Applause, Applause

Kimberly McCullough
Outstanding Performer of the Week for the Week of April 24

By MB

General Hospital's Robin is comfortable in toned-up lab coats, constricted by the rules of medicine and living with HIV. But when Robin finally let loose, Kimberly McCullough's performance filled a prescription for passion.

Brimming with anger after Robert dubbed her "frigid," McCullough's Robin vibrated with tension as she pounded on Patrick's door. When her surprised fellow doc opened up, she wasted no time opening herself up. "I'm going to start telling people what I think and what I want," she gasped after a ferocious kiss. "And what I want is you - right now!"

Petite McCullough confidently dominated Patrick as Robin pushed him onto his bed and straddled him. But when she stripped off her sweater, a layer of Robin's self-protection came off, as well. Confronted by Patrick's cavalier attitude toward lovemaking, she scrambled away. McCullough reined in Robin's ardor and crossed her arms across her body like slammed gates.

"I'm not afraid to live," Robin insisted when Patrick echoed her father's accusations, but McCullough's actions belied her words. She physically turned her back on Patrick's insight, then tapped her fingers against her face and looked beyond him.

McCullough was firm, if slightly choked up as Robin recalled what being spontaneous at 18 with Stone had cost her. Then, McCullough swiftly turned misery into Scorpio moxie as Robin gave Patrick a dose of "Physician, heal thyself" medicine. "Every time we start to form a bond, you chicken out," she diagnosed.

The playfulness returned as Robin taunted Patrick with "the scariest monster of them all: emotional intimacy." McCullough grinned ruefully. "I bet you run away before I do," she dared, voice singsong and childlike as Robin ironically delivery a very adult kiss.

But it was Robin who bolted when Patrick's date appeared. McCullough rolled her eyes and squirmed back into Robin's sweater (and emotional armor). As she flew to the elevator, Robin's feathers may have been ruffled, but McCullough's acting made it clear she was no wounded bird.

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