1 minute ago, slick jones said:

 

@vetsoapfan

The only Violet he could think of....    🤣

 

LOL! 

Soap Closings with 1971 GL.

 

 

5 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I'm not buying the Martha gossip either.

This is first hand knowledge from someone who actually worked closely with cast members. A very reputable and honorable person. I have no reason to doubt him. 

8 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I'd love to ask Alan Locher, "So, who was this 'priest,' named 'Father Ruthledge' who supposedly existed in TGL's early days?🤔🙄

 

Also, if I had been in the interview with KV and CAC, I would have been baffled too when Alan asked, "Did you ever work with Violet?"

 

Um..WTF was Violet?

 

Alan first stumbled around that name (it turned out he was referring to the character of Mrs. Violet Renfield, whom nobody actually referred to as Violet) and then admitted he wasn't sure of the actress' real name or how to pronounce it.

 

UGH! If he chooses to ask a question about a past character/cast member, shouldn't he have some, any, idea of what he's trying to talk about?

 

Alan claims to have been a longtime fan and publicist for P&G, and yet he so often proves that he has little knowledge of major facts.

 

 

 

 

That's just embarrassing. 

2 hours ago, Bill Bauer said:

 

 

That's just embarrassing. 

 

It was cringe-worthy.

 

I am 100% confident that most knowledgeable fans of TGL from this very forum could out-perform Alan in these interviews.

21 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I'd love to ask Alan Locher, "So, who was this 'priest,' named 'Father Ruthledge' who supposedly existed in TGL's early days?🤔🙄

He'd probably tell you that he was played by Robert Newman. 😏

Alan is what most soap viewers are like...liking the surface without remembering the history.

 

His job was PR..making crap look good.

22 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

Alan is what most soap viewers are like...liking the surface without remembering the history.

 

His job was PR..making crap look good.

He can easily Goggle stuff. Yet he doesn't bother.

9 hours ago, Dan said:

He'd probably tell you that he was played by Robert Newman. 😏

 

Yep.😑

 

On 6/18/2021 at 6:38 PM, victoria foxton said:

He can easily Goggle stuff. Yet he doesn't bother.

 

Just expect nothing from him in regards to these things. I have. It is what it is. Just let it go LOL  

 

Trust me, I get it. But again, it is what it is. He worked there. He knows them as people, not always as their characters, etc. He worked in PR. Not everyone is crazy like us and knows every detail LOL

Edited June 20, 20214 yr by KMan101

 

Wasn't Stephen on ATWT too?

34 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

 

Wasn't Stephen on ATWT too?

YASS!!! I will be definitely tuning into this one!!! I wouldn't mind one from Pam Long too. 

 

Stephen's writing credits 

 

All My Children

• Associate Head Writer: April 8, 2005 - January 14, 2008

Another World

• Associate Head Writer: March 1999 - June 25, 1999

The Last AW Writing Team

• Leah Laiman (Head Writer), Jean Passanante (co-Head Writer), Gordon Rayfield, Courtney Simon, Eleanor Labine, Stephen Demorest, Melissa Salmons, Laura Maria Censabella, Judy Tate, Tom Wiggin, Tom King, Maura Penders, Richard Culliton, Shelly Altman, Carolyn Culliton, Richard J. Allen, Sofia Landon Geier, Lynn Martin, Gillian Spencer, Mary Sue Price, Edwin Klein

As the World Turns

• Associate Head Writer (1996–1998; August 1999 - August 31, 2001)
• Co-Head Writer: Late 1997 - March 1998

General Hospital

• Associate Head Writer: 1998 - 1999
• Script Writer: 1998

Guiding Light

• Co-Head Writer: 1990 - 1994
• Associate Head Writer: 1985 - 1990

One Life to Live

• Script Writer: December 5, 2003 - September 14, 2004

Ooh, this I’ll like. Early 90’s GL was the best, IMO.

On 6/16/2021 at 11:27 PM, vetsoapfan said:

 

To be fair, I though Kobe's Texas was a vast improvement over Paul Rauch's. But there was very little history for her to purge, and she did not axe the majority of the existing cast. 

 

While I did not think Bill Bell did his best work on early B&B, and while many actors in the original cast were quite bad, I would say that B&B with Kobe was also better than TGL had been with her. As you say, she was probably reigned in by the Bells. 

 

@vetsoapfan, maybe you could answer this question regarding Kobe - I read on another forum or message board years ago that Kobe wanted to essentially recreate "Texas" once she was hired as EP of TGL. She hired previous "Texas" cast members, and apparently had some influence on getting Pam Long hired on TGL. Was there any truth to this? I've never had anyone actually confirm this, although someone may have previously commented on it in this thread and I missed it...?