All My Children Tribute Thread

[DRW50]

Merry Christmas to you as well.

[danfling]

Yes, thank you for the reminder that Christine Jones played Sheila Rafferty, R. N., substitute Victoria, and Pamela Buchanan O'Neill.

I think that Sheila was paired with either Larry or Will, but I do not remember. (it was probably Larry.)

[slick jones]

Sheilah was actually interested in Tim Siegel. She did work with Larry. I had to look her up and check on it.

[ellabelle]

Finn Wittrock, who played Tad's long lost son, Damon, has a role in Jolie's new film, "Unbroken," where he plays a soldier lost at sea. Wittrock has had a bit of a breakout year, including a much talked about role on American Horror Story: Asylum. Buzzfeed has a great interview with him that includes an AMC mention: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/finn-wittrock-one-of-the-years-most-talked-about-new-stars#.wwmZ1e7XA

I admittedly was not fond of the "Tad has a son with Hillary" retcon, and I thought the whole Colby/Damon/Liza affair was very mishandled, but I like Wittrock, and I'm glad to see he's doing well in Hollywood.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Beyond stoked for his success post-AMC!! Damon wasn't even supposed to be a major character, but you could tell they switched gears and decided to make him more prominent after the work Fjord put in (he commanded the screen every time). His stories ultimately fell flat but certainly not because of his chops; He was always top notch!

[DRW50]

This has been on Youtube for a long time but I'd never seen it. It's nice to get a Lucci commercial that isn't about the Emmys or soap diva antics.

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[SFK]

She had a nice little run doing Ford commercials, she even had one with Liza. Kind of an unexpected product/personality pairing, you'd expect to see her with a sleek luxury brand or some sort of tongue-in-cheek glam campaign for a cheaper model. When have we ever seen her dressed like she is in this advert? I remember reading that Susan drove a Ford Explorer thanks to her work on these ads. She must like big trucks like she likes big houses... last thing I saw her driving was a Range Rover. Years ago she said her dream car is a black Ferrari. Wonder if she ever got one.

Edited December 29, 2014 by SFK

[EricMontreal22]

Brick Manrock also has had some major theatre success, though it's too bad his Sweet Bird of Youth with Diane Lane didn't move to Broadway (then again, I think she didn't want to do it that long.)

I completely agree--the character was not exacly conceiv ed well but he was one of the last younger actors on the network version who could really act.

I just stumbled upon this from the past September--apologies if it's been posted. And man, it was a bit hard for me to watch just because I have NEVER seen Agnes seem so frail

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Edited December 29, 2014 by EricMontreal22

[DRW50]

I guess she must have suffered a stroke.

At least she still seems passionate about writing.

[ellabelle]

Her husband is really into fast cars, I think. There were a bunch of paparazzi pics of them a few years ago in Italy looking at sports cars at a dealership. As far as scale goes, she's said many times before that she likes everything big in scale, and he prefers small, which she says explains why they chose each other - he's a good foot taller than she is. Apparently it was an issue when they did a huge remodel of their house a while back because she wanted everything from furniture to art to be really big, and he likes smaller, more detailed pieces.

[John]

Im shocked Agnes allowed the interview given her health

I agree she still seems so passionate but her being so frail makes me so sad

[ellabelle]

I think Agnes is such a giant in the genre that it's hard to think of her aging and eventually dying. She seemed larger than life for so long.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Oh, my goodness. I never saw that. The saddest yet oddly beautiful video I've ever seen of her; Her passion & wisdom still immensely shines through. Love her to pieces.

[Cheap21]

I put that video on for 5 seconds and had to turn it off bc I couldnt sit through it. So sad

[SFK]

Same here, I just can't do it right now, but I will eventually. I know a lot of people felt the same way about Dick Clark. But I agree with the late Roger Ebert that we shouldn't hide away our sick and disabled just because we are uncomfortable. It warms my heart that she is still filled with such light. I'm more surprised that news of her condition didn't make it to the soap press by one way or the other because I refuse to believe that those leeches could keep anything to themselves out of respect.