All My Children/One Life To Live online (cast info, discussion, etc)- Page 3

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 9:54pm

The Ford Brothers (especially, umm, Ford Ford... I know he had another first name but I can't remember it for the life of me) and the way they dominated OLTL for a time was really off putting--and I agree with you about the waxed and oiled constant shirtlessness. EP Frank Valentini and writer Ron Carlivati seemed to love them though--Carlivati got very defensive and nasty whenever someone would tweet about them (including changing his own story about Jessica, when she pretty idiotically thought she was a teenager after Mitch electroshocked her--being taken advantage of by Ford, which he later defended as being "loving"). I largely like Valentini and Carlivati's work at GH--at least better than GH was for a while, but I'm glad to see what the new writers who wrote some of my fave One Life work in the 90s will do.

Jungle--Tea's story was dealt with in a General Hospital crossover involving baby switching and too much to get into--but she had her baby who died, Todd switched it with another baby, she went back to Llanview and then months later found out the truth, hates Todd again and took off to look for her brother Thomas who was missing and confusingly might be the character the actor played previously on GH, Loenzo a mobster. Whew. That's the last we saw of her--how much of that will be addressed on One Life will be...interesting to see.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 10:10pm

Sorry I asked!

I love how James Ford, the first Ford, was only on there to help David Vickers with that awful Real Housewives idea. Then he got involved and had his own crazy family.

(Incidentally, James Ford is also the real name of "Sawyer" on LOST.)

I actually liked when the Ford brothers became the Mazda brothers on Fraternity Row.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 10:17pm

Right! I forgot his name was James... Yeah he was brought on quickly for Vickers' reality show, and according to the EP, Valentini, the reaction to the scene where he poured water over his half naked body got such a strong reaction that they knew they'd have to bring him back... And more, and more Fords. (I often love Shipp, and he's a soap vet, but his campy, accented take on their dad was just odd.)

(The Frat Row dream episode though, was brilliant!)

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 10:25pm

Hold the phone, bitches.

The first Ford was Robert Ford, no? And James was his brother that he left with Shipp who ended up gettin' with Star. And then there was the youngest one...but I cannot remember his name. He was with the mother who ran away, Inez...who had an affair with a drugged Beau. Or did they not sleep together? The Ford Years were a confusing time for us all.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 10:33pm

The Fords were useless.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 11:31pm

Right! Robert was the first one, and then James was the one that hooked up with Starr. But the history still stands. Robert came on as Vicker's assistant and got involved with Dorian's daughter.

The Ford's mother drugged Beau but didn't sleep with him. She made it look like it, so Nora would leave him. That's when Father Ford kidnapped her.

Cutter et al are really useless. I'm also glad Stacy and that gang is out of the picture. Roxy has to stay though.

That whole pond/pregnancy/hidden identity thing was so stupid.

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 11:59pm

The Mazda Brothers?

Ha, ha, ha! I must have missed that episode.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 12:19am

It was near the end when their favorite soap, Fraternity Row, was being canceled. It's a show within a show, and the actors doubled as people who live on Fraternity Row. The Ford brothers played the rowdy Mazda brothers. I can't remember anyone else though.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 3:34am

Nigel was Nigella, is the other main one I remember but I did have to give Ron C credit for mocking many of his stories that fans had complained the most about.

I forgot the Fords even had a mother--Inez was played by a kinda popular Guiding Light actress but I think the show just realized her character and the convulated storylines around them (including Clint basically hiring Daddy Ford to terrorize and almost rape Nora--I think simply because he was mad that Nora was back with Bom, which is completely out of character for Clint) weren't working--Inez didn't even have an exit, she just disappeared.

I don't *mind* Cutter, though I hope that means we'll see Alex back every so often now that they randomly made her his mother--but Stacy, Gigi and Rex, etc, I'm fine with not seeing again for a long long time. I do think Roxy will be back--Ilene wants to return and she prob will work on recurring, non-contract status as before (it's been confirmed that Nigel will be as well, though that may depend on how long the actor is in Cinderella.)

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 8:15am

I can picture Cutter trying to seduce Natalie in order to get a piece of the Buchanan fortune (of course with Alex as his mother they might make him Asa's long lost son but didn't they already try that in the Natalie/Jarrod storyline?).

The actor who plays Cutter has good comic timing so I can also see him and David Vickers playing comedic foils.

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[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 10:14am

Plus, he's also unbearably hot (in a way that the perfect-looking Ford brothers just weren't...nothin' sexy bout that family).

I loved the Gigi/Rex/Stacy bullSH*T. And what was the name of Stacy's hooker friend? The one with the unfortunate amount of facial hair who married (I think) Clint? LURVED her.

Oh God, I'm getting so excited!

[bobs3]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 11:44am

I wouldn't be surprised if ABC and Prospect worked out a deal where GH keeps Todd Manning and in exchange they give Prospect character rights to Lorenzo who will become Tomas Delgado's alter ego.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 12:57pm

RobbieJ: YES! She always reminded me of a Kardashian but I loved her too.

I looked her up. Character's name was Kimberly Andrews but Wiki also calls her Aubrey Wentworth. I must've missed something because I don't remember any of that.

And Cutter.... So hot. Not as hot as Officer Fish though.
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[bobs3]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 1:22pm

I think the actress who played Kimberly is now a regular on THE MINDY PROJECT -- the doctor's office receptionist (or at least she looks like Kimberly).

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 2:20pm

OMG! She WAS Aubrey Wentworth, but going by Kimberly Andrews after intense amounts of plastic surgery to avoid being charged with murder and paying Rama Patel the money she owed her. She was Cutter's sister!

And Officer Fish still sends me over the moon. We have mutual friends and I'm always terrified that I'd meet him and piss myself.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 6:13pm

The only time I ever watched any soap was One Life to Live in the late 80s (I think). I came in when there was a new Max before they went back to the old Max, and then changed Tinas, and Gabrielle was trying to be nice or be or nun or something. It was all very confusing. And at one point they were held prisoner on an island with a drug cartel or something. I loved trying to sort it all out having never watched the show before.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 6:57pm

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 5:09am

^^ Aww I wish they'd bring him and his boyfriend back. After the way ABC and the producer treated them (implying that the actors were booted for personal reasons and that ratings were too low--when ratings dropped even further after they were kicked and we were left with the Stacy/Mitch/Teen Jessica/Ford Bros mess) I wouldn't imagine it--but with a new team now, and some supportive tweets from both actors, maybe (both AMC and OLTL online are meant to be building gay stories, partly I think because the few gay scenes from soaps that have aired have done so well on youtube--) Although Scott Evans' recent (fairly harmless) cocaine bust prob doesn't help things with his partying on the set rumours.

Bobs--GH is keeping Todd. Lorenzo/Thomas' actor has said he won't be returning to soaps anytime soon (but who knows?)

Aubrey was Cutter's "sister/lover" who was with Joey. Kimberly's the stripper and was great--she's been dropped (stupidly) from Mindy Project, so who knows? But yes Kim was the real Aubrey, I can't even remember blonde Aubrey who took her name's real name lol.

Matt--OLTL was at its rating peak then and, as campy as it usually is, it was also at its campiest then (the underground city, time travel, this was before soaps were more keen to do things like that...)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 5:15am

Bobs, I do agree that Cutter at least had comic timing and some charm (I loved him briefly with Dorian)--and I found him hot, and not as Ken Doll as the Fords, though with the amount of fuzz he's shown online, I did find it annoying that for his shirtless scenes he would be waxed smooth but that was a soap, and particularly OLTL thing (they seem to think men should still look like gay adult film stars from the late 80s.)

A few more pics as published in Us Weekly.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 5:17am

Clint, and Bo with his two sons (at least I think David Vickers turned out to be Bo's son--that paternity story went on for eons)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 5:19am

Classic Blair and Tea (looking great--though the prison stripes on Tea are kinda odd...)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 5:20am

Jesse and Angie who always look virtually the same going back to the late 80s

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 5:21am

And some of the women of Pine Valley

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 9:48am

I only recognize four of those ladies!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/13/13 at 10:57am

Ah...the glorious Debbie Morgan, who was ROBBED of an Oscar nom for Eve's Bayou!

And I want to smack Scott Evans upside the head for that cocaine bust! Bitch! You don't got a guy? Everybody's got a guy! I got a guy...I'll give you his number!