From: spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira)
Subject: Re: DOOL: Bonus Info
Organization: Boo! 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:28:37 GMT


>In article <1993Jan4.223425.19840@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, mins@cbnewsf.cb.att.com
>(timothy.j.mizerak) says:
>>
>>In article <93002.152818NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> Nelson Broat <NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET>
>>writes:
>>>
>>>Poor poor baby like I really feel for her. So whats this, her third time
>>>leaving the show for the same reason yet again? Here Pasty, come let me
>>>kiss a boo-boo.
>>
>>
>>Maybe it's me, but I just don't find the ridiculing of someone's personal
>>tragedy very funny.   I think we all know what it is like to go through
>>a family crisis.  Give her a break.

>You're right its not funny to ridicule a persons personal tragedy, but we have
>a unique situation here. We have a person with a problem who decides she
>can't do her job anymore, so she states she has to leave. Her bosses concur
>and so she leaves. Then when she feels shes ready to comeback and the bosses
>concur, she comes back, only to whine how she absolutely refuses to stay if
>she has to work with a certain actor because deep in her mind she's afraid of
>him?

>I would've thought he'd of been fired if he had actually did something wrong,
>but he was just doing what his bosses asked him to do...act crazy. If the story
>line was going to bring about bad memories then both the actress (Pasty) and her
>boss (Corday) she have realized that possibility beforehand.

Why?  This wasn't a rational, thought-out reaction on PP's part.  You seem
to think that she should have been able to calmly predict the way in which
her emotional problems would surface.  What happened with WK was unfortunate
and unfair to him (though he was better off in the long run).  But I think
that asking Ken Corday to have the knowledge of a psychotherapist and asking
Patsy to plan out her emotional illness is asking too much.

>And just for the record I personally believe Pasty's so called excuses are a
>bunch of baloney (see 2 paragraphs below for my reasoning).

>This is what got me so ticked the
>last time out. So what happens, the other fellow losses his job, because she
>refuses to work with him!? And what happens shortly thereafter...she decides
>to up and leave anyways.

Maybe the two events are related.  Maybe the fact that she couldn't work
with WK influenced her decision to leave.  

 And now she comes back because she thinks she can
>handle it and her bosses concur. And what do they give her to do and what does
>she accept...an MPD storyline brought about because of abuse suffered when she
>was a child (in essence, she tries to do a storyline about her own abuse).
>The result: so called flash backs, she can't handle it anymore, she has too
>leave...AGAIN! and her bosses concur.

Well, as I've stated before, I've heard that her problems had nothing to
do with the storyline, but with the Christmas taping.  Holidays can be
very depressing for people, and PP obviously couldn't handle it this
year.

I've been told that one of the soap mags this week reports that Patsy was,
in fact, fired.

>What about when she first encountered Shane? She played a hooker then, and
>we didn't hear about any whining...and she sure did stay with the show a
>long time. Also, during that same long period of time Kims Uncle came back
>for a visit so that they could have a storyline about Kims abuse as a child.
>Where were the complaints of flashbacks back then???

She had not remembered her abuse.  Its hard to have flashbacks when you've
supressed the memory so deep.  That's why we have numerous cases in the
courts of victims pressing charges against their abuses 30, 40 years
after the fact.

>In translation Tim, I personally think she didn't leave for these so
>called personal reasons this time around. She probably left because she
>realized the storyline stunk and the character wasn't going anywhere...
>and she'd be right.

Well, all reports indicate that she had some kind of a breakdown on-set.
Somehow, I doubt that had much to do with the quality of the storyline
or character.  And it seems that after this last breakdown, it was the
powers that be's decision to set her free.  A reasonable decision at this
point, of course. 


Greg