Members Soapsuds Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Watching the Reva DVD and Reva arrives in Springfield episode. The actress playing Leslie Ann who tries to committ suicide looks familiar. Wasn't she on ATWT as Dee Stewart?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Damn Darcy's mom is some piece of work...lol Flove Darcy..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 She was on ATWT as Laura Simmons, the psycho babysitter who was obsessed with Bob. JFP didn't care about bringing anyone back unless it suited her own purpose. I don't believe Kassie ever went back to GL after leaving in 1991. They had two children, Stacey (by Floyd Parker) and J. J was Anthony James or something like that. The only Sean was Quint - his birth name was Sean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 What ever happened to Stacey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Something has always bugged me about the Potter/Marland era that I was only reminded of when watching the GL DVD.... ....why the hell was Derek Colby not brought back? Having read synopsis and a few youtube videos here and there of his romance with Vanessa, (and the actor seemed fairly cute), why did the show not continue such a wonderful pairing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 And on the Arrivederci Reva episode is that Rick Hearst first episode as Alan Michael?? He was my favorite Alan Michael. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 I think they just said she was in college. Apparently Mary/Mae, the blonde FBi agent who loved old movies and flirted with Frank and Rick, was supposed to be Stacey, but Lisa Brown was not interested in returning after the crap Rauch had given her before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 What a wasted opportunity. I dont fault Brown for not returning. I dont even recall Mary/Mae...what year was that Carl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 That was late 2000, early 2001. She worked for Danny and slept with him. Initially she was a bimbo but was revealed to be a fed. Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Thanks Carl...I think at the time Brown was on her way back to ATWT and the beginning of the Rose story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Michael Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 These really are fantastic! I had never seen Bernau's Alan, but now I get what people have said about Raines as Alan. It isn't that Raines was bad, per se, but he wound up playing such an asexual, villainous character. Bernau's character is so charismatic. Were Alan and Hope liked as a couple? The Hope in these early 80s episodes (is this Elvira Roussel?) seems very dull. Oh, and did they seriously just not bring Elizabeth Spaulding back at all when Phillip found out she wasn't actually his mother? I never had much opinion on Lillian from the GL I saw, but OMG, what a terrible mother. In the "The Truth About Phillip" episode, she is just awful. That seems to have been their intent, and it's well-executed. She isn't a villain, but you fully understand that this is one of those women who considers having a husband so important that she'll apologize for and rationalize the actions of any man who seems to commit to her, even if he's clearly no prize. Her defense of Bradley was pretty appalling. The pacing of some of these episodes is very strange, I have to say. Sometimes it's a good thing -- not being a slave to formula, for example, worked very well in the "The Many Sins of Nola Reardon" ep, which spent probably the first ten minutes solely on her and Kelly. It was an unusual structural choice that really paid off. On the other hand, there were two random scenes with the Vanessa/Ross crowd in that episode, and they felt so superfluous and actually jarred me out of the flow of the Nola-related stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members saynotoursoap Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 The Reardon and Lewis families were created by Doug Marland. Marland trained under the tutelage of Harding Lemay, who taught him how to introduce a family verbally and have those mentioned characters then appear slowly over time. Bea and Hugh (Tom) Reardon had seven children. The eldest was Sean, who lived in Flint, MI, with his wife Mary. They were similar to Art and Kathleen on Ryan's Hope, I suppose. There was never a reason to have them onscreen until their daughter Bridget arrived in 1991. Mary Reardon was shown first. She was originally played by Elaine Bromka in a couple of episodes. Sean was shown much later, after Matt Reardon came to Springfield. Sean was played by W.T. Martin, who had portrayed Rose's drug dealer boyfriend Nicky Sutton back in the late 80s. Most of the other Reardon children were shown: Nola and Tony first. Maureen arrived in 1981. Jim came on board in 1983, and Chelsea in 1986. There was one other Reardon child, a sister named Lana, who never made it onscreen. I did not care for Chelsea, but I was never a fan of Kassie (Wesley) DePaiva. Chelsea and her French boyfriend Jean Claude crashed into Phillip Spaulding's car in their first scene, and JC died. Chelsea sued Rick Bauer, whom she blamed for the death. She came across as a bitchy, irrational shrew. After that story concluded, she was a singer and a reporter and I can't recall what else. The character never seemed to have any real direction or even distinction as a Reardon. She was created by Sheri Anderson and Joe Manetta, who were among the worst GL writers ever. The only story involving Chelsea that I enjoyed was the plot in which a deranged fan was stalking Johnny Bauer, and it was revealed to be a red herring: the fan was Chelsea's best friend Rae, who hated her guts and wanted her dead, as did I. The confusion about the Maureen's funeral on the Soap Central board probably arises from the fact that the entire Reardon family did return to Springfield, though NONE were shown onscreen. The writer obvioulsy did not watch the show then and assumed that Kassie returned. She did not. GL was never good with funerals. No one returned onscreen for the funeral of beloved Bert Bauer either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 This was Elvera Roussel. I get the feeling Hope and Alan were a popular couple - she was the first woman Alan ever actually fell in love with on the show. They seemed to decide to ignore Elizabeth, and soon, Justin, altogether. It was a bad decision, I think, and it also aged Phillip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 I'm sorry - I thought the question earlier was about Nola having a child named Sean. Thanks for clearing all that up...I guess this is the Sean who briefly appeared in 1995 and then left again, wasn't this after Matt still told him he was a loser, or something? I had forgotten we saw Bridget's parents. I love Elaine Bromka - why wasn't she ever seen again? WT Martin was also on ATWT I think, as one of those entangled with James Stenbeck in the early 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Michael Posted February 22, 2012 Members Share Posted February 22, 2012 Thanks for the response! I get why the Hope/Alan dynamic was appealing. I guess I just haven't seen anything in these episodes that makes Hope interesting to me -- though she's hardly been the focus of any of it. She just seems kind of weepy and bleh. Justin doesn't seem particularly interesting to me, either, though I think he probably served an important role in the overall canvas. Maybe it's just the actor. It cracks me up how, in the opening for the '83 episodes, everyone's doing these interesting, exotic things in their shots, and then Justin is... walking across the living room and picking up the phone or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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