Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 24, 2011 Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 I was just gonna say Tour of Duty was a fair size hit for her. She also did That Was Then This is Now with Emilio Estevez immediately after AMC which, while not a big box office success, was seen as a major motion picture due to it being one of many SE Hinton adaptations that were coming out and I remember drama because she was meant to star in the great John Hughes penned Some Kind of Wonderful but a new director recast all the roles. It is true though that after Tour of Duty until NYPD Blues she floundered--soft core cable movies, B movies, etc, but she worked steadily and it doesn't seem to be directly related to substane abuse--she never had the rep that you hear many in the biz of being unhirable. I remember one interview in probably Ent Weekly where she shrugged off some bad movies just that she wanted to be able to pay her bills doing what she loved, acting. I don't see anything dicey there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 24, 2011 Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 Well maybe partly--the year before under Broderick, they did the flop of a voodoo story (that never really went full on supernatural, it just flirted with the idea). But this was an Agnes Nixon storyline during her interim period, and Agnes has always had a love of the gothic that people rarely mention when they talk abotu her writing style--I mean she had Natalie trapped by Janet in a well for months before Reilly ever had someone burried alive, not to mention the Satan story on Loving in the mid 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted September 24, 2011 Members Share Posted September 24, 2011 Exactly what I was trying to say. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted September 24, 2011 Administrator Share Posted September 24, 2011 Okay thanks. I've always heard people say ABC tried to get AMC to copy Reilly, so I thought maybe this was one of the storylines. What was the Satan storyline on Loving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 Kim Delaney seemed fine on The View. It was nice to see how touched she was and how happy she was to talk about the show. She was in tears like everyone else at the end. It was actually a pretty touching tribute. I didn't seem the huge strife between Delaney and Lucci with the "early out" thing. Delaney was clearly just trying to kid around and Lucci didn't seem all that bothered. I pretty much lost it in the last few minutes. Seeing Agnes cry was really tough. I'm so proud of her for standing by her show, even when forced out, and that she's helping spearhead it onto the internet. And that PP seems to recognize the need to have her there in a hugely supporting role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 This story was at the time billed as getting Erica back to basics, after the somewhat silly story with Mike Roy and Jack made her look dumb. Erica was scarred in a car crash, and had to wear this mask. David's mother Vanessa, who was pretending to be Erica's friend, but was actually vicious and scheming, warped Erica's mind full of self-loathing and shame. Erica ran away, finally ending up at her mother's old home, and took a bath (apparently the homeowners were either very kind people or they left a key - I can't remember). She contemplated slitting her wrists. She was then saved by David, who, in scenes that showed great chemistry between VI and SL, but at the time felt to me like they went on for an eternity, told her how beautiful and perfect she was. I have some synopses of the Loving story in the Loving thread, although they're all mixed-up. I also have some others from that time I haven't posted yet which I will if you want to see them. It was a confusing story, but basically, in a 1985-1986 John O'Hurley played a dual role, a good and a bad twin; the bad twin had sold his soul to the devil, I believe. Jonathan/Keith Alamaine. This story also involved a woman who was desperate to track down her child, and the bad twin, or another character, made her think her daughter was being sexually abused and put into porn (she wasn't), so that this woman would have sex with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members You're Soaking in it Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 She did come back for about two months in 1995, between McTavish being fired from her first AMC stint and Broderick's return as head writer. But that was four years prior to Erica's scar story. It's the other way around. This story was in 1999, conceived after McTavish's second stint (when she was "reassigned" to being a consultant / later-head writer for OLTL), with Agnes Nixon and Elizabeth Page as head writers. (ETA: Just wanted to clarify that Broderick, who left in December of 1997 and was directly replaced McT, would be absent from AMC until she succeeded Pratt in November of 2009.) The scar was from a car accident she and David had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 *glares* You're right of course. But she took over from McTavish May of 1999--which is around when this story started I believe? but of course that could mean McT started it. Still, the Erica of the opera story isn't SO out of place from what Agnes has done in the past, was my point, even if to some initially it seems it. (Plus, I remember it being quite well written and focused on character). *edit* I see I'm basically repeating you... Ha which makes one thing Agnes was really fighting hard to get loving to climb in the ratings... Don't forget that when Jonathan left the show it was implied (but, like Agnes usually does with the supernatural, it waqs left open to intepretation) that he turned into a snake which you saw slithering away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members You're Soaking in it Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 And THAT, my friend, is what you get for commenting before actually reading the entire post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 The Erica of the Opera story did seem true to Erica's character - at the time it didn't do a lot for me, as all the time with the mask and the vamping and so on seemed a bit silly and drawn out, but it was better than anything else on AMC at that point. A lot of what I've read about the Jonathan/Keith story seems unpleasant. I wonder how it played out onscreen. I should try to get my synopses in the right order... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted September 25, 2011 Members Share Posted September 25, 2011 That's exactly what I did (and tend to do...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alexisfan07 Posted October 3, 2011 Members Share Posted October 3, 2011 Got my cast print in the mail today! It's number 104 of 1000, printed right on the damn thing haha. I gotta figure out a way to get Natalie Hall in there now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted October 3, 2011 Members Share Posted October 3, 2011 How big is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alexisfan07 Posted October 3, 2011 Members Share Posted October 3, 2011 11x17. It's not 100% crystal clear (the people look slightly blurry) which is irritating but it's good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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