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News for the week of 19-Aug-2007
So there I was, lying on the couch last week, coughing up a lung (to the Hope Inn employee who coughed onto my plate of food, I hope you get yours dammit) with the residual of this damned summer flu when a reporter on CBS’s Entertainment Tonight said Tuc Watkins (David) landed a major role on ABC’s Desperate Housewives. Watkins will play one-half of a gay couple who moves in with the rest of the Wisteria Lane gang this fall season. The other half of the gay couple is none other than Kevin Rahm (Judging Amy).
Last week under the gossip section, I mentioned a fan campaign of the week as reported in the letters section of the August 14th Soap Opera Digest. Jolie fans sent ABC Daytime president Brian Frons boxes upon boxes of mac ‘n cheese to remind him of John and Natalie’s true love and the necessity of giving them a true love story soon. What wasn’t included in that SOD blurb was the fact that the fan group made sure to include a note explicitly asking Frons and Co. to let the L.A. Mission – a charity Michael Easton (John) supports – have those mac ‘n cheese boxes. According to several of the Jolie fans who e-mailed me, Easton and Melissa Archer (Natalie) were aware of the campaign and the recipients (the people L.A. Mission helps) and were delighted by the effort. They also informed me that they didn’t mind whether Frons publicized the bit about them asking for the boxes to be shipped to or picked up by the L.A. Mission, so long as the underprivileged were able to benefit.
The scripted occasion may have been somber, but the vibe from the established and guest-star actors was anything but. It’s been years for Nathan Fillion (ex-Joey), who took advantage of the little time he had to film the 10,000th episode last week Friday to catch up, drink with and enjoy the company of his OLTL pals. Jerry verDorn (Clint) found it a treat to engage in an intense, emotional scene, his first with his on-screen younger brother Robert S. Woods (Bo) and found the fellow veteran actor’s performance skills to be of high caliber. Both executive producer Frank Valentini and actress Patricia Elliott (Renee) gave props to the manner in which Asa was honored on his way out. It was classy, fitting and contrasted nicely from Asa’s faked death from before, in that the open outpouring of love and grief was reined in for maximum effect. Valentini commended the appropriate use of powerful character-revealing flashbacks and the understated and equally powerful acting from the cast to properly honor such a long-term, well-respected character and actor.
Forbes March (Nash) was in no mood to deal with a sleepy and surly apartment watchman giving him heat. He only wanted to pick up his sick, nauseous, food-poisoned daughter from a sleepover in some Upper East Side apartment complex late at night (after she sent him an SOS). That day, he was with a chain-smoking friend tooling around the city with him just having quit the habit. So you can imagine March’s reaction to the rude outburst. “I rang the doorbell and this guy explodes from behind the counter – he was asleep – throws his arms up in the air and curses at me, ‘F--- off! Go away!’ and points at his watch. … I just about lost my mind.” –Soap Opera Digest, August 21, 2007
Hillary B. Smith (Nora) and her husband were able to take their two grown children, and mother-in-law, with them to a glorious Italian vacation (and for the event of her 50th birthday) recently, hitting all the classic spots, from Venice and Florence, to Rome and Pompeii. She mused that it would probably be her and her husband’s last full-blown vacation with the kids in a long while. She booked the entire vacation online at the InItaly.com starting point, which enabled her to enjoy some of the best transportation, sights, scenes and stays. She traveled by vaporetto water taxi while in Venice, took a first-class train around the pretty countryside, stared teary-eyed at Florence’s magnificent David statue, peeked into Rome’s Knights of Malta keyhole, checked out Pompeii built on volcanic rubble, St. Peter’s basilica, Capuchin monks’ crypt.
Constance Wu (Laudine, police secretary) shows up again on August 27.
Christina Chambers (Marty) is decidedly un-Marty-like in her profile. An easygoing beauty, her biggest complaint is logging in so many cross-country flier miles from her California home to her New York City workplace, and back. She said she sure could use a backrub. During her downtime, she is a bookworm (“Trinity” by Leon Uris is a good recommendation). During her college dorm years, she warmed to Yaz’s Upstairs at Eric’s album, and still digs it to this day.
Gossip for the week of 19-Aug-2007
Although news of Tuc Watkins (David) landing a prime Desperate Housewives gig came out after this Pressing Developments update (8/11) by EYE ON SOAPS’ Carolyn Aspenson, it still has merit. She wrote that, according to Raven Beauty, it’s possible that Watkins will continue to make reappearances. “He’ll be around for a bit; fan response to his chemistry with ES (Viki) was so strong he was convinced to come back and explore it a bit more.” Watkins could do both DH and OLTL, right?
In the latest Soap Opera Weekly, a blind item had fans on the boards guessing OLTL Fan Club Luncheon and OLTL Fan Club president to this: “[This] recent fan club event had a shockingly low actor turnout, and SOW wanted to know why. Turns out some of the actors are mad at the fan club president so they didn’t show up. Unfortunately, the fans were the ones punished.” Some fans who were there noticed the actors showing up for their own events but skipping out on the luncheon with excuses like they were on vacation or something.
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