Another World

[Contessa Donatella]

So, last night I looked up the one new Anne Heche movie I have not seen, WILDFIRE, THE CHEROKEE GHOST HORSE on JustWatch.com & I misunderstood the listing, because it appeared that it was finally out, on AppleTV. But, when I went there it wasn't. Annoyed, I went to Tubi, which is free movies & lots of them with many Anne Heche offerings & I watched VOLCANO for the third time. First time in the movie theatre. 2nd time many years ago on the small screen & now this last time. It has held up to the test of time. I just wish the dadgummed horse movie would be released. I have seen everything else. If you haven't, of the things that came out after her death, my best recommends would be THIRTEEN MINUTES, her episodes (3 I think) of ALL RISE, SUPERCELL, THE GIRL IN ROOM 13 and probably the best WHAT REMAINS. This message has been brought to you by an avid fan of Anne Heche. We return you now to your regularly scheduled discussion of our favorite soap, ANOTHER WORLD. 

[Contessa Donatella]

I was always Team Jake & Paulina!!! It was frustrating to me that they were not EndGame. As for Joe, who cared? Certainly not me. Paulina was stuck being that restaurant owner's wife. If she'd been with Jake, exciting things would''ve happened. Jake and Vicky didn't work for me, at all. They were best friends, not lovers. I am well aware that not everyone thinks this way. That's okay. 

[chrisml]

Jack and Vicky were just plain icky considering he raped her sister. Jake should have been written off when  he was shot. 

Someone else posted it, but Judi Evans would have been a better Nancy. I much prefer Cali Timmins's version of Paulina. I never really cared for Paulina until she got with Joe.

[Contessa Donatella]

Here you mean Jake, not Jack, right? And, of course here you get into it. According to Swajeski there would have been NO WAY Jake would have ever raped Marley. NBC made her rewrite to have Jake rape her. I won't go into details because everyone likely knows what happened. 

Edited August 27, 2024 by Contessa Donatella
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[Xanthe]

I didn't mind Paulina with Joe. Even when she had a lot going on in her life and even though he had his issues he was more supportive and less likely to commit crimes than Jake or Ian Rain or late stage Grant. Funnily enough if Judi had been playing Nancy instead of Paulina maybe I would have been less enthusiastic about the idea of her settling down with Joe.  

I didn't mind Jake as the villain manipulating Paulina post-coma, but I don't think they put him through the right wringer to justify his redemption and put him back together with Vicky. It was one thing that he had dumped her to marry Marley when they were 18, or that he had had that affair with Donna that time. It was quite another the way he treated Vicky when he thought he was Steven's father, raped Marley, stalked and harassed Marley when he was engaged to Jamie, and probably some other things I can't think of. I don't even really remember how they made the transition in Vicky's love life from Shane/Bobby to Jake as if they had always been meant to be together but I don't think he made proper amends with her and certainly not Marley.

[Franko]

Browsing a used bookstore today, I found -- for 50 cents, no less -- Inside, Looking Out.

[Contessa Donatella]

I have that. 

Edited August 29, 2024 by Contessa Donatella
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[chrisml]

I never thought Tom Eplin or Jake were worth all the hoops the writers went through to keep him viable. The way they turned Marley into a nutjob at the end of the series to prop up Vicky and Jake was just so ugh ugh ugh. I can't believe they moved him to ATWT of all characters.

[DRW50]

Thanks. I remember the popcorn scene mostly from being on one of the old AWHP tapes - there was a caption on the site that mentioned them both being dead. 

You can see what different actresses Mary and Faith are - they don't quite gel. I like Faith Ford, but she was too perky to be a Matthews (so was Alexandra Wilson as Josie). 

Seeing Julia talk about how she envied Liz over being in glamorous New York was a nice break from all the cosmopolitan characters on the canvas in the '70s and '80s. 

Edited August 29, 2024 by DRW50

[Xanthe]

I probably didn’t enjoy that as much as I could have because my immediate reaction was to think about her murder. "oh, Julia, you will get to visit New York all too soon." 

I don't remember Kyra Sedgwick's Julia as clearly but I suspect she was less naive.

[Mona Kane Croft]

Slight change of subject -- but did anyone else notice the minor changes to the Matthews house set in both these scenes and some others from the same era?  There had previously been a short waist-high partition/bookcase between the living room and the hallway by the stairs. And that partition/bookcase is gone in these scenes. It's a small change, I realize, but really opened up the space.  There may have been other minor changes to the set at this time also, but I haven't seen a shot of the entire set from this era.  A year or so later more minor changes were made, including that silly oval shaped window they added over the staircase.  The oval window had never been there before, and didn't make sense, because that wall was not an exterior wall.  So logically, there could not be a window there.  

Edited August 29, 2024 by Mona Kane Croft

[DRW50]

I hadn't even thought about that. 

So many morbid moments on AW by that point.

[Xanthe]

That reminds me that I think it was in the Italian video, I was confused about why the big party that Roberta Flack and Louise Mandrell attended seemed to be at the Cory mansion, but I subsequently realized that that set was not the Corys' at the time but those black and white tiles were incorporated into the Corys' a few years later.

[Aback]

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[Melroser]

Damn, I wish this was in English!! The great Nancy Frangione and Anne Heche. My two faves. Plus, "Papa Pope" Joe Morton. 

Edited September 1, 2024 by Melroser