Western/Central NYers...Turning Stone AMC Party!

From Vincent Irizarry s FB Page:

It's official!!! Come join me, Bobbie Eakes, Walt Willey, and Lindsay Hartley on Valentine's Day weekend, Feb 18th, at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, NY for a fun-filled romantic evening of cabaret, with music accompaniment by Loren Gold. What better way to rekindle that spark between you and your valentine than spending it at a truly beautiful resort, with world class dining and casino, being serenaded by some of your Pine Valley favorites? Or, who knows? Maybe find love for the first time? Hmmmm...sounds promising : ) Get your tickets soon since seating is limited. Can't wait to see some of you there!!!

 FOR INFO: Turning Stone Casino

Tribute To Pine Valley set for January 13th in WI

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center  in Appleton WI and Celebrity Events Group (CEG):  A Tribute to Pine Valley, the unique fan tribute event dedicated to ABC’s most successful soap opera “All My Children.” Mirroring last month’s wildly entertaining events in the tri-state area, fans can expect up close and personal interaction with their favorite stars, audience interaction, lively question and answer sessions, behind the scenes stories and secrets, trivia, photos and autograph signings. Each event concludes with a highly emotional walk down memory lane where fans relive moments of joy, sorrow, tragedy and triumph from 41 years of the beloved soap.

Taking place January 13 at 7:00 p.m., the participating “All My Children” cast members include: Walt Willey (Jackson), Cameron Mathison (Ryan), Vincent Irizarry (David), Darnell Williams (Jesse), Alicia Minshew (Kendall) and Jacob Young (JR).

Tickets start at $38 and are on sale now for A Tribute to Pine Valley at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Center’s ticket office, by phone through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787 or online at foxcitiespac.com. Groups can order tickets by calling (920) 730-3786. Additional fees may apply. Performance schedule, prices and cast are subject to change without notice. For a full events listing, visit foxcitiespac.com.

Celebrity Events Group is also organizing a separate autograph and photo session with the cast of A Tribute to Pine Valley. Passes cost $125 and are available by phone at (866) 364-0330 or online at atributetopinevalley.com. Passes will be distributed in the lobby on the evening of the show. Passes for the postshow event must be purchased separately from the original ticket order to attend the autograph and photo session.

Read more: Broadway World.com 

Cady McCain and The Prospect Deal...

Cady McCain took to facebook to address some of the things she's been hearing about the Cyber-deal. Thought you'd like to read some of it.. interesting. Read it in FULL on Cady's FB Page

Okay, I just have to say that the news that "AMC didn't move on because of actor negotiations" is just totally wrong. First of all, when I was there at the very end, TONS of actors were asking each other, "have you been contacted? Has ANYBODY been contacted?" The answer was always, "No. What's going on? Why haven't they contacted any of us?"

Now comes the real question, why? Why weren't they asked? Is it true that PP was negotiating only with Lucci and waiting until that deal was done to contact anyone else? I do not know. She did not share that info with anyone as far as I know. I did hear through the grapevine (after the show ended) that PP did indeed contact her. Make of that what you will.

Is it true that PP showed preference for OLTL from the very beginning? Yes, I do know that because OLTL had higher ratings, PP felt they had a better bet with them. Other than that, I cannot guess at anything else, other than that PP only has so much money to go around, and this internet gamble is a huge one. My feeling is, when OLTL goes to the internet, it will have a only a FEW months to prove itself as a viable show. If it doesn't pull the ratings PP needs it to... it will not withstand the chopping block. If it DOES do well in the ratings, then there is a CHANCE that AMC will be pulled back into the mix.

All My Thanks to All My Children!

I watched the first day, now I am watching the last day. I wish I could find Patty Andolina so I could watch with her and complete the cycle!! We loved Tara and Phil, those star-crossed lovers. *sigh* Mary and Jeff--scheming Erica Kane.....
Thank You to Agnes Nixon for years of stories and memories!

 

Tom and Ercia...I miss The Goal Post! 

First show I remember mentioning birth control...abortion... two friends of different race runnin' away--as quaint as that seems it was big back in the day!!!  Kate would sit in her kitchen or livingroom, giving advice--Myrtle ran the boarding house. Erica was always the glamour girl--with real trips to NYC! 

ALL MY CHILDREN TRENDING WORLDWIDE on Twitter!! YES!! 

The finale was so heartfelt-- so wonderful!! The children montage!! It was so sad..and touching!! 
I liked having the JR angst...it wasn't all flowers.
Marion and Stuart!! 'My queen of hearts'!! 
Brooke Used AUNT PHOEBE's money to buy back the Chandler Mansion!! 
Awwww, Angie and David "See past the sneer"!! ..love David being friends with Angie
LOVED the party..loved Erica's  dress and Opal's!! So over the top! Awesome... 

  Neighbors, family and friends. I found all of them here," says Tad. "It's been my home, the best years of my life."

I'M ERICA KANE!!

JACK..classic Gone with the Wind line and then....the show ending on a BANG!! I loved it, LOVED it..see, they want us to watch online!! Even if it doesn't happen?? It's still brilliant--not cookie cutter but on a cliffhanger..JUST LIKE A SOAP SHOULD, IMO! Bravo for taking a risk and not going out all schmaltzy! 
Ah, we had our schmaltz all week...our flashbacks, our 'resolutions" this was way more bold and ballsy!! Thank you!  

Eden Riegel:  TWITTER:
Today I am very grateful to #AllMyChildren being such an important part of my life. #ThanksAMC for Bianca. She changed my life, too.

2 AMC Actors To Sign with CyberSoap

Breaking news this afternoon via TV Line.  Cameron Mathison and Lindsay Harley are ready to sign to continue on with All My Children online. This is pending a deal with AFTRA. Good news!

Courtesy/ABC:

Here is the statement from Prospect Park: “Pending a final agreement with AFTRA, Prospect Park has confirmed that … Cameron Mathison (Ryan Lavery) and Lindsay Hartley (Dr. Cara Castillo Martin) have agreed to deals to join the company’s new production of All My Children.
This marks the first confirmation of cast members since Prospect Park began planning for the AMC production to live on the new online network beyond its final televised date on ABC this week.”

BIG WEEK in SoapLand!!

This week finds us with the last ever All My Children on network TV. I will try to contain my grief. It's not everyday a girl finds a soap she's watched from DAY ONE dissolve into oblivion. Ok, into CyberSpace.  Watch for VINTAGE AMC here for the next 5 days. Indulge me!

Palmer and  Cynthia Cortlandt!

Did you know this??
Cynthia Preston -- All My Children
Portrayed by: Jane Elliot (1984-86)
Family: Andrew Preston Cortlandt (Son)
Marriages: Ross Chandler; Palmer Cortlandt


Genie Francis was also on AMC as con artist and incest victim Ceara Connor Hunter from 1990 to 1992! 

My fave story on AMC was Jesse, Angie, Greg and Jenny. Awesome TV at the time, and just right for my age!! I also loved Nina and wanted her hair. She was the only one I knew with a nose as tiny as mine. LOL

Palmer and Nina... 1979.

Enough for today!!! I'm sure I'll find more pics I want to display during the week. End of a long, long era...boo to the Chew and Frons and Sweeney and everyone else that helped hasten it's death! 

The Talk Cashing In on AMC Fan Woes...

PRESS RELEASE from TV By the Numbers:

“The Talk” IS COOKING UP A TREAT FOR FANS OF “All My Children” WITH “ALL MY MEALS” WEEK, AIRING SEPTEMBER 26-30 ON CBS

A Special Series Of Themed Cooking Segments Featuring Delicious Daytime Hunks Jacob Young, Michael E. Knight and Ricky Paull Goldin Will Run Throughout The Week

The Talk is cooking up a special “All My Meals” week, airing Sept. 26-30 (2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT), on the CBS Television Network.  Three shows during the week will feature “All My Children” daytime hunks Jacob Young, Michael E. Knight and Ricky Paull Goldin, as they cook up their favorite recipes and join The Talk hosts at the table to reflect back on the legacy of “All My Children,” which ends its 41-year run on Friday, Sept. 23.

Jacob Young (JR Chandler) will be a guest on The Talk on Monday, Sept. 26, where he’ll also discuss his return to CBS’s “The Bold and the Beautiful” that same day.  Daytime Emmy Award winner Michael E. Knight, best known for his role as Tad Martin, will appear on Wednesday, Sept. 28, and Daytime Emmy Award-nominated co-star Ricky Paull Goldin, who played Dr. Jake Martin, will be a guest on Thursday, Sept. 29.

Well, thanks for showing support NOW.  Geesh, this could have been done, I don't know years ago to help bolster ratings??  And interesting it's on CBS AND  not ABC's THE VIEW?

Cady McClain on The Last Days of AMC

Cady McClain has a great website and a wonderful BLOG.. read what she has to say about her last days on set and "The Death of Daytime? "  Cady and Michael are two of my all time faves from any soap. They are just good people.

Mike and I and all us long time daytime actors- have spent so many moments in a world of make-believe.  A world where good always wins over bad, and love triumphs over all.  I will miss that world.  I’m not always fond of the “real” world, where news always seems bad and the tragedies never seem to stop.  It’s not like soaps don’t have their share of dead babies and tornados, but things always work out somehow.  Babies are found alive and lovers come back from the dead!  I will miss watching and working on the soaps for those outrageous but wonderful, hopeful happy endings.

Mary Fickett (Ruth Martin #1) Dies...

From the Fredericksburg Post
I was actually thinking how much Dixie looked like the old Ruth!

\Mary Fickett, a New York actress whose career spanned 50 years of radio, television, stage and movies, died Thursday at her home in Callao in Northumberland County. She was 83.

For nearly 30 years, Fickett was loved and admired by millions of people as the good, compassionate nurse Ruth Parker Brent Martin on the daytime TV drama "All My Children." She appeared in the first episode of the show in 1970 and made her last appearance in 2000.

At the height of the Vietnam War in the show's 1972-73 season, Fickett delivered a touching monologue expressing her character's doubts about the war and fears about her drafted son.

Ruth's speech resonated with millions of viewers across America with the same doubts and fears. It also won Fickett an Emmy in 1973, the first ever awarded to a performer in a daytime drama.

With Ruth and her doctor husband as the drama's tent-pole characters, "All My Children" became the top-rated daytime TV drama in 1978. Ray MacDonnell played the role of Dr. Joe Martin, Fickett's TV husband.

Ricky Paull Goldin: Last Day of AMC Taping

All My Children’s Ricky Paull Goldin (Jake Martin) was present at the final tape day of the series network television run this past Tuesday. And as Goldin reveals exclusively to the New York Post, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

An emotional Goldin said of the devastating experience of watching the end of Pine Valley as we know it, “I can’t even begin to tell you how many tears there were — more than your average soap. Everyone was crying. At one point, I was taking people on a little tour of the set on the final day — I wasn’t allowed to do that, but I forgot — so I snuck ‘em through the sets and I started to get very emotional. I saw some of our sets coming down and ‘my’ loft, Jake’s loft, was gone and the Martin living room [set] was scaled down and Tad’s living room was stripped down and some of the other sets had tape across them. It was like a crime scene! I turned around and saw the sets as they were and got choked up and emotional, really for the first time, since it hit me that this was really happening.”
“When we did our last scene for the show forever, after they said ‘Cut!’ on that scene we all got together for a photograph of the entire cast and crew,” says Goldin. “We all got together in Erica Kane’s penthouse and took the cast photo — including all the multiple kids in the show — and I went to the top of that sweeping staircase and looked out at everybody. It was very surreal, very Fellini. Everything just went in slow motion. It just broke my heart.”

However on the flip side, Goldin revealed that he has a new web-series for Disney called CeReality set to launch next month, which is a soap-spoof/reality series! Ricky describes the show as ”a-high-concept, over-the-top comedy.”
“Last year I would’ve said, ‘An Internet comedy? I’m not interested.’ But what’s happening is, I’ve got a newborn son, Kai, who’s 10 months old and by the time he’s 5 or 10, it’s all going to be blended. You’re going to walk up to a flat-screen TV, touch a button and watch what you want. It’s happening already.”

From: NY POST via Michael Fairman

People Mag Wants to Cash in on Your Love for AMC!

GO TO SON FOR FULL details...

 

People Magazine has spent the summer working on a Special Collector’s issue for fans of “AMC.” The issue is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com for a discounted price. The publication date for the issue is September 27, 2011, which means it should be on newsstands as early as the first week of September for the price of $19.95. The following is a description of the issue provided by the editors of the popular magazine:

A commemoration of the long-running soap opera that ends in September, 2011 after 41 years. With dozens of pages of brand new, exclusive photographs and interviews, the book visits Pine Valley and all the characters that made the show an American institution. Chock full of favorite moments, story lines, and insights from star Susan Lucci, creator Agnes Nixon and many others, it’s a collector’s book that will satisfy millions of fans.

Cameron Mathison will host a one-hour special on the TV Guide Network honoring “AMC” on Sunday, September 11 at 8:00 PM EST. Mathison has played Ryan Lavery on the ABC daytime drama since December 1997, save a one year break. Mathison posted on his Twitter page that among other past and present “AMC” stars that he has interviewed Kim Delaney (ex-Jenny Gardner) and Josh Duhamel (ex-Leo du Pres) for the special.

My comments: Why TV Guide Network and not SOAPNET or ABC?? (I don't get TV Guide channel) -- and, btw, thanks for the great collector's item, but we'd rather have our SHOW!!

Carol Burnett To Return for AMC Finale!

Read the CNN story about this--a lot of people are coming back. Sad. Here she is as Verla Grubbs with Myrtle. LIZ TAYLOR makes a cameo.
Those were the days!