Loving/The City Discussion Thread

[cityfan01]

Love it!

[DavidEvanSmith]

I sure did! I watched Tracy's debut, and couldn't shut it off until Desperate Housewives came on. I was right in the middle of the engagement party where Tracy hired the actors to play Quartermaines. LOVED FauxEdward being gay and throwing himself shamelessly at FauxNed!

Jane Elliot looked like she had so much fun on that show!!!

[cityfan01]

I just watched the episode when Tracy hired the prostitute. Gino called in the middle of it. One of my good friends actually asked me to put on an episode for him finally because I speak so highly of the show.

[DRW50]

My biggest memory of Loving is the dynamo performance from Christine Tudor. I'd love to see the entire story again. I still watch the Steffi/Gwen reveal scenes on Youtube. At the time I thought Ameila Heinle was great, I had no idea how she'd turn out on AMC and Y&R.

I didn't care about most of the people on The City, but I started digging the show when Tracy showed up.

Nancy Altman was superb as Deborah. I miss her.

[Eric200]

You think maybe the reason why Olivia and Carly on GH get along is they used to be roomates in NYC?

[SFK]

Christine Tudor was great, she definitely should have played someone's mother on one of the other ABC soaps by now.

[juniorz1]

Christine Tudor was phenom as Gwen on Loving. I also remember her being recast for a period of time with a red head and she was actually quite good as well. Anyone remember her name?

[DRW50]

Was she Elizabeth Savage?

http://imdb.com/name/nm0767292/maindetails

[SFK]

That is so funny, I mentioned "the other Gwyn" in my orignal post before my computer screwed up and I had to retype it. She was taller and thinner, had long red hair. She was good from what I remember, she was a sexier Gwyn. She had a seductive, mellifluous voice. Kind of reminds me of how Anita Morris replaced Bette Midler in the Down and Out in Beverly Hills sitcom. Or for a soap example, I guess she was the Elaine Princi to Tudor's Robin Strasser? Capable and perfectly watchable/passable, just not "the real deal." This was long before I was familiar with the term, but she was sort of "pod Gwyn" to me.

[juniorz1]

It was definitely Elizabeth Savage- I had remembered her last name started with an S. And while I loved me some Tudor-Newman, Savage's Gwyn was just as fierce. I didn't consider her a pod at all.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

Where there ever Crossovers between Loving and OLTL or Loving and GH. I never got the chance to see Loving, but i seen some of the Tracy Quartermaine episodes of The City. I never Loving was popular, since it didn't last very long.

[SFK]

Yes! Jeremy, Ceara, Angie, Frankie, Pat, Jesse lookalike Jacob all came to Loving in contract roles (except for Pat). There was an AMC crossover with Dinah Lee and Hannah, Myrtle came to Loving too. Joey Buchanan on OLTL once mentioned Corinth, but I don't believe there were any Loving/OLTL crossovers until Loving became The City and Alex worked with Bo. Another The City/AMC crossover was when Jackson Montgomery would visit, he had a flirtation/history with Sydney.

Edited January 28, 2009 by SFK

[DRW50]

What role did Myrtle have on Loving?

Cesar Faison appeared on Loving several years after being "killed" on GH. He kidnapped Ava and I think they went to Disneyworld or something.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

Myrtle knew Dinah Lee's family or something like that, it was during that Carter Jones stuff. I never knew facison came to Corinth. They should mention Corinth now and then on both soaps or have someone from Corinth show up on one of the soaps.

[Paul Raven]

Elizabeth Savage played Lynx(!)on GH after her Loving stint.Then pretty much disappeared from view.