Paul Raven

So Vanessa calls her dear friend over for advice and solace and then shuts her down the minute Dani raises perfectly valid points. Not expecting Joey to live in a place like that? It suits him perfectly-I think he used some of the same fabrics on his jackets. Ashley was OK for me on Day 1. Jury is out. Is there a reason that Isaiah is never at work? Another job choice we never see. Just have him be a bartender at Uptown or something.

Is Ashley contract? Or is this another character eg Kial who will appear sporadically and be offscreen quite often?

Saw this in a Lynda Hirsch summary from Feb 85 Learning her mother iII, Lisa heads for Florida. That's the first mention I've heard of Alma past 1977. I wonder if Alma was killed off, or even mentioned gain?

THE DAILY NEWS, Tarrytown, N.Y., Mon., December 1, 1975 Versatility is foremost for Canadian Actress BY CARMEL CAMISE MARCHIONNI Tudi Wiggins, whose career has altered between the stage, television and radio—with a few films tossed in—says she never intended to become an actress. A theater critic once called her a Deborah Kerr/ Margaret Leighton/Maggie Smith lady fitted into one designer styled suit. On stage or sipping a cup of hot coffee at the home of Dr. Rocco F. Troiano, Yonkers pediatrician, discussing the role of the volunteer worker with handicapped children, Canadian born actress Tudi Wiggins exudes an air of refined elegance. Call it class. She is regal in manner and speech and one suspects she can play royalty with little or no effort. Yet versatility is the name of the game on stage and before the television cameras. IN ONE season at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, she played an elderly matron, sophisticated Mediterranean villa dweller, witch , humble Buffalo housewife, a German maid and a kindly psychiatrist. She has enacted roles in all age categories, from 19 to 90, and is currently appearing in the CBS-TV daytime soap opera, "Love of Life." The role of "Meg" played by Miss Wiggins was originally held by Jean McBride. The character was written out of the script 18 years ago and returned to the show in December 1973. "Meg is very jet-set," says Miss Wiggins. "She causes all the trouble on the show, but rather than being an evil person, she is just self-centered. She tries to make things go her own way." Meg is the sister of the lead, "Van," played by Audrey Peters. "The people on the show are all marvelous," says Miss Wiggins. "They are all very human, down-to-earth. There is no time for temperament. "Everyone is there with the same pressures and tension and so you don't find some of the temperament that you might have on stage." TEMPERAMENT in the theater is publicized for publicity's sake, she feels "I think it is kind of fun for people to think actors are temperamental." Miss Wiggins lauds the talents of Larry Auerbach, who has directed "Love of Life" for the past 24 years. "I have been acting for 27 years and have found him to be among the finest I have ever met." Miss Wiggins, whose career has alternated between the stage, television and radio-with a few films tossed in-says she never intended to become an actress. It all began back in Canada when she was 12 years old and her brother, an aspiring artist, dragged her to the theater because he wanted to learn about set design. While he was there, the Ottawa Saturday Players cast him in a play and since they needed a young girl for another role he suggested they use his kid sister. "The manager kept after my mother until she finally consented," Miss Wiggins recalls. "And so I joined the company." She spent five years in the Ottawa Children's Theater before joining the Canadian Repertory Theater and then struck out on the North American tour of "Oh, What a Lovely War." Then, like so many Canadian performers who see brighter horizons in the south, she headed for New York. In 1968, she auditioned for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and was given the role of a nun in the production. She was understudy for the lead played by Zoe Caldwell and went on stage for Miss Caldwell at the Helen Hayes Theater six times. Miss Wiggins also appeared in the Broadway show, "There's One in Every Marriage." WHILE appearing in "There's One..." with Peter Donat and Roberta Maxwell, she was performing in the soaper, "The Guiding Light," on television. When "Guiding Light" was unceremoniously doused, she went to Chicago and the Goodman Theater where she played in Anna in Old Times," was the lead in a review. "Scenes from American Life," and enacted the role of Jennet' in "The Lady's Not For Burning". Miss Wiggins returned often to Canada for radio and television roles. She also appeared with Don Knotts in The Mind With a Dirty Man' and went on tour with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Secretary Bird ' Two years ago. little more than an hour after the curtain rang down on stage at Arlington Park in Chicago. Miss Wiggins was on a flight to New York to start "Love of Life." In Manhattan, she lives in a terrace apartment complete "with trees, rose bushes and cherry vine tomatoes." She also nurtures herbs which she uses for gourmet cooking- Right now I'm on a Japanese kick." I love to cook for people... I won't cook for myself, but love nothing better than having a couple of people up for dinner. At home with Miss Wiggins are a female miniature poodle named "Cookie' and a peach-faced parakeet she calls "Hallelujah Passover. " Two Easters ago. Miss Wiggins explains she heard a rush of wings and a parakeet flew into her apartment. "Since he arrived on Easter Sunday, his name is Hallelujah. I was singing at the Riverside Church at the time, and since he flew over all those apartments to get to my terrace, his last name is Passover. Two months ago. Hallelujah Passover was acting peculiarly. And in a few days. Hallelujah Passover laid live eggs. "He is a she " says Miss Wiggins "So the only man in the household has turned out to be a girl It is a shock to the whole household, you can be sure'

Agreed. And kept Cole around. Victoria's romantic prospects are few and far between, I can't see anything solid happening with Nate. It just seems a convenient match up.

I wonder why Nikki was not included in the crossover? Diane and Jack are on the outs on Y&R but together on BTG so Nikki's estrangement from Victor does not come into play. Maybe Melody wasn't interested?

Beaulah Land was a ratings success for NBC, especially as it was new product at the start of a strike affected season. But it was controversial and I don't think NBC ever repeated it, I wonder if it was shown again elswhere? It aired Tues/Wed/Thurs/ Oct 7-9 1980 "Peyton Plantation."' Or maybe Tara's Vulgar' or Auntie Betlum." Trouble in 'Beulah Land'By ALEX KENERS Frankly, my dears, it's hard to understand all the fuss that has attended "Beulah Land" over the last few months. "Beulah Land" (NBC Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights) is epic doo-dah, potboiler schlockpulp squeezed out of Lonnie Coleman's best-selling "Beulah Land" and "Look Away, Beulah Land." Still, NBC thought it best last spring to postpone the six hour authentic re-creation of soapy melodrama. That was after an ad hoc Black Committee against the airing of "Beulah Land" made it clear that it didn't like what it hadn't seen, but what it had received reports of. "We do not deny our role in slavery in all its demeaning forms," the committee said then. "We do deny being such gleeful participants without visible sign of coercion." Black politicians barraged the network with telegrams of protest while the miniseries was on location in Natchez, Miss. Last month the critical black groups saw the finished product, but that didn't pacify them either. Despite changes, members of the coalition, which represents the NAACP, Urban League and other black groups, have found the film to be "psychologically and politically dangerous." There are rumblings of a sponsor boycott. One black actor from the miniseries, James McEachin, who plays a faithful, old house slave, Ezra, has asked that his name not appear in the credits. "If this is the kind of garbage I'll be known for, then I hope I never work another day," McEachin has been quoted as saying. Of a scene that shows a slave woman suckling two children, one black, one white (it was not uncommon in the Old South), writer and coalition member Robert Pryce has said, "I would have liked to have seen how the man who slept with that slave woman felt about it, and how she fell about it. Did she do it willingly?If so, why? There is no black point of view in this movie. Indeed, Beulah Land — the Georgia plantation of the title — could be a theme farm for slavery, a demonstration plantation which blacks, if they are not exactly happy, shuffling Steppin Fetchit "darkies," are not only resigned to their lot, but often devoted to their firm but largely benign owners. Aside from Beulah Land's original villainous white overseer and his two mulatto sons (nastiness seems to be a genetic trait) and an occasional Cracker, the worst whites here are your Yankee soldiers) but that's bellum. NBC responded to the criticisms, and to the fact that no blacks had been consulted during the making of the movie, by soliciting the imprimatur of a highly respected black scholar, Yale Professor John Blassingame, editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and an authority on the pre-Civil War period. Blassingame suggested changes to guarantee "historical accuracy" and advised NBC to trim one scene, which it did, to correct the impression that four slaves who are granted their freedom in the will of Beulah Land's first mistress (Hope Lange) don't want it, Of the series in general, Blassingame has said, "I think as entertainment, it works, but if I had to choose a film to show on slavery, this would not be the one. I think that what happens in 'Beulah Land' is plausible. But only as long as we're talking about a unique plantation, a unique set of masters. You could point to plantations that had some of the elements of Beulah Land,' none that had all of them " "Beulah Land" is certainly unique. It may not be "Son of Mandingo," but it seems as much concerned with garnering ratings as with establishing historical authenticity as it parades before us one steamy-sordid Harold Robbins-egg blue episode after another: assorted rapes — again it's the Yankees who are the most savage — adulteries and other sexual deceptions, quasi-incestuous and unwanted pregnancies, trauma upon trauma, shootings, suicide, an axe murder, arson, plantation burnings and pillaging, not to mention ail those deaths by natural causes And it's all more than a bit confusing as the three families of "Beulah Land" and its neighboring plantations and their retainers and slaves wed, reproduce and grow up and old, as their lives interwine in greed and passion, as they pop in and out of the epic sweep of "Beulah Land," often at the drop of a phrase like "I was really sorry to hear about the death of . ." The acting herein is well, Sysiphian, which is to say, a labor against all odds: against a script that, for example, calls for Floyd, the black freed man who replaces Roscoe as overseer, to return after years in the North — he left Beulah Land as a young man because he was falling in love with Sarah — remarkably unchanged by his experience. As for the movie's elaborately staged scenes, such as the evacuation of Atlanta, they are merely backdrops for the melodrama,By now it must be clear that "Beulah Land" is not an examination of slavery in the South, but a formula vision of plantation life, and to say that it trivializes slave suffering when it distorts nothing less than reality seems parochial

I don't think it was ever revealed in his lifetime, only when he died did Craig Curtis make the announcement. From Wikipedia In 2005, Holliman announced to a New York Post columnist that “his pal”, actor Anthony George, had died at age 84. Though he never spoke publicly about his sexuality, Holliman was confirmed to have had a male spouse at the time of his death in November 2024; his husband, Craig Curtis, spoke publicly to The Hollywood Reporter to confirm his death

Ah, the devious mind of Victor Newman, He has forgiven Matt Clark all his crimes, simply because he saved Nick's life and now has memory loss. Pity he isn't so forgiving of his own wife. Has Matt had any kind of medical exam. Or has Victor had GC's top neurosurgeon come to the ranch off camera? And what a plan. Matt will get close to Cane to uncover information that Victor will use to DESTROY Cane!!! Here's a tip for Phyllis-if she wants the respect of her children and the community, maybe stop acting like a total nutcase and set up her own business. She previously ran a successful hotel, which she threw away on a whim. I'm sure her dear friend Lauren could help her on that front. And what does Daniel do for money?

Feb 13 1962 No. 1 Fan Married Her Idol Start a fan club for an actor and you may wind up as his bride. That’s what happened to a pretty young lady named Ann Trinkhouse, a Pittsburgh girl and former airline stewardess. Ann, now known as Betsi Lee, was president of the International Fan Club for Craig Curtis, who has a lead role in the CBS-TV Monday through Friday daytime series, The Clear Horizon. As president of the club, Ann or Betsi (whichever you prefer) came into contact with Craig quite often. At first these were casual meetings as friends. ‘Then romance entered the picture and the climactic announcement came this month. Craig and his fan club pres were going to be married. The wedding took place at the Little Country Church of Hollywood. The only guests were cast members and the production crew of The Clear Horizon. Producer Manya Starr, who also does the major writing job on the daytime series, is writing Curtis out of the show for three weeks so he can have a proper honeymoon. ** Well that marriage was doomed. Craig Curtis ended up as partner to actor Earl Holliman who died at age 96 in Nov 2024.

Back to the GCAC wall support group. This show is so cheap.

Well the clip I saw that explains the title- where the out there older guy in full makeup states that he used to make a grand entrance but now has to tip toe had me puzzled. Where exactly is that happening? My statement about the safe streets etc was based on grabs I've seen of RTD/Cummings and others saying how grim things are and gays are under threat etc, not the show itself. That Tip Toe was much needed wake up call.

77/78 was a time of change at OLTL. In addition to Pinkerton, Doris Belack and Kathy Glass departed along with Kathryn Breech and Jameson Parker. Was any of this discussed in the Jeff Giles book? May 8 1977 The Soap Report Ax Falls at ‘Life to Live' by Jon Michael Reed. NEW YORK — A couple of eviction notices behind the scenes at “One Life to Live” have produced explosive jolts and everyone is sitting on pins and needles. It all began two weeks ago during a week that will go down in soap lore as something of a mini-massacre. On a Monday it officially was announced that Nancy Pinkerton had been axed from her four-year role as Dorian Cramer Lord and replaced by Claire Malis. On Tuesday, producer Doris Quinlan was lunching when a crew member, who’d heard rumors, asked when she was leaving the show. Quinlan fairly choked on her artichoke at this biting news. On Wednesday the entire cast, with the exception of George Reinholt (Tony Lord), drafted a letter to ABC programming chiefs, in which they itemized their grievances about the show, especially the lagging, repetitive pace of the show's writing. AFTER THE taping of Thursday’s show, Farley Granger, the former movie star who had joined the show a year ago in a blaze of publicity as Dr. Will Vernon, was informed that he’d just completed his last'show. Far-Far, as he was lovingly referred to by his castmates, reportedly had a tough time memorizing his scripts. But he did possess an attractive screen charisma, which his replacement lacks. Bernie McInerney (last seen as Jack and Mary’s annulment counselor, Father Richards, on “Ryan’s Hope”), fine actor that he is, would seem to be an odd choice to portray Dr. Vernon, who should make female hearts go pitty-pat. Then, on black Friday, came the cropper. Quinlan, who’d been futilely attempting to receive confirmation or denial from ABC executives about the rumors of her firing, finally received a priority telephone call, requesting that she please clear out her belongings because a new producer would be arriving on the set on Monday. "YES. I WAS MORE than a little unhappy and surprised,” says Quinlan, who reportedly opposed the cast dismissals. “I don’t really want to throw sour grapes. After all, firings are part of the business. But I am upset about the shabby way it was done, especially since I’ve been on the show since its debut. I helped put it on the air nine years ago. It has the best cast, the best directors, and it’s been a rewarding experience. Why did it happen? I had been fighting with the network for the last few months to improve the writing of the show. The only reason they gave for my dismissal was that the writing was slow and tedious. And yet they kept the writers and axed me.” OVER THE WEEKEND, everyone speculated about the unsettling goings on in the halls of ABC's corporate heaven. But on Monday morning, the smoke cleared a bit and Joseph Stuart descended to take over the producing reins of "OLTL.” Stuart had been director of daytime programming for the network ever since he was axed as the producer of NBC’s “The Doctors,” a program that won an Emmy award under his tutelage. Stuart is now wearing the shoe on the other foot. He strode onto the set and informed the cast that he wants to put together the best show possible. Alluding to the cast letter, Stuart, according to member, declared that “OLTL” complaint procedures “won’t exactly be handled as democratically — more like an enlightened dictatorship.” Then he added with a laugh, “The most important thing for all of us is to have fun, fun, fun.” It’s going to be a little difficult for those who fear that “Network” is alive and well and posing a constant threat to job security. But that's show biz...

If you are going to have a disaster, then something noteworthy needs to come out of it, rather than just hats off to the special effects team.

I think to get affiliates to carry their soaps/gameshows they were more lenient in allowing them to reschedule. But that plan backfired as the network shows were often placed in less advantageous timeslots, so didn't bring in the ratings at a local or national level and then the affiliates dropped them anyway. I think ABC had an advantage in the late 70's when daytime took off for them as they were often weaker stations who happily took all the network shows.