All My Children News & Gossip
News for the week of 21-Apr-2008
AMC’s May Sweeps focuses mostly on the same five characters, with the introduction of a handful of newbies, and hey, Josh didn’t go up to the attic! More of Kendall and Zach loving and triumphing. More of Greenlee preparing to be Aidan’s wife (yes, a wedding celebration was spoken of). More of Annie tricking Ryan, revealing her vixenish side and infusing some awkward moments when things don’t always go according to her plan. Babe starts to buy a clue about Richie. JR, Amanda and even Zach join in on the fun to unmask this villain and reveal the contents of the night Zach nearly bought the farm. Colby’s hot for Frankie, which leaves Dre with Cassandra. Perennial odd-man out, Josh, has some interaction with an incoming, recast Jake (tortured with a secret), as well as Aidan, Zach and Cambias. But the biggies for most old-school AMC fans will revolve around Jesse and Angie, their upcoming wedding, the conflicts between Jesse and Cassandra, who can’t get over how much he resembles her dad Jacob, and the Robert mystery unfolding… and the return of Dixie as a spirit setting out to right the wrong of lost Kate. Jesse helps Tad search for missing Kate, interrogate Madden’s former nurse Hazel, while the spirit of Dixie hounds Adam into coughing up the truth to Tad. Dixie and Tad will find a way to reunite somehow.
Somewhere in the jocular, joking “Reigning Men” interview by Mara Levinsky (Soap Opera Digest, April 22, 2008) of Thorsten Kaye (Zach) and Cameron Mathison (Ryan) is a nugget of truth. The two AMC actors joked around about everything from Mathison’s reputation as a pretty, hot boy who takes off his shirt at public appearances, the sexless hobby of golf, and positive influences of Dancing With The Stars on Mathison’s countenance, to the differences in personality - Kaye is gruff and curmudgeonly to Mathison’s hyper, chipper friendliness - at work and the memorable scene where Mathison mistakenly asked Kaye to really give his knee a kick for method acting. “My first scene with him and he whaled on me! I honestly thought that my bone had shattered. I could hear the camera guys laughing,” Mathison recalled. One thing’s clear, Kaye found out quick that appearances are deceiving, that Mathison is really a good guy and a good friend underneath that shirtless faÁade. Kaye didn’t have a good first impression of Mathison from a Super Soap Weekend (the one with Josh Duhamel/ex-Leo): “I thought, ‘He’s completely self-involved, this boy, and absolutely ridiculous.’ But he’s a caring human being, not just about people, but about the work. And if you look like that, it’d be very easy to just sit back and enjoy.”
Chrishell Stause (Amanda) let her mind go and roam to the romantic possibilities…of a hook-up with Cameron Mathison’s Ryan. Oh, she’s been there and back in her mind for a one-night stand plot turn. She said her character even brought it up in conversation not long ago as a what-if.
Chosen one of soaps’ most sexiest stars, Texan native Billy Miller (Richie) said his idea of sexiest accent was a southern one. But then he’s from the south. He’s also into British accents, which he said makes anybody sound smart even if what they’re saying isn’t so smart. Miller, whose porn star name would be Buster Bishop, was among sexy company in Soap Opera Digest’s “You Sexy Thing” special feature from April 22, 2008. The porn star name was derived by putting together the name of the first pet the actor had with the name of the street of his home as a kid.
Mark May 21, 2008 on your calendars. It’s the day Jesse and Angie get married. It’ll be a day full of love, promise, romance and… because it’s Jesse… action-adventure, intrigue and danger.
Despite an AMC rep refuting the rumor of a Colby recast, guess what? There’s a Colby recast. Ambyr Childers is out and an older (25) Brianne Moncrief is in, as announced on SoapNet.com (and read on April 19th). Moncrief has no soap experience, but she did graduate from Fordham University in the performing arts.
Gossip for the week of 21-Apr-2008
Somebody from AMC refutes the rumor that an audition script involving Edie is really a recast for Colby. As you can see from the last bit of last-minute news above, it’s a lie!
Maybe I missed an episode or 50, but… How in the world did Zach get his hands on videotape of Ryan raising his hand in anger toward Greenlee lo those many years ago? How is there even a videotape in existence???
If they can demand we suspend our relative intelligence for this show’s stupidity, can’t they erase the tainted pancakes which killed off Dixie, and bring her back alive instead of as yet another apparition? I mean hell, let’s bring Dixie back as a spirit possessing a stray cat then. Fans aren’t diggin’ this return as much as they could’ve.
Beth Ehlers (Harley, GL) has told the soap press how much she’ll miss her former GL partner Ricky Paull Goldin (ex-Gus, GL)-whose CBS soap character died, in order to take up a recast AMC character named Jake-and for the first time in a long time, she really didn’t want her male co-star to go. But maybe she can join him, and they can make history together again as a soap couple, but at ABC Daytime. A rumor recently had Ehlers conferring with AMC’s PTB.
AMC is still unwatchable. Every time I settle in to some Jesse and Angie, Kendall’s whining, sputtering face appears, and I have to leave. Proof-positive that it’s the vets who matter, focus on the vets, the vets with characters whose histories and relationships span decades, the vets who know what they’re doing, who rely on the content of their character and not the shade of their lipstick or the tightness of their designer cut-offs or the empty, meaningless cocktail quips borrowed from Sex And The City secondhand. They couldn’t pay me enough money to tune in.
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