ABC CONFIRMS Becky Herbst OUT at GH

*** As of 6:28 ABC just confirmed that she is indeed out. 
Yes. ABC confirmed tonight that Rebecca Herbst/Liz is leaving this spring for "storyline-dictated" reasons--Soaps In Depth (on Twitter)
I wonder if it's  FRANCO related? LOL...oh I so hope not.

 Daytime Confidential and Jamey Giddens broke this news earlier  and at first considered it a rumor but she is gone from the show. So sad.  If Becky wanted to leave on her own, I would be sad but this?? Not cool.  She has a huge fanbase. NOT to mention the Liason and L&L2ers out there who are going to really be peeved.

How do YOU feel about this news? I'm a bit shocked. Comment line:  
323-671-4583.

Duck O' The Day: GIANT QUACKERS!!

We've got SIBLING ducks of the day today!  These giant brother and sister ducks are QUACKDORABLE and QUACKCLUSIVE, with signatures by 29 -- yes, TWENTY-NINE -- GHers!!  The links to their auctions are here:  http://tinyurl.com/49labw9, http://tinyurl.com/6cx28oc

 

 

 

BOTH ducks are signed by:  Annie Ilonzeh (Maya),  Blake Gibbons (Coleman),  Bradford Anderson (Spinelli),  Brandon Barash (Johnny),  Brianna Brown (Lisa),  Carolyn Hennesy (Diane),  Chad Duell (Michael),  Dahlia Salem (Claire),  Dominic Zamprogna (Dante),  Haley Pullos (Molly),  Ingo Rademacher (Jax),  Jane Elliot (Tracy),  Jason Cook (Matt),  Jason Thompson (Patrick),  John Ingle (Edward),  John J York (Mac),  Julie Marie Berman (Lulu),  Kirsten Storms (Maxie),  Laura Wright (Carly),  Lexi Ainsworth (Kristina),  Lisa LoCicero (Olivia), Nathan Parsons (Ethan),  Ronnie Marmo (Ronnie),  Scott Reeves (Steve),  Sonya Eddy (Epiphany),  Steve Burton (Jason),  Tyler Christopher (Nikolas)  and  Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo (Brenda). 

 

General Hospital: IF I Only Had a Brain...

A Heart...A Home...The Smarts...DA Nerve.  I'm trying, I really am!!


Where is Morgan? Didn't he break his leg? You think Carly can take a second out of her day of butting into  everyone else's biz to,  I don't know, look in on him? What? Is he babysitting  Josslyn while wearing a giant cast? (I'd ask where Matt with the  broken arm is, but why? That's pointless).
I also wonder why Brenda is living at Jason's and not Sonny's..when Sonny's house is so heavily guarded..and MAX and MILO are there?? I'd love to see them help with wedding hilarity!  

Chad Duell tweeted this today...he's on the set. I snagged it so my blog might be more interesting. Not sure I'm diggin' the hair, but heck. 

 

Another set photo! 

Thanks, Chad because I really REALLY needed something fun for today!! If soaps were smart, they'd make their actors tweet  from backstage everyday!! 

TODAY'S GH: WTF. Sonny gets one wife blown up, a bride shot...a kid shot and he doesn't take advice from Jason or Dante about the wedding?? Cause "Brenda wants it"?? I'm sorry but that writing doesn't make sense in my book. 

Theo and  Loo-Loo. heh...She should have smelled something when he was spilling secrets --lawyers don't do that! LOVED JMB today..she's so perfect in her scenes confronting Dante.

Carly, OMG..where's Josslyn? LOL... Poor Laura Wright. I hope Carly gets a spa day soon. 

CHAD DUELL was spectacular today!!! He hit that out of the park.  His  upcoming "prison" spilling to Jason will be awesome. 

Molly threw a vase. You'd think she was Sonny's kid, not Ric's!!

They mention Mike today in regards to his GAMBLING streak.  Great way to probably keep him out of  the wedding. And..yep, he's going to REHAB! AHAHHAAHAHHA. There ya go,  ship 'em off. We knew Ron Hale was going but why not do it after the wedding? Why not have a nice exit planned where Mike go to Florida after they get hitched? 

CONAN was on!! DB and MB were great in that scene...that's GH, moments of tiny greatness that don't weave together.

OLTL today was so good, the way they played the Bo/Nora/Inez scenes off the Clint/Echo ones. Kelly/Cutter with Joey/Aubrey. And, TED KING IS COMING to the show soon! what the hell more can we want!!! eeeeee!!! This show also makes me feel  ok age-wise.  People older than me have lives, people younger than me do. Multi-generational. aaaaaaaaa.  Loved Clint's barn coat. HIS TEARY eyed talk  with Echo. Nice. Inez outed Clint in record time...and now Bo is going to shoot him? Naw, I don't think so.

And, who watches  AMC? Does David have some weird psychic thing going with Kendal? What's that about?!

CLAIRE!! She's ALIVE!!

Oh, today's so was so bad, I dare not write too much or people will be mad at me more than they already are. What idiotic writing.

"STARE INTO MY BALDHEAD MZzzzzz BARRETT AND TELL ME ALL YOUR SECRETS"!!

First off...Brenda spills to The Balkan about Alesander-- just like that..and he reacts like he does and she's not in the LEAST bit suspicious? WTF.  Not to mention the fact I'm so over all of it. The wedding is Feb 18th..a lifetime away.

Siobhan trying to Leave Lucky fer de good of de Lookie....was just..so done 44 million times before.  Thank God JJ can act. 

Sam and Kelly talk again in the hallway about her "problem" doesn't she have an office?

Abby and Carly. This is certainly going to last forever. "You're a hooker"?? Anyone else think of the movie "Arthur"?? You're a HOOKAH!!?? abhahahhaa.One of my fave scenes ever.


Carly: Get away from Michael!! Abby: but..but... he's good he's pure, I'm really good and pure...
Abby will leave Michael for his own good just like Siobhan is leaving Lucky for HIS own good! 

Last but not least, CLAIRE arrived at Sonny's today...announcing she's working at Alexis and Diane's. PLEASE tell me why WHY WHY...with all the dropped characters and all the dropped stories CLAIRE is all of a sudden back in the picture????? She and crazy Lisa should at least have been sisters or something. 

Project Cuddle...Can You Spare a Quack?

The ugly truth behind those cute rubber duckies and teddy bears:  On Friday afternoon (while we were watching General Hospital), the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Meyers, FL was called to a wooded area where a newborn was found dead in a garbage bag.  Sadly, this happens more often than you know -- too often.  Over the last 14 years, Project Cuddle has saved over 675 newborns from abandonment ... that's almost 50 babies per year.  Imagine how many were not so lucky? 
 
Project Cuddle helps to prevent these tragedies by providing pregnant women considering abandonment with direct resources; the toll-free, 24-hour, 7-day hotline in the U.S. and Canada is 1-88-TO-CUDDLE.  Project Cuddle also educates about state "safe surrender" or "safe haven" laws that allow women to bring their newborns to fire stations and other designated locations. 

 
John Stamos, who GH fans remember as Black Parrish, is the National Spokesperson for Project Cuddle.  BID TODAY on John's autographed 8x10 photo, a 2011 Project Cuddle calendar, and the official Project Cuddle book signed by Maurice Benard, Chad Duell, Becky Herbst, Dom Zamprogna, Jason Thompson, Ronnie Marmo, Steve Burton, Dahlia Salem, Scott Reeves, and Rick Hearst (you remember Rick Lansing!)!!  The eBay auction can be found at EBAY and ends on Thursday, January 20 at 9am east coast time (6am west coast time).  By bidding on any of these General Hospital cast signed auction items, you will be helping to save a newborn from another tragedy like Friday.  PayPal donations also can be made through January 31 at the Port Charles Wishing Well Site.

 
 
And don't forget ... this fundraiser is to celebrate the arrival of Becky's, Dom's, Jonathan's and Derk's babies -- so even if you're not able to make a donation or place an auction bid -- be sure to leave messages here BABY BOOK because keepsake hardbound copies will be sent to the new parents!

Groovy Golden Globes

LOVED Olivia Wilde's shoes!! I could never ever wear them but they are a joy to look at!! Loved her dress as well.  This year there weren't to many that really grabbed me.

Ricky Gervas was a pill!! LOL...he just killed it. Snarky and sassy!! Wowza!! Love those Brits.

Annette Benning and AL  Pacino had the same hairstyle. 
Jane Lynch's speech was hysterical. "I am nothing but falsely humble"

 OH, SO...SO...SAD. Christina, what were you thinking??! Not only is the dress bad but the hair? EESHhhhhhhhhh. Not a great look, imo. Just heard she is indeed pregnant--I thought so when she was on DWTS.

Robert Downey Jr's little speech before the best actress noms was very fun!! He's so cool, isn't he? *sigh*

Halle Berry looked awesome in her tight black dress!! 


I hated that Glee won over Modern Family-- Glee just takes my 70's and 80's song memories and crushes them. 

The Kids are Alright was an "alright' movie.  Anyone else see it? I was disappointed with the story and thought it just dragged. The acting was amazing, yes, but it didn't do anything else for me. 


Yeah for "The Kings Speech" Colin Firth...go Speech Pathologists! BOO that our Franco lost. He was up in a year of standout performances.

Dear Sandy, lose the bangs..wow. NOT a good look for you. You look mad. The dress was ok but man I can't get past those bangs to enjoy it! LOL. I wish she would have shown up with Ryan Reynolds!! Especially since ScarJO was there too!  

The Social Network won and I really did love the movie..it was done so well, and I thought that I wouldn't find it interesting. WRONG!!  See it!! 

 

LOVED!!! LOVED!! 

 

WTF.

 

General Hospital Sunday Surgery: Lab Work

 (all links fixed! thanks for telling me...)

Well. Looks like the ratings plummeted one week and then went up hugely the next. That's what holiday break will do to you!! Soap Opera Network has all the numbers for you to take a gander at.

Over on TVGuide Canada, Nelson reports that there's a casting call for 35 year old "Grace" some bratty rich girlie. WTH! Uh, don't we have enough freekin' ladies running around? Claire, Siobhan, Olivia, Brooke Lyn...Maya...Abby-- It just boggles my dang mind. Not to mention Kate has evaporated when they so could have used Crimson as a Brenda-centric story setting.  :stompingfoot:  

Looks like the SnB wedding will be marred by destruction... you know Guza-fied wedding.  OF COURSE!!! Why would it be joyful!!?? We've got The Balkan all ready to pounce and Franco waiting in the wings-- probably to do a wedding portrait of "The Face" while she's chained to a wall somewhere. *sigh* 
Tony Geary is back, that means more Q-mania at least. I'm  hearing Ethan will decide to go the corporate route because he's sick of being beat-up and he knows there's a hell of a lot of money to be made white-collar crime style. I'm clinging to the hope this happens, and that the Qs get rocking again, so don't disturb me.  If they are going to keep Brooke Lyn (and I'm shocked they have) then have her be his assistant. She could cause trouble for ol' Mayan! 

Franco has announced  he's directing and acting in a "Night Stalker" picture-- and for those of you that don't remember, Richard Rameriz was a strangler/rapist that terrorised Southern California in the '80's. The physical resemblance to Franco is eerie-- and will give me nightmares, I'm sure. I'm a huge true-crime buff so I will have to see it. I guess Franco was doing a little re-con with his GH  serial-killer stint.  This must be it. Yes, I'm officially  on the Franco-Frenia Freeway. Why? Don't know, but between his Fronkey and Guza, I'm hooked!! 


Michael's going to make his reveal to Jason this month about his horrific prison rape...and I hear it's amazingly powerful.  

                                             Scene of the week: Diane/Carly... loved it.


Other than that, I'm still not happy with the whole flow of the show. The sputtering and start-stop of the stories. Just the fact that no one has mentioned the bus crash  patients this week is enough to make me angry. There's a spoiler that Steve will visit Olivia and it may be "romantic" --whatever. They are like Mac/Alexis. How the hell can we care about anyone when you never show them? Bring on a wedding planner, have her in one scene, then she's gone. Why didn't they have her and  Suzanne argue? Claire's coming back for this wack-a-doodle trial after being in the closet how long? LOL..  it's maddening. At  least they are keeping Johnny around to beat up AGAIN. Brandon Barash has to be wondering  if his days are numbered. The insertion of the Spinelli book, while giving Diane more airtime, really needs to be woven into the canvas. Just like the random Sam/Dr.Kelly scene. If you missed that 20 second conversation, you'd be lost as to what's coming with the JaSam story.

Ok, I'll shut up! LOL.  You all know what I feel-- and how I'd write the show. OLTL on the other hand is stunning in it's completeness. (Like that line?!) Switched DNA,  Mean Clint... a circus of a trial, brothers against brothers... Nora/Bo-- fun Roxy and crazy-ass'd Marty. Ah, good stuff. 

BTW, one of my fave people, Real Andrews is off to All My Children as a detective. I can't wait. I still think he could have been used on GH, but I'm glad he's back on daytime.

There's a great charity going on...you've seen the duckies featured on this blog all week. Aren't they darling?? Some are rare (Tony Geary) and some are  filled with about 30 sigs!! Head on over to Ebay, PC Wishing Well  to get yours today!! I still say the soap fans are the most generous and caring of them all!! 


Another shameless plug is the PEPSI CHallenge. "DO Good". They are giving away much money for start-ups that can improve the lives of others or  help the planet. My brother's friend Van, designed a cooling vest for MS patients and the chronically ill. He can win with our votes...and realize his dream of actually manufacturing these great pain reducers. Hit the link and if you think it's a "cool" idea, consider voting..thanks.


Have a great day!! Keep Warm!!