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    Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

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    Besides Louise Shaffer losing her husband, Kathryn Dowling's (Lily Darnell #2 and she was also in Love Spell that was written and produced by Claire Labine and starred Kate Mulgrew) husband, Donald Wrye, also passed on last month. They were married almost 28 years.


    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-wrye-dead-ice-castles-797425



    Donald Wrye, Writer and Director on 'Ice Castles,' Dies at 80

    by Mike Barnes

    5/21/2015

    Donald Wrye, who wrote and directed the 1978 figure-skating romantic drama Ice Castles, starring Lynn-Holly Johnson and Robby Benson, has died. He was 80.

    Wrye, who received Oscar nominations for producing a pair of short documentaries in the early 1970s, died May 15 in his sleep at home in Harrisburg, Pa., his wife, Kathryn Dowling Wrye, told The Hollywood Reporter.

    Wrye helmed the boundary-pushing 1974 NBC telefilm Born Innocent, starring Linda Blair (coming off the release of The Exorcist months earlier) as a 14-year-old runaway who is raped with a plunger handle by a gang of girls at a reform school. Re-airings of the movie cut the graphic rape sequence.

    “The project certainly caused a lot of disturbance in America, and it’s one, years later, that I am so proud of, because it really helped change a lot of lives,” Blair said in a 2013 interview.

    Wrye also wrote, directed and executive produced ABC’s 1987 seven-part, 15-hour miniseries Amerika, which starred Kris Kristofferson in an epic story about a Soviet Union takeover of the United States.


    Ice Castles featured Johnson as an Olympic-hopeful figure skater who loses her eyesight in a skating accident and Benson as her hockey-playing boyfriend. Its theme song, "Through the Eyes of Love," performed by Melissa Manchester and written by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager, was nominated for an Oscar.

    Wrye later directed a 2010 straight-to-DVD Ice Castles remake that starred Taylor Firth and Rob Mayes.

    Wrye received his Oscar noms for producing An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (1969), with Henry Fonda providing the voice of the novelist, and The Numbers Start With the River (1971), about life in an Iowa town.

    He directed Jack Lemmon in the much-lauded 1976 NBC telefilm The Entertainer (1976) and guided Marlo Thomas and Orson Welles in ABC’s It Happened One Christmas, a 1977 adaptation of the Jimmy Stewart classic It’s a Wonderful Life.

    Wrye also won Humanitas prizes for his work on Divorce Wars: A Love Story, a 1982 telefilm starring Tom Selleck and Jane Curtin, and Lucky Day, a 1991 TV movie toplined by Amy Madigan and Olympia Dukakis.

    Wrye’s trademark was to examine individuals involved in a family crisis or struggling with social issues, his wife noted.

    Born Sept. 24, 1934, in Riverside, Calif., Wrye attended the University of Arizona and graduated from UCLA’s film school. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served for years on its documentary feature film committee.

    In his addition to his wife of nearly 28 years, survivors include children Gabriel, Ariel and Catalina; grandchildren Esme, Levi and Kagan; brothers Terry and Richard; sister-in-law Karen; his children’s spouses, Heather and Kate; and mother-in-law Barbara.

    A private memorial service will be held in Malibu, where he lived for years.

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    Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

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    Christian Slater (DJ) talks about his father, Michael Hawkins (Frank #1)

    http://www.eonline.com/news/665411/christian-slater-opens-up-about-his-father-he-s-a-manic-depressive-schizophrenic



    Christian Slater Opens Up About His Father :" He's A Manic-Depressive Schizophrenic"

    Christian Slater may have had a troubled relationship with his dad, but it sounds like the two are finally reconciling.

    The Heathers star has opened up about his father like never before during a chat with his Nymphomaniac director Lars Von Trier for the new issue of Interview magazine.

    "He's a manic-depressive schizophrenic," Slaters said "He's always had trouble—he was a fantastic actor and extraordinarily charismatic and very, very good looking, but he had a really difficult time working with directors, collaborating with people."

    Until recently, Slater hadn't spoken to his father for nine years. However, his father is "in a place now, getting a lot of help from someone," Slater says.
    "n the last few months my father actually reached out to me and wanted to reconcile and reconnect," Slater says. "I was very grateful to be able to communicate with him. From a tumultuous, back-and-forth relationship, we were able to begin to build a better bridge for the both of us. So that was good."

    As for Slater himself, the 45-year-old actor says he's "happily married" and has a "great relationship" with his kids. In fact, his 16-year-old son is moving in with them. "I'm excited to get the opportunity to be a bit more of a father in his life," he says.

    When von Trier asks if he's living a "golden life right now," Slater says, "It is probably more golden than I will ever acknowledge, you know? I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally."

    It's definitely more half-full these days, Mr. Slater!

    Afterall, he will next be seen in Mr. Robot, a new television series about a group of underground computer hackers that picked up the Audience Award earlier this year at South by Southwest.

    Mr. Robot premieres on the USA Network on June 24.

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    Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

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    When I wrote to Kelli Maroney and sent a photo for her to autograph, I picked a screen cap of her on FF!! I remember watching one FF where it was RH against GH (I think it was GH, it might have been OLTL, it's been a long time and I don't even know if it is still up on YT). Anyway, I remember howling when Helen Gallagher came out in what was known as the infamous "mauve" dress - the one Maeve wore for EVERY dress-up occasion.

    There was a little tidbit in a soap magazine about another time when RH actors were on Family Feud and the question was what would you miss most if stranded alone on a desert island -- Nancy Addison answered "constructive criticism".

    Needless to say her castmates were not thrilled with her answer. LOL!

    I love your Chiffon avatar!!!

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    Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

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    Really? For such a major character? That's odd.

    ABC offering her the RH role after they couldn't do right by her with a GH contract seemed odd, too.

    We Love Soaps April 19, 2013

    WE LOVE SOAPS: After GH you played Delia for a while on RYAN'S HOPE in 1984.

    ROBIN MATTSON: It was a good move for me in terms of the reasons I left GENERAL HOSPITAL, which were strictly business. The terms were met by the same network when I went to RYAN'S HOPE, which was a half hour show. It was sort of a political move. They weren't, in my understanding, doing right by me in my job at GENERAL HOSPITAL. So the same network (ABC) said to me, "Hey, come over and do this half hour show. We want to kind of reinvent Delia Ryan." And I did. It was a short-term deal and it worked well for me. I liked the show a lot. Business is business.

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    Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

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    I had asked this on other Ryan's Hope forums a couple years ago -- and no one there could answer this

    In the November 29, 1988 Soap Opera Digest, Wes Leonard's name was in the RH synopsis. Who was playing Wes in 1988? I don't think it wasn't David Rasche - -and Sam MacMurray, well. I thought he only played the role for a limited time in 1983 because he wasn't interested in a long term soap role.


    From SOD


    ...So the Feds are using the Novak's to flush out Dubujak. The next day, Siobhan receives more roses and a note for Max. Jack gets note from Max, too, claiming he's ready to turn himself in. Everyone's relieved. Unfortunately, it's a trick. Matt sent the roses and the two notes. It's all part of a plan to make Jack look like a fool. Max's so-called surrender is a hoax. And Wes Leonard, Jack's rival, is being paid to get it all on film.


    ...The door opens and a clown steps out. A stunned Jack and company stand speechlessly by as Wes and a photographer, jump out, clicking away.

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    Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

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    For anyone who is interested, the Ryan's Bar Online site is now back up — http://ryansbaronline.tripod.com— hopefully for good? The content is still unchanged, and the aesthetics even more antiquated, but I'll leave it up for as long as Tripod/Lycos does the same.

    When your posts alerted me to the fact that the site was gone, I figured it was worth a shot at least submitting a ticket to tech support. I got a response earlier today saying that their "systems" had "detected" the "site as a violation," and they were "working to correct the issue." I still have no idea what that means — and I wrote back to ask, but I don't know that I will hear from them again — and by the time I read the e-mail, the site was back online.

    Thanks for the update ...and for the time spent trying to find out the reasons it was taken down.

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