So, I knew Mary Carney (Mary #2), Karen Morris-Gowdy (Faith #4), and Julia Campbell (Katie) all had twins but I didn't realize Megan McCracken (Nancy #1) also had twins.

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Christian Slater (DJ) talks about his father, Michael Hawkins (Frank #1)

http://www.eonline.com/news/665411/christian-slater-opens-up-about-his-father-he-s-a-manic-depressive-schizophrenic

Christian Slater Opens Up About His Father :" He's A Manic-Depressive Schizophrenic"

Christian Slater may have had a troubled relationship with his dad, but it sounds like the two are finally reconciling.

The Heathers star has opened up about his father like never before during a chat with his Nymphomaniac director Lars Von Trier for the new issue of Interview magazine.

"He's a manic-depressive schizophrenic," Slaters said "He's always had trouble—he was a fantastic actor and extraordinarily charismatic and very, very good looking, but he had a really difficult time working with directors, collaborating with people."

Until recently, Slater hadn't spoken to his father for nine years. However, his father is "in a place now, getting a lot of help from someone," Slater says.
"n the last few months my father actually reached out to me and wanted to reconcile and reconnect," Slater says. "I was very grateful to be able to communicate with him. From a tumultuous, back-and-forth relationship, we were able to begin to build a better bridge for the both of us. So that was good."

As for Slater himself, the 45-year-old actor says he's "happily married" and has a "great relationship" with his kids. In fact, his 16-year-old son is moving in with them. "I'm excited to get the opportunity to be a bit more of a father in his life," he says.

When von Trier asks if he's living a "golden life right now," Slater says, "It is probably more golden than I will ever acknowledge, you know? I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally."

It's definitely more half-full these days, Mr. Slater!

Afterall, he will next be seen in Mr. Robot, a new television series about a group of underground computer hackers that picked up the Audience Award earlier this year at South by Southwest.

Mr. Robot premieres on the USA Network on June 24.

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Lately, I have yearned for some good ole soap. I have been watching RH lately, and I'm in love all over again.

Thanks for the writeup on Christian Slater and his dad. I was watching his interview with Jimmy Fallon the other night, and found myself wondering about that. In any case, I'm glad that the two have mended fences, and that Christian himself seems to be doing well after his many brushes with the law, etc.

Besides Louise Shaffer losing her husband, Kathryn Dowling's (Lily Darnell #2 and she was also in Love Spell that was written and produced by Claire Labine and starred Kate Mulgrew) husband, Donald Wrye, also passed on last month. They were married almost 28 years.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-wrye-dead-ice-castles-797425

Donald Wrye, Writer and Director on 'Ice Castles,' Dies at 80

by Mike Barnes

5/21/2015

Donald Wrye, who wrote and directed the 1978 figure-skating romantic drama Ice Castles, starring Lynn-Holly Johnson and Robby Benson, has died. He was 80.

Wrye, who received Oscar nominations for producing a pair of short documentaries in the early 1970s, died May 15 in his sleep at home in Harrisburg, Pa., his wife, Kathryn Dowling Wrye, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Wrye helmed the boundary-pushing 1974 NBC telefilm Born Innocent, starring Linda Blair (coming off the release of The Exorcist months earlier) as a 14-year-old runaway who is raped with a plunger handle by a gang of girls at a reform school. Re-airings of the movie cut the graphic rape sequence.

“The project certainly caused a lot of disturbance in America, and it’s one, years later, that I am so proud of, because it really helped change a lot of lives,” Blair said in a 2013 interview.

Wrye also wrote, directed and executive produced ABC’s 1987 seven-part, 15-hour miniseries Amerika, which starred Kris Kristofferson in an epic story about a Soviet Union takeover of the United States.


Ice Castles featured Johnson as an Olympic-hopeful figure skater who loses her eyesight in a skating accident and Benson as her hockey-playing boyfriend. Its theme song, "Through the Eyes of Love," performed by Melissa Manchester and written by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager, was nominated for an Oscar.

Wrye later directed a 2010 straight-to-DVD Ice Castles remake that starred Taylor Firth and Rob Mayes.

Wrye received his Oscar noms for producing An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer (1969), with Henry Fonda providing the voice of the novelist, and The Numbers Start With the River (1971), about life in an Iowa town.

He directed Jack Lemmon in the much-lauded 1976 NBC telefilm The Entertainer (1976) and guided Marlo Thomas and Orson Welles in ABC’s It Happened One Christmas, a 1977 adaptation of the Jimmy Stewart classic It’s a Wonderful Life.

Wrye also won Humanitas prizes for his work on Divorce Wars: A Love Story, a 1982 telefilm starring Tom Selleck and Jane Curtin, and Lucky Day, a 1991 TV movie toplined by Amy Madigan and Olympia Dukakis.

Wrye’s trademark was to examine individuals involved in a family crisis or struggling with social issues, his wife noted.

Born Sept. 24, 1934, in Riverside, Calif., Wrye attended the University of Arizona and graduated from UCLA’s film school. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served for years on its documentary feature film committee.

In his addition to his wife of nearly 28 years, survivors include children Gabriel, Ariel and Catalina; grandchildren Esme, Levi and Kagan; brothers Terry and Richard; sister-in-law Karen; his children’s spouses, Heather and Kate; and mother-in-law Barbara.

A private memorial service will be held in Malibu, where he lived for years.

Sorry to hear this.

Me, too. I loved Ice Castles!!!

"We forgot about the flowers."

Damn, I loved Ice Castles, too. Those stunning shots of Jennifer Warren (she's passed away, right?) and Tom Skerritt stick out in my memory.

I looked on various sites and it appears that Jennifer Warren is still with us. She was also great in a memorable Bob Newhart Show episode where she plays a talk show host who completely skewers Bob ("Who is Mr. X?"). If you haven't seen it, see it!! Bob Newhart and the late Marcia Wallace supplied commentary for that ep on the Season 4 DVD.

Now back to your regularly scheduled RH thread...;-)

Relieved about Jennifer Warren...thanks!

Recent clip of Kathleen Tolan (Mary #3) talking about her love for theater and writing.

Thanks for posting the Tolan clip. I always enjoyed her Mary and thought that she and Sarah Felder worked so well together as the feuding Ryan sisters.

You're welcome, TimWil.

Hannibal Penney (Clem) in the 1972 film JC. If you want to take a look at him -- the sound is pretty bad (too loud)



Jesus Christ (William F. McGaha) is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years, Jesus rebels, joining a biker gang and leading an LSD-fueled pilgrimage to the West to fight the establishment.

I wish they'd done more with Clem. 2 and a half years and nothing.

I wish they'd done more with Clem. 2 and a half years and nothing.

Yeah, the closest he got was that brief early hinting of a rivalry with Roger and then his part in the hospital strike. it was a shame they way they just wrote him out - - without any on screen good-byes to anyone.

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