One Life to Live

Although I normally detest the third-rate writing team on Guiding Light, I've got to give them credit for their courage and audacity in bringing back from the dead a soap character not seen for a long time, namely God! If we're lucky, the newly minted Rev. Joshua Lewis (Robert Newman), alth...

Marlena usually has excellent instincts about the futures of brand new soap actors. And right now the immediate future of an actor who has the goods to be a real star in entertainment realms beyond soaps is very much in jeopardy. He's Canadian actor Graham Shiels, who plays Cody Paul on Gener...

As for me, I'm still hoping Genie Francis will come back for November sweeps as she did last year. As Laura, she brings back romance, tenderness and mother love to GH. But all signs point towards mayhem, with plenty of guns, rampant criminality and lots of violence this November instead. It's...

6. Will one of my Guiding Light fan readers out there please explain to me how Cyrus wound up married to Alexandra Spaulding? How did I miss this? And GL, All My Children and Capitol fans, after all these years of her starring on many soaps, isn't a day without Marj Dusay just a day without sunsh...

So, I'm left with questions. Whose idea was this story originally? The show's interim writers after McTavish or the show's brand new writers, James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten? I am not a fan of the latter duo. Remember the vampire stories on Port Charles? And the Reva clone story on Gu...

Many years later, OLTL stupidly broke up the enormously popular Bo and Nora. Why remains one of soaps' lingering mysteries. But the fact is that some time after Bo became a police chief, Woods' legendary sexy charm began to do a slow fade. Why was this allowed to happen? Another sad mystery.