GH In The News: The PC Press Club

[ciarra]

1 hour ago, methodwriter85 said:

I don't know, the Nurses Ball was the last place we could hear actual music (because covers are cheap) but then my heart sank in 2020 or 2021 when it was clear they weren't going to use any licensed music as Epiphany sang some Muzak and cried about Covid. 

They've been doing Public Domain songs at least since 2019, when Joss and Jax sang a pretty lame version of "Lavender's Blue".  

[tessaray]

12 minutes ago, ciarra said:

They've been doing Public Domain songs at least since 2019, when Joss and Jax sang a pretty lame version of "Lavender's Blue".  

I have the Internet Archive on my BlueSky feed and while nothing specific comes to mind at the moment, the 1929 copyright stuff is moving into the PD, so there are a lot more things they could pick. (Recent entries Singin' in the Rain and Ain't Misbehaving jumped out at me.) But they probably won't. 

[methodwriter85]

2 hours ago, tessaray said:

(Recent entries Singin' in the Rain and Ain't Misbehaving jumped out at me.) But they probably won't. 

Singin' in the Rain would be a lot of fun. They would just have to be really careful not to use any of the imagery or choreography from the film, which is definitely not public domain yet.

[YaddaYadda]

9 hours ago, Artsda said:

They should grab Thomas from Bold. 

No, we shouldn't.

[DanaK]

 

[GHScorpiosRule]

14 hours ago, Artsda said:

They should grab Thomas from Bold. 

13 hours ago, KittenPokerCheater said:

That's an excellent idea!

12 hours ago, methodwriter85 said:

Matthew Atkinson would absolutely kill it if they were going with an angry, bitter Michael who has gone a bit cuckoo. 

 

Please no. Nothing personal, but the actor has the eyes of a weasely rat. So squinty.

 

 

4 hours ago, YaddaYadda said:

No, we shouldn't.

Thank you. 

[KerleyQ]

1 hour ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

Please no. Nothing personal, but the actor has the eyes of a weasely rat. So squinty.

He has resting evil face. The only way I could see him working would be if Michael was going to fully embrace the mob life and take over Sonny's business.  CD was never going to be believable as a mob boss. 

[dubbel zout]

43 minutes ago, KerleyQ said:

CD was never going to be believable as a mob boss. 

CD wasn't believable as any sort of boss, IMO. It didn't help that he took over ELQ when he was 23, or whatever absurd age it was, and Michael has never had much command presence, as it were.

[absnow54]

16 hours ago, Artsda said:

They should grab Thomas from Bold. 

I’m not particularly a fan, but they just missed out on Billy Flynn, too, who just jumped ship from Days to Y&R. 

[DanaK]

Cameron Mathison will be on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday to talk about losing his home in the LA fires

[Sake614]

God help us, Frank hired Daniel Goddard (Cane frpm Y&R) as Joss’ professor. 

[YaddaYadda]

17 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

God help us, Frank hired Daniel Goddard (Cane frpm Y&R) as Joss’ professor. 

Well, this show is about to become even more unwatchable. 

[dubbel zout]

Will he sleep with Joss or Emma first? 

As an environmental physicist, I expect him to be fully versed in the Cassadine science on freezing the world. Laura can be a guest speaker when that unit comes up in the syllabus. (NGL, that would be awesome.)

Edited April 11 by dubbel zout
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[rur]

30 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

God help us, Frank hired Daniel Goddard (Cane frpm Y&R) as Joss’ professor. 

I wasn't familiar with the actor's name, so I looked him up and learned he was Australian-American, so if he has an Aussie accent, will TPTB be unable to resist creating a Jax or Scorpio connection that will cause conflict for girl superspy Joss? 

[YaddaYadda]

47 minutes ago, rur said:

I wasn't familiar with the actor's name, so I looked him up and learned he was Australian-American, so if he has an Aussie accent, will TPTB be unable to resist creating a Jax or Scorpio connection that will cause conflict for girl superspy Joss? 

Tristan Rogers played his father on YR. I'm pretty sure the YR fandom called Goddard's character trash koala.

Edited April 11 by YaddaYadda

[statsgirl]

On 4/10/2025 at 12:17 AM, tessaray said:

I have the Internet Archive on my BlueSky feed and while nothing specific comes to mind at the moment, the 1929 copyright stuff is moving into the PD, so there are a lot more things they could pick. (Recent entries Singin' in the Rain and Ain't Misbehaving jumped out at me.) But they probably won't. 

Ain't Misbehaving has a lot of potential as an act. Too many possibilities for me to pick one (just not Willow and Drew  or Lucas and Marco please).

2 hours ago, Sake614 said:

God help us, Frank hired Daniel Goddard (Cane frpm Y&R) as Joss’ professor. 

Beastmaster! 😄 (I'm a sucker for Andre Norton.)

[boes]

49 minutes ago, YaddaYadda said:

Tristan Rogers played his father on YR. I'm pretty sure the YR fandom called Goddard's character trash koala.

Oh, we had MUCH worse monikers for him.  MUCH worse.

Him playing a professor is about as unbelievable as Joss playing ......... anything.

1 hour ago, dubbel zout said:

Laura can be a guest speaker when that unit comes up in the syllabus.

If Show plays to Daniel Goddard's strengths, then he will undoubtedly think the syllabus is what picks him up and takes him to work.

 

[Sake614]

1 hour ago, statsgirl said:

Beastmaster

Yeah NGL I thought he was adorable back then and was psyched when I saw he was on Y&R. That quickly died after seeing him…

[jsbt]

Hopefully the role is short-term as part of the Alias Joss saga. That's how it sounds to me, but you never know with Uncle Frank collecting soap stars like Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

You know DG is trying to avoid some Tubi Original Beastmaster movies or something. Killed off 25 mins into Beastmaster: Generations before his hunky son's horrified eyes! (I just made this up. AFAIK.)

[DanaK]

SOD talks to Eden McCoy about Joss's new life in the WSB

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/gh-exclusive-eden-mccoy-is-super-stoked-about-josss-new-life-in-the-wsb/?utm_campaign=true_anthem_soapoperadigest&utm_content=bestof_7days&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[statsgirl]

I think the actor playing Vaughan is good but he's 14 years older than Eden and looks it. I hope they don't go the romance direction for them.

[ciarra]

I thought Vaughan vaguely looks like Jack Wagner.  Maybe it's the hair?

[statsgirl]

In spite of myself, I'm impressed with Eden's reading of her character.

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McCoy acknowledges that Joss’s shift from undergrad to WSB asset “is a very large jump. Josslyn has no experience in anything in that world. But at the same time, this is a young woman who clearly has no idea what she wants to do in life. She has gone from wanting to be a doctor to not wanting to be a doctor, to wanting to be an environmental scientist, and the character of Brennan was brilliant in [selling her on joining the WSB] because he knows that. He knows where she’s at in life, and he framed joining the WSB as a real career that makes an actual difference in people’s lives and in the safety of the world. I think that was brilliant because it plays to Josslyn’s insecurity about having no idea what she wants to do and feeling so lost. He kind of presents to her this silver platter of, ‘You can have this exciting life.’ But obviously, the struggle is everything that comes with that, which is that nobody in Josslyn’s life can ever know. Not anyone, from her mom to Jason to Trina. So now, from here on out, there are sacrifices of lying to everybody in her life and losing relationships of honesty, and realizing how lonesome this career is going to be because she can’t share anything about her real life.”

 

[DanaK]

SOD: Finola Hughes celebrating 40 years as Anna

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/gh-exclusive-finola-hughes-on-celebrating-40-years-as-anna-its-really-gratifying/

[driver18]

On 4/10/2025 at 2:06 PM, absnow54 said:

I’m not particularly a fan, but they just missed out on Billy Flynn, too, who just jumped ship from Days to Y&R. 

Ugh, Flynn's been my Michael dream cast forever. Sigh.

[jsbt]

Will Trent did a lovely bit tonight featuring/riffing on the one true GH opening from the '90s-2000s, Dave Koz's "Faces of the Heart". (Not my tweet.)

 

[statsgirl]

It was lovely and sad to see a younger LC in the GH credits on Will Trent.

Edited April 17 by statsgirl

[DanaK]

SOD: How 2 GH legends helped Braedyn Bruner find her groove as Emma
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-how-two-gh-legends-helped-braedyn-bruner-find-her-groove-as-emma/

Emma’s talk with Anna about why she was protesting about the Quartermaine crypt destruction definitely helped me take Emma more seriously

[DanaK]

SOD: Adrian Anchondo talks about Marcos
 

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/gh-exclusive-adrian-anchondo-on-marcos-romance-with-lucas-tense-family-ties/

[YaddaYadda]

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Anchondo: Let me just tell you, there’s a lot of pressure because I’ve already seen some comments and gotten messages [from fans], and the number one thing that gets repeated is, “Please don’t hurt him!” And I’m like, “You know what? I wish I had more control over that!” I guess we’ll see where it goes, but I do believe that Marco is going to be very good to him.

Fans are creepy AF. They understand that it's the characters going in a relationship and not the actors, right? They know that the actors don't write their lines and don't choose how their characters behave?

It's all rhetorical. Humans are the stupidest.

[Cheyanne11]

3 hours ago, YaddaYadda said:

Fans are creepy AF. They understand that it's the characters going in a relationship and not the actors, right? They know that the actors don't write their lines and don't choose how their characters behave?

It's all rhetorical. Humans are the stupidest.

I always think of that scene from "Tootsie" when there are fans waiting outside the studio and a fan asks Geena Davis if something is going to happen and she says "How should I know, I don't write this shit."

[Sake614]

6 hours ago, YaddaYadda said:

Fans are creepy AF. They understand that it's the characters going in a relationship and not the actors, right? They know that the actors don't write their lines and don't choose how their characters behave?

It's all rhetorical. Humans are the stupidest.

No, they really don’t. I went to super soap weekend back in 2001 and felt sorry for the actors who kept telling the fans they were not their characters. Hillary B. Smith had to tell fans that she was not Nora Buchanan, and that she and Robert S. Woods were not actually a couple. Larry Lau had to repeatedly tell them he was not Greg from AMC and was now playing Sam on OLTL. 🥱

[Katy M]

23 hours ago, Cheyanne11 said:

I always think of that scene from "Tootsie" when there are fans waiting outside the studio and a fan asks Geena Davis if something is going to happen and she says "How should I know, I don't write this shit."

Well, that's a little more understandable.  They could think she reads the scripts.

But, it's absolutely ludicrous the amount of adults (it's more understandable for children, IMO) that actually think the actor is exactly like the character, even if they understand they are 2 distinct entities.  Or people who think that they actually know people because they've seen them at a few conventions or whatever.  

[graight]

Did anyone catch this?  The Daily Show makes fun of Trump and Stephen A Smith (including Brick shooting the "nurse").

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1258860968966029

Hilarious!

[CanaryFan98]

 

[Sake614]

I saw that earlier. Very sad. 💔

[YaddaYadda]

GH has suffered a lot of loss over the past 3 years. I can't remember anything this.

[giovannif7]

#RIP Denise Alexander, Lesley Webber on daytime drama General Hospital. With Leslie Charleson's passing in January, I like to think Monica Quartermaine is welcoming her former sparring partner with some choice words about stealing the limelight one last time... 😢😢😢

 

[DanaK]

In a Twitter thread about Denise’s passing, someone asked when Monica will pass on the show and this was the response. I can’t verify the veracity of it

 

[Desperado]

I saw on Reddit that she passed in March but the family wanted to mourn privately. IMDb dates it to March 5.

I loved Lesley on GH and wanted her to be my mother (started watching when I was 12) and enjoyed her last comeback.

I wonder if they’ll acknowledge her passing on the show outside of just using it as an excuse for GF’s summer leave.

I’m having trouble reconnecting with GH (too many stupid contrivances and rinse-repeat events), but I will tune in for the goodbye to LC and hope we get some decent acknowledgment of Denise Alexander’s work on the show.

[Sake614]

I’m sure we’ll get an “in loving memory’ slide at the end of a show (likely the nurses ball) but if they do a memorial episode, it probably won’t be until sometime next year. And that’s a big ‘if.’

[CanaryFan98]

1 hour ago, Desperado said:

I saw on Reddit that she passed in March but the family wanted to mourn privately. IMDb dates it to March 5.

I loved Lesley on GH and wanted her to be my mother (started watching when I was 12) and enjoyed her last comeback.

I wonder if they’ll acknowledge her passing on the show outside of just using it as an excuse for GF’s summer leave.

 

I’m having trouble reconnecting with GH (too many stupid contrivances and rinse-repeat events), but I will tune in for the goodbye to LC and hope we get some decent acknowledgment of Denise Alexander’s work on the show.

I could see that hopefully this is after Monica’s passing. I want Laura around for that

[Winston Wolfe]

Sad to hear about Denise Alexander. We're losing all the vets these days.

Edited May 10 by Winston Wolfe

[30 Helens]

I know Denise has been off the show longer than Leslie, but I hope she gets a tribute that goes beyond a mere title card. She was such an important part of the show for so long. I’m sure Monica will have a memorial service, and not to take away from that but maybe they could also acknowledge Lesley/ Denise with a clip segment on the same episode? The two great ladies shared so many scenes, it could function to honor both of them,

[Grinaldi]

I'm of two minds here. I think LC and DA both deserve separate tributes. But I would be so tempted to do a "Jefferson lives" and have Monica and Leslie go at the same time like Adams and Jefferson. There's a poetry there.

Denise was so great during her original run and I'm still annoyed she was killed off. I always wished they had done more with her after her comeback.

[DanaK]

 

2 hours ago, Grinaldi said:

I'm of two minds here. I think LC and DA both deserve separate tributes. But I would be so tempted to do a "Jefferson lives" and have Monica and Leslie go at the same time like Adams and Jefferson. There's a poetry there.

Considering how much the two characters were rivals, that would be fun. But Lesley passed a few months ago and deserves to have her tribute soon. The PTB may have to take some time to do a tribute to Denise, especially if they have to schedule some returnees. At the very least, maybe include some Monica vs. Leslie clips in both tributes. 

Edited May 11 by DanaK

[Bringonthedrama]

On 5/10/2025 at 10:20 PM, DanaK said:

 

Considering how much the two characters were rivals, that would be fun. But Lesley passed a few months ago and deserves to have her tribute soon. The PTB may have to take some time to do a tribute to Denise, especially if they have to schedule some returnees. At the very least, maybe include some Monica vs. Leslie clips in both tributes. 

Yes, there should be separate tribute episodes. I think the only characters who were around at the time of the rivalry and have still been on the Show in recent years are Tracy, Laura, and Scotty.

Tracy, Ned, and somewhat Jason should be the lead characters on a Monica tribute episode because JE, WK and SB worked with LC the longest and the most as family. After that, of the current cast members, I think GF and BHerbst have worked with her the longest. 

Laura, Lucky and Lesley Lu should be the lead characters on a Lesley tribute episode. Maybe there are old clips of JJ and DA that could be used?  I don't remember. I know the late TC had scenes with her when Grandma Lesley was trying to get Nikolas to spend time with (child) Spencer. I assume there are old clips of Scotty interacting with Lesley when he and Laura were together. Hopefully Kevin would appear for the death of his MIL.

Edited May 15 by Bringonthedrama

[DanaK]

Lynn Herring opens up about life after husband Wayne Northrop's death

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/lynn-herring-opens-up-about-life-after-loss-gh-helped-me-so-much/?utm_campaign=true_anthem_soapoperadigest&utm_content=bestof_48hours&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[Artsda]

JJ was a groomsman in the wedding party. 

 

[yowsah1]

16 hours ago, Artsda said:

JJ was a groomsman in the wedding party. 

 

Nice to get some happy news coming out of GH. Those folks have had too many sad occasions recently.