It seems to me that your problems start when you make a decision to leave. Susan Lucci became Erica Kane on the day she left college, and she never left. That character took on a life of its own, and Susan knew how to work it to stay on the show and still have something of a career outside of soaps. Soaps seem to expect that you will give your career to the character. Genie made lots of enemies at ABC when she left back in the 80's. She was their huge star and a money machine with LnL. Don't forget, she was an inexperienced teen when Gloria Monty made her a star. ABC promoted her, protected her, developed her, basically turned over their show to Tony and Genie. Then she suddenly left (she needed to, I know), but that left them with a huge hole in the show, a leading man without a partner, and the end of the gravy train. She came back under duress in the 90's, but it wasn't graceful. Her tale was that she had been forced to return because she was fired from AMC. That might have been true, but it wasn't fuzzy warm for ABC to hear that in the media. Then there was the dust-up with JFP and taking an out. Genie has had a fraught relationship with ABC.
I think she should move away from soaps. She always wanted to do stage, and this is an opportunity for that. Soaps are dying. The money isn't there for her. The network loyalty isn't there either. What does she need this for?
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: Erika Slezak, Susan Lucci, Robin Strasser,
: Susan Flannery, Jeanne Cooper, Finola
: Hughes, Deidre Hall, Julia Barr, MaryBeth
: Evans, Katherine Kelly Lang. Even if I'm
: missing some, these women portrayed very
: popular long standing characters that made a
: difference in daytime soaps. Have any of
: them been tossed around like GF in their 30
: plus year careers? Susan Lucci spoke out
: after being lied to by Frons and others on
: the future of AMC. The others above? I
: don't follow everything that closely, but I
: can't think of anything that had the kind of
: drama GF has endured with salary, vacations
: and contracts. It would have been so so
: great to have her as Mayor.
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: She scheduled her college classes around L&L
: so how could she do this to Genie? I mean, I
: know business comes first, but wouldn't she
: have been the one to fight for Genie? I'm so
: confused and heartbroken. (I wonder if her
: last name has given her a lifetime of
: ridicule. I would have changed it to Drummer
: or something completely different.)
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