Members allmc2008 Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 Do other soaps have a tradition that was said at the end of an anniversary like AMC's "Great and the least" poem?? Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 On a couple of special occasions, they had Viki work in her "One Life to Live" but that's hardly the tradition of the poem. Do we know the first time the poem was recited on air? I'm surprised AW didn't work in its, "We do not live in this world alone..." prologue someway somehow over the course of the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted August 19, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 I am not following. What do you mean Viki worked on her "One life to Live"? She worked on her own soap?? Did not watch that show too much. Oh. I think the first time the AMC poem was read was for its 20th anniversary. It was supposed to be read on the first episode of AMC but that episode never aired. I wonder if Agnes has that episode?? I know the poem Agnes actually wrote down is different from the one used on AMC. I watched an opera special from 1990 plus an archive interview where she recited it differently. Another World should have used that prologue more often. It has a good message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 I think SFK meant that Viki worked the phrase "One life to live" into her dialogue on certain occasions on OLTL. Like how DAYS has had various characters refer to the "days of our lives." I always thought that AW line was a little clunky in regards to trying to fit it into the script. In the early episodes of AW, didn't characters constantly agonize about the struggle of living in different "words" of reality, fantasy, and fear? I remember reading that somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 Thank you AMS, yes, that's what I meant. Upon one anniversary, she said something to the effect of, "I thank God for my family, and my one extraordinary life to live." Paraphrasing. She also sang "I Will Survive" at karaoke with Ben and kind of punched the line, "I've got all my life to live". Then in ES's anniversary episode, Viki had a line about her "one life to live" yet again. ITA that the AW prologue is a little clunky to be fluidly worked into dialogue, I thought that even as I wrote my post above. It's more like something Rachel would have had to read aloud from a book or something when she and Carl were having one of their extra poetic moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 On DOOL at any wedding instead of asking you if you take this woman/man as long as you both shall live, the minister always asks if you take this woman/man all the days of your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 Mhm. I like that AMC always established that the poem was a poem. It would have been funny if a character who'd heard it more than once just threw up their hands like "Oh my god, not this thing again..." Sometimes, characters would refer to "all [their] children" in rather pointed ways. ATWT worked its title in several times for special occasions, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 The one time the poem really had me welling up was when Bianca read it from Mona's letter, and frankly, it had nothing to do with Bianca but EVERTHING to do with how Susan as Erica was silently choking up "hearing" Fra as Mona say it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 a lot of times on days, they include Days of our Lives in speeches or wedding vows. Or they mention hourglasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted August 19, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 Thanks know i get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted August 19, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 That was always my favorite time. It worked just perfect IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ER Tosh Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 It is hard to do that with the Bell show titles " May you always be Young and Restless". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 YES!!! That will always be one of my favorite poignant AMC moments. The underscore they chose for that moment was perfect, the quick montage of all of everyone celebrating Joe's anniversary, Erica (really Susan) tearing up amongst three of her closest male co-stars while they're all thinking of good ol' Mona...just flawless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 Off and on for years ATWT had a poem which was first heard when Jennifer Ryan was having a crisis and went to a church for comfort. I think they brought this out again at the end, and when Jennifer appeared to a near-death Kim in 1997. In Eileen Fulton's tribute episode she also sang "As the World Turns", although I thought it was maudlin and depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CSF Posted August 19, 2012 Members Share Posted August 19, 2012 Nancy read the "As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, etc..." to the boys in the 40th Anniversary episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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