8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@alwaysAMC @Jonathan Just saw this pop up on Youtube. Sorry if it was already around.

At around an hour and a half Susan Lucci has an interview on the Late Late Show. I think this was an interim period before Craig Ferguson was hired. Michael Ian Black, of The State and Wet Hot American Summer, interviews her. He's very awkward, which means Susan has to carry the interview, complete with quite a few fake laughs. He makes a thing of how attracted he is to her, and she does some flirting, but it also gets awkward (the most interesting part is when he asks her how she deals with men who hit on her). She gives the stock answer about the grizzly bear story. She also repeatedly pokes at him (not literally) for not knowing how to pronounce entrepreneur. By the end she is just plugging her infomercial product, some buzzing skin exfoliator...ending with her head in her hands as he pretends to use it for self-pleasure. A fascinating interview in what a pro she was in such a messy situation.

LATE LATE SHOW:GUEST HOST TOM DREESEN WITH DENNIS FRANZ OCT 2004 MICHAEL IAN BLACKWITH SUSAN LUCCI

Wow, thank you for posting! I was in college at the time and never saw this. She's such a pro and looked fabulous! It almost felt like that was Erica Kane and not Susan Lucci in some ways haha. I can't believe MIB couldn't pronounce entrepreneur haha.

22 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@alwaysAMC @Jonathan Just saw this pop up on Youtube. Sorry if it was already around.

At around an hour and a half Susan Lucci has an interview on the Late Late Show. I think this was an interim period before Craig Ferguson was hired. Michael Ian Black, of The State and Wet Hot American Summer, interviews her. He's very awkward, which means Susan has to carry the interview, complete with quite a few fake laughs. He makes a thing of how attracted he is to her, and she does some flirting, but it also gets awkward (the most interesting part is when he asks her how she deals with men who hit on her). She gives the stock answer about the grizzly bear story. She also repeatedly pokes at him (not literally) for not knowing how to pronounce entrepreneur. By the end she is just plugging her infomercial product, some buzzing skin exfoliator...ending with her head in her hands as he pretends to use it for self-pleasure. A fascinating interview in what a pro she was in such a messy situation.

LATE LATE SHOW:GUEST HOST TOM DREESEN WITH DENNIS FRANZ OCT 2004 MICHAEL IAN BLACKWITH SUSAN LUCCI

Thank you so much for sharing. This is one Susan Lucci interview that I have never seen before!

Isabella Santos RIPS APART Brooke and slaps her in the face

"It should've been YOU who died in the plane crash, NOT Maria!"

1 hour ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

Isabella Santos RIPS APART Brooke and slaps her in the face

"It should've been YOU who died in the plane crash, NOT Maria!"

Wow, I don't remember Isabella slapping Brooke like that! This storyline was gut-wrenching. I remember my mom and I were crying when Maria fell off the cliff in that plane wreckage. This was before the internet and spoilers, so we were shocked all weekend waiting until Monday's episode. Gosh I loved that Santos family so much.

Susan Lucci was on Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live tonight (02/09). As many know, he's one of her biggest fans and also an AMC fanatic back in the 80s/early 90s. He did his top 5 favorite Erica storylines/moments and it was fun seeing her reaction to them. Worth a quick watch if you have time (Peacock).

I love how Susan Lucci basically dismisses the PP revival and how it resolved the ABC cliffhanger, lol.

6 hours ago, Khan said:

I love how Susan Lucci basically dismisses the PP revival and how it resolved the ABC cliffhanger, lol.

I've noticed this too in many of her recent interviews... she doesn't discuss PP at all. I wonder if she regrets not joining it.

Thanks for posting those @janea4old !

27 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

I've noticed this too in many of her recent interviews... she doesn't discuss PP at all. I wonder if she regrets not joining it.

Thanks for posting those @janea4old !

I don't think she has any regrets. For her it's out of sight, out of mind. 😛

48 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

I don't think she has any regrets. For her it's out of sight, out of mind. 😛

LOL, going with that too :)

7 hours ago, Jonathan said:

I don't think she has any regrets. For her it's out of sight, out of mind. 😛

They likely couldn't afford her. She dodged a bullet in the long run as those actors didn't get paid, reportedly. I do wonder what they would have done with Erica as the show was so unsure of where to take her in those last years.

19 hours ago, Khan said:

I love how Susan Lucci basically dismisses the PP revival and how it resolved the ABC cliffhanger, lol.

I think she just didn't watch it and sadly she was indeed wise not to get involved. I don't blame her at all. But I still maintain that despite the BTS debacle it was the best AMC had been in years, and one of the best soaps of the 2010s if not the best.

Still, it was a good thing my ass wasn't in that audience. "ACKSHUALLY, Susan, Marissa got shot."

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

They likely couldn't afford her. She dodged a bullet in the long run as those actors didn't get paid, reportedly.

I know Erika Slezak had to stare down the purser or whoever in person to get any of her payment at the end. She told that story on Linda Dano's podcast. They still owe a lot of them money.

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7 hours ago, DRW50 said:

She dodged a bullet in the long run as those actors didn't get paid, reportedly.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

I know Erika Slezak had to stare down the purser or whoever in person to get any of her payment at the end. They still owe a lot of them money.

Maybe it's because I've watched too much of Donna Mills on KL, but I have to wonder just how pure PP's motives were in bringing back AMC and OLTL. Did they really care about servicing all those disenfranchised fans, or was it all just some shell game (or tax shelter, or dummy corporation, or whatever you want to call it)?

4 minutes ago, Khan said:

Maybe it's because I've watched too much of Donna Mills on KL, but I have to wonder just how pure PP's motives were in bringing back AMC and OLTL. Did they really care about servicing all those disenfranchised fans, or was it all just some shell game (or tax shelter, or dummy corporation, or whatever you want to call it)?

I think it was a coked-up venture capitalist pipe dream like so many others. I suspected that from the beginning. I think they gambled they would make a big splash and then it would all somehow pay for itself. I just feel for the cast, crew and creatives who did legitimately great work and really updated both shows. It was the future of the genre IMO, it was just in the wrong financial hands. I especially feel for people like Debbi Morgan who did some of the best work of her career, was finally the center of the show and who apparently doesn't even like to talk about AMC 2.0 today.

Fortunately many of the BTS personnel have found their way to DAYS, GH, etc. in recent years. I know one of them just popped up again in the BTG writing staff the other day.

I hope someday someone (like the enterprising @EricMontreal22 , hi Eric!) can get some of the writers on record about the shows. I know Thom Racina and Susan Horgan have been polite about their time at OLTL but pretty vague, but allegedly (per Bob Woods and others) there were more stories in the offing, and the Triskelion Cartel conspiracy arc forming at that show screamed Racina's work. And AMC 2.0 had a lot of changes and plans floating around, so maybe someone can talk to McPherson or whoever else someday. IIRC the HWs all got rotated out once or twice while the PP guys were trying to save money (and presumably snorting lines).

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Vee

In the past, I've worked with people who were associated with the PP guys; and at the risk of telling tales out of school, your coke references...? Not that far off the mark.