Contessa Donatella

I'm really sorry that this happened to you! I am very glad to hear that it wasn't more but still it was bad enough.

Just want to say what a pleasure it always is to link to one of SON's articles. Most places have these long-handled URLs that go on forever. With them I am accustomed to deleting everything from the right of the question mark. But, with SON addresses, they are ready-made clean, concise & working. So, here's a hats off to ya!

I wonder what the title would be. Would it be something like "The Serial Killer Cometh?" or maybe "The Serial Killer Always Rings Twice?" or even "The Days & Nights of Serial Killer Writing?"

They seemed to deal with Mac's "others" one at a time!

Along with problems with the writing, both AW and then later TEXAS, to some degree lost fans when "Iris" was gone.

This is part of a WLS interview with RKK. This is about AW first go round, as Sam. WE LOVE SOAPS: I remember the summer of '87 well , because of the Oliver North hearings on TV - they kept interrupting daytime soaps... Anne Heche started a month before you, made her first appearance, and then - the show was off the air for two weeks. ROBERT KELKER-KELLY: Anne Heche was brilliant, but she was nuts. WE LOVE SOAPS: When you came on, Sam and Amanda (Sandra Ferguson) were instantly on the front burner. Were you working all the time? And how did you deal with that? ROBERT KELKER-KELLY: It was a lot of work to process. Sandy, God bless her, had no acting training at all, and I had a whole bunch of theater training, which really didn't matter all that much in soaps. It may have helped a little bit. They just threw us to the wolves. It was a lot of work and a lot of location shooting in New York. It was a ton of fun, but I remember the stress at the time being pretty high. ANOTHER WORLD stars Victoria Wyndham, Douglass Watson, Kale Browne, Anna Stuart, Robert Kelker-Kelly and Sandra Ferguson. WE LOVE SOAPS: My favorite actor growing up was Douglass Watson [who played Mac Cory]. Do you remember anything about working with him, or what he was like? ROBERT KELKER-KELLY: I'm going to be kind of gooey and effusive about these people right now, Doug Watson and Constance Ford (who played Ada). Doug was a great. He was an awesome human being. It was the 1980s so you could still smoke in the studios and I smoked cigarettes back then; I don't anymore, thank God. We would sit back behind the Cory mansion set waiting for cues between scenes and smoke cigarettes together and play "Stump The Actor" together. He would pick from one Shakespearean play and throw it out and I would have to figure out out what the play was and what the character was. Then I'd do the same thing with him. I don't remember ever working so hard with Shakespeare even when I was doing it. Later on after he passed away I went and took a look at this career and found Doug Watson was brilliant. He was known was the American Olivier in the 1950s. His acting was so good in Julius Caesar specifically, Marlon Brando had the scene that Doug did with him cut from the film because he wiped the floor with him. Doug played Octavius, and there's a scene in the play where Octavius comes to see Marc Antony and it’s the presage of things to come. It was Shakespeare's way of saying that Marc Antony is on top right now but he's about to get his ass kicked by this kid. Apparently Doug Watson nailed it so much that Brando saw the footage and said it's got to go, "If you don't get rid of these scenes, I'm walking." Do you know about the history of the old studio in Brooklyn? WE LOVE SOAPS: Yes. It's such an historic building. You guys were shooting right across from THE COSBY SHOW at the time you were first on ANOTHER WORLD. ROBERT KELKER-KELLY: THE COSBY SHOW was in the new section, and we were in the old section that was originally built for the New York Philharmonic in the 1910s. In the 1930s they actually put a pool in and did those pool movies with Esther Williams. I'm a big history buff, and it's such a cool slice of history. WE LOVE SOAPS: After ANOTHER WORLD went off the air, AS THE WORLD TURNS moved in and stayed until 2010. Since then, they've shot some movies and other things there, but it's not occupied full-time like it was for so many decades. ROBERT KELKER-KELLY: If I had the money I would buy that place and turn it into a museum. The Three Stooges worked in that house. It's just amazing stuff. Anyway, my first day at work at ANOTHER WORLD I was on the third floor, and was nervous and scared, and wanted to just get a sense of theater again. When I'm in the theater, before a play I would go behind the blacks and just pace and find a way into the emotional life of the character, which didn't really work in soaps because we didn't have that kind of luxury or time. But I was looking for that so I went through this door thinking it was going to go onto one of the stages and it turned out it was one of the catwalks above the studio, one of the light walks where they would hang lights and you have a bird's eye view of the soap set. When you look down from the top, it's incredibly busy. On one side there's a line of four or five sets and on the other side there's a line of these different sets and then there's the area between the two of them where they have the cameras and lighting and all that stuff. They shot the scenes much more in order at that time; at least that's how I remember it. So I go onto the catwalk and light a cigarette and I hear on the far side of the studio where they were lighting a scene a crash and a scream, "Props!! I need more [!@#$%^&*] props!" It was Connie Ford. She worked from a standpoint of being a trained actress from the neighborhood playhouse. She believed that he character's life came forth when she was doing business. She had to have things to do, props to play with - and she scared the [!@#$%^&*] out of me when I heard that scream! She was a great actress. She worked with James Dean... And here is the URL if you want to read a bunch more about DAYS & GH & also his second go round as Bobby/Shane. https://www.welovesoaps.net/2013/09/robert-kelker-kelly-interview.html Well, Errol, It's pretty simple. Some people who are not regularly here came in with the aim of making trouble. So, if you come & say this, well, that is the elephant in the room. Totally agree that the's never any reason for it. And, as an AW fan, yes, I am happy to have the forum unlocked. I have been checking since Friday as that is the earliest one could consider end of the week. Thanks for stopping by & thanks for the good wishes!

Seriously, on the question of who fans want to see back who would fit the bill as law enforcement, if it had been me deciding I definitely would have brought back Marcus Taggert. In a New York minute.

That really takes me back. It feels like the first time. Thanks for sharing.

Crabs

70 years ago, come Thursday

I've just had a thought that has blown my mind. I don't know why I didn't think of it right off the bat. Perhaps you did. We may have an acid test, one named Debbi Morgan. Yes, this requires research. She played Dr. Angie Baxter-Hubbard in order on AMC, then Loving & last on The City. We already knew The City was spun off of Loving but we can now add Loving & AMC as sister soaps to each other. Right? I do not want to coin a new myth but isn't she the only one to have done this?

JFP and RKK came to be great friends. That doesn't mean they didn't start out that way or that NBC didn't force him on her. Or do you think RKK is lying in this interview? https://www.welovesoaps.net/2013/09/robert-kelker-kelly-interview.html Jensen was in breach as of the first day she showed up on air on two different shows. Could be that was Ghost Vicky. Dunno. But it was definitely in 1999. 2000 only enters in at all because that was when the lawsuit got started. And, then it took ages to come to an end. My point was that they killed her off because she wasn't staying & she wasn't staying because she preferred another job & she had one. If I didn't express that well enough, so sorry. Maybe this will help. I stand by it. They would not have killed her if she was going to stay!!! Not only is this the actual truth but it's even common sense.

There was so much wrong about it. EFulton brought up disrespecting AW & its fans. It also disrespected ATWT & its fans & they resented the Bay City Intruders & I never could blame them for that. Plus it disrespected both the AW actors & their characters! Hot mess indeed! Cass has a signature curl at the nape of his neck, left side & ATWT Hair wanted to cut if off immediately & he had to fight them over it telling them the fans would plotz & they didn't get it at all. And then the ATWT writers gave him a crude joke to tell about Lila that Cass NEVER would have said about any woman EVER. That grand PGP idea was a total bust.

That is an incredible idea!

Maybe a voiceover, "The part of the Headwriter is now being played by a committee."

This is an Aussie soap & I am told that this clip shows the final part of the final episode of "A Country Practice" on Channel 7. There was another series of it on Channel 10 but true fans don't consider that part of the series. So, whatever that means. The reason I'm posting it here is that at 1:14 Carmen Duncan is seen very briefly. Blink & you will miss her! Other than that I am bowled over at what a good idea this was to end the finale with this montage. Do any of you know if there is an Aussie Soap thread or "A Country Practice" thread? Have not found said so far.

When Rena first came they didn't know if they were going to get on well & vice versa. They were unsure of her & she was unsure of them. But, it's a total lovefest. The original commitment was for 30 episodes. Before that term was even up they knew they wanted her to stay & she knew she wanted to as well. She & Frank agreed they would leave it open-ended. The people at the studio are kind of in love with her. The hair things she was sporting are called Martian knots & a character in "Sex Education" on Netflix wears them. Brit show.

Oh, I am weak in the knees when Shawn has Maura in coats! He loves to put her in coats.

Beauty!

I see what you mean. Of course, they might have done it out of spite as I believe they were quite angry at JB.

That's how RKK ended up back at AW but as Bobby Reno/Shane Roberts. At DAYS he had a pay or play contract with 2 years left on it when Corday fired him while he was on vacation. NBC intervened & made JFP take RKK after they literally paid him to sit at home for some amount of time. At ATWT what I heard was that Tommy Eplin spent all of his time either in his dressing room or with Lesli Kay but that he didn't even try to get to know anyone else but her. And also they had no choice but to kill off Vicky because of Jensen Buchanan's debacle of being on contract with both P&G and GH at the same time & boy, was that ever a lawsuit! Just as a side note, an unfortunate one, there are a few people on here at SON who have told lies about me & there's someone who says I lie when I do not & there is no evidence that I do or have. But, this is a specific post which is nothing but lies about me where it is alleged that I was banned from certain boards back in the day. Never happened. I was never even on one board that was mentioned. And I called this poster out about these lies & they never made any reply. About RKK here's a scan of the WLS interview where he talked about it. I don't have the WLS URL but if need be could find it. I found the URL https://www.welovesoaps.net/2013/09/robert-kelker-kelly-interview.html

Obviously this was once when Corday was completely right. The reaction to the killings had been horrific. Most fans hated the killings. And, Corday was under a great deal of pressure. But I don't understand what this has to do with this topic.