ATWT- Interesting Character Studies
Glenn W.
> I want to thank you for this very long message!! . . . I am a new watcher of
> ATWT, and you have given me a great background comparison on many of the
> characters I've been watching for a few weeks. . .
Thank you for the thank you. And you are welcome. Any long time
readers of ratsc know how long my messages can get. :-)
Let me see if I can come up with more for you...and the other Another
World fans through this newsgroup. Mind you that these are my
perceptions from over 20 years of watching and my own very skewed
opinions.
Dr. Bob Hughes had an affair with Dr. Susan Stewart, who is the mother
of Emily Stewart. Emily is the daughter of Susan and Dan Stewart.
Emily is the young blonde woman who has a baby named Daniel with Tom
Hughes, Bob's son.
Bob felt very awkward in having the affair with Susan. He was very
remorseful and apologetic to Kim his wife afterwards. Thus began a very
testy relationship between Kim and Susan. It was sort of there under
the surface all along, because I think Kim stole Dan Stewart (Susan's
husband) from her at one point back in the 1970s. Recently Kim forgave
Susan for her affair with Bob, a decade or so after the fact.
I've always had a problem with the term "stole." Like a man or woman
belongs to another like a piece of property. Perhaps enticed is a
better word.
Dr. John Dixon has a long list of marriages and 'bad guy' incidents.
However he usually is very remorseful, after the fact. John Dixon is
also a good guy at times. I like his character best, because of the
skill of the actor for one thing. I also like his character because he
is very multi-dimensional, ranging from very funny to very mean and all
moods in between. You never quite know what John will do next or when.
He is so diverse in his moods that almost nothing seems out of character
for John Dixon to do.
John Dixon was very sexy with his one-time wife, Lucinda Walsh and has
been sexy over the years. Just ask Alice on this newsgroup, who does
the ATWT Friday update, about this. :-)
Molly Conlan is a relatively new arrival to Oakdale. She came to
Oakdale around March 1997. She became Lily's best friend (the first
female friend Lily ever had that wasn't a relative). 1997 also brought
Broadway musical talent Michael Park to the role of Jack Snyder.
Molly seduced Holden to sleep with her in the months leading up to Lily
and Holden marrying, which at one point Lily witnessed their romp.
Lily and Holden kept reuniting, so Molly did everything she could to
break them up. At one point, drugging Holden and making love to his
unconscious body on videotape to make it look like they were having an
affair.
Molly was a prison cellmate to Lily, who wrongly went to prison for
killing Diego Santana. Lily had brought a gun with her to her wedding
to Diego. When he lied to her and said that he had killed Lucinda her
adopted mother, Lily whipped out a gun and looked like she had killed
her newlywed husband outside of the church.
After several of Oakdale's citizens (Emily, Margo, Kirk, Mark Kasnoff)
looked like they could have killed Diego. Kirk Anderson later confessed
after a long dragged out who-done-it. The Kirk actor is now playing Sam
the cowboy on Guiding Light. Kirk didn't stay in jail too long though.
David Allen, played by Omaha, Nebraska native Daniel Markel (the man in
Molly's flashbacks), was the District Attorney then. In a crooked deal,
he let Kirk go to have Kirk do his bidding.
Kirk and Samantha (Sam) was a married couple. Sam was one of Lucinda
Walsh's sisters. Sam is Georgia Tucker's mother. Shortly after it was
revealed that she was Georgia's mother, the writers wrote the character
out of the show.
The Samantha actress (Sherri Alexander, no relation to Brooke Alexander)
was the second one to play Samantha. Many of us were not as happy with
her as we were with the original Samantha (Brooke Alexander). Brooke
Alexander is best known now for her Flonase commercials for allergies.
Samantha was always a very tall young blonde woman.
I am sure many of the Another World fans will enjoy Lucinda Walsh when
her portrayer Elizabeth Hubbard returns to Oakdale on the August 12
episode. Lucinda is a very spontaneous and literate person. She quotes
from classic literature and sometimes phrases from other languages.
Lucinda is a one-woman powerhouse. Lucinda can be very funny and also
very dramatic.
Lucinda does not take anything from anybody. She is very suspicious of
newcomers if they get involved with her family or business. She will
hire private investigators to look into them and other people to do her
bidding.
Lucinda growls, but her bark is usually worse than her bite. Lucinda
will bite if the need arises though. She will ruin someone or run them
out of town on a rail if necessary. Not personally, but usually through
her minions or her newspaper "The City Times."
Lucinda is the queen of the mountain. Many challengers have come and
gone to try to topple her from that summit, but Lucinda always comes out
on top. If she loses her mountain, she creates a new one that is bigger
and better than ever. Lucinda is the perpetual Phoenix, always arising
from the ashes of ruin. Unlike James Stenbeck, she thankfully never
dies. Lucinda has been on ATWT for around 15 years now.
The most memorable Lucinda scene was her first. All we saw was a pair
of very sexy shapely and gorgeous legs propped up in a corporate jet,
before her plane landed in Oakdale.
As we came to expect, she also was on the phone demanding something in
one of her businesses. Lucinda spent as much time in the boardroom as
she did in her home, if not more. She did corporate takeovers and all
sorts of things. Think of Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins) from the old
"Dynasty" television series and you have Lucinda exactly.
Jack Snyder arrived in Oakdale to investigate the Diego Santana murder,
among other things. Jack worked in the FBI at the time thus his nickname
of 'G-man' sometimes spoken by Carly. He visited Lily in prison
disguised as a priest.
We learned at some point that Jack would stay when he ended up working
for James Stenbeck. James is the evil man on the show, but he does have
a few other sides. Last we knew he was married to Lucinda, but when
Lucinda left so did he. His portrayer Anthony Herrera has been battling
cancer off and on for many months. I guess he is doing better now and
who knows, might show up in Oakdale this fall.
We couldn't tell if Jack was a good or a bad guy at first. He did James
bidding for awhile, but we learned that he was an undercover FBI agent
and a good guy. Yet he was always pretending to be a bad guy in front
of James, until his cover was revealed.
Anyone else out there to talk about ATWT's characters' pasts? I'll try
to add in a few once in awhile if I remember to and have time under this
thread.
By all means, someone help me here. I've only been watching for 20
years, so I'm a newbie. Ha ha. Since ATWT has been on for over 43
years, it is only partly funny. I barely know half of it.
A good book to help you is from ATWT's 40th anniversary year in 1996.
The book is called "As The World Turns: A Complete Family Scrapbook" by
Julie Poll. Available for FREE from your local library (through
interlibrary loan if necessary) or for a few dozen dollars at Amazon.com
on the web.
While at the library or Amazon.com, look also for books by actress
Eileen Fulton (Lisa on ATWT). She is a prolific author of books, some
on ATWT itself.
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David Ballarotto
figures of the program. Demonstrates very well that some "good" characters
do bad things and some "bad" characters have done good things.