Days: Monday 10/9

October 10, 200619 yr

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I loved this episode! I missed all of last week so this was my first taste of Hogan's Days. Like everyone else, the highlight for me is the better episode pacing. I love that character pop up and the scene progress instead of the JER style of having the same scene going on (with nothing happening) sometimes for days.

It's also weird watching the characters and seeing that they don't...suck. Even Belle and John (who I hate) were interesting to me. It felt more real than it has in ages and this is even a major boost from Beth Melisten's interim period.

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In a totally shallow moment, how gorgeous did Alison Sweeney look?! Wow! I'm loving the new haircut and her makeup was perfect.

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ITA, Matt! She looked SMOKIN'! Love the hair.

The Sami/John scene/phone call was SO FRIGGIN' CUTE!

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In the past, I've suggested Farrah Fawcett and Mia Farrow as ladies that could have been approached to play Sydney. While I doubt that either would have wanted to do a daytime soap -- and even in 1995, neither would have come cheaply -- you can't deny that both would have brought more opening day viewers than Morgan Fairchild. (Plus, Mia does have soap experience.)

By Franko · 1 minute ago1 min
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Well and Lauren Marie Taylor also talks about what Agnes was like in person... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPwZqYUeIn4

By EricMontreal22 · 3 minutes ago3 min
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Interesting in Randolph Mantooth's cameo also uploaded there, he calls out Agnes Nixon so I guess she did show up on set? (I mean if she did still own the show...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHRGU9B8Vzc

By EricMontreal22 · 5 minutes ago5 min
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I guess if one of his surviving AW scenes is any indication, we at least know he didn't mind appearing in skimpy attire.

By DRW50 · 7 minutes ago7 min
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It was when the show had only weeks left, IIRC.
I am not sure why Jack was chosen either. He was barely being used on AMC at the time so maybe they had to pay him anyway and hoped the crossover might help. I wonder if he had any scenes with Angie (although I don't think Angie and Jack knew each other well anyway).

By DRW50 · 8 minutes ago8 min
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Fascinating! It does sound like Agnes Nixon was less hands on when she wrote the 93-94 Loving than she had been in the past, but you'd think she might have some say about how to take advantage best of the 30 minute format, since that was what she preferred.

By EricMontreal22 · 14 minutes ago14 min
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Hrmm, if Morgan Fairchild was only gonna stay for six months (I think?) anyway, why NOT have Susan Lucci as Erica launch the show as was half suggested above? I mean... it's not a terrible idea? (I'm still not sure why JACK from AMC helped Sydney's exit, if I recall correctly? :P )

I know I've asked before but when was the OLTL/The City cross over (with Alex I think?) Am I wrong in thinking by the time it happened The City was already done or was it just that we already knew The City was almost done?

By EricMontreal22 · 16 minutes ago16 min
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That all reminds me of what John Whitesell told the press when he was named EP at SFT in '85 (or so). Specifically, he said that half-hour shows like SFT shouldn't try to compete with the hour-long ones by breaking up each act into a bunch of shorter scenes. Instead, he said, he wanted fewer scenes per episode, with maybe one long scene per act. (Unfortunately, Whitesell, who did some marvelous directing at GL, wouldn't last long at SFT. P&G promptly moved him to the hour-long AW).

By Khan · 18 minutes ago18 min
Loving/The City Discussion Thread

The Loving casting director at that time was really pretty great, I think. That's one thing Loving had going for it for most of the 90s IMHO. This was great to see--I wondered why I loved Laura as Ally so much on Loving and The City even when I didn't love the writing... When I'd check her out on other soap roles (GL and GH) I seemed to like her less and less. I mean this is true of other actors who have just been in the industry a long time (in fact Heinle is one example... I've NEVER liked Benard on GH but find him charming as Nico on AMC...) but it really stands out to me for Ally/Laura.

And I'd agree with others that Jessica Collins made Dinah Lee, a character who as written often shouldn't have worked.

By EricMontreal22 · 20 minutes ago20 min
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Neither can I. Maybe Shannen Doherty...she wasn't doing a lot at the time...
That could make sense as a reason.
I haven't watched that period in great detail, the early period, but IIRC the only actual stories were Jocelyn being a hooker because she had been sexually abused, the transgender story with a dud actress, Jared being a horror, Angie and Jacob with a foster child, and Frankie being drawn into some kind of race war which led to the bar being bombed (I still don't know how that story was approved and I don't think it was ever mentioned again even as some elements like Jacob and Cassandra carried over to Angie's AMC return). At the time, Marlena de Lacroix said the show had baked a cake with no proper ingredients. (the opposite of an Agnes show, really).
The Masquerade story did seem to be their way of trying to reset and have greatest hits. The story got some buzz, along with Tracy's arrival, but I guess that wasn't enough.
Thanks for sharing the review. I see what Schemering means about longer scenes. I think they did get better at this (the whole Carly/Paul/Ava triangle is not a favorite of mine but there are some longer, beautifully acted scenes), but it was an issue. In some of the '80s episodes there isn't enough plot while by the early '90s there is a little bit too much.
I can see why they didn't want to lose Catherine Hickland, Philip Brown, Randolph Mantooth and Laura Wright, but I also would have been more likely to just go with Angie and Jacob if they were going to be drastic. If they were going to bring as many as they did I would have brought Ava over too - clearly they wanted Alex to get to have romance and so on, but Lisa Peluso could light up any scene.
Debbi was on PC for about a year and a half I think. She joined because she wanted to play a character who was harder-edged (I'm not sure if that's why she left but by the time she left the character had lost all edge). I remember a letter in SPW at the time from someone complaining that Debbi had been talking about wanting to play the first black bitch in soaps since she was on Generations, telling her that Diahann Carroll had already done that on Dynasty.

By DRW50 · 20 minutes ago20 min

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