I recall Wings Hauser did an interview around the 25th anniversary of Y&R and about his time on the show, he said something like " I learned to never do soaps again. Any actor who says they are hard work is full of it. It's a hair show. Years later he sucked it up and reappeared as Greg Foster during that awful story of killing off Liz to make Jill a Fenmore. Melody Thomas Scott never mentions him in interviews EVER. 

 

 

1 minute ago, SoapDope said:

I recall Wings Hauser did an interview around the 25th anniversary of Y&R and about his time on the show, he said something like " I learned to never do soaps again. Any actor who says they are hard work is full of it. It's a hair show. Years later he sucked it up and reappeared as Greg Foster during that awful story of killing off Liz to make Jill a Fenmore. Melody Thomas Scott never mentions him in interviews EVER. 

 

 

Wasn't he the guy who was later on Roseanne?

Just now, amybrickwallace said:

Wasn't he the guy who was later on Roseanne?

Yes. I think he was let go on that show. He comes across as egotistical. He has mainly made a career out of playing psychos after leaving Y&R. He was so miscast as Greg. 

Thank you. His name sounds like a special you'd get at a chicken place. 

1 minute ago, amybrickwallace said:

Thank you. His name sounds like a special you'd get at a chicken place. 

😄

While many recurring/guest stars were invited back to the Roseanne/The Conners reboot, he wasn't one of them. Supposedly, he said some unflattering things about Roseanne and her then-husband, Tom Arnold, to the press back in the day. Another bridge burned behind him.

IIRC some of the recurring players during that era (Danielle Harris who played Molly being one) said he was a nightmare.

He doesn't come across too well in this article, either:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/archive/wings-of-desire-vol-40-no-22/amp/

These people find each other...

 

Why would you go anywhere near someone that has been married 3 times? and claims to distrust women!

3 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Why would you go anywhere near someone that has been married 3 times? and claims to distrust women!

 

Major red flags, for sure. Wings is currently married to his fourth wife. Linda has still never married (maybe by choice).

On 2/15/2019 at 8:48 PM, dragonflies said:

I remember once Guza saying in an interview that he'd write whatever he wants and will not write what the fans want.

 

I also remember Pratt telling All My Children actors forget what they know about their character's, I think La Lucci said that in an interview 

 

I have never appreciated Guza's writing or style, but at least I can objectively admit that he had some success at times in daytime TV.

 

Pratt, on the other other, was an abject failure everywhere, and should NEVER have been given free reign to run any show.

On 2/15/2019 at 9:18 PM, SoapDope said:

I recall Wings Hauser did an interview around the 25th anniversary of Y&R and about his time on the show, he said something like " I learned to never do soaps again. Any actor who says they are hard work is full of it. It's a hair show. Years later he sucked it up and reappeared as Greg Foster during that awful story of killing off Liz to make Jill a Fenmore. Melody Thomas Scott never mentions him in interviews EVER. 

 

 

 

Wings Hauser was woefully miscast as Greg Foster: he was smarmy, unlikable, oozed creepiness, and was homely as hell. Yuck.

Edited February 17, 20196 yr by vetsoapfan

I remember a Kate Mulgrew interview early in Voyager's run, I think with Michael Logan, where she complained about being remembered more for being on Ryan's Hope than for her other work, like Hedda Gabler. Some of the soap press names of the era, like Mimi Torchin, were clearly not pleased, passive-aggressively claiming that it was no big deal while listing all the examples of why Mulgrew's career had not been up to much between RH and Star Trek. (the irony being that everything in how Torchin ran SPW at the time gave me the vibe that she herself was pretty much sick of soaps) 

 

Given that Kate did return to RH multiple times and also conducted an invaluable interview with Claire Labine before Labine passed away, I guess it was either just Logan (or whoever) muckraking, or she was just fed up at the time. 

7 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

I have never appreciated Guza's writing or style, but at least I can objectively admit that he had some success at time in daytime TV.

 

Pratt, on the other other, was an abject failure everywhere, and should NEVER have been given free reign to run any show.

 

Wings Hauser was woefully miscast as Greg Foster: he was smarmy, unlikable, oozed creepiness, and was homely as hell. Yuck.

 

I agree about Wings. Linda Blair seems to hook up with the wrong men. At 15 she was with the much older Rick Springfield, she then moved on to Tommy Shaw of Styx,  Rick James (I bet that was a nightmare), then crazy Wings Hauser. 

Jim Houghton was a much better Greg Foster. I remember, in 2010 when Wings Hauser returned, thinking that Greg had aged horribly and looked like he, instead of his mother Liz, should be laying in the hospital bed.  This was especially noticeable when compared to Houghton’s  looks when he had reprised the role in 2003.

3 hours ago, Eboneece said:

Jim Houghton was a much better Greg Foster. I remember, in 2010 when Wings Hauser returned, thinking that Greg had aged horribly and looked like he, instead of his mother Liz, should be laying in the hospital bed.  This was especially noticeable when compared to Houghton’s  looks when he had reprised the role in 2003.

I agree. Several people commented on how Wings looked when he returned. I always picture Jim Houghton in the role when I think about the character of Greg. JH and Melody Thomas Scott would have made a stunning soap couple if he had continued playing the part.

Edited February 16, 20196 yr by SoapDope