His squint is like when Nancy St. Alban (ex-Michelle, GUIDING LIGHT) used to do that thing where she'd tuck her tongue inside her bottom lip for no reason. They'll do it 'til you're used to it, and then they'll stop.

I never thought she was all that bad, myself. Just nothing very interesting.

Im excited for Nora's new gig

Jennifer Pepperman directed today's episode

Jen Pepperman seems quite pleased to be part of the show, based on her Twitter account. She could be the best EP for the show since Susie Horgan.

Let's not go crazy. She seems fine so far but I'm not going to jump up and declare "best since" etc. just yet. That's sheer hyperbole.

Frankly, Nora's new side gig smacks too much of Karen MacKenzie becoming a talk show host on KNOTS LANDING. Any minute now, I expect Nora to have a mysterious secret admirer....

OLTL did it first! When Pat Ashely got her talk show "View On Llanview" in 1979 she had an inst-stalker in Dick Grant, aka Mr. Kim Zimmer.

Edited May 10, 201312 yr by Dale

I'm glad Jen Pepp is having fun.

I wish she takes care of those eyebrows when the shooting cycle is through

Edited May 10, 201312 yr by YRBB

Jen Pepperman seems quite pleased to be part of the show, based on her Twitter account. She could be the best EP for the show since Susie Horgan.

what about Linda Gottlieb??

Let's not go crazy. She seems fine so far but I'm not going to jump up and declare "best since" etc. just yet. That's sheer hyperbole.

Thank you.

what about Linda Gottlieb??

What about her?

Thank you.

What about her?

well Gottlieb and Horgan were great as EPs

Let's not go crazy. She seems fine so far but I'm not going to jump up and declare "best since" etc. just yet. That's sheer hyperbole.

Considering the mess the show was left in by the time 2012 hit...the bar isn't exactly sky-high.

Edited May 10, 201312 yr by Winchester91

well Gottlieb and Horgan were great as EPs

That is a matter of opinion. I agree with you about Horgan, of course. But Gottlieb...? I don't think so. It takes more than updating the sets, costumes, lighting and music to be a great, or even good, EP. A great EP also knows how to work with his/her writers to tell the best possible stories that utilize the show's entire canvas of characters. We all know how I feel Gottlieb and Michael Malone fared on THAT front.

Edited May 10, 201312 yr by Khan

That is a matter of opinion. I agree with you about Horgan, of course. But Gottlieb...? I don't think so.

well she did kind of make it like a film, since she came from film.. but I take those two over Valentini

well she did kind of make it like a film, since she came from film.

Right, and I felt hers was the wrong approach. If I want to watch a film, guess what? I'll watch a film. But, to her credit, Gottlieb recognized after awhile that you couldn't produce a daily drama the way you could a film. Which is probably why she left in the end.

Right, and I felt hers was the wrong approach. If I want to watch a film, guess what? I'll watch a film. But, to her credit, Gottlieb recognized after awhile that you couldn't produce a daily drama the way you could a film. Which is probably why she left in the end

yeah... I think so too.. but her era and Horgan's era as EP, was an awesome time for OLTL, they don't call it the 90s Renaissance

Edited May 10, 201312 yr by cassadine1991

I'll say this for Gottleib: IMO she took a show that was in a commercial and critical tatters and made vast improvements in story, sets, light, wardrobe, casting and promotion. Not having prior soap experience, that could not have been easy. She did not take over a show in good or even reasonable shape. It was a shell of a show. She helped to bring a reality and stability back to the show that was sorely missing. She stuck around for three years, which was not too much or too little - it was just right. I think she did an overall good job. She handed the show over to Bedsow Horgan and she and Malone made the show bloom like a flower for the next two years.