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Catherine Hickland recently had a photo shoot with Hillary B. Smith and Ty Treadway for Soap Opera Digest. Their cover should be out sometime next month! Thanks to Sincerely, Catherine and the folks at TyOnline.Org for this information!
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1/27/02
I apologize for missing the update last week! But I haven't stopped working on the site. The update was delayed because I received more than 80 new images for the site! I'm separating the new images in two galleries since there are so many. They may take a little longer than usual to load because of the number of images on each page. Enjoy! New Images 1 New Images 2 The new pictures were scanned by me or are courtesy of Michael E. Knight Yahoo! Club, Kale Browne Online, and ABC Soap Screen Caps.
I haven't added all the pictures to the regular galleries yet; from now on I'll add the new pictures to the regular galleries the week after posting them here.
I'm already thinking about re-designing this site because I find the black/white combination is hard on the eyes and the small font is difficult for some people to read. I would expect that sometime in the next month or so you will return to find a new-looking site! And I'm also planning on getting rid of the annoying pop-ups.
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Soap Opera Weekly 2/5/02
Title: One Life to Live, Two of A Kind, Catherine Hickland (Lindsay) and Hillary B. Smith (Nora)
What drew you to become friends?
Smith: "Joie de vivre. Corps d'esprit. Joy of life. And an indomitable spirit."
Hickland: "We're both a strange comination of girl-girl, total broad and completely bawdy sense of humor."
What were your first impressions of each other?
Hickland: "I'm a very slow-to-trust person, so her openness was one of the things I doubted. I couldn't imagine anybody could be that cool."
Smith: "Incredibly friendly and not at all stuck up. She said, 'I've been dying to meet you; I'm such a fan of your work.' Quite a compliment, coming from someone of her caliber and resume'."
Do you guys hang out off the set?
Hickland: "All the time. I remember the first time I thought, 'I can't function without her.' Now, any time she has a day off, I feel completely lost. It's sick, sick s---."
Smith: "I used to stay at her apartment all the time because I live out of the city and our hours were so late that she'd take pity on me and take me home. We do girl stuff - we gossip, play with makeup, swap clothes. She's mad for my kids. If they're ever missing, I know where they are."
Do you have nicknames for each other?
Hickland: "Puss-Puss!"
Smith: "That's beacuse every time she would walk into her house, she'd go 'puss-puss' and because I was staying at her house, I felt like one of her animals. So I became 'Puss-puss.' And she did, too."
That's lovely.
Hickland: "Except that it makes everybody around here want to puke."
Smith: "But it doesn't matter, because it's just fun for us."
Have you had any fun fan encounters when you're out together?
Hickland: "We have one of those every time we go out -- people just don't understand it. It doesn't compute."
Smith: "Everyone stops and goes, 'You're together! You like each other!' She tries to convince them that I'm the bad one and she's the good one. She's desperate to be liked."
Soap Opera Weekly 2/29/02
Title: ABC EXCLUSIVE: Three Villainesses Under the Gun
They're bad to the bone, but are they beyond redemption? That's the question for three of soaps' most venomous villainesses - All My Children's Vanessa, General Hospital's Helena, and One Life to Live's Lindsay. Between Vanessa being Proteus, Helena's cryogenic treachery and Lindsay's malevolent mind games, some fans think these miscreants may have taken the bad-girl persona a step too far.
But every show needs a nasty Nellie. AMC inked a new four-year deal with Marj Dusay (Vanessa) in December. Catherine Hickland (Lindsay) also has a new contract with OLTL and executive producer Gary Tomlin says, "With Lindsay, what the audience cried out for is justice, which can be seen in a lot of different ways. She gets what's coming to her." Indeed, with Troy hot on her trail (and her tail!), February will be a tough month for her.
"Lindsay needs to get hers. I'm all for it, " agrees Hickland. "It's been driving me crazy as the performer that this woman has not gotten what's coming to her -- I think like a viewer!" Hickland recognizes, though, the mileage a soap can get out of a bad girl. "Every time Lindsay gets wronged or hurt or pissed off, it's like, 'What is she going to do now?' It propels the story to go on and on." Which is the purpose of a good villainess, of course.
However, when a character starts killing people it usually means time is running out. "Helena's a mystery point, " allows GH head writer Megan McTavish. "We don't know what Helena's going to do. I wouldn't count her totally out, but I wouldn't count her totally in.' Word has it Dusay is not feeling too secure, either, despite the long-term deal with AMC. (Although the terms of most daytime contracts bind the actors to a show for the duration, the soap is only committed for 13-week -- or for some top-draw performers -- 26-week cycles.)
However, a good example of how resilient the villainess can be is The Young and the Restless'/The Bold and the Beautiful's Sheila Carter Forrester. She was written into more corners than a maze before finally leaving B&B in 1998 after an eight-year run on Bell shows. So stay tuned to see if these baddies can be redeemed, or wind up with a one-way ticket to Sheila-ville.
News/Updates 1/13/02-1/19/02
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