No offense to anyone, but that is one of the gayest things I've ever seen.  And I've watched "RuPaul's Drag Race."

Yes, that was fairly gay, but a lot of 80s aerobics had that feel.

And I'm glad you are back, Khan. I missed your posts.

Edited December 22, 20214 yr by ReddFoxx

8 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

Yes, that was fairly gay, but a lot of 80s aerobics had that feel.

Ah, yes, the Eighties.  Rampant homophobia mixed with conspicuous consumption and excess.  Good times.

47 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

And I'm glad you are back, Khan. I missed your posts.

Same. Welcome back!! 😊

8 hours ago, Khan said:

Ah, yes, the Eighties.  Rampant homophobia mixed with conspicuous consumption and excess.  Good times.

It was an interesting decade in that in produced so much material that became popular within gay culture and at the same time cultural conservatism became more organized.

I've been on a Shakespeare revival binge lately preparing to see the new Macbeth, and I forgot this was on YT - a 1974 NY Shakespeare Festival production of King Lear, featuring James Earl Jones as Lear, Ellen Holly as Regan, plus Douglass Watson (AW), Rosalind Cash (GH), Lee Chamberlin (AMC) as well as Paul Sorvino, Raul Julia, Rene Auberjonois and on and on - a very impressive cast. Holly appears throughout but if you don't want to look too far, you can definitely find her around 1:13:50:

The symbiotic relationship between the NY soaps and NY theater was a fruitful one for decades and one we are weaker to have lost. @DRW50@SFK @Darn

Edited December 27, 20214 yr by Vee

Thanks. What a great find. I don't think the loss is even something most people will truly feel for a long time to come. 

Yaaaaas some of my favorite lightskins!

Yes! I did an internal reading of Lear at STC a couple of months ago and I watched this to get reacquainted with the piece. It’s a marvelous, well-cast production. All of the soap connections are heaven.

The first time Miss Holly speaks, I thought of Paul Rauch and found myself getting angry. I tried to quickly shake that off, he wasn’t about to ruin this for me.

At 0:11, this 2000s rebroadcast of Todd & Blair's 1995 wedding features the modern OLTL theme dubbed over the champagne opening. I remember seeing this during the OLTL finale marathon on SoapNet in 2012.

I can't seem to find any other episodes on the YouTube that use this intro variation, so what is this done for copyright/royalties purposes during the re-broadcast? 

Edited January 1, 20224 yr by ironlion

Yes, @ironlion that is most likely the case. I also remember when this aired, I’m sure there are posts of us discussing it here in the archives.

Was that when ABC was all "look, it's costing us a lot of money to make these shows, so we gotta make less episodes, so here have some reruns," and of course most of the reruns were not very exciting? I think that particular OLTL was the only one from more than five years back. I do remember the theme dubbing and us talking about it. I feel as though something like a theme song should be taken into consideration when clearing music rights for the future... I know there are some older sitcoms in the public domain that are released on those super cheap DVD sets with dubbed theme songs (mainly thinking of Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, but I know there are others), but a soap theme in the 90s?

Edited January 4, 20224 yr by All My Shadows

Married ... With Children is another one. These are shows with iconic themes, it just isn't right to be stripped of them.

And wow, I had totally forgotten all about that budget mess when they decided to make less episodes. What a dark time, the end was near.

Joan Copeland, Arthur Miller's sister who played Viki's aunt, Gwendolyn Lord Abbott has passed away at 99.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Joan-Copeland-Stage-and-Screen-Actress-and-Sister-of-Arthur-Miller-Dies-at-99-20220104?utm_source=newsletterdaily&utm_medium=email