A planned Dorian/Danny romance. That would have caused ripples and ignited Larry/Dorian/Viki conflicts. ABC dropped it yet years later Dorian/Jason was allowed.
That Dorian/Harry romance must have been very short lived.
As for Robin, how long did her second marriage last?
I don't think that Danny had much to do. But there were so many comings and goings and stalled stories in those years.
Radio & Cable Week, Sunday, April 14, 1985
Actress: Don't make me nice By C. PASSALACQUA Syndicated writer
Who is the real ‘Alexis of Daytime’? Almost all actresses who play villainesses on soaps aspire to that accolade. But all longtime soap enthusiasts know that all but one are pretenders to the throne. The title belongs to Robin Strasser, an expert actress whose innate understanding of the subtleties of villainy make her character, Dorian Lord Callison, on “One Life to Live,” much more believable than the scenery-chewing Joan Collins on “Dynasty.” “One Life to Live” airs daily at 2-3 p.m. on ABC. Her credentials, including a Daytime Emmy as Best Actress, should guarantee job security. Not so, says Strasser. “We soap actors don’t reach a plateau of merit and status and just stay there. All it takes is a new producer and a set of writers to say ‘you’re out.’
” Indeed, “OLTL” has recently undergone such a change. Says Strasser: “I have the most respect for the taste of new producer Paul Rauch, but since he’s come on, Dorian hasn’t been working that much.” Strasser is upset over the cancellation of her story line about an older woman-younger man affair between Dorian and Dan Wolek (Ted Demers). “I was promised a hot, sexy, overdrive story,” says Strasser. “But the network slapped it down.” It’s puzzling to Strasser since such affairs are popular on nighttime soaps such as “Dynasty.”
The network told me it would destroy the audience's respect for me, she says. “Well, they don’t have respect for me. You’re talking to someone who has made a career of playing people you don’t like. You can’t give the audience what they want! This is not a popularity contest! If you lose their ability to surprise them then you lose the ability to move them.” Dorian's current story line, her romance with blue-collar Harry O’Neill (Frank Converse), is a back-burner story, not in line with Dorian’s usually devious nature. “I was told by Rauch to make Dorian more vulnerable and to ‘warm her up,”’ she says. “But now I’m so warm and affectionate I could be Kathy Noone on ‘All My Children’! (Miss Noone plays the ultrasweet Ellen Dalton), for crying out loud. I don’t think the fans buy it.”
Professionally, Strasser has a happy home life after a few years of domestic turbulence. After a messy divorce from actor Laurence Luckinbill (who subsequently married Lucie Arnaz), she married Richard Hogan, an ABC Sports executive.
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