Remember when Susan Lucci FINALLY won an Emmy for All My Children?

It's self-explanatory, OP. She'd been up for the award so many times. It was a fuss when she finally did.

OMG, that was 20 years ago

Why does SMG hate her?

I remember that I was on a high school trip that night. When it happened there were cheers throughout the hotel, everyone turned their tvs to see it. Teenagers and chaperones, male and female, all were cheering. Her losing streak had become so legendary that everyone knew about it, not only soap fans, so it was seen as almost a historical moment when she won. It is comparable to when the Cubs finally won another World Series in 2016, even non-baseball fans watched it.

"When that man said something about a streak being over I thought he was referring to a sporting event!"

Legend has it People asked Liz Hubbard at the 1986 Daytime Emmys if she had a response to Lucci losing for like the 5th time, Hubbard quipped: "Boo. Hoo."

I fucking LOVE Liz Hubbard even more than I already did

Thank you! Thank you! I can’t believe it!

I'm old, and I don't watch soaps. But I knew to give her credit. You see. my BF was already watching her back when we were young pups, and he was so excited. He jumped up and down and kissed me and hugged me, and told me it was historic. He's a great BF, so that's what I know.

La Lucci is a gifted comedienne.

She had a scene with Jack Scalia when he was on AMC and he says: "Ericah I got something to tell you. I was lying when I said I'm only hanging around you b/c I'm in love with you. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a secret agent assigned to protect you because your life is in deadly danger from drug lords. You could be dead at any minute."

Erica: (Beat.) "Then you're [italic] not [/italic] in love with me."

I was on the judging panel in NYC that voted her that Emmy. And she totally deserved it that year. Her reel was quite touching. In previous years her reels (which mostly had a comedic element) were ghastly.

She had lost 16 or17 times — the media coverage was deserved.

It was a great tv moment, and Shemar Moore really sold it when he opened that envelope.

Fuck how dare they start playing her off! Didn’t they get this was a “moment?”

I never even watched AMC but come onnnn

It really was exciting. I didn't even think she was going to win but there was a palpable tension in the air that night when Shemar came out. Plus, her submission was really good. The episode with Bianca was very strong.

Looking back it's still a big moment. You could tell everyone was happy for her. And she gave a great speech considering she probably thought she was going to go home again empty-handed.

But LOL at pig-face Melody being nominated. Her Emmy reel was laughable in comparison to the other ladies.

Yes, but I also remember hot Shemar presenting it.

The other thing I have to say is...look at the age of all those nominees. For all the shit soaps got, there was always a place for older actresses to not just work, but shine and get accolades. And I don’t mean older woman who look like Nicole Kidman or Julianne Moore, but woman who look their age, play their age, and at least to us seem to be embracing their age. 50+ was a lot older in the 80s and 90s then it is now.

So I have to give soaps credit for that.

Is there a clip of her tantrum during one of the years she lost? Now THAT I want to see!

She had a very believable on-screen mother/daughter relationship with actress Elizabeth Shue - her real-life niece, who also turned out to be her daughter. Her co-stars Teri Hatcher and Cathy Moriarty could have been more supportive on the night she won though.

Remember when Bacall was slated to win for The Mirror Has Two Faces then it went to that French bitch and Bacall looked like she was going to kill everyone in the room

Remember that one time when Susan Lucci finally ate a sandwich?

I thought she won the year Mona died because the actress who played her actually died

Deirdre Hall and Angela Lansbury are still fucking WAITING!

It's shocking that they denied one to Lansbury. What were they thinking?

I don't think Elizabeth Montgomery ever won, either, with a huge number of nominations.

Helen Lawson was also overlooked. She was nominated for so many things over the decades from her seminal sitcom I MARRIED HELEN in the '50s, to her '60s musical specials, to her '70s movies of the week, and LIFE WITH HELEN in the '80s.

I still don't know how she found the time for Broadway musicals.

Helen Lawson doesn't deserve dick!

Angela Lansbury should have won for the recorded version of Sweeney Todd in 1983, if nothing else. They awarded her forgettable co-star instead.

There was one year where they announced Susan Flannery's name and they cut to Susan Lucci backstage and you see her confirming to a stagehand , who is off camera, that it was Susan Flannery. The stagehand incorrectly informs Susan that SHE is the winner. Susan lights up and begins to walk on the stage. They cut to Susan Flannery heading to the stage so someone must have pulled Lucci before she embarrassed herself even further. God KNOWS what on backstage after that.

Good thing you told me, OP. My computer burst into flames while Shemar was talking.

I swear I remembered it being a woman who presented the award and announced “the streak is over!”

Play my own age? But I’m a young housewife from Monterey!

Biggest mistake the Daytime Emmys ever made. Lucci being a horrible actor aside, Lucci losing every year was the reason to tune in and it made Lucci a name outside of soaps. When Lucci lost, the big names like Oprah stopped showing up and the show lost crossover appeal. Now it's an internet awards ceremony.

After eighteen straight nominations leading up to the 1999 win, Lucci was nominated just twice more before AMC left the airwaves in 2011. Did her work get appreciably worse during the 2000s?

I lived for R27's moment. It was fucking hilarious.

Those TWO IDIOTS from B&B were morons because they shrieked Susan Flannery's name so you really couldn't;'t tell what they said.

And then Susan backstage. lol "ME??? OR SUSAN FLANNERY??? ME? ME???? OMG!!!! And out she walks with that big smile on her face- you can literally see the spotlight hit her face and CUT!

Susan Flannery barrels up that stage like a BUTCHIEST MAN I've ever seen and proceeds to LIFT Adrienne up in the air while laughing maniacally (It reminded me of Best In Show when two lesbians kiss on the floor of the dog show passionately)

It was quite a moment

I was in the audience the night she won. It was surreal. Also, while waiting outside to see the actors arrive, we somehow wound up on the wrong side of the street from where they would greet the fans (most of them would give a quick look and wave before going in.) Susan was the only one who walked around the car and specifically shook hands with all of us on the wrong side. We were so much in shock, I think none of us said anything except good luck. When she won, besides what you saw and heard on tv, Dick Clark -- who was the producer/director/show runner-- started calling out that she was running out of time and she should wrap up, got widely ignored because of audience protests. You can't hear it on the video for the most part, but if you were there, it was crazy how all of his people just took their professional lives in their hands to not do as he asked. All night long he had been barking out orders and everybody jumpd to it no matter what he said. It was crazy how many people defied him to let her have the extra minutes on the stage. It was great

[quote] I was on the judging panel in NYC that voted her that Emmy. And she totally deserved it that year. Her reel was quite touching. In previous years her reels (which mostly had a comedic element) were ghastly.

Here is her Emmy Reel

R34- I had always read that he was a fucking PRICK behind the scenes of his shows, and many actors confirmed it. Good for that crew!!

In terms of Dee Dee Halls - she was so desperate to get a nomination she sent a tape with a letter to every single contract & recurring cast member on all 11 competing soaps asking for their support. That is like over 400 tapes.

It didn't work, she didn't even get nominated. After that she just gave up.

R37, that's the way they do it for every other Awards Show. It wasn't unheard of. People acted like it was some kind of misstep. It was actually quite smart.

R37- Her shit was SO campy-

I think she did that the year she played Satan.

Those actors probably threw the tapes in the trash.

R31 I assume you meant to say that once Lucci WON, Oprah et al stopped attending.....?

[quote]I thought she won the year Mona died because the actress who played her actually died

She was terrible in those scenes. She cranked the melodrama even past her usual 11. I know it was because she loved Frances Heflin, but it was bad, bad, bad.

She finally picked a quieter moment to submit the year she won and it paid off. And her win was a lovely, lovely moment.

[quote] , that's the way they do it for every other Awards Show. It wasn't unheard of. People acted like it was some kind of misstep. It was actually quite smart.

Yes but no one did it for Daytime, and it turned off a lot of people in the industry. With know only 4 soaps on the air, Dee Dee still can't get nominated, even in the pre-nomination round Hall comes in last place, because people have not forgotten as they viewed it as shameless to send out over 400 tapes.

[quote]Dee Dee still can't get nominated, even in the pre-nomination round Hall comes in last place, because people have not forgotten as they viewed it as shameless to send out over 400 tapes.

Well, there's also the fact that she hasn't given a fresh performance since 1983.

R33 ET Al here's the moment she mistakenly thinks she has won!

[quote] Oprah stopped showing up and the show lost crossover appeal.

NOT TRUE - Oprah attended the daytime Emmys every year. The year she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, she decided that was the cherry on the top and decided not submit her name for consideration anymore for nominations. She allowed the technical staff and the directors to submit their name for nomination, she she would not submit for Best Host & Best Show.

Goddamned, my memory is near pitch perfect!!!

The best part is when Susan lifts up Adrienne like something out of An Officer and a Gentleman- She should have frenched her-

And that maniacal cackle

HEH HEH HEH!!!!

And fucking Susan Lucci- you could see La Lucci's fake graciousness depart in that very brief moment. ME? ME? (This bitch wanted that 2nd Emmy!)

And those clips. When the announcer says the character name before the actress's name? How fucking moronic. TV for dummies. Shit like that is why the soaps sucked post 2002 (or 1994- however you want to look at it)>.

R47, I am Erica Kane, and you are a FILTHY beast!

Lol R33 R47 well remembered! Who are those 2 twats presenting the award?

Who the fuck is Liz Hubbard?

Lucci is arguably the most famous soap actress in history, so we can see who won that battle.

Boo hoo indeed, bitch.

Lucci was best when she played Erica for laughs in the early years. For that alone she should have won. She was so perfectly vain and lacking in self awareness. Great character! A friend who used to work on the show, he did her hair and said she was very beautiful in person - didn't need the nose job - and she was kind to the staff. However she referred to fans as civilians.

Susan Lucci is an A+ diva bitch cunt. I remember many years ago, on Dick Clark's show, "Bloopers and Practical Jokes," they played a joke on Susan Lucci. They scheduled an interview with her for a local talk show. When she showed up, the producer told her they had accidentally told her to show up at the wrong time, so she was an hour late and they had to put a female staff member from the station on to pretend she was Susan Lucci.

She acted like a complete bitch when they told her this, ranting and raving and going on about how her career was ruined and how she could never show her face in public again. Finally, when Dick Clark came out and revealed the joke, she pasted that phony Emmy smile on her face and acted like it was oh, just so funny and she was so sweet and nice and giggly.

We saw you, bitch.

R49, Bless you my friend. Those TWATS (watch that doofus actor after he shrieks Susan's name- what a TOOL- truly why soaps were looked down upon) I cannot remember the guy's name, but the girl is Adrienne Frantz- I cannot even remember who she played- but Andrea Evans played her mother at some point..

The best part is truly Flannery. "Heh Heh Heh". (Hold me mommy, I am scared of that man!)

R52- THANK YOU. Susan was a very DRIVEN woman under that guise of "Aw shucks" and over the top graciousness. I never once bought that act. The Sarah Michelle Gellar shit confirmed it.

However, I do believe (as a rule) that Susan was actually a great cast leader behind the scenes and treated the majority of actors/crew very, very well- I just know that there was another side

The next morning, I was watching CNN and they did a segment on her win. I might be wrong, but wasn't she on the cover of some of the soap mags the following week or two?

Why would the two BB actors get so excited about Lucci winning? Susan L. didn’t think it through.

I’ve always found her “real life” persona too much but have to admit she killed it when she hosted SNL.

Agree about the SNL appearance!

[quote] The Sarah Michelle Gellar shit confirmed it.

Considering the thousands of actors who have come and gone through the halls of AMC over 41 years, she only had one person who couldn't get along with Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci career has continued even after AMC ended. While SMG career is down the toilet

lol at Rosie crying.

Bullshit R59.

Susan finally had a younger co star who took the limelight and got an Emmy-

I am sure there was conflict on both sides, but I do not buy angelic Susan Lucci's persona-

It is beyond fake.

Her fake crying in OP's video of her Emmy acceptance speech is ridiculous. Her eyes aren't even welling up.

Oh honey please. Many people couldn't get along with Susan Lucci. It just never made the press. Lucci saw an Eve Harrington situation with SMG and lost her fucking mind. The old hag was threatened by a little girl and pissed off that the fans rebelled that 60 year old Luccie was trying to pass Erica off as 30 something. SMG wasn't the villain. Lucci was.

And fucking Oprah. SUSAANNNNNNNN! SUSAAAANNNNNNNNN!!

Shut the fuck up for once.

YES R63! You said it much better!

SMG career is in the toilet = karma

It's much like dear Glenn today. She was in everything and yet nobody liked her enough to vote for her.

I think for many, he winning represented the every day working man who finally gets their due. (She is too attractive to say every dog has there day)

Don't oh dear me! I hit send too soon^^^

Back when magazine covers meant something.

Thanks OP. This was a great post.

The fact that Lucci has an Emmy and people like Bevelee McKinsey and Victoria Wyndham don't is a crime. And don't get me started on that over the top hack Slezak who has like 6.

Sorry, Slezak is 100 times the actress Lucci is.

[quote]The fact that Lucci has an Emmy and people like Bevelee McKinsey and Victoria Wyndham don't is a crime. And don't get me started on that over the top hack Slezak who has like 6.

You have no idea.

[quote] people like Bevelee McKinsey and Victoria Wyndham don't is a crime.

The P&G soaps did "internal" elections to decide who will be nominated, and then the cast block votes

The fact that Bev & Vicky lost in these INTERNAL in-house elections speak volumes as to why they were denied nominations.

Deirdre Hall no longer allows her name to be submitted due to all the network politicking and block voting.

Good for Dee. She's always been a class act. The Y&R set is the worst during Emmy time.

[quote]Deirdre Hall no longer allows her name to be submitted due to all the network politicking and block voting.

Never stopped her from participating in DOOL's shenanigans around the Soap Opera Digest Awards.

[quote] Deirdre Hall no longer allows her name to be submitted

I think she last submitted her name in 2015 or somewhere around that time, and suffered the humiliation of being in last place during the pre-nomination round

After that she stopped.

[quote] The P&G soaps did "internal" elections to decide who will be nominated, and then the cast block votes

The P&G block voting was many, many years after Beverlee and Victoria were in the race and eligible. It really started in earnest in the 90s, when Jill Farren Phelps was at GL.

I think AW was such an embarrassment of riches in the 70s that BM and VW often cancelled each other out.

It's ridiculous Dee never won for her work in the 70s and 80s. She was brilliant back then before everything became OTT.

Dee Dee Halls!

It was one of the great victory speeches in award show history. Not to say the speech wasn't genuine, but it certainly was among Susan's best work. Generally she submitted either weepy material or comedic stuff. I actually think she was even better in 2001 when her tape was the excellent culmination of the Bianca coming out storyline, but Susan ran up against the Martha Byrne as Rose and Lily buzzsaw.

I think, too, the surprise of her victory was real. Most people assumed Melody Thomas Scott or Kim Zimmer would win. But MTS has long had a bad reputation and Zimmer's reel featured the notorious clone storyline - this back when GL brought Reva back from the dead and at a quick pace made her Amish, then a time traveler, then a Caribbean Princess, and then a psychic.

Ultimately Susan's victory was the beginning of the end fro the Daytime Emmys. During her series of losses it attracted bigger numbers than even the Primetime version.

[quote]I think, too, the surprise of her victory was real

She was sitting with Rosie O'Donnell at the ceremony. The next day, Rosie had her as a guest, and she mentioned that before the award was announced she'd told Susan she'd hold her purse when she went up to accept. Susan was confused as to why.

She was legit surprised.

[quote] The P&G block voting was many, many years after Beverlee and Victoria were in the race and eligible. It really started in earnest in the 90s, when Jill Farren Phelps was at GL.

NOT TRUE - Block voting was done at P&G soaps long before JFP arrived at GL

[quote] The next day, Rosie had her as a guest, and she mentioned that before the award was announced she'd told Susan she'd hold her purse when she went up to accept. Susan was confused as to why.

I knew I was winning. I just didn’t understand why this huge mannish seat filler was speaking to me and was she trying to mug me on live television.

[quote] NOT TRUE - Block voting was done at P&G soaps long before JFP arrived at GL

Maybe earlier than the 90s but it wasn't happening in the 70s.

GL and ATWT had almost no noms in the 70s and AW really dominated nominations.

R87 Block voting for P&G soaps started in the mid-80s to counter the dominance of the ABC soaps sweeping almost all of the categories.

Thanks, R88. I knew it wasn't happening in the 70s.

GL and ATWT surprisingly had few noms before the 80s. Marland's win at GL was one of its first.

Her victory sent shockwaves throughout the world. Serbs and Kosovars even stopped fighting for one day, because both sides were so overjoyed by this news.

I think it’s probably the number 1 acting award on an awards show. Not saying Lucci is Streep. But damn that crowd went crazy for her. The ovation I think was something like two minutes, which probably felt like an eternity for her and everyone else in that room. I remember watching and was thrilled she finally nailed it, even though I never watched AMC. Once she won, Lucci couldn’t milk her losing streak anymore for publicity and commercials. But she would rather have won it.

R32 The material got considerably worse

[quote] The material got considerably worse

Erica dealing with a lesbian daughter was a bad story?

R93 after that it did. Bianca coming out was the last thing Agnes Nixon ever wrote and it was very well done and Lucci should've won the Emmy that year over blowsy Martha Byrne.

But post-2003 the only good stuff she had was the Micahel Cambias/Bianaca rape storyline. Everything else was focused around Kendall.

It's sad to think this was kind of the last hurrah for soaps. The last time there was a big deal about a soap star.

In the 2000s, some soaps were still writing good stories but by the end of the 2000s, the writing turned to crap or some shows were off the air.

when did looch have all of her. plastic surgeries? she has cat eyes now

Her winning was really one of the great all-time moments of any awards show. To this day, one of those happy moments I still remember seeing live.

Too bad moments like this are few and far between these days.

[quote]Her winning was really one of the great all-time moments of any awards show. To this day, one of those happy moments I still remember seeing live.

One of the most delightful parts was Susan saying that she's being told to wrap up, and a cut to Kelly Ripa in the audience emphatically mouthing "NO!!!!"

I believe Oprah had something to do with James Earl Jones getting a special Oscar so wondered if she used her power to get Lucci a win.

[quote]Deirdre Hall no longer allows her name to be submitted due to all the network politicking and block voting.

Dee Dee actually said the Daytime Emmys were a "black hole of negative energy" back in 2007. She withdrew from the early 90s until recently because she knew they would never reward the campy lines she was famous for. During this time she did do some quality work in Wiseguy and Our House and produced her own movie - Never Say Never: The Dee Dee Halls Story.

[quote]Dick Clark -- who was the producer/director/show runner-- started calling out that she was running out of time and she should wrap up

I bet he was DRUNK. OFF. HIS. ASS!!!

Good grief with that ham Kim Zimmer. Surprised she never gained five hundred pounds with all the scenery she chewed.

And doesn't she have five Emmys or something?

r102 she did gain 500 lbs

Zimmer is kind of the forgotten diva. DL obsesses over SuLu, Sleestack and Dee Dee and even Robin Strasser but never poor Kim.

Kim did it to herself. Remember when she went around bragging that she saved her piss and applied it to her face?

Kim did chew the scenery when she got the chance but her performances were still more real and grounded than any of the top soap divas.

I went to this show. It was super exciting when SL won. Highlight of the night. Everyone was so happy for her.

Actually, it’s pretty much the only thing I can remember from that night- other than a lot of General Hospital people walking by our seats to get to theirs.

I loved Marcy Walker crying in the audience. One of my favorite daytime actresses.

R33, they NEVER should have had two children -- Adrienne and the Jacob replacement -- hand out BEST ACTRESS.

The show must have been on CBS. In fairness to Rick 2.0, trying to present or act next to Adrienne b/c it's always about her. Like. Always. She shrills at a high octave and SusanFLAKJDLKAJSDD is the winner! It got drowned out and the kid was just trying to keep up with her.

I give Flannery props for actually knowing the names of her fellow nominees.

Marcy showed she had a sense of humor when she presented with Robert Newman courtesy of the ill-pairing of "Tangie" and Josh on GL.

He asked her what was it like to sit out in the audience and here them say "and the winner is..."

Marcy deadpanned: "Kim Zimmer?"

Zimmer had won three emmys by this point.

I think she was in the audience that year, a guest of Larkin Malloy (ex-Kyle). She was ready to come back to soaps.

GL NEVER should have hired Marcy; she should have gone back to AMC, which she did later; and GL should have hired Kim far earlier than it did.

R109 here; in fairness to Lucci, if you listen...the Emmy producers played the AMC theme when Flannery won.

That's a fuck up.

I think the B&B theme played when Genie Francis won for Laura.

Me too r108. It obviously showed that she was well-respected by her co-stars. Seeing Marcy, Kelly Ripa and David Canary so happy for her was great.

I saw her right after a taping of Dancing With the Stars at an event -- she went pretty far in the competition, maybe halfway.

I said to her: "So. you're in a beautiful dress. You're on a live ABC two hour show. And you're waiting for your name to be called. "

She laughed and said there were parallels.

She has a rep for being classy and nice to fans. I think she said thank you 19 freaking times when she won. Some don't say it once.

Piss takes 10 years off my face but the camera adds 50 pounds

I thought her thank you speech was gracious. She thanked her co-stars, she thanked her fans, she thanked her kids for making her feel better after losing all those previous times, she thanked her husband but best of all, she thanked Agnes Dixon and acknowledged her contributions to the soap genre and television in general.

Say what you will about La Lucci, but it was a classy speech which was both personal and professional.

But does Looch save her piss and rub it on her face?

Shemar Moore pissed me off. He made it just as much about himself. Like it was his moment to give her the award. .... It would have been far more explosive and memorable if someone classy like co-star David Canary had presented. I can imagine him seeing the name, pausing two pregnant seconds. There'd be complete silence. Then he's softly say, "Susan... Lucci."

That would have been incredible. Instead we have to watch that tired clip of Shemar queening out for the rest of eternity.

Shemar pissed you off r117 but does he like piss on his face?

If I ever find out I will let you know.

R104 what about Jackie Zeman??

I actually knew her acting teacher — she had bought him a co-op apartment just outside of Gramercy.

[quote][R104] what about Jackie Zeman??

I feel like Jackie hurt her legacy by screwing up her face so badly. Which is a shame, she deserved both of her nominations in the 90s and should have one for the BJ story.

I’ll never understand Jackie Zeman losing for the BJ heart story. That was just wrong.

I always felt bad for the actresses who won because it was never about them it was always about them beating Lucci. The audience went wild because the nightmare was over

R104 Don’t forget KKL from B&B!

[quote]Zimmer is kind of the forgotten diva. DL obsesses over SuLu, Sleestack and Dee Dee and even Robin Strasser but never poor Kim.

Yeah, I give you gays Jake Weary and this is the gratitude I get?

R104, I believe I read that Jackie Z's husband at the time was a plastic surgeon and he or his partner did all the work on her... they then divorced. So who knows what the dynamic was that caused her to get all that work done on herself. I do know from someone who was in fairly constant contact with her (a fan who caught Jackie Z's attention from various functions) that it seemed like JZ was happy with the work that was done, at least in her public persona. But you have to wonder. By all accounts, JZ is a sweetheart to all her fans and appreciates them very much.

She started going heavy with it when they made Bobbie the mother of Carly. They also started dressing her different on the show.

[quote] I’ll never understand Jackie Zeman losing for the BJ heart story.

Wait, there’s a BJ acting category now?

R128, yes there is.

R117, I agree. Shemar made it about himself.

The next time he presented was when Ali Sweeney was up for Lead Actress; her only nom ever (how'd this girl not get nominated for Younger Leading back in the day? the writing alone!)

Shemar recounts his giving it to Susan and says maybe history would be made again, hinting at an Ali win. Maura West won, I believe, for GH; I doubt Shemar knew who any of them noms where.

Shemar was/is an idiot.

I don’t begrudge Shemar. It was the biggest Daytime Emmy moment. All he said the streak is over and her name. It would’ve been less exciting if he just said her name.

He made it a shameless “bit.”

I don't know, I thought Shemar really added some excitement. It was a perfect moment.

Nobody was thinking of Shemar once her name was called, anyway.

“A perfect moment”? Like Trump’s “perfect phone call”?

Please. It would have been perfect if any number of people rather than Shemar fucking Moore had announced Lucci as the winner.

When people mock soap operas, it was because of over-the-top actresses like Lucci. Her hammy theatrics were what gave daytime a bad name (but good ratings). AMC had some decent acting (David Canary, Julia Barr), but mostly horrible models like Cameron Matheson. But AMC was like Shakespeare compared to Days Of Our Lives and that trainwreck with the witch and the doll-boy.

The best acting I ever saw was the submission tape for Maura West's first win for As The World Turns. She hit every emotion in the book during that episode...confidence, dread, hope, defeat, defiance...you name it.

[quote]He made it a shameless “bit.”

This is the same woman whose character came face to face with a bear and was 70s years old, playing 40. I'm a soap opera fan from way back. I love the genre and I love most of the stories, but let's be realistic about what soap opera is. Lucci was a star, she wasn't an actress. A "bit" as you call it is perfectly fine in the context of Lucci's career.

R135 Eric Braeden won lead male actor the year before. He probably would’ve given more dramatic heft to the moment. Plus he was co hosting the year Lucci won. But the Emmys usually don’t have last years winners present much to the new acting winners.

God, really r135? Bringing up Trump in soap thread?

Sheesh.

To her credit Kim Zimmer says nothing but nice things about Susan in her book. Saying that everytime she ran into Susan she was nothing but kind and gracious.

Say what you will about Susan's acting, but she was a vision the night she won.

Looking back, this was a coalescing of the whole of the daytime community. Also, it was the night daytime TV put its head on the chopping block. All the big stars were now in their 50s.

From this point on Lucci's polished and impeccable look became racier; as she aged her neckline plunged, the once elegant outfits now spaghetti straps and boob tubes, lovely makeup is gone in favor of glitter tan and lightened hair.

The BEST Emmy reel EVER to not lead to a best actress win belongs to the talented, triple-threat of the twentieth century, Brendad Ickson!!!!!!!!

Uhhh, R139, the door was left wide open when Moore’s buffoonish piece of crap was described as “perfect.”

You could practically see David Canary's disappointment when he said one year..."Kim Zimmer..."

and OMG when Jess Walton read best actress in 1991, having just won supporting, instead of Jeanne Cooper, she said, practically incredulously: "Finola Hughes" ???

Canary was disappointed about the Zimmer win because he’d have to kiss her cheek and she scrubs her face with her own piss.

Jackie Zeman took over for Sally Struthers doing those home diploma commercials.

WHY didn't Mary Kay Adams win an Emmy for THIS scene?

Not to mention all her moments with McKinsey?

Eddie Cibrian should have won an Emmy for Sunset Beach because he was so hot.

Shemar made the moment more exciting

Like Brad Pitt Shemar should win the Nobel Peace Prize for nudity for allowing someone to photograph him full frontal.