It's hard to say about MBE's following. Katherine was a mess from the start and diametrically opposite of Kayla. Both Nina and Ava were messes too, but the material was more in their wheelhouse. Plus, both came frome cancelled shows so that was the only option for their fans.
As limited as the actor who plays Tomas is, after today, I'm really excited to see the Eva/Tomas/Kat triangle pick up some speed.
And, I was thinking that I wasn't gonna have to resurrect this hashtag, but yeah #FreeSmitty
Oh my -- long time ago, huh?? What was the actual storyline? Here's what I recall: Susan was married to David Martin and had his baby, Dickie. David allowed Dickie to fall off a swing-set or something, and Dickie was killed. So a distraught Susan shot and killed David. Julie had been having sex with David Martin, and was pregnant with his child when Susan killed him. Then Julie named her newborn child David. And that was really what began the big feud between Susan and Julie. I KNOW I have a lot of this history wrong -- so anyone please feel free to correct my historical errors. I would appreciate that very much.
Now back to Denise's Another World connection. Although I loved Denise as an actress, I was never crazy about Mary McKinnon. Mostly because of her completely unbelievable introduction -- two back-from-the-dead characters returning in the SAME storyline. It seemed ridiculous, and was just a bit too much for me to accept.
Denise had so much inherent warmth, yet also layered her work with neuroses and emotion, making sure her characters were never as one-dimensional as the writing could have been. She was one of the first high profile poachings from one soap to another, which could have been a recipe for disaster, but she worked hard and turned Lesley into such an integral part of GH's rebuilding. The show may not have survived the '70s without her.
I wish they'd done more with Lesley when they brought her back in 1996.
I hope more of Denise's run at DAYS will appear.
I enjoyed Denise's work on AW, in a very underwritten part - it felt like she was just hitting her stride in playing the role when she left.
We are losing so many of our legends, but in moments like this I try to just be grateful we had them for as long as we did.
I do feel terrible for those at GH as they've been hit hard the last few years.
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