From: owner-port-charles-digest@lists.xmission.com (port-charles-digest) To: port-charles-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: port-charles-digest V1 #18 Reply-To: port-charles-digest Sender: owner-port-charles-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-port-charles-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk port-charles-digest Friday, January 23 1998 Volume 01 : Number 018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:59:01 -0800 From: Taiyin Subject: GH/PC: SPOILERS -- Upcoming events These are a bunch of general spoilers, on-screen and off, from the SOD web site. Some of it we already know, some of it is a bit new. I'm off until Friday. I'm going down to LA to see The High Lonesome and then go to the GH event at the Museum of Television and Radio with Wendy, Guza, Geary, Maule, Zeman and a bunch of other people on Thursday. Full report when I get back! Taiyin ****** S P O I L E R S P A C E Times New RomanJOEY ARESCO will appear on General Hospital as Moreno, a crime lord. Aresco credits include Capitol (as Nino Vincent), Santa Barbara and Dallas. His other credits canvas film and primetime, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, St. Elsewhere, Taxi, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Barney Miller, MacGyver and Dark Sky. He first airs January 30. BRAD MAULE and SHELL KEPLER (Tony Jones and Amy Vining) will make guest appearances on Port Charles. The characters help Lucy (Lynn Herring) celebrate her engagement to Rex (Wayne Northrop). Look for Maule and Kepler on February 3. General Hospital's SARAH BROWN (Carly Roberts) returns to Port Charles with a vengeance on January 30. Brown had taken a sabbatical from the soap to film a movie. Watch for Bobbie (Jacklyn Zeman) to get the shock of her life soon -- yes, it's what you've been waiting for -- She'll learn that that the baby abandoning tart is her daughter... Also on GH, ELLIA THOMPSON will appear in the recurring role of Ashley, a friend of Jerry Jacks. Ashley follows Jax (Ingo Rademacher) back to town. Thompson first airs January 29. Still no word on when and if Jerry will come to town. Port Charles' Joe (Michael Dietz) and Karen (Jennifer Hammon) make up for the last seven months and finally make love. However, the lovebirds get an unexpected visitor at a most inconvenient time on January 23. RICHARD GROSS plays the unexpected and unwelcome character, a janitor. Port Charles casting call: On February 5, TAKAYO FISCHER puts in a repeat performance as the judge who presides over Scott's (Kin Shriner) case... JENNIFER RADE plays Marla, an X-Ray technician who goes out with Chris (Nolan North) on February 4 and 5... Joe's father appears in a dream sequence that Joe has about his childhood. FRANK CONN plays the elder Scanlon. BRYAN BURKE appears as the young Joe. Look for both actors on January 29... BILLY O appears as Keith Corbett, a patient who is told he is paralyzed, from January 27 through the 29... BOBBIE NORMAN plays Kathy Fawcett, Agent Boynton's mother. Norman appears on the January 30 episode... Joe has a temper tantrum and an orderly gets the brunt of it. CHARLES DE FAZIO plays the unlucky orderly on January 30 and February 3. "Sacrifice yourself, my love slave." - --"Oh, do with me what you will." -- Lucy & Kevin, GH - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 98 00:43:59 GMT From: kathrynb@ix.netcom.com (Kathryn Bassett) Subject: GH/PC: Taiyin, can you format and repost please? Hi Taiyin, I'd like to read the Interview with Michael Dietz, but it's too difficult to read with the left margin set so far in, making it wrap funny. If you have any control over that, could you please re-post it for easier reading? I've included part of it below so you can see what I'm talking about. - -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) kathryn.bassett@switchboard.net "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" - ---------------------------Reply Separator------------------------------- On 1/20/1998 4:22PM, in message <3.0.3.32.19980120162259.0081c6a0@xmission.com>, Taiyin wrote: by Joann Fazzi Star: Michael Dietz Role: Dr. Joseph Parnell Scanlon, PORT CHARLES Other Soap Roles: Alan-Michael Spaulding, GUIDIND LIGHT & Greg McKean, BEVERLY HILLS 90210 Hails From: The suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA Birthdate: February 10, 1971 Family Ties: Mom Anna Finlay; stepfather is William Finlay. "He's the greatest, my stepfather. I love him to death." His real dad, "who I didn't live with growing up," is Frank Dietz. Although Michael is an only child, he has "A lot of cousins, a lot of cousins! There are about 12, 15, something like that." Online Browser: "I always liked going on the internet, of course." Does he check out the PORT CHARLES message boards? "I do. And I've chatted and told people who I was." Has he gotten lots of e-mail? "Yeah. It's all been really great. Everything, 100% of it. It's been really, really nice." GH Background: "My mother [watched GENERAL HOSPITAL] her - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:34:39 -0500 From: Cagey Subject: Re: GH/PC: Taiyin, can you format and repost please? The interview can be found at http://www.soapdigest.com/. It's an old interview, though. Hopefully it will come through this time... - --kg Not Your Average Joe -- PC's Michael Dietz by Joann Fazzi Star: Michael Dietz Role: Dr. Joseph Parnell Scanlon, PORT CHARLES Other Soap Roles: Alan-Michael Spaulding, GUIDIND LIGHT & Greg McKean, BEVERLY HILLS 90210 Hails From: The suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA Birthdate: February 10, 1971 Family Ties: Mom Anna Finlay; stepfather is William Finlay. "He's the greatest, my stepfather. I love him to death." His real dad, "who I didn't live with growing up," is Frank Dietz. Although Michael is an only child, he has "A lot of cousins, a lot of cousins! There are about 12, 15, something like that." Online Browser: "I always liked going on the internet, of course." Does he check out the PORT CHARLES message boards? "I do. And I've chatted and told people who I was." Has he gotten lots of e-mail? "Yeah. It's all been really great. Everything, 100% of it. It's been really, really nice." GH Background: "My mother [watched GENERAL HOSPITAL] her whole life. I remember coming home from school and the VCR would be taping because she wasn't there at three o'clock. In fact, when I got GUIDIND LIGHT, she was like, 'I wish it was GENERAL HOSPITAL.'" How did she feel when he landed his PC role? "Extremely happy." On His PC Wardrobe: "It's not bad, it's comfortable. It could be a lot worse. The suits Alan-Michael had to wear were brutal. Three piece Armani suits with ties...You can't really tell if you screw 'em up. With the suit, you can't wear the jacket until you're on." One fall afternoon, Digest Online Editor Joann Fazzi had lunch with MICHAEL DIETZ in the ABC Commissary. Clad in his usual black t-shirt and gray scubs, Michael was very hospitable. He ordered a Caesar salad and Baked Chicken Romano (A chicken dish with noodles and a heavy cream sauce, which Michael lamented couldn't be healthy). During our interview, loads of GH and PC cast members filtered around the dining room. PC's Kin Shriner, Lynn Herring and Jon Lindstom (Scott, Lucy and Kevin) shared lunch a few tables away. David Holcomb came over to say hello and Michael introduced him as "our psycho, nutcase..." "I play Doctor Greg Cooper," Holcomb interrupted, letting Dietz know, "That's Doctor to you!" Jennifer Sky (Sarah, GH) also said a quick hello. DIGEST ONLINE: What was it like for you being on brand new soap that was just starting out? MICHAEL DIETZ: It was so great to have everyone starting out at the same time. We all really bonded really well. It's really funny because we're very protective of each other, we're like this family. It's great. As opposed to [when I went on] GUIDIND LIGHT, something that's been around for sixty years, to be the new guy is really tough. There's nobody that's been on [PORT CHARLES] longer than me or anybody else, [we've all been here] the same amount of time, so it's great. It was awesome. It was the best thing in the world to have to do a new show and to create a new character. DIGEST ONLINE: How do you feel about Joe Scanlon? DIETZ: I absolutely love the character. I think it's great to play a male part in anywhere -- film, TV, anything -- that's vulnerable and has that side to him, because a lot of male characters are tougher or psycho or something and never really show a lot of their vulnerability. I think that's what I love about him, to be able to bring that to him. Yet he's still a standup guy, has a temper, he's not a wimp. I think it's a great, great character. [It's] nice, going from GUIDIND LIGHT, [where my character was] never smiling, to be able to smile and have fun. And working with JENNIFER HAMMON [Karen] has just been incredible. She's amazing. I absolutely love the character. There is nothing I would change about him -- nothing! I think he's perfect. DIGEST ONLINE: The audience has definitely taken to him and the pairing of Joe and Karen. DIETZ: Yeah. I think the rooting value we have as a couple is great because it's not really right, you know, because she's married, and yet they still want us together. I think all the problems we've had.... Poor Joe, just pining away for her all the time, he can't have her. I think people really want them together. And as I said, she's been amazing to work with, since day one, we really hit it off. She's really giving as an actress which really helps. We've been able to do scenes, push to our limit, get where we really want to get, which I never really experienced with anybody else. So, I owe a lot to her, she's really great. DIGEST ONLINE: Where to you see Joe and Karen going? DIETZ: I think it's going to take a while, I mean, I don't know, it has nothing to do with me knowing anything. I think, in my humble opinion, it will take a good three, four months until they're really together, they really start doing things. I don't think they want to rush into it because, I mean, she is married, and it was a big couple, and to just kind of disregard that, I think, would be disenheartening for most of the viewers to watch and just think she gave up. So, I think it's going to take a while. And Joe has no intention of doing anything until it's really over and done because he really does want to play by the rules. It will take a while. DIGEST ONLINE: Are we going to see Jagger? DIETZ: I don't know. I'm sure they'd like to have him come back for a couple of days to finish out the storyline, but I don't know. I'd like to see him come back. DIGEST ONLINE: What would Joe do to Jagger if he saw him? DIETZ: You know, I think part of Joe would want to kill him for cheating on Karen. But the other part would understand and kind of let him be and let the two of them work it out without interfering. Although he'd want to, I'm sure. DIGEST ONLINE: We wouldn't see a knockdown, drag out fight? DIETZ: No. Not unless, I think, he really physically hurt her. Then again, it's none of Joe's business, really. He's friends with Karen, but that's it. Joe has to let it take its course. He can't interfere because, I think, part of him would wonder if he had something to do with it, so he has to let it happen on its own. He definitely wouldn't get into a fight unless Jagger did something to him first like punched him or something. Even then I don't know if he would. I didn't think you'll be seeing any fighting between the two, probably not. DIGEST ONLINE: Are we going to get more into Joe's past? We know a bit of his family history, but we don't know anything about his personal life... any ex-girlfriends... wives... children? DIETZ: Yeah, we don't know. I know my father died, he was drunk, in a car accident. Yeah, I'd like to see more, especially with my mother, Patricia [Crowley, Mary Scanlon]. We talk about it now and then. I don't know if it's going to happen. I mean, I don't have anything right now that's going in that direction, I've been so busy at the hospital with Karen. I would love to see more concerning the family, because it's one of the only real families on the show. DIGEST ONLINE: Are we going to see more Scanlon family interaction in general? DIETZ: Yes, I think so. I especially think once all the Joe and Karen stuff dies down, I think that's my main storyline right now, and the other stuff is there to keep the family alive, but I think probably not right now but in a little bit, we'll probably go back to that more and more. But Karen and Joe are the most important right now, I think, for the writers, and I don't mind it, I think it's great, it's a great storyline. I'd like to see Mary, I love working with Patricia, she's so great, I'd love to work with her more. And Jay [Pickett, Frank], I love working with Jay, [he's] like my favorite. So, I hope so. DIGEST ONLINE: I think that the Scanlon brothers portray a very true sibling relationship. DIETZ: He is like my big brother here in real life. He really is. I don't have any brothers and sisters. And even off screen, he really is like my big brother. It's very funny. We always joke about it. As far as support and just advice, you know, he really is my big brother. It's almost eerie in a sense, but he's been great. He's been really great. And I think that helps, you know, on camera, if your relationship off is really good, you hang out, it only helps and adds to it. DIGEST ONLINE: Who do you hang out with from PC when you're not working? DIETZ: Definitely Jay. Mark Teschner [GH/PC Casting Director] and his girlfriend Lisa Lord, who plays Grace, I hang out with them a lot. Kind of everybody at some point, there's nobody that doesn't hang out. We've all done things off camera. There's really nobody that doesn't get along. DIGEST ONLINE: What kind of stuff do you do when you're not working? DIETZ: Exercise and read, go to movies, dinner, just try to stay busy. I don't like sitting around watching TV. DIGEST ONLINE: What was the last movie you saw? DIETZ: Last movie I just saw "She's So Lovely." Very good, really good movie. Sean Penn was amazing, absolutely amazing. I watched "Donnie Brasco" last night. And what else? Write. I started a course at UCLA on Screenwriting. DIGEST ONLINE: Have you ever written a full screenplay? DIETZ: Yeah, I have one that I started about two years ago, and now I'm at the point where I just want to clean it up, finish it up. DIGEST ONLINE: What genre is the screenplay? DIETZ: Action-y. Actually, I would love to write my own and direct it, raise the money, and do like a little indie film. I think it would be really neat. DIGEST ONLINE: Did you study writing in school? Was it something you were always interested in? DIETZ: I always did really well in English. Yeah, I always liked writing. DIGEST ONLINE: How did you hear about PORT CHARLES originally? DIETZ: Mark [Teschner, GH/PC Casting Director] remembered me, I had read for Mark for some other parts and he remembered me. DIGEST ONLINE: For GENERAL HOSPITAL? DIETZ: Uh huh. He knew when I got GUIDIND LIGHT, he was always like, that role's not right for him! He had called my agent and said we have this role, we'd like to bring Michael in on, we think he'd be great for it. He took me to Wendy [Riche, GH/PC Executive Producer], she liked me when I tested and that was it. Nice and painless. I didn't have to wait around for weeks. DIGEST ONLINE: Were you living out in California? DIETZ: I had just moved. But, my last date [on GUIDIND LIGHT] was January 28, I was driving on January 29. Wasted no time. DIGEST ONLINE: I guess you prefer the West Coast because you like the warm weather? DIETZ: Yeah. I just didn't like New York. I mean, I like visiting, I was just there and it was great. But... DIGEST ONLINE: Did you live in Manhattan? DIETZ: I actually had an apartment that I was getting in the city. It was a brand new building, which is very rare in New York, and they said, it'll be done, it'll be done, it'll be done, and I moved into my parents' house in New Jersey, waiting for the place to finish. Never did... they kept saying, another week, another two weeks, another week and I said, screw it, give me my money back, stayed at my parents' house and I was gonna wait and see until after the first of the year, kind of what happened with the show...good thing I did 'cause, you know, I found out that I was leaving. It was great, I never moved out with my parents, saved breaking a lease, which you know, worked out well. I would stay in the city, I'd come up and stay with friends so I basically lived there. DIGEST ONLINE: How far from Manhattan do your parents live? DIETZ: Forty-five minutes. I used to drive in everyday, which really wasn't that bad because there's people that came from across town, took them forty-five minutes, so it's really not a bad deal. If I were to have to live in New York, then I would live outside [the city]. Where I live now, I have this house, by myself, I live that I rent in Bel Air, it's probably the price of like a nice one bedroom in New York. Full backyard, crickets at night, birds in the morning, green trees everywhere, it's incredible. And I miss that. In New York, you really can't find that. You look out your window and you look at another building, see somebody getting dressed or something. That's really the primary reason. I mean, I felt like I was just going from a cab, from one building to another building, getting out of the cab and going into another building. You really don't see the sights, I mean, you do in Central Park, but I wasn't crazy about Central Park. That's what I really miss, to be able to just get in your car and drive to Malibu or to Santa Monica or Venice. There's so many different areas around here, you go from one place to the next, it's totally different. It's such a freedom. That's really the bottom [line], it's the freedom... I felt like I was stifled [in New York.] It feel like downtown L.A. without leaving downtown L.A., not being able to go to Malibu, just staying in the city, downtown L.A., and never leaving. You know, that's kind of what I feel like. Then again, I didn't give it a lot of time, and I wasn't really living in the city, so it might have been ... it might have been worse, actually. At least my parents had a house with some green and trees. I don't regret it. GUIDIND LIGHT was a wonderful experience, I learned so much from that show that I never would have known by coming on this show, I would have had to learn again. It's nice going from an hour to a half an hour, too. It's nice... it's the best schedule in the world! DIGEST ONLINE: Did you know any of the cast before you started? DIETZ: No, just Nolan [North, Chris] and I met on one of the auditions and kind of hit it off. That was it. DIGEST ONLINE: Do you keep in touch with anyone from GUIDIND LIGHT? DIETZ: Frank DiCopolous [Frank], who is my real life cousin, and that's really it. I [recently] saw Ron Raines [Alan], who played my father, at dinner, he was great. I miss Grant [Aleksander, Phillip], I loved Grant, Michael O'Leary [Rick] is really great. I mean, all of them were great, I miss everybody. I talked to Paul Rausch and he congratulated me, very sweet. It was nice to see everybody. But I don't really pick up the phone every other week calling. DIGEST ONLINE: If you could write what Joe's future would be, what would you write? DIETZ: I would like to see him and Karen, obviously, eventually get together and someday get married, that would be great. And continue his internship, become a doctor, be the best he could be, just have a good, good family life. Definitely I'd like to see them married, I think that would be great, someday down the line. [A pause] And take over the hospital. DIGEST ONLINE: So who is going to win the coveted Quartermaine fellowship? DIETZ: I don't know, good question! There's probably going to be competition on and off for that. DIGEST ONLINE: When does that actually happen? I know they keep talking about it. DIETZ: I don't even know. That's a good question. I don't know. Maybe Joe? Maybe Karen? Maybe somebody totally unexpected. It's a soap... it could be anybody! [Laughs] I don't know. I think Joe has a good shot. I wouldn't want Chris Ramsey winning it, but other than that, I think anybody else [would be okay.] DIGEST ONLINE: What's it like playing those Joe/Chris feuding scenes? DIETZ: They're funny because we get along so well. It's really just kind of funny to have to like pretend we hate each other. DIGEST ONLINE: What is your usual work schedule? DIETZ: I've been working like four, five days a week, which is great, in around 9 out around 2, average schedule. Five hours a day. DIGEST ONLINE: Sounds nice to me! DIETZ: Not bad. Some days you're in at twelve, out at four. Today is a long day. [Laughs] Like anybody can have respect for that. I talk to my friends, investment bankers and stuff, who work ten hours a day, or lawyers, and they're like, "Oh, yeah, you had such a rough day. Seven hours! Until like four." [Laughs] And they're coming home at like eight. So, we're very, very fortunate. I think, if you're not careful, you can lose track of that, start taking that for granted. Just gotta really realize how lucky you are in that schedule, to be in L.A., the sun, the house, it's really nice. - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 23:25:14 -0800 From: "Traci DyAnn Haley" Subject: GH/PC: Hope I have the right address... Hi Fellow GHers! I'm not sure if I have the right address to post to the GH Chat list...I joined but the welcome message never mentioned what address to send to :|. Anyway, I just wanted to say "hi" and introduce myself... My name is Traci...if any of you happen to frequent Port Charles Online or the Ingo Rademacher Message Exchange I occasionally post there as Wisteria. I also used to run a GH club..the now defunct General Hospital Memory Society. Anyway, I am an 18-year-old aspiring writer in Central Oregon. I've watched GH for almost 7 years and PC from the very beginning. On GH my very favourite character is Cesar Faison...sure he's gone, but he's still my favourite :). I also like Jax, Luke, Felicia, Mac, and Alexis. On PC I like almost all the characters, but especially Matt, Kevin, Lucy, and Julie's father (is he still on, btw?). I write a GH fanfic, but it's not very well written, it's called Adventures in Villainy and hasn't been updated in forever and a day...I'm trying to decide whether anyone will be broken up if I decide not to continue :). Besides soaps my other interests are: reading anything that falls into my hands (or flashes across my computer screen :)), writing, cooking, crafts, computers, video games, listening to music, watching t.v. and movies, tarot cards, dream interpretation, journaling, and collecting almost everything :). If y'all wanna know anything else, let me know! :) I'm glad I found this list and I look forward to chatting with you all! Beam me up, Scotty, Traci ~*~ remy@empnet.com http://www.angelfire.com/or/Wisteria/ Modems...reach out and BYTE someone! - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:49:00 -0500 From: Cagey Subject: Re: GH/PC: Hope I have the right address... > I'm not sure if I have the right address to post to the GH Chat list...I >joined but the welcome message never mentioned what address to send to :|. Looks like I'm going to have to update that darned welcome message, huh? Either port-charles@lists.xmission.com or port-charles@xmission.com will work; just be sure not to use both addys at the same time! >Anyway, I just wanted to say "hi" and introduce myself... Welcome Traci. Taiyin's cavorting in L.A. at the moment and so is off-line, but as Co-List Mum let me warn you not to be offended by periodic character er..."bashing" may be too strong a word, but let me just say that some of our more vocal participants are *not* thrilled with the Jax/Brenda repairing . At any rate, all commentary is meant in good fun. More importantly, let me say what I know Taiyin would say--Write more fic!! ;) Welcome aboard. - --kg - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 07:21:04 PST From: "Julie Saker" Subject: Re: Re: GH/PC: Hope I have the right address... cagey wrote: >Welcome Traci. Taiyin's cavorting in L.A. at the moment and so is >off-line, but as Co-List Mum let me warn you not to be offended by periodic >character er..."bashing" may be too strong a word, but let me just say that >some of our more vocal participants are *not* thrilled with the Jax/Brenda >repairing . ahem. hi. i THINK that last remark might have been directed at me! :) i promise, no matter HOW angry this little development makes me, i rarely bite! besides, i currently have a NEW pet peeve--the fact that EVERY SINGLE so-called newsworthy event seems to happen between the hours of 3 and 4:00 eastern time. coincidence? i think not! this has been TWO DAYS IN A ROW now that gh has been interrupted so that peter jennings can stand in cuba and foam at the mouth over the fact that he's not in d.c. >At any rate, all commentary is meant in good fun. oh definitely! after all, it IS only a soap! (i have to keep reminding myself of that sometimes, in an attempt to calm myself down! "it's only a soap, julie, it's only a soap...") >Welcome aboard. ditto! we seem to go in spurts around here--we'll have days on end of deathly quiet, and then get 30 messages in a day. but hopefully now that gh is getting more interesting (carly's coming back soon and i can hardly WAIT for that story to break!!!) we'll all have more to say! so join the fun! (plus, taiyin will be back soon with details of the gh event at the museum of television and radio in l.a., lucky girl!) so bye for now! death to j&b! (just teasing...couldn't resist!) julie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:35:13 -0500 From: Cagey Subject: Re: Re: GH/PC: Hope I have the right address... Julie wrote: >ahem. hi. i THINK that last remark >might have been directed at me! Certainly not! Heck, bring up the possibility of an actual Lucy and Rex wedding, and watch me burn . >the fact that EVERY SINGLE so-called newsworthy event seems >to happen between the hours of 3 and 4:00 eastern time. Add to the list, that my cable company decides to do work on the lines whenever PC is on. >death to j&b! (just teasing...couldn't resist!) ;) Well, given ABC news reports and my cruddy taping record of late, I'm hoping for some explication from someone. Namely, what is the current state of affairs between Alexis and Helena? The last bit that I saw, Helena told Alexis that she had to become friends with Katherine (argh! a fate worse than death!). What happened after that? I hope Alexis laughed in her face... - --kg - --kg - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:37:09 PST From: "Julie Saker" Subject: Re: GH/PC: Recaps cagey wrote: >Certainly not! Heck, bring up the possibility of an actual Lucy and Rex >wedding, and watch me burn . just out of curiosity, what was lucy THINKING yelling at kevin for kissing eve? exCUSE me, but who's the one who's ENGAGED TO REX??? i'm with you...if this even gets CLOSE to a wedding, i'm gonna be PISSED. first of all, i HATE HATE HATE rex. and he's been more smug than usual since lucy accepted his proposal. as if it's not bad enough they had lucy chat with scott about how well the two of them understand each other, vs. how well lucy and KEVIN do. yuck. i can't wait to hear taiyin's comments on that scene, 'cause i don't think she's gonna be very happy! >Well, given ABC news reports and my cruddy taping record of late, I'm >hoping for some explication from someone. i missed all of that due to abc interruptions. but here's a recap some kind soul posted on pc online: here's wednesday: - ------------------------------------------------------------------ KMGH Channel 7 in Denver was gracious enough to air the last part of the episode after the pope stuff... Dara/Mac(Jimmy) Dara was hilarious she couldn't believe that she heard what she just heard and voiced her disbelief, to make matters worse Mac/Jimmy goes on to say, ''We're alone, Robin is not here...oh you want to talk first and then maybe I can kiss you, I would have but you seemed anxious to get down to business.'' Dara then tells him that the business she was talking about getting to was the Valentine's Day concert and what ''the Hell kind of business'' did he think she meant. Mac/Jimmy tells her he's sorry but she was so pretty and Dara says, ''I have heard some come ons in my day but that had to be the sloppiest, the most pathetic...Have you lost your mind?'' Mac/Jimmy apologizes and tell her that he felt pressured to make a move on her so she wouldn' t think he was a wimp. Dara accepts this and they both state that they have interest in other people, Dara in Justus and Mac in Felicia. Felicia/Mac(Jimmie) Felicia voices her concern to Tony about losing her ''pal'' if she and Mac become involved but she cannot stop thinking about him..Later the screen keeps cutting back and forth between Mac and Dara and Felicia and Tony as they both talk about what they mean to each other. Both Tony and Dara tell Felicia and Mac to go ahead and give it a shot. Maxie tells her mother later that she looks sad and that if she is, she should call Mac since she seems happier around him. At the end Jimmie/Mac stops by under some pretense about something about the bar but what he really goes there to do is to kiss Felicia and he does just that. Mac/Tess Mac continues to give Tess the wrong information about him and Dara. Also it seems that Mac may be catching a bit of a nasty cold or flu. Katherine/Emily/Nikolas Well Katherine feels the need to sit down and give her opinion about something or other, I think it was about why Nikolas left of something (sorry guys but my ears automatically turn off when that woman is on my screen). Anyway the conversation is cut short by ABC's second special report of the day and when the show returns, Kat is leaving the table. Emily tells Nikolas that she can understand why he likes Katherine so much. All of the sudden Nikolas very clearly says, ''Go Home''. Emily gets all excited and asks Nikolas to repeat it again but he has trouble. She tells him not to worry because if he did it once he can do it again. Helena/Alexis Alexis tells Helena that Katherine will never forgive her for what she did and that she really can't forgive herself. Helena tells her that her methods were wrong but her motives were right and she shouldn't feel guilty about what she did. Alexis tells Helena, ''You make disloyality and lies sound like noble endeavors.'' Alexis again tells Helena that it will be hard to befriend Katherine and Helena warns Alexis if she does not do this, she will disappear from Port Charles just as mysteriously as she appeared. Alexis asks Helena to guarantee that if she does what she asks, then she will spare her life. Helena tells her there is no guarantee of this and it is not negotiable. Helena raises her voice to Alexis and tells her she wants an answer now! Alexis is really starting to panic and getting frightened and almost without thinking says yes to Helena. Helena then does the most eerie thing to Alexis. Helena walks up to Alexis and puts her index fingers on Alexis' face and slowly works her way down her face, I thought she would end up touching her throat but she stops at her chin. While she is doing this she tells a very freaked out Alexis that, ''You resemble your mother, the same cheeckbones, same elegant carriage, you are intelligent and resourceful, while she was only instinctive. You will find a way to succeed Natasha, I have confidence in you.'' Stefan/Katherine Stefan is standing in the cold and Katherine comes out mumbling something or other and Stefan tells her that he is the one having her followed. Katherine is not happy about this and tells Stefan she deserves to decide who and why she should be protected. Stefan tells her that Helena cannot be trusted and that she only wants to endear herself to Katherine so that she can use her. - --------------------------------------------------------------- and a recap somebody posted of what those of us in the ny area missed due to YESTERDAY'S abc interruption: - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here's what you missed... After being unsuccessful in convincing Jason to get Emily to move back home, Alan poured his heart out to Emily. Alan told Emily how he had never been able to accept the fact that Jason would never live up to his expectations and how that had influenced his decisions. Alan revealed that he had hoped to use the baby as a way to bring Jason back into the family, but realized that he had lost Jason forever. Alan hoped that he had not poisoned Emily away from the family as well. A torn Emily told Alan that his explanations were not good enough and admitted that she could not trust him. Even though they each admitted how much they loved each other, Emily refused to return home with Alan. After Alan left, Lila arrived with the quilt that she and Emily had been working on. Lila’s gentle nature and words of wisdom convinced Emily to return to the mansion. At the PC Grill, AJ told a disappointed Keesha about his role in ambushing Jason and the baby. AJ related how Jason had almost pulled a gun during their confrontation and how he had seen a side of Jason he had never seen before. AJ and Jason had a chance meeting in the men’s room where AJ made it clear that he no longer felt guilty about the accident and the choices that Jason had made in his life. AJ was then left standing outside of Jason’s shadow and was ready to move ahead with Keesha. James paid Felicia another visit and greeted her with flowers. Felicia admitted her fear about losing her best friend and James tried to reassure her with another kiss. Before James left to visit Tess, he told Felicia to get ready for a special surprise. As Felicia struggled with her feelings, James told a worried Tess that Mac had been giving them false information. Tess sensed that James was developing feelings for Felicia and warned him not to get too cozy in Mac’s shoes. Later, Mac managed to free himself, but ran into James. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- thank god for different time zones, and the miracles of the internet! julie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:46:22 -0800 From: Taiyin Subject: Re: GH/PC: Hope I have the right address... At 06:49 PM 1/22/98 -0500, Cagey wrote: > >Looks like I'm going to have to update that darned welcome message, huh? > Oops. I'll do that today. >Welcome Traci. Taiyin's cavorting in L.A. at the moment and so is >off-line, And I'm in the process of typing up the details from the GH panel last night at the Museum at TV & Radio. It was very interesting. Unfortunately, though, it was a 9 hour drive home, and I just got here about two hours ago and am now dying at having to spend all day in the office before I can go home and go to sleep. So I'm moving a little slowly at the moment... >character er..."bashing" may be too strong a word, but let me just say that >some of our more vocal participants are *not* thrilled with the Jax/Brenda >repairing . Nope. I do like Jax, though. Just not with Brenda. I think he deserves better -- epecailly after last time. But I was very, very good and didn't blurt that out to Bob Guza or Wendy Riche last night. I wanted to, but I didn't. >importantly, let me say what I know Taiyin would say--Write more fic!! ;) I think this means I'm a tad too predictable. >Welcome aboard. Indeed, indeed! Taiyin "Sacrifice yourself, my love slave." - --"Oh, do with me what you will." -- Lucy & Kevin, GH - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:18:46 PST From: "Julie Saker" Subject: Re: GH/PC: Hope I have the right address... taiyin wrote: >And I'm in the process of typing up the details from the GH panel >last night at the Museum at TV & Radio. It was very interesting. taiyin! welcome back! i can't WAIT to hear all about it... >Unfortunately, though, it was a 9 hour drive home, and I just got >here about two hours ago and am now dying at having to spend all day >in the office before I can go home and go to sleep. So I'm moving a >little slowly at the moment... well...i guess THAT'S understandable! >Nope. I do like Jax, though. Just not with Brenda. I think he >deserves better -- epecailly after last time. i'll agree wholeheartedly there. i was never one of those fervent types who believed that being pro-sonny necessarily meant being anti-jax. after all, the man IS a god! :) >But I was very, very good and didn't blurt that out to Bob Guza or >Wendy Riche last night. I wanted to, but I didn't. taiyin...WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY NOT??????? oh i had such HOPES! i pictured you telling them in NO uncertain terms what a mistake they were making, and them being so impressed by your passion that they hired you IMMEDIATELY as script consultant, where you proceeded to right all the MANY MANY wrongs that have been inflicted on us, the loyal viewing public. no such luck... seriously, i'm not sure how you were able to RESTRAIN yourself! if i were in the same room with that woman...hell, after guza's latest comment about j&b, with BOTH of them...let's just say it wouldn't be pretty! :) oh well, welcome back anyway! i can't wait till you get caught up with pc...you might regret the restraint you showed last night! julie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:23:47 EST5EDT From: "Gina Clayton" Subject: GH/PC: PC ok,ok.. I am kinda lost. I haven't kept up with PC daily, so bear with me. Today Rex had a flashback of showing Lucy the picture of Scotty in the Cayman Islands and her on the stand. I remember all that, but what was up with the pill that she took from him? I s that supposed to be significant? Sorry if the answer is obvious, but I am lost. This engagement fiasco/thing is is going a LITTLE bit too far!(to say the least) BTW...I thought Karen and Joe were funny on the roof. BTW..what is the general concensus on GH lately? Everyone have a great Friday!!! gina - - ------------------------------ End of port-charles-digest V1 #18 *********************************