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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I can't believe that Deidre Hall would play Tara if the show had moved to LA. That has to be a joke. I could see someone like Kate Mulgrew playing Tara if she were to return to daytime. In that 1995 episode KLG is a bit awkward and weird, but she was quirky in SNF. I wish more of her early Tara were available beyond the scatter of 1970 scenes from kinescopes. To Anyone who saw her back in the 70's, was she awkward during her original run?

My late mom was a huge fan of AMC, even watching it as a young teen when it first came on in January 1970... and the story that caught her attention was the Phil Brent paternity story with Ruth, his aunt, raising him as if he was her son while his aunt Amy was really his mother... but Amy didn't tell anyone including her current husband Linc. The reason being that there was a similar scandal within the family (when she found out about the Anton/Corvina story where Anton found out his older sister was really his mother.. she was happy that a soap covered that story since that was the family scandal).

She instantly loved Erica Kane and knew that as long as Susan Lucci wanted to stay.. the show would never write her character off.. and that turned out to be the case. Very few soap performers got the perks she did (being able to do tv movies, generous vacation times, etc).

When it came to Tara, my mom had her thoughts about all 4 Taras. She was excited to see KLG in Saturday Night Fever (It's an awesome movie and I'm glad it hasn't been canceled yet.. sure that will happen in 2027 because our society loves to crap on iconic movies when an anniversary comes up)... but she wasn't her favorite Tara. Nancy F (Tara #3) was her favorite Tara and loved her as Cecile years later. She said that Nancy made Tara both soft and also a little sexier than the previous Taras (She didn't recall Tara #2) while she thought Tara #4 smiled too much.

3 hours ago, SoapDope78 said:

I can't believe that Deidre Hall would play Tara if the show had moved to LA. That has to be a joke.

No way would Deidre Hall give up being The Face of DAYS to be a recast on another show, lol.