From: mssmith@unix.amherst.edu (MELISSA STEPHANIE SMITH)
Subject: Re: DOOL: Casting Moves
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:29:06 GMT

MELISSA STEPHANIE SMITH (mssmith@unix.amherst.edu) wrote:
I was having problems with the editor when I originally posted, but I think I 
have fixed things so it sounds a little more coherent:

So much for two year contracts.  TPTB must be getting a pretty bad reputation 
around acting circles because of their axing proneness.  I was gone for
only six months and in that time Kayla, Shane, Ginger, Molly, Tanner and 
Brian were all canned and now they' ve done it to Lynn Herring and are 
planning three
more.  The replacements: Asstin, Billy the prono queen, Tim, and BOtulism (not
 a new character but an atrocious actor). GEESH, and TPTB wonder why their 
viewers are disappearing? Get a clue guys, better yet get some actors.
 
: : I would call Crystal a one-dimensional actress, but I'm not really
: : sure she even has that one dimension.  I'm sitting here having stumbled
: : upon the Carly falls in elevator shaft episode on one of my tapes,
: : and it's downright painful to watch. (As a special bonus, I get to
: : see Hawk again!) 
OOH, how absolutely horrible. My condolences.  I remember how I was hoping 
 so hard for her to be crushed into a bloody pulp and then how disappointed
 I was when she survived.  I have this fantasy of them shooting at the 
 Empire State Building and her either getting struck by lightening or 
 falling down the shaft there, although knowing my luck she would survive 
because they would discover that she is actually made of rubber 
(which would explain her one dimensionalness).
 
: : Carly and this Bo are the most nauseating daytime couple I've ever
: : seen.  
So true.  I keep a bottle of Maalox handy in case the urge to vomit comes
upon me.
: : 
: 
: : >Hey, I think that Billie is pretty suckie too. Her acting is the
: : >pits. And I guess it makes since she is as bad as the guy who
: : >tries to play her brother, Asstin. The other day when she attempted
: : >being high, geez get real. It was so pathetic.
I didn't realize until after the audition when it was actually said that she
was high, that she was supposed to be high.  I thought she was just an idiot.
I wonder if anyone has ever explained to her what acting lessons are.

: : 
: : Well, I'm the only one here who actually likes Roman.  I just think he's
: : been giving nothing to do since he came back except fight the stupidest
: : villain in daytime history 
Actually I like him too.  I was excited when they brought them back (although
not with the way they did it), since I had always liked them before.  I had
never become attached to Drake as Roman so it didn't bother me too much when
he became John Black.  The past couple of weeks I think Wayne has been giving
some of the old spark to the character, but that is because now he actually has
a storyline.
: 
: : a snot purposely.  This whole plot with Stella has convinced me of that.
: : It is too obvious that the writers are doing everything possible to make us
: : sympathize with Stella, and not Marlena.
Even though I am an old fan, I too was getting fed up with Marlena's perfection
and know-it-allness.  I'm glad that they have tarnished her up a little, I just
wish that in the process they were not also writing out Stella.  Wouldn't it 
be great to see Stella develope into a full fledged villianness, not just a 
pshycho, and have her around to make life for everyone who had ever put her 
down a living hell.  It would be great to have a villianness again, it has been
so long since they had one on the show.  Probably Emma was the last one 
(I don't count Steve's ex-wife since she was more bitchy than wicked and she 
wasn't around too long anyway).
I HATE THE TPTB!
: 
: : Greg 
: 
MELISSA SMITH

I think I've fixed everything.  If I haven't, the gist of it is that I like 
Stella, hate Carly, liked Wayne as Roman except now he doesn't have the old 
spark, and hope that Marlena is more human after Stella gets done with her.

I'd also like to add that I hope Corday falls into a vat of molten lava, and
the old writers come back, get rid of CARcinogen and the new BOngo-drum, as 
well as the rest of the no talents, and give real storylines to J&J, Larry,
Vic, Roman and Marlena, John, etc.

Melissa Smit
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