4 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

 

We know she hated how vindictive Alexandra had turned in the last year of her run with the Mindy storyline and that played some minor part in her deciding it was time for her to retire.
The question, though, is did she ever say something? She had interviewed many times that she was not interested in influencing the writing on any show she has been on. Her job was acting whatever is written for one and her acting was just her job, for two. 
Would it have influenced the writing if she had said something? I dunno but I doubt it. They didn't listen to her asking for a lighter schedule so I doubt they would have listened to the substance of the writing.

In her infamous exit interview, she said she had complained about how long the day had gotten twice, on behalf of herself and the cast/crew, and wasn’t shy about wishing the current story for Alexandra was over and moved on to another.

 

Patrick Mulcahey really should write a book about his soap days. He has a lot of great stories and great insight about the genre.

 

On 7/26/2020 at 7:40 AM, titan1978 said:

In her infamous exit interview, she said she had complained about how long the day had gotten twice, on behalf of herself and the cast/crew, and wasn’t shy about wishing the current story for Alexandra was over and moved on to another.

 

And they really didn't listen which kind of bears my point lol

 

 

 

On 7/25/2020 at 8:38 PM, redontop4 said:

A Martinez has said she approached him around this time to join GL, but he had a new baby and didn't want to leave LA. I suspect (bot no proof) that JFP had him in mind to play Detective Cutter, who debuted in October 1993. 

 

On top of all that, wasn't A still a regular on LA Law then?

15 hours ago, FrenchBug82 said:

And they really didn't listen which kind of bears my point lol

 

 

 

And sadly, after she left the Jenna/Roger take over of Spaulding took place, which Bev would have been great in.  Watching clips you cna see that they rewrote some Alex material into Van...(convincing Henry to lie about being Jenna's dad, etc.) I just wish they had  just not recast Alex and morphed Van into an Alex position as being head of Spaulding, etc.  They could have still had their boring Matt story but Van would not have been robbed of her power and not become the sighing woman later. They were so wedded to their formula of Mindy/Nick with the evil mother.

No Tom Pelphrey nomination for Ozark but, as an aside, black folks cleaned up today:

1994 wasn't a great year but I still wanted to at least watch until early '95. Damn that YouTube strike team!

How far into 1994 did that channel get? The last episode I watched was Nancy Curlee's last credited episode.

15 minutes ago, kalbir said:

How far into 1994 did that channel get? The last episode I watched was Nancy Curlee's last credited episode.

 

July 1994, at least.

19 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

On top of all that, wasn't A still a regular on LA Law then?

Yup. He hung around late into the final season, leaving with just a handful of episodes left.

47 minutes ago, kalbir said:

How far into 1994 did that channel get? The last episode I watched was Nancy Curlee's last credited episode.

 

Mid-July 1994.

 

I didn’t realize it until seeing Bandstandmike’s uploaded videos—Jocelyn Seagrave (who played Julie Camaletti) and Nia Long (who played Kat Speakes) left in the same episode of CBS’s Guiding Light. (Long returned in October 1994, as a guest, to wrap up the Kat-and-David love story.) Two episodes following the series departures of Seagrave and Long marked the series debut of Ron Raines taking over the reactivated role of Alan Spaulding. (Raines played the part, and stayed with GL, until its last episode in 2009.)

 

Bandstandmike did a lot. I applaud him. And this does stink.

LOL

 

 

10 minutes ago, Aback said:

LOL

 

 

Now Alan and Kim Zimmer have nothing to talk about!

 

I didn’t see his work on Ozark, but part of me is glad he was snubbed as he always turned me off on GL and the hype machine around him at the time was too much and not warranted, IMO.

 

37 minutes ago, Aback said:

LOL

 

 

 

24 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Now Alan and Kim Zimmer have nothing to talk about!

 

I didn’t see his work on Ozark, but part of me is glad he was snubbed as he always turned me off on GL and the hype machine around him at the time was too much and not warranted, IMO.

 

The hype machine is still alive. He's mentioned in ever GL reunion and in some ATWT ones. I'm so happy he didn't get nominated.

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

Now Alan and Kim Zimmer have nothing to talk about!

 

I didn’t see his work on Ozark, but part of me is glad he was snubbed as he always turned me off on GL and the hype machine around him at the time was too much and not warranted, IMO.

 

Tom played a manic depressive version of Jonathan. Where he chewed the scenery like he did on GL. He was one of the worse things. About this overhyped but good show. Thankfully he was killed off. The accent he used was so bad. 

Edited July 29, 20205 yr by victoria foxton