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I remember the above SOD issue/article. Shortly after this, Linda Dano found that white marabou piece she's talking about, or had it remade, as it was worked into a story where John Aprea's second character, Alex Nikos, bought Felicia a snazzy outfit for a night out on the town. I have that ep on tape. They get into a big argument because he's telling her what to do and she's all, "Just because you buy me this outfit...!" I think this was around the time her face went through the skylight. He was always giving her nice gifts, I think he was the one who bought her that Pomeranian, Paris.

That does make sense. Was he in every episode of season 2? And I would agree that Farentino was a bigger star than Joan at the time. I loved his clip with the dramatic turn around, jacket over the shoulder. In one of the tabloids years ago there was a great pic of Joan and Farentino's ex, Michele Lee yukking it up at a Dennis Basso show, I wonder if they knew each other pre-Dynasty. Then she began to pop up everywhere, who (my age) could forget Sister Kate, and of course Troop Beverly Hills.

Perhaps they would have resisted this temptation with all of the clone criticism, but I certainly would have enjoyed seeing at least a little of that. I loved it whenever Sable stuck it to Jason, like in the season one cliffhanger when she showed up at the airport. I wonder in what new and interesting ways they would have made Sable an Alexis-like mogul without totally biting off of the original. Alexis and Sable both showed a love for art, though Sable was a professional Alexis a dilettante. But credit is due to the writers, whoever cast Stephanie, ans Stephanie herself because save for being a fellow scheming Briton, Sable was without question her own woman.

The final season definitely used clips from episodes if that's what you're thinking of. They wanted to keep the black bitch and the white bitch together, Diahann being right before Joan after the guest stars was the equivalent of Stephanie Beacham's "with" credit in season 9. They did however sell Stephanie short on The Colbys by giving her the "and" but putting Ricardo Montalban after her with "special guest star". I guess that's "fair" given his career/history with Aaron Spelling, but if Rock Hudson could go before Joan, Ricardo could go before Stephanie.

Also, I think Alexis was much more of a free spirit whereas Sable truly enjoyed being somebody's wife and mother. It's harder to believe that Sable would let Jason banish her like Blake did Alexis without one hell of a fight, let alone that she would run on him to begin with. Alexis seemed like she didn't much mind being free of her husband and kids, living it up in parts unknown. Or maybe she just convinced herself of that so it wouldn't hurt as much and her desire to enact revenge on Blake was so fierce because of that. Or perhaps she just resented no longer being "the only woman in the room" when his Krystle was around.

That's divine. What I love so much about Stephanie Beacham's Sable is how wonderfully delicious and unique she is for what was for all intents and purposes to be a clone of a wildly popular character. In Nolan Miller's archive video, he talks about how much they didn't want her to look like Alexis and I believe that, I believe they wanted her to be different, but it's obvious that her function was the same. It's what Beacham brought to the role that from moment one made her an equal to Alexis in my book, you can NEVER say that she was aping Joan, she was 100% her own character, fabulously wry and bitchy. I also wonder if making Alexis and Sable cousins was an afterthought once they'd cast Beacham. There were a few well-known American actresses in contention in the beginning, and Beacham was not a name actress in the states (Joan herself wasn't exactly a household name when she started Dynasty). Maybe making Sable and Alexis kin was a subtle way of strengthening Sable from out the gate? A question for the Shapiros. And if that's true, also makes you wonder if they went, "Oh sh!t!" when they realized they had cousins sleeping with and marrying one another.

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Awl RIGHT Ma! [/DorothyZbornak] The Marla scene is super short though and she is very *weird* as Myrna.

The pilot movie was really grand, when it popped up on the WoST main page one day, wow, what an awesome treat! I'm sure somebody has it out there. Claudio who runs the Capitol Megasite has it dubbed in Italian. He used to update his site with clips bi-monthly or so but I guess with the cost of bandwith and all he discontinued doing that. Of course it was all in Italian which I don't speak but it was always fun to watch and try to read lips. My goal before the new year is to learn this whole YouTube thing and put up the stuff I have (in English ), I know I keep saying that but it woulkd be nice to get some stuff on dvd/digital so I can get rid of these bulky cassettes. I wish I had early Capitol, I have mostly '86/'87 I think. The earliest I have is a little clip of Marla Adams's Myrna and Clarissa having a peace offering tea at the Clegg mansion.

ITA quartermaine fan, I love that post you made. Alexis' avarice in that scene is VERY Livia from I, Claudius, Esther Shapiro's inspiration for the series.

Ha, I remember Dan Regin (sp?) doing his little, "furs provided by..." at the end of ATWT when I was little. All of my relatives wear skins, I think it's some weird family fetish. You're right though, they would never toss a *good* lynx on the floor like that, it was probably nabbed from the pile of old coats set to become toilet paper for Joan. That scene is just great campy '80s television fun. Good times! I miss when *dramas* didn't take themselves so seriously, I mean, you never HOWL these days like you would watching a scene like that. We're too snarky and smart for our own good to just have some good old fashioned silliness.

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You know Alexis told her designer, "Now. I need something that will hold a deed and I need to be able to get to it rightly. Make it happen." I don't know why this cracks me up. He kind of looks like he derives some sort of sick sexual pleasure from the sight of it.

Thanks Carl! at the quote from that guy, it sounds like he realized he put his foot in his mouth and he's paddling like crazy as he's just sink-sink-sinking. But I agree with him, the show had some wonderful sets, the most magnificent of course being the black and white Clegg living room and foyer with that impossibly tall staircase. I liked Myrna's personal spalon which also functioned as her office. A seemingly superficial but actually quite brilliant choice as she truly conducted business from there. Looking good and keeping up appearances (and meddling!) *was* her job. She was always on the phone (in the pilot movie she's getting a massage while switching between three different phone lines, this was the early '80s so this also meant three different *phones*), she even had a tanning lamp in there. Kind of reminds me of stories I've read about '70s Iris lounging on the chaise with a phone glued to her ear. I don't remember if Sloane lived in a guest house on her parents' property or if she had her own apartment/condo elsewhere. I just know that's not the Denning home, that's her own place where Trey came over in his raccoon coat he borrowed from Simon on GL and wined and dined her on Christmas with violinists and everything. When they got married, Sam and Myrna gave them a present. They opened the box, and there was a miniature of the Georgetown townhouse they (well, Sam ) bought them. Must be nice. The McCandless home had a similar setup, the stairs, kind of like the Forrester mansion, in beige and dark wood. The Dennings had a curved staircase with nutty Paula upstairs playing the harpsichord.

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That's what else I don't like, because so many people from D.C., especially those who actually have a family history there, not just transplants for work, do NOT have their heads so far up the ass of the Capitol. They are just regular people living ordinary/extraordinary lives, there's no need for the political angle. Thats one of the many things that makes D.C. seem stuffy and boring to outsiders. Like I said, they picked the wrong folks, they're coming at it the wrong way.

It's not just you, it's boring sadly. Poorly cast. They didn't go for the most interesting folks in the city. They should have also tapped into D.C.'s large partying Eurotrash population who aren't in fact Euro at all but young new money Middle Easterners. They needed two or three black ladies instead of just one. Maybe a spinoff, The Real Housewives of Prince George's County, home of the largest concentration of affluent blacks in America.