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[blueroses]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:26pm

The only Heather I remember was Robin Mattson, and I absolutely loved her! She was a soap star like Tony Geary (okay, not THAT magical, but you get the idea) where she had so much presence and vitality onscreen no one else could fill the role. There aren't too many irreplaceable soap actors today (Tony, Genie, Tristan, etc.)

Re: Heather's storylines. I remember she was Annie Logan's enemy and killed that Diana Taylor chick, but I don't recall the specifics! She gave her mom a lot of heartbreak and had a romance with Scotty Baldwin.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:27pm

Yeah, she ended up in an institution.

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:27pm

RobbO: That's your assignment today. Find out the Rose/Joe Kelly deal!

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:29pm

i remember crazy heather writing anne/annie/ann's name in diana's blood when she killed her. i thought that's why she was in jail for the wedding episodes but aparently heather was a busy chick and in jail for something else...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:32pm

History of Heather Webber:

Oy, what a witch. It's not so much what Heather did - what DIDN'T she do? Her only problem was, she was fairly stupid. Played by Georgiane LaPiere (sister of Cher), Mary O'Brien and Robin Mattson respectively, Heather Grant appeared on the scene as a nanny from hell hired by Diana Taylor. She immediately went after Monica's then-husband Jeff. With scheming and manipulation, she got him into the sack and played every villainess' trump card - the pregnancy one. By then, though, Jeff and Monica had reconciled and they wanted the baby.

So Heather faked suicide. When that didn't make the desired impression, she decided to sell the baby, Steven Lars, to the Taylors. That sort of didn't work out either so she ended up taking $500 from Jeff and going to New York City to pursue a career in modeling, the first anyone had heard of this grand illusion. There she hooked up with a ruthless landlady, Mrs. Hadley, who convinced Heather to go back to the original plan of selling the baby to the Taylors, now using Hadley as the baby's grandmother so they wouldn't know he was Heather's, taking the $10,000 and going to Hollywood. Well, after a lawyer helped rig a fake adoption and Mr. Hadley took her cut, Heather really didn't have enough for even a bus trip to LA. So when Jeff showed up looking for his child she said Steven Lars was dead. Feeling sorry for her, Jeff proposed. Once back home, Heather was able to spend time with the Taylors and their adopted son P.J., once known as Steven Lars. She wanted him back, probably to re-sell him, so she tried to drive Diana crazy, finally spiking Diana's iced tea with LSD. Except there was a mix-up and Heather drank it herself and ended up in an asylum. For a while she faked catatonia by day and by night dressed as nurse Shelley Vernon, whom she resembled, and ran around Port Charles spying on people. She found out Jeff had a new girlfriend, Anne Logan.

When Heather was finally released she said she couldn't remember her past - I mean, wouldn't you? She wanted to kill Diana but in order to do that, she had to fake hysteria and get back to the sanitarium for her alibi. There she hid the gun in a doll and did the Shelley by night thing. Diana winds up dead - we find out later it wasn't Heather, but Heather's mom who did it when she thought Diana was going to kill Heather. Like who could blame Diana. It's her mother whose actions I question. Heather wrote Anne's name in Diana's blood so she'd be accused, but detective Joe Kelly, who for reasons known only to himself fell in love with Heather, finds out the truth. Heather doesn't go down for the murder but she's in plenty of trouble anyway. Even when Heather screwed things up she made more trouble than almost anyone else.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:32pm

If I find out who left my TV turned onto the Soapnet channel that made me watch a week of GH yesterday they're in BIG trouble. I will Not get hooked again...I will Not get hooked again...I will Not get hooked again...I will Not get hooked again...I will Not get hooked again...I will Not get hooked again...

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:35pm

wow, just wow to the heather backstory that i sorta remember. sorta.

my first mission to to find pics of hutch, then i'll look-up the rose/joe thing but what you said blue sounds very, very familar.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:38pm

GH tidbit of the day:

the actor who played hutch is rick moses, brother of actor william r. moses. and his twin daughters, clare and maribel were on general hospital for a few months in 1995 as leslie "lulu" spencer - the daughter of luke and laura spencer.



rick moses!

Updated On: 12/4/06 at 12:38 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:39pm

Aribel? Sounds like they forgot to give her the first couple of letters.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:44pm

it's maribel. can't you read?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:45pm

LOL!! My bad, of course.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:52pm

here's some good information on some history of GH. i know it is wikipedia so i cannot vouch for the accuracy but many things sound right. i'm still searching for the rose/joe connection.

history of port charles landmarks

Updated On: 12/4/06 at 12:52 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:54pm

Even I have too much of a life to read all that!!

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:56pm

uh huh.
history of GH (1963-1969)

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:57pm

history of GH (1970-1979)

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:57pm

My Heather info is from About.com, so just as subjective as Wikipedia.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 12:58pm

history of GH (1980-1989)

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 1:01pm

That was fun to read (I'm such a responsible employee)! I remember the catacombs and the Asian Quarter...one of my favorite storylines. Little Robin underground! Bert the dirty cop. Good times.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 1:03pm

i started reading the 80s history since i remember that time the best. i found this:

Joe Kelly proved that Heather didn't kill Diana, but she had died accidentally in a struggle with Alice Grant. Both Heather and Alice were set free.

so, i think it was alice grant at the wedding that i was talking about, not jeff webber's mother. it was his mother-in-law. i think i only remember part of it, and that's what confused me.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 1:08pm

here's your homework assignment for me, blue. can i go to lunch now?

"Religous differences finally became too much for Jake and Rose, and they split. Rose left town to work for her stepson, Joe Kelly. Aunt Ruby took over the diner in her absence."

so joe IS rose's stepson.

Updated On: 12/4/06 at 01:08 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 1:09pm

Stepston?

Is that like a stepstool at all?

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 1:19pm

cool kids refresh often. my edit was done before your post, so there!

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 1:22pm

Have a nice lunch!

The '80s section was a great, fun read. Lots of memories...Anna and Duke, the Sports Center, the Laurelton murders (one of my favorite storylines), etc!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:59am

I really wish they'd recast Emily, especially if she's getting back with Nic.

This Lulu thing is exciting!

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:03am

Where the hell is Luke during all of this? Exactly whose care is his teenage daughter under?