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  1. On 2/20/2024 at 9:37 PM, DRW50 said:

    @SFK Ruth Warrick is one of the soap legends interviewed in this. 

    There's a hilarious question about eight minutes in where someone asks if she and Louis Edmonds are an item...

     

     

    Thank you for sharing! She handled that well. Of course, I see Ruth Warrick on a panel and I immediately think of Beverlee McKinsey now. 😄 Eileen Fulton gave Ms. Ruth a run for her money here.

  2. I'm about to wrap up season 8 of my rewatch which has for the most part been more of a first watch. Something that surprised me as I'd missed it for all of these years was the mention of AIDS. While watching, I wondered if Reagan had even said the word publicly by that point. The scene between Blake and Steven felt uncharacteristically real and really snatched the confectionery quality out of my mouth. 

    Lesley Carrington gets on my damn nerves.

    It's weird how Amanda's existence is wiped by the repeated mention of Alexis' three children: Adam, Steven, and Fallon. I don't think the Oxenberg/Cellini situations were egregious enough to ignore Amanda's existence.

    For me, Season 7 ushered in a feeling that the party was over. We'd seen the best years of the glitz and glam OTT Dynasty that made it famous. The death of La Mirage and the move to The Carleton, saying goodbye to Alexis' penthouse and hello to her career as the head of a newspaper... it felt like the show had gotten too expensive and was trying to transition into being more grounded which was less exciting. It still holds my attention, but the tone is undeniably different. I'm looking forward to seeing Sable again.

  3. Natalie pulled a Ðorian Corey and concealed Silver's body in Timmy's toy chest. I forget what brought Palmer to Natalie's apartment or what possessed him to open the toy chest, but I remember him crouched down seeing the body and looking up at Natalie with a deadpan knowing glance. He disposed of Silver's body in the pond on his grounds where poor Dixie discovered it while swimming. Traumatized Dixie had the memorable line that while swimming, she always keeps her eyes open for snakes.

    I was a kid and recall this as an entertaining time for AMC. It led to some fun stuff for Palmer. He met Mr. U in prison and Mr. U would go on to fall for Opal and try to kill PC. Palmer would lose Cortlandt Electronics and rise Phoenix-like with the creation of The Cluck-Cluck Chicken Shack. 😆

  4. I subscribe to Erika's fanclub newsletter and my heart just sank when I saw the email. Memories of Amanda celebrating her mother's Emmy wins, and stories of her studying acting at Tisch, interning at The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and so on, all came rolling back. Just last night, I had the pleasure of meeting Corbin Bleu. Naturally, I brought up OLTL and Erika, for whom he had nothing but kind words. Erika, Brian, and Michael are in my prayers.

  5. On 1/20/2024 at 10:37 PM, Paul Raven said:

    An initial wishlist for the role of Zack Powers played by Ricardo Montalban. Quite an eclectic mix here.

    Keith Baxter

    Edward Fox

    Keith Michel

    Daniel Massey

    Terence Stamp

    James Fox

    Anthony Higgins

    Anthony Andrews 

    Timothy Dalton

    Omar Sharif

    Franco Nero

    Yul Brynner

    Louis Jordan

    Jean le Clerc

    Patrick Bachau

    Chris Cazenove

    Len Cariou

    Richard Jordan

    Frank Langella

    Robert loggia

    Monte markham

    Aharon Ipale

    Richard Harris

    Chris Plummer

    Seems they wanted English/European as a priority and then moved down to the likes of Monte Markham!

    Strange to see Jean LeClerc in the midst of all these much bigger names.

    I transcribed this from what looks like an offical document and I wonder how serious they were about some of these names. Maybe just an initial brainstorm. I'm sure some of these actors were never truly considered but who knows?

    Very interesting! TFS

    I'd still like to know the exact story behind Kate O'Mara and Stephanie Beacham. It's unclear if they were both up for Sable and Kate took herself out of the running, or if Kate was set for Frankie. Kate did say in an interview that Caress ended up being the better choice which makes me think she was in line for Frankie, but I'm not sure. At any rate, it's hard (reluctant!) for me to imagine Kate wasted on Frankie, which may be exactly Kate's point. 

    I think Lesley-Anne Down would have been a perfect Frankie. 

  6. On 1/9/2024 at 1:21 PM, Jdee43 said:

    I just watched an episode of the TV series Cannon from 1975 called "The Iceman." Having 4 scenes in it was Margie Impert. Impert was on Another World as Rachel from December 27, 1971 to February 15, 1972, according to the AW Home Page.

    Reading online, apparently she was intended to be the new permanent recast for Robin Strasser, but it didn't work out. The producers then brought back the original Rachel for four and a half months, from February 17 to June 29. Victoria Wyndham permanently took the role on July 21, 1972. 1972 was the year of 3 Rachels.

    Was Impert really intended to be permanent and not temporary? If so, I wonder what went wrong. Whatever it was, it happened quickly; she wasn't even there two months. Watching her on Cannon, I could definitely see her as a 1972 Rachel, a mix of being innocent, manipulative, and nasty. From a first impression, it seems like Impert would have been a nice recast. 

    Robin Strasser touched upon Margie Impert's casting in at least one interview I read. It was Strasser's opinion that Impert was cast based upon a physical resemblance to her, but ultimately, such superficial casting never works. (This reminds me of anecdotes about Joanne Dorian for Gillian Spencer as Viki on OLTL.) Recasting the characters with actors based upon their own merits is what worked and Victoria Wyndham (and Erika Slezak) became most strongly identified with the characters in question regardless of their resemblance to the originators. 

  7. Erica's abandonment complex is canon straight from Agnes Nixon, but something I've never thought much about is the psychology of being the child of a celebrity. We can list a number of stories of celebrity children who wanted to go into the business, their famous parents discouraging them, laying down the law that they'd have to go about it the "right" way by getting formal training and NOT getting any nepo favors... was this a missed note, or notes, in the storytelling of Erica? Did AMC ever explore the idea that Erica wanted to be famous because her dad was? There's the nepo argument that it's only natural for a child to take interest in the vocation of a parent, but there's certainly something different about being the kid of a teacher, doctor, lawyer, et cetera, versus a Hollywood director (even if he was a hack?). I find myself in this moment interested in the psychology of Erica in the broad scope of celebrity children from Liza Minnelli, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rumor Willis, Brooke Hogan, the Kardashian-Jenners, and so on. On top of that, look at the Rachel/Erica archetypal connection where they were both young attractive department store models carrying the currency of good looks, but Rachel did not have a famous dad and was content to attract a "good" husband/marry "well", she didn't need the fame like Erica. Would Erica have even craved Hollywood and Vine without the allure of Eric's career?

  8. 1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

    Good episode but the ending was blah/nonexistent.

    I felt the same way, what a weird non-ending. I had to be reminded here of the Jada-Everett connection to catch the significance of them nearly meeting because I was scratching my head at what felt like a dud of a conclusion.

  9. 18 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

    So, I'm curious, what made you pick up the DAYS habit? Didn't have enough "back from the dead" in your life? I saw that flashback as a teenager. 

    After my stories were canceled, I started checking out the other offerings. DOOL and B&B were the ones that stuck (though I am months and months behind on B&B).

     

    I mentioned getting choked up watching that Doug and Julie scene. To my surprise, I had a similar reaction when Chad and Stephanie had their breakup conversation. I've never been a "couples" kind of fan, but something struck me about that scene.

    I never saw the Chad and Abigail in Paris online spinoff. Is it available to watch somewhere?

  10. On 12/23/2023 at 4:56 PM, Mona Kane Croft said:

    OMG, Bill Hayes' choking-up at the end of the episode really got to me.  That wonderful man was practically sobbing. My tears started flowing right along with his, and I don't even know what he was crying about.  I haven't cried watching a soap for years, but it used to happen almost weekly -- back when soaps were more about romance and emotion.   God bless Bill Hayes.  

    Yes! The power of the soap opera. I have only watched the show for like four years and was choking back the tears.

  11. 2 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

    I GASPED! This was so unexpected

    I did too. It's a strange phenomenon scrolling through social media and seeing a familiar face that you haven't seen in a long while and having an immediate gut sense that you should not be seeing this person.

    This is incredibly sad news. Kamar was so young, and his poor wife and children. I used to see Sherri on the UWS running errands and such. Robin Strasser and Kamar were close, this must be devastating for her as well. It was an inspired move to take a day player but mostly unseen character like Carlotta, beef up her role and create a family around her.

    One of my favorite Kamar memories was a small but cute one. He was having a scene while eating a handful of nuts, shaking them in his hand like dice before popping them into his mouth with a playful grin.

    God bless him, he was an indelible part of countless after-school memories.

  12. On 12/17/2023 at 7:49 PM, Mona Kane Croft said:

    Most people probably realize the Micheal/Rachel childhood (or high-school) connection contradicts Agnes Nixon's established history that Ada and Rachel moved to Bay City after Rachel had finished high-school.  Actually I believe Harding Lemay was the first AW writer to contradict Rachel's original origin story, when he wrote that Rachel remembered walking past what became the Cory mansion on her way to school.  Again, Rachel didn't even live in Bay City while she was in school.  Of course, character histories are revised all the time on soap operas, but I've always felt that was unfortunate and unnecessary.  

    Another Rachel-Erica connection, the "I used to walk by this house on my may home from school" thing was used by AMC as well. Erica said it about the house Dr. David bought for her. It was the house she dreamed of living in someday. IMHO, Linden was the real house of dreams.

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