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By Reverend Ruthledge · Posted
Julie Poll's 40th Anniversary Book states that he died of an embolism. I can't vouch for the accuracy of that either. As I've learned after collecting scripts is that no history book is 100% reliable. I have scripts from right after Neil died but I don't think I have any from the time of his death. Penny is talking about moving on after Neil's death but I don't think there is any specific mention of the way he died. I believe it happened off-screen. Neil and Penny had moved to New York and were off the show during that time. I THINK. So, the manner of his death could have just been a line somewhere. -
Thanks @alwaysAMC Kim was on OLTL for closer to six months, not three, but I suppose it's easier to remember as three. I know there were claims of Jacquie Courtney's closeness to a producer, but I doubt she had any involvement here as she was written out around the same time Kim was on the show. I don't remember the Echo story being all that well-received from the bits I've read over the years, but that was not a time the show was pleasing most of its viewers. -
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I assumed it wasn't Erika nor Robin, as she was complimentary of them both in the chapter. She referred to Erika as "the wonderful Erika Slezak" and Robin as "the unbelievably talented Robin Strasser". So, it's gotta be another leading lady at the time. Hmm... And in reference to the situation she said "As the old saying goes, "It's not who you know; it's who you blow!" LOL. She definitely was burned on the way out. -
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Juicy! The biggest female star on OLTL was Erika Slezak, but she was married. MAYBE Robin Strasser? She was also married, but she and her husband divorced around that time. Anyone have any other guesses? -
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Nope. Brady definitely favors his kinda-grandpa Ernesto. They have the same strong jawline. They were both cheated upon as an open secret. And, Brady absolutely inherited his affinity for a bad idea, from the guy who brought a vat of acid on a cruise ship. -
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I was gone this past weekend, so I'm behind on reading Kim's book, but here are highlights and my thoughts on the next two chapters: Chapter 3 - all about her move to NYC and going on auditions. She mentioned her engagement to AC, where she essentially asked him to marry her. Then, her wedding to AC, where the wedding guests went skinny dipping during the reception at the hotel pool. I’m very much sensing a pattern here with Kim and Reva both haha. When I read this, I basically hear Reva in the writing. Every other sentence ends with an exclamation point, which says a lot to me haha. The rest of the chapter is about her four years on The Doctors, how she met Alec Baldwin on the show and how they’re still friends today (well as of 2011). She talked about how during this time on soaps, in the 70s/80s, many actors used cue cards. The cost of messing up lines and having to re-edit scenes was costly (~$1500/instance), so there was a ton of pressure not to screw up, which she felt. She said The Doctors’ ratings were never that great while she was on and they ended up getting cancelled 3 months after she left. She left because she just had a baby (which they wrote into her storyline), and her husband AC had a small role towards the end, where the two of them fell in love and went off canvas together. She ends with a short story from her time on her first film Body Heat. Ironically this movie also had Kathleen Turner, who is the actress Kim replaced on The Doctors in their role as Nola. She ends by saying she had more people recognize her from that film than her entire 4 years on The Doctors (yikes). Chapter 4 - Kim has her baby, moves back to LA and enjoys being a mom on Venice Beach. OLTL calls her back for a 3-year contract for the role of Echo, so she packs up her family and moves back to NYC where she becomes a working mom and AC is a Mr. Mom at home. She loved working with Clint Ritchie, who she says was an out of place cowboy in Manhattan that loved to party hard. Good drama here: even though she was signed for 3 years, they are on 13-week cycles and could be dropped at the end of each cycle. Well, she found out from the secretary that she was pretty much done after her first 13-week cycle. She finally was able to meet with the EP who gave her the news. After 3 months and relocating her family, she was being dropped from OLTL. Kim says the EP told her even though Echo was wildly popular with fans, she was no longer needed in storyline. Apparently Kim’s popularity had ruffled feathers with one of the leading actresses on the show, who was dating an ABC executive and thus why Kim got fired. She didn’t say who the lady was, so I’m dying to know! From there, as her final OLTL episodes were airing, she got a call from GL to audition for Reva. She wasn’t interested in going back to a soap opera after her experience with OLTL, but she gave it a shot since she really needed a job. She fell in love with the casting director and then the writing team, especially Pam Long. Kim wasn’t Pam’s first choice for Reva, she was hoping for a red-headed, firecracker Southern Belle, but Kim ultimately got the part. She said her first audition with Jordan Clarke (Billy) went so well and he apparently rooted for her to get the part. Her second audition was with Robert Newman (Josh) and she thought it went well, but Robert was much harder to read and kept his cards close to his chest. She said she could normally break through anyone’s walls, but she couldn’t with Robert in the beginning. She couldn’t tell if he wanted her as Reva or not, even though she felt he was so handsome and sweet and they worked well together in the audition. A few days later, she got the part. Now, does Kim have this OLTL leading lady to thank for getting her ‘iconic’ role as Reva?
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Robert Laguardia's old book from the early 1970s says Neil Wade was going blind and was struck by a car and killed. Can't vouch for the accuracy of that.
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