One Life to Live News & Gossip
News for the week of 09-Nov-2009
Back in September, I became a “Jazz Music Examiner” at Examiner.com (the Soap and Reality-TV Examiner positions were already taken). The first interview I went after was with Trevor St. John (Todd, OLTL), because of his jazz percussionist origins back in Spokane, WA and before his soap fame. Thanks to the good graces of Debby O’Connor, who handles a bunch of soap stars’ events, I was able to do a November 5th Q&A profile on St. John and his jazz roots influencing his unpredictable, often explosive performances on OLTL. He provided me with much food for thought, made me laugh with his reaction to Todd suddenly hitting the skins in character, and gave plenty of sexy quotes about using his music muscle in his acting. Be sure to check it out, pass the word around and leave comments (you don’t need to register to comment). Doing the profile kind of got St. John torked up about pursuing more jazz music opportunities. So maybe he’ll start collaborating in the music realm more.
In a way, Bo and Nora were meant to come back together after all these years slumming it with other characters. It wasn’t that they didn’t try to love again after the popular couple’s end. It was just that nobody ever compared to the dancing, frolicking fun couple. Portrayers Hillary B. Smith (Nora) and Robert S. Woods (Bo) acknowledged as much, in terms of their undeniable chemistry, in a joint interview with Soap Opera Digest’s reporter Lauren Flynn Kelly [“Familiar Footing,” November 10, 2009]. “…I think as long as we’re both on that show, nobody else really stands a chance,” Woods said. What about Clint? Oh, Clint tries, but in the end, he’s not Bo. And Bo, Smith said, is who Nora has always wanted back. She admitted that she wasn’t a fan of Nora wedding Clint when she still had a jones for Bo, it didn’t seem right. But then Smith was remembering the infamous time (during executive producer Jill Farren Phelps’ reign) Nora bedded Sam behind Bo’s back for a baby in that dreaded cabana. Cue jokes about characters hooking up in that cabana, and they’re off.
Sudbury, MA small town native, Scott Evans (Oliver Fish) couldn’t wait to grow up and out in the big city of the Big Apple. All Evans knew back then was that he wasn’t cut out for school or homework. Eventually, after moving to NYC with his sister – graduating high school before his peers – Evans realized he kind of dug this acting thing. “It's in the blood. Every single person in my family has done plays at some point.” Doing plays in college, picking and choose your best scenes to perform, is one thing. Getting on a soap opera and receiving your script for the week and being told what to say and where to go in any given scene is another. It’s a challenge and an “awesome feeling” for Evans, “because you get to tell someone's story.”–“Five Questions For Scott Evans” by Lauren Flynn Kelly, Soap Opera Digest online
Roscoe Born (Mitch Laurence) and OLTL’s people have been trying for a return for quite some time now. Mitch might’ve come back earlier, had it not been for the writers’ strike. He’s back now and badder than ever. Born started filming his return scenes back in September and already put scenes with John-Paul Lavoisier (Rex) in the can. Lavoisier said he absolutely loves working with his on-screen dad.
Gossip for the week of 09-Nov-2009
Dan Gauthier (Kevin) may very well join Gina Tognoni (Kelly) back in Llanview, if the fates allow.
Rapper Snoop Dogg may also reappear for a guest musical spot, in two months, perhaps to introduce new music.
By 2010, OLTL will present a musical follow-up to the 2007 “Prom Night.”
Why did Brandon Buddy (Cole) get in trouble at the studio? His co-star, Kristen Alderson (Starr) is down with the flu or something, but she’s still working on-set.
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