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RICH FRANK SPEECH FROM PREMIERE NIGHT

Jeff and I started this journey about 2 1/2 years ago thinking that we were ahead of the curve and had been the smartest people in the world to discover that people were going to start watching programming online. A lot has happened in those two and a half years. We had a few bumps along the way, where we thought we wouldn't quite get there," said Frank. "All the fans reminded us everyday on email to keep on going and we did. I have a partner who, even though we don't always agree, if you aim at his direction he doesn't stop and he won't vere off. The last few months it's been every night...I get notes from him at 3:30, 4 o'clock in the morning. He wants to do one little change in the sound...one little edit. Change something just to make it perfect. I don't know that we have it perfect, but I think you'll enjoy what you're going to see in just a little bit.

I'm excited to be along for the ride because I love to see when things change in an industry. I've been around long enough to watch them change from UHF television to cable to how we tune things and get rid of all the boxes on top of the sets and plug in a wire in the back and have people predict five hundred channels. Now we have so many channels you can't even keep track and find what you want to find, but I believe we're at the forefront of the world of what we call television changing again and I'm proud to be a part of it. But, I'm most proud to be partnered with Jeff who I met when he was two years ahead of my son at Northwestern University, and I just wanted to make friends with him because he was the pledge master and I said I wouldn't take too much advantage of my son. It's been a lot of years in between and we've become very, very, very good friends. He's the visionary behind this. He's staked an awful lot professionally and monetarily on this, and I'm just really proud to be standing next to him tonight. I'm actually so proud to be here. I wasn't sure this night would ever come. It's exciting to be here.

Errol I'm not trying to be rude but that was definitely more worthy of an article than some of the other things we've had as articles. LOL. You know I love you.

Great statement, though.

If you assholes make this thread hit ten pages before the episode even goes up I'll never forgive any of you.

Interesting speech ... They were up in the middle of the night working on this. Their money and their reputations are on the line. Another thing is, Northwestern again. Agnes Nixon, Rich Frank's son, Kwatinetz, and Richard and Carolyn Culliton all went to Northwestern University. Kind of an unexpected hub of soap people considering it's not in New York or LA.

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RICH FRANK SPEECH FROM PREMIERE NIGHT

If you assholes make this thread hit ten pages before the episode even goes up I'll never forgive any of you.

Is that a challenge? If so, I'm up for it.

I think Anna and David could have lasted a long time ... I see the same possibility for David and Cara. Like Anna, Cara won't put up with BS from him but also like Anna, she also knows that David is not a bad person.

Given how incredibly brief their "relationship" was before AMC ended, I think it's too soon to assume anything. I'm still not entirely convinced that that baby was David's.

Erica and Anna didn't put up with BS from David, and they both knew that he wasn't a bad person, but in the end, they couldn't quite cope with his unwillingness to be completely honest with them, whether it was about Dimitri being alive or about what really happened the night Michael Cambias disappeared. And remember, Erica and Anna are/were not "good girls" - they were both schemers in their own right, and they both seemed to enjoy plotting with him whether it was plotting against Edmund and Alex or plotting against Chris Stamp and the Proteus investigation.

When people describe his relationships with Erica and Anna and then tell me they think Cara can hold her own with David and be there long term, I read into it "Cara is a stronger woman than Anna or Erica" and I just don't see that at all. I mean, there's a reason we all called her MasCara.

Slap them.

Seriously though, I really do believe there is a contingent of fans - or former fans I should say - who are pissed that it's not on regular network TV like it's ALWAYS been, and they aren't going to be happy no matter what PP/TOLN does. They aren't going to like the five year jump, they aren't going to like the SORAS'd kids, they aren't going to like the cussing or the nudity or the hotter sex scenes, and they're going to complain endlessly that Tad, Erica, Greenlee, etc. aren't on the show. If they can't have AMC the way they want it, they aren't going to watch, and unfortunately, they aren't going to just shut up about it either.

You're making me sound like one of those fans and I don't even care it isn't available anymore on network TV.

But seriously, folks, I'm way past humoring those who remain ignorant about where, how and when to watch AMC and OLTL. If you're left behind at this point, tough [!@#$%^&*].

Given how incredibly brief their "relationship" was before AMC ended, I think it's too soon to assume anything. I'm still not entirely convinced that that baby was David's.

Erica and Anna didn't put up with BS from David, and they both knew that he wasn't a bad person, but in the end, they couldn't quite cope with his unwillingness to be completely honest with them, whether it was about Dimitri being alive or about what really happened the night Michael Cambias disappeared. And remember, Erica and Anna are/were not "good girls" - they were both schemers in their own right, and they both seemed to enjoy plotting with him whether it was plotting against Edmund and Alex or plotting against Chris Stamp and the Proteus investigation.

When people describe his relationships with Erica and Anna and then tell me they think Cara can hold her own with David and be there long term, I read into it "Cara is a stronger woman than Anna or Erica" and I just don't see that at all. I mean, there's a reason we all called her MasCara.

...Well, good luck with all that.

Ah hell no Cheap. I called the first daily discussion thread way back when.

Anyway, we're back bitches!

I'm just baffled why McPherson was so gosh dang awful on DOOL given the praise nuAMC seems to be getting. Maybe she has a better co-HW to balance her out?

OMG, I can't believe you have to ask this question. We all know Agnes is ghostwriting.

The answer to the first question, and every DOOL question ever, is Ken Corday.

I just got a free one month trial of hulu plus, woohoo

Given how incredibly brief their "relationship" was before AMC ended, I think it's too soon to assume anything. I'm still not entirely convinced that that baby was David's.

Erica and Anna didn't put up with BS from David, and they both knew that he wasn't a bad person, but in the end, they couldn't quite cope with his unwillingness to be completely honest with them, whether it was about Dimitri being alive or about what really happened the night Michael Cambias disappeared. And remember, Erica and Anna are/were not "good girls" - they were both schemers in their own right, and they both seemed to enjoy plotting with him whether it was plotting against Edmund and Alex or plotting against Chris Stamp and the Proteus investigation.

When people describe his relationships with Erica and Anna and then tell me they think Cara can hold her own with David and be there long term, I read into it "Cara is a stronger woman than Anna or Erica" and I just don't see that at all. I mean, there's a reason we all called her MasCara.

Cara isn't a "good girl" either ... She broke Griffin out of the hospital when he was suspected of killing Diana Holden, and lied to immigration authorities when she married Tad to stay in the country. She's also had far worse things to deal with than David Hayward, like a drug cartel being out for her life, leukemia, and being a doctor in warzones with Doctors Without Borders.

Edited April 29, 201312 yr by jfung79

Y'all -- I can't believe this is happening... I used to post here EVERY f'ing day for years when AMC was on... and now I've only been back here and there to check out the Real Housewives thread.

But now I'm back... WE are back to a daily AMC thread. I really never thought this was possible, but I'm so happy I was wrong.

I just sort of wish Erica Kane could be here for it all... but perhaps one day she will!

I can't wait for tomorrow - Long Live AMC!!!

I also am excited about Cara's possibilities with David because along with great passion she has heart, genuine warmth and caring for others, and she's a true professional peer. Their pull is very strong, or it wouldn't have lasted the five years he was gone!