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| Dena Higley QUITS — SUDS REPORT EXCLUSIVE; Breaking News — TVGC; ATWT actor FIRED | |
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| daysfan | Jul 28 2008, 11:53 AM Post #1001 |
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Well, producers(especially on Days because of Corday) interfering with their HWs work is no different, yes, but for Ed to just dismiss Higley and the entire team, but NOT fire them, and then work with actors to write the lines for each other? I don't mind actors tweaking their scenes at all especially when they are bad, but this is way beyond just some tweaking or interfering. And if he wanted Higley gone, he could have just fired her! Yes it may have caused some trouble, maybe even with Corday, but it would have been nothing like this! And in interviews, like that one with Nelson a few weeks ago, he lies(much like Corday) and says how much he loves Higley's work. I know he couldn't just confess everything but its such a sneaky move in a bad way. And underhanded. |
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| Steve Frame | Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM Post #1002 |
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Again the almost hypocrisy with some fans I am seeing on boards is weird and so funny. When Corday seemingly pulled this coup with Higley to save Days from Hogan, fans were outraged. Now the same fans are praising Scott for doing the same thing in a similar underhanded way to save the show from Higley. But I think honestly corday had the show's best interest at heart, but I think Scott was just thinking with his pecker. Albeit Corday even though he wants best for the show doesn't know how to get it. |
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| Red Mist | Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM Post #1003 |
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This exactly when the show went to shit...I think this is when all of ED's stuff began to appear. The show rated high then fell with a huge ass thud. I can not even bare to watch it anymore. |
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| daysfan | Jul 28 2008, 11:56 AM Post #1004 |
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Oh, and since Ed lied about Higley a bit in his interview, could it be that Days is not renewed yet afterall? Even though Nelson said it wasn't cancelled, I wonder if this might cause NBC to just pull the plug. |
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| ladyofthelake | Jul 28 2008, 11:57 AM Post #1005 |
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OK, before I leave to see if an orthopedic surgeon will be sawing on my knees.......... I have to chuckle at this, and the first thing to pop in my mind? The Gospels. (sorry, but it's the first context I thought of). Poor Jesus was praised to the skies on Palm Sunday and the same crowd a week later yelled to crucify him. I have to laugh at those who bashed Higley and praised Ed Scott are now calling for Ed Scott's head and are feeling sorry for Higley. Not necessarily all here, but all over. It's an interesting study in group mob mentality. :P Sorry, I know that will get me reamed while I'm gone, but no matter......... I really want to hear both sides of the story. Between two extremes, the truth lies. |
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| FanODays | Jul 28 2008, 11:57 AM Post #1006 |
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I'm not praising Scott and why is everyone assuming that Scott and the actress did this because they were sleeping together? I know what the blind item was but this report from Nelson said nothing about that and I don't think its fair to assume because it was an actress, she and Scott were sleeping together. |
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| squee | Jul 28 2008, 11:58 AM Post #1007 |
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If they were filming it, it would! :laugh: |
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| Ponz | Jul 28 2008, 11:59 AM Post #1008 |
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I'm not convinced that the hijacking is as extensive as NB's source implies. There's a difference between producers/actors serving as de-facto headwriters and them providing input or tweaking the writers' scripts. It's conceivable that someone with a pro-Higley agenda would imply the former as opposed to the latter. |
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| luvpumpkns | Jul 28 2008, 11:59 AM Post #1009 |
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i don't know...that BI was released less than a month ago...now all of a sudden, ed scott has a pet actress that he is allowing to re-write scenes. you know what they say...if it looks like a duck and talks like a duck.... |
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| OneBadKitty | Jul 28 2008, 11:59 AM Post #1010 |
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I don't care if Scott and the actress were fucking or baking cookies, I say get rid of both of them. We know one thing they were doing - writing the show. |
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| Steve Frame | Jul 28 2008, 12:00 PM Post #1011 |
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Nelson is right that Days will have a hard time recovering from this. They are going into the Olympics with all this uneveness and nothing really exciting going on. They have too many writers backstage and all this turmoil behind the scenes. Actors finding out now that other actors are writing the show will cause backstage trumoil among the performers. They will be taking sides in all this. If Scott is trying to get Corday out too, then the actors who love Corday will side with him against the actors who now like Scott. Plus they will be looking at fines, and possibly a settlement with Higley now if she sues the show. It is a big mess that Ed created here. Since others are hearing the same things from other sources and not just from Higley sources then I see a lot of it being true - esp. if they are saying Griffith might be doing the same thing. |
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| Kevc1980 | Jul 28 2008, 12:01 PM Post #1012 |
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If Higley were to sue Ed, can't Ed just come out and reveal that Higley was a scab writer during the strike....I'm still hoping Higley quits and Ed stays..And we get a talented writer, who's stuff won't need to be tweaked.. But i'm guessing Ed was behind all the green talk...Steve and Kayla discussing Ava..and possibly bringing Stefano back as Higley didn't want to write for him.. |
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| Red Mist | Jul 28 2008, 12:01 PM Post #1013 |
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I agree....to me there is not doubt the pet is the a mistress that has been leaked about for awhile now. I feel NO guilt in saying so. |
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| Jonatha | Jul 28 2008, 12:01 PM Post #1014 |
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Just adding to that, D. We all remember Dee Hall's interview in SOD when she thought the big love scene (that was already taped) between Nu-John and Marlena was going to actually happen. That was a total let-down. We should have guessed right there and then something was very much amiss. That was my WTF moment. |
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| Kenny | Jul 28 2008, 12:02 PM Post #1015 |
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The show sucked and Dena Higley was listed as headwriter. Judging by her previous work on the show, I naturally deduced that she was the one to blame. Now I see that they're all to blame, and I'm not happy. |
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| Kevc1980 | Jul 28 2008, 12:03 PM Post #1016 |
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I'm still in Ed corner..Seeing how bad the show was during Higley's first run..I have no doubt she would have gotten us to that level again..And while the show isn't great now, maybe Ed have saved it...And i don't need to be told about it being unethical... |
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| Steve Frame | Jul 28 2008, 12:04 PM Post #1017 |
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Tom Casiello's blog entry is telling to me in that he seems to indicate he is hearing it from other sources as well. And he seems awfully upset by the news for there not to be some truth to it. And he even states about who knows who is writing the show now. That indicates to me they were doing more than tweaking the scripts. |
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| leelee | Jul 28 2008, 12:04 PM Post #1018 |
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That was a WTF moment..her and Drake were interviewed and they were saying how hot it was and then it was just kissing in the tent... |
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| Red Mist | Jul 28 2008, 12:04 PM Post #1019 |
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Yes , that was very shocking to all of us. Here we have a scene, a scene even recapped by the actors in a mag and ...poof....nothing airs...very weird, very weird indeed. |
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| IMissAremid | Jul 28 2008, 12:05 PM Post #1020 |
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After all... tomorrow is another day!
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I'm fairly certain that the two others to rewrite their story is Steven and Mary Beth, but I'm not sure about the overblown diva. It could be... -Deidre, if only because Nelson used the term diva to describe her in the next paragraph. I don't buy that so much though because I can't fathom why an actor would write such an awful story (or non-story) for herself. -Nadia Bjorlin, as Chloe is a real opera diva, but if she is the one going to Ed asking for different scene partners that I don't understand as I don't know why she would want out of JKJ's orbit and ask to be inserted in the Ejamicas mess by having Chloe take up with Lucas. -Rachel Melvin, because we do know that her and Blake Berris had a falling out before she became paired up with Shawn Christian. If Ed and her were having an affair and were running the show, that would explain why Rachel was given this other love interest and Blake was backburnered and also why we were shoved the Chelsea-Dan pairing down our throats for so long if they were playing out their own affair on screen thus were the only people not grossed out/annoyed by it. Didn't we have a blind item not that long ago that their was a Days starlet that came out of nowhere to dominate the show and that the actress was getting a big coke problem? My feeling is Melvin. |
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