I’m thinking Nicholas Coster and Beverly McKinsey did not get along 

4 hours ago, TVFAN1144 said:

I’m thinking Nicholas Coster and Beverly McKinsey did not get along 

That is an understatement.  

https://www.welovesoaps.net/2010/09/coster2.html

We Love Soaps: You shared many scenes Beverlee McKinsey.  What was that like?
Nicolas Coster: Well, I have to admit, it was not the most pleasant experience I ever had.  She had a photographic memory, and she was patronizing of people who did not.  Let’s leave it at that.

And the rumor was that Nic Coster didn’t bother learning his lines and just relied on Beverlee to get him through their scenes.

2 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

And the rumor was that Nic Coster didn’t bother learning his lines and just relied on Beverlee to get him through their scenes.

Yes I am sure Beverlee may have had a different take on this.

37 minutes ago, Efulton said:

Yes I am sure Beverlee may have had a different take on this.

Probably lol 

You really do have to take everything that Lemay said with a grain of salt 

If you’re an actor and you know your lines cold and your scene partner doesn’t, I can see how that would get old fast.

So, this is heresy, but I never got all the accolades about Beverlee McKinsey. Her performances are fun, but she has that same over the top quality as other soap performers like Robin Strasser, Jess Walton, and Susan Lucci (thought I’ll admit she’s better than Lucci). Disclaimer: I’ve seen plenty of her Guiding Light work but not as much of her Another World work. And I thought she was miscast in her brief role on General Hospital.

8 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

And the rumor was that Nic Coster didn’t bother learning his lines and just relied on Beverlee to get him through their scenes.

It was a lot more complicated than that.  It had more to do with the two actors having differing acting and rehearsal styles.  He didn't appreciate her style, and she didn't appreciate his.  Coster explains their difficult relationship in his memoir (released about a year ago).   Both McKenzie and Coster were/are powerful actors, but they didn't make a good pairing.   

1 minute ago, Neil Johnson said:

It was a lot more complicated than that.  It had more to do with the two actors having differing acting and rehearsal styles.  He didn't appreciate her style, and she didn't appreciate his.  Coster explains their difficult relationship in his memoir (released about a year ago).   Both McKenzie and Coster were/are powerful actors, but they didn't make a good pairing.   

Too bad their scenes aren’t available to see. 

3 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Too bad their scenes aren’t available to see. 

Isn't their scene in which Robert destroys the bust of Mac and then slashes Iris's portrait  available somewhere online?  Or maybe its just the audio.  I can't remember.   

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3 minutes ago, Neil Johnson said:

Isn't their scene in which Robert destroys the bust of Mac and then slashes Iris's portrait  available somewhere online?  Or maybe its just the audio.  I can't remember.   

I think it’s still on YouTube, but they don’t share the scene together. 

It’s only Robert at first. And then Iris and Louise after he leaves. I’d like to see if Lemay was being truthful lol 

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On 6/21/2023 at 8:09 PM, j swift said:

I recently read the novelization of Another World (Haunted by the Past) which dealt with the Clarice/Robert relationship, and it provides an interesting interpretation.  Obviously, we can't know Lemay's intent, given that this novel was written by someone else, but I found it entertaining.  Cordelia Burke (which sounds like it has to be a pseudonym) describes what we would reference in more modern times as a co-dependent relationship.  Clarice had a power imbalance with Robert given his money and education, so she was willing to provide unconditional support without demanding that he deal with his addiction.  Even though Robert was experiencing multiple failures in his career and his friendships, she still felt grateful for his attention and compassion. 

The reason I don't like the pairing of Robert and Iris is that it brought out the worst in her.  When Iris spared with Rachel, they were equals in terms of their intellect and self-assurance.  Those scenes are fun because both women are sniping at each other from their own base of power.  However, when Iris goes after Clarice to hide her pregnancy from Robert, it is just mean.  She intimidates Clarice using money and threats.  She plays with her emotions and makes her feel inadequate.  This isn't bratty Iris, this is Iris as an actual cruel villain.  And even though I think Robert was dreamy to look at, and so romantic, he was hardly worth the machinations that Iris used to try to win him over.  

I read the Soaps & Serials novelizations when they came out in the 1980s and the cover of Haunted by the Past always amused me because the characters depicted had a faint resemblance to Ed Fry and Sally Spencer who were then playing Adam and MJ even though the novel was about storylines from 10 years earlier. 

I don't know if I was reading too much into things but I thought there was an element of classism in the Robert/Iris/Clarice triangle that explained more about why Iris pursued Robert than anything like love. But that is assuming that the Delaney family and his career as an architect made Robert that kind of catch. 

12 minutes ago, Xanthe said:

Haunted by the Past always amused me because the characters depicted had a faint resemblance to Ed Fry and Sally Spencer who were then playing Adam and MJ even though the novel was about storylines from 10 years earlier. 

I like the pink martini

20 minutes ago, Xanthe said:

Iris pursued Robert than anything like love. But that is assuming that the Delaney family and his career as an architect made Robert that kind of catch. 

Yeah, it's interesting that nobody brings up Cory's inheritance rights as a Delaney heir.

I've been watching some episodes from early 1989. I can tell at this point Rachel doesn't know that Evan is Janice's son. Who did know and when? I assumed that Iris would know and that's how she brought him into her dastardly scheme, so perhaps Jason also knew but not Sharlene?

 

I can't believe how long Amanda's investigation of Video Match went on. I was thinking that it was primarily an excuse to frame the Valentine for Singles episodes but it started in December and carried on into at least March. She and Sam went on a double date with James Kiberd and Jane Krakowski (or rather I should say she and James Kiberd as Dustin Trent went on a double date with Sam [pretending to be Amanda's brother] and Jane Krakowski as Tanya). 

It was a bit jarring to see Jamie so wholeheartedly devoted to Vicky while Lisa had nothing much to do. I suppose it was because Joanna Going was on the verge of leaving anyway. Perhaps if Lemay had stayed he would have made more of the triangle and the parallels to Rachel/Steve/Alice.

 

The photo that sparked the triplet rumours was shown to Anna Stuart as Donna right before she was institutionalized and subsequently recast as Philece Sampler. The audience was not shown the photo until much later when it was revealed to be John Hudson holding two bundles and the trigger was supposed to have been that it reminded Donna that because John had raped her as a teenager he could have been the father of the twins.

Nothing about the photo has ever made sense -- even if John had been in the same place as Marley and Victoria when they had just been born, it wouldn't be any type of evidence that he could be their father. What I don't remember noticing or discussing is that there appear to be palm trees in the background of the photo. I have always assumed that Reginald had faked the photo to freak Donna out. But if he did fake the photo, why wouldn't he have changed the background to make it look like John could have been in Bay City? And if he didn't fake the photo, and just fortunately happened to have one of John with two babies in Vietnam, why would anyone who sees it assume that the babies were Marley and Victoria instead of two Vietnamese babies?

http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/donna.html

On 6/22/2023 at 8:10 PM, TVFAN1144 said:

I’m thinking Nicholas Coster and Beverly McKinsey did not get along 

Just saw the news that Nic Coster has passed away.