Susan Lucci to Guest Co-Host The View’s All My Children Tribute

I hope Susan Lucci, et al lamblast Frons and ABC publically on this show. Also, wonder if the View gals will voice their opinions. They do about everthing else. But, I doubt it, they still have jobs and I'm sure they'll be told to tow the ABC line and don't badmouth the bosses.

Susan Lucci is much too classy to blast Frons on national television. I realize people think her acting like a raving lunatic like Strasser has is somehow better but that has never been Lucci's style which is why she is still well loved and respected by everyone, has a legitmate career outside of AMC, and people like Strasser are looked at as lunatics by a lot of people.

I think its great AMC is getting a tribute and I am thrilled BW will not be around for it hopefully. She treated Agnes like some demented little old lady when The View did their tribute to AMC when the show moved NYC. Like BW is any spring chicken.

I didn't start watching this show until 1992 when I was only 20 (that's a current pic of me in my avatar).

And I must confess that I am going to miss the hell out of this show. My fave period was 1994-96 when they let Robin Mattson's "Janet from Another Planet" own the store.

Those were the days. God will bless you, "All My Children."

~ Kevin in Downtown Tulsa

Robin Strasser is not a raving lunatic. She is very opinionated and speaks her mind. If Brian Frons can go around saying that soaps are not viable, Robin Strasser can certainly go around saying the reason soaps appear to not be viable is that some people had an agenda to destroy them and make them appear to not be viable.

And let's not get it twisted.... I like La Lucci in small doses, and she may be a NAME as the face of daytime, but of the two Strasser or Lucci? Who is the better actor now?

Sorry I've "never thought of Robin Strasser as a raving lunatic" she has strong opinions and cuts to the chase.

and I"ve been her fan since she first hit soaps and she is just not kissing Brian Frons's ass and for that I applaud her she's been in this game a very long time and "knows soap opera and has worked as an actress in soap opera for decades"

so she certainly has a right for "her opinion to be a least respected." I may not agree with all she says but she knows more about the "insides" of this business better than I do. Which makes her points just as valid as Susan Lucci's or Erika Slezak. They are different women with different styles it doesn't make one "better than the other" just different.

But Lucci gets her points across she said flat out she was bamboozled and hoodwinked by Brian Frons and he lied to her
not in those exact words but it was very clear what she meant she called him out especially when she spoke on Agnes Nixon returning to write them off again she spoke indirect but when she said someone who loves soaps or something like that...

She was glowing when she spoke about a writer who loves the show coming back on the late night talk show pitching her book was not sucking up to ABC. I could tell she was miffed attacking just isn't her style but she as much as inferred the writers screwed this soap up, "in her way."

IMO Susan is more read inbetween the lines inference type. While Strasser puts it right out on the table like Slezak.

I consider all these ladies elegant divas they just do their thing in their own way (their own style).

From New York Post:

“All My Children” star Susan Lucci unleashes her fury about the cancellation of the long-running ABC soap in a blistering epilogue just added to the paperback edition of her book, “All My Life: A Memoir.”

Lucci, who has played Erica Kane since 1970, blasts ABC Daytime head Brian Frons and describes how she personally berated him, saying, “I think our being in this position is the result of some very bad decisions by you.”

She claims Frons installed a new head writer in 2008 who oversaw writing that was “subpar,” ordered the show moved to LA from New York and pushed out the soap’s creator, Agnes Nixon.

Lucci says Frons told her in April that “All My Children” would be replaced by a food show cheaper to make. She writes, “An iconic show was losing out to greed ... If Brian Frons could show his bosses that he could save the network 40 percent ... he could keep his job even if the rest of us lost ours.” She continues, “I watched Brian Frons’ decisions destroy the production of our show and the lives of people on both sides of the country.”

Lucci said Frons appeared “self-congratulatory” delivering the bad news to the cast, and he “has what, for me, is that fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance,” adding, “I cannot fathom any network executive choosing to alienate millions of loyal viewers in these economic times.”

She was even tempted to call ABC and leave the message “F.U. -- and your little dog, too,” but never did.

One industry source responded, “Is she bitter, or is this to get more attention for her book? Susan has done extraordinarily well from playing Erica Kane. She has had an amazing career for 41 years. It is too bad it doesn’t end on a high note.” An ABC rep said, “We have all the respect in the world for Susan, and are sorry she felt the need to write this epilogue to an otherwise incredible career.” Lucci’s rep declined to comment