As The World Turns Discussion Thread

[FrenchFan]

I had totally forgotten about Ian and Dana ! Thanks !

[DRW50]

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This helps with the date of that last clip.

What a silly story this must have been for viewers at the time.

I do enjoy hearing Peter Simon do a "mwahaha" laugh.

[Mitch64]

Ha..when they had Lisa doing her Dolly Valentine gossip column it should have been in the "Key Hole" (great name for a rag...) which she secretly bought.

[Mona Kane Croft]

Damn... Peter is hot as Hell in these scenes.  He always was my type -- thin blonde hair, moderately hairy chest, average height, unconventionally handsome.  These days he's probably pushing 80.  But I bet I'd still jump him in a hot minute.  Watch out, Courtney. LOL...

Edited March 10 by Mona Kane Croft

[Soapsuds]

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[Maxim]

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[Contessa Donatella]

Crack me up!! Courtney Sherman Simon & Peter Simon married on June 15, 1975 & are still together, so coming up on their 50th wedding anniversary. Your confidence is fascinating! 

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[DRW50]

It's funny to think that the Simon and Simon relationship actually did cause a little bit of a scandal in the soap magazines at the time, as they were both married to other people.

[Contessa Donatella]

Which was repeated with Pinter & Zenk. Also VI and Signy Coleman. Except not staying together like the Simons have.

Edited March 11 by Contessa Donatella

[Mitch64]

Why did his later years on GL turn Ed into a sourpuss? I can see why they thought he woudl work as Ed looking at this clip...and I remember him having a sense of humor in his early GL days, was it later on he just hated the material and it showed?

[Mona Kane Croft]

It was probably lack of direction.  If the actor was trending toward being dour, all it would have taken was a director (and perhaps some better writing) to tell him to lighten things up.  Long running soap actors sometimes fall into acting habits that are not suitable for the character. The directors need to be strong enough to point out these habits.  Do you remember Victoria Wyndham's unexplainable British accent during the last year or two of Another World?  Where the Hell was the director? Sometimes they need to put their foot down and correct this kind of crap.  

[Mitch64]

I agree..my favorite example of this was Deas...one of the veteran directors told him to "tone it down," (obviously after JFP left that anyone could tell her overacting favorite something..) and he got p*ssed and just went through the paces. The funny thing is, Buzzard was more enjoyable then so Deas needed the direction! 

I also remember when Simon returned in 2000..Ed was a war prisoner so there his attitude made more sense..Taggert was using him properly as a Judge Lowell kind of listeing person, and Zimmer was having a scene with him. It started off with Kimmer's little tricks for attention and the more the scene went on the more she toned it down to meet him and viola..Reva became more real (and tolerable.) and they had a good scene.

[Soaplovers]

Maybe it was an acting choice after the affair with Lillian and death of Maureen.. to show Ed's remorse/guilt over what happened.  He did finally lighten up a bit at the end when he and Holly got back together.

[Vee]

I had avoided writing more about my Marland binge in here because I didn't want to spam the thread, but I'll just repost some of my private commentary now that some time has passed.

I'm in early '87 and I find Shannon much more fun and entertaining (following the end of the tiresome filler hostage caper with the goofy mobsters during the Tad Channing mystery) than I did in the fall. This is right after she's left Brian at the altar over Beatrice. Sadly Brian's growing fascination with Beatrice prior to this, as well as Casey and Lyla sealing the deal and deciding to officially become a couple, is largely not on YT AFAIK; the stuff I saw jumps from a jilted Casey in late October, dumped by Frannie, drunkenly lashing out at Temp Lyla for only being focused on her family vs. her own needs and you don't see much of them together in the majority of November '86 that's available, most of which is actually online. The uploads then skip from Thanksgiving to late December when Steve leaves just before Christmas, and by then Casey and Lyla are already a couple.

In any event, Shannon getting away from Brian and Oakdale to promptly go right back to Scotland - where Duncan is re: the Stenbeck situation - has her a lot more zany, fun and watchable than the more forced, disconnected antics earlier. I've always liked Margaret Reed from my very earliest glimpses of her when CBS ran the Christmas '85 episode one holiday many years ago, and that same energy holds up here again when she's more in her element. It may or may not date well, but for now I am really enjoying her (and Duncan) again, castles and capers and all. I also really love Casey and Lyla.

I hope with their renewed interest in the soaps, PGP will someday put some of this era up in pristine quality. The show is compulsively watchable a la BTG for me in this period and I am lucky a lot of it is uninterrupted on YT right now, but the quality is rough and it kills me to know that with the complex Frannie/Sabrina mystery heating up and so much of January '87 being available, much of what I presume is the climax in February sweeps is not online at all.

Edited March 13 by Vee

[MarlandFan]

Yes, it's annoying that all of February 1987 is unavailable on YT except for the pivotal Feb 16 episode.  But at least we have that.