Erica was addicted to painkillers at the time!

Hal Corley's outline,Michelle Patrick's script.Lorraine Broderick,headwriter.

An excerpt:

it gives me great pleasure to stand before you tonight-and accept your flattery and your praise-knowing that every bit of it is completely false. The hypocrisy in this room could choke a snake. I'm very pleased to stand here in the spotlight-where I was born to be. it gives me great satisfaction to look down from this podium-on the teeming mediocrity below-knowing most of you prayed I'd trip on the way...

Whom shall I thank first?...

What's the matter,Brooke?Can't you take it?It hurts to be third rate,doesn't it?But aren't you accustomed to it by now?You're a weakling,which is why you can't keep a man.men don't like fragile women.They only think they do...

Saint Maria of Wildwind-tending to the sick in her push-up bra,ever poised to relieve the suffering of others-as long as the suffering isn't mine.

Then there's my so-called husband..."Hold my hand.I'll take care of you darling".These were his last words before he let me drop.Dimitri's not good at rescue work,but i tried to spare him any guilt...you can't turn to Dimitri for patience and understanding.Dimitri will put you on a pedestal,but it's your job not to fall off.if you can't avoid a spill,then please try not to get hurt.And if you can't manage that,and this is really important,never rely on medication,because Dimitri doesn't believe in pain relief.

Well,I am no longer his wife and no longer the star of "The Cutting Edge".Let's have a big hand for the brilliant Liza Colby.Well,now,Liza,where is your partner in back stabbing tonight?Surely you're not alone this evening.Ladies and gentlemen,i give you one half of the back stabbing team that conspired to bring my career down,that sharpened their knives on the host of "The Cutting Edge".Tad and Liza,always with your heads together,always conspiring the demise of my career and the resurrection of your affair.where's the little wifey?Dixie,Dixie...you fell down on the job.You were supposed to subdue the wayward Tad.Why would you let him sow wild oats with that witch?I am speaking.I will not sit down.I will never be silenced again.

Edited February 2, 201015 yr by Paul Raven

I crack up every time I get to "tending to the stick in her push-up bra."

Damn, I really wish this scene would show up on youtube. Its by far one of the greatest moments in Erica Kane's character history. Push up bra always cracks me up too, partly because its so true, especially Maria's 2nd go in Pine Valley.

The last thing Eva La Rue needs is a push bra. Those things are already swallowing her neck.

Erica was addicted to painkillers at the time!

Hal Corley's outline,Michelle Patrick's script.Lorraine Broderick,headwriter.

Michelle Patrick God this woman should be headwriting AMC or atleast co-headwriting AMC

This was on her Emmy reel that year right? She had that line about, "It's my night, and that's all there is to it, I just have to go out there and accept my award with my head held high..." (and the crowd went wild...)

Edited February 2, 201015 yr by SFK

I will be forever in debt to the person who posts this on YouTube. One of my top 5 soap moments EVER.

This was on her Emmy reel that year right? She had that line about, "It's my night, and that's all there is to it, I just have to go out there and accept my award with my head held high..." (and the crowd went wild...)

Yep... I thought Lucci had it IN THE BAG that year. Evidently, the Emmy voters preferred otherwise. I still say Erica's Woman of the Year meltdown is far more nuanced and compelling than the work which ultimately won her the Emmy, her scenes in Bianca's Anorexia intervention. I honestly, when it comes to Erica, can't remember being more glued to my TV screen.

I will be forever in debt to the person who posts this on YouTube. One of my top 5 soap moments EVER.

Ditto. I search for it every couple of months... and always end up disappointed!

Those things are already swallowing her neck.

She has a neck?

Yep... I thought Lucci had it IN THE BAG that year. Evidently, the Emmy voters preferred otherwise. I still say Erica's Woman of the Year meltdown is far more nuanced and compelling than the work which ultimately won her the Emmy, her scenes in Bianca's Anorexia intervention. I honestly, when it comes to Erica, can't remember being more glued to my TV screen.

Lucci was simply Shakespearean with that performance. She projected both madness and intelligence. And she was funny as hell.

I always come back to that speech when people say Susan can't act. I just want to send them a link to that video.

I'm sure I have this episode on a VHS in a storage box somewhere. I'm hoping someone has it readily available though because I want to watch it.

I'm sure I have this episode on a VHS in a storage box somewhere. I'm hoping someone has it readily available though because I want to watch it.

Don't just stand there, GO GET IT NOW!

Don't just stand there, GO GET IT NOW!

I wish I could. It's not on the premises though.

Actually, I think I have that Emmy broadcast on tape, but not the episode with all the good stuff. I wish people were wise enough to see that when they hate on Lucci's acting for moments like these, they are totally missing the bigger picture of the Erica Kane character.

I thought I had found it a couple a weeks ago on the Tube, but it was a red herring. It's out there... it has to be. There are far less important moments on there in triplicate.