R.I.P.: AMC, ATWT and ABC Daytime EP Felicia Minei Behr Passes Away

[BetterForgotten]

RIP

Yes - she was the last person to produce RH, and moved back to AMC after that stint. In fact, she spent most of the 80’s at RH.

@EricMontreal22 - Hal Corley outlasted FMB/LB at ATWT. He continued well into Hogan Sheffer’s stint, leaving at like 2002 or so. 

[EricMontreal22]

Thanks, I think I knew that in the back of my head as I remember him mentioning Sheffer and I know he was at ATWT briefly when Jean Passanante was there.

I do know from a live interview I saw with Michael Park (which was Broadway related) from a few years ago now, he actually gave Felicia Minei Behr for introducing him to TV acting, after she had contacted him from some of his stage work (I believe she introduced herself after seeing him as a replacement Billy in the big mid 90s Carousel revival and asked if he'd ever consider soaps...)

[Soapsuds]

FMB's first nine months were very good. After Diego's murder, the show went off the rails. The resolution to the murder was awful. FMB fired two fan favorites, Liz Hubbard and Allyson Rice. Lorraine's writing was very slow and boring, with characters the audience didn't care about.

Holden's return and Diego's murder were two of FMB's highlights and resulted in good ratings.

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[BetterForgotten]

Corley (amongst others) were likely the true saviours for Sheffer’s early ATWT stint before the bottom fell off. It was really the day to day writing and dialogue that made some of that material work. Many of those staff writers had worked for McTavish and Broderick at AMC previously. 

[EricMontreal22]

That's a really good point, and often really important particularly when a writer comes on without previous soap experience.  When Gottlieb brought on Michael Malone to OLTL, his work only really started to work for the soap when Josh Griffith (a writer I don't particularly think much of on his own) came on as co-HW.

[Paul Raven]

Felicia also brought on Gillian Spencer as ghost Jennifer and began the story of Kim's heart issues but for whatever reason it was dropped. 

We don't know what BTS stuff affects what makes it to air.