Don't forget every James Dean and young Marlon Brando movie for the Lujack storyline.
The GWTW obsession was a little much for me. I wonder if Robert Newman hadn't left if we would have found out that Josh actually was more love with a male school friend than with Reva in their Cat on a Hot Tin Roof replay. (Actually, that might have been interesting, LOL).
What's gagging me the most about that article is how she came to New York to become an actress in 1980, accomplished that with a major role on a soap, and by 1982 was head writing soap operas! Replacing some of the best in the business at the time! WTF. (There HAS to be some tea about THAT).
Yeah, I know Texas was already on its last legs when she wrote it and she had a co-head writer in the beginning at GL. But this isn't like, say, Harding Lemay being plucked from playwriting to write a soap. As far I know, she had zero writing experience before writing Texas.
Also, talking about writing from character, the Dreaming Death storyline had nothing at all to do with the characters, it was totally plot-driven nonsense. But I've always assumed it was nonsense she was commanded to write so they could compete with GH.
I give her a lot of credit for the good things she did with GL, and soaps probably should have given more newbie soap writers chances, but her backstory for how she got into writing soaps is still wild.
Oh, yeah, we knew she was coming and we knew she would be Alan's sister. They made a big thing out of it.
I think they did that to get the audience 1) excited about Bev coming on the show and 2) used to the idea that Alan had a sudden sister.
It worked.
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