6 hours ago, Khan said:

Actually, it was Yvonne DeCarlo who performed that number in the original production. Stritch is known for "The Ladies Who Lunch" from "Company."

I know she didn't originate the song, but I think it became associated with her in her last years (the NYT interviewing her and her saying that she didn't think anyone under 80 should sing it).

12 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@Maxim @CrazySexyQ If you need a laugh here is yet another out of control Maria and Tina sequence.

One Life To Live- Tina Cuts Maria With A Pair Of Scissors 1987 - YouTube

Ohhh that was a delicious scene! I wasn't really familiar with Maria at all, but now I am LOL. I want to know more about the beef Ritchie and Luna had...

Love it @Maxim !

2 hours ago, Kane said:

Bo and Nora are my favorites. Viki, Dorian, Marty, and Jason are also high on my list and I enjoy Asa a lot, even though he can be jerk.

I completely forgot the men... (which is so unlike me) - JASON! YES. YES. YES. Number 1 for me! Asa - the GOAT... I also kinda adore both Clint and Sloan - I'm a mini Viki inside. 😁

1 hour ago, alwaysAMC said:

Love it @Maxim !

❤️

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I know she didn't originate the song, but I think it became associated with her in her last years (the NYT interviewing her and her saying that she didn't think anyone under 80 should sing it).

I would agree! All it would take is for one grade schooler to sing it at some beauty pageant or talent contest to make me hate that song forever, lol. (It'd be like the little girl who sang "I've Cried My Last Tear" at my mother's former church. Your LAST tear? You haven't even cried your first!)

Edited March 23Mar 23 by Khan

On 3/22/2026 at 6:16 PM, alwaysAMC said:

Ohhh that was a delicious scene! I wasn't really familiar with Maria at all, but now I am LOL. I want to know more about the beef Ritchie and Luna had...

Love it @Maxim !

I know right?!

I had no idea who Maria was last week, but now I'm all in. And @Khan says Viki went after her without even needing an alter. Delicious. One of my favorite Viki stories was her locking Dorian up and torturing her. I so badly wanted her to admit that there was a part of her that got off on it. Just like Jessica hid behind Tess to make Natalie's life miserable.

@Maxim I'd forgotten about this meme (which I just saw again recently) - something else Elaine became famous for. You will see why about 15 seconds in.

This 2012 Ellen Holly interview for We Love Soaps had been put up in parts but now they've put it up as one video.

The Ellen Holly Story: In Her Own Words

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

This 2012 Ellen Holly interview for We Love Soaps had been put up in parts but now they've put it up as one video.

The Ellen Holly Story: In Her Own Words

This is amazing. Thanks for posting the youtube link. So worth watching!

12 minutes ago, janea4old said:

This is amazing. Thanks for posting the youtube link. So worth watching!

Thanks for watching. Ellen had a story no one else can understand.

Finally getting back to OLTL '91.

I'll talk more about these eps at length in a couple days but @EricMontreal22 will be pleased to know of yet another florid Malonian fantasy episode being part of Cord’s sendoff. It's a strange choice for ushering in his dramatic exit after many years on the show, beginning on a Friday over what I believe was Thanksgiving weekend (November 22nd). Here it's a redo of Casablanca, as “Tina’s”. Interestingly, just as with the pirate past life romp a month before, Karen Witter's Tina is once again the one cast in the masculine role - Tina becomes the husky-voiced, hardboiled club owner a la Humphrey Bogart, while Cord is the aristocratic old flame a la Ingrid Bergman and Jake is his drunk co-pilot (while Blair then appears on his arm as Cord's new woman)

Sometimes this kooky fantasy/pastiche stuff didn't work, but sometimes it really did. My jury will be out as I head for Monday (in 1991).

Thanks @Vee

Jake appeared so infrequently by this point I didn't realize he was used in a fantasy sequence.

Just now, DRW50 said:

Jake appeared so infrequently by this point I didn't realize he was used in a fantasy sequence.

It surprised me too, but Joe Lando did recur off and on throughout the last few months for drop-in stuff while imprisoned (including Jake's insane dungeon interludes with evil dominatrix Ilsa, which seems to be directly lifted from the "She-Wolf of the SS" exploitation films). He then appears for a few weeks during this Cord/Blair stuff as they head first to Tokyo then to Jaba City to spring him.

Jake does get a great moment while they're hiding out in a Jaba City cafe where he (like Megan before him) clearly twigs that something is up with Blair and Cord and tells her to cut the bull and watch her step. If Lando's career wasn't already taking flight by this point (I think he was already out after pilots or movies, and he would do the Dr. Quinn pilot film not long after this) I wonder if they'd have tried him with Mia Korf. There was something there. But she clearly had it with all of the men they put her with.

Hi, all -- long-time on-and-off lurker, first actual post. Currently skipping around 1989, 1993, and the mid-to-late '90s, depending on my mood. None of those are years I watched live, because I didn't start watching until 2002. I was already familiar with the stories of the later Malone years and generally familiar with anything past that just from online discourse, so much of what I'm watching isn't a surprise (except for 1989, which is very much a different world in a lot of ways), but I'm having a lot of fun actually seeing much of what I only ever read about before and getting to form my own opinions about what was working and what wasn't.

Regarding 1993, the beginning of Bo and Nora has been a real highlight for me, which surprised me because I wouldn't say I was really invested in them when I was watching live (remember this is 2002 onward -- I think when I started he may have been with Gabrielle?), except in the "they should be together because they're supposed to be together" kind of way. I'm not sure I ever saw clips of anything of theirs from the '90s except their wedding before this. The chemistry, the fact that they started as friends, the slow burn, that they're both shown privately wrestling with their feelings -- everything is working for me, and I'm excited for what I know is coming.

Another thing I wasn't prepared for is how much I hate Viki/Sloan. Active, alternating-between-rolling-my-eyes-and-muttering-at-the-screen hate. Love your banner, Maxim. And knowing that part of this is that he's reminding her of her father doesn't make it an easier watch either. (She's supposed to actually imagine one turning into the other at some point, right? If I'm at early '93, have I missed that scene?)

I've always been a massive Blair fan, but I wondered when I started 1993 if that was just because of KDP or if it was because of the character. Obviously, I love KDP, but the moment I saw MK's Blair, I adored her, too, and wanted her to get every single thing she has ever wanted, so I guess it is also the character. It didn't matter who she was up against -- Asa, Tina, Cain -- I wanted her to stomp them all. At this point in my watch, she's off-screen, and I'm eagerly awaiting her return, even though I know it's unfortunately going to involve Max.

Some quick hits...not really into the Cord/Tina/Cain triangle and the repetitive nature of the scenes. Cord is in bad need of therapy, and I'm assuming he's not going to get it.

This is actually the first time I'm seeing Cain (I think he came back toward the end of OLTL's run, but if I was watching that story I must have blocked it out, because I don't remember the details), and if I'd been watching back then, he probably would have been one of my favorites.

Another character I'm seeing for the first time, after only having read about him before, is Jason. Full marks. He's great. At this point in my watch, RS is back as Dorian, and she's wonderful, which I already knew, though I hadn't minded getting to see EP's take on the character for the first time. Different from RS's but not bad.

As for Marty, I'm enjoying her scenes, but it's hard to figure out how my feelings toward her, and when she is or isn't sympathetic, are influenced by the fact that I know what's coming. I adore Cassie and always wanted her back on screen when I was watching live, but I'm also not invested in Cassie/Andrew, so watching Marty mess with them is, at this point at least, more interesting/compelling than rage-inducing. (Though I also wouldn't say I'm that invested in Viki/Clint, and I do find Sloan actively trying to break up their marriage to be rage-inducing. I'd have to give the reasons for my different reactions more thought.)

Not into Alex/Mortimer/Renee, though I do like Alex.

That's all for now -- glad to be posting.

Welcome @sunvsbanner so nice to see a new poster here, and with such clear thoughts and a fun OLTL-themed username.

The Victor and Sloan scene will pop up in early 1995, I think.

Bo was with Gabrielle in 2002.

1989 was definitely a world away from what is to come. I was watching part of an episode where Cord was back from the airport as Sarah and Viki had been kidnapped and he was talking with some blonde lady with iron pressed hair. It may have been Spring Skye. They all looked alike under Rauch.

I think the Victor/Sloan dreams or visions (there are a couple) actually start before Sloan dies, somewhere in fall '94, but don't quote me.

Always nice to see a new intelligent face.