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: Robin Strasser and Frank:
: http://soapcentral.com/oltl/news/2017/0116-robin_strasser_addiction.php
: Jill F.Phelps had a power struggle w/ Genie
: re time off during summer break, Genie
: though she had same provision in her
: contract as Tony and Jill said no. Genie
: used her contract as written in show of
: force and Jill never forgot/forgave.. fired
: her when she went over to Y&R. .. JFP btw is
: the one that Fired Anna Lee (killed her
: according to Anna's son) She'd been promise
: by Wendy a job until she died. Jill fired
: her. There were health benefits involved and
: other things but she did die within months
: of being fired. (I can link the articles if
: interested)
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: Robin Strasser did have lots of problems, if
: I
: remember correctly. Someone here might
: know.
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: 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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