Boyd Gaines ABSENT From Another One Day At A Time Reunion

Do you think it is the cast that hates him, or maybe he hates the cast

Because for the past 36 years he has NEVER attended ANY One Day At A Time Reunion, even on tape

They just had a ZOOM reunion with hosted by Seth Rudetsky. And Seth KNOWS Boyd Gaines personally & its not like Boyd Gaines has any scheduling conflict.

But again no mention of Boyd and he is completely ABSENT from One Day At A Time reunion - the cast acts as if he didn't even exist.

Why is that?

Happens to the best of us.

He’s too busy building his V05 empire!!!

I hated this show when I was kid. I wanted to stab Glenn Scarpelli and fuck Michael Lembeck. .

Michael Lembeck mentioned him.

He also mentioned the great Nanette Fabray being the "grandma" on the set and the others just ignored the nice things he said about her like she wasn't the comic genius that she was.

Fun Fact. Bonnie Franklin asked her to play her mother. SHE wouldn't have ignored her!!!

Why would anyone possibly care about this?

[quote] Why would anyone possibly care about this?

Because Barbara wedding was one of the highest rated episode in TV history

Boyd Gaines won every Tony Award a man could win.

Michael Lembeck's sister was Judy Borden on "Welcome Back Mr Kotter"

I had a huge crush on Michael Lembeck.

[quote] Boyd Gaines won every Tony Award a man could win.

If he were to win the Leading Actor in a Play, he would be the only male performer to win all four Tony Awards for an actor.

He has FOUR Tony Awards, but has yet to win "Leading Actor in a Play"

You have to admit Mackenzie Phillips looks pretty damn good, considering she's been rode hard and put away wet.

r10 And yet Gaines' most memorable work was on the last seasons of a dying sitcom almost 40 years ago.

At one point Shelley Fabares was a cast regular and she also wasn't there.

Valerie Bertinelli didn't even mention Boyd in her book. Her own TV husband!

Mack mentioned Michael "Lem" Lembeck repeatedly.

Methinks Val and Boyd did not get along too well. He got along well with Lem though and they formed a band.

They didn't even mention Shelley who was Ann's great nemesis. Ron Rifkin and Mary Louise Wroblicky also got the shaft.

As long as he makes in to the Porky's Reunion.

Howard Hesseman doesn't acknowledge it either.

Yes, but what does Susan Dey have to say about all this?

I've always wondered, was Howard given his role to fulfill the terms of a contract or did he initially want to be there?

[quote]Valerie Bertinelli didn't even mention Boyd in her book. Her own TV husband!

What do you expect from the Yoko Ono of Van Halen?

This ZOOM "One Day At A Time" reunion is a benefit for the Actors Fund, you'd think with so many Broadway people out of work, Boyd Gaines would be the first to sign-up - to help the Broadway community

But he can't even do that!

By her own admission Val was a drug addict during this time so maybe she was hard to get along with. Howard was probably in it for the cash. He did a shower scene once and was really hunky.

[quote] Yes, but what does Susan Dey have to say about all this?

In all seriousness, Boyd was on [italic]LA Law[/italic] as Abby‘s ex-husband. He beat her.

I saw Boyd Gaines at the McCarter Theater's "The Age of Innocence" (which had fabulous costumes, btw) in 2018 and it was clear that there was something wrong with him. Although every move he made on stage was carefully choreographed, it was very apparent that his hands were shaking and trembling uncontrollably. I don't know if it is Parkinson's or what, but it was very evident there there was something very wrong with him, health wise. I don't know for sure what he has, exactly, but it's not good. So, I would give Boyd Gaines a break.......

Guess Cliff Randall was too big time for this dog and pony show.

Beerbelly was completely ignored.

Val's hair looks good with the blonde highlights.

[quote] Boyd was on LA Law as Abby‘s ex-husband. He beat her.

He was also on "Hotel" where he showed off his hairy chest

I didn't watch the later seasons where all the women paired off with a man. I don't even remember Howard Hesseman being on that show.

Mackenzie Phillips does look good and I hope she is OK, truly. Valerie Bertinelli was no Yoko Ono! Eddie and Alex Van Halen sound kind insufferable. How many singers did they run through?

Getting canceled relatively early was a blessing in disguise for WKRP. That meant it didn’t end up with zombie seasons like most of the Lear shows did, this one being one of the primary examples.

Valerie praised Yoko Ono on a recent Reelz special.

[quote]Valerie Bertinelli was no Yoko Ono!

You're right, Yoko Ono was the Valerie Bertinelli of the Beatles.

Except nobody wants to hear Yoko Ono cover Elton John.

Lembeck is still hot after all these years! Too bad he's straight.

R25 Someone on the Broadway threads has been hinting about his health for years now.

Maybe Boyd Gaines health is not good recently

But what was the excuse the other 26 years he was absent from all the other reunions?

If he was ill the others could have sent out a kind word for that if nothing else.

If Boyd Gaines were to transition, would her new name be Girld Loses?

I was most upset Norman Lear and Whitney Blake were absent.

R41 they probably don't know that he was ill, and certainly the host Seth is not going to say anything

But it would've been nice if Seth read a note from Boyd wishing everyone well

The fact Boyd didn't, nor the fact he has NEVER shown up to any ODAAT reunion, speaks volumes.

Huh? Norman Lear was there for almost the entire gathering.

Boyd and his bulge should have shown up.

I remember in the 1980s when the show was still on the air, an LA magazine did a profile on Valerie Bertinelli and mentioned rumors that Boyd & Val didn't get along.

Valerie denied those rumors. Flash forward 30 years later, and it would seem the rumors are true, because they have not been in the same room together since the show went off the air.

What did he play? I have no idea who this is.

They are all old now. Try and make peace.

Maybe Boyd Gaines just isn't into reunions. They ARE pretty stupid.

[quote] Maybe Boyd Gaines just isn't into reunions.

So is that a reason to EXCLUDE him from the TV Land Awards when they honored ODAAT?

He played Barbara's husband.

I didn't realize Mackenzie Phillips wasn't the only one on the show with an addiction problem I always thought she was to squeaky clean to be married to Eddie VH. Guess not. Did she start using with Mackenzie or was it Eddie (though I always read he was primarily an alcoholic. He was totally out of it at their wedding. At some point during the day, he would up puking into a toilet as Valerie, in dress and veil, held his hair back.😂

^wound up

I wonder how she feels about her son recording and touring with the VH dinosaurs considering all the addiction in the music industry.

Valerie was squeaky clean, she just says that to be cool. She says she was worse than MacKenzie yet somehow it didn't affect her performance or her appearance at all.

I can believe Valerie was snorting coke alongside Mackenzie. Valerie was so thin during that time and now look how much she struggles with her weight. Cocaine was the key to staying that thin, IMO. She and EVH looked like brother and sister but were a very cute couple.

Mackenzie looked horrid on Orange Is The New Black. Without make-up, filters and good lighting she looked every bit her age. And I'm not sure but her teeth look like dentures or implants.

Mr. Lear was constantly wanting me to join One Day At A Time, but my heart belonged to Eight Is Enough.

I think I made the right decision.

R55 Val said in her Reelz special a few weeks ago she started her recreational coke use after marrying Eddie and she was just a weekend user.

Whereas Mackenzie was never not high until TAT (later Embassy) fired her twice.

R63 And she has gained zero weight since One Day At a Time.

R65 at this point, even if she said she was a HEAVY coke user, that would make it even more commendable. She dealt with the long days and rigors of doing a sitcom nearly 10 years. I don’t think she has any reason to lie at this point.

No wonder Coke bought the studio that made this show; they were doing so much of it backstage!

If Jonathan Silverman is absent from the Gimme A Break! Reunion, I will just die.

WTF is that hideous hair color on Val???

Did no one think to say, "HOLD ME, DAVID, AND THEN HOP ON ZOOM RIGHT NOW"?

[quote] Val said in her Reelz special a few weeks ago she started her recreational coke use after marrying Eddie and she was just a weekend user.

I like Val, but I don't believe she was only doing coke, recreationally, on the weekends.

More importantly, when did she turn blonde?

Like yesterday, R32. Why don't you showbiz dwellers know how fucked up it is?

Boyd Gaines has a small part in that horrible Goldfinch movie.

"And I'm not sure but her teeth look like dentures or implants."

MacKenzie Phillips probably does have implants or dentures. Hard core drug addiction makes addict's teeth fall out. And she was a junkie, wasn't she? Valerie Bertinelli had a coke problem, but I don't she was anywhere near the level of drug abuse MacKenzie Phillips was into. For a long time Phillips looked like a walking cadaver. It was so ridiculous; she looked like death and on OTAAT hot guys were after her. The the nuttiness of sitcoms.

At least she got clean which is more than I can say for Dana Plato.

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