Lorraine Broderick as AMC head writer

[sonyab1974]

Sorry it won't let me comment to you about the multiquote. Not sure why. Anyway I didn't know what multiquote was. Thank you!

[SFK]

So *DEAD* at that big ass red arrow! How do you do that thing where you "quote" a web page Sylph, like take the image of the board like that?

I also remember Teresa Blake in a commercial that ran a lot during those years, and I can't remember if it was for contact lens solution, mini-pads, or artificial sweetener. Anyone remember, she was in full close up talking straight to the camera.

[You're Soaking in it]

Scary that I remember this... but I'm pretty sure it was for Always ("with wings!") Maxi-Pads.

That means she would have been among the ranks of Rebecca Herbst and Alicia Minshew, who also did Always commercials around that time.

ETA: I guess I'm right... Her IMDB "other works" section lists one item: "TV commercial for Always"

[Sylph]

I didn't mean to be rude, just wanted to help. The main this is, just like I said, to have

at the beginning and

at the end of the line you're quoting.

:lol: Do you have any image viewing software? It should have a capture function.

[SFK]

Thanks YurSoakinginit, she was so serious in that commercial, all of those commercials used to be so heavy-handed. I think it was the luggage under the eyes, but there was always something very "battered woman on the edge" about TB, like Farrah Fawcett in The Burning Bed or Kim Zimmer in Designing Women.

Thanks Sylph, I will check that out! I've been trying to do that for forever, had no clue how.

[EricMontreal22]

Very well said. I wonder if McTavish didn't have such an ego if she'd make a decent co-HW or something. The frustrating thing abotu her is she DOES have talent, when steered right (and she's way too easily steered wrong--witness how happy she was to execute JFP's story ideas on OLTL) I know she's universally hated but despite the fact she obviously had help on her first, largely great, AMC go round it has to be begrudgingly admitted that at least SOME of the positive elements are due to her, lol.

[EricMontreal22]

Maybe it was cuz I was young and new to soaps but I loved her when I started at AMC (she was just getting over her bad girl phase--I believe she was involved in Craig who was married to Dixie and pretending to be Dixie's best friend?) I loved her redemption story (I'm not sure if I would now) at the time with the "Carrie" esque story with her evil religious mom, then the Stuart thing and then how that twisted to lust for Adam (and even how THAT twisted for lust for Alex--I remember those wonderfully over the top scenes of her watching him work out lol). But then she kinda just flitted around--triedher with Dimi, tried her with Tad and it kinda was meh. Carl what was her exit you liked?

[DRW50]

Gloria had a great scene working at the ER, where Ryan, in his first scene, was pretending to have been injured in a bus crash. Gloria quickly realized what he was doing and basically told him don't con a con. It was a great way to remind viewers of what she'd been and how far she'd come.

Then she left for a job as a nurse in LA, and she had goodbyes with the boarding house residents. Her last scene was on the porch with Stuart, one of those "look at the stars and my future" type of scenes. I think a lot of that day was preempted by Lewinsky coverage.

The scenes were all generally true to her character and seemed to be done with extra touches and TLC. I guess McTavish wanted to say goodbye, as she had written heavily for Gloria.

[sonyab1974]

No you weren't rude. Thank you for helping me.

[David V]

Phelps and McTavish on the same show? Was it as darkly misogynistic as expected then?

[GladGirl]

The Wikipedia entry on Karen is a riot. The part that made me LOL was that she "recently got married to upcoming Scottish mucisian and songwriter, Craig Forbes." WTH??? She is lesbian and in a long-term relationship with a theater actress.

I do agree there's probably no love between her and Jean... not sure it's a feud though.

[DRW50]

OLTL was misogynistic then, but compared to the JFP/Pam Long era, it wasn't as blatant.

[EricMontreal22]

At the risk of seeming a McTavish sympathizer, , OLTL was a *bit* better when she joined IMHO than either the Pam Long era or the endless seeming era when JFP was HW too. Not much better but... (I know Pam Long is beloved by soap fans, but this is all I knew her from so I thought she was as big a hack as Leah Laiman... Of course at the time I didn't really know JFP's horrible power either)

[DRW50]

Long was divisive with soap fans. Most of her GL run was highs and lows, although the second tenure was generally well received, albeit lower-rated. She was not well liked at Santa Barbara, although the show was gone by then anyway. Her OLTL run was also extremely mixed, although at the time it got some praise because it had energy, which OLTL had not had in several years.

If she seems beloved now it might be because she hasn't been involved in soaps in a long time.

I thought both GH and OLTL were better with McTavish than with other headwriters the shows had around those times, although I thought a lot of OLTL then sucked. The Rappa-Davisons, Max using Blair and Skye as blow-up dolls, Colin, on and on. I would put that more on JFP, I guess. GH I preferred to what was to come, mostly because she at least seemed to like AJ.

[EricMontreal22]

JFP's casting issues, and who got story at OLTL are legendary. OLTL had a really hard go around for at least five years then--a few bright spots (I thought the Labines weren't a goodfit for the show but at first, anyway it was entertaining) but really even before Malone left, after Griffith had left, the show had become a muddled mess.

I know McTavish was criticized for bringng back some cartoony aspects to Port Charles (people getting frozen, etc) but really that felt in keeping with some of GH's history and I felt it was more entertaining than some of what GH writers have saddled the show with