2 hours ago, Joseph said:

I know I didn't! Thanks for sharing! They're Beautiful! 

Thanks for watching.

On 2/4/2025 at 11:59 AM, Khan said:

I wish someone would do one of those "Where The Heck Are They Now?" interviews with Kathryn Breech - that is, if they can find her, lol - where she can discuss her time on OLTL, along with her version of events that led up to her departure.

I believe she is on Facebook...

2 hours ago, chrisml said:

I checked out Ellen Holly's book from the library. Interestingly enough, she does not accuse Slezak of what she would later accuse Slezak of saying/doing in the Oral History book. She does quote Slezak from what appears to be a 1988 Robert Rorke SOD article. I have not found this article. I took a photo of the quote she references in the book. 

I remember this page well. Ellen Holly wrote a wonderful book, but she took what Erika said totally out of context here - Erika was critiquing the state of the show at that time. When asked about it years later, Erika began her explanation in her newsletter with the immortal opener "yes, that's bullshít." She explained that she'd taken issue with how white the show had become at the time, and added that she'd loved Holly's work on the show.

I give Holly a lot of credit and credence to a lot of what she had to say, but she was wrong on this passage. And I honestly think she was speaking facetiously (and angrily) in what you refer to in the oral history.

Edited February 7Feb 7 by Vee

Totally agree

On 2/5/2025 at 1:26 AM, DRW50 said:

Was 1983 when OLTL had a ridiculous revolving door of HWs?

 

On 2/4/2025 at 1:50 PM, Marco Dane said:

Matt should've stayed on the canvas longer. He's a great nemesis to Dorian. Did he spill tea to Viki about Dorian?

Yes! He's in almost every Pinkerton scene. I'm finally growing to appreciate Pinkerton's portrayal.That I love how cold and calculating she is. Dear I say I might like her more than the great Robin Strasser.

There was a thread about day and night in soaps, and I noticed how rapidly 70s OLTL advances time. You could go from one day to the next in a single episode.

I found Princi's take on Dorian to be a wonderful mix of Pinkerton and Strasser's take of Dorian.

It was such a good take that Strasser's first year back as Dorian in 1993 was closer to Princi's Dorian (more subtle and cold).

@EricMontreal22 was kind enough to share some material in the Loving thread re: ABC crossovers - I had no idea Antonio/KDLR was floated to potentially move to Port Charles after his first OLTL exit, or that Joe Lando campaigned for Jake Harrison and his buddy Lucky to move to GH.

17 minutes ago, Vee said:

@EricMontreal22 was kind enough to share some material in the Loving thread re: ABC crossovers - I had no idea Antonio/KDLR was floated to potentially move to Port Charles after his first OLTL exit, or that Joe Lando campaigned for Jake Harrison and his buddy Lucky to move to GH.

Yes, I should have posted those pages here, but I now deleted the pics I took from the OLTL Trivia book -- but you can check it out in the thread (and the AMC cross over section from the AMC trivia book--the AMC one is from 1998, the OLTL is from 2008)

Kamar going to PC to help kick the show off would have been a good idea, if it had worked out, although there was probably too much going on to really fit him in.

I had forgotten about the Nora and Gannon crossovers to AMC, which may be for the best as IIRC the Cutting Edge one isn't great. 

I also did not remember Paul Martin returning to OLTL in 1983. That must have been difficult for Paul Mooney.

I think they missed Alex appearing on OLTL in 1997.

The only reason I know about the Princi Dorian/Adam Chandler crossover is the AMC cards I used to have. 

Jake doing a stint on GH with Lucky Lippman could have been fun, although if this was during the big Monty changeover I'm not surprised she wouldn't go for it. 

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I think they missed Alex appearing on OLTL in 1997.

 

RIGHT!  This was the one I remembered, helping Antonio with some crime thing (I think it had location shooting.)  IIRC it happened just before The City was off the air so it seemed odd to me (in my mind it happened just after The City was off, actually, but that doesn't seem possible...)

31 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

RIGHT!  This was the one I remembered, helping Antonio with some crime thing (I think it had location shooting.)  IIRC it happened just before The City was off the air so it seemed odd to me (in my mind it happened just after The City was off, actually, but that doesn't seem possible...)

IIRC it was about Bo and Alex Masters meeting up re: either the Men of 21 or that other terrorist after Patrick Thornhart. I may be wrong. Was it really after The City was off??

32 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

RIGHT!  This was the one I remembered, helping Antonio with some crime thing (I think it had location shooting.)  IIRC it happened just before The City was off the air so it seemed odd to me (in my mind it happened just after The City was off, actually, but that doesn't seem possible...)

 I think this was the scenes that got laughs at the time because Alex was holding Andi hostage with a curling iron or something along those lines. I am not sure if Alex was in those.

I did wonder if they might have been thinking of moving Alex over to OLTL. 

Just now, Vee said:

IIRC it was about Bo and Alex Masters meeting up re: either the Men of 21 or that other terrorist after Patrick Thornhart. I may be wrong. Was it really after The City was off??

I think it was around March? I can't remember.

Edited February 8Feb 8 by DRW50

Never knew Peter Allen was on OLTL. This is 1982 apparently.

 

Edited February 8Feb 8 by DRW50

11 hours ago, Vee said:

IIRC it was about Bo and Alex Masters meeting up re: either the Men of 21 or that other terrorist after Patrick Thornhart. I may be wrong. Was it really after The City was off??

Oh, I'm probably misremembering it and The City was still on, but just barely (at any rate, I remember thinking "why bother doing a cross over now when it doesn't matter if viewers go over" though really it does make sense to use Alex if they're going to New York...)

11 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I think it was around March? I can't remember.

If it was that would be The City's final month, so maybe why I thought that?

That Peter Hall clip is wild (and again I'm always fascinated about what writing credits we'll get in 1983-84--interesting Don Wallace was still there.)  As a Bacharach fan I had no idea Peter Allen ever sang Arthur's Theme (he's credited as one of the three song writers but only because lyricist--and Bacharach's then wife--Carole Bayer Sager had taken the one single line "when you get caught between the moon and New York City" from a song she had been working on with Allen some years earlier.

7 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

That Peter Hall clip is wild (and again I'm always fascinated about what writing credits we'll get in 1983-84--interesting Don Wallace was still there.)  As a Bacharach fan I had no idea Peter Allen ever sang Arthur's Theme (he's credited as one of the three song writers but only because lyricist--and Bacharach's then wife--Carole Bayer Sager had taken the one single line "when you get caught between the moon and New York City" from a song she had been working on with Allen some years earlier.

Neither did I. Nice to hear his interpretation.