First off, Joely Fisher needs to go. I get that she's supposed to be the boss from hell, but come on. She's Cruella De Ville with a boob job and a better benefits package. And Lynette darting from staff meeting to computer screen to video IM with her kid? Nope. Not buying it, even on sale. And apparently a lot of you didn't buy Betty's therapy chat last week, either, and you're all probably right. Maybe she was spilling her guts to get those sedatives. That doesn't mean the dude who made such a mess of breakfast isn't still her hubby. Especially with that "I've had my share of family knockdown, drag-outs" comment. The family I would like to knock down and drag out — to counseling — is the Myers clan. Between Susan ambushing Edie and Julie's church talent-show act, her patently humiliating scene at said event and Karl's affinity for emotionally crippled women, none of these people should be allowed to play together. Nor should Bree and George, so let's hope t
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Add the name David Andrew Macdonald to Guiding Light's ever-increasing list of exiting stars. A show rep confirms to TVGuide.com that the wicked Edmund Winslow's "story-line-dictated" departure from Springfield happens sometime in November. Prior to joining GL in 1999, Macdonald played Another World's time-traveler Jordan Stark and Loving's Father Matchett.
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Southern-bred soap vet Perry Stephens — who starred on ABC’s Loving as preppie Jack Forbes from 1983 to 1989 — died Sept. 8 of undisclosed causes at Hemet Valley Medical Center in Hemet, Calif. He was 47 years old. Following his Loving stint, he briefly returned to daytime in 1993 as Forrester Creations attorney Steve Crown, who posed as Brooke’s masseur to finesse her into signing a contract. Later on, Stephens played JFK to Mira Sorvino's Marilyn Monroe in the TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn and was a shady studio flack on the AMC original series The Lot.
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Ahhh. I felt so good, so Oprah "find your bliss" after last week's column — and episode, sure, whatever — so I've decided it's time for Round 2 of "Loathing, Liking, Loving"! And again, feel free to play along.Loathing the scenes of Jimmy's beating and Kirsten's near-relapse intercut with Ryan and Marissa's first time. Sex, violence and addiction? This isn't Rescue Me. Or a staff meeting.Liking that Ryan explained for all of us that they had in fact "done a lot," but not all of it.Loving our postcoital Coop for sending her battered pops on the run with a "stay gone" ultimatum. Girl, you are a woman now. Loathing Taylor. Still. Summer's right. Psycho Barbie's a skank. And a theater-geek skank at that.Liking that it's becoming so obvious that she and the dean have probably "done a lot," if not all of it.Loving Seth's wedgie from a sophomore. Oh, and that he didn't sell out Summer as his tik
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OK, my roomie recently told me that I "hate too much." Which shouldn't really irk me, since he's angry anyway. But if our Newport kids can change, I can, too. So I've decided to shake off the H-word with a round of "Loathing, Liking, Loving." This way, we get two positives to one negative. Feel free to play along.
Loathing this social-chair Psycho-Barbie Taylor Townsend.Liking that she's only recurring.Loving that she's gonna need a moment of silence after Summer's done with her for ratting Coop out of the kickoff carnival.Loathing the new dean. I don't care if Eric Mabius was hot on Eyes. You expel Marissa from the Harbor School, you suck.Liking Julie's failed defense of her daughter. "Tall, pretty, wears Chanel? Not exactly what you'd call 'gangsta.'"Loving that Ryan clocked the dude for manhandling his woman.Loving even more that we'll probably find out he's bangin' Psycho-Bar
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Another Carly swap!
While General Hospital has yet to confirm it officially, the ABC soap has reportedly fired Jennifer Bransford from the pivotal role of Mafia minx Carly Corinthos Alcazar. Although Bransford is widely considered a talented actress — she sent chills down our spines as Nora's nutso assistant, Georgie, on One Life to Live — the poor gal has evidently fought a losing battle to fit in since joining GH in April as Carly No. 3.
Now here's where this latest twist in Carly's saga gets juicy: Speculation about a recast abounded recently after GH issued a casting call for a "sexy, fiery and passionate" female character in her early thirties. Sound like Carly No. 4 to you? Turns out, GH has poached popular Guiding Light heroine Laura Wright (Cassie) to play Sonny's true love. Wright, who made her daytime debut on ABC's Loving back in the '90s, could step in as
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