AMC and OLTL Will Move Online!

[OLTL_fan]

Carla Hall got booed by AMC fans? How rude and immature. She had nothing to do with the cancellation. I'm upset about the cancellations as well but I would never. I understood why people booed Frons but her? Why? I would even understand Mario Batalli.

[quartermainefan]

But soaps are competing with reality crap TV. And reality is winning. These soap fans are there to commiserate or do whatever, and some Chew host shows up with her perky, inane demeanor to say everything is groovy? Don't think so, and I would sooner see her on the unemployment line than soaps being canceled. There is no payoff in being mature about this but there is a satisfaction in telling everyone associated with The Chew to take their show and shove it.

[dragonflies]

I read there's something with AMC in Newsweek, anyone have that?

"A Look Back" from Newsday:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ph...years-1.3186295

[dragonflies]

Who are these two people?

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/photos-all-my-children-through-the-years-1.3186295#31

[quartermainefan]

I could swear that kid was a gay teen of some sort and there was a school teacher or something.

[Angela]

That's Laura, Brooke's adopted daughter. You might remeber Laura best for getting Gillian's heart and wanting to get between Leo and Greenlee (with another actress in the role).

The man is Kevin Sheffield. He came out of the closet in the 1990s. Kevin's brother blamed Michael (a teacher) for Kevin's sexuality.

[EricMontreal22]

That was Kevin Sheffield, who I loved (partly as I was finally coming out, and about the age he was meantt o be, when the story happened). Someone mentioned that the actor was recently at an AMC or soap fan event? I thought he had kinda disappeared, though he was also on ATWT I believe.

He was in Michael Delaney's class when Michael came out, mentioning how during the holocaust he would have been targeted because he was gay (which was based on a true incident at the time). Parents, complained, and it was also hinted that Scott Chandler was dealing with sexuality issues. It turned out his friend Kevin was the one. Meanwhile Kevin's brother (blanking on the name but he had a crush on Dixie) who worked as an intern at WRCW was having drinking issues and shown as being homophobic. Liza planned an episode of The Cutting Edge with Michael Delany on dopposite people liek Enid Nelson who were against him teaching, Kevina nd classmates were in the audience, Kevin's brother in a rage (base don the Jenny jones shooting of course) shot Michael but hit his sister Laurel instead.

After that Lorriane Broderick kept Michael on the canvas--they even gave him a (very chaste) boyfriend, and had his best friend Kelsey fall in love with him (a sotry I found quite realistic and well played). Opal adopted him and while Palmer had no issues with his sexuality at all, Opal somehow got convinced that his mother's plan to take him to a deprogramming shrink might be beneficial--they showed some of the sessions. Anyway things came around for Kevin and then when McTavish came back to write in '98, and Holidays, where KEvin exploded, we never ever heard or saw from Kevin again--which of course has led to fans half joking he died in the blast...

Sorry, long reply (And yeah that's Laura, a runaway who was kinda adopted in a way by Janet and Pierce in the cabin and eventuallyw as actually adopted by Brooke. The first Laura was often called a bit of a stereotypical butch lesbian, though she was meant to be straight, and then when glamorous Laura came in, who always flirted with Bianca it was like she had become a lipstick lesbian...)

[alexisfan07]

That photo gallery is janky...a lot of those are in there more than once and it's not representative of the show's cast as a whole

[EricMontreal22]

She should have known better not to have appeared when she did--but maybe she genuinely was clueless.

[EricMontreal22]

No, it seems like they just randomly googled AMC and put in all the pics. But there were ones I'd never seen before--and I was reminded of characters I had forgotten, like Carmen who I thought was one of the better additions initially under Brown/Esensten and then was completelyw asted (I believe Pratt wrote her out very quickly after getting in some random fight with Erica that came out of nowhere).

[R Sinclair]

Is it really that hard to grasp that these people were booing what Carla Hall represents -- not Carla Hall, herself? The only reason Carla Hall's there is to promote The Chew on The View. So, not only does she represent something soap fans are having forced upon them and being told "this is what you want to watch!" -- she's there to promote it to this particular crowd as well? It's called PROTEST. She'll survive. Her career surviving after The Chew tanks, however...?

Oh, boooooo!! This rings insincere after the whole Kassie dePaiva and her "two faces" situation. Nastiness is nastiness, no matter the fan, no matter the genre, no matter the hypocritical moral indignation.

Cheers!

[dragonflies]

Yeah and she slept with Jack, which basically made WW say "WTF?"

[R Sinclair]

The View's at fault (if there's a "fault" in this) for just shoddy logistics.

[alexisfan07]

Aww I liked Carmen, too. She reminded me a bit of Roxy on OLTL.

[R Sinclair]

I thought the fight came before she was written out. I thought the fight happened in the fall, and Carmen was written out on New Year's Eve when she showed up as Jack's date.