Another World Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

Starts at about 2:25. I really liked the Paulina/Cindy friendship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1mQV6AkC8&feature=related

3:20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMLwHaU6UA8&feature=related

Edited April 4, 2011 by CarlD2

[Mr. Vixen]

thanks so much carl! i always loved Another World, and I still miss it. Cindy was probably my favorite in the later years.

I've always wished Kim Rhodes would pop up on another soap. She was so good as a classic, soapy bitch. LOL

[DRW50]

She was a great bitch yet also very sympathetic and able to play layers. Cindy was a horribly written character but Kim always made it work.

You know, she went to the same acting school as the man who played Gary (the second Gary) and I think the guy who played Chris Madison.

[Mr. Vixen]

+1! Couldn't have said the first part better. She really did have what the soaps need....The ability to play all different stories. The ability to play a bitch, without coming across as unsympathetic and bitchy-for-the-sake-of-being-bitchy.

There were times when Cindy wasn't written very well, but you're right. Kim always made it work and it was easy to overlook the shaky writing bc of her portrayal.

In many ways I think she could have made a good Carly recast on GH. Kim was good at playing a lot of the elements that Carly originall had.

I didn't knowthe part about the acting school. That's really cool!

[DRW50]

I don't mean to make it sound like Cindy was a dreadfully written character but there were just some WTF moments...she was a cat burglar. She worshiped an African totem called Booba or something. She shot Grant in the heart. On and on.

[Mr. Vixen]

Oh I agree there was definitely some odd stuff.going on with cindu. But I still loved Cindy, and Kim.

I also loved Lorna and was sad when RC left. I think she left for OLTL, right? I remember it being around that time.

[DRW50]

She was fired, along with John Bolger. She wasn't on daytime again for about 3 years, until her friend JFP got her a job at OLTL, along with Linda Dano.

[darraholic]

I loved Gabe & Lorna together.

[Mr. Vixen]

but wait...didn't she leave/get fired in 1997? She then went to OLTL in 1998, i thought.

[DRW50]

She was fired in late 1996 and left early the next year. She started on OLTL in late 1999 or early 2000.

[Mr. Vixen]

Oh wow I totally remembered that wrong.

Also thanks again for the clips Can't get enough of Cindy!

[DRW50]

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I'd never seen these ads. Love the dancing stuff; cheesy, but who cares.

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[juniorz1]

I know this is an old post, but I had to comment on it as I re-read this thread. If you'd seen Kathleen Layman (the 1st MJ) in the role, I think you'd have a different opinion. First off, she very much resembled Julie Osburn's Kathleen, to the point that they really could have been sisters. Secondly, she was a completely different character than Sally Spencer's MJ- she was tough, feisty, smart, spirited, and certainly nobody's victim. Sally's MJ was kind of the polar opposite of that- it was quite jarring and I never warmed to her in the role. To be honest, as a young kid, I liked Layman's MJ every bit as much as Kathleen.

Plus, she had FANTASTIC chemistry with Rick Porter's Larry. Unfortunately, the show never had the guts to go there with them, since he was married to town sweetheart Clarice.

[shadow]

I LOVED Kathleen Layman as MJ, I also thought she had good chemistry with Stephen Yates as Jamie too!