

Jess Walton is a fine actress but was never right for Jill. I'm 35 but still remember the evil that is Brenda DICKson. She gives Shiela Carter a run for the money.

Not that it matters, but Y&R would get a HH boost if the used Brenda

I have only seen clips of Brenda but thought she was great in the clips from the 70's and from the first year or two in her second run. I said on another board they should have Kay get really sick and become delusional. Then see Jess Walton as Jill, then Deborah Adair as Jill and then Bond Gideon and finally Brenda Dickson. They could show clips of her with all four Jill's and they could explain it away by saying Kay was delusional in her illness.

Not sure that Deborah and Bond would do it, but I think Brenda would. It would be a bit of fun and allow the people that want to see Brenda to see her.

As long as any Bell family member is involved we won't see Brenda, let alone any of the original Brooks or Foster family members 'cept as 'drive bys' as Jaime Lyn Bauer called her embarassing 2002 return. I think Bill Bell had a psychological hatred for his original characters/cast when they all started leaving. The fact that his re-tooled Abbott/Newman/Williams show which replaced Y&R in 1982-83 and soon shot to no. 1 is all the validation he needed.

Did he do that heavy overhaul of Genoa City because actors were leaving? I know it had to do with moving the show to an hour, but it's always confused me a bit (to be fair, it's probably one of the only times such a heavy and relatively quick restructuring of a long running show actually worked, thoough I know i took a year or two for ratings to go back to where they were, and then higher). Of course he kinda used the original Y&R family set up when he did B&B, albeit in a campier style.

I know Brenda is officially nutso, but I wish someone would tell her that that bleached out hair looks absolutely terrible.

Did he do that heavy overhaul of Genoa City because actors were leaving?

Yep.

I do know a lot of soap actors left with the move to an hour--in All Her Children they mention doing a week of hour eps (to get people to tune in earlier for when Ryan's Hope was about to start), and half the actors interviewed flat out say they're leaving if the show ever goes to an hour regularly.

God she is HORRIBLE. And yes I do remember her. One of my earliest memories was Jill being shot in the shower.

Oh, she's not horrible... just different in her two tenures. The Alexis Carrington clone is what they WANTED at the time, and Brenda played it like that. But she's a very old school throwback typ of actress... in that one clip (with the white pants and sweater) notice how she SASHAYS to the door in a very Joan Crawford kind of way. Brenda is very similar to Faye Duanway in alot of ways, actually. But my big issue has always been that the campy stuff is what is on youtube, so it skews people's opinions because her 70's work (the best stuff) is so few and far between as far as availability.

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She seemed to base her life on her campy character though--I wonder if she'd be capable of doing the 70s style stuff anymore.

Any "old" or even "present" day Jill talk is pointless. Sony, CBS and/or MAB want actors from OTHER soaps to play the Y&R characters not the ones we had long ago. They use Tracy, John,P3, Brock, etc for a day or so and sent them on their way, they don't write them a complete story.

The only was we would see lots of Jill is if they could re- cast her with someone like Susan Lucci.

She seemed to base her life on her campy character though--I wonder if she'd be capable of doing the 70s style stuff anymore.

I wonder that myself. She said that playing Jill in the 70's was "So hard... because she was SOOOOO unlike me", etc. I almost said to her "That's why it's called acting, dear heart"... but I refrained! LOL From the way she talks about it, the k-mart blouses they made her wear and them rubbing her makeup off was what she hated the most, so I get the impression if she can get all dolled up in fancy clothes, she'd be game for playing the character about any way you'd tell her to.

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She seemed to base her life on her campy character though--I wonder if she'd be capable of doing the 70s style stuff anymore.

Dickson seems very 'ON' in every interview I've ever seen. She was even frozen during her statement at the People's Choice Awards, or whatever they called it, years ago. I love her Splenda-sweet persona but understand how it could annoy some people. Back in the day, Brenda sounded like butter would not melt in her mouth.

Also, a lot of baby boomer women act like Brenda and dig the fancy clothes. She sort of reminds me of my mom.

I love the Susan Lucci comment someone made earlier. I hope it never happens but I could totally see CBS going for it,

The only was we would see lots of Jill is if they could re- cast her with someone like Susan Lucci.

DO NOT GIVE MARIA IDEAS!