Steve Burton is done with the show!

TV Guide Magazine: Word is, this is one of the most amicable soap exits ever — no money battles, storyline complaints, testy negotiations. Where's all the drama, dude?

Burton: I've been through 21 years of ups and downs with GH— regime changes, cast and crew changes, budget cuts, shakeups of one kind or another, and it's been nothing but a huge positive in my life and for my family. I have no complaints, no negative feelings at all. But it's time to go. I'm going to take some time off and do nothing but relax, just enjoy life a little bit with my wife and kids. I've bought a home in Tennessee, way out in the country outside Nashville. [Laughs] Probably too far out in the country! I've been talking about leaving GH and moving there for the last seven years. The timing was never right and then the economy crashed and I couldn't sell my house in California. I went there many years ago when I did the movie The Last Castle and loved it. Tennessee reminded me of growing up in Ohio. The people are nice, it's family oriented and, now that my kids are 6 and almost 9, I want to get them planted. My contract was coming up at GH so we put the house up for sale again and it went in, like, eight weeks. That opened the door for me to leave GH.

FULL INTERVIEW:

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Steve-Burton-Quits-General-Hospital-1052432.aspx

I won't lie, I'm sad about this. We're losing another Quartermaine and I've been enjoying Jason now that the show doesn't revolve around him. I thought Carlivati had just barely tipped the surface in what he could do with Jason. I wanted to see more with Jason and Liz and I just enjoy him being there. I like the relationship with Carly and Michael, Sam and John, even Sonny. It's going to be weird to never have him there.

Cartini just phoned David A. Gregory and advised him the role of Jason is now his.

Cartini just phoned David A. Gregory and advised him the role of Jason is now his.

And hopefully Heather Webber is busy unscrewing every chandelier in Port Charles.

And hopefully Heather Webber is busy unscrewing every chandelier in Port Charles.

My hero! The best thing about that POS was him making time with a chandelier.

I can't even remember what James Franco did in Milk. It was so forgettable.

His motto=

Exactly! And this is why he's one of my favorite actors/people, ever.

My hero! The best thing about that POS was him making time with a chandelier.

No argument here!

I can't even remember what James Franco did in Milk. It was so forgettable.

He was Harvey's boyfriend. He got praise for his work, but in my opinionation, he pretty much sleepwalked.

Exactly! And this is why he's one of my favorite actors/people, ever.

In his defense, the way careers inexplicably dry up in fickle Hollywood, he may as well make that paper any and every way he can. I'm sure his representation is happy to collect the commission even if they worry that some of these projects may hurt his credibility for more serious roles. But Hollywood is so ironic and tongue in cheek these days I question if such things really even matter any more.

It's a joke on the TWOP GH board that the mob, being "noble" enough to NEVER deal in drugs or prostitution, they must really deal in something like Gummi Bears. Hence, their nickname the Gummi Bear Mob. Oh, and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4K7O9eqgk

My favorite Jason video evah...Go to 0:47.

Edited August 29, 201213 yr by Ann_SS

My favorite Jason video evah...Go to 0:47.

LMFAO! That was awesome! Sadly you could do a video like that for every one of ABC's alpha males.

Oh, and I forgot to comment on Burton's buying this house and moving to Tennessee strategy which his good homophobic friends, the Reeves like did. I don't think that it is any accident that these "Christians" have chosen to move into one of the most backward anti-education anti-diversity conservative states in the Union. If only they would all stay there.

This is seriously the best Jason vid, it basically captures his acting reel of 20 years, in 30 seconds:

You guys are making me sorry I don't hate this character. It looks like fun.

lmao those videos are a riot!!