One Life to Live News & Gossip
News for the week of 07-Jul-2008
John-Paul Lavoisier (Rex) and Robert S. Woods (Bo) went outside the script back when their characters began to forge an unlikely friendship. They did it for a growing, popular fan base of those viewers who were into this friendship as almost that of a supercouple. Lavoisier described that he and Woods would add little moments—where Rex would try to give Bo a hug, and Bo would resist—just for these fans. Kathy Brier (Marcie) made her character into a closet scrapbooker, out of homage to a devoted scrapbooking fan, Robin Plate, who would put together mementos of Brier throughout the years.
When Brier met her future boyfriend Jason a handful of years ago, she dismissed any chance of romance. They were with a group of friends to catch the Broadway play, Little Me, and besides, Jason was only 20 to her 25 and far too “clean-cut” for her taste. Fast forward five years, and they’re together as boyfriend and girlfriend—a three-year courtship so far. They reconnected in a different, deeper way at a friend’s party, “he sat down next to me, and we just started talking and that was it. I looked at him and thought, ‘There’s something different about this guy.’ We’ve been together ever since.” By then, the age gap wasn’t all that weird to Brier, either. –Soap Opera Digest, July 8, 2008
John Loprieno will not be ex-Cord in another week or so—and that’s fine by him. His dad (a teacher; his brother also teaches) would instill into him the importance of having a fallback career, especially since acting is so unpredictable. Loprieno listened and took up teaching – he is California’s Moorpark College’s director of theater and a Distinguished Alumni recipient – which he has never regretted, especially when acting on OLTL did dry up in 1997. Playing Cord again will be a treat for Loprieno not just as an actor but as the teacher. He can’t wait to show his students some “street cred.” –Soap Opera Digest, July 8, 2008
Andrea Evans (Tina) developed quite the cleavage through the years. The difference between her cleavage and that of many femme fatale stars is, hers are genuine. The breasts are so luscious and brimming over that quite often, Evans has a heck of a time trying to keep them in line… And “…I’m quite often trying to fight [TPTB] from putting me in those kind of [push-up] bras. I feel like I’m gonna black out my eye pretty soon the way they keep trying to stick ‘em up.” –Soap Opera Digest, July 8, 2008
Gossip for the week of 07-Jul-2008
Marty and Todd, and—gulp, their wedding?!
OLTL’s casting department have cast out for three new characters: Leo in a scene with a pregnant, widowed Blair, Elana (formerly Liza/Sasha) as either a recast Britney or someone else entirely and Omar, a prisoner who speaks with John about Marty and fooling a certain someone who has Marty in his possession. –Ravenbeauty, June 14, 2008
Gosh I admire EYE ON SOAPS’ Katrina Rasbold and her way with words. Nobody else could get away with writing, “comforted so-and-so with her vagina,” the elegant but sledgehammered way she can (As Easy As ABC, “Honesty: An Entirely Overrated Concept,” July 3, 2008). In her latest column, Rasbold stuck up for lying in soaps. Lying lends the necessary GASP! factor in our soap-viewing, she wrote, which I entirely agree with. I also agreed with her one exception that would’ve been fitting in the Bo and Lindsay denouement. “I confess, I wanted Lindsay to tell Bo before they got married that she'd faked her breakdown and killed Spencer Truman not because she was mentally compromised, but because, as Sage put it, ‘he needed killin'.’ That secret has been around for long enough and having it come out, even off-screen, before the wedding would have given Bo the chance to reject her before they were married rather than after. It also would have provided a magnificent ‘In your face’ moment had Nora decided to go through with again blowing apart Bo's wedding to tell him the truth for his own good. But no. Lindsay held onto her secret and, it appears, Nora is holding onto hers [my note: Alas, it turns out she did not]. Nora's pot vs kettle mentality is sad considering the lies she told Bo while she frantically looked for penis-bearing people to impregnate her after she lied to Bo (for his own good) to get him to come in out of the storm when he went boating with Duke's dead body on a suicide mission.” Die, Nora, die!
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