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Date Posted: 06:21:36 06/13/04 Sun
In reply to:
Holly
's message, "Gerald Anthony died May 28. Goodbye, Marco. I loved you." on 07:50:50 06/12/04 Sat
It was Dorian that brought me to Llanivew, but it was Marco that kept me there. I remember when he left to marry "Cookie" and live happily ever after. I was sitting on my couch, screaming, "No, no, no, he can't leave!" Twenty some very odd years later, I'm still missing him. I would have suffered just about any contrivance to bring him back, he was the best. I even watched General Hospital to see him, and that's saying a lot, you have no idea.
RIP Gerald Anthony, you were beloved and so very talented.
>Marco Dane was the prototype for sooooo many
>villain-to-antihero characters, and Gerald Anthony
>played him to perfection. I'm trying to think - it
>was a long time ago - but I am pretty sure that Marco
>was the first serious, serious baaadaaassss to (a)
>survive his sweeps murder and (b) actually change for
>the better.
>
>Marco wasn't the first twin-switch/return from the
>dead, but he's the first one I remember who turned out
>to be the DEAD twin. "Mario" came to town after
>Marco's death, practiced medicine, and went a long way
>toward making amends for the evil nasties Marco had
>perpetrated on everyone in town, especially Karen
>Wolek. Mario was a saint. Marco not so much, but
>after he was found out, he did not return to his
>former villainy OR continue to ride "Mario's" white
>steed. He made a new way, as a bad guy with a good
>heart. He was still cruel, but he saved it for the
>deserving. He fell in love, several times, and got
>his heart broken.
>
>And, be still my heart, the love of a good woman never
>transformed him. Not really. But, and this was a
>major transformation, he did learn how to love women.
>Really love them.
>
>Marco's "better half" back in the day was Brad Vernon,
>another bad boy - BUT from a good family. Brad looked
>like a catch from the outside, but the viewers knew
>better, and, to the writers' credit, so did they.
>Marco and Brad traveled in the same circles, loved the
>same women. Both had mellowed enough by the end of
>their tenures that the dynamic between them had lost
>its fire. That made me sad, and I blame Rauch (who
>compensated me with Max Holden, a character whom I
>love to this day but who could not have existed but
>for G.A.'s work).
>
>Gerald and Marco gave us, among others, Luke Spencer
>and Todd Manning. Those characters' misdeeds would
>have marked them, before Marco, for certain - and
>final - death some February, May, or November. Marco
>and Brad gave us, among others, the Luke-Stefan and
>Todd-Kevin long-term feud arcs. I feel hopeful that
>Malone sees Todd-Kevin as more like Marco-Brad, both
>bad, with the main differences being attributable to
>upbringing, not inherent goodness.
>
>Gerald and Marco gave me one of my all-time favorite
>couples of convenience: Dorian and Marco, who paved
>the way for Dorian and David (David really is who
>Marco was by the time he left Llanview).
>
>My secret wish for a Dorian-Marco-David triangle is
>dust. Rest in peace, Gerald. You gave me many hours
>of joy.
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