Thank you, soulster & misty.
I kinda get that he would be spiritual, he's sexy too, lol!!
Would be great to see him work more. Great actor, I agree.
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Thank you, soulster & misty.
I kinda get that he would be spiritual, he's sexy too, lol!!
Would be great to see him work more. Great actor, I agree.
S.S.
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He's very cool.
Sadly a lot of the viewers don't seem to like it. On message board they often whine and complain about the very idea of it. On DOOL when it looked like Abe and Kayla were going to hang out, people didn't like it. They also had a crying fit over an ATWT story with Doc Reese/Jessica/Margo. Not surprisingly when the show ended, the cast seemed to be completely white--something that was truly shocking in this day and age.
It's kind of interesting that Hollywood would force every other thing on the viewers except that. C'mon! You know a lot of them would bellyache about gay relationships but you still see a lot of them on the screen, healthy ones, too.
From the message boards I read, the complaints were almost always exclusively from the south. So, why can't these people be dragged into the 21st century? Or...maybe it's the writers and producers who have a problem with it. There is still a lot of racism in the TV industry.
Well, some of it goes deeper. There's some unhinged people out there. [[on Y&R) back in the late 90's, when Neil and Victoria were invovled, Kristoff St. John and Heather Tom received threats during that storyline.... I am told that is one of the main reasons it ended.
Hey jillfoster. I agree with you about production values. One of the things I love about B&B is how beautiful it is to watch. Brad Bell really believes in exteriors opening up the show - and the houses we use for location shoots are usually his! Saves money.
I was never a fan of JPF's musical choices, but she takes a lot of pride in them. Whatever.
Re 30 minute format - It would definitely save money. The newly rebooted AMC and OLTL are both 30 minutes, I believe. I could be wrong. On the other hand, there's a bit of a resurgence in soaps' popularity right now, so if we can hang on to that upswing - it might not matter. There's a lot to be said for the 30 minute format though. It moves right along, no time for stuff that doesn't matter.
Death threats. Many, many actors get death threats for a variety of reasons, and it didn't stop them from doing what they do. On top of that, someone should have made an effort to track these people down and arrest them. Since they have mixed couple on other soaps, methinks there were people on the inside that just didn't want it. They backed off too easily. Haters gonna hate!
I think it's a combination of both. I just don't think a lot of those folks in that old boy's network wanted to see interracial dating or an ethnic leading man. I can think of many instances where it was feasible--but didn't happen and sadly it's often to the detriment of character development, ratings and simply moving forward.
I can't speak specifically to that incident, as I wasn't involved with that show. But my experience has been it's not so much the old boy's network [[actually, the daytime divisions of most networks were being run by women at that point) or conscious hating. More of an apathy that became harder and harder to penetrate. I mean, I never heard an edict from the network that we couldn't put black men with white women or play an interracial couple. But I think the failure of Generations - which was a bi-racial show both in front of and behind the cameras and a grand experiment - made it easier for the networks to justify not putting black people front and center. [[Well, it was there and nobody watched so...)
Side note and credit where it's due: When Claire Labine came on to headwrite GH, she promptly created a black family - the Wards - and connected them to the Quartermaines. That kept them on the front burner for years. Eventually, through regime changes, they disappeared but she did do that and the network didn't object.
That's very interesting. I remember Generations, I liked it, it was probably on a few years too soon. In the world, some things seemed to change very quickly from say 1990 to 1992-93. Really the problem for me in Generations were [[ha!) some of the white characters. I couldn't bare them. I was watching a clip and I had forgotten that James Reynolds was over there for a while....
Yep, the Wards, they were very well executed. Regime changes...that's a thing that's often forgotten about...
That's why I always thought, too, zebop. Generations was ahead of its time. I'll tell you what though - it was a great show to work on. My first staff job in daytime. Sally Sussman who created and headwrote it was a fantastic mentor. She encouraged me to come to layout meetings [[script writers usually don't) and learn how it all comes together. Her philosophy was - there was no such thing as a dumb idea, because it might lead to something brilliant. And there was a feeling of family there like I've never experienced before because we were underdogs. Living under the constant threat of cancellation but we believed in what we were doing and that made us close. Vivica Fox is still one of my best friends. Great experience. Too bad it didn't last.
Yeah, Generations had some real memorable entertainment.. LOVE this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqJhp6fScQk
The show had really good energy. I remember reading about Sally Sussman in People magazine when the show was just debuting. Vivica was very good on the show, she and Kristoff St. John made a nice couple.
Heh, nice clip, I knew Kristoff St. John was going to be the one who found them.
jillfoster - I wrote that script! LOL
That's just so good, I never get tired of seeing it! "Come get me, BITCH!"... and "Let go of my hair, or I'll make you eat it!". I bet that scene was a toughie to block.
Hi MVJ!! Been watchin' GH back when Lucille was running the 7th floor Nurse's Station, LOL!!! Me and my soapbuds have been following you [[and we could tell when it was you that wrote particular dialogue, LOL!) ever since your name first showed up in the closing credits.. I can't wait til these transplants from OLTL are gone - to me it was just awful to stick them in PC - [[I hate "crossovers" - they never work for me)....I also hate this stupid "vampire" SL..Stopped watching PC when they first introduced it, and was glad when it finally got cancelled......I'm glad to see the "vets" coming back to GH though....But can you tell me what happened to the character of Lucas, Bobbie and Tony's son? He went to camp and never came back?
jillfoster - Thanks! That was so much fun to write. I remember when they taped it, all work stopped in the writers room and we all just stared in disbelief. I mean, they seriously tore that set up! LOL!
Hi GrtGzu. Lucille! I remember her. Used to watch with my grandmother. And Jesse Brewer with her blue cardigan.
I have to give Ron & Frank credit. Before they took over, GH was going off the cliff and when that happens, it's almost impossible to pull it back. So love what they're doing or hate it - at least the show is relevant again. We don't want to lose any more. And I agree - it's great to see the vets. Balances things out a bit.
As for Lucas - I guess it's sort of like that kid on AMC who went up to the attic for skis and never came back down. I honestly don't remember what happened to Lucas.
And thanks for the support. :)
In all my years on GH, this was probably my most satisfying moment as a writer. Be warned: terrible video quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeOYg...&feature=share
Thanks zebop & soulster. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, Tony was fantastic.
If you're interested and have about a half hour, here's an interview I did yesterday, mostly about GH because of the 50th anniversary, but other stuff too.
http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.co...areer-in-soaps
Very nice podcast Misty!!!!! I still think Guza, oh well nevermind.....
What a great interview, MistyGirl!!! I loved it. You have a great laugh and you gave a lot of good insight. I so agree with your comments at the end about "Revenge", Scandal", etc., being soaps. It's ironic ABC has 3 good nightime ones with "Scandal", "Revenge" & "Nashville". They're ratings hits for the network. Too bad ABC was so short sighted when they cancelled "All My Childen" & "One Life To Live". If they have any sense, they'll bring them back to the network where they belong. So superior to cooking and talk shows.
"Dallas" is back on TNT, yet another soap. You and everyone involved in bringing us daytime dramas over the years deserve so much credit for taking on contoversial subjects long before nightime TV touched them. You were and are groundbreakers with much of the best acting and writing on TV in the daytime soaps.
As a fan, I want more, not less, and I hope the networks will keep coming at us with more nightime soaps.
I have to post the link to your interview on my FB page. So proud of you, My Friend.:cool:
~~Mary~~
You watching the Dallas Reboot too Mary??? Join the club...I've been WELDED to the tv on Mon. nights now....I still remember when me and my cousin RACED home to her house when the original aired back in the 80's, lol!!
Now I have to watch on Mondays, and still go back and do the On Demand thing by the weekend to "go over some things".....I'm really enjoying it...
Hi GrtGzu,
I'm watching "Dallas" when I remember on Monday nights. lol The reason being the real housewives shows on Bravo are my guilty pleasure. Talk about soap operas!! Those shows are the real thing. hahahaha They come on opposite each other, so I try to catch "Dallas" later in the evening when they repeat it.
~~Mary~~
Great Interviw, Misty!
Loved the story about your Mom & Rosalind Cash. She was an amazing actress, loved her presence on the big screen, all the way back to "Klute". She had a prolific career.
I LOVED "Santa Barbara" and missed it when it went off the air.
I've been saying to Mary for months; "What the heck is ABC doing?!" They have the '3 top network shows' yet they keep cutting them off and putting on repeats instead of new episodes. GEEZ! "Revenge" is the bomb!!!!!!!!!! :)
Guuurl............you need to write that book starting with the music biz in the 1960's at the Regal Theater. [[Oh, yea!)
Keep up the great work. I'll be looking for you on the B & B.
{{{BIG HUGS}}},
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I really liked that podcast Misty, love hearing about the Dobsons.
And I checked out Bold and the Beautiful. That's a really good show. I saw a scene with 4 or 5 black actors and couldn't believe how authentic and not corny the characters were. Only if another soaps had done that.
Thanks you guys for listening. I don't usually do interviews anymore but the GH 50th seemed like a good reason. So glad you liked it.
zebop - so happy you're enjoying B&B. It's a little powerhouse of a show. Proud to be on it. And I agree - our black characters are very real.
soul sister - Right. The book. LOL! When I retire.
mary - thanks for posting it on your fb page. I have a feeling ABC might be feeling a little dumb right now about cancelling AMC & OLTL. They lost a lot of viewers in those hours and now there's all this excitement around the reboot. Then again, they stand to make billions off what Prospect Park is doing - so they're probably not crying too hard.
Just watching B & B, cracked-up....love the line "Rick, life's a bitch so why would you want to be with one!" HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA!!!
Misty, did you write that?
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Hey Misty - I heard [[rather read) that the Prospect Park thing is a bust, and some of the actors are coming back to GH under different characters!....I can't IMAGING how they're gonna pull this off...
But I've been having a BALL watching the GH 50th anniversary all this past weekend....It was nice to catch up with some things, since I never purchased the GH Bible....
GrtGzu, the Prospect Park thing is very much a go. They've got the first AMC episodes in the can and are taping OLTL right now. [[they'll be alternating). The thing with the GH actors is a licensing matter. PP owns the rights to the OLTL characters those actors have been portraying on GH and they want them back. ABC owns the contracts with the actors - who don't want to leave GH. So the compromise was - they could stay on GH, only they'd have to be different characters since McBain, Todd and Starr are critical to OLTL. Hope that made sense. It's crazy but that's what's going on. And the fans know about it and are willing to accept whatever, as long as they get their cancelled soaps back and are able to keep seeing Roger Howath, Michael Easton and Starr Anderson [[Alderson?) on GH.
No, SS. That wasn't me. Funny though. :)
From the One Life To Live Continues fb page:
Every One you can watch the new OLTL starting on April 29th at 12pm on these sites on-line:
Free: Hulu.com
Pay: HuluPlus.com
Pay: Itunes.com
All My Children starts on the same date with the same options to view.
Thanks Misty. I've got to say this is so crazy, great but crazy. I'm glad they are able to do this, both shows still have life in them.
I've seen some of the new Dallas. Its not bad, but I am curious to see how long it will last now that Larry Hagman is gone.
Needless to say the original Dallas is a classic. I miss that show.
Does anyone here watch and follow "Coronation Street"?
Oddly enough, I only liked the season without Bobby and the one with Donna Reed as Miss Ellie. Crazy I know. I don't know what they are do without Larry Hagman, it's a shame.
I'm in the US I don't think they've shown episodes here.