Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch
By Adam Kelley
Outside of the scary moment in Psycho, the most famous shower scene in popular culture happened on DALLAS in 1986. We thought Bobby was dead. But he turned up alive and well in the shower, and we learned the previous year had just been Pam’s bad dream. (Bobby was dead on spin-off KNOTS LANDING, too, and had a newborn nephew named in his honor, but we quibble.)Now fans can get a piece of that DALLAS dream with SOAPnet’s specially designed and autographed shower curtain, which is being auctioned off on eBay. The proceeds go to charity. DALLAS vets Patrick Duffy (ex-Bobby), Larry Hagman (ex-J.R.), Linda Gray (ex-Sue Ellen) and Charlene Tilton (ex-Lucy) have signed the shower curtain, which will go to the highest bidder in the eBay Charity Auction To Support The Community Health Center of Medford, Oregon.The auction at www.ebay.com/SOAPnet runs from July 5-15.In an interview with Soap Opera Digest, Duffy, who lives outside Medford, explains, “Community Health Center is a series of three different small community buildings where health facilities are offered to people on a whatever-you-can-pay basis. [It] services all of the people that don’t have medical coverage, either through Medicare or through their insurance companies from where they work, or are unemployed. Many are children, and the only amount of maintenance care they get is if they get very sick and have to go to an emergency room at a hospital. So, these three centers handle an inordinate amount of people on a weekly basis, and it is all privately funded. With the economy the way it is, and the fact that they are cutting every government subsidy toward any of this kind of stuff, it really becomes the responsibility of the individual communities to take up the slack.” Duffy points out that in the famous scene, Bobby was behind a shower door, not a curtain. “[Pam] opens the door, and Bobby turns over his right shoulder to her and says, ‘Good morning,’ when actually he has been dead for a year. And that was the big shocker ending of the season. What they did is they just lifted that frame of film of me turning over my shoulder to say good morning and imposed that on a plastic shower curtain. Actually, you know if I had had the brains about myself back in the ’80s, I would have done that. But it’s a nice gesture, and I am glad that the money is going to be well-used.”For a stroll down memory lane, tune in to SOAPnet on Friday, July 9 at 6 p.m., when the shower scene episode will air.
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