 That
dazzling, much-missed actress Susan Haskell - who won an Emmy as heroine
Marty Saybrooke on ABC's One Life to Live - has rarely been seen
[sic] since she and her OLTL costar Thorsten Kaye fell in love and
left the soap together in 1997. On April 18, the due, still romantic
off-screen, will be reunited on-screen by ABC's Port Charles.
Kaye, who played Marty's swashbuckling beau Patrick, joined PC last
year as Dr. Ian Thornhart, Patrick's odd, moody [sic] brother. Haskell
will play Granya, a sister of Patrick and Ian, who died several years ago
while undergoing an abortion (Ian was away saving lives in Africa at the
time of her death and has been overwhelmed with guilt ever since).
"I won't be in a white robe
and a halo," Haskell assures us. "Nor is Granya a ghost. [She]
is played very real. She's someone Ian keeps in his thoughts and
relies on for advice. There's a lot about his past that needs explaining.
This is nicer than the alternative - having him talk to himself."
Haskell will be on-air for a month or so, then she departs for Canada to
star oppositve David Caruso in the film "Black Point." But she may
return to the soap if her stint is well received.
The latest PC plot twist,
while intriguing, does raise questions: Won't OLTL fans - who've
never heard of Granya - be wondering why Patrick never once said to Marty,
"Jeez, you look just like my sister"? And won't this put a rather twisted
taint on their saintly love story? After all, this means the dude
had a sexual attraction to his sister's dead ringer. ABC had initially
planned to avoid the "ick" factor by dramatically changing Haskell's appearance,
then dropped the idea.
By Michael Logan |
