I’m going to challenge you a bit here. She was notorious for running show budgets out of control, and firing actors/vets to pay for it. Especially at GH. OLTL was believed to be very much under budget for years under Frank and they were penalized with cancellation while Jill got away with issues with her budget. Her storytelling instincts at GH, paired with Guza and not, cost the show millions of viewers and for all their faults, Frank and Ron brought the show back up to like mid 2000’s numbers.
As far as a woman in a man’s world, let’s look at her peers. In the 1990’s you had Wendy Riche, Francesca James, Jean Dadario Burke, JHC, Susan Bedsow Horgan, and I am probably missing a couple here or there. Not all of these people had successful tenures, but none of them also had as much difficulty working with women talent. I am not privy to backstage stuff out other levels. But JFP forced women out at every show and let men get away with murder. I am sure Robin Strasser can be difficult. But she doesn’t hold a candle to Tony Geary or Maurice Benard. Kale Brown was hated by his coworkers IIRC, but HBS was the one who felt punished for asking questions and wanting to know where Nora’s brain went. She fired a woman on maternity leave.
As afar as learning her lesson, she freely admitted multiple times in recent history that the lesson she learned from Maureen on GL was it was fine to kill her, they just shouldn’t have made the audience care about her so much before they did it.
I am sure she has had to deal with a lot of crap in her career. She knows how to win Emmy’s, although I remember her bloc voting being a bone of contention with soap journalists and fans. But I don’t think she is unfairly targeted with criticism. I feel the same way about Paul Rauch by the way. His talent as EP is mired by his creative choices and the way he treats women for me.
She is not strong enough to support this story! Both Michael and Kristina deserve better!
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