All My Children Tribute Thread

[DRW50]

Poor Ellen

[Khan]

Actually, I think it'd be a great twist if Mark, and not Ellen, were diagnosed with pre-senile dementia.

[Pine Charles]

Where's All My Shadows? He should have been all up in the grill of that Mark LaMura article by now.

Edited October 26, 2012 by Pine Charles

[DRW50]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IAvIRZVoyM

5-6 more clips of the first part.

Second part starting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKEblca1Q9c

[All My Shadows]

OK wow, an interview with Mark! You can tell just from those few responses that he's extremely intelligent about lots of things, but he chooses to only a let a little bit of what he thinks out. He writes off his daytime career as a paycheck, but it's also clear that he believed in the work. That daytime industry, he didn't love. The potential of what it could have been, though? He was probably dismayed by a lot of what he saw, especially now that the genre is dead. Glad to see that he and his wife are still together!

I'd love love love to see a new nighttime soap with him as the family patriarch.

[DRW50]

LaMura was lucky compared to many soap actors, as the character seemed to have good to very good writing for most of his tenure on the show. I do wonder about working on AMC in the 80s though. Sometimes it sounds very difficult and not something to have fond memories of.

[KMan101]

So Prospect Park ignored Mark LaMura? That sucks. He's right. Daytime is treated like a dinosaur. It's been long allowed to go extinct. It has so much potential. I'd like to hear his ideas. He seems very smart.

[Days22]

Do any of you know what month this is from? I'm trying to watch early 90's AMC in order. Thank you!

[ellabelle]

Early 1992, I think. Maybe January or so?

[SFK]

I remember watching this back in the day and when Helga wheeled Angelique out it reminded me of that episode of Webster when he's poking around the old house and he finds that creepy life-sized girl doll rocking in a rocking chair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LPFqhtmLlA

[Pine Charles]

Yeah, I was gonna say either January or February.

Definitely early '92.

[Jonathan]

^ Yeah, I think this aired in February sweeps.

[DRW50]

Considering they were trying to find money they didn't even have, I'm not too surprised. They probably just saw him as a former AMC actor who wasn't even brought back at the end (which I still don't get).

[Pine Charles]

Yeah, it was February. This episode (February 18, 1992) aired right after the ball:

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[Paul Raven]

Variety reported in Dec 67 that Agnes,who for more than a decade had worked exclusively for P&G was about to go solo as an independent packager repped by the William Morris Agency.

By March 68,they reported that she had sold 'Between Heaven and Hell' to ABC.

i wonder if the failure to get AMC off the ground contributed to this.Variety reported that CBS were interested in 65 and planned to put it on at noon,but that American Home Products objected to Love of Life being pushed out of its timeslot and CBS backed down.

Has Agnes ever spoken about her decision to leave P&G and branch out on her own?

Edited November 4, 2012 by Paul Raven