As The World Turns Discussion Thread

[Mitch]

The actor who played David Stenbeck was sex on a stick..why did they replace him with that greasy Chippendale's looking guy?  Dumb decisions after dumb decisions. 

 

Maura West always reminded me of a young Kim Zimmer..both of them balls of fire when they first came on the show and then,kind of settled into a certain acting style that lost all that spark, rather it was the writing, or the drudgery of being front burner ALL the time.

[DRW50]

 

Maura did try later on (especially in the early years of her second stint), but I don't think anything ever compared to the magic of her first stint.

 

Daniel Markel was hot and had a real spark as David Allen, in a pretty horribly written and shoehorned role. I never understood why he was let go - given that this was the period when CBS Daytime was reportedly run by people who fired actors based on whether they were "hot" enough, I wonder if that's why we got the porn type actor in his place. 

 

Markel retired from acting and became a successful stock broker, I think.

[wonderwoman1951]

i remember reading somewhere that when richard culliton first pitched the character of carly to then ep, laurie caso, both saw her as the troubled girl who, down the road, could bring reva’s complexity and longevity to ‘world turns.

 

of course, by the time carly arrived in oakdale, caso was gone, replaced by john valente, setting the stage for the show’s final decline. 

[RavenWhitney]

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[DRW50]

Thanks. He still looks pretty good. Silly P&G/CBS execs, as always.

[Liberty City]

 

It's because the regimes made Carly fall in-love, which changed her vixen edge. Not necessarily a negative, but it did change the direction of the character.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

Silly and short-sighted. It's as if, P&G (with the occasional help of CBS) did all they could to flop this series in its last 15 years or so.

[Mitch]

Wow..he looks damn good!!! Too bad soaps are still viable..he would make a great Alan Spaulding type patriarch now.

[Forever8]

Bold Restless comes through with another promo from 1997. 

[DRW50]

A quick glimpse of just how quickly FMB's tenure fell apart. The scenes of Emily joyriding with Diego's corpse were embarrassingly bad. 

[Forever8]

More ATWT Promos from 1997 courtesy of Bold Restless!!!! 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 30, 2021 by Forever8

[titan1978]

I feel like I read somewhere that Carly was created on paper by Marland, but not used on screen until after his death.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

Carly reminds me a lot of that Marcy character (not the one played by Marisa Tomei) in the early 90s, the one that was involved with Linc and on occasion, in cahoots with Lucinda, aggravating Connor Walsh, especially when played by the blonde actress. Anytime I see scenes of her, I can't help but think that she could've been an early prototype for Carly.

 

Those promos all look like they have that "soap opera effect" that tech people like to so derisively use when describing poor picture quality. Why do all the scenes in the promos in gauzy sepia and neutral tan tones.

[P.J.]

 

That is always what I've heard as well. It's not hard to believe that as meticulous as Marland was, he was already forming Carly in his head to be the foil to Rosanna.

[Soaplovers]

I can believe Marland sketched out Carly..but she would have lacked fire and personality if Marland wrote her.