I love retro-futurism. I also love the class progression of the GM brands (it would have been perfect if the wife described Chevrolet rather than Pontiac as "bewitching" seeing as how Chevy was Bewitched's sponsor).

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Where on earth did you find that!

LOL. I honestly don't remember. I seem to think it was linked @ the bottom of Mitchell's wikipedia page. Neat, eh?

Yeah, I guess Gillian Spencer's last go at soaps was as ghost Jennifer on ATWT? I want to say that she did that after she came back to AMC a couple of times. The last time she was on AMC, she kinda looked like Erika Slezak's first few says as Jean Randolph, the hair and all.

I remember when Tara came back, but only as a phone call to Kelsey. They aged her by putting a few silver streaks in her hair, I am almost positive that they were not natural. I've also heard that she was a little at-bay it-shay. I ended up forgetting about it and missing it, but about two years ago, she played Gertrude in an off-Broadway production of Hamlet.

Interesting, because in photos I've always thougth Gillian Spencer's Vicki didn't look at all like how I remember Gillian...

I wish that quick clip of Tara would pop up on youtube.

I wish that quick clip of Tara would pop up on youtube.

Oh, it just might.

I just remembered the 35th anniversary special they did on SoapNet and KLG didn't look as old as they made Tara look when she came back about ten years earlier. I am very tempted to say that Carol Luiken was still dressing the show then because I remember Tara in professional attire similar to Erica at the time, a suit, scarf, and overcoat, hair in a French roll with the gray streaks.

No, I don't think GS looks anything like ES, but something about her hair style and color when she came back to get Palmer and Opal back together again reminds me of the similar looking pinkish gray wig they gave ES to wear for her first few days as Jean.

Edited January 24, 201015 yr by SFK

The same person who posted that Hollywood video also uploaded this beautiful tribute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAnyCpQ4oY

I loved the personal photos, and loved seeing the photo with his two AMC wives.

Oh, it just might.

I just remembered the 35th anniversary special they did on SoapNet and KLG didn't look as old as they made Tara look when she came back about ten years earlier. I am very tempted to say that Carol Luiken was still dressing the show then because I remember Tara in professional attire similar to Erica at the time, a suit, scarf, and overcoat, hair in a French roll with the gray streaks.

No, I don't think GS looks anything like ES, but something about her hair style and color when she came back to get Palmer and Opal back together again reminds me of the similar looking pinkish gray wig they gave ES to wear for her first few days as Jean.

Funny I have that SoapNet tribute on video but don't remember her on it--will have to check again.

I didn't mean GS and ES--I meant that for some reason the few old pics I see of GS as Vicki, she really doesn't look liek the GS I remember from AMC to me...

R.I.P

Another legend lost.

Funny I have that SoapNet tribute on video but don't remember her on it--will have to check again.

I didn't mean GS and ES--I meant that for some reason the few old pics I see of GS as Vicki, she really doesn't look liek the GS I remember from AMC to me...

Gotcha, that's what I thought you meant. I think it's all about the hair. She has a very distinct nose for daytime, her immediate Viki replacement, Joanne Dorian, had similar bone structure. Gillian had kind of a bob on OLTL. I love how Agnes Nixon had almost a Tennessee Williams take on her characters, reintroducing and reworking prototypes, and a perfect example is Palmer and Daisy... Palmer and Nina are Victor and Viki/Meredith Lord revisited, and here she had her original Viki, Gillian Spencer, in the Eugenia role... yet death didn't take her away from the family, but a yearning for life experience outside of the contraints of marriage and motherhood did. She returned and faced the fallout. I really can't say enough about the characters Agnes Nixon has created.

Well she has said her afinity is for the writers of the South, so that makes sense--I actually sometimes wish soap writers would rip off Tenn Williams more (I don't mean have more castrations and actsof gay canibalism, but...) would beat many of the blah, cliche stories we currently get.

I wish we could see Gillian as Vicki/Nicki... (in those Paley lectures one audience member asks why back then Nicki had a blonde wig but it was red in 1985 when she came back--Agnes looks utterly confused by the very question lol)

Palmer will be missed.

Eric, you should go on a week-long holiday to Manhattan and visit Paley every day. You can only watch x amount of programming a day, but you would just eat it up if you made a daily visit.

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2010/01/flashback-james-mitchell-star-in-spite.html#more

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2010/01/james-mitchell-on-where-heart-is.html#more

I know... this combined with all the video I plan to persuade myself into to watch at the Lincoln Center Theatre Archive...

UCLA needs to get off their asses and do something with all of those extremely rare early 70s soap episodes they have. They could very well be in possession of the only surviving footage of JM on Where the Heart Is, and fans deserve to see it!

Now to be honest I have never really watched AMC but may the man rest in peace. It's funny how when some great aunt dies I often go "who??" yet when a beloved soap actor dies I mourn their loss greaty.