LIFETIME: "Ladies of the 80's: A Diva's Christmas"

[dragonflies]

I will be SEATED for this!

 

 

 

[Soapsuds]

https://deadline.com/2023/10/lifetime-christmas-movie-80s-divas-loni-anderson-morgan-fairchild-linda-gray-donna-mills-nicollette-sheridan-1235561959/?fbclid=IwAR3eVODZzcNZeQq7oB_F6jXNZg59QKg3uNtjmJAbgbeezvSdDUa0HsTLKj8

 

Lifetime To Air ’80s Themed Holiday Movie With Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray,Donna Mills & Nicollette Sheridan

Edited October 3, 2023 by Soapsuds

[DaytimeFan]

One of the comments on the Deadline article took the words out of my mouth: they must have offered the Loni Anderson part to Dame Joan Collins first and she turned them down or they couldn't reach terms...Loni is not known for a prime time soaps in the slightest.

[Soapsuds]

Linda Gray(Sue Ellen) and Christopher Atkins(Peter) will be reunited.

Patrika Darbo from Days in the movie as well.

I would've been great to have Joan in the movie.

[Soapsuds]

Oops! I didn't see your post.

@Errol or @Toups can you merge the threads? Thanks!

[Khan]

Please let there be a Donna/Nicollette confrontation as good as this one:

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[Soapsuds]

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[DRW50]

The most I recall was a very short stint on Melrose, and certainly no one remembers Loni from Melrose Place's dying years.

I wonder if Susan Lucci was asked to play this part too.

[Soapsuds]

https://ew.com/tv/ladies-of-the-80s-lifetime-movie-first-look-photos/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&utm_content=manual&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=651c3f353ba4d00001ae632e&fbclid=IwAR1-5PncjWJ9RR3S88wbDVG8PjZ_kXq9FAgm8wZr782le1TJv_KPpB2ZWhk

[Soaplovers]

Loni Anderson should have been on a primetime soap.. I'm remembering her stint on Tori Spelling 'So Notorious' as her 'mom' and she could throw shade with ease.  She'll have no problems fitting in with these women.

[Khan]

It's hard for me to picture Loni with the rest of this cast just because I don't automatically think of her when I think of "ladies of the '80's."  "WKRP in Cincinnati" was her claim to fame; and that, IMO, was more of a '70's show than an '80's one.

[Vee]

Poor Linda Gray looks frail in that sidelong shot of the women. But my mother is also that thin these days near that age and she's doing okay, so who knows.

Oh God. The Loni/Denise Richards double act story. That was a nadir moment for the show (and actually in the back half of Season 4 IIRC, which wasn't quite the dying days but it was a rough patch and got rougher down the road).

[DRW50]

Loni never found another part as good as Jennifer. She was in so many TV-movies and failed shows or dying shows (the one that interests me most is her show with Lynda Carter - not enough to actually watch it, admittedly). By the '80s she seemed to be more known for her marriage. 

Sometimes I forget Linda is 83 now. I don't know how these ladies do it.

You're right that Melrose went on for a number of years after that. I think that's when I stopped watching.

Edited October 5, 2023 by DRW50

[Contessa Donatella]

Just looking at the picture ... Morgan Fairchild played the lead Racine, in Paper Dolls, and Nicolette Sheridan was introduced in that show. 

And, another thing, this year during PRIDE I learned that Linda Gray was the first person to play a transgender character in a Norman Lear primetime soap that I would kill to get to see, All That Glitters & I believe it was as early as 1977. 

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Edited October 5, 2023 by Donna L. Bridges
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[te.]

From recent interviews Linda's sounds and moves around fine. She's just on the thin side and at that age it makes you look more frail than you are.