General Hospital News & Gossip
News for the week of 29-Jun-2009
Julie Marie Berman (Lulu) has taken some time off this summer to pursue a Daniel Kellison-produced TV pilot, 22, and embark on a July filming of Rachel's Return, in the title role. These two projects don't seem to conflict with her GH schedule.
Maurice Benard (Sonny) will star in an indie called, Confession, with filming conducted this summer. He's involved in filming during his two-week summer vacation. Benard plays a man searching for revenge on the people who slaughtered his sister decades ago.
Bruce Weitz (Anthony Zacchara) comes back this summer, as well as Sebastian Roche (Jerry Jacks). Anthony surfaces for the July 10th episode.
Drew Garrett Nelson (Michael) hates being mean to his on-screen mom, Laura Wright (Carly), because she's so wonderful to him off-screen. She was right there supporting him during their screen-test too. The April 21st-born, Jacksonville, FL phenom also feels badly about taking over the role from Dylan Cash. But he's doing a bang-up job as the wayward, hotheaded son of Sonny and Carly. He arrives at GH with a series of commercials and Internet shows under his belt, as well as having auditioned for a major TV pilot hopeful (Secrets of a Small Town), the same pilot that would've starred Tyler Christopher (Nikolas) and Denise Richards. When he landed his current GH role, he had to have a friend's soap fan mom tell him what a big deal it was. "That was one of those moments I realized this show has quite a following," Garrett Nelson said. "There are women all across the country that are obsessed with my dad on the show [ABC Soaps in Depth, July 13, 2009]."
Kirsten Storms (Maxie) initially dismissed a call from her show's publicist the day of the Daytime Emmy nomination announcements--until co-star Bradford Anderson (Spinelli) intervened, knowing what he knew. After already finding out that he'd made it on the nomination list, Anderson knew that call was to congratulate Storms on the same. But the seriousness of Anderson's intervention had Storms scared for her job--until she took the call and broke out into a smile. Julie Marie Berman (Lulu) dismissed her even making it as a nominee, because she couldn't find word of her younger actress category anywhere the morning of. (They'd announced all but the younger actor categories, saving those for later that day.) The GH publicist notified her and her husband by phone that she did indeed make the list. She said she's more stoked with the 2nd nomination than the first. "I started screaming, and I got my dogs barking. It was Crazytown. My neighbors probably thought I was being murdered [ABC Soaps in Depth, July 13, 2009]."
Gossip for the week of 29-Jun-2009
Josh Griffith (ex-writer, OLTL) accepted an appointment on GH as a script writer, on a trial basis.
TPTB do not desire Wally Kurth (Ned) to reprise his GH character, even though they are interested in finding another Brooklyn, Ned's daughter.
Prepare for the afterthought demonization of Ethan, at Luke's expense. Luke later learns that Ethan isn't all guns and roses, but a worse con than he ever was.
Dominic/Dante may go for Kristina (ew) or Lulu. It all depends on Julie Marie Berman's contract status. It's due for renewal, or not.
Jerry comes back to refute Claudia's innocence in Michael's shooting, and to have fun at her expense.
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