Jump to content
Email System Update

OLTL: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

Toups

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 7.2k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • Members
Scotty Newbie

Scotty

Posted
  • Members
Posted

Sorry if this has already been posted...

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2013/07/michael-easton-everyone-is-doing-best.html

Easton was hoping a schedule could be worked out that would allow him to appear on The OnLine Network's ONE LIFE TO LIVE as John McBain.

"There's a fairly lengthy paper trial documenting my discussions about how we could make it work," he explains. "I have a family now and I've never spent a night away from them, so trying to figure out how to make it work with us living in L.A. and OLTL shooting in Connecticut wasn't easy but we did seem to be working toward something. Prospect Park and ABC seemed like they wanted to work together but we just couldn't come to an arrangement. And then, suddenly, things built into a tempest between the parties and there was a lot of confusion and uncertainty, so I tried to stay away from it and focus on my writing and my family. In the end, I don't know that the situation worked out all that well for anybody. The whole thing was awkward and I don't think anybody handled it very well, but it is what it is."

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
greens_dupres Newbie

greens_dupres

Posted
  • Members
Posted

Speaking of the JvD soap charity event in NYC, has anyone been/planning to go this year? I'm super close by and thought it might be fun and would include some of the PP OLTL cast for a good cause but I've never been to a fan event & I'm not sure I can convince any friends to join and would love any feedback.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
marceline Community Regular

marceline

Posted
  • Members
Posted

I'm actually going to be in NYC that weekend but I can't go. I'm taking my nieces to NY Comic Con for kids day.

Honestly, I've been to a few soap events - not Stars and Strikes although I know people who have - and I can almost promise your friends that they will have a good time even if they aren't soap fans. SAS is a good one because so many actors from different shows participate (JvD's apparently got mad pull and actors like to show up for him) so from what I've heard, it doesn't get clique-ish.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
~bl~ Collaborator

~bl~

Posted
  • Members
Posted

DW50, aka Carl well at first JVD played cowboy…but I think they told him to stop doing the accent. I don't see Clint as much of a cowboy, and I don't really see Jerry in Clint either. I don't know if that makes sense.

Jerry went through cancer twice in the 90s, it came back less than 2 years after his diagnosis. He was off from GL for about a month in 1993, and then it came back again, so he went through radiation while still working in 95. He had a good report on the same day he got his first Emmy and has been okay ever since. I thought everyone knew about Jerry's cancer by now because of the bowling event.

I've gone to the bowling event in the past. PM greens_dupres we can talk… Yes actors just show up and they supposedly don't get anything for coming. A lot of times actors don't say they will attend ahead of time and just appear, which is kind of fun. It isn't clique-ish in the way other events can be, but that I think is a carryover from his GL days..and how people from various soaps show up for the cause.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
greens_dupres Newbie

greens_dupres

Posted
  • Members
Posted

I was hoping for Pepperman too. I see the questions going something like this:

Will Todd & Blair get married?

Do you know if they'll bring back Rex & Gigi?

Where is Starr?

Where is Jessica?

Will Clint & Viki get married?

Whatever question cassadine has planned for AT tongue.png

I miss John and Natalie- when is he coming back?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
Vee Grand Master

Vee

Posted
  • Members
Posted

No, I was pretty sick last week. What was the point past which I was supposed to be clear of all the psychos again? I thought there was a timestamp. I'll go back and look in the thread.

Assuming he does have some sort of absence coming up, I think it would be nice if they covered some of RH's down time on the show with a visit from Starr, since KA is up for it. John would be nice as well to wrap that story up, but I don't see that happening any time too soon.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.


  • Recent Posts

    • kalbir
      Dynasty Discussion Thread

      By kalbir · Posted

      40 years ago

      Please register in order to view this content

       
    • DeeVee
      Ryan's Hope Discussion Thread

      By DeeVee · Posted

      Maybe Carney and Levin didn't get along, but he got along with Tolan. Who knows. I SO agree about Tolan. I am sure my jaw hit the floor when I watched her first scene. She had been hyped like crazy by the soap mags. They swore she was going to be a sensation like Mulgrew. I thought she had a speech impediment. I think more likely she just couldn't remember her lines so she ended up slurring them from nervousness. Not everyone can do soap acting, it's very difficult. There's memorizing so many lines, then there's so little rehearsal. I think she was a theater actor. Maybe she was a good one. But when the camera was fixed on her, she just...sucked. I had nothing particular against Nicolette Goulet. She just wasn't Mary. She had no chemistry with Levin. She didn't even look like she belonged in that family (a similar situation when they replaced Sarah Felder with that blond chick who was laughable as a police rookie). I don't believe it was impossible to recast the role. Kathleen Turner was doing soaps during this era. She would have been a phenomenal Mary. (Not to say that she would have been available, but just to point out there were good actors of that type around).
    • kalbir
      Y&R: Old Articles

      By kalbir · Posted

      Bill Bell dusted off Jennifer Brooks death 13 years later on B&B with Caroline death.
    • I Am A Swede
      Eurovision Song Contest 2025

      By I Am A Swede · Posted

      Yay for Luxembourg and Greece!  

      Please register in order to view this content

         And I must say that Latvia's song is oddly magnetic. I think it deserves a place in the final. I would much rather have seen Australia and Serbia in the final than Lithuania and Malta though.   ETA: Malta, Israel, Armenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Greece, Luxembourg, Denmark and Finland qualified for the final. Australia, Serbia, Czechia, Georgia, Ireland and Montenegro eliminated.
    • DRW50
      Guiding Light Discussion Thread

      By DRW50 · Posted

      Grant Aleksander is a charismatic performer, but I never liked Philip very much. I thought he was a sanctimonious ass at times and also too intense for me. I do think they had a great opportunity for his 2009 return story at showing a man who had come back from the brink and wanted to reclaim his life. If the show had continued, I am curious to see what they would have done. The show's biggest mistake with the Spauldings was keeping Alan much too long instead of having Philip take his place as head of the family. Ron Raines was the luckiest man in daytime to last for 15 years. Alan should have died in the early '00s at the latest, during the Philip/Olivia saga.
    • AbcNbc247
      BTG: May 2025 Discussion Thread

      By AbcNbc247 · Posted

      Too soon to make any judgments about nuTed, but I will say that I think they should've gone older.  And I also saw some chemistry between Bill and Leslie as well lol but Bill's part in Ted and Leslie's affair/Bill and Ted's friendship needed to be established a lot sooner than when the reveal happened. Their relationship could be a really good counterpoint to the Duprees.   But I really liked the parallel that was drawn between Kat and Chelsea, and what their father's did. I like their relationship and I hope they go on to investigate Laura's accident. I just hope it doesn't come until something happens between Eva and Tomas.  Btw, Happy Birthday, Eva! A lot of birthdays today 

      Please register in order to view this content

    • Antoyne
      BTG: May 2025 Discussion Thread

      By Antoyne · Posted

      I love you He’s definitely not for me. He comes across very meek. Trisha is going to eat this man alive in scenes.  Excellent scenes! Her damn nicknames be tearing me the hell up
    • carolineg
      DAYS: May 2025 Discussion Thread

      By carolineg · Posted

      Stephanie also was raped in college and killed her rapist along with the help of Chelsea.  It was an accident, but that's something the show has only touched on once or twice since AK took over the role. Very good point!
    • ReddFoxx
      BTG: May 2025 Discussion Thread

      By ReddFoxx · Posted

      Robinson is less imposing than Johnson was and that makes the character seem completely different. If anything he came off as someone who could have played Doug. 
    • AbcNbc247
      DAYS: May 2025 Discussion Thread

      By AbcNbc247 · Posted

      Exactly. That's a fertile ground, where a lot of drama could be mined from. That's a great idea. Especially since her kidnapping was a part of the Dimera/Kiriakis war at the time. Not only could it cause conflict between Stephanie and Alex/the Kiriakises, it could also be tied to both families trying to buy the hospital, and how that would make the hospital look, since these villainous families both want to own it.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

  I accept