My guess is that Whitney doesn’t get in. But I feel like Pat Benatar, Doobie Brothers, Dave Matthews Band and Rufus will be this years inductees.

i will never understand how that was allowed.

I just hope they can get Ann Ramsay and Lelia Kenzel on-board as well. They were IMHO the best part of the show, aside from the snotty British neighbors.

and then suddenly her career as a leading lady seemed to just sort of vanish overnight. At one point Meryl and Her got all of the roles for females over 40 and then suddenly, only Meryl got them. I don’t know if Susan stopped taking leading roles or if she just wasn’t cast anymore.

I will say, I was always surprised at how quickly Toni Braxton’s career sort of fizzled out. She was so huge and then she sort of lost all her fame. She made a series of poor choices in her life and career; between bankruptcy (twice), choosing the wrong management and record label (Barry Hankerson/Blackground Records) and simply never having the…[Read more]

A few more (some of these may have already been mentioned; perhaps by me):

Mena Suvari: She was a big up and comer in the late 90’s with roles in big movies like American Beauty, Sugar and Spice, American Pie and Slums of Beverly Hills and somewhere around the mid-2000’s she sort of just stopped getting cast in big roles and never got a chance…[Read more]

I was mostly an ABC soap guy (and at one point my screenname on Goldderby was actually ABCSOAPS55 or something like that) but I had my brief love affair with CBS soaps at one point too. I watched “GL” on a semi-regular basis on and off for years. The first time I got hooked on “GL” was in either 1996 or 1997, and the storyline I was most into…[Read more]

Not to rehash and old thread, but I just rewatched Men In Black and was suddenly forced to realize that I haven’t heard the name Linda Fiorentino in over a decade. What the heck happened to her career?

I would also include the following names I thought of after my original reply:

Ruth Warrick: All My Children’s original grande dame was Phoebe Tyler Wallingford the eccentric, snobby society queen of Pine Valley and Aunt to Brooke English. Phoebe was a force to be reckoned with and Warrick the original mega-star of AMC. No list of soap…[Read more]

That is a pretty interesting list. I honestly wouldn’t have placed Amy Poehler so high on the list. As much as I like her she doesn’t belong to be higher on the list than Betty White, Debra Messing, Patricia Heaton, Jane Curtin or numerous other who weren’t included on that list.

Some I would add (and I apologize if they are already there, I may have missed a few on your list):

Robin Mattson: This woman is a soap opera ICON and has appeared on virtually every soap opera there has been. Her most notable roles have been Gina Lockridge on Santa Barbara (for which she earned critical acclaim and three consecutive Daytime…[Read more]

thanks

My choice is the 1980’s. It’s kinda hard to argue about the dominance of a decade that created mega-stars like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Whitney Houston or Janet Jackson.

just to clarify a point: Andrews publically declined the nomination but was not officially removed from the ballot and actually was a nominee. She just sort of publicly disavowed the nomination in protest of her show not being nominated.

Kristina Wagner as Felicia on GH most definitely deserved a nomination for her work during the heart transplant storyline. In particular the harrowing scene when Felicia realizes where Maxie’s new heart came from and breaks down in a sob-filled realization.

Part of why Zimmer thought she would win is because Mimi Torchin from Soap Opera Weekly kept telling her she was going to win and was heavily advocating in the magazine for Zimmer to win.

I don’t think anybody else believed Zimmer was going to win; and it became especially clear once voters saw the reels that Zimmer wouldn’t win. Reportedly,…[Read more]

I’m sure she probably came close a few times; but the one one time that jumps out at me is when Frances Heflin (and in turn Mona Kane) died in 1994. Lucci’s work as Erica processed her mother’s death and broke down at the funeral was incredible work.

However, that was a fairly strong year for the Lead Actress category and I believe that…[Read more]

Law & Order actually did win an Emmy for Drama Series in 1997.