All My Children Tribute Thread

Thanks @Paul Raven for the KLG interview. I love her response to being asked if she's a star - "I'm just one of God's little creatures." That would be a meme today.

I agree with @Soaplovers that KLG was fine in the movie. She was aloof and weird but that fit the character. This was not a movie about women, to put it kindly. Maybe she didn't have as much charisma as she could have but that would have overshadowed Travolta. The movie is very complicated, and she suffered from it being bigger than anyone likely imagined - many ended up taking it as some kind of fun disco coming-of-age flick when it's actually about Tony realizing his entire upbringing has been a lie of racism, misogyny and repression. He does not realize until the end of the film that in order to survive he has to not be with Stephanie but become her - running away from the old world, the old life to a fragile but more open-eyed future. If they had kept the original scenes where he more forcefully gets into her apartment that murky message would have been even intact.

@EricMontreal22 I appreciated your writeup on the show, maybe more than if I had watched the episodes over myself, as I find a number of the leading characters at this time tough to take on a daily basis. I also think what you said about intertwining of many stories was beautifully stated and was something which AMC wore proudly through much of the '80s and '90s. Many of the stories were not the best but the tapestry makes the show, more than the periods when the show gets streamlined (or made into some Frons-shaped blob and whatever the hell was going on in 2001)

I saw a clip which had both Michael and Kendall, and it was incredibly disorienting.

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