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These are the news bites, rumors and gossip bits that I collect from sources both on and off the net.  I hope you enjoy them!

For the Week of January 28th

My darlings... we are poised to nurse at a giant, voluptuous and succulent teet filled with the sweetest stream of mother's gossipy milk goodness you ever tasted and it's all ready for us to cuddle up to and enjoy, so I say let's get right down to it, shall we?

Bankies everyone?

Let's begin.

(PS:  It's VERY GH heavy this week!)

AMC

For the good or for the bad, the Head Writers for AMC have left the strike line and returned to penning scripts again.  I honestly thought we were doing quite nicely with their precious, scabby little counterparts, but apparently, that view was not shared by those in charge and the slayers of all things interesting have again picked up their poison pens.  I suppose we should prepare for the good things that have sprung forth from AMC in the past couple of weeks to promptly be skinned, gutted and fed to the dogs in favor of the same old drivel we were watching before.  All I can say is if they screw up Angie and Jesse, I might have to take a trip to New York with a gas can, a pair of good tweezers and a blow torch.

One thing that has been confirmed about my new old favorite story is that Jesse is not a ghost by any means.  It is Jesse and he is very much alive.  I don't even care that we saw him as a ghost and that we know his internal organs were given away.  I'm good with that.  *I* actually felt as though a loved one of mine came back from the dead when I saw him walk into Frankie's room and touch his son's leg.

Jesse and Angie will skirt past each other in several missed moments.  Tad is the next one to see Jesse.  Jesse tells him that Angie and Frankie's lives will be in danger if they know he is alive.

Speaking of Jesse, Darnell Williams broke up the audience of "The View" when he and Debbi Morgan and Rebecca Budig appeared recently.  When asked why he returned to AMC, he rubbed his fingers against his thumb in that universal "money, honey!" gesture!

Lucky Ryan.  I wish *I* could just forget about that Annie chick.

When Annie is not a donor match for Richie, he starts working on Emma, so she tells Ryan and Annie that she wants to save her uncle.

Suspicious of JR, Adam gives his son an heirloom family room that is actually bugged.  Little Adam drops it down the sink.

Erica is unaware that her financial situation is being investigated by Samuel Woods, a candidate for senator who is determined that the rich and privileged will pay for their crimes just like everyone else.

Both Frankie and Greenlee live.

Rumor says that Jeff Branson (Jonathan) has taped his last scenes, which will air in February.

Bobbie Eakes (Krystal) has renewed her contract with AMC.

Um... not so much Sydney Penney (Julia).

OLTL

It's going to be a ball!  OLTL has sat passively by for years as GH had the Nurses Ball and a Bacchanalia here and there and AMC had their Crystal Balls and Mardi Gras Balls and all kinds of balls.  Basically, GH and AMC always had balls and OLTL just didn't.  The little ball-less show that could is going to whip out their own big red ball for us all to see!  No more will Llanview's finest have to wait for a wedding or the ill-fated Woman of the Year dinner to get all dolled up.  Dorian and Viki will co-host the "Go Red Ball" to benefit the American Heart Association and we will finally be able to get some finery on these folks.  Let's face it.  There are more than enough balls to go around.

Balls for everyone!

Speaking of balls, John reaches out and grabs Todd by his (although I'd pay good money to see that, I was, indeed, speaking figuratively here) by saying that if he doesn't drop charges against Marcie, he will reveal that Todd was involved with kidnapping Shane.

Charlie and Viki end up reunited at Dorian's door.  Roxy comes by, then there's a knock on the door and Charlie answers it, thinking it's Roxy coming back again.  Instead, it's Viki and they fly into each other's arms after a moment of shock.

Roxy tells Rex that Charlie is his father (much to Charlie's surprise), but she's really covering up the fact that his father is someone else altogether.

Michael Easton is going to be crossing over to AMC in February when John McBain has business in Pine Valley.

Tobias Truvillion (Vincent) has been busted down to recurring status.  No work on Tika Sumpter's (Leyla) status.

Robin Strasser (Dorian) has quietly signed a contract with OLTL to keep her on the show for another year.

Catherine Hickland (Lindsay) is currently writing a book about how to get on with your life after heartbreak.  She's used herself and friends as guinea pigs to test her plan for moving on after breaking up.

GH

We get more of Kate's back story when she confides to Jax a secret she has been keeping for lo these many years that explains her difficulty in making close connections.  Nope, I don't know the secret, but I have to wonder if we have a long lost adopted baby in the mix...maybe one named Damian.

I am told that we should not take lightly the fact that Little Morty Corinthos is packing heat.  The writers had him kill once before and then rewrote it due to fan outrage.  Something tells me his bitty baby psyche isn't going to get a hall pass this time.  I just hope it's not little Morgan he ends up taking out!

Of course, my sweet and very smart readers knew right away that when Maxie started screaming in the previews because she found that yet another of her men had gone to meet his maker, it did not necessarily mean that ol' Cooper Barrett was the Text Message Killer.  Even after the missing DNA report is found shoved into his pocket, doubt will still linger (at least for Maxie and Spinelli!) and sure enough, we are headed toward another attack.  We are told that it will be a shock and that it will all make sense in the end. 

I'll bet it's that crazy looking broad that Ric was chatting up at Martha's Vineyard. 

By the way, Spinelli is working on getting his private investigator's license online, which means his credentials will completely blow away the ones Felicia cut off of the back of a box of Frosted Flakes 10 years or so ago.

Tony Geary (Luke) is back from his winter vacation to Amsterdam and begins airing on Thursday.  Woot!  Tracy, by that time, will have brought a malpractice suit against Monica and will tossed out of the mansion on her caboose.  There will be slappin'.  Oh yes, there will be slappin'.  She isn't going to be all open arms and open legs for her prodigal husband either.  In fact, he's going to have to do a lot of work to win back his Spankybuns this time!  In fact, the words "dead to me" are used.  On a sweet note, when Monica evicts Tracy with Luke still gone, Lulu supports Tracy by moving out as well.  Awwww.

I'm so not digging this new doctor.  And tha's all I got t' say about thayut.

So we're back to "No Names."  Claudia is getting drunk at a bar.  Sonny has burned down the restaurant and is angry and hurt at being abandoned in the face of his proposal, so he in turn rejects Kate when she come back and subsequently, ends up at the same bar as Claudia.  Push a button or two and pretty soon, the buttons start flying and the zippers start sliding and the two power houses have lamp knocking sex without exchanging names. 

Gah.  So Elizabeth tells Lucky about all of the wrongs Sam has committed against their boys.  Lucky goes home and confronts Sam and ousts her from his life.  She gets a text message from guess who.  She calls Lucky all frantic and he calls her a liar head.  The text message killer jumps her and she fights back, then runs right out in front of a car.  Elizabeth will think she is the one who hit Sam after falling asleep at the wheel, but in actuality, it will be drunk Monica who ran her down.

Ric is finally going to get some punani.  Did you konw that punani is not in spellcheck?

Julie Marie Berman (Lulu) = not happy working with the rats in the monastery scenes.

If Carly and Jax's new nanny looks familiar, it's because she was the pregnant gangstah girlfriend on the last couple of episodes of GH:  Night Shift.

Sonya Eddy who plays Epiphany was well on her way to truly becoming a doctor herself in real life until the death of a favorite patient showed her that it was just too much of an emotional ride for her. 

If you thought playing hard core litigator (I believe she would have won) Diane Miller is complex enough, you might be interested to know that Carolyn Hennesy is also a writer.  Her series of children's novels, Mythic Misadventures, has just been launched with the first installment called Pandora Gets Jealous."  You can order it here.  It's for 'tweens.

GH is actually the 4th time that Stephen Macht (Trevor) has worked on the same project as Megan Ward (Kate).

When Soaps In Depth asked Steve Burton (Jason) who on the show he would like to see PUNK'D, he deftly avoided the question and instead, issued some tough talk, "People say me, and they can try.  That's fine.  But that would be a huge problem for them, because there is no doubt that I would pay them back.  And it would be a million times worse than anything they've done.  As long as they were on the show, it would be horrifying for them to come to work every day."

COP OUT!!  [Hmmm... I really should have used that line to usher Cooper off the show... anyway...]  After making a big deal about Kristina Wagner's (Felicia) return being open ended and getting her story told and yadda yadda yadda, supposedly she will be leaving in February because her presence makes Maxie sad.  So she came back to bury her daughter and get a well deserved yelling at and then abandon them all again?  I swear, this character is so lame.

Maurice Benard was plenty pissed that the chance he finally got to plan Sonny's manic-depression story did not garner him an Emmy nomination.  After digging deep into his own illness at personal cost in order to bring a full realism to the situation, he ended up with a lot of letters from people who say the storyline helped them, but no nomination.  Benard's contract is up this summer and he is definitely not giving any assurances that he will be staying.  Instead, he talks about how tired he is of going to the dark places and playing such a dark character.

Although she loves the storyline of Robin's pregnancy, Kim McCullough is hoping and praying that she will not have to do a birth scene and that the birth will take place off screen.  According to her, birth scenes are all the same and involve unattractive shots of the actress grunting and grimacing and sweating.  Um, yeah, that's about it, Kimmy.  Let's hope she has a c-section so we won't have to subject her to something sort of like reality here.

In its January 29th issue, Soap Opera Digest has a wonderful interview by Tom Stacy with Jackie Zeman (Bobbie Spencer).  She relishes in the "good ol' days" of the soap and talks about how she used to get death threats signed in blood when Bobbie was at her baddest.  It was serious enough that the FBI intervened and provided her with FBI bodyguards.  She received quite a smiting from producer Gloria Monty the time that she jumped on Kin Shriner's motorcycle and ditched the agents.  She says, "We didn't realize how rude it was and we felt really bad.  We were just young and stupid, but it was an adventure."

She wasn't even bitter that on her 30th anniversary with the show, she was bumped to recurring status.  Instead, she feels honored to have been able to work on the show for all these years.  She does lament the stories driven by romance and couples rather than plots.  Amen.

That's all for this week!

Stay cool, everyone,