15 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I hate that type of overly personal, ambush questioning. People call actors divas if they want pre-arranged questions, but this is why they do. She was clearly very shaken up at being asked that question. And some people just never move on to another love. Real life is not a soap opera, much as it may seem to be at times.

ICAM!!

4 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Sorry, can you repeat that? 😜

Watch it Jonathan

17 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Love this interview with La Lucci. But geez Rosanna is a sneaky sneak for sneaking in that love question at the end. You can tell La Lucci wasn't ready for the question. 

 

Who is this Rosanna woman??  Lucci holds her own with great dignity and knows her stuff--mentioning Tonya's Tony wins, etc--but never mind how rude the final question is "It's time!!" Jesus Christ.  She also doesn't seem to know anything about this play, let alone how theatre works.

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4 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

She may be okay here & now, but she hasn't done her worst yet, but I'm not speaking of AMC, so don't worry.

Where do you think she did her worst?  After AMC, ABC seemed to move her to OLTL for a bit, which was in a terrible era at the end of the Rauch era (but from what I've seen, she didn't do much to help or hinder, either way, as a co-HW.)  She did go to Sunset Beach and I remember thinking her period on that show was its best, but it's obviously a very different soap from AMC.

3 hours ago, Vee said:

I am inclined to agree, and I think elements of the show's ending on the network proved that out.

McTavish's ridiculously hateful soap memoir draft, Tap Dancing in the Cuisinart, would give some credence to that, though of course it's hard to read in it from an objective perspective (she says that Felicia Minei Behr hated the idea of a Pine Valley hurricane claiming that the network wouldn't give them the money to pull it off, and that hurricanes wouldn't hit the East coast in December anyway, until brilliant McTavish did some research and contacted the network execs and proved FMB wrong and ABC insisted on it, and it led to, in McTavish's words, AMC's best moment of all time.  I mean I did like a lot of that storyline, but no wonder FMB fired McTavish months later...)

17 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

McTavish's ridiculously hateful soap memoir draft, Tap Dancing in the Cuisinart

Oh, now you have to tell us more about this.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Oh, now you have to tell us more about this.

Send me a message and I'll dish...  It's ridiculous (and for some reason in the Agnes Nixon archives at Northwestern)

4 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Where do you think she did her worst?  After AMC, ABC seemed to move her to OLTL for a bit, which was in a terrible era at the end of the Rauch era (but from what I've seen, she didn't do much to help or hinder, either way, as a co-HW.)  She did go to Sunset Beach and I remember thinking her period on that show was its best, but it's obviously a very different soap from AMC.

AW for the gruesome, onscreen murder of Frankie Frame by serial killer Fax Neuman. Frankie was the much beloved core family member, legacy character, wife, mother, & she was selected for this by a focus group. Frankie was akin to GL's Maureen Bauer. Both Jill Phelps "design". 

Up to July 17th, 1989.

What the hell is going on here... This is borderline horror movie now. I'm scared.

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12 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

She may be okay here & now, but she hasn't done her worst yet, but I'm not speaking of AMC, so don't worry.

Her worst was the 2nd stint of AW. 

However, she did a load of good during her brief stints on The Doctors, AMC, and Sunset Beach... and from what I understand, her stint at Days in the early 80s was also interesting.

But I liked her stint at AMC because she made some changes that made sense such as moving Skye out of the Erica/Travis/Jackson orbit.  She broke up Barbara/Tad and paired him with Dixie and put her back into the Erica/Travis/Jackson orbit.  She also made Natalie less of a victim and closer to her original 1985 version of the character in terms of her relationship with Jeremy.  And she started the process of writing Nico/Cecily off the show, and @Maximwrote some other interesting things for Erica/Mona in the 2nd half of 1989 before Agnes returns as head-writer.

19 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

Her worst was the 2nd stint of AW. 

I see that you are familiar with "Maggie the Beast" in Bay City. Of course, the serial killer she wrote during her first tenure at AW was IMO actually quite good. But, as you say & as I have already posted here, not so for her second & last tenure at AW. 

But, it's true that she could write some things that were interesting & not appalling.

7 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

McTavish's ridiculously hateful soap memoir draft, Tap Dancing in the Cuisinart, would give some credence to that, 

See my new post in the Retro topic.

9 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Watch it Jonathan

Yes sir. 😊

8 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

McTavish's ridiculously hateful soap memoir draft, Tap Dancing in the Cuisinart, would give some credence to that, though of course it's hard to read in it from an objective perspective (she says that Felicia Minei Behr hated the idea of a Pine Valley hurricane claiming that the network wouldn't give them the money to pull it off, and that hurricanes wouldn't hit the East coast in December anyway, until brilliant McTavish did some research and contacted the network execs and proved FMB wrong and ABC insisted on it, and it led to, in McTavish's words, AMC's best moment of all time.  I mean I did like a lot of that storyline, but no wonder FMB fired McTavish months later...)

I'm dying to read this now. I may to make my way to Evanston.

8 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

McTavish's ridiculously hateful soap memoir draft, Tap Dancing in the Cuisinart, would give some credence to that, though of course it's hard to read in it from an objective perspective (she says that Felicia Minei Behr hated the idea of a Pine Valley hurricane claiming that the network wouldn't give them the money to pull it off, and that hurricanes wouldn't hit the East coast in December anyway, until brilliant McTavish did some research and contacted the network execs and proved FMB wrong and ABC insisted on it, and it led to, in McTavish's words, AMC's best moment of all time.  I mean I did like a lot of that storyline, but no wonder FMB fired McTavish months later...)

I disagree. I think McTavish's best at AMC was the crossover. At first I admit I hated that they were holding me hostage. It was impossible to follow without watching both AMC & OLTL. And, frankly, it went on forever. But, it was worth it. I mean, what can you say, when you've got two very pregnant women, a helicopter, a crash in the woods, two babies are born but only one lives ... and so on. Bianca & Babe were both on their A-game. Paul Cramer was okay. No idea what Malone & Griffith were doing, but McT was solid. 

2 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

I disagree. I think McTavish's best at AMC was the crossover. At first I admit I hated that they were holding me hostage. It was impossible to follow without watching both AMC & OLTL. And, frankly, it went on forever. But, it was worth it. I mean, what can you say, when you've got two very pregnant women, a helicopter, a crash in the woods, two babies are born but only one lives ... and so on. Bianca & Babe were both on their A-game. Paul Cramer was okay. No idea what Malone & Griffith were doing, but McT was solid. 

I enjoyed the crossover as well. However, I felt that reuniting Bianca and Miranda happened too soon. I think Miranda should have remained on OLTL for a few more years. While that would have made Bianca unhappy in the short term, it could have created more storytelling opportunities down the line—similar to how Erica and Adam’s first divorce was later revealed to be invalid and revisited years later.

8 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

I enjoyed the crossover as well. However, I felt that reuniting Bianca and Miranda happened too soon. I think Miranda should have remained on OLTL for a few more years. While that would have made Bianca unhappy in the short term, it could have created more storytelling opportunities down the line—similar to how Erica and Adam’s first divorce was later revealed to be invalid and revisited years later.

Now, your ideas, while interesting, probably would've killed me. There was just no way I could watch both AMC & OLTL for that long, not with all the other soaps I was following. 

41 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

I enjoyed the crossover as well. However, I felt that reuniting Bianca and Miranda happened too soon. I think Miranda should have remained on OLTL for a few more years. 

Nnnope! You have no idea how annoyed OLTL audiences were to be roped into that baby switch lol. It took over half the show. The only good drama was when the truth came out amongst themselves with Kevin and Kelly Buchanan and Victor/Todd playing the angles, and that was in summer '04. The rest of the time we were marking the seconds and waiting for the AMC guest stars to get out.

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25 minutes ago, Vee said:

Nnnope! You have no idea how annoyed OLTL audiences were to be roped into that baby switch lol. It took over half the show. The only good drama was when the truth came out amongst themselves with Kevin and Kelly Buchanan and Victor/Todd playing the angles, and that was in summer '04. The rest of the time we were marking the seconds and waiting for the AMC guest stars to get out.

I think this was completely true--as a fan of both shows.  AMC was going through a sorta (?) better-than-it-had-been stage, but OLTL was at a low point, so...

From McTavish's own words: