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The Joan Collins Fan Club
The Joan Collins Fan Club
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The Hamptons

THE JOURNAL-REGISTER Medina. New York, Wednesday July 27,1983
ABC Unveils The Hamptons By JULIANNE HASTINGS
NEW YORK (UPI) - ABC's sizzling hot summer series "The Hamptons" premieres Wednesday night with enough sex, old money and power to make those nouveau riche cowpokes in Texas look like a bumbling bunch of greenhorns. The five-part dramatic series, which will air Wednesday nights from 9-10 p.m. EDT, focuses on a ruthless power struggle between two old-line Eastern famines for control of their jointly owned department store empire. There's also Nicholas Atwater, a Jay Gatsby-type character — mysterious, handsome, and wealthy beyond imagination — who jumps into the fray for his own, dark reasons, which are melodramatically revealed at the end of the first episode.
The action was filmed on location in Manhattan, on Long Island and in Westchester County, N.Y. — the latter needed because a Hamptons country club nixed a request to allow filming on its grounds.
Episode No. 1 opens in the midst of that ancient summertime Friday ritual — the mass escape from Manhattan. First we see Jay Mortimer (John Reilly), president of the Duncan-Chadway department store chain, arrive at his apartment in a limousine to pick up his older wife, Adrienne (Bibi Besch), sole heir to the Duncan half of Duncan-Chadway, and her college-bound daughter Tracy (Holly Roberts). Mom's not in the limo yet, so Mortimer puts a lusty hand on fair Tracy's knee. "Hi beautiful," he leers. Talk about starting a weekend!
Next a high-powered lady lawyer (Kate Dezina) and her doctor boyfriend (Phil Casnoff) are spotted running toward each other along a crowded sidewalk, embracing, kissing and dashing off to then weekend love nest.
Finally , Atwater (Daniel Pilon) clambers into his Jet Star helicopter and heads for his new summer place, the sprawling Beach Manor complex, which actually is the Dupont Mansion in Old Westbury, N.Y.
Pan of East Hampton and the Coastline: Old man Chadway seen watching girls in bikinis playing volley ball on beach. The department store mogul turns, starts to climb steps to house, collapses — with a stroke. There goes the store!
A station wagon pulls up in front of the house and out jumps Chadway's son Peter (Michael Goodwin), managing director of the chain his father co-founded, his faithful wife Lee (Leigh Taylor-Young) and his Yalie blond son Brian (Craig Sheffer).
After everyone gets settled in - old Chadway at the East Hampton Hospital — there's a lavish dinner dance where everyone gets together and the viewer gets a good idea of what's to come. And there is still more storyline in this first episode to be told. The costumes and sets are storybook gems. The cast is attractive and the show's timeslot makes it the lead-in to ABC's popular "Dynasty," giving soap addicts a consummate, two-hour fix. But if all goes as planned, how do you make a winter series about life in a summer resort?

By Paul Raven · 1 hour ago1 hr
All My Children Tribute Thread

One thing I didn't remember from watching 20 years ago was that Hayley referred to Mateo as "Matt" in his first few episodes. It really caught me off guard during this rewatch.

By Jonathan · 1 hour ago1 hr
New Method to Combat Error 500 and Login/Logout Issue

I've removed all Cloudflare cache settings for the SON Community. I've upped the max_connections and timeout settings to very high values.
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By Errol · 1 hour ago1 hr
The Hamptons

THE JOURNAL-NEWS, SUNDAY, JULY, 24, 198
Bibi Besch—On a sudsy run through summer By LYNDA HIRSCH
Bibi Besch, the aristocratic blonde actress who was born in Vienna, Austria, and has spent most of her years appearing in such soap operas as “Secret Storm,” “ Somerset,” “ Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” and “Edge of Night,” as well as dozens of prime-time movies, feature films and plays, is dipping into prime-time soap opera for the second time as she stars as Adrienne Duncan-Mortimer on ABC’s short-term summer soaper “The Hamptons.”
Miss Besch’s first prime-time soap was the spectacular flop, “Secrets of Midland Heights.” “I really didn’t understand why that show didn’t work until recently. Then some people explained that the characters on ‘Midland Heights’ were ordinary, and no one wants to look at ordinary characters on a prime-time soap. When they come home from work, they want to see people who are fabulously wealthy and who do fabulous things. I really believe ‘The Hamptons’ has the potential for a long run. “My character is an alcoholic woman so rich that she can say and do anything. I think the saying and doing anything with no one talking back to her would be wonderful, at least for a while.”
Besch, daughter of actress Gusti Huber, who created the role of Anne Frank’s mother in the Broadway play “Diary of Anne Frank,” began acting in her early years, but isn’t thrilled that her 13-year-old daughter Samantha has the same 'thought in mind. “I’ve been discouraging her from an acting career, although she’s beginning to wear me down. The reason I’ve been discouraging her? I think acting is full of great disappointments. I’ve had them throughout my career. I wanted desperately to be a renowned Broadway actress, and while I did do some Broadway roles, it never really worked out for me. That’s why I moved to Los Angeles.
No sooner did I get to L.A. than I was offered a part in a Broadway comedy to star Dick Van Dyke I was thrilled. I told all my friends and relatives the news. I dashed off to New York. And while waiting for the play to begin, I received a call that it was going to be postponed for one week Then two weeks. Then forever. I have to say that was my biggest disappointment in the business.”
A single parent, Besch admits sometimes it s hard raising a daughter and being in show business “There are trade-offs. For example, when Samantha graduated from grammar school, I was on location in Rome and couldn’t make it back for the ceremony. But a week later, she flew to Rome and spent the summer with me. I don’t think many girls Samantha’s age would get a chance like that. “I think Samantha understands my absences, especially as she grows older, and I try to have her with me as often as I can. I’ve turned down roles when I thought I would be away for too long, but sometimes the financial situation makes it necessary for me to be away for long stretches of time.”
ABC and Besch hope “The Hamptons” has a longer run than its proposed five weeks. It’s slated to run right after the highly-rated “Fall Guy” on Wednesday evenings and right before “Dynasty." Although “Dynasty” is hotter than hot in its initial run, in reruns it’s near the bottom of the Nielsens. “I understand they’re going to look at this closely, and if it’s a hit during the summer, then during the second season ‘The Hamptons’ could be slated for a long run. I think the character of Adrienne is fascinating and I could live with doing her for years and years "

By Paul Raven · 1 hour ago1 hr
DAYS: May 2026 Discussion Thread

Sure, but death has no age requirement. Someone young can have an unexpected illness, car crash, whatever. Even if time is limited, I think it's great if people find love in their twilight years. It may not be the "love of their lives", but companionship and shared interests at that point in life are worthwhile.
I know real life as far as Susan Seaforth Hayes and Bill Hayes' marriage maybe makes someone else courting Julie a bit bittersweet, but it does happen in real life, so good for Julie if she enjoys some attention, I say!

By Wendy · 1 hour ago1 hr
As The World Turns Discussion Thread

Time slot moves and competition played a part too.
December 1, 1975-February 1, 1980: 1:30 pm ET. Head-to-head w/ Days (December 1, 1975-March 2, 1979), All My Children second half (April 25, 1977-February 1, 1980), One Life to Live first half (January 16, 1978-February 1, 1980), Days second half (March 5, 1979-February 1, 1980), The Doctors (March 5, 1979-February 1, 1980).
February 1, 1980-June 5, 1981: 2 pm ET. Head-to-head w/ One Life to Live, The Doctors (February 1-August 1, 1980), Another World first half hour (February 1-August 1, 1980), Another World (August 4, 1980-June 5, 1981).
June 8, 1981-March 20, 1987: 1:30 pm ET. Head-to-head w/ All My Children second half, One Life to Live first half, Days second half, Another World first half.
March 23, 1987-September 17, 2010: 2 pm ET. Head-to-head w/ One Life to Live, Another World (March 23, 1987-June 25, 1999), Passions (July 5, 1999-September 7, 2007).

By kalbir · 2 hours ago2 hr
As The World Turns Discussion Thread

From what I can see from reading weekly ratings, ratings held steady in 1980/early 1981 before they started sliding in mid to late 1981 before briefly rallying in late 1982/early 1983.
In terms of actual rating points.. it did jump almost a rating point the week of Steve and Betsy's Wedding in May 1984.. but otherwise, the ratings weren't strong in 1984/1985.

By Soaplovers · 3 hours ago3 hr
New Method to Combat Error 500 and Login/Logout Issue

Thank you. I'm now able to track when this error occurs and who it is directly impacting in our system. I've also adjusted the cache settings in Cloudflare, which have been triggering messy styling off and on over the last couple of days, as I made separate adjustments to the main site to ensure it loads faster when people click on pages to read its content.
Because the main site and the SON Community use the same domain but separate servers, I have to make independent adjustments for each while trying to figure out what Cloudflare setting works for one but not the other. I've learned more about servers, MySQL, Redis, Cloudflare, etc., in the last two weeks than I had previously in my nearly 24 years as a webmaster/web designer.

By Errol · 3 hours ago3 hr
As The World Turns Discussion Thread

I'm not familiar with this era of As the World Turns, but to me it seems like it was coasting from when it lost #1 in 1979 to All My Children until Douglas Marland arrived in 1985. Ratings-wise, it was middle of the pack. We all know CBS/P&G were shaken by 1978-1982 ABC big three huge rise and domination, thus so many changes to the shows.

By kalbir · 4 hours ago4 hr
New Method to Combat Error 500 and Login/Logout Issue

"max user connections" just happened again at 9:10 pm EDT May 30.

By janea4old · 4 hours ago4 hr

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