One Life To Live "Banner" Opening, December 1999 Update: Skye Chandler Hops Soaps

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After nine months with no changes to the opening-even though one was sorely needed; more on that later-OLTL finally aired updates on 12/21 and 12/22, 1999.
Several performers received new images: Nathan Purdee (Hank Gannon) Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan) Patricia Elliott (Renee Divine) Timothy Stickney (RJ Gannon) and Llanview's queen, Erika Slezak (Viki Lord).
Removed from Version 2 of the sequence is Wortham Krimmer, whose character Andrew Carpenter had been very prominent in Llanview in the early-mid 1990's, but by 1999 had been backburnered-to stay, as it turned out. Co-stars Woods and Hillary B. Smith (Nora Hanen) were quick to state Krimmer/Andrew were not gone forever, and Krimmer-who was demoted about halfway thru a three-year contract-did indeed continue as Andrew in a sporadic recurring capacity thru 2010.
Filling Krimmer/Andrew's spot in the sequence: Robin Christopher as Skye Chandler. (Well, technically Kassie DePaiva [Blair Cramer] was shifted into the spot, with Christopher/Skye taking her spot. Semantics.)
Christopher arrived in Llanview with much fanfare; from 1987-91, she was seen on All My Children as Skye, the troublemaking daughter of the troublemaking Adam Chandler. Sure enough, she showed up in Llanview to-you guessed it-make trouble. Christopher/Skye might have had the only "Banner" image to go from smiling to seductive in the same clip.
Also added to Version 1: Charissa Chamorro (Sophia Pelligrino). Chamorro joined OLTL in February 1999, and was elevated from recurring to contract status in October 1999. Her image replaces a second image of Florencia Lozano (Tea Delgado).
Purdee/Hank's new image replaces the VERY poorly-edited image he carried in Version 2 of the previous update, which aired for NINE MONTHS and has already been chronicled on this channel.
As usual, Woods appears in both versions, now with two different-though similar-images. He also receives a new inset image that appears in both versions.
Christopher/Skye has the lone other new/updated inset image. Purdee/Hank loses one.
For some reason, I never before noticed the "Angel Square" lettering in the background of David Fumero's (Cristian Vega) image. Perhaps because it is seen in reverse, I assumed it was some type of cloud? Who knows.
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Featuring (Version 1):
Robin Strasser - Dorian Lord
Hillary B. Smith - Nora Hanen
Robert S. Woods - Bo Buchanan
Gina Tognoni - Kelly Cramer
Erin Torpey - Jessica Buchanan
Timothy Gibbs - Kevin Buchanan
Catherine Hickland - Lindsay Rappaport
Kale Browne - Sam Rappaport
Jason Shane Scott - Will Rappaport
Phil Carey - Asa Buchanan
Nathan Purdee - Hank Gannon
Don Jeffcoat - Joey Buchanan
Charissa Chamorro - Sophia Pelligrino
Kassie DePaiva - Blair Cramer
James DePaiva - Max Holden
Erika Slezak - Victoria "Viki" Lord
Featuring (Version 2):
Robert S. Woods - Bo Buchanan
Hillary B. Smith - Nora Hanen
Florencia Lozano - Tea Delgado
Phil Carey - Asa Buchanan
Robin Strasser - Dorian Lord
Patricia Elliott - Renee Divine
Timothy Stickney - R.J. Gannon
Erika Page - Roseanne Delgado
David Fumero - Cristian Vega
James DePaiva - Max Holden
Kassie DePaiva - Blair Cramer
Nathan Purdee - Hank Gannon
Timothy Gibbs - Kevin Buchanan
Robin Christopher - Skye Chandler
Mark Derwin - Ben Davidson
Erika Slezak - Victoria "Viki" Lord
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