In Part III we'll have:
The GH Fan Club awards; hosted by Brad Maule and Sarah Brown.
Stuart Damon's Eulogy for John Beradino.
The Question and Answer Session
The Interview with Stephen T. Kay
The awards - Brad Maule and Sarah Brown hosts
Stuart's eulogy
.....I ask all of you to rise and give him the curtain call he so well deserved. Thank you very much. And now I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Marjorie for allowing me this chance to honor her husband.
Q and A
Our first order of business after the Q and A was to find and corner, Stephen T. Kay. The actor depicting our first FGC, Reginald. So while Teresa was getting Brad Maule's signature on the Chameleon cassette, I tracked Stephen to the autograph tables. The lines were only just forming and I pushed past to just quickly ask if he would do an interview for our Quantum Leap publication. (He did a part in the episode "Permanent Wave".) He agreed and said he'd meet us as the door. I quickly gathered up Teresa and dragged her over. Stephen wasn't staying long. We got the impression that, like Maurice, he wasn't very happy about being in large pushy crowds. We joined him as we went out the door. He seemed surprised that we would remember his small role on QL. (In point of fact, we didn't. We saw QL listed in his credits and had the PQL Pres. look him up in her database. This pulled up "Permanent Wave", but he wasn't in the USA version we have. We had to go back to the script in order to find his character, Ralph.) We also told him that we had every "Deadly Games" on tape. He said something along the lines of being disappointed that the show had been cancelled just as it was getting better. Then we moved into the lobby area to set the tape recorder down for the interview. We have a witness for all this, y'know, Kathryn Bassett, The Genealogy Chick joined us at this point.
Stephen T. Kay Interview
One of the celebrities we were determined to meet was the actress portraying our newest FGC, Carly. To this end I stood up on a chair to see where it was that Sarah Brown was sitting. She and Stephanie Dickers who plays Gina were at the same table and, fortunately for us, their line wasn't quite as lengthy as Jon Lindstrom's and Lynn Herring's. So we went to stand in the line that was less than straight. Really, it was difficult to tell where anyone's line started and ended. We get the distinct impression that some people didn't know who the heck they were standing in line for. Anyhow we made it up there and handed her the top ten list (Top Ten Reasons We Like Carly) and explained that we were part of FGC Carly on the Internet. She said, and we quote, "I thought it was MHGC." If we understood her correctly, a friend of hers had gone on-line and collected the notes about Carly... the MHGC notes... and given them to her. We quickly explained that FGC was Favorite General Hospital Character and that Carly did have her proponents and fans on the net. She was thrilled and read the list aloud right there. She seemed to like the "knows how to treat a man" reason and the number one "she's got spunk". We both had our pictures taken with her She was very sweet and very happy to receive our support.
We'd like to give you the general impressions we have of Sarah
Brown (not,of course, necessarily gospel). She seems to be a very
nice young lady. As a generation-x-er she is aware of Cyberspace
and it's importance, but does not herself spend much, if any time
in it. She lives with her mother, but has lived out on her own.
She is we think slightly shell-shocked by the negative fan
reaction. Understandable since, before this, she was a VR Trooper.
The fan reaction for that would have been the enthusiastic
admiration and affection of children. Suddenly she is now in the
position of being reviled by GH fans. Quite an adjusment. Which
is why we intend to pass on to her all the positive notes about
Carly. We don't want people thinking that the Internet is all
hate-notes and negativity. To this day, despite our non-admiration
of his acting, we hope that Ricky Martin NEVER got a look at some
of the notes here on RATSA.
Delivery of Top Ten Lists
Saying "hi" to Jon.
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