Bonus Video! The joke ABC wouldn't let Soap make
Well hello there!
Time for another bonus video, and this week I've got the hot gossip about the joke that ABC made the show Soap cut from its pilot episode. Also! Confirmation of the story about Susan Harris cursing out a bunch of NBC executives, and details about a couple of gay guys who (kind of) pulled off an elaborate hoax at ABC. And I hope you'll join us next Sunday (Feb 20) for the premiere of my new Soap video!
Backup link in case the video embed isn’t working:
https://youtu.be/scH6o9zJmao
Steven Capsuto's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT-uzyA8-dkyNpMBKXb8mZw/videos
Comments (14)
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Just watched the rocko’s modern life video and would love to watch this, is there a link? Patreon says the video doesn’t exist.
And here’s the other link https://youtu.be/7D--Y-uXjZc
Marvelous, thank you!!!
I don’t see my replies so here goes again https://youtu.be/p1CVtBE_nk8
Diahann Carroll has been quoted as saying that she wanted to be on Dynasty to be 'television's first black bitch'. She tells the story of literally crashing a party at Aaron Spelling's house to lobby for the role and it worked. Dominique Deveraux was yet another way she broke new ground
Omg that's amazing. Do you know where that story's from? I'm on the hunt for Dynasty making-of stuff!
Speaking of Anthony Perkins, I’d love a video about him!
That's such a great idea and I can't believe he wasn't on my list already!
Matthew, what was the nature of the additional reporting that supported the Susan Harris expletive-laden executive visit after the cancellation of Fay?
Here it is: https://twitter.com/MattBaume/status/1490467094911090688
I'm acquaintances with Marsha Posner-Williams who transcribed Susan's scripts in the very early days and worked her way up to be an associate producer on Soap and Golden Girls. She was working late before the show had debuted and a guy called the office, outraged that the series was going to be on. She listened and then asked if he had seen it (he hadn't) and then asked him if he was the kind of person who took other people's word for things or if he thought for himself. They talked for a while and, at the end, he said that he was going to watch the show and make up his own mind. Looking forward to next week's video!
Love Billy Crystal, and while “Rabbit Test” may be his first theatrical film, he was in “SST Death Flight” aka “SST Disaster In the Sky,” a TV movie that aired on ABC on February 25, 1977, before “Soap” and over a year before “Rabbit Test” opened. I definitely consider TV movies as films especially from the 70s and 80s, but i recognize the debate there. Billy shows up at 00:35 then several times throughout including at a scene 42:55 where he gets called a “pansy” by John De Lancie. https://youtu.be/qcRP50iVznE
Why did Billy have so many gay and gayish roles in the 70s???