Heh, soap actor recycling.

So I just started getting into the Olivia/Natalia (Otalia? Horrible name. They're not Irish!) pairing on Guiding Light which seems moderately well-written and well-acted, but with really low production value that is driving me batty.

But I'm having trouble getting into it because I recognize half a dozen actors.

First, Olivia herself was Maggie Carpenter on One Life to Live. (Took me a while to place her, but I did!)

Then there's Olivia's ex, Philip, who is played by Grant Aleksander (I think that's his name) who used to be Alec on All My Children.

Then there's some girl named Dinah who, I realized with an "oh my GOD!", played Kelly Cramer (the REAL one) on One Life to Live.

And in one episode, there's this dude in the pews of the church... and would you look at that, it's Jeff Branson, AKA Jonathan Lavery from All My Children.

As if that's not enough, little Scotty Chandler (well, I guess he was an older version of Scott) is playing some dude on GL, too.

And then I go researching and ELLEN WHEELER is the Executive Producer of GL. Who's that? Oh, yeah, CINDY PARKER CHANDLER from AMC. (Scott's mom, Stuart's wife, who contracted AIDS from her drug-abusing husband before she married Stuart.)

That's six people I know! Or know of, rather. It's like flipping over to The Young and the Restless and seeing Cliff as Jack Abbott or Liz Hendrickson as Chloe and all the other people they have hanging out there who have been on my soaps. (I couldn't even begin to count over there 'cause I just don't watch at all.)

OH, and even more -- Ricky Paull Goldin or whoever is playing Jake Martin on AMC these days was Gus somebody or another on GL and hey, there was a photo of him in one of these eps -- he was Natalia's husband who died and Natalia donated his heart to Olivia. (Only on a soap opera, right? Right.)

I really need to get more sleep on a daily basis, I think.

PS: Would very much like for Olivia to stop throwing Natalia at Frank, plzkthxbai.