HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

[Khan]

I love that so much, Carl. Thanks for sharing.

[DRW50]

I've had that in my head for years. I saw a version on Youtube with a photo of Stephanie looking like she was booted off Solid Gold, but that's gone now, apparently.

For years I have wondered if she is saying that J. Paul Getty is "a bitch that has got potential." That's very different for circa 1981.

[Khan]

. Actually, Carl, I think Stephanie Mills is saying it's a gig that's got potential.

I've wondered, though, why it was replaced with "My Life," when I thought the original theme fit the show so much better.

[DRW50]

I never knew if that or the Billy Joel My Life came first. Interesting.

"Gig" makes more sense, but I think I prefer my version.

[allmc2008]

The reason why I take so many naps is because I have depression plus this new PP news is overly stimulating. The one thing that helps is Soap Boys Nene fetish. I don't watch reality shows so I have a folder full of screenshots he posts.

[allmc2008]

Has anyone read the latest Soaps Uncensored??

[EricMontreal22]

No. As I don't want to give Nelson $2.50, can you summarize it please? (or does Nelson make you sign a contract not to reveal the contents...)

In this thread people were mentioning people who came to soaps from outside of the soap world--I had forgotten about Victor Miller who was an associate HW and breakdown writer at AMC many times (as well as other soaps, I think--he did tend to become associated working with McTavish but also wrote during some major periods). I always wondered what led him to soaps in 1984--he's best known for his horror fiction and screenplays (including the original Friday the 13th script--hardly a masterpiece which would lead me to see him as a soap scribe, but I assume he must make decent royalties as he always gets screen credit for creating Jason).

[EricMontreal22]

Now I'm wondering why it's labeled as the DVD/Syndicated version and what was different originally. (And I knew opening credits used to be much longer, but wow...)

Ah so that must have been the original? *to answer my own question*

[allmc2008]

I havent read it. I hoped someone else had!

[allmc2008]

I just read this from Paul Lee, ABC's Entertainment President

"Thrilled to see General Hospital rocking and rolling in the afternoon" and "Soap is one of the great genres…It not more valuable or less valuable than is procedural or others, but I think we do soap operas particularly well"

There are no words to describe my Disgust.

[EricMontreal22]

How can he even pluralize "soap opera" in that sentence. He prob thinks that ABC is tops because of shows like Grey's Anatomy and Revenge being what he calls soaps or something (and don't get me started on Revenge this year...)

[Khan]

IIRC, Victor Miller explained on his website how then-ABCD VP Jackie Smith had asked him to come work at ONE LIFE TO LIVE after reading or hearing about some tie-in novelizations he had written for various TV shows.

[EricMontreal22]

Thanks Khan! Interesting to know...

I have one OLTL novelisation from 1987--part of a soap opera related romance novel line, with zero author credit, and it's pretty bad. Maybe he should have written it. (The earlier three AMC ones from Rosemarie Santini from Jove paperback read like Henry James in comparison).

[Khan]

Well, it was the best my eight-year-old self could do! What did you expect? William Faulkner?

[dragonflies]

Disgust about what, that he mentioned GH in a POSITIVE way, that's more than anyone else has done in the last decade