Thanks for answering, @John. I love gossip even when there is plenty of blank space to fill.
And yes actors' egoes can be quite something.

2 hours ago, Vee said:

Crystal Hunt is, in fact, the Antichrist.

The Antichrist would never wear that much lip gloss.

Some amazing classic OLTL on YouTube thanks Paul Ditty

 

A discussion in another post got me thinking about the speculation from back in the day that Robert S. Woods wanted to be paired with younger actresses which is why Bo and Nora were separated for so long. Is there any truth to that? I doubt it personally and honestly younger co-stars made him look that much older. Especially when he was with Lindsay's sister.

I suspect there was some truth to it, but I don't think it was the bigger story behind it. It didn't last, clearly; the only younger woman he was with was Lanie.

I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Never Let 'Em See You Sweat believed younger actresses were the key to longevity on his show.

And while I appreciated that OLTL eventually reunited Bo and Nora, to me, it was never the same.

Oh, for me, it was. They both sold the hell out of their reunion physically and emotionally in a major way and were 100% committed, and RSW later basically came out and said in the oral history book that it had been his mistake not to re-pair them earlier; 'we could have been printing money all those years.'

There is an apocryphal legend that not long after pointedly hanging both of the actors out to dry at the Paley Center OLTL anniversary special in 2008 where a fan asked why Bo and Nora had not reunited and either Frank or Ron promptly threw it to RSW/HBS to answer, that FV supposedly went to them later, had a Come to Jesus meeting and said it was time to reunite Bo and Nora in order to help keep the show alive. I don't know if that story is true, but they did do it within a year. Frank has made many mistakes since then but it was the right thing to do, and it worked and sold a ton of story with them, Matthew and Clint before the end.

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Is this Tuc Watkins in the commercial around 8 and a half minutes?

 

Did someone saw the 1969 crossover of Oltl/GH when Steve Hardy appeared on Oltl?

I haven't seen that, but I have seen one of the very first AMC eps where one of the Eileen Riley Siegels from OLTL crosses over as a friend of... I think Ruth? It wasn't just the actress, to be clear, it was Eileen.

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1 hour ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

Did someone saw the 1969 crossover of Oltl/GH when Steve Hardy appeared on Oltl?

Yes. Steve Hardy appeared as a consultant to Viki's sister Meredith's medical issues.

Edited February 5, 20223 yr by vetsoapfan

11 minutes ago, Vee said:

I haven't seen that, but I have seen one of the very first AMC eps where one of the Eileen Riley Siegels from OLTL crosses over as a friend of... I think Ruth? It wasn't just the actress, to be clear, it was Eileen.

I think I saw that too, on YT several months ago. I want to say Alice Hirson as Eileen and she was friends with Kate Martin.

1 minute ago, SFK said:

I think I saw that too, on YT several months ago. I want to say Alice Hirson as Eileen and she was friends with Kate Martin.

Oh, that's right, it was Kate.

53 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

Yes. Steve Hardy appeared as a consultant to Viki's sister Merideth's medical issues.

Oh wow. I have heard so much about Meredith Lord. Shame that she wasn’t around that long like Vicky.

Do you know how the fan reaction was? 

12 minutes ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

Oh wow. I have heard so much about Meredith Lord. Shame that she wasn’t around that long like Vicky.

Do you know how the fan reaction was? 

The fan reaction to Steve Hardy's guest appearance?

It's hard to say for sure because there was no social media back then. No Facebook, no Twitter, nothing. The people in my circle of friends loved the crossover, however, and I'm sure most fans of both shows got a kick out of i

 

Edited February 5, 20223 yr by vetsoapfan