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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 366897" data-attributes="member: 27">Sometimes, in an effort to curry favor with someone who could give you more work (or in a general sense, do things for your career), actors will go out of their way to praise someone in a position like Alarr&#039;s.&nbsp; Now Berris may well have had a positive relationship with Alarr--I have no idea.&nbsp; What I&#039;m saying is that when the power structure is this badly out of balance, workers sometimes have to do and say things they don&#039;t want to do in order to keep a roof over their heads. &nbsp; I know I like to rag on that hack, Jill Farren Phelps over her reign of terror across multiple soaps, but actors were famous for this when she was in charge of their show(s).&nbsp; Actors would hail her &quot;vision,&quot; her &quot;love of the genre&quot; and how much they liked coming to work every day when she was running the show.&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, the mummified husks of soaps she left for dead in her wake spoke louder about her &quot;vision&quot;.&nbsp; The general belief was that if an actor kissed her behind in the press, then maybe the ax would swing in another direction when she decided to write people out to &quot;cut costs&quot;, and those actors might get enhanced screen time.&nbsp; And once you became one of her favorites, you never hurt for work.&nbsp;&nbsp; They even had a term for them in the press: &quot;FOJ&#039;s.&quot; or &quot;Friends of Jill&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; She even developed a tactic to favor her FOJ&#039;s when the Daytime Emmys were voted on, pushing those actors forward and insisting that all the other workers on that soap &quot;block vote&quot; for the nominees she wanted to win.Apparently at least 25 actors on DOOL have signed a letter asking for Alarr&#039;s firing.&nbsp; They were supposed to return to work this past Monday but Sony opted to give them another week off.&nbsp; My guess?&nbsp; Alarr will &quot;gracefully step down&quot; (resign under threat of firing) sometime late Friday evening, issuing some kind of short resignation letter that was written for him to sign.&nbsp; It is now customary to issue such news late on a Friday because it&#039;s the best time to get lost in the news cycle.&nbsp; They&#039;re likely trying to iron out some short-term deal with a new, &quot;acting&quot; co-EP whose name will be announced at the same time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 366897, member: 27"] Sometimes, in an effort to curry favor with someone who could give you more work (or in a general sense, do things for your career), actors will go out of their way to praise someone in a position like Alarr's. Now Berris may well have had a positive relationship with Alarr--I have no idea. What I'm saying is that when the power structure is this badly out of balance, workers sometimes have to do and say things they don't want to do in order to keep a roof over their heads. I know I like to rag on that hack, Jill Farren Phelps over her reign of terror across multiple soaps, but actors were famous for this when she was in charge of their show(s). Actors would hail her "vision," her "love of the genre" and how much they liked coming to work every day when she was running the show. Well, the mummified husks of soaps she left for dead in her wake spoke louder about her "vision". The general belief was that if an actor kissed her behind in the press, then maybe the ax would swing in another direction when she decided to write people out to "cut costs", and those actors might get enhanced screen time. And once you became one of her favorites, you never hurt for work. They even had a term for them in the press: "FOJ's." or "Friends of Jill". She even developed a tactic to favor her FOJ's when the Daytime Emmys were voted on, pushing those actors forward and insisting that all the other workers on that soap "block vote" for the nominees she wanted to win. Apparently at least 25 actors on DOOL have signed a letter asking for Alarr's firing. They were supposed to return to work this past Monday but Sony opted to give them another week off. My guess? Alarr will "gracefully step down" (resign under threat of firing) sometime late Friday evening, issuing some kind of short resignation letter that was written for him to sign. It is now customary to issue such news late on a Friday because it's the best time to get lost in the news cycle. They're likely trying to iron out some short-term deal with a new, "acting" co-EP whose name will be announced at the same time. [/QUOTE]

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