Another World

[amybrickwallace]

Nic also said on FB a few years back that he and John Considine were the pranksters of AW. He said they got into trouble with Paul Rauch so much it was like being called into the principal's office.

[~bl~]

Considering everything he has done, I hope there is a lot of dirt and he isn't too polite. 

[Neil Johnson]

23 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

Nic also said on FB a few years back that he and John Considine were the pranksters of AW. He said they got into trouble with Paul Rauch so much it was like being called into the principal's office.

 

I had forgotten that, but yes!   Plus, I recall Nic has called Doug Watson a true gentleman a couple of times.   

 

But if Nic doesn't discuss George Reinholt and the atmosphere in the studio in 1975, I'm going to be disappointed.  Steve Frame and Robert Delany were best friends, and worked together at Frame Enterprises.  Nic probably had more scenes with Reinholt than even Jacquie Courtney.  So when Reinholt was fired, I'm confident Nic had opinions about it.   I just hope he shares those opinions, whatever they are.    

 

 

[SFK]

A hardcover of Eight Years in Another World is a rare expensive find, so I wanted to share that it's available for Kindle. I just bought a cyber copy for a little under ten bucks.

[amybrickwallace]

On 1/16/2021 at 8:04 PM, Neil Johnson said:

But if Nic doesn't discuss George Reinholt and the atmosphere in the studio in 1975, I'm going to be disappointed.  Steve Frame and Robert Delany were best friends, and worked together at Frame Enterprises.  Nic probably had more scenes with Reinholt than even Jacquie Courtney.  So when Reinholt was fired, I'm confident Nic had opinions about it.   I just hope he shares those opinions, whatever they are.   

 

That would be great. Nic wrote some beautiful words of tribute on FB about GR after the latter passed in 2013.

[Neil Johnson]

10 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

That would be great. Nic wrote some beautiful words of tribute on FB about GR after the latter passed in 2013.

 

I didn't know that.  Nic seems to be a very positive person.  

[AbcNbc247]

On 1/19/2021 at 7:26 PM, SFK said:

A hardcover of Eight Years in Another World is a rare expensive find, so I wanted to share that it's available for Kindle. I just bought a cyber copy for a little under ten bucks.

Yeah.

 

A lot of his work is available on Kindle. I've thinking about maybe buying one of his plays from there too.

[AbcNbc247]

For anyone who's watching the AW reunion, the building that housed the AW studio is still standing. However, it's now a self storage facility.

[Xanthe]

On 15/01/2021 at 2:21 PM, Neil Johnson said:

Nic Coster (Robert Delany on AW) announced on Facebook a couple of days ago, that his memoir will be released very soon -- within weeks, I believe.  In an earlier FB post, a few months ago, he did promise a couple of chapters about his experiences on Another World.   He doesn't talk about AW much on FB.  But he has commented he loved working with Susan Sullivan, did not enjoy working with Beverly McKenzie, and liked Harding Lemay's writing.  He has never commented (on FB) about the actor firings of 1975, the atmosphere in the studio, or George Reinholt (with whom he shared many scenes).   I hope we get lots details in his book.   

 

Looking for information about Nic Coster's memoir, I discovered his ex-wife's: The Odyssey and The Idiocy, Marriage to an Actor, A Memoir. She is extremely bitter about their relationship and he (under the pseudonym Richard Forest) is portrayed as horrible. 

 

 So far there haven't been any mentions of Another World backstage or his costars. However there was a chapter about how Jacqueline Kennedy engaged him to teach JFK Jr to scuba dive. 

 

 

[amybrickwallace]

6 hours ago, Xanthe said:

Looking for information about Nic Coster's memoir, I discovered his ex-wife's: The Odyssey and The Idiocy, Marriage to an Actor, A Memoir. She is extremely bitter about their relationship and he (under the pseudonym Richard Forest) is portrayed as horrible. 

 

Wow, I never knew that. Yikes.

[FrenchBug82]

6 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

Wow, I never knew that. Yikes.

I know neither of these folks personally and it could very well be that he is horrible but I have been around long enough to know former romantic partners are very very rarely the best witness of someone's character. Breakups can warp people's perceptions of people and interpretation of events that until then were not problematic.
Take the gossip with a grain of salt, me says. Anybody who knows a divorced couple knows as much.

[Soaplovers]

I forgot she was married to him...she was famous in her own right 

[Xanthe]

5 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

I know neither of these folks personally and it could very well be that he is horrible but I have been around long enough to know former romantic partners are very very rarely the best witness of someone's character. Breakups can warp people's perceptions of people and interpretation of events that until then were not problematic.
Take the gossip with a grain of salt, me says. Anybody who knows a divorced couple knows as much.

 

Absolutely. Everything is through the lens of how she has to fight him for alimony while he's making good money. And to be clear, the "horrible" behavior in the flashbacks of the marriage is generally selfishness and lack of consideration. 

 

Coster and his wife were in this Geritol commercial:

 

 

Edited January 23 by Xanthe

[Khan]

"My wife. I think I'll keep her."

 

That, along with "I'm Cheryl -- Fly me!," has to be one of the most misogynistic ad campaigns ever.

[amybrickwallace]

The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle, as is mostly the case in breakups.