Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:33pm
... will be broadcast Tomorrow Night, 1/2 at 9PM EST.
Before Desperate Housewives, ABC-TV had one of the original guilty pleasures -- Dynasty, the phenomenally successful show which ran from 1981-1989 and reflected the Reagan years of excess and glamour. The ABC Premiere Event, Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, is a two-hour dramatization with a behind-the-scenes look at the hit '80s primetime soap opera.
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure offers a satirical yet poignant look at how Dynasty, the television series, evolved.
The show did not begin as an instant hit. In fact its creators, Esther and Richard Shapiro, initially set out on a noble mission to explore the effect of wealth on the American family and other important social issues.
But despite an inauspicious start, the series eventually dazzled audiences around the world with one of TV history's most notoriously wicked female characters, Alexis Carrington; revolutionized the term "cat fight," as Alexis and Krystle went at it through lily pond and mud puddle; inspired millions of women to beef up their shoulder pads; and allowed people to forget about their own ordinary lives and drink in the champagne and caviar existence of a TV family dripping in jewels, but a little short on basic morality.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:37pmWhat a lovely essay, Mary_Ethel. Can we assume you wrote it yourself? We'd hate to think you're submitting someone else's work as your own.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#2re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:38pm
LoL..you should read what most of the original cast has to say about this piece of garbage - - -it's hilarious.
theres a scene where linda evans (played by melora hardin) welcomes joan collins (played by alice krige) to the set with a basket of fresh baked brownies(!) the real evans laughed this off.
the thought that this actually "happened" is preposterous and is just one of the many concoted events in this movie.
mind you, dynasty never claimed to be shakespeare but this delusional-tell-all-movie makes it look like shakespeare.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:38pm...and gave Joan Collins another chance after her triumphant movie "The B*tch"
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#5re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:43pmI refuse to believe that Linda Evans did not bake those brownies.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#6re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:44pm
well she denies it..LOL
they also have a scene where she brings fresh baked oatmeal cookies onto the set...
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#7re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:47pmNow THAT I believe.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#8re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:47pm
here's a link to the actual article.
Dynasty Stars Disinherit Film
Updated On: 1/1/05 at 03:47 PM
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#9re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:48pm
THANKS for that great Ad, Marquise!
I see Stephen #1 (Al Corley) represented--but WHAT -- NO Stephen #2 (Jack Coleman)???
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#10re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:49pmThat was an ad from the Series Premiere Jack Coleman wasn't on the show then.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#11re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:49pmIt's most likely because that ad was promoting the premiere, so there was not yet a Steven #2 Mary_Ethel.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#13re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:54pm
The accused brownie baker in all her glory Updated On: 1/1/05 at 03:54 PM
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#14re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:56pmRemember when the show was going to be called OIL! and George Peppard walk off the set after he was cast as Blake because he couldn't stomach the trashy dialogue they wanted him to say... ?
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#17re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pm
The first BLACK BITCH on television
etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#18re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pmGood to hear that Peppard saved himself for something classier like The A-Team.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#19re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pmI already have my VCR set for this....
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#20re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pm
ugh..she was reaaaallly pathetic
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#22re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:04pm
KIRBY - Another pathetic twit
Kirby (to Alexis): You Bitch!
Alexis: If I'm a bitch take lessons, you may need them later in life!
Updated On: 1/1/05 at 04:04 PM
#23re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:05pmWe used to call Pamela Bellwood "Pamela Bellevue" since her character was such a loon. Ah, the '80's...
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#24re: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:06pm
BITCH PERSONIFIED...did anyone else here think that she looked an awful lot like "The Joker" from "Batman"?!!!
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