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  1. Justin Deas' daughter & Andrew Robinson's daughter -- since the children of actors (and actors' wives Molly McGreevey [Earl Hindman's wife],Jody Catlin [Justin Deas' wife], Sandy Gabriel [John Gabriel's wife], and Joan Kaye [bernard Barrow's wife] made appearances during the earlier years of Ryan's Hope -- did the show continue to have children and spouses on during the later years of the soap, too?

    Does Christian Slater count, coming on years after his dad, Michael Hawkins, got the boot?

    Also, Nana Visitor/Tucker and Richard Muenz were already a couple, though never married, before they were on RH.

  2. This is Andrew Robinson's daughter, Rachel. She played his niece (Kathleen's daughter) on RH when she was little (he sat and played with her and Little John on the floor) and also did one of the most acclaimed episodes of ST:DS9 (The Visitor) in the 1990s, where Andrew was recurring.

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  3. In every role I've seen him in, Andrew Robinson always gives off a working-class vibe - even when his characters are not so nice.

    Except when he was playing a former Cardassian spy forced into exile as a tailor. tongue.png Garak was a very murky character but with some likeable qualities.

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    Nancy Addison's husband had also posted on SN forum (back when he writing a book about Nancy) and said Andrew was one of the people she enjoyed working with most on the show.

    What I did like about Andrew Robinson was that, out of all the Frank actors, he came across the most like the son of working class parents.

    I remember reading a bit about that book on the forum at that time. Did he ever finish it, I wonder?

    And, yes, how Andrew's Frank fit into the Ryan family was the thing I liked the best about his portrayal. Well, that, and his acting was good and seemed unrehearsed. Funny, considering he said he wasn't that good when he started. But, at that point on the show, I think they had a pretty good group of actors. The majority of them came across pretty natural in their roles.

  4. I've been watching this again on and off on youtube. I really did like Andy Robinson as Frank in the sense of fitting into the family, the sibling interaction, etc. He really got into it and did a good job. I know DHK was the definitive Frank, although I never much cared for him because he was the 1st Frank I remember as a kid and my first impression was of him as Rae's "boytoy" and I couldn't stand her or her daughter. I think it's a little bit nuts that AR got fired ostensibly because TPTB were afraid people couldn't get past the Dirty Harry movie but, duh, they hired him after that and did keep him around a couple of years. Looks-wise, maybe he didn't fit the romantic, leading man role that Frank was supposed to be but with Frank being the only recast Ryan at that point in the show, all those actors played so well together they felt like a real family. I saw an interview where Andy mentioned that, in terms of the acting company, his best experiences were RH and DS9.

  5. Decades ago, the character actor Reggie Nalder worked with Cosby twice. He stated that he hated working with Cosby and called him "rude, arrogant, untalented and a pig." I wonder what he saw or was on the receiving end of, especially to use the word "pig", which I don't think is a word men tend to call each other, it's more a name women use about men.

    Part of a 1989 interview with Reggie that was published posthumously:

    You played the title character in The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) with Bill Cosby.

    Yes, I played the Devil. I went out to the Disney studio and read for that one. Once again I had few lines to say. I hated working with Bill Cosby. He is a pig. I first met him in Rome where I did an episode of I Spy. Bill Cosby is rude, arrogant and very untalented. He walked right by me on the set as if I were a piece of furniture. I tried to be polite but he made it impossible. I have rarely ever worked with someone like him before or since.

  6. For many years I have seen old write-ups stating that Jan Miner[Palmolive's Madge the Manicurist] appeared on EON. In reading an old Radio TV Mirror from 1959, I found out that her character's name was Carol Rich. I believe Mrs. Rich was a neighbor to the Karrs. I read about the neighbors in the 1950s EON synopses on the EON Homepage. Ms. Miner appeared in numerous radio soaps. Just a tidbit I wanted to share! The article also says that her co-star was an actor named Skip Homeier. If he played her husband, that character's name was Lee Rich.

    Some more tidbits...Skip Homeier started out as a child actor and was in numerous shows and films for decades. Trekkies may remember him from his 2 appearances on TOS as Dr. Sevrin and Melakon. He's still around but retired from acting long ago. Jan Miner was also married IRL to a soapster, Richard Merrell. Oldtime OLTL fans may remember him as Viki's butler, Herron, from back in the day when her kids were little.

  7. Linda Dano just taped an episode of "The Haunting Of" with Kim Russo, a follow-up to her Celebrity Ghost Stories story.


    Lindsey McKeon was on Supernatural last night, likely for the last time, as her character was killed off.

    Most characters on that show don't stay dead. tongue.png

  8. On the old Soapnet message board, there are some tidbits mentioned from when Rose Alaio visited the board in 2011 and one of them was that ABC made Sarah Felder cut her hair and then let her go a few months later. I think the short cut kind of aged her. I think the thing that sort of bugged me about the first two Siobhans was that they were constantly seeking out or needing Jack's advice, approval. Yes, part of that was the underlying attraction to him but, for a character that was supposed to be this spitfire, she seemed a little too dependent on what her brother-in-law thought.

    Re my question about when Jack started to get accepted by Johnny, that makes sense about the father to Ryan thing. The funny thing with me was that one of my memories of the show from its original broadcast (and my child/teen-hood spotty viewing) was that I always remembered Jack as a devoted, overprotective widowed father who still mentioned his wife even though she had been dead for some time. I mean, I never saw his and Mary's storyline at that time (I just remember her name being mentioned a lot) so to have seen the earlier episodes on SN and discovered what a jerk he started out as was a bit of a shocker.

  9. I liked Gavin, mainly because I always had a preference for dark over blond. wink.png

    Don't forget Jeremy, that was who she got shipped off with when the show ended.

    I'm tempted to relive the Jeff Brown saga on youtube but then I'd want to see more episodes. I wish someone would upload them as a series the way they do Ryan's Hope. My teenage self totally crushed on Larkin Malloy and I cried when Jeff got his comeuppance because I didn't want Larkin to leave the show. Plus, Raven's reaction just killed me. Needless to say, I was thrilled when he came back and even more thrilled when they did a Sky & Raven redux. biggrin.png

  10. No, Doris Belack subbed for Florence Stanley for one episode, where Fish is seen at home and Dietrich comes over and does a Gregory Peck impersonation to supposedly ward off the daughter's boyfriend at the door: "Go away, Beverly is busy!" Florence had already appeared in a couple of previous episodes.

  11. I think I've mentioned this on SON before, maybe it was on WoST, but I had tickets to see Susan in AGYG right before my Christmas break in college in '99. We got to the theatre box office and saw that an understudy would be going on. My lady friend who bought the tickets got her money back and I got on the Greyhound to spend Christmas with my family. A bummer missing Susan.

    Something similar happened to me once, with a future soap actor being the understudy. Back in 1980, my sister and I got tickets to go see David Bowie as The Elephant Man on Broadway. We went for the specific reason of seeing Bowie in the role. Well, he was out sick that day so we ended up seeing the understudy. I'd never heard of the actor before but he did well in the role and I always remembered his name, then heard about him again when he was on a soap, albeit one that I never ended up watching. The actor was Benjamin Hendrickson.

  12. Is there anyone on youtube posting consecutive episodes the way some folks are doing with RH?

    I haven't uploaded anything to youtube in a few years (from any soap) because every so often I would get the notice about the music copyright--I had the final scene up and they gagged it because of the Bette Midler song.

  13. Just wondering. I haven't seen post-1982 episodes since my spotty viewing during the show's original run (I was a kid in school then). SoapNet didn't air them and it'll be a long while before I get to them in my youtube re-viewing of the show (I don't want to watch later episodes out of context). I know Johnny kept his dislike of Jack more or less intact for years. He had some good reasons, particularly in the first few years, even if some of his reactions were rather extreme. At what point in the story did Johnny start to actually like Jack and treat him as a family member as opposed to just tolerating him?

  14. I've been re-watching RH from the start on youtube. Hawkins was a nice-looking guy, if not much could be said for his acting...on RH, at least, since I never saw anything else he was in. He did get somewhat better later on, not as much obvious reliance on the cue cards and maybe his personal problems were starting to straighten out. Apart from how he looked, I did wonder how his relationship with his son turned out, since I thought I'd heard long ago that they'd had a strained relationship. Seems it got better. Funny how the photos don't even refer to him by name, just as "Christian Slater's father" but he was still recognizable 30 years after the show. Nice to see he has hair...or did up til then, anyway...how many people on RH wore a piece? wink.png I don't think he looked too bad in the pics. I was surprised to find any, I'd looked before.

    Now I'm curious to see Trent Jones, another hard to find one.

  15. I just saw Bree Williamson on a commercial for an LMN movie, Sins of the Preacher, where she plays a wife who gets murdered. She seems to be getting roles where she gets killed off - she was the victim on Deception. Her character on Haven got murdered by a skinwalker who assumed her identity and was later killed also.

  16. Was just glancing at Linda Dano's FB page...she posted a few holiday party pictures...Stephen Schnetzer, Anna Holbrook, Erika Slezak, Amy Carlson, Anna Stuart.

    She also mentioned John Bolger was in the live Sound Of Music thing last month on NBC and that Stephen has been doing stage plays in NY and beyond.

    She put up a couple of old photos of her with Phil Carey and John Ingle. She also thought Liberace was "crucified" in "Behind the Candelabra".

  17. I think Frank as starting out with Michael Hawkins was supposed to be, at least to my perception, a JFK type. The good-looking up and coming politician who basically wanted to do good works for people and could charm them but who also had some personal flaws and a rather questionable set of moral guidelines (I guess we were supposed to feel he was the longsuffering one because he married a needy child-woman). Had the man actually been capable of good acting, who knows how some of the scenes might have played out. I guess I could understand some fans being upset he was replaced. He was the original, he was with the show a couple of years in a very prominent role...and he was the centerpiece of a number of the characters' stories, even when all we saw of him were repeated flashbacks of him falling down the stairs while, in real time, he was in a coma and everybody was acting around him. It seemed, from what Bernie Barrow said, that MH was basically a good guy who was having a hard time getting it together at that point.

    Andrew Robinson, a much more capable actor (if not as good looking as MH), I thought was great as Mary's brother. I always preferred him in scenes with Mary because they seemed really like brother and sister (and no great surprise that they've been good friends ever since). In the Ryan family, I thought his Frank fit right in. But in terms of Frank's other relationships and what I thought the above-mentioned "type" was supposed to be like, it felt like a miscast. He seemed more of a character actor than a leading man. At least when DHK came along, they seemed to get the best of what the previous 2 brought to the table--the good looks and the acting chops combined. Even if I didn't particularly like Frank, I do think DHK was the best characterization.

    I kind of liked what Ken represented in the sense that there were some character traits he had in common with Jill. He wasn't trying to control her or get her to commit to anything, despite coming on to her rather strongly and persistently. Looking at it years later, there were definitely cheesy aspects to the storyline but maybe it played better in 1980? Or were people so intent on keeping Jill with Frank that KGJ couldn't die soon enough?

  18. Brought back heinous memories of douche Frank weighing down the wonderful gorgeous Jill. I will always be upset that Seneca and Jill were not taken more seriously!

    I didn't care for Frank and Jill together either. When I first saw the show as a kid, Frank was with Rae and I never quite got past seeing DHK's Frank as Rae's boy-toy. When I got to see the earlier years on SoapNet, I really liked how Seneca and Jill started out, except her constant pining for Frank was annoying. As a kid, the main thing I remembered about Jill was that she could be unconventional and bohemian in style while at the same time a professional woman. She was really a mass of contradictions that, in the hands of a less capable or appealing actress, might have made me dislike Jill. She would profess eternal devotion to Frank and sometimes allow herself to be the mistress; other times she would compartmentalize him so she could have another lover. I wish the thing with Seneca had played out differently so that his controlling tendencies didn't become as out of control as they did. They gave Jill these 2 serious relationships besides Frank in the first 6 years--Seneca and Ken, yet conveniently having Jill qualify both from the beginning. It was always "yes, I'll be with you but I still love Frank and these are the terms" (literally with Seneca as she had him sign a marriage contract). Ken was conveniently a dead man walking so she had a built-in out from the beginning. And yet, she started the affair with him when she finally had a free and clear Frank, which apparently freaked her out. I think it would have been interesting to see Ken stick around a little longer, or go into remission and have him put up a fight for Jill. Instead, Jill fighting a murder charge eventually became the road back to Frank.

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