The Story Beat That OLTL's Patricia Mauceri Allegedly Protested Revealed
By Jamey Giddens on June 28, 2009
SPOILER ALERT: More has come to light in regards to what allegedly drove Patricia Mauceri to demand re-writes of Carlotta's scenes as part of the "Kish" storyline on One Life to Live, resulting in the star being terminated from One Life to Live and replaced with Sopranos and Guiding Light actress Saundra Santiago. Here's what a source tells Daytime Confidential:
SPOILER ALERT: More has come to light in regards to what allegedly drove Patricia Mauceri to demand re-writes of Carlotta's scenes as part of the "Kish" storyline on One Life to Live, resulting in the star being terminated from One Life to Live and replaced with Sopranos and Guiding Light actress Saundra Santiago. Here's what a source tells Daytime Confidential:
"Near the climax of a beat in the gay storyline where Fish decides to come out to his very religious family, he purchases a book on how to come out to your parents. Somehow this book ends up in Cristian's possession and Carlotta mistakenly believes Cristian is gay, leading to a comedic scene where Carlotta is first floored, then begins to accept "her" son's sexuality citing his sensitivity, artistic temperament and concern for his appearance. The scene was meant to be played as a comedy of mistaken identities, with Cristian continuing to insist he isn't gay. When Patricia read the script she went to the producers and demanded the scenes be re-written, or she wouldn't play them. Patricia felt Carlotta would never accept her son's "gayness". When the producers informed her the scenes would play out as is, Patricia persisted and the decision was made to recast with Saundra. Patricia has worked extensively with gays in theater and on film over the years, but her personal religious beliefs have changed. "
Twelve years ago in 1997 Mauceri starred in I Think I Do, a gay romantic comedy also starring Tuc Watkins. As Daytime Confidential broke this story over the weekend, we have not been able to seek out comment from ABC, One Life to Live, or Patricia Mauceri. We will be doing so on Monday morning. Keep checking back for further developments.
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4 August 2008
3 hours 24 min
They made the right decision. She was unreasonable.
6 May 2009
3 hours 56 min
Not to offend anybody, but are these gay storylines working? It didn't work for GL, nothing against it, I just didn't believe that they were lesbians Olivia and Natalya I guess that was the appeal, I think it would have been funnier if the mayor was gay, Now they are going to do it to Y&R, they are desperate for ratings, just not for daytime TV, If GL could have gone to cable, then it might have worked.
4 August 2008
3 hours 24 min
Are you kidding me? You're telling me gay storylines don't belong on daytime television?
And could you stop stereotyping lesbians. They don't all look butch.
2 June 2009
5 weeks 6 days
When did it become popular to show you are a good Christian by demonizing and taking rights from and entire group of people?
Well, I guess it has worked well in Iran... with them taking away women's rights... nice to see the holy people in the Americas and Europe holding up Iran as examples.
23 May 2009
1 day 15 hours
I'm glad she's gone
29 November 2008
9 weeks 3 days
Actually, craigcp
Doris the mayor/DA is gay and she's a sounding board for Olivia as she deals with issues that come up. As for PM, it looks like she disagreed with the storyline from the standpoint of the charater of Carlotta. I get that relations between PM and the showrunners became problematic but the way ABCD dealt with this by creating false controversy and inferring that PM's reservations stemmed from homophobia is disingenuous. I get that they had to fire her but she was on recurring status, they created a tempest in a teapot and this just proves once more that Brian Frons is a jackass, even if he didn't do this personally his underlings wouldn't have behaved this way if they felt that he wouldn't approve.
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
CraigCP,
I'm not sure why you think that GL's lesbian characters weren't realistic other than the fact that after months of longingly looking at each other they never kissed.
Reality check: GL's gay couple couldn't have helped the show. The TPTB at the network didn't want to save the show.
GL lost around 400K viewers when it switched its production model. Terrible camera work, hokey country music, and ultra realism along with a wretched Demon Seed (murderous, sociopathic 10 year old kid) scared viewers away.
The gay characters on soaps are in the minority and their portrayals are usually far more chaste than their heterosexual counterparts.
18 February 2009
11 min 14 sec
The absurdity of that scene described originates with the ridiculous notion that Carlotta would think for a second that Cris is gay. He has bedded more women in Llameview than almost anyone. I could see her wondering why he has the book, but to make the leap that he's gay with no previous indications (and a mother KNOWS...). It's just too stupid. I can't believe OLTL is losing a wonderful actress over THIS!
17 February 2009
10 weeks 2 days
Well good. Carlotta can finally stop being a butterface and be portrayed as the sexy latina she always should've been. Welcome aboard Saundra Santiago.
18 February 2009
11 min 14 sec
Butterface. Nice. I guess we should all just go ahead and recast our grandmas!
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
Rockiesoul said, "When did it become popular to show you are a good Christian by demonizing and taking rights from and entire group of people?"
Are you serious? "Good Christians" have been demonizing and screwing over themselves and others for centuries just as almost every other group of people.
Just who do you think enslaved the Irish? Who started Trans Atlantic African slave trade? Who butchered the Native Americans across two continents? Who burned innocent people at the stake during the Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials.
Supposedly "good Christians."
Who wore white robes and lynched African-Americans?
Similarly, you can say those kinds of things about all kinds of human beings Muslims, Jews, or almost any other way of grouping humans, like political affiliation. The Soviets and Communist Chinese killed tens of millions of people--many because of religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or political expedience.
It's just silly to pretend that people haven't used religion (or other ideologies) to oppress others for centuries.
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
INeedAHugandMed...,
"Butterface"? Why even go there? Do you realize how sexist you're being?
18 February 2009
11 min 14 sec
And don't forget that--while many men of the cloth were condemning such "abominations" as homosexuality--they were diddling children...and rather than dealing with that ABOMINATION, they would simply transfer those evil men to a new parish, where they could prey on a whole new population of youngsters.
25 December 2008
1 hour 13 min
That scene does sound stupid. Even I know that Christian has been with pretty much every single female character in Llanview. I don't mind comic relief but maybe they should have picked a different character to use.
The actress is obviously stupid, I'm sorry but if she can afford to walk away from a job for something so ridiculous then I guess she is pretty well off. I don't feel bad for her at all and I think the CE situation was very different and open to interpretation.
Oh, and Will the demon seed was awesome! Don't blame GLs downfall on that little fella.
17 February 2009
10 weeks 2 days
How do you figure? I thought it was just a comment on the fact that homegirl looks like someone took a brick to her face.
4 August 2008
3 hours 24 min
TV Gord,
I was with a lot of women before I admitted I was gay. Sometimes, we gay guys react to our sexuality by fighting it tooth and nail.
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
INeedAHugandMed...
Your comment is the typical sexist remark that objectifies women and denigrates them for aging. She's 59. How else is a 59 year old woman supposed to look? There's nothing wrong with her looks. She's attractive for her age.
Your comment is just as ugly as the supposed bigotry Ms. Mauceri allegedly believes.
Ageism and homophobia are equally bad.
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
Dax,
While you have a point, your line of thinking could easily allow for every randy straight guy to be labeled as a closet case. Why go there? That's just creating and enforcing a new stereotype.
18 February 2009
11 min 14 sec
Point taken, Dax. Thanks for setting me "straight" (as it were...).
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
Troy,
Don't shoot the messenger. Most viewers hated the storyline. What did it do for the show? Not much. It strained credibility at every turn. Smart characters had to be idiots to ignore the obvious.
17 February 2009
10 weeks 2 days
No, it's not. A 20 year old can be a butterface too. If everything on them looks fine but-her-face, then she's a butterface, plain and simple.
11 April 2009
1 hour 56 min
Ineedahug,
You just don't get it.
18 February 2009
11 min 14 sec
If you're truly that shallow, you need much more than a hug.
2 April 2009
14 hours 3 min
craigcp
Most people did not hate the Otalia storyline, you might of but you don't represent the whole show, you can't say it hurt the show the ratings were up on Otalia days and down on say Reva/Jeffrey days, it all has to do with perception.
2 April 2009
14 hours 3 min
As for Mauceri being replaced on OLTL i'm eagerly anticipating the rest of the story to come out, you know we'll get more details when Monday hits.
25 December 2008
1 hour 13 min
josstheguy, I don't agree with the notion that most viewers hated that storyline because of Will, it probably had more to do with Josh and Cassie being a couple and Cassie acting like a raving lunatic, but of course that is just my opinion.
Dax,
So now just because most homosexuals has slept with women before that is a valid excuse to turn all the male characters gay?
I'm pretty sure that there are some men out there that sleeps with women because they actually like it. WOW, I know, strange huh?
17 February 2009
10 weeks 2 days
@josstheguy and TV Gord
Sorry if you're offended, but it's how I feel. I never paid any attention to how she looked till this information came out. Ugly comes from the inside and shines outwardly. I see her pic and see a homophobic butterface.
9 February 2008
21 weeks 5 days
All I care is that the Kish story is a good one; I'm loving it so far and I hope to continue to love it!
15 January 2009
30 weeks 6 days
Well I'll say this Chris E. and Y&R debacle I would go to say over his same sex scenes has sure done a number on their ratings...I'm not saying that alone was the reason for ratings nose dive...but that didn't help any. And the fan support for him was what I would call a shocking and unexpected twist to that story. So if I were OLTL I would not be trying get any press. All press is not good. press.
18 February 2009
11 min 14 sec
Ugly comes from the inside and shines outwardly.
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On that, we can agree. (You DO have mirrors in your home, I assume.)