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<blockquote data-quote="Brian Carrington Colby" data-source="post: 6135" data-attributes="member: 136">Searching the internet for the cached original pages of my old thread &quot;Dynasty - The Newspaper Articles,&quot; I found the cached page for the old Soap Opera Digest article on the firing of Karen Cellini from Dynasty. Unfortunately the images that forum member Old Timer originally posted are gone, I decided i would repost the newspaper articles I originally posted that record Catherine Oxenberg&#039;s dismissal from Dynasty, Karen&#039;s hasty hiring, and her just as hasty firing. I will look to see if I saved the original images of the Soap Opera Digest article to add to this thread. If anyone saved them feel free to post them here! An on we go, from August 2010.....Thanks Old Timer for posting the Karen Cellini Soap Opera Digest article. It&#039;s a fascinating read on the state of Dynasty during Season 7. Along with the TV Guide interview with Leann Hunley from 1988, the recent Terri Garber interview posted on this forum, and the musings of Kate O&#039;Mara that have been posted here as well, it&#039;s amazing how these actressess all say the same thing, that the producers were more concerned with trivial things while having no clue about the bigger picture like solid scripts, casting, and acting. To add to Old Timer&#039;s original post, I found two newspaper articles from October 1986 about the rise and fall of Karen Cellini. It&#039;s sad how in hindsight she was caught in the line of fire of the producer&#039;s incompetence.The first article is from the Deseret News, Thursday October 9, 1986. The article is aptly named &quot;Cellini: Dreams to Nightmares?&quot; and gives maybe the first hints that Karen was fired and puts forth the rumor that the Amanda character will be killed off mid-season. Click the link to see the article. I&#039;ve also attached the article below as well.<a href="http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=08soAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=FYQDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7030,4409320&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=08soAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=FYQDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7030,4409320&amp;hl=en</a>The second article is from the the Victoria Advocate, Sunday October 12, 1986. The title of this article is &quot;Goes to Show, Nobody&#039;s Indispensable.&quot; This is more a profile on Karen, and though it states that she is not winning the critic&#039;s hearts in the role of Amanda, there is no mention of her being fired or the Amanda character being killed. Still, it&#039;s an early indication at the start of Season 7 that there were problems with Karen as Amanda. Again, click to read the article below.<a href="http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=zZQnAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=FlYDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2267,3052933&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=zZQnAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=FlYDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2267,3052933&amp;hl=en</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brian Carrington Colby, post: 6135, member: 136"] Searching the internet for the cached original pages of my old thread "Dynasty - The Newspaper Articles," I found the cached page for the old Soap Opera Digest article on the firing of Karen Cellini from Dynasty. Unfortunately the images that forum member Old Timer originally posted are gone, I decided i would repost the newspaper articles I originally posted that record Catherine Oxenberg's dismissal from Dynasty, Karen's hasty hiring, and her just as hasty firing. I will look to see if I saved the original images of the Soap Opera Digest article to add to this thread. If anyone saved them feel free to post them here! An on we go, from August 2010..... Thanks Old Timer for posting the [B]Karen Cellini[/B] Soap Opera Digest article. It's a fascinating read on the state of [B]Dynasty[/B] during Season 7. Along with the TV Guide interview with Leann Hunley from 1988, the recent Terri Garber interview posted on this forum, and the musings of Kate O'Mara that have been posted here as well, it's amazing how these actressess all say the same thing, that the producers were more concerned with trivial things while having no clue about the bigger picture like solid scripts, casting, and acting. To add to Old Timer's original post, I found two [B]newspaper[/B] [B]articles[/B] from October 1986 about the rise and fall of [B]Karen Cellini[/B]. It's sad how in hindsight she was caught in the line of fire of the producer's incompetence. The first article is from the Deseret [B]News[/B], Thursday October 9, 1986. The article is aptly named "Cellini: Dreams to Nightmares?" and gives maybe the first hints that Karen was fired and puts forth the rumor that the Amanda character will be killed off mid-season. Click the link to see the article. I've also attached the article below as well. [URL='http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=08soAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FYQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7030,4409320&hl=en']http://[B]news[/B].google.ca/newspapers?id=08soAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FYQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7030,4409320&hl=en[/URL] The second article is from the the Victoria Advocate, Sunday October 12, 1986. The title of this article is "Goes to Show, Nobody's Indispensable." This is more a profile on Karen, and though it states that she is not winning the critic's hearts in the role of Amanda, there is no mention of her being fired or the Amanda character being killed. Still, it's an early indication at the start of Season 7 that there were problems with Karen as Amanda. Again, click to read the article below. [URL='http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=zZQnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FlYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2267,3052933&hl=en']http://[B]news[/B].google.ca/newspapers?id=zZQnAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FlYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2267,3052933&hl=en[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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