reuinion interviews Options

[dynasty4eva]

i saw a magazine with the cast of dynasty the reuinion, they were interviewing John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, and a couple of others.

They were asking them what they thought of each other and whether they would do another special, here are some of the questions.

They asked J.F. what it was like acting with Joan, there were a lot of rumours that John and Joan didn't get on, John replyed, Those stories were a crock, there are some people you connect with, and some people you half connect with. I'm afraid that may have been the case with Joan. But i will work with a ringtail monkey if it has talent - and that lady is very talented.

They also asked all the cast whether they would do another special, Linda said - Coming back was a comfortable fit. But another series, I'd never say never, but i don't think it would happen.

John - Maybe, but not another one-hour series, not for me.


Joan - Yes but not right away.

There were a lot of other information in the interviews, i don't know whether anyone has read this interview so i'll skip it just in case, unless you guys want me to put the full interview on.

[julie32]

Yes, please post it....I don't think I've read this interview.

[dynasty4eva]

OK, this is for you guys.


DESSERT STORM;

The evening meal is being served at the Carrington Mansion. Blake Carrington stands at the head of the table, his champagne glass raised in a toast to his wife, Krystle, who has just returned from Switzerland, where she was detained by being in a coma for about three years. Seated at the table is the Carrington brood, including Blake's scheming ex-wife, Alexis, his precocious daughter Fallon, and son Adam.
I am a very lucky man, Blake announces to the group, everything a man could want is right here.
Talk about forgive and forget.
"Don't try to analyze it", advises Kathleen Beller, the 36 year old actress who plays Kirby. "This is Dynasty. I'ts supposed to be fun, not profound. I personally could never figure out why all these rich people who didn't like each other lived in the same mansion. I'm sitting at the dinner table with a man who raped me? I mean c@mon.

LET'S GET PHYSICAL

The place, the Merchandise Mart in downtown L.A. Joan Collins, 58, and Linda Evans,48, are getting ready to film another in their series of famous catfights. In past episodes, Alexis and Krystle have duked it out in a lily pond, a mud puddle, and a beauty parlour, and a burning cabin. This time they'll be mixing it up in a fashion-house workroom - and don't ask why.
It would be more interesting if i said that i REALLY wanted to slug Joan, offers Evans before the camera's start rolling. But we've never had a REAL fight. Never screamed at each other. We respect each other. Standing nearby, Collins is chewing intensley on a peice of gum."I abhor violence,"she says. I brusie very easily, i dread doing these scenes. I HATE them. She turns to a group of onlookers. Your're in my line of vision, she snaps. Stay still as stone. For the next six hours, Collins and Evans pretend to kick and scratch each other in a whirling, hair pulling free-for-all. For the truly demanding sequences in which the characters throw each other wildly about, doubles are often used {though Evans likes to do many of her own stunts}. By the time it's all over, both actresses look exhausted. "It was the best fight of all," gushes Evans, nursing a bruised leg."Call the chiropractor," says Collins, sprawled on the floor. This is when my back goes out.

STEVEN CARRINGTON, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME

Here's a familiar face, Al Corley,35, who played Blake's bisexual son, Steven, during the show's first two seasons, and then was reportedly fired for bad-mouthing Esther and Richard Shapiro, the husband and wife team that produced the original dynasty and dynasty reuinion. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE.
My leaving the show was more amicable than the medai ever said, Corley said. "I loved playing Steven. I took playing him very seriously, too seriously. I wanted the producers to make a commitment to him. I wasn't happy where he was going. I didn't want him to whine all the time. I didn't want to see him in limbo.
But Corley's replacement, Jack Coleman, wasn't available for the mini-series, so the shapiro's decided to give Corley another shot. "Because he took a misstep once, should we punish him forever?" asks Esther. He was doing some things that were unacceptable at the time, but he was youang. People change. He is mature now. Corley isn't the only casting change of note. Blake's snarley son Adam played by British actor Robin Sachs, who replaces Canadian Gordon Thomson

SQUEEZE PLAY

No DYNASTY episode - or dynasty article would be complete without at least mentioning Heather Locklear... and here she is complaining about a too-tightpair of jeans, I hurt my finger putting them on, she says, It's an occuptional hazzard. There's this one scene where i had to drop my pants in a restaurant, she reveals, I was like, excuse me,-is this woman on drugs, But [the director]said, Heather your're not the star, just read the lines.

PISTEL PACKING PRODUCER

It's the end of a grueling 10 hour day, but there's one more scene to film, a confrontation between Miles Colby and Fallon Carrington inside the Carrington Mansion. The actors are ready. The camera's are ready. But producer Elaine Rich isn't ready.
"We need more flowers," she says, pointing to a vase at the top of the staircase. We need MORE. I can't see those. Can we get a bigger vase. Minutes tick by, more flowers are rushed in, and finally Rich is ready to film. "The attention to details is what makes this show DYNASTY," she says.

MONKEY BUSINESS

Remeber all those rumours about bad blood between John Forsythe and Joan Collins? Those stories were a crock, insists Forsythe, who at 73 is reprising his role as DYNASTY patriach Blake Carringotn. There are some people you connect with, and some people you half-connect with. I'm afraid that may have been the case with Joan. But i'll work with a ringtail monkey if the monkey has talent - and that lady is very talented.

BROOD AWAKENINGS

It certainly wouldn't be fair to reveal what happens at the end of Reuinion - what improbably bizarre twists the writers have cooked up this time. But in at least one respect the mini-series has, off-camera at least, a happy ending. The show changed all our lives explains Esther Shapiro. I've always said that DYNASTY was an extenstion of all our dreams. For good or bad, the show was saying. Life is just a dream.
JUST A MINUTE, DIDN'T DALLAS ALREADY USE THAT ONE?


QUOTES.

Joan Collins - Because of Alexis, people think i'm a bitch, but i'm not.

Emma Samms - The audience deserved to find out what happened to the characters. ANOTHER REUINION, I wouldn't say no, unless a better project came along.

AL CORLEY - Frankly, I'm enjoying not being in front of the camera.

HEATHER LOCKLEAR - Sure, I'd love it, does a leopard loses it's spots.

JOHN JAMES - OH sure, But to me it's like we never left.


Well, that's all of it, hope you enjoy reading it as much as i did.

[Sunny]

Thank you for posting the article! Very interesting read!

[Mrs. Carrington]

Thank you so much for printing this! Where is it from, and in what year was it written?

[dynasty4eva]

It was in a magazine callled Entertainment.

It was published in 1991, during the filming of dynasty reuinion.

Glad you liked the interview, it was a fascinating read when i first got hold of the magazine.

I actually do have another interview with Pamela Sue Martin, [Fallon], they interviewed her during her early days on Dynasty, in fact it was the time when the storyline included her having the abortion, or not, and they interviewed John and Linda, talking about Pamela.

It is pretty long, but if you want me to put it on, then let me know, and i'll be more than happy to do it.

[BILL]

It was in a magazine callled Entertainment.

It was published in 1991, during the filming of dynasty reuinion.

Glad you liked the interview, it was a fascinating read when i first got hold of the magazine.

I actually do have another interview with Pamela Sue Martin, [Fallon], they interviewed her during her early days on Dynasty, in fact it was the time when the storyline included her having the abortion, or not, and they interviewed John and Linda, talking about Pamela.

It is pretty long, but if you want me to put it on, then let me know, and i'll be more than happy to do it.

Oh please do. The article you posted was so interesting. Blake's quote of working with a talented monkey and Joan being also very talented was priceless. It was a truly LOL moment!!

[Mrs. Carrington]

Yes, it would be fantastic if you'd post that article. Thank you so much!

[dynasty4eva]

OK, here's the Pamela Sue Martin interview.

I have left a bit out because it only mentions projects she does in L.A. and her having discussions with the Mayor and other politicians, it's pretty boring, but i'll put in the interviews that John and Linda did with Pamela, there more interesting.

On the set, she bounces merrily around like someone who never dreamed the party would be this much fun. Co-star John Forsythe says:, Pam has so much juice, so much joy.
Linda Evans notes, she knows more about the lives of the crew than anybody else. She just bubbles around. She can't sit. They can't even hold her down in the make-up chair.
Most of her lines are supercharged emotionally, and sometimes it's a hard transition from Pamela the cheeky friend of all living things to Fallom the wrecker. One day she and Forsythe have a long scene in which they discuss Fallon's decision on an abortion. Forsythe, the old pro, sits in a chair explaining his thoughts on the lines, and, as he talks. Martin slowly kneels in front of him, takes his hand and seems physically to change from Pamela to Fallon.
One morning's shooting is giving over to a fiery exchange between martin and John James, who plays her husband Jeff, over the possible abortion. He shouts, she shouts. A crew member mumbles loudly. He should belt her a couple, as they argue, James packs his bags and at the scene's conclusion, zips it shut and marches dramatically out of her life. Eventually there is a good take, but as James leaves. Martin's throaty laugh follows him. The bag isn't quite zipped, and James does his exit dripping clothes behind him.
James explains that tough scenes with Martin can be doubly trying, because there's that little glimmer of devilment in the corner of her eye, and the later the hour, the bigger it gets. It makes her day to break me up.
Forsythe observes; You know a show is going well when you hear a lot of laughter.
Later that day Linda Evans and Martin sit side by side talking numbers. Evans os a high priestess of numerology and Martin her most faithful disciple. Between them they relentlessy chart the futures of cast, crew and even passer-bys. At the moment Pamela is happy because she is moving into a new house, and it's a 9 and Linda says a 9 will be perfect. She's moving from a 7, which has been alright. It's fine for solitude, but a 9 will be heavenly.
Her faith in numerology was born in the first weeks of Dynasty. I went to Linda and asked if she would do my chart. She told me things about my life that no-one could possibly have known. I was so moved .... I got Linda to teachme. I studied the books, and when i meet somebody new i do there numbers.
To people like Forsythe, who finds it hard to keep a straight face when numerology is discussed. Martin offers a defiant, i'm interested in all kinds of esoteric sciences.
Evans, with or without the charts, has also found Martin, a mass of contridictions. On one hand, she's a bubbling free spirit talking to everyone, and then suddenly she's very still, very withdrawn.


This interview was published in 1981,

[Mrs. Carrington]

I just printed out the interview - can't wait to read it during my lunch break! THANK YOU!!!!!

[dynasty4eva]

just read a short article i found in a magazine, about the storyline that John and Linda did in season 9, it was the storyline that involved Krystle havaing the operation, and she looses the plot in one scene when she's throwing the dinner plates, and then later on in the scene Blake is in the bedroom with Krystle, and then they have a very romatic scene,

Linda was noted as saying that, with that scene she kissed John for real, because she was so upset that she was leaving, and John noted that he noticed the way Linda kissed him, and he said that he didn't complain at all.

After watching that scene many times, you can see a BIG difference in the way they had that scene, maybe it was emotional for them both, with Linda leaving the show.

[julie32]

What magazine was that in? I would sure like to read that article.

[dynasty4eva]

That quote was from a magaizine called Hello, they had loads of quotes from different actors, describing one-another, and John and Linda happened to be in one of them.

Also just received another magazine, way back in 1995, a very heart-warming interview with John Forsythe, talking about the death of his wife Julie, and how he coped with losing her.

If anybody wants me to put it on, then let me know.

[Angiebaby]

Yes please post that Hello article!!!
Love reading these interviews, especially with Linda & John

[julie32]

Yes, me too! I love reading stuff about them. To me, it makes Krystle and Blake's love that much more real....especially knowing John and Linda really did care for one another off screen.

[dynasty4eva]

OK, here we go, this is pretty long, but very heart-warming.

AFTER 50 YEARS OF MARRIAGE THE DYNAST ACTOR TELLS HOW HE IS TRYING TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIS WIFE'S JULIE'S DEATH.

Many people assume that John Forsythe, like Blake Carrington, the smooth, elegantly dressed tycoon he played in the TV soap Dynasty opposite Linda Evans and Joan Collins, must be the epittome of unemtional cool. But nothing could be further from the truth. Not one of the cahracters he has ever protrayed on TV has shown the actor's vulnerability and openess - especially evident now at this time of crisis and sorrow in his life.
In reality, John is neither smooth nor unemotional, although he is dressed elegantly like Blake. The tears in his eyes still betray his grief as he talks for the first time about his wife Julie's death.
It has been a very difficult time, he says, It is such a shock to lose somebody to have been with for 50 years. Julie was an exceptional woman, she knew just how to handle me, how to boost me up.
For weeks after his wife's death last August, John existed in a twighlight limbo state of shock, anger and grief. It was widely reported that he had lost the will to live.
But that is not fair, says John, I haven't had a chance to hide away because all of Julie's friends and my friends and my children [daughters Page, Brooke, and son Dall] have been inviting me round to lunch and dinner.
August 15th seemed to be an ordinary Monday in what, John says, had been tyhe best year of his long marriage. In the morning, Julie worked in the house and the garden of the couple's new 30-acre ranch, overlooking California's pastoral Santa Ynez Valley - near Michael Jackson's estate.
After luch, Julie said she was tired and she felt a little cold, the actor remembers. She asked if i would get her something from the chemist and when i came back she was reading a book. Then she dozed off. Sometime later, when John was watching Newshour on TV, his daughter Brooke called to speak to her mother. John went into the bedroom where Julie was lying down. She looked as if she was asleep - in a very peaceful sleep, he says, a catch in his voice. Then i realised there was something wrong. I touched her but she wasn't stiff or cold - she was warm. I ran out of the room and yelled to the housekeeper to get an ambulance and call the police. He rushed back into the bedroom and gave Julie the kiss of life. I breathed and pressed her chest, he says. But she didn't respond. The minuted seemed to creep by as John then heard the wailing of the sirens as the ambulance came up the hill. They spent about an hour and half trying to revive her, he recalls. Then they took her to the hospital where they had better equipment. John is overwhelmed at the memory. Julie was then placed on a life-support machaine and when John was told that even if she did recover she would be little more than a vegetable, he agreed with the doctors advice that it would be best to switch it off. I had to make the decision, he says, and what a terrible decision, but i took notice of the doctors. It was a very bad time, very bad. In the aftermath of his wife's death, his friends gathered around him, former dynasty star Linda Evans moved into John's guesthouse for a couple of days and Joan Collins wrote from the south of France. Cheryl Ladd sent her sympathy from Hawaii and Aaron Spelling called and sent flowers to him. John is now learing to live alone - no easy thing after 50 years of marriage - and only just starting looking forward again.
He is very keen on tennis and has signed up to play in three tournaments in Monaco, Amsterdam and London this year. Some of John's friends, in an attempt to speed up hsu recovery, have tried to arrange dates for him, but the actor says he isn't ready for anything like that at the moment. It's nice to have the company of an interesting, attractive woman, he says, but not now. It's far too soon. Maybe later on i will be attracted to soemone, but i will never get married again - that's for having children, although a relationship in the future, isn't out of the question.
If i had been the first to go - and i was conviced i would be - i would have wanted Julie to continue her life. I think it's destructive to mourn excessively. It would be unproductive and it wouldn't help Julie.
The Forsythe's marriage had often been called one of the Hollywood's best. In 1942 John, who was then under contract to MGM, met petite, striking Julie Warren, who was contracted to RKO. Julie was energentic, full of life, had a wry sense of humour and from the moment she first saw John she made up her mind she would marry him - which she did in 1943. My mother chased dad across the country, says daughter Page. Julie herself continued to act - appearing notiable in King's Row, as Ronald Reagan's screen girlfriend, until the birth of her children.
Of course there were some difficulties, says John. when you are married to an actor, there are bound to be problems, but on the whole our time together was wonderful. Julie really understood an actor's life. It was a life that included what most hollywood wives dread - romantic screen scenes with the world's most beautiful women.
I remember one friday night i called to tell Julie i would be home late, recalls John. I was shooting a scene with Joan Collins and we didn't finsish until one in the morning. When i finally got home, i was exhausted, but Julie was waiting up for me. It was quite a night, i told her and hopped into bed. The next morning i looked in the mirror and saw there was lipstick on my mouth and shirt - Joan used a lot of lipstick - so at breakfast i asked Julie if she had noticed anything funny the night before. She answered slyly. In what way, OH, you mean the lipstick on your collar, I told her how i got it and she just said. Well that's lovely, I'm pleased about that. She was a person compeltely at ease with herself and the world. john smiles for the first time in the interview. I have been a very lucky man.
At 74 John, who underwent triple heart bypass surgery in 1979, says he has learned to live compeltely and to live with passion.
I have never considered myself to be a Marlon Brando or a Sir Laurence Olivier, but my life has been full of love and work. I've tried to balnce it fifty-fifty and now i'm so glad that i did.


This interview was published in Hello Magazine dated 1995

[Angiebaby]

Great interview - poor John
Could you also post the one about season 9 please - I'd love to read the comments about that real kiss

[julie32]

That is a very touching article...nice to see Linda Evans was there for him. Do you have the other article also where John and Linda talk about each other?

[Forsythe Fan]

OK, here we go, this is pretty long, but very heart-warming.

AFTER 50 YEARS OF MARRIAGE THE DYNAST ACTOR TELLS HOW HE IS TRYING TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIS WIFE'S JULIE'S DEATH.

Many people assume that John Forsythe, like Blake Carrington, the smooth, elegantly dressed tycoon he played in the TV soap Dynasty opposite Linda Evans and Joan Collins, must be the epittome of unemtional cool. But nothing could be further from the truth. Not one of the cahracters he has ever protrayed on TV has shown the actor's vulnerability and openess - especially evident now at this time of crisis and sorrow in his life.
In reality, John is neither smooth nor unemotional, although he is dressed elegantly like Blake. The tears in his eyes still betray his grief as he talks for the first time about his wife Julie's death.
It has been a very difficult time, he says, It is such a shock to lose somebody to have been with for 50 years. Julie was an exceptional woman, she knew just how to handle me, how to boost me up.
For weeks after his wife's death last August, John existed in a twighlight limbo state of shock, anger and grief. It was widely reported that he had lost the will to live.
But that is not fair, says John, I haven't had a chance to hide away because all of Julie's friends and my friends and my children [daughters Page, Brooke, and son Dall] have been inviting me round to lunch and dinner.
August 15th seemed to be an ordinary Monday in what, John says, had been tyhe best year of his long marriage. In the morning, Julie worked in the house and the garden of the couple's new 30-acre ranch, overlooking California's pastoral Santa Ynez Valley - near Michael Jackson's estate.
After luch, Julie said she was tired and she felt a little cold, the actor remembers. She asked if i would get her something from the chemist and when i came back she was reading a book. Then she dozed off. Sometime later, when John was watching Newshour on TV, his daughter Brooke called to speak to her mother. John went into the bedroom where Julie was lying down. She looked as if she was asleep - in a very peaceful sleep, he says, a catch in his voice. Then i realised there was something wrong. I touched her but she wasn't stiff or cold - she was warm. I ran out of the room and yelled to the housekeeper to get an ambulance and call the police. He rushed back into the bedroom and gave Julie the kiss of life. I breathed and pressed her chest, he says. But she didn't respond. The minuted seemed to creep by as John then heard the wailing of the sirens as the ambulance came up the hill. They spent about an hour and half trying to revive her, he recalls. Then they took her to the hospital where they had better equipment. John is overwhelmed at the memory. Julie was then placed on a life-support machaine and when John was told that even if she did recover she would be little more than a vegetable, he agreed with the doctors advice that it would be best to switch it off. I had to make the decision, he says, and what a terrible decision, but i took notice of the doctors. It was a very bad time, very bad. In the aftermath of his wife's death, his friends gathered around him, former dynasty star Linda Evans moved into John's guesthouse for a couple of days and Joan Collins wrote from the south of France. Cheryl Ladd sent her sympathy from Hawaii and Aaron Spelling called and sent flowers to him. John is now learing to live alone - no easy thing after 50 years of marriage - and only just starting looking forward again.
He is very keen on tennis and has signed up to play in three tournaments in Monaco, Amsterdam and London this year. Some of John's friends, in an attempt to speed up hsu recovery, have tried to arrange dates for him, but the actor says he isn't ready for anything like that at the moment. It's nice to have the company of an interesting, attractive woman, he says, but not now. It's far too soon. Maybe later on i will be attracted to soemone, but i will never get married again - that's for having children, although a relationship in the future, isn't out of the question.
If i had been the first to go - and i was conviced i would be - i would have wanted Julie to continue her life. I think it's destructive to mourn excessively. It would be unproductive and it wouldn't help Julie.
The Forsythe's marriage had often been called one of the Hollywood's best. In 1942 John, who was then under contract to MGM, met petite, striking Julie Warren, who was contracted to RKO. Julie was energentic, full of life, had a wry sense of humour and from the moment she first saw John she made up her mind she would marry him - which she did in 1943. My mother chased dad across the country, says daughter Page. Julie herself continued to act - appearing notiable in King's Row, as Ronald Reagan's screen girlfriend, until the birth of her children.
Of course there were some difficulties, says John. when you are married to an actor, there are bound to be problems, but on the whole our time together was wonderful. Julie really understood an actor's life. It was a life that included what most hollywood wives dread - romantic screen scenes with the world's most beautiful women.
I remember one friday night i called to tell Julie i would be home late, recalls John. I was shooting a scene with Joan Collins and we didn't finsish until one in the morning. When i finally got home, i was exhausted, but Julie was waiting up for me. It was quite a night, i told her and hopped into bed. The next morning i looked in the mirror and saw there was lipstick on my mouth and shirt - Joan used a lot of lipstick - so at breakfast i asked Julie if she had noticed anything funny the night before. She answered slyly. In what way, OH, you mean the lipstick on your collar, I told her how i got it and she just said. Well that's lovely, I'm pleased about that. She was a person compeltely at ease with herself and the world. john smiles for the first time in the interview. I have been a very lucky man.
At 74 John, who underwent triple heart bypass surgery in 1979, says he has learned to live compeltely and to live with passion.
I have never considered myself to be a Marlon Brando or a Sir Laurence Olivier, but my life has been full of love and work. I've tried to balnce it fifty-fifty and now i'm so glad that i did.
This interview was published in Hello Magazine dated 1995

Completely mad interview which John brought has.I envy there it which it it so madly mastered.

John you is the best!!!!

[dynasty4eva]

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS LIKE, LOL

OK, I WILL POST THE ARTICLE ABOUT JOHN AND LINDA, IT IS ONLY A VERY SHORT ARTICLE, BUT IF YOU GUYS WANT IT, YOU SHALL HAVE IT.

The article read as follows:

It was from a magazine called Hi, way back in 1990, and there were quotes from different actors, discussing each others experiences regarding acting with each other, there was a SHORT article involving John Forsythe and Linda Evans.

Which reads,

Linda Evans, aged 45, described her final on-screen kiss with fellow actor John Forsythe, aged 74, as heavenly, she told , "we have always had a great chemistry between us", so we said to one-another, "as a joke", that our last romantic scene together, as John was always a joker on the set , "we had to play for real," I, played that scene for real. John, however, was the real professional, she says, but after the scene was final, John looked at me, and smiled, and said, "did you enjoy", I replied, "of course," didn't you, we both then laughed, John then replied, I certainly didn't have anything to complain about that scene, so did the producers, Elaine, who said, that Linda and John, always acted professionally together, but occassionally, we did wonder whether they were really acting, they had one scene, where Blake had just regained his sight, and there was a very romantic scene between Blake and Krystal, in front of the fire-place, they were then told action, they did the scene "VERY PROFESSIONAL" , in fact, they actually fogged the camera lense, there scene was so hot, laughed Elaine Rich.
Linda was asked, whether, she and John had ever dated in real-life, she replied, "no, we have never dated, John is happily married, and i am happily in a good relationship, we will, and always have a good close friendship, as well as his wife Julie, whom i am very close to also, that is all i ever want, I don't want anymore than that.


HOPE THAT IS OK FOR YOU GUYS, HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I DID