Pine Charles

Tempo was a national magazine, with offices in NYC.

Adam purchased the magazine, and moved the offices to Pine Valley so Brooke could run it (she didn’t want to move to New York).

On 9/7/2018 at 4:59 PM, victoria foxton said:

 

Erica’s first encounter with Opal!!

It’s amazing how they eventually became BFFs!! 😂

I posted this in the AMC Tribute Thread, but I think it belongs here especially.

I’ve never felt Dick Cavett was a good interviewer, but this is still interesting and a treat - Agnes Nixon discussing her writing technique, etc.

This appears to be from 1978 (btw, Cavett would make a cameo on AMC shortly after this).....

On 6/16/2018 at 11:02 AM, JarrodMFiresofLove said:

 

A plot I liked on AMC in the mid-80s was the one where Erica's sister Silver was introduced. Didn't she die and get wrapped in an oriental rug and thrown into Palmer Courtlandt's pond? The mother Goldie Kane turned out to be the killer I think. Maybe I'm misremembering this. Who wrote the Goldie and Silver arc? Was that Broderick?

That was the real Silver (not the imposter who framed Erica for murder a few years before).

To answer your question - Natalie killed Silver. 

Natalie had recently been raped by Ross Chandler and was being gaslighted by Silver (making her believe there was a male prowler whom would rape her again). 

Natalie proceeded to stuff Silver’s body inside Timmy’s (her son’s) toy chest.

I believe Palmer later helped her dump the body in a pond on his property (which Dixie saw while taking a swim; she kept her eyes open “for snakes”).

And, yes - I’m fairly certain Broderick was the writer.

I would love to see Erica Kane getting arrested for weed possession.

I guess that was her first brush with the law (before going to prison for Kent Bogard’s “murder” in 1983).. ??

5 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

Yes indeed! You can hear some good audio from that storyline on YT via Danny Hill. As SFK can tell you, Margo is the soap character I'd most like to see any kind of footage of.

Well, you have to be a bit cray to get a facelift to hold onto a man!! 😆

Margo was murdered, if I recall from my readings. 

ETA:

OK, I guess Margo was not murdered; she left Pine Valley after attempting to kill Anne via carbon monoxide.

No jail time??

Another question - was Margo Flax AMC’s first bona fide psycho??

Just now, All My Shadows said:

Yep, Margo was Erica's mentor/roommate when she moved to the city to model, and they were both involved with Jason Maxwell.

Jason Maxwell!!

Mona ended up murdering him, “blacking out” the entire incident.

8 hours ago, All My Shadows said:

AMC really seemed to change a lot between 1975 and 1985. I'd of course give anything to see anything from the former. Margo and Claudette have always given me the feeling of a 70s version of Krystal and Babe.

When did Mona and Charles become a thing? Were the signs there from the very beginning like with Joe and Ruth or did it start later? I know that Charles was visibly unhappy early on.

Margo was a former model, correct??

I believe she and Erica bonded over the model thing.

Regarding Mona and Dr. Charles - from everything I’ve read, there seems to have been an attraction from the beginning, but Charles turned to Mona more for comfort as Phoebe’s drinking grew progressively worse.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Week of Feb 26 1984

1. GH 10.0/30

2. Y&R 9.7/33

3. AMC 9.2/28

4. GL 9.0/27

5. ATWT 8.6/27

6. DOOL 7.5/23

7. CAP 6.8/23

8. AW 5.5/18

9. RH 5.1/17

10. LOV 4.2/16

11. SFT 3.3/12

12. EON 3.3/10

Where’s OLTL??

At first I thought Lauren Roman was Melissa Leo (who played Cliff's psycho-bitch sister, Linda)!!
But she was on AMC in the '80s, not the '90s.

On 7/14/2018 at 8:25 PM, Jonathan said:

 

Oh didn't know that.

Hey, how could we forget this classic ''bitch'' moment on AMC (involving Erica, of course)??
This predates the ''bitch'' courtroom scene from '94 as well.
 

2 hours ago, Jonathan said:

 

OMG.  At that time, the word "bitch" was slowly becoming more integrated into the dialogue of many TV shows.  This was the first time All My Children had scripted the word into the show.

Actually, I remember seeing an earlier clip, I believe from 1989, with Natalie calling the character of Marissa (Rampal) a “bitch” to her face.

I just found the episode I've been looking for forever.

The very last scene of the episode......
Erica:  ''She is lying!!  She is lying!!  She's nothing but a lying BITCH!!'' 

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Hayley's scenes with Simone here crack me up. Kelly Ripa was not a good actress for many years but she had a lot of charisma and threw herself into scenes. 

Oh!!  At first I thought you meant the character of Simone Torres (Terri Ivens). 

Do you mean her scenes with the character of Taylor Roxbury-Cannon (Ingrid Rogers) in the episode I posted?? 

Erica makes up with Opal ( after treating her like dirt for the 12,000th time ).

18 hours ago, j swift said:

 

 

BTW the Erica kidnapping story reminded my of a SOW article about a remote in NYC of Erica shopping for the baby.  As I recall, even the charm of baby shopping in spring in NYC did not change their negative opinion about the story.  You have to hand it to SOW that they never held back their critiques. 

Erica seems to only like women she doesn’t see as a romantic threat (Opal, Myrtle).

Of course, as much as I enjoyed the Opal/Erica friendship, Opal usually kissed her ass.

On 4/11/2018 at 11:52 AM, Soaplovers said:

 

 

Which makes me think perhaps Jack should have been written out years earlier..imho

I tend to agree.
Was his pairing w/ Laurel popular at all??  I remember reading there was a bit of an uproar when Jack had the one-night fling w/ Erica in 1994 in NYC.  She was estranged from Dimitri at the time due to the stabbing/Kendall drama.

19 hours ago, YurSoakinginit said:

 

 

What was terrible was Erica's story that came out of the WGA strike. Travis, and the fake kidnapping, and... honestly, I can't even piece it all together correctly. 

Was that when Erica was working as a waitress (“Sally”) at a diner??

On 3/29/2018 at 11:31 PM, Paul Raven said:

Liza and Angie were two roles needlessly recast. They would have been better off just dropping them when Marcy and Debbi left in the 80's. It was almost like AMC wanted to show them that they could be replaced as punishment for leaving.

Agreed.

i feel the same about Natalie, too.