Members slick jones Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 @ajsp35801 Frank Lewis (Brock Peters) was Carl's boss. His daughter Amy came on as Paul and Andy's assistant. There was a Loretta Lewis, Frank's wife in a 1982 episode crawl. I can't recall the actress's name. I started watching around 83, and I remember Amy dating Jazz and Tyron Jackson, as well as Kong, whose real name was Nathan Hastings (you know where that went.) I think Amy was a friend of Traci's, but I'm not sure. Actress Stephanie Williams left to join GH as Simone around 1988 or 89. Both were on contract for several years (Amy and Frank). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 Yeah, I discuss some of this in my post on the previous page. Amy and Traci were friends, Amy was also friends with Danny Romalotti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ajsp35801 Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 I have heard about the white face mob story with Tyrone. Thank you. How many illiterate black characters did this show need? Thank you. This was a bit before my time. Now I get why you guys say Neil, as a businessman, was something new for the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 Apparently too many. It seems to have become something of a soap trope with black characters. Also something I vaguely remembered: since Stephanie Williams was a dancer/choreographer in real life (she had been on the TV series Fame, based on the 1980 film), there were scenes where she would be in a studio, working out at the barre. AFAIK, Amy had no aspirations to be a ballerina like Dru but I think the show decided to incorporate some of her dance background into random scenes on the show sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sd77 Posted March 14, 2019 Members Share Posted March 14, 2019 Amy sounds really interesting. Thanks for the info. I do remember Simone on GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 I don't think that Amy got an exit.Like many others she just stopped appearing. I do recall her popping up months later for a few eps then disappearing again. Who knows what Bill Bell was thinking/planning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 No problem. In retrospect, there was more that could've been done with the character but as a little girl, seeing her onscreen made an impression on me. In those days too, it seemed as if characters mingled a lot more back then. Yeah, a lot of soaps strangely did this with some of their characters. On ATWT, I noticed this with a number of their black characters, they'd simply disappear. I'm honestly curious about the mindset behind this thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sd77 Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 Yeah, I can imagine that the writing for her was not up to par in comparison to other characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ajsp35801 Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 I'm intrigued. I'm going to look for some clips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 Amy did indeed perform with Danny & the gang but not until later during her run. Amy was in a relationship with Tyrone (they were intended to become a supercouple). Unfortunately Phil Lewis left the show (as did Jon St. Elwood). So Bill had Stephanie & Nathan slowly become involved as he turned his life around. Stephanie Williams was lovely. Unfortunately Y&R was never as invested in her relationship with Nathan as they were with her pairing with Tyrone (for a myriad of reasons). By the time Amy became involved with Nathan her father (Brock Peters) was being phased out (when Paul Andy Nathan & Amy went into Miami Vice mode) too. So Stephanie eventually left for greener pastures (working on other soaps with the occasional bit parts in film & television). She briefly returned after leaving (to visit Nathan) only to leave once again a few months before Liv & Dru arrived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ajsp35801 Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 What do you percieve those reasons to be? I'm very curious. Way before my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 Alexia Robinson (Alex) was on contract as were Michelle Thomas & Siena Goines (the original & recast actresses who played Callie). Stephanie was intended to be a contract role but Vivica quickly became a film star as was Wanda Acuna (who was eventually replaced by a white actress). Vicki's original run ended in 98, she then returned & left (with Brooke Marie Bridges) in 2000, then returned again in 2002. Tonya was on contract until 2005 when the writers just let her fade away. There were a several Black actresses (both older & younger) who were recurring (including Candice Patton) but Y&R never bumped them to contract status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 I recall an episode that had Amy running a dance class and Lauren visited her to discuss Traci. They showed Amy leading the class and displaying some moves. It was all very 'ONJ Physical' as that was big around that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 Nathan Purdee was older, darker & they happened during a very chaotic time during Y&R's history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 15, 2019 Members Share Posted March 15, 2019 I remember Fay Hauser, with the grey eyes was a character on the force who worked with Paul's father Carl. Part of me really wanted her to turn out to be Tyler and Leslie Michaelson's mother. It might have been a nice nod. Maybe create one of those gauzy flashbacks to when Tyler and Leslie's mother was alive or show a photograph and have it turn out to be Fay Hauser's character. I guess most of Y&R's current viewers would have missed the reference but I swear every time I saw Redaric Williams on screen, I was struck by how cool it would've been if he and Angell Conwell's characters were related to Fay Hauser's Y&R character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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