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<blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 443958" data-attributes="member: 19949">I think Linda Gray was a better choice than Joan Collins. To me, she was able to convey a sense of concern for her models—something I can&#039;t imagine Joan Collins doing. I would have preferred to see Farrah Fawcett on Melrose Place as an older love interest for Jake or Billy, rather than as a modeling agency boss.During the 1980s I only saw Olivia de Havilland in North &amp; South, and her look at the time would have suited Knots Landing better than Ava Gardner’s did—Gardner, to me, seemed more suited to Falcon Crest or The Colbys—but I wonder if Olivia de Havilland would have been given the same personality for the character of Ruth that we saw with Ava Gardner?I read in a German magazine from 1983 that Omar Sharif was supposed to join Dallas as an oil sheikh, but would he have fit in on Dallas? Perhaps he would have been a better fit for Dynasty as Rashid Ahmed (or as his brother Farouk).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Monzo, post: 443958, member: 19949"] I think Linda Gray was a better choice than Joan Collins. To me, she was able to convey a sense of concern for her models—something I can't imagine Joan Collins doing. I would have preferred to see Farrah Fawcett on Melrose Place as an older love interest for Jake or Billy, rather than as a modeling agency boss. During the 1980s I only saw Olivia de Havilland in North & South, and her look at the time would have suited Knots Landing better than Ava Gardner’s did—Gardner, to me, seemed more suited to Falcon Crest or The Colbys—but I wonder if Olivia de Havilland would have been given the same personality for the character of Ruth that we saw with Ava Gardner? I read in a German magazine from 1983 that Omar Sharif was supposed to join Dallas as an oil sheikh, but would he have fit in on Dallas? Perhaps he would have been a better fit for Dynasty as Rashid Ahmed (or as his brother Farouk). [/QUOTE]

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