Actors Who've Spoken Out

[R Sinclair]

1976 - 2006. Her last scene was at Simone's funeral just before Christmas. So unless she came on New Year's eve 1976, I think she most likely made it. Ironic, huh? 30 years, and your last line uttered is, "Do you have a new lead on Kate?" and then you vanish forever.

I still think if you go to Simone's gravesite, you'll look up and see Brooke floating there in suspended animation.

[cct]

And Hiro Nakamura with a clenched-up face!

[EricMontreal22]

Oh that's so sad. I mean really--as much as I like to think Brooke is still somewhere in Pine Valley (we did get two or three mentions of her in the past four months--more than in ages) it woulda made sense to have Jamie mention her when he was leaving--or SOMETHING. sigh.

[Quent]

As a Dark Shadows fan, I'm surprised about the Roger Davis comments. I would've thought he would be catnip to the ladies of DS, since almost every other male was , to be kind, unattractive (Thayer David), gay (Louis Edmonds, Joel Crothers) or both (Jonathan Frid). What was the big turn-off about RD?

[All My Shadows]

From what I understand, he was (is) just a complete [!@#$%^&*]. Just very cocky, arrogant, etc...was married to Jaclyn Smith for a while and she refuses to talk about that time of her life anymore. Nowadays, at all of his appearances at DS-related events, all he does is talk about his real estate business. Ad nauseum, mind you.

I thought he was attractive enough, but break me off a piece of Joe or Quentin, plz!

[Jess]

I think Ron C. is just as thin-skinned and spiteful as any of the rest of them. You know when Higley was writing, Blair was on almos every day, had TONS of material for a LONG time and people said it was horrible the way she was written. When Malone was writing, Antonio was front-burner and had TONS of daily material for a LONG time, and the character was written horribly. I guess what was true of Malone and Higley is also true of dear ol Saint Ron, his poor writing could either be a result of ineptitude or purposiveness.

[EricMontreal22]

What the Hell? Where's the then *gorgeous* David Selby in your list? He was even ahead of Joel Crothers for me (and I think a lot of people found Frid so charismatic that they found him quite attractive...)

[EricMontreal22]

I'm 100% sure he thinks his writing for Todd is exciting and different. As I think Malone's for Antonio--he seemed ot love the charaacter (John too). But I won't even tyr to defent Higley

[miajere]

I'm beginning to believe Ron is writing this story line to end the popularity of Todd. I don't think tptb love alot of what TSJ has to say, and I think what has been successful with this story line comes from his ability to act leagues above many others on the show. I don't think the tif lies with Ron, but I think they were more than happy to lay the responsibility at both Ron and TSJ's feet. They don't have a million other options except to walk. So yeah, he does his best with what has been handed to him- but I don't put him in the same league as DH, in that she was given free reign to do whatever she wish.

[EricMontreal22]

I thougth DH had to go through Frons sometimes to extremes? Did she less than Griffith complained he had to when he walked?

[miajere]

Nope, she was given free reign to write whatever she wished- because they supposedly believed in her vision and thought she needed time. Granted she had some boring spots, but her debasement was subtle and was noticeable until early 2007- when she had some good episodes during the March....In fact she wrote from the West coast and claimed to never watch the show...but she was outside talent...

It was kinda weird when I was reading the Michael Malone interview with Nelson and he talked about how surprised he was that Nelson would pen that story- he made it sounds as though it was not his style- and I got to thinking what interest could Tarty really serve for Ron in writing for OLTL- it really wasn't that story they were dying to do- long buried. I think this story- however entertaining for some- was a Fron's agenda and just so happened to include putting all character responsibility on TSJ. They really didn't know what the audience response was going to be, and I imagine the actors were not thinking, "screw the audience opinion, let's give them a story!" I could be completely off base, but I really do think the bonus of this story was to do TSJ in- an outspoken actor.

I think what happened between Griffith and Frons is quite similar to what I percieve to be the Ron and Frons situation. I have a sneaking suspicion they are tired of waiting for the ratings to go up with this boy and abit after the writer's strike decided to do abit of guiding. Of course we'll never know, and I'm not absolving Ron of any writing choices he's made in regards to history and character development, Dena was not in this position, and was instead appointed a co-head writer- Ron.