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On 8/31/2022 at 3:24 AM, Chris B said:

I've put the show off for over a year because I was struggling with the storylines, but I've decided to commit and try to get through 1972. I know The Pollock's were successful on the show, but I find their work so mediocre compared to what came before. Very slow and plot driven and far too many flashbacks. Right now I can't say there is one story I enjoy. The one that drives me the most insane is this story with Maggie and her visions and mysterious illness. I hope that once this story wraps up the show will become more enjoyable for me.

I hear ya. I'm in the same boat. I've taken a long break as well around the same story time...Maggie thinking she's dying. I think Marc Alaimo (who I love on Deep Space Nine) is about to reappear as Frank. Also been about as long since I've watched Dark Shadows (in the middle of the Adam storyline). I did tend to ff some...Maggie's stuff is pretty repetitive and I just find Mike an annoying man-child. Not sure when I'll start up again, though...I've been trying to get a couple of online businesses going.

37 minutes ago, carolineg said:

She definitely will pay the consequences for this and probably ruined her life and career forever...
This obviously wasn't a few too many beers at the bar on Saturday type of incident.  Anne seems to have a much more serious problem. 

I can't help but wonder if she is not going to survive this and by her own hand. If she was unable to handle whatever was going on before, everything in her life just got much, much worse. If she's burned as badly as they say she is, the physical and emotional trauma from that alone will be a tremendous struggle.

TMZ is reporting that Anne Heche crashed her car today into a garage and house, igniting a fire. She was hospitalized with burns and is "expected to live."

https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/05/anne-heche-crashes-car-home-burned-fire/

Sigh...Star Trek is my favorite show of all time. I hate every time we lose one of the actors. 

R.I.P. Paul Sorvino

https://wgntv.com/news/deans-list/paul-sorvino-goodfellas-law-order-actor-dies-at-83/?fbclid=IwAR0FqRuqptkWJPJw8sgTcfY6X_4LQ9OS8Nn-IeHIvLMkX1xz3kE9ba2XbkE



 

GH seems to have a fair amount of these situations. I'm also reminded of the death of Rosalind Cash and how, at Mary Mae Ward's funeral on the show, Cash's real life-friends Esther Rolle and Lou Rawls, among others, were there.

Although John Perkins (Father McShane, RH) wasn't a priest, I read that he was very active in his Catholic church at the time. Probably helped to make him so believable in the role. I think, also, Jumbo Marino's portrayer, Fat Thomas, wasn't too far removed from his role. I tend to think of him as the Luca Brasi/Lenny Montana of RH...not much of an actor but comes with a certain familiarity.


 

I forgot...I imagine Richard Simmons playing himself as a recurring character on GH back in the day had to be one of the more unique cases. He was a celebrity known for something other than acting (although he had yet to reach his highest success), just playing himself in the GH universe, giving exercise classes and basically being a supporting talk-to character in other people's stories.

GH had Jack Wagner having hit songs IRL when Frisco sang them on the show. Ricky Martin also sang on the show when he played Miguel.



 

OLTL - Bringing Michael Zaslow back to have David Renaldi return with ALS. Also, although it's not any specific story, Clint Buchanan was, to some degree, written around Clint Ritchie's cowboy personality and lifestyle. CB's Happy Horse ranch was named the same as CR's, and they used some of CR's horses on the show.

GH - Jon Hanley, Lucy's friend/assistant during the early Nurse's Ball years, was HIV+ as was his portrayer, Lee Mathis

GL - I wasn't watching at the time but I am aware of Charita Bauer's amputation, thus resulting in the same for Bert Bauer.

AMC - JR Martinez being brought on to portray a disfigured vet.


 

Lee Lawson (Bea Reardon) has died. (Sorry for repeating, I hadn't seen the dedicated post in the Discuss The Soaps topic.)

 

Just his television credits alone from the 50s through 80s are numerous and there was plenty beyond that. He was everywhere.

Aw, I believe Takarada was the last surviving main cast member. I think he also expressed feeling sorry for "Godzilla" because humanity was responsible for him. RIP "Ogata."
 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tova-borgnine-dies-qvc-home-171345796.html

Tova Borgnine Dies: QVC Home Shopping Star And Wife Of Ernest Borgnine Was 80

20 hours ago, ~bl~ said:

For example I read an article about Colm Meaney where he said he was in NYC daytime and I was thinking which one and when… 

He was on OLTL in the late 80s. He was part of the Patrick London impersonating Bo Buchanan story as one of PatBo's henchmen. I have a little bit of him on tape from some stuff I had saved from that storyline. Actually, I found this link on youtube. You can see Colm starting around the 2:24 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpDdP6blsqI


 

1 hour ago, ~bl~ said:

And now I want to request Trek people for soap hoppers, well thanks I think.

I'm game. Heck, whenever I watch an old movie or tv show and see a familiar character actor, I'll often say "he was on Star Trek" or "she was on a soap"...sometimes both. Those are my biggest frames of reference, lol.

@janea4old I know between DS9 and RH, there was also Casey Biggs (Damar) and James Sloyan (Dr. Mora, Odo's Bajoran "father"). 

 

2 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Oh!  I do remember this face of Frank Ryan, but I did pay much attention to actor names back in the 1970s. 

Garak and Captain Janeway as siblings, lol. 

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

I know them only as Garek and Kira on Deep Space Nine. I didn't know they were on Ryan's Hope!

Here are a couple of blasts from the past!  Andrew, in particular, was a familiar face in tv and movies before and after RH. The story supposedly is that RH let him go after 2 years because they feared the audience identified him too strongly with his "Dirty Harry" film role. But he appeared in a lot of tv shows in the 70s and 80s. And he also played Liberace in a tv biopic.
Nana was pretty young, around 20, and it was one of her earliest tv roles.

Andrew Robinson & Nana Visitor, aka Frank #2 and Nancy Feldman #3.

Being one of the millions who grew up watching them, I loved "Luis" and "Maria", "Mr. Hooper", "Gordon" and "Bob". And, of course, Jim Henson and the world he helped create.

I used to love these as a kid. Heck, I want to eat them now. 

51 minutes ago, carolineg said:

 So my assumption is that Luke/Laura weren't as stealthy as we thought in the disguise department.

I guess looking at that original disguise situation in another way...I suppose there weren't too many men's wigs in Wyndham's Department Store.  The other options would have been to either dye, straighten or cut TG's hair...dyeing it would have made him look like his costar, Richard Simmons, and straightening or cutting it...well, considering it was such a huge trademark of Luke's at the time, that probably wouldn't have gone over too well with the fans. 

 

I think Michael Levin's toupee contributed to his popularity on RH.




OTOH, I remember wondering at the time why, when Luke and Laura were on the run the first time, she had to wear such an obvious wig while Luke's more unique, easy-to-identify appearance was unchanged....not even a fake 'stache. I mean, Laura would have blended into the crowd with her natural hair a lot easier than Luke should have.