TimWil

Where the hell is Tina Dingle is all I want to know.

Is a Jay/Donna pairing actually going to happen? It might be interesting.

Cain and Harriet? Uh uh. Doesn't work AT ALL.

I was sad to see how quickly Jonny Clarke's looks deteriorated between when Bart was first seen on the show and then his recent (and final) stint. I suspect "hard living" got him removed back then-Bart was so hyped up as being this major new character. And Clarke didn't seem to follow it up with much work. I think I spotted him as "villain of the week" in something like Blind Witness but that was it. I thought he had star quality when he first joined Hollyoaks.

Awww, Carl, I like Carmel/Bonnie Langford. I think she's done her best with awful material these past 18 months. Remember how touching she was when Carmel's grandson died?

Dean Gaffney is returning as Robbie? Uhhhh...OK. My first thought was maybe he and Carmel could be a couple and it would sort of show her to be a hypocrite due to her opposition to Kush and Denise.

Has Scanlan's career taken off since leaving the show, though? As a Brit actor friend told me "There's always the tax bill to pay at the end of January..."

Will anyone be surprised if Brendan's back by Christmas?

For a show which seems to place a premium on good looking young actors I've never understood why they have given so much airtime to a face that begs to be slapped.

So I guess Gabby is being written out so the actress can focus on school? I wonder where this leaves Jacob.

I have a feeling Ross' blackmailing Robert signals the beginning of an exit storyline. A Who Killed Ross? summer storyline, perhaps?

So Redwater is finally premiering next month. I love Fionnuala Flanagan but this one seems like a total stinker. Kat with long hair and a crunchy granola wardrobe? Do me a favor. It's like when Beverlee McKinsey was sent to Texas as a romantic heroine and it didn't work. Iris was a bitch and so is Kat.

It was, of course, a very touching episode but I did find myself fast-forwarding through the scenes with "the whole gang" with Ashley-I just wanted it to be him and his family. And alright, having him "recognize" Laurel at the very end was probably unrealistic in the extreme but I think it was really the only way they could have ended their storyline together.

I don't believe she ever did, Amy! I just watched yesterday's episode and so many memories have come flooding back. I met Angela in the mid 1980s through a mutual friend when she was understudying the lead in a Broadway play. She recruited me to help her learn her lines and paid me $10 an hour, I think! She had a beautiful (and huge) apartment on West End Avenue. I'd see her son Adam pop in and out. She had a gorgeous daughter Victoria who married an Italian and moved to Italy with him. Angela was so much fun to be around. In her scenes you definitely get a sense of her potential for mischief-there was that wonderful twinkle in her eye. Ah. And...since they're both gone now I think it might be OK to reveal that...she had an "ongoing" relationship with Richard Burton. I think they were hot and heavy in the 1950s and then after they both moved on would occasionally meet up "for old times sake," even when he was married to Elizabeth Taylor, believe it or not. I never asked her about details but I did think it was very sweet that she was good friends with his first wife Sybil. In fact she did several plays at a theatre Sybil ran out on Long Island-a production of Hedda Gabler starring their daughter Kate even ended up on Broadway. As I noted a while back she became very close friends with Elizabeth Hubbard. They'd go on trips together, I think their sons were around the same age.

Watching the most recent episodes and seeing my friend Geri in scenes with Gerald Gordon really brought it back to me how much she apparently disliked him. She told me she thought he was a blowhard and downright humorless, unlike David O'Brien who was always joking around. And I think she didn't at all appreciate his behavior during kissing scenes, especially when he'd thrust his tongue down her throat and then look surprised that she hadn't enjoyed it. She joked that those scenes might have been key to her being a lesbian! She told me she did date William Shatner when they were on tour in Barefoot in the Park but uhhh...it didn't go anywhere.

Angela and Geri-those were two great dames, let me tell you.

Thanks for the link, Carl. How wonderful is that?

I do think that, along with an Emmerdale sweep, that Alfie Clarke wins the BSA for Best Young Performer. The kid who plays Denny on EE is just a one-dimensional smirking robot.

ETA: what was with the cross-fade between pub scenes during tonight's episode? Has the show done this in recent memory?

And so Ashley's Death Week commences....

The little boy who plays Arthur is breaking my heart but the old ham who plays Ashley's father is back to chewing the scenery. It's cringeworthy. Dude, you ain't playing King Lear.

Was Chas running off to Mauritius with Liv a sudden write-out? If she's not back for Aaron's return then I guess we'd have our answer.

The climax of this Michelle/Preston/Bex storyline has so much less impact because Bex and Preston only seemed to be dating for five minutes. Everything about this has been rushed to a laughable degree.

Well, well, well. Ann Mitchell is returning as Cora for an indeterminate period of time. I hope this shuts down those bozos at those other message boards who insisted Cora was never returning. Never say never about returning characters with shows like EE. If you do you really don't have a clue how these shows work.

It just seemed to me that Celine was supposed to be a longer running character than just two years.

Catching up on the past few months. Anybody know why Celine was killed off-was it for storyline purposes or did the actress choose not to renew her contract? I saw her on some TV interview thing when I was over in the UK and I got a bad vibe about her-she seemed quite the opposite to sweetheart Celine. Perhaps she was an off the set problem like the one who played Sinead?

6 hours ago, Adamski said:

 

The whole 'Oh, she only heard the second half of Emma's words in the church' twist was very unclear and doesn't really make sense, IMHO. 

Exactly. I mean...WTF. Very poor writing. And Emma thought Faith's possible pill addiction was a suitable retaliation of mutual destruction akin to a confession of murder? Puhleeze.

WTF with those scenes with Emma and Faith in last night's episode? I like a clear cut case of blackmail but that was just plain silly.

However "It's Arthur" brought a tear to my eye. That kid is wonderful.

On 3/21/2017 at 9:00 PM, amybrickwallace said:

13 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Agreed about that scene with Martha. She wasn't that thrilled at the prospect of them reuniting at first, either. Totally out of character.

 

About Carolee, when the phone rings in her office she always answers it "Mrs. Aldrich" - so it seems she is using her married name professionally, just as she did during her nightmare of a marriage to Dan. Besides, she's a nurse and Steve's a doctor. It's not like people are going to confuse them, as sometimes folks do with the Drs. Powers (whose first names even begin with the same letter!).

Exactly! I put the Simpson thing down to pure laziness on their part. Heh heh. 

18 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Why didn't they originally hire Gillian Spencer? Was she just not available at the time, holding out for more money...?

I don't know, amybrickwallace. I wished Geri could have taken a crack at playing Spencer's role of Daisy/Monique on AMC, she had such a delicious sense of humor and that role would have brought out the best in her. Geri wasn't vain but not too thrilled when Doug Marland sprung an adult daughter (Amanda) on her character Jennifer Richards. I guess she might have felt the same on AMC re Nina although that was most likely known to Spencer from the start.

But back to TD: what was the reasoning behind having Carolee's maiden name in the credits for many months after Steve and Carolee were married?

19 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

@TimWil, here is the article featuring David Elliott from 1976 (though this magazine issue is from Feb. 1977):

 

http://vintagesoaparchives.tumblr.com/tagged/david-elliott

 

Here are also the SOD synopses for the show from 1976-78, which would signify the change of Billys, I believe. 1977 mentions little Stephanie having rheumatic fever, so this must be the plot that had Geraldine Court and the other stars of the show in hysterics!!

 

https://classicsoddoctors.tumblr.com/search/1976

 

https://classicsoddoctors.tumblr.com/search/1977

 

https://classicsoddoctors.tumblr.com/search/1978

 

Hahaha, that's so funny, amybrickwallace. I remember Geri saying that on the other side of the hospital glass window they made fun of the little girl playing Stephanie squeaking out "Stephie feels sick!" And her covers kept on slipping down on her, ruining the take and she'd look down helplessly not knowing how to react. Geri said what made it even funnier was standing side by side with Carolee Campbell, David O'Brien and Lydia Bruce, all of whom thought it was so funny they almost pissed themselves! She said David O'Brien was an absolute delight at all times, always cracking jokes and keeping the atmosphere light on set.

As for ATWT Geri only said to me that she was a total novice at daytime acting when she was hired and they always wanted Gillian Spencer to play Jennifer, anyway. When she was on AW she had huge admiration for Beverlee McKinsey. "Do you know what she does for lighting? She has them put little lights inside all kinds of drawers, she opens them up at various points in scenes and she gets lighting from below! That's the best kind. Overhead lighting is the worst." And she told me Bev knew all the palace intrigue and forthcoming storylines because she'd sneak into Paul Rauch's office when he was at lunch outside of the studio!

23 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

David Elliott is in photos and cast writeups from ithe mid-1970s, so maybe TD hired him back? Supposedly, from some articles I read, he was involved in a major storyline in 1976, with the return of Carolee (as Jada Rowland) and Ann is not the supposed good girl we are seeing now. Hmmm. 

 

Gerald Gordon did have a reputation in those days as being somewhat of a womanizer, so maybe he hit on Geraldine and she didn't like it? I guess we'll never know. In any case, they had NO chemistry on-screen...especially when you consider the white hot chemistry he had with Liz Hubbard.

 

You should really join the show's FB fan group, TimWil. One of the regular posters is the lady who captions the reruns. According to her, Angela Thornton will indeed be back in the episodes to come and she will again cross paths with Patrick Horgan's Dr. John Morrison. I had no idea Mariska Hargitay was once engaged to Adam Storke.

 

I really enjoy the memories you've shared with us. Thank you so much!!

You're welcome, amybrickwallace! I'll try joining the FB group, too! So glad to hear Angela (as Lisa Kincaid) will be brought back. It makes sense that Lisa and Dr. John's adulterous weekend liaison would end up being Althea's escape hatch.

The Adams Chronicles episode I was in with David Elliott is sadly no longer on YouTube. I managed to see it a few weeks before it was pulled. The first two episodes and a bit of Episode 12 are still on it, though. I guess I stand corrected about David's history on TD-his imdb profile had him only having been on it from 1972-1973. I thought Shawn Campbell (who I was NOT a fan of when I'd see him at auditions) took over in 1974 or 1975.

Re: the question about Geri and GL. I remember at the time it was simply a case of her wanting to work again with Doug Marland and nothing else. I think she was fine with Allen Potter. I don't remember her being particularly critical of producers, just writers!