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I rewatched these episodes---they broke my heart. Somehow, Nola had seen Vanessa leave the hospital, and follows her home, and Maeve just lets out this primal scream---chills went down my spine. And knowing the history between them---never quite liking the other and always getting on each other's nerves (to put it mildly)---makes it a much richer moment to have them put it all aside and be there for each other. I've never seen/heard what Maeve thought of the story itself, but she did want a break, so it's not like she was fired and then brought back. Yes, Vanessa could be this stubborn and unwilling to ask for help. She'd pretty much always been an "I can do this on my own" type of woman, although when she first came to town, she would still run to Henry. But after she met Billy, she stopped relying on her father. It's part of the reason she (briefly) got addicted to pills after Bill's birth---she was determined to take care of him all by herself and became obsessed with the idea she was the only one who could. Of course, nothing before to this extreme. I should say, there's no way (IMO) they could've told this story---Vanessa letting her loved ones thinking she'd died---if her father Henry had still been alive. She never would've been able to do that to him. And it does chafe that she's letting Bill believe it, when her mantra had been all about protecting him since the day he was born. I honestly don't recall what I thought about it at the time. But now I'm thrilled she's free of Matt at least. LOL. -
I had no idea Peter Reckell was 70. He doesn’t look or feel it and I guess I thought Bo and Hope were closer in age than 9 years. Wow even the new writers had to have Jack praise Leo. Melissa Reeves continues to slip back in effortlessly as Jennifer. I like Ari and Holly being old friends. Holly learning about John’s death reminded me of how John used to call her Nikki if my memory is serving me right. -
By Paul Raven · Posted
Her husband is Marty Levy. Chocolate Fortunes (her company) was started in 1987. So that explains the mystery of 'Whatever happened to Pam Peters?' She had been running a successful business for decades. -
KMH's Emily was a harbinger for the lack of dignity many characters would face in the last decade of ATWT. On paper, many of the stories given to Melanie Smith's Emily could have been extremely sleazy, but she was treated with respect and understanding in the writing. By 1996 the show went from often not knowing how to write for KMH's Emily to giving her outright reprehensible material. There were breaks from this treatment, but not enough, with even those breaks often being poorly written or just used to make her look even worse (like her grotesque rape story turning into her using her rape to destroy Margo's marriage). By the last years I don't even know what the hell they were doing. Wasn't there some kind of mother-daughter whoring story with Emily and Alison? Wasn't Emily getting beaten up by johns? Whenever I think of how they wrote for KMH's Emily I'm reminded of Pauline Kael's quote about Ann-Margaret's '60s movie persona - calling her "dirty" and saying the people who made the movies "knew what men wanted to do to her." Even as much as ATWT started hiring softcore actors in the mid/late '90s, the Emily treatment was on a whole other level. I have never known what audience they thought they were going to be attracting. -
By Paul Raven · Posted
At this point the options are 1. Leslie is going to be caught out, arrested and jailed. Hit and run, blackmail etc. 2. She gets off due to lack of evidence. Second option keeps her on the show but how are they going to keep her a viable character? No one should want to have anything to do with her. If they keep her around, won't other characters come off looking stupid for putting up with her? I'm interested to see where they go with this character/story and hope not to be disappointed. -
Judging from her breaking down at the end I think Anita is still feeling guilt, but she just wasn't there for the other two seemingly not taking their share of the guilt and she definitely was angry at Sharon's attitude. I didn't see any chemistry between NuTed and Nicole either. It was like Ted was a whole new character. The only interaction that I prefer him is with Andre because he seems to play better off Freeman than Johnson did. I don't mind his interactions with Eva either, but that's because he is playing Ted from the point of just establishing his relationship with Eva and Ambyr Michelle's energy works with Johnson and Robinson. -
That was actually fantastic soap. And once again I strangely found myself on Carly’s side when she outted Nina as part of drugging Drew since Nina was the one to tell Ric about Sasha and Michael. I really was shocked Nina did it because she genuinely felt very close with Sasha.
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All this behind-the-scenes drama, and no one has yet commented on those gloriously soapy scenes of Sasha suddenly going into premature labor in the courtroom and then Willow delivering Michael and Sasha's baby. Willow's been so odious the past few months, it's nice to have them show us (rather than simply tell us) that she's also capable of being a compassionate nurse. -
By slick jones · Posted
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Shelbrede; Burke Gallagher Joseph Papp Public Theater -- Newman Theater A WALK OUT OF WATER 1984 - 85 Pennsylvania Stage Company Allentown, PA SONATA 1985 Joseph Wallace "The Young Playwright's Festival" Playwrights Horizons -- Judy Theater THE DAY ROOM 1987 Grass; Freddie New York City Center -- Stage 1 EL SALVADOR 1987 Fletcher Circle Repertory Theatre DIVISION STREET 1987 McGinn-Cazale Theater AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES 1989 Floyd Circle Repertory Theater GOOD AS NEW 1997 Dennis MCC Theater GLIMMER, GLIMMER AND SHINE 2001 Martin Glimmer New York City Center -- Stage 1 GLIMMER, GLIMMER AND SHINE 2001 Martin Glimmer Mark Taper Forum GLIMMER, GLIMMER AND SHINE 2001 Martin Glimmer Williamstown Theater Festival THE EXONERATED 2002 Ensemble Theatres at 45 Bleecker Bleecker Street Theatre Family Ties Parents -- Mildred Benzeroski and John Speshock II Cousins -- Eileen Kearney, Michael Kearney and the late Mark Kearney among others https://web.archive.org/web/20060519053255/http://b4a.healthyinterest.net/news/archives/2004/10/interview_with_2.html John Spencer, 58; Actor Best Known for Emmy-Winning Role on TV’s ‘The West Wing’ By Valerie J. Nelson Dec. 17, 2005 12 AM PT Times Staff Writer John Spencer, an actor who received an Emmy Award for portraying the flawed but efficient chief of staff who anchored the large ensemble cast on NBC-TV’s “The West Wing,” died Friday morning. He was 58. Spencer died after suffering a heart attack, said Ron Hofmann, his publicist. He said the actor had fallen ill at home and died at Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles. “We’re shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden death of our friend and colleague,” Aaron Sorkin and Tommy Schlamme, executive producers of “The West Wing,” said in a statement. “John was an uncommonly good man, an exceptional role model and a brilliant actor.” On the Emmy-winning hourlong drama that began airing in 1999, Spencer’s character, Leo McGarry, is running for vice president on the Democratic ticket with Rep. Matthew Santos, played by Jimmy Smits. Art sadly imitated life for Spencer. His “West Wing” character was chosen as a running mate despite a recent heart attack and a history of alcoholism. The actor openly acknowledged that he had struggled with alcohol addiction since high school In a statement, Smits said, “I am honored to call John Spencer a friend, and his death is a loss that will be felt for a long time to come. Working with him was a privilege.... John was a true pillar of a man.” The death of an actor while a series is still in production challenges the producers and writers to find a logical plot line for the character’s sudden absence. “The West Wing” will have to deal with the loss because the fictional election is central to the story line. David E. Kelley, a writer and executive producer on “L.A. Law” when Spencer joined that show in 1990, was too upset to speak but issued this statement: “We are all deeply saddened.” James Mangold, who directed Spencer in the 1997 film “Cop Land,” said he first noticed the “brilliant” actor when he played a street-smart attorney on “L.A. Law” on NBC. “He was a kind, sweet, funny man ... a man who made your words come to life in ways you would never expect,” Mangold said. Spencer was born John Speshock on Dec. 20, 1946, the only child of a working-class family. Most sources give his birthplace as New York City, but some say New Jersey. His mother, Mildred, was an occasional waitress and homemaker who dropped out of school in the eighth grade. His truck driver father, John, never finished grammar school. “They wanted me to be educated, a doctor or a lawyer. They weren’t happy that I chose the arts,” the gravelly voiced Spencer told the Chicago Tribune in 1992. “They wanted me to have a good life. It’s ironic that I made the leap in a different way,” he said. As a student at the Professional Children’s School in New York City, he sometimes took classes with Liza Minnelli. At 16, he left his home near Paterson, N.J., to pursue acting in New York City and took Spencer as his stage name. “I lived at the YMCA,” he recalled. “My mom would meet me at the bus station and slip me $10.” In the early 1960s, he landed his first television role, on “The Patty Duke Show” on ABC. He played Henry Anderson, the boyfriend of Cathy, the British twin. “I had big ears and was quite tall for the show, 5-foot, 6 inches,” Spencer recalled in 2000. “I looked like a toothpick with ears.” After that, he attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and later New York University but dropped out to return to acting. Most of his early work was on the stage, where he established himself as a character actor in regional theater. He toured with Gloria Swanson, playing her blind son in “Butterflies Are Free.” In 1982, he received an Obie for his portrayal of a returning Vietnam veteran in the Emily Mann off-Broadway play “Still Life.” Mann also offered him the role of killer Dan White in “Execution of Justice,” her stage re-creation of the 1978 murders in San Francisco of political figures George Moscone and Harvey Milk. “Still Life” led to his first film role, as a military grunt in 1983’s “WarGames.” His big break in the movies came in the 1990 film “Presumed Innocent.” He played Harrison Ford’s detective sidekick, the man who tosses the incriminating piece of evidence overboard at the end of the courtroom thriller. “My life changed overnight,” he told Time magazine in 2000. From there, he went directly to the NBC hit “L.A. Law.” Casting director Ronnie Yeskel knew Spencer’s work from the theater. “He’s dangerous and interesting, not your typical pretty boy, and he’s got great humor,” Yeskel said in 1992. “We were looking for somebody different from the cast, an older guy, maybe with a little more ‘street.’ ” Although Spencer was hesitant to join the series, Kelley’s script convinced him otherwise. “I got five pages into it, and it was one of the best scripts I’d read. David had got inside my head. He wrote it like I thought,” Spencer told the Chicago Tribune. He joined “L.A. Law” in 1990 as maverick lawyer Tommy Mullaney and stayed until the show’s end in 1994. Spencer claimed Mullaney’s rumpled look was based on his own wardrobe. Spencer, whose grandfathers were both alcoholics, said he woke up one morning in 1989 and decided to quit drinking. He called a cousin to take him to a rehabilitation center. A decade later, Spencer gave up smoking. In his 40-year career, he also worked with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery in the action-suspense film “The Rock” (1996) and with Paul Newman in the 1998 private-eye yarn “Twilight.” After appearing in the short-lived NBC series “Trinity” in 1998, Spencer swore off doing hourlong dramas but once again changed his mind when his agent showed him the pilot script for “The West Wing.” The role would bring him five Emmy nominations, including a win in 2002. Right after he signed the contract for the pilot, his agent called again to say he’d just come across “the best new American play” he’d ever read, called “The Glimmer Brothers,” Spencer told The Times in 2001. Again, it was a role that Spencer felt he couldn’t pass up. He played Martin Glimmer, a dissolute trumpet player who’s about to pay the final dues of a hard life, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts during “The West Wing’s” summer hiatus in 1999. Two years later, he revived his well-reviewed role in “Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine” -- same play, different title -- at the Mark Taper Forum while filming “The West Wing.” During the play, his role on the show was cut back, but Martin Sheen, who portrays President Josiah Bartlet on “The West Wing,” told The Times in 2001 that he noticed no difference in life on the set with Spencer. “He’s extremely energetic; he’s got it down -- I can barely keep up with the show,” Sheen said. “I don’t know how he does it, but man, he’s doing it.” Spencer’s publicist said he is survived by many cousins, aunts and uncles. Funeral arrangements are pending. * John Spencer was an everyday journeyman actor that always stood out in a scene. His time on the West Wing was nothing short of outstanding. He portrayed McGarry with Gusto. His emphatic delivery was always on point. The gleam in his eye as he delivered Sorkin's words with reverence always made my father smile. For that, I will always be grateful. THE OTHER MENDORRAN PRINCE JOSEPH KOLINSKI 6/26/1953 - Present ONE LIFE TO LIVE Prince Roland Hohenstein 1990 Appeared in 3 shows in the LAW AND ORDER Franchise between 2004 and 2006. Appeared on the series ALPHA HOUSE in 2014. Television Special MACY'S 21ST ANNUAL 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR Self 1997 movie ANASTASIA Ensemble (V) 1997 BROADWAY BRIGADOON 10/16/1980 - 2/8/1981 Singer; Understudy -- Charlie Dalyrimple DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER 5/11/1983 Heinrich Halloway THE HUMAN COMEDY 4/5/1984 - 4/15/1984 Tobey THE THREE MUSKETEERS 11/11/1984 - 11/18/1984 The Duke of Buckingham LES MISÉRABLES 3/12/1987 - 5/18/2003 Chain Gang; Sailor; Young Man; Feuilly; Replacement -- Enjolras; Understudy -- Enjolras; Marius TITANIC 4/23/1997 - 3/21/1999 Benjamin Guggenhem; 3rd Class Passenger; Replacement -- Thomas Andrews; Understudy -- Captain E. J. Smith; Thomas Andrews; Understudy / Replacement -- Isidor Strauss SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS 10/29/2003 - 11/23/2003 Standby -- Michael Minetti FOLLIES 9/12/2011 - 1/22/2012 Understudy -- Buddy Plummer; Benjamin Stone; Max Deems; Dimitri Weissmann; Theodore Whitman TOURING A CHRISTMAS CAROL 10/30/1981 - 12/20/1981 Young Scrooge # 2; 3rd Change Man; Townsperson; Guest at Fred's THEATER HIJINKS! 1980 Captain Jacks Westside Arts Theatre -- Cheryl Crawford Theatre FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 1981 Perchik Darien Dinner Theatre Darien, CT JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR 1982 Jesus of Nazareth Artpark Lewiston, NY MAN OF LA MANCHA 1983 Anselmo Boston Opera House THE HUMAN COMEDY 1984 Tobey Royale Theatre SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE 1984 Replacement -- Dennis; Franz Booth Theatre, NYC KUNI-LEML 1985 Birmingham, MI CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS, THE MUSICAL 1992 Ford's Theatre Washington, D. C. A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A NEW MUSICAL (World Premiere) 1994 Mr. Smythe The Theatre at Madison Square Garden NYC EVITA 1996 Che Pickard Theater at Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME COMPANY 1999 Larry Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center Nyack, NY MAME 2000 Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center Nyack, NY SOUTH PACIFIC 2001 Emile De Becque McGinnis Auditorium Greenville NC A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A NEW MUSICAL 2001 Mr. Smythe The Theatre at Madison Square Garden NYC TIME AND AGAIN 2001 New York City Center -- Stage II RAGTIME 2002 Father Gateway Playhouse Bellport, NY THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE (Staged Reading) 2002 Dodger Stages NYC REQUIEM FOR WILLIAM 2003 Connelly Theatre NYC THE BOY IN THE BASEMENT Spencer Scranton ROCKET BOYS: THE MUSICAL 2005 Ike Bykovski (Workshop Production) ASCAP Building NYC DANGEROUS BEAUTY (Staged Reading) 2006 New World Stages NYC ALL THE WAY HOME 2006 Ralph Follet The Connelly Theatre A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE 2006 Jonathan Rebeck York Theatre at Saint Peter's THE MOLLY MAGUIRES (World Premiere) 2007 Ensemble The F. 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Having skipped through it, I hadn't realized that was Tony and Annabelle's baby either. I'm not fond of this Reva story either. Sorry, it's tough for me to believe Reva would jump into the river because Kyle left her. (Although, it was kind of ironic having her find out Hawk had been paid to come to town, much like she'd been paid to come to town and break up Billy and Vanessa.) 1986 is suddenly revolving about strangers. Calla and Jessie, Simon, Maeve, Jackson. Yikes. Whatever Kim's ego, I have to believe she respected vets. And they arrived at around the same time. Neither was taking the other's airtime.
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