All My Children News & Gossip
News for the week of 16-Jun-2008
Darnell Williams (Jesse) co-directed Manhattanites, a debut indie flick co-starring many fellow soap opera actors, including OLTL’s Forbes March (Nash) and Ilene Kristen (Roxy). The flick launched at New York City’s Tribeca Cinemas recently.
Cameron Mathison (Ryan) is a busy guy. He’s host or reporter to a jillion other TV shows – the latest of which is game show Your Place Or Mine? on the TLC channel – plus full-time in a leading role on AMC. So when he winds down at home with the wife and kids, he really winds down. He makes sure to focus completely on his son Lucas, 4, and daughter Leila, 23 months, and who they are as people and what they love to do for entertainment. Lucas is the performer with the big imagination who loves to act for his dad, and Leila is a fun-loving, book-reading, frolicking little girl. The siblings can be close but they can also be typical siblings, Mathison said, when one of them gets into the other’s things or doesn’t share. Perhaps the actor also truly values his time with his family because of the tricky births of both his kids. He described the delivery process. “I was more nervous than Vanessa [my wife], though she was in a wee bit more pain than I was. At one point, Vanessa asked me to calm down. I was anxious about the health of my children. So, keeping calm was an issue. Lucas actually had a pretty scary time when he was born and had to stay in an incubator for the first few hours… and Leila had similar complications to what Spike had after he was born.” –Soap Opera Digest, “Father Time,” June 17, 2008
A SORAS’d Petey Cortlandt makes his debut July 11. Daniel Kennedy takes on this recurring role.
Self magazine editor Lucy Danziger shows up with Greenlee and Kendall, June 23.
Gossip for the week of 16-Jun-2008
Leave it to EYE ON SOAPS’ lovely, wise Katrina Rasbold to point out the good in AMC. Yes, there is some good left on this show, despite Kendall and Greenlee’s amateur hour. In Rasbold’s sporadic June 10th As Easy As ABC column, “Out of the Mouths of Babes,” she noticed then applauded most of the AMC men who suddenly grew brains and hearts. Aidan calls Greenlee on the carpet for her Ryan trifling ways. Zach did the same for Kendall and her stupidity about Greenlee’s exaggerated appeal. And then there’s the piece de resistance of Tad and Adam, coming to a meeting of the minds after a near-death experience, Dixie’s spirit and Kate restored. Take a look: “Michael E. Knight and David Canary pulled out all the stops and gave one another the performance of a lifetime. … Does all of this intelligent design reflect a moment of extreme self/character awareness on the part of the exiting Head Writers of AMC? Do they really get that they've painted most of the characters on the canvas as being hateful, small, unlikable creatures? Will this be like Charlie in Flowers For Algernon where their moment of extreme awareness and intelligence will again degenerate into a dim-eyed, pitiable mess?” I don’t know about any of that, but if TPTB continue to feature the tried and proven vets (and I’m not referring to Kendall and Greenlee’s portrayers, sorry), Tad, Adam, Erica, Jesse, Angie, in scenes that jerk our hearts and make us think beyond hairsprays and perfumes and into the greater human condition that connects us all… well, I may just be tempted to tune in more regularly, with my hand on the DVR FF button of course.
Despite rumors going on for months now pointing to Melissa Claire Egan’s (Annie) exit, an AMC insider insists she’s going nowhere. Egan must be glad of that, since she’s been in hog heaven with her character’s sudden dark turn, as a baby- and Ryan-obsessed psycho.
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