Massi Furlan Plays Villian in New Bat Man Flick!

Way back when Vanessa first came back on GH, I interviewed a great guy named Massi who played one of the Balkin's "thugs" out to get Brenda. Unfortunately, his character was shot but Massi has gone on to a lot of guest roles and now will be in Batman's "The Dark Knight Rises". He of course, plays a villian--his accent and size makes him a perfect fit! 
On ComicBookMovie.com, Massi reveals his real love: Comedy 

“I was a stand up comedian in Italy. I guess Americans; they don’t find me funny because yeah I get cast as a villain most of the time. 99.5% of the time,” says Furlan. “The villain is very memorable. I’m not complaining about the stereotype.”

“If I could choose I would choose comedian,” admits Furlan


The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters July 20th 2012 

Lante "NO Frills Wedding"!! Bravo!

Well...OLTL filled me with Christmas JOY!! Jack was arrested!! GiGi and Rex!!! Clint and Vicki!!! Sam and Santa!! The note from Victor "if you're reading this, it means you kicked me out" LOL!  
Nice show!! 

You know MY DRESS choices were way better than this....but she did look really nice.  I so wish ANYONE from Lulu's family could have gone. TRACY? (since her brother, mother  and dad are all MIA). Ethan??  Despite that, the wedding was very touching.
I did like the Priest guy Tommy, very natural actor. Olivia got there in an hour LOL...okay. Lulu looked nice in her sweater I thought but she looked gorge in her dress too. 
LOVED Olivia and the iPod. I thought she was pulling out a lasagna!  The vows they said were so nice..sniff. The Falconeris running in was fun--I wasn't sure if I'd like that part.

The Q's: "She's made something for everybody this year. Crab, melancholy and bitters," says Alice about cook!! 
Monica "maybe in 2012 you'll get a soul" she says to Tracy. 
OH and Tracy got Monica and Edward Gifts!! sniff...ahhh!! That made me tear up. But, it wasn't Tracy said Alice so it was...Santa!? 

Robin and Patrick. Emma snuck up !! awww. Too cute. That was a good long Scrubs scene and Kim made me cry with the land gift. sniff.


Sam and Jason: He gave her a phoenix and she gave him a dragon...awww. 


Lucky was on today.... that was a surprise. In the graveyard. Maybe he's living there. A surprise person coming in? Has to be Luke, right?? hmmmm.


THE WORST part of Today for me? EWAN going to Liz' house! Geesh, Lucky just left. Give us all a minute will ya? Even if they just showed Liz on the phone to Sarah or something.


I so miss the Hospital Christmas tradition from this show. Oh well. Today was good.



**NOTE: Julie Berman wrote the Lante vows that they said to each other!! :) How fun is that?! 

Best Commercial of 2011

Had to have it's own post. Enjoy-- I love this and play it at least once a month if I'm  feeling down:

2011 Wub Awards: General Hospital and Beyond

 What a year 2011 was for us soap fans. Not only did we see AMC end, OLTL will be done in January. The head writer for a decade at GH was replaced by a junior writer and then, the whole house collapsed. Brian Frons was gone, Jill Farren Phelps exited and we are looking at a whole new ballgame. Producer Frank Valentini and head writer Ron Carvaleti  are coming over from One Life to produce and pen our show after the deal fell through to bring soaps oneline.  What the heck MORE can happen? Although I count 2011 as one of the worst years in GH's history, the future is wide open for stories. The threat of cancellation looms large, but there is a window of time to at least look through and be hopeful for. Awards were difficult for me to do this year because of all the changes and story lines that made me insane. OLTL stands out as the stellar soap but the soap awards will be for GH only... I couldn't give EVERYTHING to One Life, you'd all kill me. I do have to say I loved the "Fraternity Row" episode/parody. Kudos to all involved. I haven't laughed that hard for a long time.
Kudos as well to all that stood to fight for the survival of soaps, no matter how loud or soft, we all made a stir and made the media take notice. 

Sit back, grab whatever libation you love and let's get those WUB Awards out!

Sonny; "Who's Abby"??

Hannah and kids

Charles Barkley shows his love for soaps on Conan! Take a gander, it's great.


I found a Feb. 2002 Soap Opera Update mag ( I don't even think they are in biz anymore) with Tams and Mo on the cover. It also has Tyler Christopher and Eva Longoria's Vegas wedding in it!! Wow...memory lane.

GH: Robin isn't going to want Chief of Staff. Monica and Robin's talk was nice...poor Robin having to hear "so many years left".
Thank God LULU Invites Olivia... 
Michael and Carly-- Carly didn't even know about Abby.  
Sonny knew NOTHING about ANYTHING because the characters on here are so isolated, we have to play catch up every other day. Good lord. Ok, he knew who Abby was but that was about it. No real reaction. LOL Michael's talks with Carly and Sonny were good but I couldn't help thinking Carly was kinda happy. LOL
I think Franco implanted Jason with a micro chip. A Micro-Fronkey. You wait!


I have to bail...it's 3:33 and wow..this is just...

Soapy Holiday Driving and Stupid Lucky Exit

People's brains are OUT TO LUNCH!  The traffic is a nightmare. We have a street here that's PACKED and not a boulevard so left turns are a nightmare. I was just stuck in 45 min stop dead traffic from a 3 car pile up that was BAD. It's raining here so it was even worse. I made it back around 2:15--so missed a lot of OLTL.

I saw Rex thinking Gigi was Stacey-- and Kimmy leaving. Now, if you're Rex I think you could tell by her TEETH IT WASN'T STACEY. But, whatever. David's tattoo. LOL. "The nut makes him look more dangerous"...  I love Vicki and David's Friendship!

GENERAL HOSPITAL:  Well, here we go..take bets on how long I last. It's JJ's last day so I'll try to hang on. LIKE LUCKY WOULD LEAVE before Christmas. WTF..why didn't they either run him over...or have him go deep undercover or wait until AFTER CHRISTMAS? idiots. They block tape everything else... geesh. LUCKY leaves the house without saying goodbye to Liz...then ETHAN SAYS 'DO YOU WANT TO BE LIKE LAURA, TRAPPING LUKE?? those F*K ups. God, thanks, trash both L&L and L&L2 because....what? You can?????? Luke loved having Lucky around-- Guza screwed that up with his big Luke has to wander crap because TG had to have time off.  Oh I am LIVID!! There was no reason to write Lucky out like that. None.
Jason and Sonny's talk was sooooooooooooooo..."I've done this wrong" I'm bad...no I'm bad..no I CAUSED MORE HURT...no I DID!! 
Lante "went to Ground Zero" and we hear about it later--as a plot point for their angst. Shameful. I don't LIKE THAT. At all. BOO. You can do something else besides pretending they are in NYC and then talking about the "Visit" afterwards. Why did Lulu change her mind though? Did we get an epiphany I missed?

AHH! DURING the show I got a call for a job interview!! and they wanted me tomorrow but ironically, I'm actually working--consulting for School!! I'm so happy. It's been a long time coming. So, in Jan I go in to talk about the job. :) Big Grin! That means you may have to live without me and my snark of a blog--we shall see! Or I'll have to watch via DVR. LOL.  

END OF GH: Glad to see Hannah could make it to "usher" out Lucky. ;eyeroll: That's JJ's wife in real life. I hope they are happy and he has a good career outside of GH. This ending for the fans just sucked though.

When Your Blog is WAY More Interesting than the Soap!

Oh my gosh...LOL... come on now,  it is a bit comical to read through yesterday's comments. I'm not picking them apart to delete any so--there it is. Blogger has tracking stuff on it (and deeper stats if you want them) so I suppose I could look up everyone's addy-- but come on, it's way too fun to watch. 

GH is dull as dirt, I can't even get through the whole show, so I understand why people would want to snipe at each other--why bother talking about GH?!! 


I have a few options: 
*I can turn off the Anonomys sign ins. I leave that up because some people don't have accounts that hook into Blogger. It also helps when the Google sign-ins go haywire. 
*I can "preview" each post before I hit "publish (that's when it says "your post is awaiting moderation"). Who am I kidding? I don't have time to monitor posts. 
*I could have  that captcha thing where you have to duplicate the letters before posting. I hate those on other blogs I post on and they are mostly to keep the spam away. 

I do have a question: If I don't mind people posting multiple times or having conversations, why should anyone else? It's very easy to skip comments you know you won't like. I don't have a message board (can you guess why??) so this is kind of used as that. Plus, 99% of the 'conversations' have  to do with the show...ergo, they are fine.  I don't even care if you talk about your other stuff either. I do care about other posters telling other posters what to post and how to post it.

I probably should just be like the "bigger blogs" and ignore all the comments. But you know me too well, can't keep my keyboard shut!!  So, play away-- just try to be kind to each other, life's damn short. 

OK! That's it for the lecture!! Today it's POURING RAIN here in Rochester, which for us is the exact opposite of what we usually get this time of year. No one knows what to do. LOL. If it was snow coming down, it  would be a blizzard for sure. Getting my hair done later, maybe I'll stumble in for GH. I'll at least leave a post up where you can all frolic!
PS. I missed the Maxie/Liz cat  fight yesterday? Dang!!