5 hours ago, dragonflies said:

The #FireFrank hashtag on twitter is a thing of beauty. He's being dragged so hard and I love it!

 

https://twitter.com/hashtag/FireFrank?src=hash

 

Good...he deserves the full wrath of the fans. Genie has never, ever given less than 100% to a scene. On the other hand, they sign Maurice Benard to a new contract (just after bringing back Steve Burton). He's been phoning it in for how many years now??? 😠😠😠😠😠😠

Genie almost singlehandedly helped keep this show on the air when she was little more than a child. That's just a fact. The show repaid her by getting her hooked on drugs and telling her she was worth nothing compared to the man she gave a lasting career (and whose fortunes she salvaged again years later). Genie left, did primetime and married well, and she still couldn't get a fraction of that respect.

It's terrible. I'm all for her going back to the recording studios and cutting a new album. Did any of you hear the 2009 Christmas CD she recorded with her brothers (Ivor Jr. and Kenny)? Genie has a wonderful singing voice!!

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Genie almost singlehandedly helped keep this show on the air when she was little more than a child. That's just a fact. The show repaid her by getting her hooked on drugs and telling her she was worth nothing compared to the man she gave a lasting career (and whose fortunes she salvaged again years later). Genie left, did primetime and married well, and she still couldn't get a fraction of that respect.

 

Agree.

 

You know, before Genie Francis returned in '93, GH was not in great shape.  I THINK Claire Labine and her team had come aboard already, but I don't believe they had been there long enough to clean up all the messes that previous writing regimes had left behind; and at a time when so many other shows were grabbing all the attention and accolades -- AMC, OLTL, the Bill Bell shows, DAYS, even GL and ATWT -- GH was just not on a lot of people's radars anymore.  Ergo, I don't think I'd be lying or overstating to say she saved that wretched show not once, but twice.  All the other great stuff that came from Labine and Wendy Riche -- B.J.'s death/Maxie's heart transplant, Stone's battle with AIDS, Sonny and Brenda's initial romance -- wouldn't have meant a damn thing to anyone, had Luke and Laura's return not generated some buzz and brought back lapsed viewers.

 

And the funny thing is, Genie didn't HAVE to return to GH at all.  When execs at ABC told her that she was worth more to them as Laura than she would ever be as AMC's Ceara, she could've easily told 'em all to shove it and refuse to return under any circumstances.  Who knows?  If she hadn't gone back to GH , she might've landed either another NBC soap or even a gig on one of the CBS or P&G shows.

Edited January 22, 20187 yr by Khan

I'd hate for those weight loss commercials to be the only way we see Genie regularly on TV. 😯

14 hours ago, ChitHappens said:

Who was that, not so long ago, talking about how Frank respects GH history?  Shall we revisit that convo?

That would have been me.  I will accept the slicing I deserve.. 

Wendy Riche arrived in '92 and had to clean up Gloria Monty's mess - she tried a little bit of everything, from using Emma Samms to new teens (Jagger, Karen, Jason, AJ), to Scott and Dominique and so on. The results were very mixed.

 

Labine came in in August of '93, IIRC, and L&L came back a month or two later. It had to have been in the mix with her almost immediately - she or Riche (or both) went with the Luke/Laura renaissance. I'm not sure whose idea it was. Legend claims it was Geary who pitched L&L to save his job when Eckert was finally being put down, and ABC then forced Genie off AMC to return to GH. Either way, L&L (and Lucky) took off like a rocket - they were everywhere I looked that fall, which is how I got into the show as a kid - and the Labine era went from there.

Edited January 22, 20187 yr by Vee

I still vividly remember the promos that ran during the fall of 1993 while watching the ABC primetime shows - "Luke and Laura are back!!!" It was HUGE.

51 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

I still vividly remember the promos that ran during the fall of 1993 while watching the ABC primetime shows - "Luke and Laura are back!!!" It was HUGE.

These ones?

 

They must have been. I wasn't yet watching soaps, so I didn't pay a whole lot of attention.

17 hours ago, dragonflies said:

The #FireFrank hashtag on twitter is a thing of beauty. He's being dragged so hard and I love it!

 

https://twitter.com/hashtag/FireFrank?src=hash

 

This is a thing of beauty.  I'm so sick of the males running this show into the ground!  What I wouldn't give for a Gloria Monty or Wendy Riche to run this show again. #FireFrank!

20 minutes ago, OldGHFan said:

 

This is a thing of beauty.  I'm so sick of the males running this show into the ground!  What I wouldn't give for a Gloria Monty or Wendy Riche to run this show again. #FireFrank!

 

We all saw what an incredible job JFP did...

That #FireFrank is a great read! So much truth. He's being deservedly dragged.

Edited January 22, 20187 yr by KMan101

10 hours ago, Vee said:

Legend claims it was Geary who pitched L&L to save his job when Eckert was finally being put down.

 

I'd believe it.  Geary's career was dead when he came back to play Bill -- and not because he couldn't escape from Luke's shadow either.  

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

We all saw what an incredible job JFP did...

 

Minus her of course.  She was probably worse than the men!  LOL!