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December 1, 2003
Hello Folks!
It is with a sad and
concerned heart that I have to tell you that the
date is rapidly approaching for our EOS site
expenses to be deducted from the EOS account and
baby, there is dust blowing around in there.
THANK YOU to the four people who donated this
month. From a dollar on up, every one of you
helped! Sage is no longer here to help make
up the difference and my husband (our only source
of income) is laid off, so literally, I have to
defend on you folks to keep this site alive.
If we don't receive sufficient donations by the
end of this week to cover our monthly expenses,
Eye on Soaps will be closing for the foreseeable
future. September and October showed our
lowest donation months ever, barely meeting
expenses and November was even lower than that.
I know a lot of people only donated because Sage
was here to poke them into it and I do realize
that he had a way about him that I don't really
possess, but friends, I'm telling you that with
our situation as it is, if reader donations do not
keep us going for the next two months or so, we
won't be able to keep going. In the past,
I've been able to pitch in the remaining $10, $20,
+$50 or so that didn't get covered, but now,
that's an amount that gets into money for vital
necessities and when I have to choose between site
and family, family wins. I'm not telling you
this as a poor me story because I fully believe
all of this is going to work out and we're going
to be financially stable again. Life
definitely works in cycles and this is just one of
our low ones. If there's one thing I have
learned from Eric's intermittent layoffs it is
that you sometimes have to admit when you just
can't do it.
Big Daddy Brian Frons (Prez of ABC Daytime), frequent victim of Hoof In Mouth disease, strikes again in his most recent interview with Michael Logan of TV Guide. Ineffectively fielding questions about why he's bringing on heavy hitters like Heather Tom and Matthew Ashford while whining about trimming costs and dumping our own veterans. "The hard part of the job is to try and figure out which of our veterans - of any age - are still as incandescent and attractive to the audience as they were at the height of their fame. If we feel the value is gone, we let them go. If we feel there is still value but it's not what it once was, we renegotiate." He pats himself heartily on the back for keeping AMC's Michael E. Knight (Tad), then shoots himself in the foot (after it goes in his mouth, not a good combination) by citing the loss of Kristina Wagner as GH's Felicia, who refused to take a pay cut "to reflect her change in status from romantic heroine to matriarch." More recent and a more profoundly visceral imposition to the fans comes the news of what happened to Finola Hughes of GH and AMC (Anna Devane). Scoop-a-holics will recall that almost a year ago, General Hospital Happenings 2 broke the news with confidence that Hughes would be bringing the character of Devane back to GH where it originated. As is wont to happen in the spoiler world, scoops come out, they seem assured and then fall through, leaving the scoopsters who reported in good faith holding the bag. Although Hughes was negotiating a move to GH (the actor wanted to trade coasts from NY to LA and to that end, requested to return to the show where her character originated). Frons swears it was a decision made by the writers to not do the work it would take to integrate Anna back into the current canvas of stories. When the switch was refused by Frons, Hughes broke ties with ABC completely. He completes his comments supporting hiring newcomers at the expense of veteran actors by saying, "If I want to spend a little more money to make sure we reel someone in, I do it." If this guy started poking puppies in the head with forks for fun, I don't think I could like him less. AMC
So this idea of the soaps going down the tubes is unthinkable to me. For me, they've always been there. It's like the sun not coming up in the morning or the oceans all freezing to a chunk of ice. I can't imagine AMC and OLTL as a merged entity. They are totally different beasts, each with its own set of assets and liabilities and it comes down to that old situation where supposedly, Marilyn Monroe sauntered up to Albert Einstein and purred, "Imagine what a miracle a child of ours would be with my looks and your brains," whereupon Einstein quipped back, "Yes, but imagine the cruel tragedy should it be the other way around."
Directly in regard to
AMC, there are a few fine points this week.
First of all, little birds (yes, more than
Also gone this week is the ill-fated and much maligned Maximillian Alejandro/Alexander as Carlos.
Things come to a head between JR and Jamie over and JR learns some disturbing things about his new wife (on OLTL, we learn that she's actually someone else's old wife). Ha! Speaking of AMC, I just this second saw Ivan Shaw, the former blip of ethnic flavor, Henry Chin, in a 5 second moment on "Charmed." That show is just a hotbed of soap folk, famous and obscure! OLTL
What fresh hell is this? If you skipped the AMC stuff and went directly for the OLTL info, go back up here and read the latest rumors about show blending.
GH
The biggest GH news to come forth in my humble opinion is that the magnificent Robert Kelker-Kelly will be revising his role as Stavros Cassadine when ABC airs the special GH "A Christmas Carol" segment on Christmas Eve, featuring Luke himself in the Ebenezer Scrooge role. Also returning will be Mommy Dearest, Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers), the difference being that Helena will be staying for a while according to Wubs.net. This comes at the perfect time as Alexis pushes for the sale of Wyndemere and seeks to bond with Nikolas as family. With the re-emerging of Luke from the shadows of virtual obscurity, bringing at least one formidable Cassadine to the table is a very good move and I am eager to see it brought to fruition. Supposedly, the Christmas Carol theme of this episode is NOT stand alone and is meant to evolve the character of Luke in a particular way. If THAT's what I get for Christmas, I'm a happy girl. When Mfundo Morrison takes over the long abandoned role of Justus Ward, it will be under the escort of Jason, who will bring him back from a monastery where he has been recovering from a disappointing experience involving the suicide of a young client. Jason makes him an offah he can't refuse and Justus jets back to Port Charles to defend Sonny (in Sonny's absence). When Brian shoots Sonny, it also reconnects two other estranged friends: Luke and Sonny. Before Carly flies Sonny off to France to evade prosecution, Luke approaches his former partner to ask for help with Faith, who has been shaking him down for a piece of the floating casino. As it turns out, it all comes down to a poker game, which Luke deliberately throws. Tracy puts an offer out to Georgie, telling her that she can get Alcazar out of Dillon's life... if Georgie promises to break up with Dillon and stay away from him. Georgie agrees. Dillon ends up in a very compromising position with Sage after they do break up and Georgie walks in on it. Hell hath no fury like a junior woman scorned!
Nikolas and Emily become engaged, but the Quartermaines are not welcoming of a (now) penniless suitor for their princess. More LyRic info, however slim. Elizabeth decides that she wants to pursue a relationship with Ric and confesses this to Emily. Ric will be wanting some answers from Liz on December 19th.
Brian finds out that Capelli is working for Alcazar. Meanwhile, Carly goes off on Alcazar and collapses. Things look up for Carly on December 15th. "Look for wonderful acting on the part of Tamara Braun for this particular episode," confided a setsider who has seen the result of the taping. Sam's long lost father, Cody McCall (played by Stanley Kamel) comes to town on Friday, December 12th. Needless to say, father and daughter have conflicting stories about who left whom. That's about it, friends and netneighbors. I hope you have a peaceful and joyful week. May you never hunger, may you never thirst and when it comes to scoops, may you never jones... With Love, ·.·´¨ ¨))
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Katrina
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are telling me that Michael's killer is actually
Myrtle Fargate. Could it be true?? If
any of the three shows were to give a veteran
actor that much power, it would be AMC, so I
wouldn't be surprised! Head Writer Megan
McTavish is infamous for figuring things out as
she goes along, so that would fit right in.
I am eager to hear the Palmer connection to all of
this and would love it if all of the older set
came together for a little Pine Valley pest
control. Regardless, this should be an
interesting week in that respect! This also
(finally) heralds in the end of William deVry on
AMC. He'll be around in flashbacks, but
that's it.
Kendall
ends up being arrested this week with a bail set
at a cool 2 mil. This serves a effective
birth control for Aidan and Mia.
In
1993, OLTL broke all the rules for recasting and
replaced dark and sultry Mia Korf (right) with
blondish bombshell, Kassie DePaiva who, frankly,
looked and sounded very little like her
predecessor. Now, ten years later, most
people say, "Mia who?" as, very similar to the
Robin Strasser story, Depaiva claimed the role of
Blair as her own to the point that few even know
she did not originate the part. On December
9th, OLTL will honor the 10th anniversary of
DePaiva on OLTL, who was then Kassie Wesley prior
to her marriage to co-star, James DePaiva (Max).
On that date, OLTL will air a special Blair
episode of OLTL that is not to be missed!
For all of those who are eager to leave their well
wishes to Ms. DePaiva on this auspicious occasion,
they may do so by signing the memory book at her
official website.
A
week from today, my personal favorite, Colin or
Troy MacIver (I don't care which) returns to OLTL.
Ty Treadway will be bringing Troy out of St Anne's
on a kitchen pass to spread his beefcake joy to
Llanview (and Katrina) once again. His
steamy monkeysex scenes with Catherine Hickland
(Lindsay) had to go down in soap history as the
hottest ever. He's around for an
undetermined amount of time, partly as a Music Box
Killer red herring and partly due to my pleading,
begging, weeping and pole sitting vigil (Pfft, I
don't care, go for it, titter amongst yourselves).
Regardless, it will be a joy to see Ty onscreen
again since I'm SoapNetless and can't watch him be
the insulin to Lisa Rinna's glucose party.
Troy's first encounter with OLTL folk will be
Gabrielle. What a team those two could make!
We do know that New Year's means a re-engagement
for Gabrielle and Bo, so the relationship (if any)
between Gabrielle and Troy is not yet defined.
NuKelly,
Heather Tom (Y&R), will take over the part on
December 11th, just a day after Matthew Ashford
(GH/DOOL) comes to town as Dr Steven Haver, Dr of
Sexatude and Feelupology at Llanview U. Tom
is a double Emmy award winner for her role as
Victoria Newman on OLTL and Ashford returns to
OLTL (formerly as Drew Ralston) following his
firing from Days months prior to the end of the
contract. NuKelly is a contract role, while
it is so far unknown how long Dr Haver (Dr of
Sexatude and Feelupology and Llanview U) will be
with us.
Sonny
and Carly share a "shop the soaps" moment in
France when he gives her a heart necklace to
always remind her of his love for her. They
go so far as to make plans for a life on the run
with their children, complete with new identities,
but Sonny nixes the idea when he considers (gasp!)
the impact such a life would have on his family.
Alcazar finds out where they are and phones Scott,
telling the DA he's ready to testify against
Sonny. He takes the stand and gives a highly
damaging testimony, voicing concern for his safety
should Sonny be acquitted. 
AJ
says goodbye to Ned. Skye and Port Charles as he
and Lydia retire to a tropical island with a good
deal of the Quartermaine fortune (and I'd say
that's a good deal!). I'm so grateful that
they are allowing AJ to go out in glory rather
than defeat. Cheers to a guy who is the
consummate professional and made the best of years
of crappy writing that was thrown his way.
AJ gets the money, gets the girl and gets the hell
out of Dodge. All the best, Mr. Warlock!
