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15 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

Ooohhhh chile, did I just see Eric Nies and that big ghetto booty laid out across a bed?

Twice.

I loved those first few seasons of TRW. So many moments etched in my memory.

8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@dc11786 thank you so much for the rundown. To be honest I wonder if that may be why the video seems to be in limbo at the moment - you don't usually name names that clearly.

 

Here is the Ava audition piece.

 

 

 

 

That was a hair audition if I ever did see one. And all that talk of "bazooms"!?

Having Dr. Marlena Evans, the institution, run a rush test on the syringe no questions asked, cuz ya know, after all it's you Ben... gag.

I enjoy Gabi. Her beauty, her wardrobe, her spunk... she reminds me of some of the classic soap vixens.

25 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

OT: I can’t with how extra both Tony Geary and Robin Strasser were when they won.

And Judith Light as Robin makes her speech.

This is the year that Chaka SuLu allegedly pounded the table when she didn't win.

I don't think I realized just how brief Victor and Dorian's union was in fact. She moved quickly.

I haven't read my AMC 25th anniversary book in years, not sure that I knew about the story with Ann and the suspected child abuse. Sounds interesting.

Patricia Mauceri is in tonight's episode of Bull (CBS).

10 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

My favorite Ashley

 

 

I appreciate the Dynasty-like specificity, i.e., "We're gonna show you exactly who you're gonna see this episode."

10 minutes ago, Forever8 said:

I guess Closed Captioning mixed up one black character for another black character that was involved with Nathan. Because all black people look alike. (Roll Eyes) 

What!? I wasn't watching at this time and assumed her true identify had yet to be revealed. Egregious.

I've got the CC on and Olivia is identified as Amy. What's the backstory on the name change?

On 1/20/2020 at 2:40 PM, All My Shadows said:

I love DPP!!! I could live off of DPP, Hoarders, and 600-lb Life every day for the rest of my life.

And yet again, you prove that you're one of my people. I've been meaning to start a TLC/Discovery thread for a while now but figured there was little interest. Y'all are hanging out in here! In addition, I'm obsessed with the 90 Day Fiancé franchise and Naked and Afraid, and a new season of Smothered will be starting soon.

I recently binged on Tiger King, and I'm afraid I've overbinged and exhausted my favorite podcast, Crime Junkies, which all of you should be listening to! SImilarly, I'm a huge Dateline fan to the point of annoyance when I see that several episodes will be airing back to back because I know I can't resist.

5 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

June 1972

Erica Kane marries Jeff Martin

 

My heart warms and breaks thinking about the decades of history Lucci and Warrick shared.

55 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

I think doing it daily would wear on the writers and actors...and viewers.

Totally. 90 minutes with no intermission is a popular runtime for plays, for both audiences and actors, and that's after at least a month of rehearsal. 90 minutes 5x/week sounds absolutely draining for the professionals, and tedious for the audience... like glorified background noise while one carries on household duties.

17 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Same here, although for years I’ve there was nagging about why hourglass was spinning for some strange reason. Quite frankly when JER came back in 2003 with his big fancy deal he got I was almost expecting him to insert narration at where Carey use to have and say “This is James E. Reilly and these are the Days of our Lived!”

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, but back in the day I imagined an updated opening where we super zoomed in on the hourglass, and Truman Show-style, scenes from the past and actors' images were reflected on grains of sand slo-mo falling through time.

On 4/21/2020 at 4:23 PM, Efulton said:

I read an interview with Beverlee where she said her female screen partner  on AW always had to have the last word in every scene with her. She made this woman sound petty, insecure and competitive. Beverlee did not name the actress.  

There's a clip on YouTube of Grant Aleksander relating this story/these words of wisdom Beverlee McKinsey shared with him during their GL days.

11 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ronn Moss as Ridge LOL.

It's NOT gonna happen ChickenNuggetz92, it's NOT gonna happen!

Conversed with/Worked with/Know personally:

-Julia Barr

-Allison Hirschlag

-Marj Dusay

-Lawrence Saint Victor

Chatted with at the '99 Emmys:

-Jeanne Cooper

-Lisa Peluso

-Stephen Schnetzer

-Charles Keating

-Kale Brown

-Linda Dano

-Shemar Moore

Spotted around town in NYC:

-James DePaiva (UWS)

-Sherri Saum (UWS, multiple times)

-Colin Egglefield (Barnes and Noble)

-Erika Paige (H&M)

Social media exchanges:

-Susan Lucci

-Robin Strasser

-Victoria Wyndham

-Linda Dano

Missed opportunity:

-Ellen Holly (my parents dropped me off for college in Westchester County, NY; they checked into their hotel and met Ellen Holly in the elevator, she was attending a family birthday party)

@Khan This is the theme you were speaking of... SOD disparaged the smooth jazz version of HOTL and praised this return to an upbeat version but imo it was way inferior to the original and the smooth jazz.

On 4/19/2020 at 2:27 PM, Khan said:

I wonder what would have happened if, instead of sending Jane Elliot over to TC, they had sent Susan Lucci?

Erica did get a couple of tongue in cheek mentions when Sydney's old flame, Jackson Montgomery made crossover appearances (Sydney snarkily referring to Erica as, "Whatshername").

But to your point, my gut reaction was no way. However, the more I consider it, I think it could have worked for a matter of months, like Rosemary Prinz's favor to Agnes Nixon back in 1970. I immediately thought of the rumored Alexis spinoff from Dynasty and how that would have crippled the parent show. I don't think Our Private World did much damage, while we certainly wouldn't want anything resembling Texas Iris for Erica in The City. But I like the idea of Erica back in New York mixing with Olga and Tess in the modeling industry, dining at Nexus... And the reboot proved what we always knew, that Erica is one of many inimitable PV personalities and the story holds up just fine with her in absentia.

I love Morgan Fairchild and I loved Sydney Chase, so no regrets, but perhaps Susan Lucci would've been the better way to go. One never knows, I mean look at the dud that was the Rae Cummings parade. Star power can only get you so far with tepid storytelling.

Mr. Dennehy signed our Playbills and chatted with a few of us who went into the city to catch a matinee of Death of a Salesman on Broadway. He was a wonderful Willy Loman and seemed like a kind man. And of course soap geek here mentioned Elizabeth being on GL ("Oh yeah, she was on there for a little while...").

RIP

I work about a block away from Neiman's here in the D.C. area. Their Christmas book is legendary, I've got 2019's still on my coffee table. Fantasy gifts include: an Aston Martin designed by Daniel Craig (in blue to match his eyes, natch) for the cheeky price of $700,007; custom Christian Louboutins for $125,000; an $89,000 sable coat; a custom dog house co-designed by Denise Richards at the starting price of $70,000; a makeup masterclass and Istagram video with an IG personality for $400,000... the list goes on.

Thanks to the Lifetime movie, more people have been introduced to the Clark Sisters. When Karen was coming out of her coma following terrible complications post-gastric bypass, Dorinda asked Karen if she wanted to go to Neiman Marcus and Karen started rapidly blinking her eyes.

12 hours ago, Gray Bunny said:

Where I grew up (Chicago burbs), the flagship stores were: 

 

Marshall Fields

Lord & Taylor

JC Penney

Sears

Our answer to Marshall Fields was Hecht's, which all became Macy's. I know MF was acquired by Macy's as well, and I appreciated that MF was able to keep its name.

We had a luxury mall that was anchored by Bloomingdales, I. Magnin, and Lord & Taylor. The entire mall has been razed for redevelopment (open air shopping and dining plazas are back in vogue) save for L&T which was promised a mall in their lease. They won a multi-million dollar settlement and the store stands alone surrounded by a huge parking lot and nothingness where a mall once stood. Breaks my '80s nostalgic heart.

Jeffrey Osborne's theme is right up there with Peabo's as far as I'm concerned, I still sing it in the shower.

11 hours ago, All My Shadows said:

Yes! The first 45 seconds would have been perfect for an opening.

I love the closing theme, but damn if its melancholy quality didn't make me sad as hell once cancellation was announced.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

 

Well, I'm not crazy about that bird cage.  It's like they're saying, "Try 'LOVING,' the soap that's for the birds!."

 

And that theme song is EXACTLY the kind of "slow jam" GENERATIONS should have used for THEIR opening.  I'm just saying.

They're LOVE BIRDS Khan, get it!? 

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As for Generations' theme, for years I remembered it to be Joplin's The Entertainer before WoST came along.

14 hours ago, Vee said:

IIRC, Laura Wright got her start before soaps pumping gas back in my home state, Maryland. It's always shown, even now. She's got grit.

Indeed, I'm also a Marylander and I met one of Laura (then) Sisk's childhood friends at a Britney Spears/P. Diddy concert at the Verizon Center, of all places. This was back when one could smoke indoors at the bar. We were shooting the [!@#$%^&*] about television and this lady who looks like Kelly Coffield in glasses shares that she grew up with Laura... small world. I believe Laura and her husband/former husband (I don't know, I don't keep up) met in College Park. I'm from Silver Spring where Evangeline's family was from on One Life to Live.

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Apparently, Roberta Flack was making the NY soap rounds at this time. This must have been after Hold on to Love on Guiding Light so I guess there was no non-compete clause.

I didn't realize that Robert La Tourneaux had played Mike. I must have seen some of his episodes a few years ago. Was he the Mike right before Assante? 

5 hours ago, mikelyons said:

I don't know much about the story sequence for WTHI, so the final episode which would give way to Y&R seems like a good place to start!  

I watched (what I believe) is the only surviving episode of OLTL with Gillian Spencer as Viki and Nicki at UCLA a few months ago. They played an eerie theme when Viki closes her eyes and becomes Nicki. It also seemed that everyone knew about Nicki to some degree. Gillian Spencer was much more fragile and icy than Erika Slezak's Viki.

She was rather icy (gathered, composed) in the episode I watched at Paley, as well. There's some not-so-great audio of her Niki on YouTube, but even that little bit is a treasure for those of us who never got the chance to see her. She seems to be affecting sort of a Bronx accent which is fun and not at all what I'd expected. I would love to see more of Gillian in those first years.

I'd also love to see a scene Erika Slezak described in an interview... Viki was ill and bedridden while Dorian gave a glamorous party downstairs at Llanfair. Dorian unveiled a portrait of herself above the mantle, hanging in place of Eugenia's. Much to the surprise of the guests and to the chagrin of Dorian, Viki makes a breathtaking entrance to the party descending the Llanfair staircase in a flowing white gown, stealing Dorian's show.