Thursday, July 31, 2008

Lisa Hartman Week - Day 4

A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS - The Lisa Hartman Edition

KNOTS LANDING
That's right I love a little soap show that aired on Thursday nights from 1979-1993 and why not that's 14 frickin' years of my life. Of course I didn't really start watching religiously until 1983 when I stumbled upon Miss Lisa in her first year on the show, but once I was there I was hooked. The best seasons are most definitely the Lisa Years seasons 4-7 and that's not soley because of my love for Lisa - everyone including the writers and the directors are at the very tip top of their game during those years of 1982-1986. And though I love me My Miss Anne Matheson and Claudia Whittaker from the later years it was a completely different show by the time it ended - but with a big cast and some brilliant acting that's how a show can remain on the air for so long..

Anyhoos, here's some awesome little clips that show just a few reasons I love it (and Lisa so) - our first clip has Lisa playing Cathy Geary after getting a make over paid for by Gary Ewing (hottie Ted Shackelford) - he is dressing her up and cutting her 'do to make her look like the dead Ciji Dunne - Cathy comes back to the weight room with her alien dress and the Ciji Dunne album - there is a lot of great moments from one of my all time fac characters Laura Avery played by Constance McCashin so enjoy:

The second Knots moment is from the season 7 episode "Rise & Fall" where the bible thumping maniac Joshua Rush (Alec Baldwin - yes that Alec Baldwin) is ready to throw his wife (Cathy Geary Rush) off the roof of a building so they can be together forever - but not if Mama Lilimae Clements (the superb Julie Harris) has anything to do with it - this scene should have gotten them all Emmy nominations! Oh and by the way I so want that giant Billboard of Lisa Hartman - I wonder if she got to keep it as a prop.

2000 MALIBU ROAD
Lisa Hartman left Knots Landing in 1986 to pursue music and a TV movie career and by the time she was ready to head back to a series she had become Lisa Hartman Black and opted to join the Aaron Spelling produced 2000 Malibu Road - as pretty much the lead though it was a character driven show. In the show, Lisa plays Jade a high class call girl looking to go good, so she has to get roomates in order to pay for her Malibu mansion - in comes Jennifer Beals as a haunted and slightly drunkard attorney, Drew Barrymore in one of her adult come back roles as a would be actress, Tuesday Knight as Drew's demented and hilarious sister and Brian Bloom as just one of the many hotties in the show. The ratings were huge when it debuted in the summer of 1993 but apparantly budgets were so friggin high on the show, the producers opted to just shut it all down rather than discover how the girls got out of the sticky situations they had found themselves in. This is one that NEEDS to be on DVD! I blame Candy Spelling for it still sitting on the shelf - well that and a number of other things.

and finally one of only three big time movie roles Lisa had - this one as somewhat virginal Jennie on her spring break in Fort Lauderdale in the sometimes hilarious and always entertaining Where The Boys Are '84 and the obligatory pot smoking scene:

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