OLTL Outside Llanview: The Cast In Other Roles

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On 12/31/2023 at 11:47 AM, Melgaypet said:

When I was 14, I thought Kamar/Antonio was the hottest man I’d ever seen. I was so into Antonio and Andy, I can’t even tell you. GH’s Tom/Felicia’s sex scenes had made me cringe, I watched the A-Team’s* avidly. 
 

I couldn’t stand most of Antonio’s 2000’s run, but that can’t all or even mostly be put Kamar. I enjoyed parts of Tonio/Keri, though the writing was often dire (remember Carlotta’s rage over Keri’s bad credit? lol.) And he worked very well with Talia, even if it there were echoes to the relationship with Andy. Of course, that’s when TPTB, in their infinite wisdom, killed her off and let Kamar walk.

I adored Antonio and Andy (Kamar was apparently the one who stopped JFP from killing her off in the line of duty when he returned solo). Wendee Pratt may have been a dicey actress in hindsight but I just loved them. I am revisiting some of that stuff now in his honor.

We made such brutal sport of Antonio in his second run online, and I feel guilty about some of it. In fairness he spent so much of that time as a domineering, misogynistic character with tendencies towards rage both as a boyfriend and an officer of the law that enabled some of the actor's worst onscreen habits, but Kamar was also a brilliant actor when he got good material which was frankly quite rare in the 2000s. I did like the C-pairing with Talia a lot. Killing her and letting Kamar leave with a whimper - on an endless police assignment, abandoning his child (like John McBain later would) - always upset me.

Edited January 3 by jsbt

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GH and ATWT/GL fans have had it remarkably hard with loss in recent years, but lately it seems like it's OLTL's turn. This loss, though, isn't a castmember so much as a very sad tragedy for Erika Slezak, whose daughter Amanda recently passed away. We were the same age.

Erika has never stopped talking about her kids; not in interviews, not in her newsletter. She's extremely proud and devoted. I remember when Amanda played young Viki in some scenes in 2003. This is just an awful thing.

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Kristen Alderson gave birth to a baby girl, Kiera Sky, on January 29th.

First Baby Pictures Here

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Patricia Mauceri (Carlotta, OLTL) featured in a Super Bowl Doritos ad with Jenna Ortega. I'll always have a deep fondness for her Carlotta and her work on the show despite the ugliness surrounding her departure, and the ad is great.

 

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Right on the heels of her new baby Kristen is hitting the Lifetime circuit. Good for her.

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[Dandesun]

Renee Elise Goldsberry is in Netflix' Girls5Eva and... just watch it, y'all.

[marypat57]

I know that this is an “oldie”, but I have enjoyed watching some old B&W episodes of soaps on YouTube.  
Some of the shows are from the late1950’s/early 1960’s.  I was pleased to see OLTL veteran Nat Polen aka Dr Jim Craig, playing of course, Dr Doug Cassen on As The World Turns.  
 

I was amazed to see everyone lighting up cigarettes and smoking.  The “dramatic” organ music also served to emphasize plot points.  
 

 

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Daphnee Duplaix Samuel (Rachel Gannon #4) is joining Michele Val Jean's new Black-centric CBS soap Beyond the Gates. She'll be the daughter of matriarch Tamara Tunie (ATWT).

Her IG post with the news.

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It's a Llanview wedding! Eddie Alderson (Matthew Buchanan) tied the knot and a bunch of OLTLers were there. I count Brittany Underwood (Langston), Kristen (Starr), Nic Robuck (Gay James), RSW (Bo), Robin (Dorian), and of course KDP (Blair) and James DePaiva (Max). I feel terrible not knowing who the Black guy is but I think he may be from the crew, who knows! (These are not my tweets btw, I don't Twitter.)

 

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We regret to inform that David Vickers has once again come up over on General Hospital. Per yesterday's (rather pointless) retcon reveal that Sasha Gilmore is the daughter of Emma Samms' fan favorite con artist Holly Sutton, Sasha complained that her mother ditched in Llanview years ago with 'that Vickers guy' after a con they were running went bad. Whatever!

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I rolled my eyes so hard at that mention of David.

[Melgaypet]

It's so irritating. And lazy, honestly. If you simply can't resist dropping an Easter egg, go deeper. Say Holly was palling around with Heinrich Kaiser. That approaches being clever.

[Palimelon]

They should have just had Ethan be Holly and Robert's child from the beginning.

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NO. Robert does not deserve a chucklehead like Ethan for a son. 

[Melgaypet]

I get you, dubbel zout, but I always thought Ethan being a Holly/Robert kid made so much more sense storytelling-wise than him being Luke's. But when was the last time a GH regime actually cared about storytelling?

Y'know, Cutter and Kim being siblings and children of Alex also came out of nowhere and didn't make a lot of sense if you thought about it, but it wasn't nearly as aggravating. I wonder if it was because I liked both those characters, while Cody and Sasha are both walking, talking piles of nothing? I don't know

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I always thought Ethan being a Holly/Robert kid made so much more sense storytelling-wise than him being Luke's

That. Plus, if he were revealed as Robert's son, he may have been written differently. Though the whole point of him being created as Luke and Holly's kid makes it all moot, I suppose.

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52 minutes ago, Melgaypet said:

Y'know, Cutter and Kim being siblings and children of Alex also came out of nowhere and didn't make a lot of sense if you thought about it, but it wasn't nearly as aggravating.

It was so close to the end they didn't really have time to do much with it. But they were cute as siblings.

It's funny how AS and JK have no chemistry now  on GH. 

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2 hours ago, Melgaypet said:

Y'know, Cutter and Kim being siblings and children of Alex also came out of nowhere and didn't make a lot of sense if you thought about it, but it wasn't nearly as aggravating. I wonder if it was because I liked both those characters, while Cody and Sasha are both walking, talking piles of nothing? I don't know

The internal logic for Cutter and Kim didn't work, but everything else did for me. I think that WTF was acceptable because Kim and Cutter were more fun as characters than Sasha and Cody are, definitely. Sasha and Cody are so bland, which is the problem with way too many GH characters.

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The only reason Ethan wasn't Robert and Holly's is because Tony Geary put his foot down more than once, AFAIK.

Cutter and Kim being siblings let alone Alex's kids was always bizarre to me. I never understood that timeline either. Was Alex supposed to be running cons while she was a FAB agent pre-Llanview or was this supposed to have happened between '97 and '01?

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At least the Alex reveal brought some life to that "Stacy" and Cutter in Argentina stuff.

I don't understand why GH keeps dropping David Vickers stuff. It never makes sense (Blair doesn't even see him as a sexual being at this point let alone as a partner to cheat with.) And it doesn't bring anything to the GH side. All it does is piss off those of us who still care.

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On 10/19/2024 at 7:07 PM, Grinaldi said:

At least the Alex reveal brought some life to that "Stacy" and Cutter in Argentina stuff.

I don't understand why GH keeps dropping David Vickers stuff. It never makes sense (Blair doesn't even see him as a sexual being at this point let alone as a partner to cheat with.) And it doesn't bring anything to the GH side. All it does is piss off those of us who still care.

I feel like they keep hoping Tuc will turn up lol. His career is too big for that now, though knowing Tuc he probably wouldn't begrudge appearing on a soap from time to time again. He's always been a class act.

Admittedly, in another time and place I do actually think Tuc as David would function well as a crossover soap schemer like Marco Dane did on GH in the early '90s, to appear for guest stints. But today the well is so thoroughly poisoned for that at GH by Frank and Ron over the last 12 years that I think it's still a bad idea - characters like David or Blair (or pre-MeToo, Todd) who I wouldn't have minded seeing come in and out for short stories to mix things up now just feel like insult to injury. I'm pretty sure Lucky's hot doctor buddy, Isaiah Gannon, will turn out to be R.J.'s son or something next. No way they gave him that name at random. Oy.

Edited October 27 by jsbt

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6 hours ago, jsbt said:

I'm pretty sure Lucky's hot doctor buddy, Isaiah Gannon, will turn out to be R.J.'s son or something next. No way they gave him that name at random. Oy.

That's likely, but we had Cooper Barrett, who had no connection to Brenda or Julia. The show likes to get viewers' hopes up for no reason.

Edited October 27 by dubbel zout

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16 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

That's likely, but we had Cooper Barrett, who had no connection to Brenda or Julia. The show likes to get viewers' hopes up for no reason.

Totally different regime with a totally different focus from Frank.