EricMontreal22

HAHAH I love it,so ridiculous! Didn't he join in the early 90s? it must have been '92 or so because I remember him, vaguely. Though that photo does NOT look 1990s...

HAHA a friend of mine worked with himon his one man show two years back, and he seems to be kinda losing it lately--apparently he was filled with self doubt and lack of confidence and was hard to work with because of it (I know his memoirs is filled with weird things, like where he mentioned having contemplated suicide and then immediately brushes the comment off). I don't remember him on The City, I must have missed it too. Ha no idea Chita Rivera was with Asa lol... And finallya photo of Uta from the show lol.

Didn't the actor say it was originally a Mr Ripley situation (the vastly different movie not the books). He wanted Daniel's life if he couldn't have him.

Around that era AMC used a lot of movie music--I don't know if the other soaps did as well or if ABC somehow had the rights to a mvie library--in one of the Paley Center Agnes Nixon interview someone in the audience mentions the movie themes, obviously the most obvious example was Halloween for Erica trying to break Jeremy out of prison.

I actually mostly agree. I think how sympathetic Nolan has come across helps to off set it--but I actually thought GLAAD would be on their tails after the drugging episoe. Which is unfair--I want gay villains as much as I want gay heroes--but in a nework TV landscape with so few of either it is troubling.

I actually kinda agree there. Myrtle and Palmer were really the last straws but it was nice that for both we got appropriate send offs--and not the way many funerals are done now on other soaps where the actual funeral is hardly focused and the emphasis instead is on using it for some random other story. I guess that's one reason I disagree with those who have said repeatedly how unrecognizable AMC became. EVen with the awful Rylee overload, etc, I always still felt SOME connection to the past and history even going back to 1970 (obviously having Susan Lucci there was a main reason for this)--something I feel less of on other soaps.

Absolutely--when I watched AMC starting in '91 I used to wonder continuously whose mantel and photo album it was--and even with One Life to Live would try to imagine who was meant to be represented by all the random romance novel imagery in the satin sheets opening. But even as a smaller kid I wondered about the old AMC album (AMC used to air right after Canadian Sesame Stree on CBC--we were forbidden to watch soaps--but I'd catch as much as I could before mom would realize the tv was still on. She thought soaps would be too adult, and never watched them herself--except for a time she fondly remembers being hooked on Edge of Night both while pregnant and then home from work nursing my brother in the late 70s and then again 2 years later with myself and my twin sister--and she did eventually get hooked on AMC, and during the Gottlieb era OLTL because I watched my tapes every day after school).

Thank God she came back--that just doesn't look like Wanda to me

That looks like abrilliant show. Was it one of the early shortlived Fox sitcoms?

I'll hunt it down, hope it's made it to Canada. What happened to Wanda in that photo !

My mom once said how looks wise Susan Lucci has everything going for her, except she has thin hair... Why was the first Skye replaced? She's not bad. Love that '94 episode as well, though yuck to Charlie naked in bed with Hayley.

So do I Though I don't miss that whiny Bianca in the 94 clip...

I didn't remember Larry being there for that! Was that like his second last appearance? For AMC it took me honestly to really hit, the Monday AFTER the finale... I expect the same this time (and no, it doesn't get easier, if anything this time, even if AMC was slightly more "my" show, it feels more final with both gone and no real future hope). Wait so there IS a special OLTL magazine?? Did I miss all mention of this?

Right--McTavish/JPF right?

I'm blanking--around what year would this have been? Luke Jackson (who I don't think I've heard of before) looks... odd

I never watched PPRactice but YES it was Alias. Gosh I LOVED her in that--I hope this means we'll get to see more of her. And marceline that was one of the lines I found hysterical--I mean maybe it was a hard line not to do in such a cheezy fashion but... Still, great episode.

My one complaint--when you get pre-nups done, a lawyer witnesses them. If a pregnancy were a reason for it to be invalid due to duress, any decent lawyer would have pointed that out.

Oh it's driving me crazy--what TV show do I know the black, female lawyer representing Conrad in the divorce from?

Agreed with all of that but I admit I didn't worry about Nolan simply because we saw him with all his limbs, perfectly fine (if completely hating Emily) in the first episode flashforward to Labour Day. I was glad Tyler didn't get killed off, but admit was kinda thrown about framing him for Frank's murder--wouldn't she want to keep that as something to blackmail/get real Emily with if things get too extreme? The best part (aside Stowe) is watching Emily really start to unravel while still holding it together--even manipulating Nolan back into being friends she seems to realize she kinda does need real friends.. I have a feeling that may play into the seconde part of the show--Daniel, even all too perfect Jack aren't gonna jump to forvie her even with her reasons.

You know, I actually was a bit disappointed by his acting this episode for some reason I can't pinpoint. Some moments like the ending I thought he was great, others I thought he was a step backwards. Great episode though (and I did appreciate that Ashley was the only one who seemed to point out Tyler actually is sick--). I'd like to see clips of him as Greg on OLTL as well but don't remember the character at all. It says he was 2002-2003 isn't that when we had a few young "hunks" with little to do, maybe he was part of that scene? It looks like he was around the same time as Seth played by the actor who took over from a terrible Brandon Routh and Teddy Sears as Chad Bennett who are both around the same age and likewise had very little to do but seemed hired because Gary Tomlin or someone had a thing for model guys that age (but both have gone on to have, much to my siurprise, a fair amoutn of success now ).

I know, I know. Trust me it's on my list, though I'm not sure they'd allow me to stay long enough...

I think you're right--maybe even more human than 80s Nicki (that was the Rauch era afterall, and Nicki was much more out and out evil than she was in 69 or whenver when her main goal seemed to be just wanting to live her life, not getting in the way of others). I didn't realize your mom watched that far back. I forgot you got to see that one episode with Vicki at the Palye Center or wherever. Jealous. That makes sense though--Vicki was meant to be very much under her father's thumb back then. I can only picture Gillian as Daisy--who was so not reserved--so... There's a lot of 66-67 GL out there, I wonder if any with her is online.

Was Robin's Dorian ever really in Marco's orbit? I know he and Karen were for several years but Dorian by then always seemed to be seperate more or less. Gillian did seem to play Vicki as a bit more timid--which would fit 1960s Vicki anyway. I always wondered if her Nicki was anything like Daisy--just in the way she was played more broadly, earthy, etc--which I get the impression Nicki back then was more like.

Oh when I say that I don't mean any disrespect for Erika who is undoubtedly THE Vicki in my mind, or the only one as I've only seen about 6 pics of Gillian. Though I do know some felt in the mid 70s Vicki was backburnered... But yes, even back then I think I read Gillian left to focus on family or at least not have such a heavy acting schedule. Agnes cast her because she felt she was so good on Guiding Light the last few years Agnes wrote, but I think she took a break after then for a while. She always was interested in writing (and of course was a creative consultant on AMC for much of hte 80s and maybe 90s and even wrote at AW while on AMC), and much of her time on AMC really was more coming back for one or two stories and then leaving--something that was her decision (ditto her 90s role on ATWT). Even at a younger age I doubt she had much interest in playing Vicki at least for more than five years or so on a steady basis.

I was thinking of that photo of Nicki and Vinnie as well! (Though I grant you I'd love to see ANY clip of Gillian Spencer as Vicki--I didn't realize she left on her own but I guess that makes sense as everybody seemed to have nothing but great things to say about her in the role).