Loving/The City Discussion Thread

[EricMontreal22]

Thanks for posting that review (as usual I'm late to read it). I always thought Dante's storyline was created by Agnes Nixon--she was HW during the climax of it anyway but I guess it started a bit before,

[dc11786]

Curtis' involvement with porn happened prior to his return to Corinth during the show's first weeks in July 1983. When Curtis came home, Cabot alluded to him getting in trouble, but not specifically stating what he had done. Before Clayton Alden's family spent all that time in Maine, they were originally living in overseas. When Gwyneth returned, there was some mystery involving one of her lovers, Jacques, who had been murdered or had supposedly killed Clay for her. I never really understood the who backstory, but anyway the Aldens lived in Europe.

When the show began to switch gears in 1984, Burnell's department store, a property belonging to the Aldens and AE, was at the center of the business conflict. Shana and Ann fought over whether or not to sell off this division. Rita Mae Bristow's niece, Colby Cantrell, arrived in Corinth to work as a buyer for Burnell's and fell in love with Curtis Alden. Lorna Forbes hoped to catapult her modelling career as becoming the spokesperson for Burnell's, but she lost that position to Sasha Hale.

Sasha was tied to several characters. When she was in Europe, she had been in a pornographic film, which had been financed by Curtis Alden. I think Curtis was a bit mislead about the nature of the film, but he felt guilty anyway and didn't want Colby to find out about his involvement with Sasha and the film. Also, while in Europe, Sasha had known one of the victims of Jonathan Maitlane, the serial killer husband of Edy Donovan. Sasha could identify Jonathan as the murderer and Jonathan tried to kill her, but she escaped. Eventually, Sasha faded from the story as the show began to shift its business intrigue from Burnell's to Amourelle.

Sasha was probably around from September until late November / early December 1984.

Replacing Hannah with Steffi was a smart move in the long haul and, despite the contrivance, the conception of Tyler would allow for the show to continue to keep these characters interacting with one another for the show's final years.

Dante was part of the backstory Guza / Taggert created for Curtis / Tess / Buck for when the characters were introduced in the spring of 1993. While living in Kuwait, Tess had been married to a bad man and Curtis had managed to help her escape from her bad marriage with the help of Buck, a pilot. There was some mention of one of the two men having killed the husband and both seemed romantically interested in Tess. When Dante arrived, I believe Nixon was writing as it was announced in a November SOD she had taken over from Millee Taggert.

Originally, it was announced there were no plans to recast Curtis when Michael Lord was fired. Curtis torched Pins and left town. Later, it was revealed he was captured by Dante.

[DRW50]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w76sGMfJWQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

[DRW50]

1992 Christmas party

Edited December 25, 2011 by CarlD2

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Edited December 25, 2011 by CarlD2

[dc11786]

The clip is from the time Gilbert was impersonating Jeremy. I cannot remember how Curtis ended up in Dunellyn. This would be after he led Trucker to believe Trisha was alive (she was, but Curtis didn't really know this) and caused the plane crash that killed Janie and caused Dinahlee to lose the baby she was carrying. Laurie McCarthy / Addie Walsh would be writing and I believe Jo Ann Emmerich was producing or however it was who was there before Jean Daddario Burke.

[DRW50]

August 89 Digest

[ClassicSoapsFan]

I had one tape with the last segment of loving which was tapped over by my sister years back. It had Rio and Rocky. I want to know how long Rocky/Rena Sofer was on the show and how did she exit? Was it related to her marriage to Rio?

[DRW50]

Someone else probably knows but I will look in my synopses when I get a chance. She was on from about 1988-1990.

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Loving ad at about 8:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOIm6xbIZjE

[Paul Raven]

Jonathan and Sacha

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I'd never actually seen Sacha.

[EricMontreal22]

That makes sense--thanks! I have early episodes with Dante on tape (when he befriended I think it was Dinah Lee and would always talk about his pet and had a secret identity) and though I haven't checked in years, was pretty sure Agnes Nixon was listed as writer.

[DRW50]

It's kind of odd to me that Dinah Lee became such an important character, and for several years seemed to be a central heroine. I wonder if the show was just thrilled a new character caught on with viewers and kept writing for her. In a 1994 ad for ABC Daytime, which has a few short Loving moments, they use her face for the profile, essentially saying she was the face of the show.

[EricMontreal22]

How long did he last in the role anyway? Was he the last Curtis befre the original returned? I don't remember other Curtis' actually. Kinda funny he feels bad for Burke Moses who a few months later he got to replace Peter Gallagher in Guys and Dolls and became a MASSIVE musical theatre name--he still is, so I doubt he felt too bad...

I actually suspect that's what it was, at first it seemed like the focus was more on sister Hannah although both of them did go, not ALL too long after their intro, to stay with Myrtle at Pine Valley (which led to the Carter crossover) so I guess she caught on early.