GL: Classic Moments from Curlee/Demorest/Reilly/Broderick

[Y&RWorldTurner]

^I LOVED Watros' Crazy Annie, but I see your point. But you have to remember, B&E were head writing the show then. LOL!

While it can be viewed as character destruction, Watros acted the hell out of that campy material. The Emmy was so hers in 1998. I've often heard Kim was quite jealous of her too. Even though the storyline was set up for viewers to root for Reva, I think Annie came out the most popular character in the end. Watros infused so much vulnerability in her portrayal, and face it, it wasn't hard to hate on Reva. When Cynthia left GL in 1998, it was a HUGE blow, and I don't think Reva and Zimmer has had a spark since. Watros and Zimmer had immense hate chemistry on screen (and we know things weren't well between them behind the scenes either).

[sungrey]

I assume you've seen them, but YouTube has scenes where Annie breaks down on the witness stand. It was the best courtroom breakdown since Judith Light... at that point I was like "screw the Emmy nominations, just give Cynthia the Emmy!"

[Aaron]

Agreed. Watros made the best of some really bad, over the top writing, and saved the show from descending into crap by at least a few years.

Reva was so obnoxious when she returned, it REALLY wasn't hard to hate her.

[LoyaltoAMC]

I used to get the giggles when Hawk would refer to Annie as "Nurse Mutton"

[Dan]

Ugh! Listen to this amazing dialog.

"It's medicinal darling. I close my eyes and little images race on the back of my eyelids like tiny home movies."

[RoseVioletDaisy]

Ah, now THAT'S my Holly! Thanks so much, Dan, one of my favorite Blake/Holly scenes ever. A real, good old-fashioned soap scene, the kind that can explain twenty years of character motivation in five minutes of dialogue and body language. Now that's Guiding Light!

[Aaron]

The Blake/Ross/Holly storyline was one of the most solid stories of that era. And, amazingly enough, it didn't miss a beat when Blake was recast. Liz Keifer brought a vulnerability and maturity to Blake that had previously been unseen, but it was a perfect transition.

And it was an awesome umbrella story. It tied into Ross's race for the Senate, Holly's relationship with Roger, Holly's relationship with Ed, Ed's relationship with Ross, Blake's relationship with Ed, Blake's relationship with Roger... it goes on and on. They simply DON'T write stories like this anymore.

A close second to this triangle was the ongoing Frank/Eleni/Alan-Michael storyline. That's why I had such a hard time believing A-M would ever, ever, EVER look at Marina in a romantic way. It's a shame the character of Eleni was cast aside, too. Jennifer Roszell was a servicable replacement for Melina Kanakaredes and could have developed into GL's new tentpole character given time.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

This is another clip I love, I really enjoyed how Alex saw right through Blake and Mindy. God, the dialog was just delicious during this period in GL history.

LOL! at Alex saying to Mindy, "Oh, tarts must be tonight's special dessert!"

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Just to keep this thread alive and since its Emmy season, I thought I'd post Michael Zaslow's 1994 WELL DESERVED Emmy win for Outstanding Lead Actor. He thanked Nancy, Stephen, Patrick Mulcahey, Nancy Williams Watt, Roger Newman, and Courtney Simon in his speech! It's so rare that you ever hear the actors name the actual writers in their acceptance speeches! Patrick Mulcahey mentioned this moment in his recent interview, the interview where he called Curlee a "meticulous writer" and went on to say "one of the things wrong with daytime now is the fact that she's not in it."

[brimike]

Wow! Keating, Simon, Zaslow, Bob Woods and Bergman?! That's only ONE of the "usual suspects". What a line-up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that speech - THAT SPEECH! Oh, Michael, you are SO MISSED!

WorldTurner, thank you SO MUCH!

[Dan]

While we are speaking about video clips, someone has begun posting the entire Christmas 1992 episode, one of my personal favorites, on Youtube. They aren't finished, but they have most of it up.

[Dan]

1991 Cont'd

Having finally rid herself of Roger, Alex was about to receive a blast from the past. Mindy travelled to New York for a business trip, when she saw a man who looked exactly like Alex's son Lujack, who had died years before. His name was Nick McHenry, an investigative journalist. Mindy told Nick about his resemblance to Lujack. The two begin to grow close. When Mindy returned to Springfield, Nick followed her there and decided to stay in town. Fletcher Reade knew Nick's parents back in New York. Nick talked with Fletch to get more information about Lujack. At the airport, Alexandra and Nick finally came face to face. Alex fainted when she saw the man that looked like her son. An interested Alex wondered gleefully if Nick was her son. She asked him whether or not Kip and Mary McHenry were her real parents. Nick got defensive and stormed out. However, Alex did find out that at the moment of Lujack's death in 1985, Nick suddenly was overcome with grief. Alex offered Nick the Springfield Journal; however, he declined. Because of the stress of Alex's interference, Nick decided to move back to New York. What Alex didn't know was that Mindy had decided to move with him. When she found out, she threatened to follow Mindy to the ends of the Earth. Not to mention she would tell the entire town her dirty little secrets.

Meanwhile, Vanessa found out about Mindy's previous affair with Roger. However, Mindy begged her not to tell Billy, knowing that the shock would upset his recover Nick left town; however, Alex had secretly sabotaged his job. So when Nick returned, he learned that "someone powerful" had called the office. When Nick returned to Springfield, he found Mindy at the airport trying to book a flight to be with him. Reuninted, Nick and Mindy went to the lighthouse and made love. However, Alexandra came afterward and found out that Nick and Mindy had become lovers. Alex then found Billy at the Blue Moon and told him about Mindy's affair with Roger Thorpe. An enraged Billy found Roger and beat him sensless. Hamp helped Vanessa pry Billy off of Roger before he killed him. Then, Mindy arrived to see the spectacle. Billy disowned Mindy. When vanessa confronted Billy about it, he found out that Vanessa had known the truth and was hurt that she kept the truth from him. Although the spectacle was catharsis for Alexandra, it did cost her Fletcher, who had enough of her vindictiveness.

Vanessa also discovered that Billy was undercutting her authority at Lewis Oil and confronted him. After the meeting, Billy ran off to Cross Creek and Vanessa followed him. After a heart-to-heart, they made love, but were caught by Nadine. However, Billy decided to remain married to Nadine. They decided to buy Josh's old house and remarried in a ceremony there. An angry Vanessa returned to Spaulding, where Alex was deciding on a new president for the company. the competition was with Alan-Michael. Although Vanessa had known about Roger's affair, Alex chose Vanessa because of Alan-Michael's attachment with Blake. Fletcher and Vanessa, both healing wounded heart, began to be drawn to each other.

***A Brief Interlude***

Just wanted to set more of the stage. In the middle of 1991, Robert Calhoun, the executive producer, left the show. Jill Farren Phelps, formerly of Santa Barbara was named his successor and began to show up in the GL credits on July 18, 1991.

***

Mallet and Frank decided to establish a detective agency. Their first order of business was to retrieve Mindy's designed that were stolen by Matt Weiss the previous year. Being in New York brought Mallet nightmares. He went to an old church. The priest of which told him to put aside his old life. Meanwhile, Det. Levy, Mallet's friend from the police department, was arrested for a crime that Mallet was sure he was innocent of. Fletcher told Mallet that Levy was investogating attorney Jeffrey Battles, an old cohort of Roger's in a thwarted business deal over waterfront property that Billy owned. Billy, Fletcher, and Mallet banded together to nail Mallet. Eventually, they were able to clear Levy's name of the crime and embarrass battles by tricking him to incriminate himself on tape.

Meanwhile, Mallet's supposedly dead love Francescaarrived in town to care for her aunt. Roger borrowed money from Francesca's father in exchange for finding Anthony Camaletti. Of course, that name belonged to Mallet and Roger knew it. The truth soon began to come out. As a cop in New York, Mallet was trying to bring down a mobster named Marco. However, during the process he fell in love with Francesca, Marco's daughter. The two lovers decided to leave after Marco threatened to have him killed. However, Marco made Mallet believe that Francesca had died in an explosion.

[brimike]

YAY!!!!

Thanks, DAN!!!!!!!!

:-)

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Thank you Dan! You already know how much you rock.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Oh, and an interesting tidbit I learnt about Nancy. She was only 32 when they promoted her to HW at GL, which means she's 50 now. HW's were typically, even then, recycled from show to show and were often much older people. It seems like, for once in their existence, P&G took a major chance with her and it paid off. Not only was she relatively young, she was also a first time HW.

Also, seeing as she's only 50 and not that "old" at all, it still gives me hope that she'll return to daytime soon. Yeah, I know, it won't happen, but daytime really needs someone like her.