General Hospital Night Shift: Good Night and Good Riddance

NS39s only redeeming aspect and its real legacy to daytime is its bravura casting Casting directors Mark Teschner and Gwen Hillier introduced a group of new actors who are universally talented and interesting No brainless hunk or hunkette models typically hired en masse on most soaps Days of Our Lives For NS Teschner and Hillier made very well thoughtout choices the politically chic not to mention gorgeous Nanizin Boniadi the unusual looking and very goofy Dominic Rains Leo Graham Shiels sexy villain Cody and an appealingly real Angel M Wainwright Regina a real gem As you know NS cast member Amanda Baker psycho Jolene has already been franchised out to All My Children as the new BabeSo now we close the book on NS until a possible next year Will the formula for Brian Frons39 own Frankenstein monster of a soap partially and cheaply made from GH39s leftover parts be copied by other networks And will ABC choose to keep spinning GH off First they gave us the now failed Port Charles then GHNS Next year I bet it will be Jason and Spinelli to capitalize on the characters39 Lucy and Ethel relationshipYoung and The Restless Has CBS made a big big mistake Like you I was shocked to see YampampR advertise a General Hospitalesque stunt called quotOut of the Ashesquot to be aired this coming week Clear Springs will literally blow up with almost the entire cast involved YampampR has never done a mega stunt let alone anything promoted with a title It promises to be the polar opposite of the slow subtle classy soap opera the late Bill Bell presided over for thirty years I remember the days 25 years ago when he frowned on any kind of advance publicity for his show a belief he acquired from his mentor Irna PhillipsCan current executive producerwriter Lynn Marie Latham do any more to call the public39s attention to the fact that her new YampampR is no longer the quottraditionalquot YampampR viewers loved for decades This actiondisaster sequence better be good because she39ll be drowning in even more hate mail from angry longtime fans who absolutely hate the ways faster pace plots full of soap cliches in which she has changed the show Some of that mail has even come my way Will quotOut of the Ashesquot alienate even more old fans than the new fans it wants to attract We39ll have to see boom boom next weekCreme De Lacroix This week I toast Justin Deas and Kin Shriner respectively Buzz Cooper on Guiding Light and Scott Baldwin on General Hospital Their faces are both wonderful real world aged wrecks No producer would ever let a female actor go onscreen looking as baggyeyed and tired as Deas and Shriner both in their 50s Yet I still delight in their performances These two expert soap acting veterans of several decades standing are full of character now as ever Buzz is mostly seen playing support to his kids Frank and Harley and his troubled grandkids and Scotty in support of newfound son Logan Personally I39d love to have the wisdom of Buzz to draw upon and Scotty39s vinegary reasoning still makes me laugh after all these years They may look as old as Yoda but they are home and they are family

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General Hospital Night Shift: Good Night and Good Riddance

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