[Dan]

I thought we could use a thread as a tribute over the next several months (so if a mod could do me the favor and pin this thread). Linking videos, posting transcripts, memories. I don't think we should cloud this thread with talk of how bad it got and the misadventures that brought it to that point and focus on the pleasant memories and stories. I think GL in general deserves that much.

[Sylph]

Beautiful idea, Dan. I am sorry you lost your show.

Is it dumb to hope someone might interview Lorraine Broderick or Nancy Curlee and ask them to reminisce about their time with GL? And all others who were involved in this show's history?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

^^GL's cancellation gives me more incentive finally message Nance Curlee Demorest on Facebook, I guess.

I'm still nervous as hell to message her, I loved her GL, I don't want her to think I'm some stalker fan...

I'll be back later to post clips and more in this thread...

[Cat]

^^GL's cancellation gives me more incentive finally message Nance Curlee Demorest on Facebook, I guess.

I'm still nervous as hell to message her, I loved her GL, I don't want her to think I'm some stalker fan...

I'll be back later to post clips and more in this thread...

I think you should message her! I'm sure she won't think you're a stalker. She's bright enough to differentiate between genuine fans of the show and the deluded. OMGZ HOW COULD U KILL [insert character name here] DIE BITCH DIE!!!!11111!!!!! etc.

Great idea, Dan.

[Sylph]

Or maybe... You could do a full length interview with her for SON? So that I can read what she had to say.

[Dan]

Beautiful idea, Dan. I am sorry you lost your show.

Is it dumb to hope someone might interview Lorraine Broderick or Nancy Curlee and ask them to reminisce about their time with GL? And all others who were involved in this show's history?

Didn't you say somewhere that you had her e-mail?

[Sylph]

Didn't you say somewhere that you had her e-mail?

I do. Two emails, actually. Now she's on FB, she's available for everyone.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

She'll probably be reading this thread now and think I'm a dumbass for mentioning that she's on Facebook.

This post has been edited by Y&RWorldTurner: 01 April 2009 - 08:22 PM

[MarkH]

Thank you for this thread.

[Cat]

Curlee strikes me as a pretty nice lady in some of her interviews. I'm sure she wouldn't go all Judge Judy on your ass. So what are you waiting for? Go message her!

[Vee]

I'd just want to see Josh and Reva together, and Ed Bauer and Holly happy.

And maybe Maureen.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Dan, if you're willing to assemble questions with me, maybe we can make this Curlee message thing a joint effort?

I'm still nervous as hell messaging a woman that doesn't even know who the hell I am.

[Dan]

Dan, if you're willing to assemble questions with me, maybe we can make this Curlee message thing a joint effort?

I'm still nervous as hell messaging a woman that doesn't even know who the hell I am.

Yeah, that would definitely be really cool.

[UCLAN]

In the summer of 1966, I discovered the fascinating world of soaps. GL and AW were my soaps of choice. They became my summer family. I watched them grow as I grew. You leave the nest when you go to college, but they stayed with me. Along the way, I met Ryan's Hope and Days. Ryan's Hope became The City. AW left and I mourned. I still mourn. Now GL. I can't fathom the loss. There will be a hole in my day. (I watch on DVR when I get home from work )Through all the good and the bad, I hung in there. I yelled, laughed, cried. Nola and Quint; Morgan and Kelly, The Bauers, Spauldings, Reardon's, Coopers, Santos, Chamberlins, Marlers; all members of my family. I just don't have words to express the regret I feel.

This post has been edited by UCLAN: 01 April 2009 - 04:18 PM

[Y&RWorldTurner]

This thread would not be complete without a tribute being paid to "Hold On To Love." Everytime I watch this clip, it makes me smile. The song alone brings back not only great memouries of watching GL, but great memories in my life in general. It's rare to have any sort of connection to a piece of theme music, but "Hold On To Love" does it for me. God bless Robert Calhoun for picking this song.

This theme arguably defined GL over the past 18 years or so.

This post has been edited by Y&RWorldTurner: 01 April 2009 - 07:46 PM

[Dan]

Clip Set #1: February 1980


Thought I'd start the tribute here in 1980. A new headwriter, Douglas Marland, was brought in and was charged with wrapping up a big story: Roger Thorpe was about to leave. And he was damned determined to run off with his and Holly's daughter Christina. He even went so far as dressing up as a clown to steal her away from the Cedars Charity Bazaar. However, he failed and in the attempt got the attention of Ed's wife Rita Bauer. Rita panicked and ran into the Hall of Mirrors with Roger right behind her. This sequence, directed by Harry Eggart and set to the Barbara Streisand/Donna Summer duet "Enough is Enough," won GL its first Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.


Part 1


Part 2

[All My Shadows]

Lovely idea for a thread, Dan. I hope it flourishes.

I want to make a suggestion, though. I think that this thread should be strictly for celebrating the GL that we each enjoyed/loved. No bashing of any period of the show, just talk about what we enjoyed. I remember when the UK soap "Brookside" was canceled, I went around to some boards, and there were folks reminiscing about their favorites storylines and characters, and others would tell them that they weren't "real fans," that they didn't watch the "real Brookside," and all that garbage. Just let people reminisce about what they want to reminisce about, even if they were over the moon for Clone Reva.

That said, I floved Coop and Lizzie's non-wedding from '06. I was watching everyday that summer.

[DeliaIrisFan]

This thread would not be complete without a tribute being paid to "Hold On To Love." Everytime I watch this clip, it makes me smile. The song alone brings back not only great memouries of watching GL, but great memories in my life in general. It's rare to have any sort of connection to a piece of theme music, but "Hold On To Love" does it for me. God bless Robert Calhoun for picking this song.

This theme arguably defined GL over the past 18 years or so.

That is the GL I will remember as well. I grew up watching this stuff. So many memories. Now it's sad seeing Beverlee McKinsey, Michael Zaslow, and Vince Williams in that order in the credits, but also beautiful to see them in their glory together...and of course there are so many others who graced us with their talents on this show whose memories live on in the wonderful scenes that millions of us will never forget.

I never for minute bought the idea that GL's time had come. If it could reinvent itself after Reverend Ruthledge in the '40s and after Reva in the '90s; after moving from radio to TV to color; from 15 minutes to 30 minutes to an hour; there is no reason it could not have reinvented itself after Peapack, NJ and some of the lackluster characters who have been too central in recent years. This is a huge loss, personally for me and a lot of other people and practically for the entire genre. In a genre, in an entire medium that is bleeding viewers, every last bit of personal resonance a show can have for viewers is unbeatable, and GL has 72 years of personal resonance. When I've been checking it out lately to see Phillip's return and the Olivia/Natalia story, it has crossed my mind from time to time that, in these dark times, I'm watching a show that existed the last time we had a Depression and two horrible wars happening at once, and that continued to exist and thrive in better times. I think a lot of people could have taken comfort in that while watching GL, through whatever is going to happen in the country/the world in the months/years to come.

I want to see GL live on in some form. I know it's incredibly unlikely and if, ten years ago when we were losing another soap I'd grown up watching, someone had asked me to put my faith in P&G to save it I wouldn't have been able to do it. But GL has made so many transitions, I want it to be the soap that breaks through to some medium that is actually as relevant today as radio and TV were once. What's the deal with that online sitcom Eden Riegel from AMC was/is appearing in? She and that actress who played Maggie are obviously union actors, but somehow this endeavor was able to get them on-board and bring in enough money to produce it. In this economy especially, as sad as it is to say, a lot of these actors are not going to find work at the same pay level they have been getting immediately. Couldn't someone find some way to bring a core group of them together regularly to do some kind of mini-update on what's happening in Springfield? Bring in some veterans who they were already foolish enough to let go who still do not have regular gigs while they're at it. Even if it's just 15 minutes a week to start, even if it's just an audio podcast (which they've already been doing, right?)...just keep it going in some form, tinker with it, and see what happens. Ongoing, detail-oriented storytelling will never go completely out of style, it's just that people have been ignoring the fact that there has been less and less reason for network TV in the daytime to be the place for it for several decades. Now that the chickens are coming home to roost there is such a state of panic that practically any creativity is suffocated. GL was just the first one to the slaughter this time around, IMO.

[Ruxton Hills]

Here is a classic GL eppy without Grant Aleksander as Phillip. John Bolger is in the role. But the show is classic GL from 85. It has some of my favorites from Mindy to Kurt to India to Rick to Roxie

[alphanguy74]

This always reminds me of visiting my Grandma's house. I never watched Guiding Light, but whenever I visited, she always turned on her "Stories", it was Search For Tomorrow, then Another World, then Guiding Light. I always watched my Y&R while she would tell me I shouldn't, cause it was too "filthy", her stories were "clean"..... LOL!! She listened to GL while it was still on the radio, and when it went to TV, she watched it until she passed away in 1997. Although I never liked her "stories" this opening I always thought was SO soothing and SO pretty... and it reminds me of Grandma's house when I was a little boy: