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Here’s a clever little bit of casting news! When rapper RIFF RaFF taped scenes this week of One Life to Live in their Connecticut studios, he played a fictional shady Miami art dealer by the name of “Jamie Franko”! Sound familiar? That’s because the people at Prospect Park and One Life to Live apparently gave a little nudge to Oscar nominee James Franco because in the past, RiFF RaFF had claimed that Franco’s character in the controversial movie Spring Breakers is based on him — a charge Franco sort of denied!
According to EW.com, “While Franco did admit, in an interview with GQ, that Riff Raff “was one of a number of people we looked at” for inspiration for his character, a cornrows’d, gold-toothed hustler named Alien, he has said a Florida rapper named Dangeruss was his real muse. Franco elaborated on Dangeruss’ impact on his character in the Harmony Korine-directed film at length in a self-penned story for MTV. Riff Raff has been pretty public with his feelings about Franco’s public statements.”
So are the peeps at One Life jockeying to get James Franco to Llanview? Is this just good juicy PR? What do you think of RiFF RaFF playing the role of “Jamie Franko”? Let us know your thoughts!
Fantastic news General Hospital fans! Daytime Emmy winner and longtime fan favorite, Jane Elliot is reprising her signature soap role as Tracy Quartermaine just in time for the holidays.
According to EW.com who broke the news, Eliot will make her appearances beginning in December, when Tracy comes home to Port Charles, and is embroiled in the ELQ family business.
Elliot’s last episode on GH aired May 4, 2017 when Jane made the decision to to exit.
Her character left Port Charles by telling her family she was ready to have her own life, away from the shadow of her father. A later episode revealed that Tracy settled in Amsterdam after meeting up with Luke (Tony Geary).
Jane began playing the role of Tracy back in 1978.
So excited to hear Tracy Q will be home for a visit and to stir up some trouble? Comment below.
There was breaking news from the set on Thursday at Days of our Lives. According to Deadline, the series executive producer, Ken Corday announced to the cast that the show will continue on. It appears the 54-year-old daytime drama series received a one-year pick-up.
The article cites that when reached for comment, NBC who airs the show, and SONY TV the show’s distributor had “no comment”. However their sources reveal that a deal is being close to being completed and “looking good”.
This comes as welcome news to longtime and new fans of the series, who were concerned for its cancellation after a story ran over the last ten days that the cast was let-go from their contracts.
Under head writer Ron Carlivati, the soap just launched its innovative daytime drama time-jump on November 8th where all the characters lives were fast-forwarded a year.
So, excited to hear that Salem and Days of our Lives will live on? Comment below.
Congratulations are in order to former One Life to Live star, David A. Gregory (Ex-Ford) and his longtime girlfriend, Jennifer Noble. The two finally got engaged.
It seems the engagement happened during a hike, where David joked: “Almost passed out on this hike,” with a photo from the Bump N Grind Hiking Trail in Palm Desert, California, as the two showed of their rings from his Instagram account.
In addition, fans of David’s can see him in his new passionflix movie, Dirty Sexy Saint co-starring Jordan Lane Price (Ex-Celia Fitzgerald, All My Children) which premieres on December 8th. Check out that teaser below.
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Now im going to do a spoof of soap fans who insists certain actors and their characters belong on certain shows: NO, JAMES FRANCO DOESNT BELONG ON OLTL…HE BELONGS ON GH WHERE HE ORIGINALLY GUEST STARRED, AND BECAUSE OF COPYWRITE LAWS HE CANT PLAY A SIMILIAR CHARACTER ON OLTL EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO HIS GH ROLE UNLESS BOTH PP AND ABC AGREE TO SHARE! IF HE PLAYS HIMSELF…OK! LMAO!!!
LOL. Love your commnent, jimh
THANKS!!!
wow.. I think RiFF RaFF playing the role of Jamie Franko will be very interesting, indeed..
looking forward to seeing him in Llanview ..
How desperate n cheap
GH is a joke, it’ll be cancelled soon, but unlike OLTL and AMC.. it won’t continue online. Enjoy it while you can!
GH a joke? How? Its the only soap getting the most tv coverage, the ratings are up, and is the most talked about! OLTL sounds great but we wont know til we see it or if itll get good ratings! Maybe itll be the joke? I want both GH and OLTL to be success stories…in spite of abc we should continue to support the genre not knock it down by hoping one gets cancelled! If i dont like OLTL and stop watching it im still going to wish it gets enough viewers to keep it successful for years to come. Supporting the genre no matter which serial we like or dont like is what we should agree on and be doinf…for awhile there it almost looked like we were going to loose all the soaps 4ever! Now there is a successful turnaround with all soaps doing better ratingwise and PP finally reviving AMC&OLTL but instead of everyone being happy most sound like theyd rather see it all fail? THEY ARE THE JOKE!!!
Right this is the final cut for One Life For Sorry Excuse For A Soap
And guess what If PP successes ABC will pocket money from it.
So watch OLTL 2.0 ABC still wins.
GH will continue to air online and on screen!!!
Enjoy you Porno Park
Glad I’m not watching this Riff Raff on OLTL, since I am not watching OLTL.
I don’t really care about either of them…
That’s not James Franco o.0
James Franco is a professional working with GH talented actors
And unless Rift Raft is a psychotic serial killer that brutally raped a woman during her honeymoon
I don’t see the similarities James Franco is talent
General Hospital is Gold
One Life To Cheep Imitation Of A Soap
Back off James Franco he is for General Hospital
You are all missing the point with this. It’s not about GH at all. They never mentioned Franco from GH. They are talking just about the actor. He was recently in a movie called Spring Breakers and his character looked like this tragic RIFF RaFF person.
This is stupid…
I have no idea who that is
First some Jersey Shore Whore now some tatted wanna be Slim Shady lol at least
Doctor Dre and Slim Shady have Talent lol
And I rather sit through 50hours of Mob wives then sit through 2 sec of JWow and her Wattermellon Titties
I guess its ok to call him Jamie Franco…not violating any name copywrite laws…lol