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Another story not on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeBQQBM-jg&feature=plcp
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in 1956 of the Sugar Ray Robinson trophy - got Ray interested in professional acting. Through the club itself, and through John and Ethel Ross, developers of young talent, Ray began to work on TV. Early in his career, he played Art Carney as a boy in a Studio One production of "The World of Horace Ford," followed later by a part as Jackie Gleason's nephew in another Studio One show, "Uncle Ed and Circumstance." "I began to see how much fun my brother was having," Patty says, "and I asked my mother if I could try acting. She said yes, and then I asked Mr. Ross if he would work with me, too, if I liked it. I did like it, but then I got sort of lazy and thought I would rather play all the time than do acting. So I stopped for a while, until I saw how much fun I was missing and asked to try again. Now I never want to stop." Patty played Kim Stanley's daughter on TV in "The Glass Wall" and when Kim starred in the movie, "The Goddess," Patty was chosen to play her as a child. She has now done many filmed commercials and some documentaries, notably,, the award-winning "The Deep Well," in which her brother Ray had a featured part. She also appeared with Ray in a TV play called "Four Homes for Danny," in which Ray played Danny. She was the little girl who found the tired, tattered Prince in "The Prince and the Pauper," on TV. She appeared in "Wuthering Heights," "Swiss Family Robinson," with Helen Hayes in the lovely "One Red Rose for Christmas," and was the youngest child, Tootie, in "Meet Me in St. Louis," seen on TV last April. Ray has appeared in the Ellery Queen series, played the running part of Edward in Search For Tomorrow, and preceded his little sister by about a year in The Brighter Day, when he did the part of Spunky. Both children have been on most of the important nighttime dramas during the past few years. Their older sister, Carol a young lady just out of her teens, is a secretary in the insurance office. "Carol likes what she does, but she's interested in hearing about what we do," Patty says. "I think she's pleased about us." "Yes," Ray adds, "but we're just her kid brother and sister and she doesn't want us getting any big ideas." "How I know Carol is a little proud of us," Patty continues serenely, "is that, one day, when I was doing a running part in another daytime serial - Kitty Foyle, which has since gone off - Carol took a late lunch hour just so she could go to a television exhibition hall near her office and see me on the show. I was playing Kitty as a little girl, in flashbacks, and when I first came on the screen in a scene with another girl, Judy Sanford, Carol got so excited she turned to a woman next to her and said, 'That's my sister.' The woman turned to her and said, 'That's my daughter.' Wasn't that funny that they were both there, standing right next to each other?" Frances Duke is proud of all three of her children. "They all do their part in the home. If I have to be at the studio with Patty, Carol and Ray take over. We leave notes, saying where we'll be and when we'll get back. When the phone rings and someone says Patty will need certain clothes for a show, I do my best to get the right things. They all need the same regular care all children must have - their clothes have to be taken care of, their meals must be right, they have to be checked now and then if they get a little out of hand. But they're very good and each one does as much as the others. I am happy that Patty and Ray have the opportunity to act, because they love it, and that they are learning respect for older people and always get along well with them. It makes me feel very good. I stay in the background because I just want to be their mother, and not a stage mother." At the drop of a script, Patty can name any number of reasons why she thinks it's fun to be an actress. "I used to go to a big, big school with big classes. Now, because of my schedule, I go to a smaller school where I know just everybody. They post our homework a whole two weeks in advance, so any children who act have plenty of time to do their homework, too. I usually try to do mine ahead and have all that time left to play. I can go roller skating or visit my girl friends and it's all right, because my homework is done. My favorite study is arithmetic, my next favorite is ancient history, and I like French very much, but to read more than to speak. Reading it is easier. "Before I started acting, I never went any place much. Sometimes I wished I could get out into the country instead of being in the city all the time. Sometimes I wished I could go up in a plane. After I became an actress, I did both these things. One day, I was told I would get in a plane at the airport, for a commercial. When we got there, I asked why we had to have tickets if we weren't going anywhere, but they said those were just boarding passes to get into the plane, and I should sit next to the window and wave to a camera as we taxied down the runway. I thought how funny I would look, waving like that, and then getting off! But I did it, and suddenly I felt the wheels were off the ground and we were on our way to Massachusetts to do the commercial. Everybody had surprised me, and it was much nicer than just pretending I was going." One of her first long train rides was the trip to Maryland for location scenes for "The Goddess." They came back by plane and she saw New York lighted up at night in a panorama of earth-bound stars, looking brighter than anything she had ever seen. She saw small towns and, for the first time, visited farms. "A lot of New York children don't ever get a chance to see these things, and I was very happy I could." Dressing up in what she thinks of as grown-up clothes, fitted exactly to her size, is another thrill. When she played on TV last winter in "Family Happiness," with Gloria Vanderbilt and Jean Pierre Aumont, she wore period costumes. A beautiful bouffant green dress with a great sash of pink ribbon decorated with flowers that hung almost to the floor. And with a ruffled slip and long pantaloons that enchanted her. In another scene, she wore a dashing bonnet and shawl, and carried a very old doll with a china head and leather body. "Where else but in acting would I get to wear such beautiful old-fashioned clothes, but made just for me, and have a doll like that? It all goes with history, and that makes it even better." Perhaps it was the influence of those costumes, but suddenly a small girl who spent most of her waking hours in jeans has taken to wearing what she calls "sticky-outy" dresses with crinolines. Of course, it's back to the jeans and a shirt, when she's roller-skating or tearing around with the rest of the kids on the block. Her sense of the ridiculous comes out unexpectedly, now and then. On a trip to Nashville, where she went to make a documentary film, she was asked what she would like most to do, one afternoon when she was free. "Ride horseback," she said, remembering a few pony rides in the park. "If we can find a place," she added practically, not wanting to be too much of a bother to anyone. There was a riding academy at the other end of the city, and this entailed renting a car to get there and back. "Won't everybody laugh when they hear we had to rent a car to go horseback riding?" she says, laughing at it herself. Boys tease her sometimes about being an actress, but the girls think it's fun that she's on TV and still is just one of the crowd. "Those boys just exaggerate what I say in some of the commercials. But all boys tease and, if they didn't have that, they would find something else. I think it's funny when they do it and I laugh, too. "Sometimes I have to give up a party, or some special plan the other kids have, because there is a show. But you have to take your disappointments with the good things that come. You give up one thing and you get something else in return. That's the way I think. You can't always have everything perfect." Moving a little way out of Manhattan, to Long Island, might have imposed more hardships if she were not such a friendly and gregarious little girl. The worst thing that happened was when their cat, "Bubbles," a tawny-striped roamer overstayed his wanderings so completely that they were gone before he got back. "I guess he could never find us again," Patty mourned for a while. But, the first day in the new apartment, there were a lot of girls in the backyard, and one of them was named Patty, too, and this tickled her. Now she has plenty of friends right in the neighborhood. Ray, at an age where girls begin to be of interest, has a cute sense of humor, teasing blue eyes, a thick crop of dark brown hair, is five-foot-six and still growing. He has already graduated form high school, was good in English, debating and public speaking (his favorite subjects), thinks he'd like to be a prizefighter if he weren't an actor, prevails on girl friends to form a cheering section for his stickball team. Especially, one particular girl whose name he doesn't divulge. "All my friends want to marry my sister, Patty," Ray teases, "ever since she won $32,00 as a contestant for eight weeks on The $64,000 Challenge." (The category was Popular Music, her opponent was youthful Eddie Hodges, and each of the two kids kept rooting like mad for the other to get the answers right!) To Patty, taking her "deposit bottles" back to the store for extra spending money, tending the tomatoes she has been growing in a window box, baby-sitting for some of the neighbors - just for the love of it and because she delights in pushing the carriages and keeping their tiny occupants happy - are all equally important parts of her daily life. Having now bridged four whole years as an actress and as a child whose life is filled with dozens of activities that delight her, she believes that all children like to have a schedule of things to do. That it doesn't by any means have to be in show business or in any profession. "When we're little, we don't know what to do outside of school unless someone tells us. I used to try to help in the house, but I was too little to do so much except be in the way. Now I am learning so much and still have time to play a lot. "It's so interesting to see how things are done on TV, besides the acting. I might read about how the hurricane scene was done in "Swiss Family Robinson," but it wouldn't be the same as seeing all the real things that were used - the animals, plants, the sand and the tropical fruit, real fish in a pond, a real tree-house. And a big airplane propeller, blowing everything around. I think that acting stories is even more fun than reading them, but I like to read, too." Her work has opened up a wonderful world of friendships. "People are so friendly to me," she says. "Sometimes, they come right up to me and ask if I am the little girl they saw on TV - The Brighter Day, or one of the special nighttime shows I've done. I like to have them talk to me because they are always very nice. They write me letters, too, and I like that. "Even older people I work with are my friends now. When we did 'Swiss Family Robinson' and there was so much happening on the show all the time, we became like a family, and we didn't want to say goodbye when it was over. Walter Pidgeon was just wonderful, and I could hardly wait to start rehearsals when I heard he was going to be in "Meet Me in St. Louis." It always seems like meeting relatives you like that you haven't seen in a long, long time. "I make friends with animals I work with on shows, like a monkey I had to rehearse with for a week so he would get used to me and to everyone. He was really doing a lot of monkeyshines! And, on The Brighter Day, I met Murial Williams' dog, 'John,' and the dog named 'Chumley' - at least, I think that's the way to spell it - which belongs to the show's producer, Therese Lewis. I loved them both." As a matter of fact, Patty thinks that being in a daytime serial such as The Brighter Day is like belonging to another big, happy family in addition to the one she has at home. "Everybody knows everybody, and everybody helps everybody. There's new adventure every day."
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August 1959 TV Radio Mirror
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This isn't what you meant, but I remember when ATWT ended, Eileen Fulton said they went out and burned one of his toupees, to say goodbye to him.
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I'm sorry about that. I have some story summaries of the early days, when I find those I will post the information on Ned Hilton.
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Coe Norton is in this episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ny45GewTBg
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Our far right friends are letting their slips show. Employers shouldn't have to pay for cancer coverage. http://www.huffingto..._n_1606005.html Poor people are just "sob stories" and the media needs to stop talking about them. http://www.huffingto..._n_1605343.html This isn't fringe - this is what we will likely hear more and more of with coming weeks and months. Meanwhile, right on cue, the media has that old "T-Paw" fever again. Same old bullsh!t. This has never been shown. Not in the primary, not in Minnesota, where he won because of flawed candidates and third parties. Not ever. He sent the state's economy down the tubes, along with Michelle Bachmann helped whip up a climate of far right extremism and hatred from 2002-2004 (and this only stopped because Republicans lost the state legislature), and went out of office with nothing but the usual media sycophants. He has never been beloved among some fantasy blue collar figures who, in the media's mind, are probably waiting to turn Minnesota blood red. At least they're not still calling him "telegenic." That's about the best I can say. And now that they can't continue the sad lie that Romney is really, really a moderate, and just waiting until after the primary to show us, they can try to pretend "T-Paw" is a moderate. It's the same old media delusion of those strong, kind, loving, sensible conservatives who only say bad things because they have to keep up with those crazy kids, and are really, secretly, our forever friends, our fantasy fathers and big brothers.
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That Brenda promo was so annoying. The promos seemed to be better at telling a story without treating viewers like idiots.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tq0BPAVBFs&feature=plcp Do you want to have lunch with Jeremy, and perhaps the Pine Sol Lady? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_UP9Zmnls&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=RYbemG1RhQY
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Hadn't seen this. It's a lot of fun, bad accent aside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdgW_qrHis&feature=channel&list=UL Hadn't seen this either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86Ets0A6Rg&feature=relmfu Hadn't seen this either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seKTS4_b9TU&feature=relmfu
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Thanks. Her life was such a mess that it's odd to imagine when she won't even be on TV to sort of kind of address it (huge chunks of her life being referenced so obliquely - "oh by the way, my daughter and I fight and she moved out and this great guy who isn't my boyfriend was buying drugs so he's gone" was bizarre even by reality TV standards). I guess she left after the second or third season. I didn't realize that Don(n) has prostate cancer. Kind of bad timing for me to make a negative comment about him. Sometimes I forget just how old the first season episodes are.
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For some reason I thought all the originals were gone and just guested. I'm not sure why. Do any of them ever mention Lauri?
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So Vicki isn't actually a housewife now, she just shows up a lot? Is the show still popular? I guess it wasn't as highly rated as some of the NJ/ATL/NY shows, but seems more consistent in numbers.
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Dolores was crazy trash so I fear for that kid.
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No. She just shot him. Peter left town alive and well in late 1987, saying he was tired of being Reginald's lackey.
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How many parties do they have in OC now compared to earlier seasons? Watching the first season, I'm trying to remember how many parties they had. They had a small one at the end of the season, a trip early on, and a jewelry party (Kimberly took her kids on a party but that was just her and her friends). I'm trying to watch the seasons in order but I do like what I've seen of Heather.
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I wish they'd done more with the Erica/Natalie relationship. That seemed to fade away over time.
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