I thought this would be a cool thread to ask about former soap stars as well as showcase where they are now as well as current pictures, etc....

Someone needs to get Josh Kelly a job. He's looking rought sicne OLTL ended

and here he is with ex-Baz

STOP. I know what you guys are thinking LOL

Okay don't judge but I just recently got the chance to watch Fosse/Verdon and in episode 6 I noticed Michael Genet (Lamar Griffin, ATWT) as an emergency doctor.

Did anyone else watch this series?

13 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Okay don't judge but I just recently got the chance to watch Fosse/Verdon and in episode 6 I noticed Michael Genet (Lamar Griffin, ATWT) as an emergency doctor.

Did anyone else watch this series?

i did, and loved it; thought the performances were brilliant — not to mention the costume and hair people.

not clear why you think anyone would ‘judge’ you for watching it. 

9 hours ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

i did, and loved it; thought the performances were brilliant — not to mention the costume and hair people.

not clear why you think anyone would ‘judge’ you for watching it. 

Sorry, I meant judge me for watching it so much later than it debuted on air. 

I got that free trial offer for Hulu for a month (and HBO Max, but only for a week) and I am pretty much bingeing all this shows while I have access. I think it might also be on Netflix which I have access to, but oh well.

It's a well done series and, actually I read the original source material years ago (the biography, written by Sam Wasson, which, ironically, I briefly made a post about on this message board), which I found very compelling. I had read Paddy Chayefsky's biography, which talks about his close friendship with Bob Fosse, so that intrigued me and led me to read the Wasson biography of Fosse. I guess, I should have been reading Neil Simon's biography next to complete the set.

Another very interesting factoid, Valerie Pettiford (AW, OLTL) was a choreography consultant for this series. In a nod to her presence, one of the dancers in the series bore an obvious resemblance to her. The series was well casted and written, imo. 

I didn't mean to suggest that the series was low-caliber, or anything, only that I have waited so long to watch it, long past the buzz.

Also, Michelle Williams was so good and probably could have played Lucille Ball, instead of Nicole Kidman.  IJS.

Edited December 6, 20213 yr by DramatistDreamer

Anna Kathryn Holbrook (ex-Sharlene Frame Hudson - Another World) and Ashley Williams (ex-Dani - As The World Turns) starred in a Hallmark Christmas Movie that aired this past weekend called Sister Swap. Also in the movie is Ashley's Real Life sister Kimberly Williams Paisley. 

 

3 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

long past the buzz

sadly (mostly), way too much content out there, way too many $$$ platforms, and too few hours in the day,  to even try to keep up with ‘the buzz.’ 

Edited December 6, 20213 yr by wonderwoman1951

@DramatistDreamer Valarie worked with Fosse in the Broadway show Big Deal and was the original star of the Broadway musical review, Fosse. She has a great deal of experience with his choreography.

I also loved Fosse/Verdon. I was working on a touring production down in North Carolina when it aired. F/X would repeat the new episodes like two times a night and I’d watch over and over again.

38 minutes ago, SFK said:

@DramatistDreamer Valarie worked with Fosse in the Broadway show Big Deal and was the original star of the Broadway musical review, Fosse. She has a great deal of experience with his choreography.

I also loved Fosse/Verdon. I was working on a touring production down in North Carolina when it aired. F/X would repeat the new episodes like two times a night and I’d watch over and over again.

Oh yeah, I knew about her, I just thought it was cool that there was a look-alike actress/dancer that was meant to be her. The actress who portrayed Chita Rivera was quite good too.

I read the original source material a few years ago, so I recognized quite a few scenes in there from the biography. The actor who played Paddy Chayefsky portrayed him pretty much how he comes off in his biography. That wryly dark Bronx-onian sense of humor.

Tamara Tunie, Anna Holbrook and Laurence Lau all popping up on Prime Video's new comedy Harlem. 

 This season on The Blacklist, Valarie Pettiford (ex-Sheila Price Gannon, ONE LIFE TO LIVE) is recurring with a role that she previously guest stinted in, Charlene Cooper, regular Harold Cooper (Harry Lennix)'s wife.   Karina Arroyavé (ex-Bianca Walsh, ATWT) is recurring this season as well, as Red Reddington's assistant/lover, Mierce Xiu. 

    Michael Mealor (ex-Kyle Abbott, Y&R) guest starred on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. 

Billie Eilish hosted SNL tonight (she did a pretty good job), and during her monologue, had her mother, Maggie Baird (ex-Taylor, ATWT) come onstage with her. Her mother and father also introduced her first performance. 

 

Oh, just Victoria Rowell being stunning.

Chillin’ on set! Chippin’ away…🔥 pic.twitter.com/HJJbwtlM0r

— Victoria Rowell (@victoriarowell) December 11, 2021

 

@DRW50 You're gonna make me watch an episode of SNL now? I may have to watch a replay of this one.

23 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Billie Eilish hosted SNL tonight (she did a pretty good job), and during her monologue, had her mother, Maggie Baird (ex-Taylor, ATWT) come onstage with her. Her mother and father also introduced her first performance. 

 

Thanks for your post, I've always wondered why Billie Eilish's mother look so familiar, now I know why.

19 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Oh, just Victoria Rowell being stunning.

She looks amazing! I'm glad to see she's filming in front of the camera again! She also mentioned she has a role on a CBS/Viacom show coming soon. I can't wait to see what's next for her. Always happy to see her working after all she went through.

Amazon's Harlem had guest appearances made by Tamara "I Stay Booked and Busy" Tunie (ex-Jessica - ATWT) playing one of the male lead's mother and Anna Kathryn Holbrook (ex-Sharlene Frame Hudson - Another World) playing an investor.  

6 hours ago, Chris B said:

She looks amazing! I'm glad to see she's filming in front of the camera again! She also mentioned she has a role on a CBS/Viacom show coming soon. I can't wait to see what's next for her. Always happy to see her working after all she went through.

What struck me was that, with the silver locs, Rowell and Kasi Lemmons now share a sort of sisterly resemblance, which takes me back to when both women once portrayed the same character on As The World Turns in the 1980s. Now, if Tiffani Caesar shows up with blonde-ish or silvery locs, I will fall out! 😆

Edited December 13, 20213 yr by DramatistDreamer
Autocorrect changed Lemmons to Lemons, so I changed it back!