Nolan North's PoolSide Chat

We arrived at The Sportsmens Lodge. We looked in the area where they usually hold the GH Luncheon. And indeed the signs indicated there was a GH Luncheon going on that evening; too bad we were looking for the Port Charles dinner. So we thought we'd wander over to the lobby of the hotel to see if there was any information there. An ongoing wedding forced us to detour and go by the pool. As we were passing by we noticed a crowd of people around the pool not in bathing suits. They were gathered around two guys. Their backs were towards us so we couldn't tell who they were. We guessed that they were soap stars and asked the girl hanging on the pool fence with a camera, who they were. Just as she told us it was Nolan North, he turned around. He was with an ex-soap actor, Marshall Hilliard, (ex-Hart, Guiding Light).

The girl we had asked also informed us that Ingo Rademacher, (imagine breathy excitement here) was in the hotel. She had ridden on the elevator with him. She did warn us that we shouldn't go off and look for him. Not to worry. We were far more interested in seeing Nolan North, especially since we were lugging around a heavy set of updates for him and this was the perfect opportunity to unload them.

So we went into the pool area and stood in the half-formed line in front of Nolan. There weren't many people in the line, but it went very slowly because Nolan was taking the time to talk to each fan individually. We met some fans we knew in line and chatted. This was when we heard that Kin Shriner, Jon Lindstrom and Lynn Herring would not be attending the festivities that evening. Rats, now how would we get Jon's Top Ten Lists to him? Nolan commented that all these people better not forget him that night and only pay attention to Michael Dietz

Finally we got up to the front of the line. We handed Nolan the Friday Updates. He recalled receiving the last set at the American Cancer Society Benefit. He flipped through it and commented that we put a lot more work into this than they did. He said that he'd had trouble getting to the web site these were on and we gave him some directions. (That's right, he's on-line, so be nice when you talk about him.) We took a couple of pictures with him.

Information Please!

Much as we would have enjoyed hanging around Nolan all afternoon, we moved on. We did a turn around the Lobby, but found no information, and figured the GH thing must actually be the PC thing. We went back to the banquet rooms. There still weren't more than a couple people in line. We didn't feel like standing up in line for forty-five minutes, for the same seats we'd have anyway, so we found a couple of empty chairs at a table in the hall and sat down. It was an amazing transformation; suddenly we became an information booth. Fortunately we knew the basic things necessary. The bathrooms are right upstairs. Yes that is the line for the Port Charles Fan Club dinner. Ingo Rademacher has left the building. We did preface our information with a disclaimer that we weren't officially connected with anything. Then we hit pay dirt. George Alavarez (Garcia) with his son Kyle, came up and asked for directions. He stumped us. We knew there was a green room, but the only direction we knew was right through that line of rabid PC fans. He braved the line.

Christine, a friend from RATSA, approached our impromptu information table. Christine was officially the last person to actually get a ticket. She got it so late that they didn't even have time to mail it to her. So she was wondering where she'd go to pick up that ticket. Since it had dwindled we all got into the Registration line. (Put a closed sign up on the information booth.) We got our packets, which included flyers for various fan clubs, and a Baldwin family photo (Lee, Gail, Karen, Serena, and Scotty). We were at table fifteen. Christine had to wait to get her ticket, but we urged her to get a seat at table fifteen. We walked into the room and then went back to suggest to Christine that she try and get something closer. We were at the back of the room. (Though the room was small in comparison to where they held the GH Luncheon.) Christine managed to get a seat at the only table further away, sixteen. We chatted with our tablemates who were from places like New Hampshire, Maryland, Georgia, Vermont and two who were local. One of them had been sending two hundred Christmas ornaments a year to General Hospital.

After the salads were served, the actors were introduced. Nolan North (Chris) came out to do the introductions. In attendance were Sarah Aldrich (Courtney), George Alavarez (Garcia), Susan Brown (Gail), Jeffrey Byron (Boardman), Pat Crowley (Mary), Michael Dietz (Joe), Lisa Ann Hadley (Julie), Ron Hale (Mike), Jennifer Hammond (Karen), Peter Hansen (Lee) Vanita Harbour (Dara) Anastasia Horne (Lark), Colton James (Neil), Jay Pickett (Frank) and Julie Pinson (Eve). Nolan had a particularly enthusiastic welcome for Michael Dietz. He pretended to be a crazed fan and leapt from the stage into Michael's arms.

Everyone sat down for the main course. During that Lynn Herring made a brief appearance. She had just gotten off the plane, and had been out of town because there had been a death in her family. She couldn't stay long. She spoke about how much she appreciated us all coming. She had brought along some Nurses' ball T-shirts that we're later raffled off. Then she had to leave right away. We were all very pleased that she managed to come at all.

Since there was still an empty chair at our table, we had Christine come over and join us. Some things were raffled off, and people at table sixteen were very lucky. Table fifteen was not. The General Homicide book. (Really the Star Trek novel "Warped") autographed, was raffled off. We didn't win that.

Questions and Answers

After dinner the actors all gathered on stage for the Q and A, except for Michael Dietz, who seems to have wandered out of the room. Nolan had gotten a hold of the microphone again, and said "Paging, Michael Dietz, Michael Dietz." The audience was asked to line up if they wanted to ask a question. The first question was for "Gail and Lee".

"I'm a grandmother, and I'm here with my granddaughter whose been a soap fan since she was five years old, Kristina. I have a question for you as Grandparents, and I know you're very good grandparents, but why the hell didn't you stop and pick up Serena on the way over?" The crowd laughed at this question.

Susan Brown answered. "We would have, if could have. But she and her family are on vacation and they've gone back to Indiana. She said to send her love and she'd be here in a shot had she been in town. There's a wedding back at their home where her real Grandma is.

This came as news to Peter Hansen. "I'm very glad you said that, because I didn't know that."

Nolan piped up. "It's actually a lie. Carly Schroeder's actually thirty-six years old. She works down at the Hyatt Regency, downtown L.A.. She sings in the nightclub. We're trying to get her to quit smoking. It'll stunt her growth."

The next question was for Wendy Riche. (Actually most of the questions were for her.) "My question is concerning the set. Jon Lindstrom and Lynn Herring live in the Lighthouse. Correct? Before when Anthony Geary's character lived there, their front door was on the right side. Now their front door is on the left side."

Wendy replied. "There are two sets for the Lighthouse one is larger, one is smaller. When we did Port Charles we needed a smaller set. And what we did is we designed the smaller set that had the entrance on the left. So that room, as you'll notice does not have the staircase, because it's another room."

"That's why she's the executive producer," Nolan put in. "I certainly didn't know that. What is the Lighthouse? Hold on, hold on. She wants to answer that." He hands the microphone back to Wendy.

She said firmly, "Watch the show."

"I'm gonna sit down now." Nolan said meekly.

The next fan said to Nolan, "It was really nice of you to stand up by the pool all that time this afternoon." The crowd cheered. Dave from Michigan then asked. "It's pick on Wendy night. I actually don't have a question, but I wanted to plant a couple of seeds." Wendy said he could as long as they weren't story line suggestions. "The first one is I've been enjoying the "Music of General Hospital" release, the CD. And I was hoping to recommend a second release with pre-nineties music from General Hospital? Including the original theme song, the one that was used until the Dave Koz change. The other thing is, a lot of us have been enjoying the compilation tapes; Lovers on the Run, etc. And I think a compilation tape of Nurses' Balls. " The cheering drowns out the end of the statement.

Wendy answered. "If it were up to me, you'd have it in your hands. It's complicated. There are rights, there are deals, there are lots of issues around it. I would love you to have it. They're working on it. We're talking about it."

"Hello, my name is Christine," said the next person with a question.

Nolan was enthusiastic. "Hi, Christine, how you doin' tonight. Whaddya say? How's your mom? Good?"

Christine said, "Actually my mom is dead."

Nolan was embarrassed. "I'm sorry." As he told her later, he really did think she was someone else whom he had seen earlier with her mother.

"That's okay," Christine said generously.

"I will answer any question you have," said Nolan. "Is it for me?"

"My question is... I guess it's to Wendy too. I've been enjoying the mystery and finding out about the events in General Homicide. I was wondering if, like they did with Robin's Diary, they could publish General Homicide."

"Another great idea," said Wendy. "It takes a lot of time to do something like that, and the Robin's Diary; one of the writers Judith Pinsker, who wrote with Claire. I loved it and I know all of you loved it. It took a lot of time and was very difficult for them to do and to do the show. So when we started this we didn't think we'd have time when we first began the story. But we're talking about that too."

"My name's Christina and I have a question. First of all is Lisa Ann Hadley the girl on Debt?"

Lisa replied. "I am. It was a weak moment. It was a very weak moment."

"What was the question again, please?" Nolan asked.

"I asked if Lisa Ann Hadley was the girl they yanked up by the neck on the game show Debt on the Lifetime network."

Nolan saw yet another opportunity for comedy. "Hi everybody, welcome to the big show, I'm Wink Martindale. Do you recognize that face?" He points at Lisa Ann. "Wow."

Lisa Ann said, "Only after a few cocktails would I ever admit that to you. It was a desperate moment. No it was actually really fun to do. It was just one of those things that we all do, and say oh great it's still out there, and I'm still flying and winning money."

The fan had a second question. "The other thing is why haven't we seen Mike lately?"

Ron Hale answered that one. "Why haven't we seen Mike lately?"

"Well, you know, Mary's been with somebody else around town. Where have you been?"

"You have to ask Mary about that," said Ron.

"You see my theory is that Mary is the killer." said the fan. The crowd shrieked with laughter. Pat Crowley seemed to appreciate that.

"I really don't have an answer for that," said Ron. "You know, I show up at the Recovery Room. Plus, you know, I've been going back and forth between both shows."

"We need to see you more," said the Fan. The crowd roared in agreement.

"Thank you very much," Ron said graciously.

"I'm almost done," said the Fan with many questions. "Is there a chance that Vanita might sing this evening." The crowd clapped encouragingly.

"Is there a chance?" Nolan asked.

Vanita seemed surprised and touched to be asked. "I really don't think there's a chance. Thank you though. I didn't prepare. That's me. I didn't prepare. I would have if I'd known anybody had wanted to hear me sing. Thank you."

"The very first time you sang the Angel song," the fan informed her, "I had tears, it was so moving." The crowd applauds.

"Thank you," said Vanita.

The next fan came up. "I love the show. I love all you guys up there, but Eve is my favorite character."

"Thank you, thank you," said Julie Pinson.

"And I know I'm not supposed to ask Wendy a question, but I've been trying to get a resume on the ABC lot for Production Assistant on one of your shows. How do you do that?"

"You send it to Shelly Hunnitbaum (sp?), this lady right here, care of Port Charles on the lot." Wendy told her.

"Is there a chance. Are there any openings right now?" the fan asked.

"There are no openings right now," said Wendy. "But we need people who love us."

"The General Homicide Killer," Nolan commented, "Can take care of people leaving. Not that it's me. I don't know."

The fan had started to walk back to her table. "Hold on," said Nolan, "Kristina."

Julie Pinson had an answer for her. "Hey where'd she go? I wanna say something. There's always a chance. That's why we're all sitting up here today. Always a chance."

A fan from Fremont asked the next question. She said that everyone one there was proud of Julie Pinson. (Where's she from apparently.) Julie asked where she was from in Fremont. "Irvington." Julie said she went to Mission. (We're lost with these particular geographical references.) "Yeah, cool. I did a few plays in Irvington, way back when."

"My daughter goes to Irvington," said the fan.

"She does? Okay. You remember way back when, when Mission and Irvington were doing plays together? Back when I was young."

"My question is, when is Scott going to lighten up and take Eve back?"

"Yeah, you know, that's what I want to know," Julie declared. "Don't you feel sorry for me?" The crowd yelled yes. "Well I hope soon. Because I love Scotty. I do. But I honestly don't know."

The next fan had a question for Julie Pinson too. "Who kisses better? Chris or Scott?"

"Definitely Nolan," said Julie. "Because he's here."

The next fan came up. "Hi, first of all I want to say I love the show. Keep up the great work. I also have a question for Julie Pinson. Are you and Kin Shriner dating in real life?"

"No," Julie said firmly. "Kin and I get along really well. We do a lot of things together, as well as with other people in this. We're all very close and if there's a party we're all there. I was a little bit upset about that rumor, because it's completely not true. Now I know what it's like to be in the public eye. It's not true at all, but I love Kin, he's great."

"We're dating," Nolan joked. "That's not true. I have a question for Wendy. When is Chris going to get a woman? Oh did you see that? She went. (*shrugs shoulders*). List of priorities Chris' love life." He indicates that it's way down on the list.

"My name's Jim and I'm from Michigan. I've been watching your parent show for thirty years. I love it. And I want to say happy Anniversary to all of you. I love you all even more. The main question I have is on the nurses' station set when do you use the stairs and when do you use the elevator? Where do those stairs go."

"Who would like to answer?" Nolan asked. "Jennifer? She runs up those stairs quite a bit."

Jennifer Hammond said, "It's just like any other building, it goes up to the seventh floor."

"The other wing doesn't have that," the fan pointed out. (Sure it does, that's where Tony caught Bobbie kissing Damian.)

"Doesn't have a staircase?" asked Jennifer.

"It goes to Nolan's dressing room." Michael Dietz commented.

"It's just a different orientation of the building, I think." said Jennifer. "Is that a pretty good answer."

"It's the other end of the stairs to the Lighthouse," Nolan joked.

"This question is for Vanita Harbour. We enjoy your singing on the show, and I'd like to know what your professional training is."

Vanita replied, "I have a bachelor's degree from Prinsivallia (SP? in Pittsburgh) University in musical theatre. So that's my background, musical theatre mostly. I went to an Arts High School as well. I was a dance and drama major. Actually I didn't sing at all in High School, I danced. So that's my background. And thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed the singing."

"My name is Robin from Cincinnati. I want to apologize to Nolan, because I made him choke over something I said earlier."

"She made water come out my nose," Nolan confirmed.

Robin said, "I wanted to thank everybody for coming tonight. This is a great way to start off the weekend. Thank you for all of your hard work. I know starting a new show must be difficult. I never thought I could make another place in my life for Soap Opera. I watch two besides Port Charles, and you guys made it so easy to fall in love with all your characters and all your story lines. I just want to thank you all."

Nolan said, "We've got a question for you. What other two Soaps do you watch?"

"I watch General Hospital, and I've watched Another World for seventeen years," she replied.

"Security!" said Nolan. "Security!"

"They don't compete against your show." Robin said helpfully.

"You know what?" said Nolan. "They're next on the list. Oh yeah, you can laugh now, lady who makes the water come out of my face, but your show's going down, you and Diego, or whatever."

"I wanted to ask Julie, I mean Lisa Ann. I'm sorry, I said the wrong name." Robin apologized. "I know your name I just said the wrong one. I wanted to know if you actually got to meet Tom Cruise when filming Jerry MacGuire."

"No, I didn't," Lisa Ann said sadly. The crowd groans. "I know. My mom was disappointed. My Dentist was disappointed. I got Cameron Crowe. I got his EP, but no Tom. But Cameron was pretty cute and he's a Seattlelite so that makes things good."

The next fan stepped up. "I have a question for Detective Garcia, who can never catch the right guy. What I'd like to know is, you have a lot of time on both General Hospital and Port Charles lately with the two murders. How do you as an actor keep them straight?"

"I just take it one day at a time." said George.

"Have you ever been tempted to start talking about the Cassadines and Katherine on Port Charles and vice versa?"

"We've got cops coming out of the woodwork. We've got Mac, we got Taggert, we got V, and we got Vanita, who sings too. So I'm basically concentrating on the General Homicide murders. I can guarantee you... I won't get 'em." George joked. "But I did catch my first criminal... Frank's Dealer."

"I'd like to clear something up, real quick" said Nolan. "Mac is actually the Commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department. Vanita is the D.A. and George and I going to get together and watch the show. Go ahead, sorry"

The next question was "Where is Mitch Longley tonight?"

"Mitch?" said Nolan, "Oh, you know what, I sent Mitch to Laguna. Because there's no need to have Dr. Harmon here. Honestly, I talked to Mitch this past week and I have no idea where he is. Just really not sure. You know, Mitch is a strange breed. No, he's a wonderful guy, and I told somebody earlier today the story. The last Seinfeld episode was a major point in my life and Mitch came over to my apartment to have a little party to watch the last Seinfeld. And somebody, a big fan of the show, saw us together and just freaked. "What are you doing? You two are mortal enemies." He's a wonderful guy and we're all sorry he couldn't be here. He's out of town. I've been told."

This was supposed to be the last question, but they changed their minds and let the remaining two people, (one of them from our table) ask their questions.

"I also have a question for Garcia. When in the world are they ever going to find a love life for you?"

"They are," he joked. "It's with Chris Ramsey." After the laughter died down, he replied. "I'm still pining over Lily. That's the only woman for me."

"You know what," said Nolan. "There were just two more people who had questions. That gentleman and the lady there." The next questioner pointed out that Dara was the Assistant D.A. not the D.A. "Well thank you Captain Semantic," Nolan replied.

The fan then made a suggestion for Chris' love life. "My suggestion would be Emma Caulfield, as Lorraine Miller. I think she'd be an excellent match for you."

"Really, what's she look like? How tall is she? Thank you very much. I'll give Emma a call"

The last fan was Carol, who asked. "What I want to know, from mainly Wendy, because I think she's the only one that knows, is the killer in this room? I mean am I looking at him." Wendy just shrugged her shoulders.

"She's not gonna tell you," Nolan taunted. "Carol's not gonna find out tonight. And neither are we. Here's another truth. Nobody up here knows. She's making a lot of enemies."

Somebody asked Wendy if she even knew yet. "Is there going to be another murder." Wendy was silent. "You're good. I must say."

"Thank you, everybody," said Nolan.

Then the actors went to have a little refreshment before the mingling. The Nurses' Ball T-shirts that Lynn Herring had brought were raffled off. She had gone directly to the manufacturers and purchased the shirts just for the Fan Club parties. Some of the shirts had been handed out earlier as a random act of kindness. They had the actors pull the tickets for the twenty-two shirts raffled off. Pat Crowley ushered up Susan Brown to pull the last one, "Gail, Susan, Susan Gail," "She knew my name," said Susan, "When I first met Pat she had no idea what my name was, so now I call her Hazel. Oh it's the last one. 6061439?" Table fifteen, again won nothing.

Autograph Session

After the raffle the plan for the autograph session was outlined. We would all remain sitting at our tables, and the actors would come by and chat with us and give autographs. (In some circles this is known as "The Wally Plan", used unsuccessfully at the 1995 GH Luncheon.)

The actors went out in clumps. One clump consisting of Michael Dietz, Jay Pickett, Sarah Aldrich, Nolan North, and Lisa Ann Hadley, came over to our side of the room. We stayed seated for awhile. We took a few minutes to decide with whom we wanted an interview. We settled on Anastasia Horne. But soon it became obvious that none of the actors were going to be able to move and come over to our table. Jay Pickett was well and truly trapped right next to Table 16. Nolan was over next to the railing, and Michael Dietz with Sarah Aldrich, had only made it as far as the center steps.

Lisa Ann Hadley did come over to our table as she was trying to move to the other side of the room. She gave us her autograph and we took a picture of her with us and Christine. We told her that we liked Julie better now than we had before. (True, strictly speaking.) Lisa Ann said she enjoyed playing this negative side of Julie.

One of us went over to ask Anastasia, while the other was stuck over by Jay Pickett and continually asked to take photos with other people's cameras. Anastasia was surprised and flattered to be asked for an interview, and agreed to meet with us a little later when things died down a little.

Ron Hale had appropriately taken up residence by the bar. Julie Pinson was on the far side of the room with the largest and most enthusiastic line. Jennifer Hammond, Peter Hansen and Jeffrey Byron were in the center of the west side of the room.

We talked to Susan Brown. We told her we were currently from San Francisco, and she admitted that she's originally from San Francisco. In fact it turns out she was raised in the Neighborhood just above ours.

Colton James (Neil) was the only actor foresighted enough to bring his own 8x10 black and white pictures. So we had him autograph one of those. We asked him how old he was. He's ten.

Vanita Harbour was still down by the stage. Vanita was being asked about the new Justus, Monti Sharpe. She said she had worked with him before. Someone asked if Joseph C. Phillips had been fired. She admitted he had. TPTB had decided to take the character in a new direction, but there's still going to be something of a triangle with Dara, Justus and Taggert. But things are going to heat up between Dara and Taggert.

We mentioned to Vanita that we had seen her in a musical production "Blues In the Night" in Tucson, and enjoyed that very much. She said that had been quite a while ago and thanked us.

We got more autographs and took more pictures, until things got a little less hectic. We found Anastasia and took her outside to the registration table for her interview. (See The Anastasia Horne Interview.)

When we came back some of the actors were leaving. Pat Crowley, Michael Dietz and Sarah Aldrich. But some of the actor were staying for the long haul. Jay Pickett and Julie Pinson were still in place and in the third corner was Nolan North. We remembered that since Jon Lindstrom wasn't there somehow we had to get his Top Ten Lists to him. Inspiration struck. Anastasia had been working with Jon, should give them to him. We asked her, and she happily agreed to.

After taking a few more pictures and looking at Jay Pickett from our table, we went over to the circle of people around Nolan. Lisa Ann Hadley came over and gave Nolan a hug good-bye.

Nolan was telling a little story about how a one day actor he'd been working with had had such bad breath that he had difficulty not letting his reaction show as he did the scene. That wasn't the sort of thing he thought he should critcize in someone he'd just met. But he said he'd feel free to mention it to any of the regulars on the show. To prove this he shouted over to Julie Pinson, something along the lines of, "hey, if I told you had bad breath you'd take an altoid or something wouldn't you." She agreed she would. Then he asked, if she'd tell him he had bad breath and she said, no, she wouldn't.

The person who had the "General Homicide" book asked Nolan to sign it. He opened it up and looked at it. He noticed it was a Star Trek novel. He proceeded to do a pretty good imitation of William Shatner, and suggested that Shatner spoke that way because he hadn't quite memorized his lines.

Julie Pinson had managed to break away from the remains of her line. She came over to say good-bye to Nolan. They took a few pictures with fans, before she begged off. Her feet were killing her, which was no wonder since she had very high heels on. She left and Nolan started making his way out, but only got as far as the bar. Jay Pickett was now talking to a small crowd gathered around him. Someone thanked him for staying around so long, and Christine chided the absent Michael Dietz for having left early. Jay Pickett suggested that he could beat him up for her.

We found that Anastasia had accidentally left the Top Ten lists on a table. Since Nolan was still by the bar we handed them to him, and told him they were for Jon and Anastasia had dropped them. He headed for the back entrance. When he got there Anastasia ran back in and over to the table. We intercepted her and told her the lists were safe and Nolan had them. She went over and got them back from him.

Jay Pickett was the last one out of the room. In fact he left after we did.

The first annual Port Charles Fan Club dinner, was a splendid success, and we intend to go back every year.

Anastasia Horne Interview

Fan: Most of us knew you were come backing. You knew you were coming back, didn't you?

Anastasia: Yeah, definitely.

T: You were doing other things while you were away right?

Anastasia: Yes, definitely.

T: You were on Teen Angel?

Anastasia: Yeah, Teen Angel, and I'm also going to college right now.

T: Which College are you going to?

Anastasia: Cal Poly University

T: What's your major?

Anastasia: Theatre, but I'm actually thinking of switching to Special Education, to become a teacher for Special Ed. Should be fun.

T: How did you get the role on the show?

Anastasia: I just auditioned for it. My agent sent me off to audition for it. Then I went to casting. I read with the casting director and then I went to the Executive Producers and that's how I got the role.

T: Did you know it would be such a big role when you got it.

Anastasia: Actually, it was only supposed to be a small role. I was only supposed to work for about six months. I was only supposed to work a couple days each month. And it turned into I was working every day for awhile. I'm actually very thankful for the way my role is going.

T: I think it's mostly the way you've been doing the role. You've been getting more and more popular as time goes on.

Anastasia: I guess so. I don't know, but it's very fun to do. I love my role.

T: What's your favorite part of working on Port Charles?

Anastasia: It's just working with everyone and not knowing what's going to happen next. Like I really love doing those little sneaking around things. I loved doing the suicide scene. I loved smoking the pot. I love being the bad person. It's very fun.

T: It's better than just being bland and good.

Anastasia: Exactly. And she also has very many sides to her. Because she can also play a vulnerable side. She's also come from a very hard life, so there's very many sides to her. It's not just only the bitchy side. I love finding those sides.

T: You show them a lot.

Anastasia: Thank you.

T: Lark seems very genuine at times, and you know she's not just trying to manipulate.

Anastasia: Exactly. She gets defensive sometimes because of what's happened in the past. And she doesn't know how to react to people and things.

T: Have they told you anything about the future? About your role being larger?

Anastasia: No, I don't know what's going to happen.

T: So you don't think Lark's the killer then?

Anastasia: I could possibly be. You never know.

T: Do you watch the show yourself?

Anastasia: Yeah. I like to watch it, because I like to learn from what I'm doing and learn from my mistakes, and hopefully to improve. Watching the other characters you also learn a lot from their acting skills and everything, how they act in the way of performances.

T: Whose performances do you like?

Anastasia: I really like Julie Pinson. Jay Pickett I love. Jon Lindstrom, I love working with him. Thre's just a few characters on there you really have a connection with. The majority of the cast, you always have a connection with. each person in the cast, your own connection. But there's a few, you're just like, "woh". That's an awsome scene.

T: You've only had the once scene with Jon Lindstrom?

Anastasia: Actually, we have some more scenes coming up. It was really fun. We had a great time doing them. He's a great guy to work with. I was very thankful for those.

T: We'll look forward to that then.

Anastasia: Yeah, it was fun.

T: What was your first role?

Anastasia: Kids Incorporated for a couple of years.

T: That was a kind of Disney Variety Show? (See Photo below. Anastasia from her Kids Inc. Days.)

Anastasia: Yeah. It was like a Mickey Mouse Club kind of deal.

T: I notice a lot of people start out in the Children's programming. Sarah Brown started out there. What would you like to do?

Anastasia: I'm happy with where I'm at right now, but I'd like to do Broadway. I like to do theatre. Which I am doing. I'm doing a show right now. And I'd like to do the whole film scene also.

T: What show are you doing?

Anastasia: Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I'm playing the role of the narrator.

T: Is it playing here?

Anastasia: It's playing in Upland, actually. It's about forty-five minutes away from here.

T:You have time to do that?

Anastasia: Yeah, rehearsals at night and everything.

T: Is there any particular role that you'd like to do, that you haven't done yet?

Anastasia: Well, there's a lot of musical roles that Iwould like to play. Let me think. You caught me off gaurd there. I don't know. Just anything that's challenging. I like to do Shakespeare. Shakespeare would be a nice thing to do again. Just anything musical theatre I would like to do. Any role.

T: You sing then?

Anastasia: Yes. That's actually where I'm more comfortable, doing more singing than acting.

T: And they couldn't work you into the Nurses' Ball?

Anastasia: I don't know if they know I can sing or not. I don't know.

T: It was a while before they knew that Vanita Harbour could sing.

Anastasia: Exactly. It's not something you can just bring out. "Hey, I sing!". It's kind of like, "That's great. How do you incorporate that?"

(The person that won the General Homicide book, came along at this point to ask for an autograph, and we offered to buy it and threatened to mug her, and discussed that it was the Star Trek novel Warped.)

T: Has it been strange for you, having people recognize you from the show?

Anastasia: I was used to it from Kids Incorporated. It was actually very funny, for Kids Incorporated I got lot of people recognizing me. So it's not really a new thing for me. Just a different show.

T: But for awhile there Lark was hated on this show. Was that tough?

Anastasia: It's actually quite a compliment, because that means I'm doing my job somewhat right.

(Some fans came by and asked for an autograph and asked a question.)

Fan1: So is Lark setting poor Frank straight or is Frank going to be a dopey.

Anastasia: I don't know. We'll have to find out.

Fan2: Who knows, maybe you're the General Homicide killer.

Anastasia: I might be.

Fans: No, no.

Anastasia: You never know.

Fan1: You don't know enough chemistry.

Anastasia: I'm an intelligent person.

T: She fooled Jake into thinking she was a medical student.

Anastasia: Exactly.

Fan2: This is true.

Fan1: I think they already blamed her once.

Anastasia: There's going to be some more blaming coming up.

Fan2: Do you really want Frank as your father?

Anastasia: Yeah, I do. Well, there's more tension between there for something else.

Fan1: There's a little Oedipal complex there.

T: Want him for a father in a backwoods kind of way.

Fan2: Anymore killings coming up?

Anastasia: I don't know. I really don't know. So far nothing. We'll find out.

T: Is the actor the last one they tell?

Anastasia: It depends.

T: So you're not dead for at least the next three weeks.

Anastasia: For right now I'm not the killer and I'm not dead. You never know... next week.

Fan2: You're under contract, right?

Anastasia: No, I'm not actually.

T: Well, you should be.

(The fans said thank you to Anastasia, and left. Then "Mike" came up and asked for an autograph.)

T: So what else did you do while you were on hiatus.

Anastasia: I was basically just going to college. I moved out. I'm living with four of my soroity sisters right now. That was a big challenge for me; moving out away from my parents.

T: What's the most challenging part of your work on Port Charles?

Anastasia: One of the most difficult scenes for me was after the suicide scene where I was going crazy. I was wanting to see Frank and I was screaming and yelling and I had people holding me down. That was really difficult to do. Scenes like that are tough. The character is very tough to play because there are so many sides to her.

T: Well, we better let you go now.

Anastasia: Thank you so much. It was nice meeting you guys.

T: Can we send you a copy of this at "Port Charles".

Anastasia: Yeah, definitely. Okay, bye you guys.

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