From: robin@ntmtv.UUCP (Robin Coutellier)
Subject: AMC:  Comments
Originator: robin@volans
Reply-To: robin@ntmtv.UUCP (Robin Coutellier)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 04:59:14 GMT

Lyn Miller asked if anyone else besides Tad  thought someone else was
their mother/father.  Off the top of my head:

	Charlie Brent thought Chuck Tyler was his father (Philip Brent
	was really his father).

	Philip Brent didn't know Nick was his father when the show first
	aired.  I wonder if Nick knew who HIS father was?  Must be a
	family tradition.

	I'm not sure, but I think Carl thought the guy (Carl) his mother
	married after divorcing Frank was his father, but Frank was
	really the father.

	Brooke thought Peg, aka Cobra, was her mother.  Her real mother
	was someone named Jane (Brooke found her in a homeless shelter).

	Ross Chandler didn't know Palmer was his father.

	Edmund thought Alfred was his father.

	Emily Ann thought Benny was her father (Billy Clyde Tuggle was
	her biological father.

	Terrance thought his father was dead.

	Andrew Cortlandt thought Ross was has father, but his father was 
	really a stable boy.

Someone asked about Susan Lucci taking time off for giving birth.  I've 
seen 2 different times mentioned (she has 2 children), but not the one I
remember, which was when she went to California to be in one of her
father's movies.  She was gone for several months, and when she came
back, she was bitter about being treated like just another extra by her
father.  Or had her father already died, and they didn't treat her
royally enough as befits his daughter?  All I remember about it was that
she was there a long time, and she was disgruntled about it when she 
returned.

I've seen lots of comments on the pictures and the symbolism of placement
of the different characters.  I think they started out with relationships
hinted at, but as people came and left, they just put pictures wherever a
new slot opened up.  They've always had Erica last, going into the photo
album, and it never occurred to me until now, but given her status on the
show, they really should have a large portrait of her on the wall.
After all, several others are in individual frames.  Are we supposed to
believe that Erica doesn't even warrant a frame?

Speaking of pictures, I think it's high time they put Timmy's picture in
there.  Other child actors come and go, but I think/hope they are smart
enough not to replace such an obviously talented child actor, PVGD be
damned!  He's clearly going to be hunk material when he is older,
probably along the lines of Tad (if being on the show hasn't warped him
too much by then).  They probably can't wait to throw him and Bianca
together as teenagers, though, so they probably WILL give him that
dreaded PV disease, PVGD (maybe next summer, when they want to cash in
on the teenagers off of school for the summer).  I hope not.


Robin Coutellier                   
Northern Telecom, Mountain View, CA
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