Members JaneAusten Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Didn't she actually get an emmy nomination? I always thought they did it out of spite after LW left. Nicole Forester if I remember, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted August 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 David Gregory was very poor casting for what the show wanted Ford to be. Even at the start, he failed as the love-to-hate sleaze. No charisma or energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Yet, for whatever reason, I enjoyed AR as Frank because he wasn't the traditional "leading man." He might not have been drop-dead gorgeous, per se, but when I think of a guy such as "Frank Ryan," a highly principled cop-turned-politician from a staunch, blue-collar, Irish Catholic family, with an all-too-human weakness where his love for independent Jillian Coleridge was concerned, that's who I have in mind, more or less. It's a shame Kate Jackson came along in daytime when she did. She would've been perfect as a acerbic, no-nonsense, slightly neurotic "career woman," but I don't think soaps were writing those kinds of roles for women until she had already transitioned to primetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted August 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 I think that could have worked, but he was painted as the epitome of charisma, movie star looks, etc. I don't think Robinson was that actor. He was very good though. More on RH... Ann Gillespie as Siobhan. Everything the role was not supposed to be. Carrell Myers as Siobhan. I have no idea why she was hired. I tell myself some psychic knew Marg would be on China Beach with Dana Delaney a few years later, got confused, and cast a Dana lookalike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Not that we knew much about Steven Lars. (I barely remember Reeves' predecessor, Shaun Benson.) I've always felt Steven Lars (yes, I'm calling him "Steven Lars," get over it) should be more like his namesake grandfather, GH's original leading man and hero, Dr. Steve Hardy. Steve was an upstanding guy (not to mention, smolderingly sexy), but he also had a passion for his occupation (and for Audrey) that flared occasionally in moments of temper and frustration. IOW, Steve Hardy could be downright mercurial when he wanted to be, a sort-of combination of ATWT's Drs. Bob Hughes and John Dixon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlexElizabeth Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 OLTL: Laurence Lau as Sam Rappaport Billy Warlock as Ross Rayburn Lenny Platt as Nate Salinger Bruce Michael Hall as Joey The Priest Buchanan Jack Armstrong/Ken Kenitzer/Tim Gibbs as Kevin Buchanan ATWT: Jake Silbermann as Noah Mayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members detroitpiston Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Definitely Amanda Baker as Babe. She had non of the charisma, talent, fire, or sex appeal that Alexa H did. Bland personified. Lauren Woodland would've been a much better choice. Sabine Singh as Greenlee was turrible too. AMC also never got it quite right with Colby IMO. Ambyr Childers grew on me eventually, but the Brianne girl right after her was dreadful(how she lasted as long as she did, I'll never know), and the current one is just flat out annoying. I loved Jennifer Bransford as Carly but look wise she was ALL wrong for the role and doomed from the start coming immediately after TB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Patton was so wrong as Will, even his hair tried to get away from him! Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Ha Ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Susan Batten as Connor Walsh....damn you FMB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Oh wow I have to agree with all of these choices. Id have to throw in the obious choice of Kassie DePaiva as Blair. She made it work, but she is so radically different from Mia Korf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Unfortunately, ABC reportedly pressured Claire Labine & Paul Avila Mayer to replace him, because they believed he was too closely identified with his role in the movie "Dirty Harry." (I don't know who that line of thinking insults more: viewers, or actors like AR.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Roger overrated Howarth as Paul Stenbeck Ryan Kelly Hensley as Emily Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted August 25, 2011 Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 Yeah, gotta go with that one. If Allyson Rice-whatshername wasn't FMB's cup o' ramen, then she should've just fired her and ordered her writers to send her out of town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted August 25, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 25, 2011 He did say that people in the street knew him from Dirty Harry, I think, but I do wonder if that was just an excuse from ABC. Karen Morris Gowdy as Faith I would also say Justin Bruening as Jamie (too flat and boring - nothing going on underneath, when the role needed a strong vitality to offset that the character was a traditional young leading man) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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