
Inspired by
Babs and
Chris Goutman's
recent casting coup, I got to thinking about what the next ultimate casting power move should be for the best soap not currently airing on television —
As The Executives Turn. Since I don't see
Eric Braeden leaving
The Young and the Restless to play a new German mob boss, or Mikkos Cassadine on
General Hospital anytime soon, I came up with the next best thing. What if Babs,
Auntie Ri Ri and
Uncle Paul convinced
Bob Guza's muse herself,
Vanessa Marcil (ex-Brenda) to join daytime's hottest show in the role of Victoria Newman McNeil Howard Carlton Hellstrom?
I'm sorry, licensing fees be damned, I can count six people right off the top of my head who could be shown the door in order for Ms. Marcil to make her way to Genoa City. When she last returned to GH, 800,000 viewers returned with her. Name another soap star who can spike numbers like that? Y&R should get Marcil's people on the horn ASAP! READ MORE