Roscoe Born!
May. 6th, 2008 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaAccording to Daytime Confidential, soap star Roscoe Born is joining the cast of Days of Our Lives at the end of May. Yay! I was hoping he would wind up back on One Life to Live (even though his OLTL character Mitch Laurence is currently dead), especially now that the scab-penned eps are finally over and the show has returned to full strength with Ron Carlivati's writing--but I'm always happy to see Born on my screen.
Speaking of OLTL and Roscoe Born, here's a cracktastic clip from 2002 featuring Born as the villainous Mitch, plus the marvelous Erika Slezak as Viki, and a bit of Born's Ryan's Hope castmate Ilene Kristen as Roxy. This storyline ("Surprise, Viki--I'm the father of ONE of your twin daughters!") is insane, but Born and Slezak sell it with all they've got. And so, here's Mitch, Viki, and the Iced Tea of Evil:
Speaking of OLTL and Roscoe Born, here's a cracktastic clip from 2002 featuring Born as the villainous Mitch, plus the marvelous Erika Slezak as Viki, and a bit of Born's Ryan's Hope castmate Ilene Kristen as Roxy. This storyline ("Surprise, Viki--I'm the father of ONE of your twin daughters!") is insane, but Born and Slezak sell it with all they've got. And so, here's Mitch, Viki, and the Iced Tea of Evil:
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Date: 2008-05-06 09:21 pm (UTC)When I was a teen back in the mid-'70s, I remember my darling great-aunt confessing, with only mild embarrassment, that she watched OLTL. We were at my grandmother's little summer house in Maine, and my aunt turned on the TV and explained to me all about Viki, the good girl, and how at night she put on a black wig and turned into Niki, that bad girl. Amazing to see how long that storyline kept working.
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Date: 2008-05-06 09:28 pm (UTC)Possibly both!
Viki-Niki never gets old...largely because Erika Slezak is so amazing. That's a nice story about your great-aunt--so many people have stories about being introduced to soaps by their grandparents and other family members!