9 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

VAULT UPDATE

 

Hi everyone! I am happy to report that I got a new OneDrive account set up and migration of the Vault is now complete! I've just sent out link invitations to people who have previously requested direct access. The links in my signature have now been updated. You may now upload again, as usual - hopefully I won't have to do this process again in a while haha. Please spread the word to those who might now know this yet.

 

Thanks!

Brad

Thank you for doing this! I hope people will upload to here so we can have a safe viewing platform!

Does anyone know if munecojim will upload then again?
 

This is such a bummer. 

Did another GL YouTube account get removed? I can’t find munecojim’s videos anymore

7 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

 

 

  

This was a nice interview. Missed Mark Derwin’s presence but it was still a nice listen. The reverence is real.

New Locher Room all about Beverlee:
 

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/new-guiding-light-reunion-scheduled-1695793/

On 11/7/2020 at 5:40 PM, victoria foxton said:

November 13, 1991

thanks for sharing!

5 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

The bond between Harley and Marah was completely forgotten. 

Thank you!

Random question:

After Harley returned in 1997, did she and Marah ever share any scenes together from then until the end of the show?

I mostly stopped watching in 93 but have been watching episodes on YouTube and started wondering if, after the tight bond they shared (under Ashley Peldon’s tenure), if it was every touched upon again.

On 10/22/2020 at 6:06 PM, Faulkner said:

Yes, so happy that Judi is looking well and hope she continues to improve.

 

It’s so funny: I find Vincent so endearing in interviews (love the beard) yet so off-putting in his roles. I’d love to see him play something very light and not smug and/or supercilious.

I agree. I’ve never really liked any of his characters but he was so personable during this interview.

6 hours ago, Faulkner said:

I think they are often still worth watching, and I’m thankful he started this series. He gets good people, and it’s wonderful to take this walk down memory lane. But it’s indeed frustrating to see him so often get in his own way and also not adjust his approach. He’s not very intuitive about when to interject with comments from the audience and when to let things flow, almost like he’s not very present or even really listening. Sometimes I feel like he’s uncomfortable not contributing to the conversation when it’s like, hey, we’re glad you organized this, now just take a backseat and let your participants chat amongst themselves sometimes. We’re here for them, not you.

I agree. I’m so happy he is doing these that I can overlook the not-so-great interview skills. I was watching  an episode from 1992 last night and counting how many actors from then he has brought on to his reunions and it was practically everyone who is still alive. I think it’s so great and thanks to him, I’m reinvested in a soap I watched 30 years ago.

I do wish he’d let them drive the conversation though (and come up with some new questions).

I wasn’t watching during the Mindy/Kurt years but I enjoyed this reunion very much, nonetheless. Krista seems like a sweetheart and both were so well spoken (and bonus for no tech issues).

https://www.soapoperanews.net/2020/09/exclusive-frank-dicopoulos-and-karolina.html

Wasn’t going to watch the Aubrey one, but now that I know Frank appears, I will!

I agree. The actors really need to be up for the task at hand (a task they probably are unaware they need to be ready for to that degree lol).

Sometimes I watch nervously half expecting the guest to lose it on him.

I want to give SP some tips and tricks about these virtual interviews. Does he not have the ability to share his screen? Why with the phone  holding  to show a clip?

Do a sound check before going live with the guest.

Check you lighting and angles.

Basic things I know I’ve learned over the last 6 months lol.

Nonethless, I’m glad he is somehow scoring these interviews. 

On 9/22/2020 at 5:11 PM, victoria foxton said:

 

This one went well lol. No, seriously it did lol. No major technical glitches. Carl was carrying the conversation nicely.   Some nice insights. 
 

I haven’t watched the Robert Newman one yet.

Jerry and Liz have the patience of saints with this interview.

John Driscoll (ex Coop) from GL will be guest starring on the FAAD podcast in two weeks.

58 minutes ago, Bill Bauer said:

 

 

Yes, that's him and he seems to be having a temper tantrum in that photo so that could be the smoking gun. LOL. Good find indeed! 

 

Who is that very 70s-looking kid on the far left? Would that be TJ Werner? 

Seriously, based on this phone alone I’d assume it was him lol.

I do wonder why killing him off seemed to be the option as opposed to recasting him.

How horrible of a kid was Gary Hannoch that they thought killing the character off was the best option?? Lol. 
 

Found a photo of him from his GL days.
 

2 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

I'm super late to the party but I just found out about Bandstandmike's YouTube takedown!  I had half a mind to archive them but I never got around to it. I'm so sad.

 

I haven't really followed GL but it was a goldmine of Cynthia Watros as Annie and the Maureen Bauer death story.

 

Now I'm contemplating opening up a vault for GL episodes, like I have with Y&R + B&B. Hopefully between all of us we can recover much of that collection and perhaps get Mike motivated again to upload there instead.

Yes! I don’t know of your other vaults since I don’t watch those showed but yes that what we need - a classic GL vault. Please do it. I used to have stuff on tape but I moved (downsized) not too long ago and the old VHS tapes were a casualty of that. Also, I hadn’t had an desire to revisit my former love of GL until the Locher Room reunions and the lockdown. Now I’m “obsessed” with finding full episodes. Cobbling episodes together here and there on YouTube has become a challenge without Bandstandmike’s orderly videos.

Yes the sound effects have helped. There has definitely been an improvement since the first few episodes.

I wish they’d give Beth Ehlers scenes with the stronger actors. I think she (obviously) and Colin (Quinn VanAntwerp) are the most experienced and you can hear it. 
 

Yes, one narrator would be better but I feel like they should hire someone to do that job, too.

I want to like this. I agree with much of the above poster. The narration drives me crazy. I have never listened to an old school radio soap so I don’t know of this was something that was done back then, too. But I find is unnecessary and not well read.
 

Also, I can’t keep the characters straight. 

Also, are these actors reading their lines directly from a script or have them actually memorized them? Bc it sure seems like it’s an initial table read. It’s lacking the conversational tone of people engage in dialogue. I realize this is being done over Zoom and some of the actors are more polished than others but it’s coming across very amateur.

I am curious what Beth Ehlers is going to do with her material. She admitted she may be rusty and that acting like this is different than face-to-face and eye to eye acting. She only had a few lines in her first episode so it’s hard to tell if she’ll be able to lift the other actors up. I suspect she still has her acting chops but will be challenged by this medium. 
 

I agree the episodes should be shorter and they need a hook bc nothing is making me want to tune in next time.
 

I applaud their efforts and would like this to succeed.

The Coopers without a Harley was an odd time to focus on the Coopers. Lucy was a poor replacement for Harley.  Frank, Harley and Nadine were a great trio (I adored Frank and Harely’s relationship especially in the late 80’s/early 90’s) but with the addition of Buzz and the loss of Harley I just didn’t care anymore. 

1 hour ago, Stitches0210 said:

I suspected the focus-group claim was b.s.

 

My sense of it was that a decision was made to make do without the Maureen Bauer character, and main-cast member Ellen Parker, and write off the character. But, to also do so permanently.

On the Locher Room today with the AW people, Alice Barrett says Frankie was killed off to make room in the budget for Robert Kelker Kelly’s return. Could the same thing have happened here? The only one I can think of is Justin Deas that they would need the money for. He came on right about the time Maureen was killed off.  Wasn’t JFP executive producer there at the time, too. Just a thought. 

Great interview. Interesting that at the beginning Alan had to ask fans to be nice in the comments. I don’t think any fans would have anything bad to say about any on the ladies. It was the leadership and the storyline most took issue with.

So nice to see Rachel after all these years . Pretty sh$tty that she found out she was being replaced in a magazine. It never made sense to me since they kept Bryan Buffinton. They had a gold mine with those two kids/actors and much like losing Maureen, replacing Rachel took me out of the story. I no longer cafes about Michelle at that point.

Too bad Maeve lost her connection. 
 

As always I appreciate Alan’s efforts and the actors agreeing to appear!