| Josh Madden | |
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 Colin Egglesfield as Josh Madden |
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| All My Children | |
| Portrayed by | Scott Kinworthy (June 17, 2005 - September 15 2005) Colin Egglesfield (Present) |
| First appearance | June 17, 2005 |
| Created by | Megan McTavish |
| Profile | |
| Nickname(s) | Josh |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of birth | Retconned to December 18, 1980 |
| Age | 27[1] |
| Occupation | Former CEO of Chandler Enterprises/Current Advisor To Zach Slater |
| Residence | Pine Valley, Pennsylvania |
Joshua "Josh" Madden is a fictional character from the daytime drama All My Children. Scott Kinworthy is an American Actor. He was best known for his short-lived role as Josh Madden on All My Children from June Colin Egglesfield (born February 9, 1973, in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American actor and former model Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Megan McTavish (born April 30 1949 in Pembroke New Hampshire) is an American television actress and Soap opera writer Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Chandler Enterprises is a Fictional business on the ABC daytime Soap opera All My Children. Zach Slater (born Alexander Cambias Jr) is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. Pine Valley Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American Soap opera All My Children. All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC He first came to Pine Valley on June 17, 2005 and was originally portrayed by actor Scott Kinworthy until September 15, 2005. Pine Valley Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American Soap opera All My Children. Events 1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Scott Kinworthy is an American Actor. He was best known for his short-lived role as Josh Madden on All My Children from June Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Since Kinworthy's departure, he has been portrayed by actor Colin Egglesfield. Colin Egglesfield (born February 9, 1973, in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American actor and former model
The character was initially the subject of a controversial and landmark abortion storyline back in the early 1970s,[2] having been the fetus in which the abortion was centered. Originally a landmark literally meant a Geographic Feature used by explorers and An A fetus (or foetus or fœtus) is a developing Mammal or other Viviparous Vertebrate, after the Embryonic stage and When the abortion storyline was rewritten to not have been an abortion after all, controversy ensued again, as viewers felt that it was an undoing of a groundbreaking event in television history.
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Background
Origin
Originally said to have been born on December 18, 1973. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. When Alicia Minshew took over the role of Kendall Hart in 2002, and the producers of All My Children had Kendall Hart's birth year changed to 1976, thus pushing Erica Kane's even later than it was before, to 1962, this left Josh's birth date between Kendall Hart's of 1976 and Bianca Montgomery's of 1984. Alicia Minshew (born May 28, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Kendall Hart on the daytime drama Kendall Slater ( Née Hart) is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC "Erica Kane" is also the title of songs by Aaliyah, B5 and Urge Overkill, all written about this character Bianca Christine Montgomery is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. Josh's birth date now at December 18, 1980. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) [1]
Josh Madden is the son of characters Erica Kane and Jeff Martin. "Erica Kane" is also the title of songs by Aaliyah, B5 and Urge Overkill, all written about this character Jeff Martin is a Fictional character from the ABC soap opera All My Children. Originally, the character was to have been aborted (in what was the first abortion on television after the Roe v. Wade decision). An Roe v Wade, 410 US 113 (1973 is a controversial United States Supreme Court case that resulted in a Landmark decision regarding However, later during Megan McTavish's third stint as All My Children head writer, a character named Doctor Greg Madden is written to have taken the embryo and implanted the embryo into his wife. Megan McTavish (born April 30 1949 in Pembroke New Hampshire) is an American television actress and Soap opera writer A Head Writer (HW is a person who is in charge of a television/radio series' writing team An embryo (from Greek:, plural, lit "that which grows" from en- "in" + bryein "to swell be full" is a multicellular [3]
Storyline
As an adult, Josh comes to Pine Valley, and Erica Kane, not yet knowing that Josh is her son, hires him as a producer at her talk show New Beginnings. Pine Valley Pennsylvania is the fictional setting for the long-running American Soap opera All My Children. In order to steal Erica's job, Josh begins to sabotage Erica, even going so far as to drug her, and frames Amanda Dillon in his place. Amanda Dillon is a Fictional character from the American daytime All My Children. His devious intentions are eventually revealed, and he is fired as producer of Erica's talk show, with Erica hating him.
Discovery of being a Kane and all that follows
In late July 2006, not long after Greg has been murdered, Josh finally discovers the truth regarding his birth at the opening of the nightclub ConFusion. Kendall Slater ( Née Hart) is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. He is devastated and decides to leave town. Erica tries to explain to him that she does not hate him, and her reasons for making the decision to have an abortion all those years ago, but Josh does not want to listen to her.
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Throughout the whole Greg Madden ordeal, Josh develops a close relationship with Babe Carey Chandler, who convinces him to stay in town. Arabella "Babe" Carey (previously Chandler) is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. Josh gradually falls in love with Babe and has a one-night stand with her. However, despite her rocky marriage to J.R. Chandler, she chooses to stay with J. Adam Chandler Jr is a Fictional character from the daytime drama All My Children. R. , leaving Josh heartbroken and more willing to fight for her love.
Josh connects with his half-sister, Bianca Montgomery, whom he loves, but is not above using her to get what he wants; however this characteristic does not phase Bianca one bit and it allows her to share with her older half-brother that her girlfriend, Maggie Stone, cheated on her while they were in Paris. Bianca Christine Montgomery is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. Mary Margaret "Maggie" Stone is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. Like most everyone else in the Kane-Montgomery family, Josh proves to be extremely protective of Bianca, especially where her happiness is concerned and is acrimonious towards Zarf/Zoe, whom he thinks would hurt Bianca. Zoe (formerly known as Fredrick "Freddie" Luper) is a Fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children, and
Josh's relationship with his other half-sister, Kendall Hart Slater, though not as close as his relationship to Bianca at first, also becomes stronger. Kendall Slater ( Née Hart) is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. He is sometimes seen as somewhat of a protector of Kendall as well, and is able to connect with Erica at times, having found a certain comfort with each other. Above all else, he loves his family very much.
Josh leaves Pine Valley after Babe is apparently murdered by The Satin Slayer. Alexander Cambias Sr is a Fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children, as portrayed by Ronald Guttman, from However, after the funeral, Babe is seen waking in a hidden room in Zach Slater's casino and Josh asks how she feels. Zach Slater (born Alexander Cambias Jr) is a Fictional character from the American daytime drama All My Children. Josh, Kendall, Zach, Joe, Jeff, and Jack, all aware that Babe is still alive, keep this fact a secret in order to keep her out of harm's way. Dr Joseph "Joe" Martin Sr is a long-running character on the American Soap opera All My Children. Jackson "Jack" Montgomery is a Fictional character from the daytime drama All My Children.
Once back in Pine Valley, due to Josh's constant unwanted involvement in Babe's matters, Babe tells Josh to get out of her life. Some time afterward, Josh has a fling with a woman named Hannah Nichols. Hannah Nichols is a Fictional character from the ABC daytime drama All My Children.
Before he becomes boss at Chandler Enterprises, he is briefly involved with Greenlee Smythe. Chandler Enterprises is a Fictional business on the ABC daytime Soap opera All My Children. Greenlee Smythe is a Fictional character from the daytime drama All My Children. Due to having tricked the Chandlers out of their fortune, Zach is able to do what he wants with Chandler Enterprises. He names Josh as Chandler Enterprises' new boss. But when Adam Chandler regains control of Chandler Enterprises, Josh becomes the former CEO of the company. Adam Chandler Sr is a Fictional character from the daytime drama All My Children, portrayed by David Canary, from 1983 to present
Cultural impact
First legal abortion in soap opera
The Josh Madden character, before actually being defined as a character, became the first legal abortion performed in soap opera history. [4]
Author Gerry Waggett, when asked in an interview on the matter of how the show All My Children has always been the first (for the most part) to tackle global issues, and what storyline does he feel exemplifies this, responded:
| “ | I would have to pick Erica's legal abortion back in 1973. Number one, it was timely. Abortion had only recently been legalized when Erica decided not to have her baby. Secondly, it was a bold move. I can't think of a hotter political topic for the time than abortion. (It still remains a subject that soaps tend to avoid as much as possible; women may contemplate abortions, but rarely go through with having them. ) Erica's abortion let the fans know that All My Children was going to tackle some major issues. What made it work was the fact that it was the perfect marriage of character to social issue storyline. We've all watched shows where some character develops a social issue problem that feels artificial to them as though it's been tacked onto them as some sort of glorified public service announcement. But Erica's abortion made sense. She was a rising model who didn't want a baby to derail that career. Whether you agree or disagree with her decision, you understand her rationale. That really is important for these social issue storylines to succeed — that they really be paired up with the right characters. [2] | ” |
More controversy
When Megan McTavish, former head writer of the show All My Children, rewrote Erica Kane's abortion to instead not have been an abortion at all due to Dr. Megan McTavish (born April 30 1949 in Pembroke New Hampshire) is an American television actress and Soap opera writer Greg Madden's antics, it upset a large number of fans who felt that it was a disgrace to the ground-breaking abortion storyline Agnes Nixon had carried out three decades earlier. Agnes Nixon (born Agnes Eckhardt on December 27 1927) is an American Writer and producer.
To this, actor Colin Egglesfield, portrayer of Josh, when queried by Soap Opera Digest on the matter of possibly holding the record in daytime for the oddest way to be brought into the world, replied, "Yeah, and it's kind of funny because when people ask me who I am on the show, I like to say, 'I'm the abortion of Erica Kane. Colin Egglesfield (born February 9, 1973, in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American actor and former model Soap Opera Digest is a Magazine chronicling the stories airing on American Soap operas and the off-screen lives of the actors appearing on them ' Or, technically, I think it's a 'transportion. '"[5]
Inkling Magazine
Inkling Magazine, an often-updated magazine on the internet dedicated to science as they see it, commented on the impossibility of the storyline in which Josh was not aborted after all:
| “ | Erica Kane hires Josh Madden to produce her talk show New Beginnings. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Josh lines up his father, Greg Madden, a well-known fertility expert, to be one of the first guests. Erica can’t place where she had met Dr. Madden until a bizarre series of events reveals that Dr. Madden had not only performed her abortion a few years back but developed a creepy obsession with her and implanted her aborted embryo into his own wife using a revolutionary new technique.
Can it really happen? There are so many things wrong with this, I can’t even wrap my brain around it. The biggest hurdle with this particular storyline is that the techniques by which abortion is performed don’t exactly lend themselves to excising an embryo viable enough to survive in another woman’s womb. [6] |
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However, in their same article Inkling Magazine also noted, "Using Erica Kane’s currently known offspring as an example, it seems that the science behind the drama of soap storylines isn’t entirely incorrect. But maybe that’s not as surprising as it seems. A lot of weird and crazy things pop up in scientific and medical research. Who, for example, would have thought you could grow a human ear on the back of a mouse? Who would have believed that one day we could make fluorescent green pigs? Keeping in mind those miracles of nature might help suspend the disbelief the next time a pint-sized, ringlet-haired child soap star 'grows' into a sultry brooding teenager after a summer 'away. ' Hey, it could happen. "[6]
References
- ^ a b Who's Who in Pine Valley: Erica Kane. soapcentral. com. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
- ^ a b Interview with Gerry Waggett. About. com. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
- ^ Diva deluxe. A grand entrance for Susan Lucci -- the grand dame of daytime TV. starbulletin. com. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
- ^ The Last Taboo. Soapoperadigest. com, Publisher Jennifer Lenhart. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
- ^ Son Block. Soapoperadigest. com, Publisher Mara Levinsky. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
- ^ a b The Science of a Soap Opera Plot Twist. Let's take a closer look at the children of "All My Children." We might even learn something. inklingmagazine. com, Publisher Lesly Lopez-Skinner. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
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