All My Children News & Gossip
News for the week of 29-Jun-2009
Beth Ehlers (Taylor) isn't happy at AMC and doesn't sound too happy under new head writer Charles Pratt Jr. Her June 18th Stardish radio interview revealed a frustrated veteran actress struggling with the lightweight material threatening to render her character invisible and isolated from the rest of the core cast. She theorized that Pratt, who comes from a primetime background, might be more comfortable writing campy stories, which goes against the grain of the "gravitas" of soaps. She added that soap fans will forgive a lot, provided they believe TPTB are taking their stories and their characters seriously. "If they feel like they're being, pardon me, fucked with, is when they get pissed off [quote from We Love Soaps site]." Ehlers kind of threw JR Martinez (Brot) under the bus, as well, in that radio interview, by saying that she's essentially had to babysit him through their story, since he's not an actor. She did it nicely enough, but it caused some tension with Martinez, who heard the interview and mentioned it on his Twitter page. In his tweet, Martinez explained that he didn't "agree with" Ehlers on her "choice of words in her radio interview," and that he didn't lean on her at all to "coach" him, but that they're cool, there's no beef. Debbi Morgan (Angie) married her longtime boyfriend, Jeffrey Winston, June 6 in D.C. Darnell Williams (Jesse), Ricky Paull Goldin (Jake), Bobbie Eakes (Krystal) and Susan Haskell (Marty, OLTL) were some of the guests.
Gossip for the week of 29-Jun-2009
While cast and crew are stoked with their majority Daytime Emmy nominations, many of them are bummed at the omission of Bobbie Eakes (Krystal) from that list. She's very respected and loved on that show, as a kind and hard-working actress.
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