Post by Niki on Mar 31, 2008 12:37:03 GMT -5
The story of Erica going on the lam with Carmen grabbed Susan Lucci the right way. She likened the fun and the adventure of it all to the movie Thelma & Louise and the long-running TV sitcom I Love Lucy. She also said the crew are all on board with the story that enables her character to come back to her glory. And for that, she’s fully on board. “She’s being perfectly Erica Kane. It’s the real Erica Kane – the one that fans have been hungry for. And I have, too, I must say!” –Soap Opera Digest, April 1, 2008
Walt Willey (Jackson) joked around about his character’s inevitabilities. Sure as the sun rises and sets, his character’s future depends upon his co-star Susan Lucci’s (Erica) availability. If she’s on vacation or busy elsewhere, chances are, he joshed, he won’t have many scenes, if any. While he’s joking, he also made fun of quite possibly the worst thing the media or camera-wielding fans could capture… if he attempted to try on skinny jeans from his youth. Or how about breaking out in pimples right before a scheduled love scene?
Cady McClain reprises Dixie for a short term, as Tad’s angel starting May 2nd. Dixie’s spirit will assist Tad in a journey toward his and her daughter Kate, aka Kathy. According to McClain on her March 24th blog entry, executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers reached out to her at a fortuitous time—when she had taken a break for a fibroid-removal procedure. McClain encouraged fans to tune in and give her return story a chance, even if it’s only—for now—for a little while, and as a spirit, not a real person. She sounded as if the status could change later on down the line.
McClain also had an arts and poetry book of her own published on March 7th, entitled “Conversations with the Invisible,” her first of three due out, available for purchase and signing (send it with SASE to Cady McClain, P.O. Box 515, Nyack, NY 10960). The book’s deeply personal contents, she explained, are not for children, but for those 16 and over, and possessed of an open mind. “There is a LOT of thought behind every image, every word,” she wrote in her blog on March 15th. “I also have tried my best to make it as beautiful as possible while being as affordable as possible. The entire cost goes to the cost of publishing. However, for every book sold, I am going to personally contribute 5 dollars to the Christian Children’s Fund, in the hope that another child can have a chance at a hopeful and beautiful future, despite what is no doubt, a tough childhood.” Much of her themes center around her strange, scary and wonderful childhood, and her complicated relationship with her father.
Stay tuned next week, as McClain extrapolated to the soap press about what went wrong the last, previous time she inhabited Dixie from the dead, and how the story seemed to focus more on her mistakes and her shortcomings than anything else.
How does one translate the fun and frivolity BFFs Alicia Minshew (Kendall) and Rebecca Budig (Greenlee) are having right now? Budig said that she is fond of text-messaging goofy stuff to Minshew goofing on her. Budig will take Minshew’s advice on what to order at a restaurant—Minshew knows these things and Budig’s not been in the city for awhile—like trout almondine. And then she’ll give a text-messaged report later, misnaming the trout turbit, back and forth furiously, and then winding down with fond goodbyes along the lines of, “I’m going to sleep now. I really hate you.” It was better than the alterative, “I’m sending my fish skins to your house.” –Soap Opera Digest, April 1, 2008
Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High juvenile book series has been re-released by the Random House publishers, with Leven Rambin (Lily/Ava) gracing the covers.
Rambin – touted as the next designer trend in high-youth-pop society – is into punking the media, ala Ashton Kutcher’s Pop Fiction. She pondered the best way to do that while speaking with a New York Magazine reporter. “I’d have to think of something really creative and mind-f*cking. Maybe if I adopted a child, like a foreign child, and carried it around and took it to work and took it to a Teen Vogue party. That’d be pretty funny.” I dunno. That sounds pretty effed up to me.
Gossip for the week of 31-Mar-2008
by Carol Banks Weber
Beefing up the rumor of strife between Leven Rambin (Lily/Ava) and Jeff Branson (Jonathan), because of the l’enfant terrible’s allegedly outspoken, obnoxious behavior… comes the latest post-guest-starring stint on the new primetime drama, Lipstick Jungle. Seemed Rambin mouthed off about one of the stars, Brooke Shields, and her supposed fascination with the self-tanner. Rambin claimed to the press recently that Shields held up production because of this self-tanner fascination, which turned her face orange. Here’s what Daytime Confidential reported on March 24th: “Shields reps released a statement to MSNBC.com refuting Rambin's clams. ‘This is totally not true,’ said Shields rep. ‘I don't think Brooke has ever used self-tanner, much less allowed herself to turn orange from it. Please.’” Rambin’s the same actress who said it’s not nice to burn bridges in a New York Magazine blog, the Daily Intel (March 26th). Hah!
Former head writer Megan McTavish is allegedly so not beloved in the soap industry that there exists a possible “McTavish clause” in some ABC Daytime writers’ contracts allowing them to quit if she came back on the scene, Soap Opera Digest (April 8) reported. With all due respect, the problem isn’t just McTavish, it’s the MENSA geniuses who continually offer this woman head-writing jobs, knowing what they should know of her past work. Take a look at the sinking ship of DOOL, if you don’t get my drift.
I just witnessed the worst con job in the world on Thursday’s, March 27th episode. Tad and Aidan trying to show what great, witty mates they are, one laying on the thick British bloke’s accent, the other completely incomprehensible in his Queen’s English. Tres embarrassing. No wonder no soap columnist in her right mind would bother commenting on this dreck of a soap opera. And yeah, I miss Sabine Singh (ex-Greenlee II), too.
Y’know, I could never really understand columnists who profess orgasmic delight in the return of the bitch in their soaps. The same mean, pointless, defensive posturing, the same mean, pointless, defensive catfighting and conniving and walking over helpless victims,… what’s it all for? A little growth, maturity, enlightenment during the hard times wouldn’t hurt and could even allow for improvement to the soap overall. But alas, there are critics and fans out there clamoring for Rebecca Budig’s Greenlee to pull her claws back out, which you’ll see soon enough when she breaks Aidan’s heart and throws herself at Ryan. That doesn’t require any intelligence, delicacy or insight; it’s walking backwards and living in the past by rote. And isn’t that something soaps are trying not to do anymore?
Walt Willey (Jackson) joked around about his character’s inevitabilities. Sure as the sun rises and sets, his character’s future depends upon his co-star Susan Lucci’s (Erica) availability. If she’s on vacation or busy elsewhere, chances are, he joshed, he won’t have many scenes, if any. While he’s joking, he also made fun of quite possibly the worst thing the media or camera-wielding fans could capture… if he attempted to try on skinny jeans from his youth. Or how about breaking out in pimples right before a scheduled love scene?
Cady McClain reprises Dixie for a short term, as Tad’s angel starting May 2nd. Dixie’s spirit will assist Tad in a journey toward his and her daughter Kate, aka Kathy. According to McClain on her March 24th blog entry, executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers reached out to her at a fortuitous time—when she had taken a break for a fibroid-removal procedure. McClain encouraged fans to tune in and give her return story a chance, even if it’s only—for now—for a little while, and as a spirit, not a real person. She sounded as if the status could change later on down the line.
McClain also had an arts and poetry book of her own published on March 7th, entitled “Conversations with the Invisible,” her first of three due out, available for purchase and signing (send it with SASE to Cady McClain, P.O. Box 515, Nyack, NY 10960). The book’s deeply personal contents, she explained, are not for children, but for those 16 and over, and possessed of an open mind. “There is a LOT of thought behind every image, every word,” she wrote in her blog on March 15th. “I also have tried my best to make it as beautiful as possible while being as affordable as possible. The entire cost goes to the cost of publishing. However, for every book sold, I am going to personally contribute 5 dollars to the Christian Children’s Fund, in the hope that another child can have a chance at a hopeful and beautiful future, despite what is no doubt, a tough childhood.” Much of her themes center around her strange, scary and wonderful childhood, and her complicated relationship with her father.
Stay tuned next week, as McClain extrapolated to the soap press about what went wrong the last, previous time she inhabited Dixie from the dead, and how the story seemed to focus more on her mistakes and her shortcomings than anything else.
How does one translate the fun and frivolity BFFs Alicia Minshew (Kendall) and Rebecca Budig (Greenlee) are having right now? Budig said that she is fond of text-messaging goofy stuff to Minshew goofing on her. Budig will take Minshew’s advice on what to order at a restaurant—Minshew knows these things and Budig’s not been in the city for awhile—like trout almondine. And then she’ll give a text-messaged report later, misnaming the trout turbit, back and forth furiously, and then winding down with fond goodbyes along the lines of, “I’m going to sleep now. I really hate you.” It was better than the alterative, “I’m sending my fish skins to your house.” –Soap Opera Digest, April 1, 2008
Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High juvenile book series has been re-released by the Random House publishers, with Leven Rambin (Lily/Ava) gracing the covers.
Rambin – touted as the next designer trend in high-youth-pop society – is into punking the media, ala Ashton Kutcher’s Pop Fiction. She pondered the best way to do that while speaking with a New York Magazine reporter. “I’d have to think of something really creative and mind-f*cking. Maybe if I adopted a child, like a foreign child, and carried it around and took it to work and took it to a Teen Vogue party. That’d be pretty funny.” I dunno. That sounds pretty effed up to me.
Gossip for the week of 31-Mar-2008
by Carol Banks Weber
Beefing up the rumor of strife between Leven Rambin (Lily/Ava) and Jeff Branson (Jonathan), because of the l’enfant terrible’s allegedly outspoken, obnoxious behavior… comes the latest post-guest-starring stint on the new primetime drama, Lipstick Jungle. Seemed Rambin mouthed off about one of the stars, Brooke Shields, and her supposed fascination with the self-tanner. Rambin claimed to the press recently that Shields held up production because of this self-tanner fascination, which turned her face orange. Here’s what Daytime Confidential reported on March 24th: “Shields reps released a statement to MSNBC.com refuting Rambin's clams. ‘This is totally not true,’ said Shields rep. ‘I don't think Brooke has ever used self-tanner, much less allowed herself to turn orange from it. Please.’” Rambin’s the same actress who said it’s not nice to burn bridges in a New York Magazine blog, the Daily Intel (March 26th). Hah!
Former head writer Megan McTavish is allegedly so not beloved in the soap industry that there exists a possible “McTavish clause” in some ABC Daytime writers’ contracts allowing them to quit if she came back on the scene, Soap Opera Digest (April 8) reported. With all due respect, the problem isn’t just McTavish, it’s the MENSA geniuses who continually offer this woman head-writing jobs, knowing what they should know of her past work. Take a look at the sinking ship of DOOL, if you don’t get my drift.
I just witnessed the worst con job in the world on Thursday’s, March 27th episode. Tad and Aidan trying to show what great, witty mates they are, one laying on the thick British bloke’s accent, the other completely incomprehensible in his Queen’s English. Tres embarrassing. No wonder no soap columnist in her right mind would bother commenting on this dreck of a soap opera. And yeah, I miss Sabine Singh (ex-Greenlee II), too.
Y’know, I could never really understand columnists who profess orgasmic delight in the return of the bitch in their soaps. The same mean, pointless, defensive posturing, the same mean, pointless, defensive catfighting and conniving and walking over helpless victims,… what’s it all for? A little growth, maturity, enlightenment during the hard times wouldn’t hurt and could even allow for improvement to the soap overall. But alas, there are critics and fans out there clamoring for Rebecca Budig’s Greenlee to pull her claws back out, which you’ll see soon enough when she breaks Aidan’s heart and throws herself at Ryan. That doesn’t require any intelligence, delicacy or insight; it’s walking backwards and living in the past by rote. And isn’t that something soaps are trying not to do anymore?