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Sonya Gillingham

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Jul 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/29/97
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Post your votes as to the worst actress on the show of all time.


My vote is Pricilla Presley. Damn terrible acting....

Sonya

Dal...@hhs.net

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In article <5rji76$uro$1...@newsxfs02-int.news.prodigy.com>,

Another vote for Presley. Just when I think she can't
get any worse she reaches a new low. What suprises me
is when she did The Naked Gun the media made a big deal
about her being a comedian, apparently they never saw
how funny she was on Dallas.

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Barry S. Mandel

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-- BSM

"First, we kill all the lawyers...." -- W. Shakespeare
"Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company
with fowl is weird." -- W. Allen

Sonya Gillingham <VED...@prodigy.com> wrote in article
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>
>
> My vote is Pricilla Presley. Damn terrible acting....
>

Dallas wasn't exactly loaded with second-generation Sarah Bernhardts, so
there's
lots to choose from here. Presley is, agreed, a hideous actress, but she
did
have the virtue of being pleasant to look at. (If only they had written
Jenna as a
mute...) Jenilee Harrison not only matches her for sheer ineptitude, but
manages
to be physically repulsive as well. (Those teeth! Find this girl an
orthodontist quick!)
However, my vote for the all-time worst would have to be Kimberly Foster,
an actress
so spectacularly awful that she must truly be seen to be believed.

-- BSM

"First, we kill all the lawyers...." -- W. Shakespeare
"Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company
with fowl is weird." -- W. Allen

Eric Newman

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It would be hard to top (oxymoronically speaking) Charlene Tilton, but
what about the "actress" who played her dorky friend Muriel?

Maybe I'm getting the Worst Actress/Worst Character contests
confused...

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John Sloan

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Jul 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/29/97
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Swellen's mother.

Stephen

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Jul 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/29/97
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In article <5rji76$uro$1...@newsxfs02-int.news.prodigy.com>,
> VED...@prodigy.com (Sonya Gillingham) wrote:
>>
>> Post your votes as to the worst actress on the show of all time.

Ehh... I'm more inclined to give that award to Lou Ella, one of J.R.'s first
secretaries.

Stephen

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Dan & Beth Woolsey

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Jul 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/30/97
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Sonya Gillingham <VED...@prodigy.com> wrote in article
<5rji76$uro$1...@newsxfs02-int.news.prodigy.com>...

> Post your votes as to the worst actress on the show of all time.

> My vote is Pricilla Presley. Damn terrible acting....

> Sonya

I cast my vote for Priscilla Presley too. I think that she's a better
actress now, but on Dallas she's horrible!

Beth

Michael Simmerman

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Jul 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/30/97
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Lets split this up into two categories: Worst Male- Chris Atkins (Peter
Richards) and Worst Female- Charlene Tilton (Lucy Ewing Cooper)

May the Lord bless all that you are and do.
Mike

Laura Semmens

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Jul 30, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/30/97
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I have to agree with you guys! However, Jamie is running a close second
after yesterday's show.

Pete Loerke

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Jul 31, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/31/97
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Linda Gray!! Definitely Linda Gray. That drunk lunatic act is just way
to much. And those facial expressions...Just ridiculous!

George W. Dean

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Aug 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/3/97
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Lets not forget Afton & the Midget. Between the three of em, perhaps
they should be grouped and tagged the Andrews sisters of soaps. No
disrespect to the Andrews sisters intended.

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:34:20 -0600, Dal...@hhs.net wrote:

>In article <5rji76$uro$1...@newsxfs02-int.news.prodigy.com>,
> VED...@prodigy.com (Sonya Gillingham) wrote:
>>

>> Post your votes as to the worst actress on the show of all time.
>>
>> My vote is Pricilla Presley. Damn terrible acting....
>>
>> Sonya
>

abba37

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Aug 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/4/97
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Zimm wrote:
>
> On Tues. 07/29/97, Barry S. Mandel (BSM) wrote...

> >However, my vote for the all-time worst would have to
> >be Kimberly Foster, an actress so spectacularly awful
> >that she must truly be seen to be believed.
>
> I don't know what character Kimberly Foster portrayed,
> but my vote for the worst actress goes to the actress
> who portrayed Holly Harwood. Argghhhh, she was
> pitiful, one dimensional, and dull. IMHO.
> --
> Lauren (remove ? from address if replying via email)

Well the actress who played Holly Harwood was Lois Chiles and she ended
up in a James Bond move as one of the "Bond Girls" (Moonraker??) and I
don't remember if the movie was before or after Dallas. Of course well
all know we've not seen much of her since...........

Betsy

Anglophile

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> >
> > Well the actress who played Holly Harwood was Lois Chiles and she ended
> > up in a James Bond move as one of the "Bond Girls" (Moonraker??) and I
> > don't remember if the movie was before or after Dallas. Of course well
> > all know we've not seen much of her since...........
> >
> > Betsy
>
>

> Lois Chiles was also in "The Great Gatsby" before "Dallas".
>
She was also in the star-studded 1976 adaptation of Agatha Christie's
"Death on the Nile".


Zimm

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Laura Semmens

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abba37 wrote:

DYKWIM?

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Aug 13, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/13/97
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I'm sorry but Mandi Winger takes the cake.

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Bryce Wray

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Aug 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/14/97
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In article <guigsy-1308...@ip-22-228.phx.primenet.com>, gui...@primenet.com (DYKWIM?) wrote:
> I'm sorry but Mandi Winger takes the cake.
>
Other nominees (each listed by her character's names when I don't know
the real name), all because they were never believable to me:

(1.) Mrs. Shepard (Sue Ellen's and Kristin's mother) -- While wanting
daughters to be "winners" is one thing, not knowing the difference
between "winners" and "whipped" is another.

(2.) Marilee Stone / Fern Fitzgerald -- A fine actress in other roles
where I've seen her, but she over-played this (frankly not
well-considered) role as a super-horny, young-man-bedding rich widow
who somehow manages to keep her husband's oil empire alive and well
while yet also keeping her unclad butt by the swimming pool 90% of the
time (apparently).

(3.) J.R.'s secretary before Sly [can't even remember the CHARACTER
name!!] -- C'mon, no big-city company is going to have an **executive
secretary** who's *that* slutty, not even if her boss *does* keep her
around primarily for couch duty!

(4.) And, bless her heart, Donna Reed as Miss Ellie in the latter part
of the '84-'85 season. I hate to say that because she was a great
actress in other roles (most notably, of course, Mary in "It's a
Wonderful Life"), but not even the sack dresses would have made her
Miss Ellie. (Of course, Lorimar didn't even try that ploy -- but, as
we now know, the poor woman was dying of cancer, so perhaps she was
too thin to wear them "properly"?? Dunno.)

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Barry S. Mandel

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Aug 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/14/97
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How did I forget the dreaded Morgan Brittany?

Tim Carroll

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JR's first secretary was Lu Ella.


SGT

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Actually his first secretary was Julie Grey, then Lu Ella, then Sly.

Tim Carroll <tc...@POPD.ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
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Rick Truell

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Aug 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/14/97
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In article <5su8ju$m...@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>,
amb...@ix.netcom.com(Ambrose) wrote:
>What did you all think about Bobby taking on that entire motorcycle
>gang Charlie was hanging with? Pretty hilarious.

It wasn't a "gang", it was just a few high-school twits. And Bobby didn't
take on *all* of them, just the two twits stupid enough to think they could
actually take him on. It *was* hilarious, though...but only from the point
of view that those idiots actually thought they could take on, and beat,
someone who was obviously in better shape than either of them!!

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DYKWIM? (gui...@primenet.com) wrote:
: I'm sorry but Mandi Winger takes the cake.

Cheesecake?

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Ambrose

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Ronald Jacobson

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mark_j...@maceast.com (Mark Johnson) wrote:
>Actually I would have to bang April Stevens and Mandy Winger one after the
>other 3 or 4
>times before I could pass judgement on this.
>
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Eric Newman

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Aug 15, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/15/97
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On 15 Aug 1997 19:42:05 GMT, "Barry S. Mandel"
<Bear...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>All the same, I wouldn't mind seeing Bobby take one
>right across the chops just once. I mean, he's not
>Superman, is he?

Supposedly at one point early in the series, Bobby was supposed to
rescue Swellen from a burning or wrecked car. During one of the takes,
Patrick Duffy ripped off his clothes to reveal a Superman costume
underneath. He tucked Linda Gray under his arm and tried leaping into
the air several times, after which he said, "Oh, the hell with it,
let's walk."

Ronald Jacobson

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amb...@ix.netcom.com(Ambrose) wrote:
>
>
>What did you all think about Bobby taking on that entire motorcycle
>gang Charlie was hanging with? Pretty hilarious.
That was perhaps the funniest thing I've ever seen on Dallas(excluding
Angelica Nero's outfits)


dalla...@hotmail.com

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Aug 16, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/16/97
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> Supposedly at one point early in the series, Bobby was supposed to
> rescue Swellen from a burning or wrecked car. During one of the takes,
> Patrick Duffy ripped off his clothes to reveal a Superman costume
> underneath. He tucked Linda Gray under his arm and tried leaping into
> the air several times, after which he said, "Oh, the hell with it,
> let's walk."
>
> Eric Newman / ed...@carroll.com
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That sounds hilarious - how did you know about it?

an...@twd.net

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Aug 16, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/16/97
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In article <8717432...@dejanews.com>,

This WAS hilarious... I have the bloopers tape, and this outtake
was included. Victoria Principal was standing w/ Duffy beside Swellen's
car (Swellen was passed out inside). All of a sudden, he just starts
taking his clothes off, and there's the Superman duds! The look on VP's
face is priceless as she watches him! Then he reaches in the car,
grabs Linda Gray, and *tries* to fly away with her.

dalla...@hotmail.com

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This outtake is on the bloopers tape?!? Hot damn! Can't wait for it
to arrive!

Teresa

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In article <EEz18...@nonexistent.com>,

edit@!carroll.com (Eric Newman) wrote:
>
> On 15 Aug 1997 19:42:05 GMT, "Barry S. Mandel"
> <Bear...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> >All the same, I wouldn't mind seeing Bobby take one
> >right across the chops just once. I mean, he's not
> >Superman, is he?

No, of course not...he's The Man From Atlantis.

Tim Carroll

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Check the bloopers tape. Bobby is superman in one scene!!


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