One Life to Live OLTL: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[allmc2008]

I am still trying to figure out what his hairstyle is called.

[cassadine1991]

http://www.app.com/article/20130623/NJENT02/306230042/-One-Life-to-Live-now-exclusively-online-features-Manasquan-teen?nclick_check=1

[cassadine1991]

Jared Kaplan ‏@JaredKaplan40m
The ridiculously cool #PaoloSeganti makes his #OLTL debut tomorrow! Wait until you meet #ArturoBandini !!

I think they combined parts of tuesday and thursday's episodes for tomorrow

[Vee]

This ought to go here as well, I guess.

So I emailed PP re: the profanity ban and encouraging them to continue pushing the envelope - starting with language - and got this back from Kwatinetz. A standard message, really, but it was nice enough, I suppose:

[Chris B]

I have a weird general question....does anyone else that watches GH and OLTL feel like his performances on OLTL are much better than what he's doing on GH? I'm talking even before the switch in characters. It's weird because I expected him to be better on GH since that is his main job and where he wants to be. I find that he's just having fun and phoning it in there, but on OLTL he's really trying with each actor he's working with and is adding so many layers to Todd. I even feel like his work on ATWT was much better than what we've been getting on GH. He could easily blow OLTL off, but it looks like he's working his ass off.

[DRW50]

I think he's a bad actor, period, but I do think he's better on OLTL. I think with the rehearsal time and with people he has a long history with, he's on his game more. On GH, you don't have to act. Frank Valentini shows are about mugging and yelling and getting done in time, or under time. OLTL had increasingly horrible acting under his watch, and GH is the same way. Howarth can make silly faces and wag his tongue and ham it up 2002 style and he knows he'll just get more and more love for it. That is his main appeal anyway.

[Vee]

I think when Howarth is motivated he's very good. I don't think he's been at 2002 levels since he returned to ABC - on either OLTL or GH, though there certainly have been some lowlights. I think he's doing good work on OLTL for the most part, and I think he occasionally makes the best of the mess on GH. But there's no making the Franco character work, at least not as anything other than an alienated, sociopathic lunatic, and when they let him play glimpses of that he is actually decent in the role. The attempts at anything more viable only lead to a very poor man's version of Todd - which is all Ron really wants anyway.

I also tend to think RH wants to do both and will continue to do so. But when you get [!@#$%^&*] material there's only so much you can do - and 95% (a charitable estimate) of the Franco scripts are [!@#$%^&*]. Ron doesn't go for anything but the broadest levels at this point.

[Mathewson]

I LOVE Erika Slezak's mugging when she's playing Niki Smith, mostly in 2002!!! But when RH does it, it's just annoying as hell for me. Why is that?

I'm so glad I only watch GH sporadically. I was never that invested to begin with, and having RC and FV in charge made it that much worse for me. RH doesn't bother me on OLTL, though I still think RH/Todd is overhyped. FL and KM are much better on the new OLTL than under RC and FV. KDP was always good for the most part, but she's even better now that she's not under Ron's pen, so Blair's not written as a one note jealous harpy. Even AT/Jack has made strides in his acting. David Vickers is also much less annoying on the new OLTL than during the ABC run.

Oh yeah, by the way, I still can't get past how they want to get rid of the swearing. Yet TIIC and the Facebook fans want to see BJ's, rape, and murder. Ok, there you go! The swearing has always been there anyway. If anything, I'd say "bitch", "whore", and "slut" are more offensive than the other swear words that a lot of people are saying are so awful. Not that I'm offended by those words either, but it's all the double standards I can't get past.

[John]

[cassadine1991]

http://paosrevolution.com/index.php/blog/76-hillary-and-robert-talk-oltl

[greens_dupres]

Love them- thanks for posting. Hillary's take on the morning they found out about the union dispute made me emotional- couldn't be more thrilled for the vets that it looks like things will roll on. Bob is a funny guy.

[Vee]

I don't know if this separate interview with Hillary and Woodsy making the rounds is in here - from SOD. Cute stuff. It's all so sweet and earnest, but this is my favorite bit:

I can't wait for Erika's public reaction to OWN, etc. You know she's going to have something to say.

[cassadine1991]

speaking of interviews Robin Strasser had hers with Michael Fairman earlier

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tolnsoaps/2013/06/28/toln-soaps-live-with-michael-fairman

[greens_dupres]

Really Robin- lobbying for the Vegas and A Martinez and baby Hope back?!? Kidding...mostly...love her- great interview. I can see why they wanted to split her and Ginger Smith up over 2 shows- Robin can talk.

I live for her having to ask Michael Fairman the name of Andrew Trischitta's character- "And he plays...what is the boy's name...the one who is not Sam" (or something like that).

[cassadine1991]

i was the first one who called in...