OTHERS ON BLAIR
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About Blair's Character

"Blair's someone who'll say [to her baby, Starr], 'I'll give you everything so you won't have to suffer the way I did,' and she'll then probably turn the child into another version of herself. [10 years from now, Blair will be] where Dorian is today: still causing trouble, and still madly [searching for] the love and security that she can never find." -- Susan Bedsow Horgan (then-executive producer of OLTL), SOD 1/30/96

"A focused Blair is a woman to be reckoned with. She's unstoppable!" -- Dena Higley (OLTL headwriter), SID 11/7/06

"Blair and [GL's] Dinah are similar in that way, they're fighters." -- Gina Tognoni (Kelly), SOD 4/27/10

(on Starr throwing herself at James while upset over Cole) "It kind of reminds me of Blair. When Blair is very distraught, she sometimes has sex. It's 'Please let me forget, help me forget, let's do this so I can forget.' It's so the wrong way to go." -- Kristen Alderson (Starr), SOD.com November 2010

(on which daytime character she relates to most) "Probably Blair on One Life to Live. She's got history, [and] I've got some history! She's a singer; I'm a singer. We're the same age. Kassie DePaiva (Blair) doesn't play a Southerner, but it comes through in her work, and I'm a Southerner." -- Bobbie Eakes (AMC's Krystal), SID 6/27/11




Blair's Creator On Blair

(on naming his favorite OLTL creation) "I could say I have a tremendous love for Blair, because she was the first character that I wrote." -- Michael Malone (former headwriter of OLTL), SOW 12/15/09

"I remember a wonderful moment when, with Mickey Dwyer-Dobbin, who was then the network person, I had all these ideas for stories and wrote them out on big poster boards. There was a meeting and I said, 'This happens, and I want to bring this character in and her name is Blair, and I want to do this and here's the next two weeks.' And Mickey just cracked up laughing and said, 'There's the next 10 years.' ... If you dream people up, in a way you do want them to live forever. People like Nora, Blair and Todd and David Vickers and the Angel Square people like Cristian." -- Michael Malone (former headwriter of OLTL), SOD/SOW OLTL Tribute Magazine January 2012




About Blair's 2012 Visits to General Hospital

(on bringing OLTL characters to GH) "It is definitely something I thought about right away. I think that anything we can do to help GH and bring up the ratings and bring any more eyeballs on to the screen from OLTL, is absolutely the reason we should do it." -- Ron Carlivati (headwriter of GH), Michael Fairman on Soaps 1/13/12

"At this point, it's all about giving as many fans as possible what they want, and getting them tuning in. Michael [Easton, McBain], Kassie [DePaiva, Blair], Roger [Howarth, Todd] and Kristen [Alderson, Starr] are actors daytime viewers want to see, and on a soap, it's always necessary to introduce new blood from time to time. This is new blood who ABC fans are already familiar with. It's reinvigorating the cast with proven characters, so it's a win-win situation." -- Lisa Locicero (Olivia), SOD 2/7/12

"I know people were really happy to see Blair, nobody more than I was. I love Blair. Blair is one of my favorite characters of all time. And I love Kassie. The door is completely open to bring Blair back onto the canvas. [But w]here we are in story, Blair doesn't fit into the immediate plan. So, for story reasons, it's important Blair is not on the canvas at the moment." -- Ron Carlivati (headwriter of GH), SID 5/28/12

"The influx of Llanview residents onto Port Charles turf remains controversial with some GH aficionados, but we're impressed by how well the show has absorbed OLTL expats Todd, Starr and John, along with visitors Blair and Tea." -- SOD editorial team, SOD 7/23/12

(on bringing OLTL characters to GH) "We would bring people on if it made sense. We brought Kassie DePaiva (Blair) back for a four-episode arc and it made sense: Her daughter was making her debut. She wants to support her daughter. We'll never do something that doesn't feed 'General Hospital,' as well. Starr performing helped tee up the Michael/Starr relationship. That was important for us to do. Then it also furthered the relationship between Todd and Carly. Kassie is a great actress and that's exciting, but it was also a great way to move something forward in the Port Charles world." -- Frank Valentini (executive producer of GH), September 2012




About Blair's Wardrobe

"Blair's wardrobe is so fabulous." -- Renee Elise Goldsberry (Evangeline), SOW 4/4/06

(on Blair's dress for the 2009 Go Red Ball) "Blair's dress has the prominent ruffle down the front and expresses Blair's effortless sexy quality. She's such a femme fatale." -- Susan Gammie (costume designer for OLTL), SOW 2/17/09

(on what other OLTL character she would like to play for a day) "Blair, because she's got the best clothes." -- Susan Haskell (Marty), SOD 6/9/09

(on the dress that Blair wears to Todd and Tea's wedding) "Blair is wearing a fabulous dress by Craig Signer, a couture designer from Miami. It's a 'Look at me, I'm going to my ex-husband's wedding; look at me, I look fabulous' kind of dress. It has a certain attention-grabbing quality." -- Susan Gammie (costume designer of OLTL), SOW 9/29/09

(on the dress Blair wears to marry Eli) "I just loved it. It's so Blair. It's sexy, sophisticated and appropriate for her 15th -- God knows what number -- wedding. It's not a 'blushing bride' dress. It's a dress for a self-confident, contemporary woman. ... I bought it some time ago; I thought there would inevitably be another Blair wedding. It spoke to me before I ever knew about this wedding. She's been married so many times, in so many different looks, the challenge becomes giving each wedding its own different style appropriate for the circumstance. We've done vintage, pants, '30s screen siren...it's refreshing to do something that was just clean and modern." -- Susan Gammie (costume designer at OLTL), SOW 8/31/10






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