AMC Tribute Thread

[Paul Raven]

Of course Megan comes out like the heroine. 

Aligning with Frons speaks volumes. I think the mindset is they would do anything short of a live execution for ratings gains under their watch. If a character is decimated or the show damaged down the line, they know they won't be around anyway to deal with it.

But a great read nonetheless. A refresh from the likes of MTS etc where everything is peaches and cream, with a little dose of 'I lost my temper one day on set, but my cat had just died...'

[Franko]

Two very quick digressions ...

1. I'm hoping to soon write a book about my former job (nine years as a reporter in southwest North Dakota), and have been waffling between a memoir or roman à clef. MMT kinda makes me want to go the burn-it-all-down, nuke-the-bridges route.

2. Can someone please pass the brain bleach so I can forget how Susan Keith is mentioned there?

[Vee]

Oh God I'd forgotten about that.

[Soaplovers]

I remember that fans were begging the show not to fire Robin, and it was after the way Janet handled her own defense when she was accused of killing Laurel so I'm sure Lorraine brainstormed how to save Robin's job.  Thank gosh she came up with the Witches of Eastwick plot of Janet/Erica/Skye hiding Kinder's body and gaslighting Marian.   It was a genius move. 

@KhanIn regards to Felicity, I think it was a case of a good actress, wrong show.   Felicity just oozed New York Upper East Side and it's why she did so well on Ryan's Hope, but she just never seemed to fit in on AMC.  I don't know what other soap she could have thrived on.. at least on the East Coast in the 80s/90s (maybe AW?)

Cady always seems too stuck on herself and a bit of a diva, so I can imagine she was unbearable behind the scenes.  Jean Carol, on the other hand, had admitted she felt stifled and that the show said they couldn't think of anything for her to do.. and she pointed out that she had a lot of ties on the show that could have been utilized... and I think she had said she went to talk to McTavish about her concerns and thought she was receptive (guess not if she got killed off shortly thereafter).

I had no idea that McTavish was approved as an interim writer after Pratt and before Kreizman/Swajeski... but I think Lorraine ended up doing it instead and it was so well written that it felt like whiplash once the inferior Kreizman/Swajeski took over from her.

In regards to Susan Lucci and her discomfort of younger actresses in the 90s vs how she was in the 80s (where she had lots of scenes with Jenny, Dottie, Julie, Cecily, and even a few with Robin) was due to her age.  When she was having scenes with the 80s ingenues, SL was in her 30s and early 40s so she hadn't been hit yet with a midlife crisis.  Also, by the 90s, ageism was even more apparent with actresses in their 40s and older then it was in the 80s.  Paired up with the fact that SL was in her mid 40s to early 50s during that time and it probably caused her insecurity that she could be replaced/upstaged by one of the younger women on the show. 

Oddly, when SL had her short hair cut in 1996/1997.. she looked younger and more youthful then she did when she had her longer hair.  Shame she didn't think to change her hair style in the 2000s to a shorter hair style (she had it cut shorter in the mid 80s and mid 90s.. that made her more youthful).

 

[Vee]

I think the reason I liked FLF is because she was indeed so very similar to Hillary B. Smith on OLTL, who she ended up subbing for. Never seen her again.