STEVEN CARRINGTON, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME Here's a familiar face: Al Corley, 35, who played Blake's bisexual son, Steven, during the show's first two seasons, and then was reportedly fired for bad-mouthing Esther and Richard Shapiro, the husband-and-wife team that produced the original Dynasty and Reunion. What's he doing here?
"My leaving the show was more amicable than the media ever said," Corley says. "I loved playing Steven. I took playing him very seriously. Maybe too seriously. I wanted the producers to make a commitment to him. I wasn't happy with where he was going. I didn't want him to whine all the time, I didn't want to see him in limbo (about his sexuality)." But Corley's replacement, Jack Coleman, wasn't available for the miniseries (he was filming a pilot for a new NBC series), so the Shapiros decided to give Corley another shot. "Because he took a misstep once, should we punish him forever?" asks Esther. "He was doing some things that were unacceptable at the time, but he was young. People change. He is mature now." So is his character: In Reunion, Steven has resolved his sexual confusion and is now happily gay. Corley isn't the only casting change of note: Blake's snarly son Adam will $ be played by British actor Robin Sachs (Upstairs, Downstairs), who replaces Canadian Gordon Thomson. And Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe (The Prince of Tides) will be Alexis' devious new bedmate, Jeremy Van Dorn. Meanwhile, Dex Dexter (Michael Nader) and Blake's half-sister, Dominique Deveraux (Diahann Carroll), have been written out of the miniseries script.
SQUEEZE PLAY No Dynasty episode-or Dynasty magazine article, for that matter- would be complete without at least one mention of terminally cute Heather Locklear and here she is, complaining about a too-tight pair of jeans. "I hurt my finger putting them on," she says. "It's an occupational hazard." As Sammy Jo, Krystle's hot-to-trot niece, Locklear was often asked to perform saucy scenes, and she'll be at it again in the miniseries. "There's this one scene where I had to drop my pants in a restaurant," she reveals. "I was, like, 'Excuse me-is this woman on drugs?' But (the director) said, 'Heather, you're not the star here. Just read the lines.'"
I AM NOT A JERK Maxwell Caulfield wants to get one thing straight right now: "I was not the a--hole everyone said I was." The actor says he's appearing in Reunion (as Miles Colby, a character from the short-lived Dynasty spin-off, The Colbys) to "lay to rest all the gossip about me." He is referring to all the tabloid reports that he was every bit as difficult on the set as hard- drinking playboy Miles was on-screen. "I'm told I was a black sheep on The Colbys," he says. "But my biggest crime was jogging while (series star) Charlton Heston was shooting a scene. I was jogging on the roof and the soundman called 'cut' and Moses got all bent out of shape."
PISTIL-PACKIN' PRODUCER It's the end of a grueling 10-hour day, but there's one more scene to film: a confrontation between Miles Colby and Fallon Carrington (Emma Samms) inside the Carrington mansion. The actors are ready. The cameras are ready. But producer Elaine Rich isn't ready. "We need more flowers," she says, pointing to a vase at the top of the staircase. "We need more. I can't see those. Can we get a bigger vase?" Minutes tick by, more flowers are rushed in, and finally Rich is ready to film. "The attention to detail is what makes this show Dynasty," she says. "It's what (establishes) the ambience of the show."
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