@anyaroses: Adrienne Barbeau being "The Balkan" would have been a nice twist.

It seemed kind of obvious, but I thought the unseen character 'The Balkan' on "General Hospital" was going to turn out to be Franco again. But it's just the bald guy from "Murder One."

Rachel Sweet as George's cousin
It took me 10 years of watching "The Contest" before I realized that George's frumpy cousin in the hospital room was played by my favorite late 70s/early 80s pop singer, who never became as famous as she should have - Rachel Sweet. She was doing the jailbait pop singer thing before…