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After 14 years, the cast
of Knots Landing wraps the series finale.
They shared spouses and lovers, hurled
insults and champagne flutes and perpertrated countless acts
of seduction, betrayal and murder. So of course the Jan. 20
wrap party for Knots landing, marking the end of the last of
those 14 sin-filled seasons, was positibely kissy-kissy. A reflective
Michele Phillips (Anne Matheson) summed up the mood: "Bittersweet."
A crowd of 350 - including series alums
John Pleshette, Don murray, Constance McCashin and Donna Mills
-- gathered at L.A.'s Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel three days
after the taping of the last episode (A cliff-hanger airs March
11, with the big two hour finale scheduled for May) to taste
grilled chicken and toast plot lines. The throng also raised
their glasses to longevity: Knots is the third-longest-running-hour-long
dramatic serial in television history, behind only Gunsmoke
and Dallas, from which Knots was spun off.
For original cast member Michele Lee
(karen MacKenzie), it was a teary evening. Said lee: 'We've
been through marriages [she's currently married to TV exec.
Fred Rapoport], divorces [hers was from actor James Farentino],
babies and deaths" -- including that of Larry Riley, who
succumbed to AIDS last June at 39. But Nicollette Sheridan,
whose seven season role as the alluring Paige Matheson brought
her stardom, was less sentimental, if nevertheless enthusiastic
about her Knots tenure. "It's been a kick in the ass,"
she said. "We're outta here."
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