Everything posted by DRW50
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I had forgotten there was any temp recast for William Roerick on GL. His name is - I think - William Evans? How long was he around? Doesn't really work for me. He's about midway or so in this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl43mR6OARU&context=C3e424d0ADOEgsToPDskK4pYYN77365IpAsk5G6yYM He starts about 5 minutes into this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygBRh0OnOc&feature=channel He's also in a few more clips of this episode.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amu7kUnBEAk&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkW2lqkNbKM&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbVVNJpU0F0&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drdu7WZGpdw&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrJL8AenKMo&feature=channel
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acting by the House Committee on Un-American activities. She and her husband, director Herbert Biberman, couldn't find movie employment, but they managed. They lived mostly in New York and Hollywood, raising their two children. Then in 1969 she returned to the stage, via The Visit, for Tyrone Guthrie's Minnesota Theatre. Now she has a three-year contract with Best of Everything, and gladly gave up her Hollywood home to move to New York. She plays Amanda Key, a role that requires an extensive wardrobe - something Gale likes. "I love clothes!" she says, and she has the trim figure and regal bearing to make good clothes look better. Patty McCormack (playing Linda Warren) also gave up her Hollywood apartment to move to New York for the serial. A New Yorker, she became a name overnight when, at 9, she portrayed a psychotic child in the stage drama, The Bad Seed. She also played the part in the movie version. Patty married hair stylist and former schoolmate Bob Catania in 1967, and last July 27, gave birth to her first baby, Robert Richard. When she signed for her role on The Best of Everything, it meant taking her husband, a Californian, to New York for the first time. "Bob didn't know what to expect," she said, apprehensively. But, apparently, he is making the adjustment to New York nicely. Patty's been hunting for an apartment with a large kitchen (she loves to cook) and a well-lighted den where she can do her sketching. "I'm not very good at art, but I enjoy working on it." The third movie name in the series is Geraldine Fitzgerald (portraying Violet Jordan), who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and got her dramatic training at Dublin's Gate Theatre. She moved to London to make some movies, married a Britisher, Edward Lindsay-Hogg, bore a son, Michael, in 1940 and got a divorce in 1946, ending the 10-year marriage. Then she married New York businessman, Stuart Sheftel. Geraldine quit her career for four years in order to stay close to her daughter Susan, born in 1951. "And I enjoyed every minute of it." But she knew she couldn't be happy without being an actress, so she returned to movies and the stage. An Academy Award nomination went to her for her Hollywood debut movie, Wuthering Heights. Some of her other films are Wilson, Three Strangers, Uncle Harry, The Pawnbroker, and Rachel, Rachel. Victor Arnold (Dr. Edward Graham), born in Herkimer, N.Y., now has a bachelor pad in New York. After earning a degree in physical education at New York University, he taught for a year, then got into acting as a hobby. Of course, the hobby became an occupation, and Vic has no regrets. He has been in many plays and one movie, The incident, in 1967. Another veteran is Rochelle Oliver (Barbara Lamont), a born New Yorker, who got her first taste of acting at the Henry Street Settlement. She's done a lot of Broadway plays, including Toys in the Attic, for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award as Outstanding Young Actresses of the 1960 Season. Best of Everything is her first daytime serial. Julie Mannix (April Morrison) is mother of two children, yet manages a hectic career. Among the many roles she's tackled are Peggy on Pepper Young's Family on radio; "color test girl" on CBS Network, Angela Carter on The Doctors, and Wendy Porter on The Secret Storm. Julie's also done a lot of commercials and a lot of photo modeling for magazines. She is married to Francis von Zerneck, a Broadway theatre manager. They live in midtown New York. Their children are Danielle, 4, and Francis Ernest, 2. Me'l Dowd (Kate Farrow) is often asked if Me'l is short for Michael. In answer she smiles enigmatically and says, "I won't tell! Besides, it's supposed to get attention for me, and it does!" M'el comes from Boone, Iowa, was trained for acting in Chicago, and made her New York stage debut as Lady MacBeth with the Shakespearwrights Company. She's been in many Broadway plays ,and also on TV in The Nurses, Naked City, Flipper, The Trail Begins. She lives with her "gorgeous French husband" (whom she will not name) and her son, Richard, 6, in New York. Before she married, she used to run around town in her motor scooter. Now that she's a wife and mother, she takes taxis. "I always wanted to be an actress," Gwen Mitchell (Ginny Tate) confesses. She also wanted to be a doctor, and was even accepted for pre-med studies at Boston University, but got married instead. When the marriage didn't work, Gwen joined the Negro Arts Ensemble and got her career going. She's been in As the World Turns and on The Edge of Night, and plays a stewardess on a United Airlines commercial. "I keep busy, "she says. Bonnie Bee Buzzard (Joanna Key) says that's precisely her name, and she's not going to change it. Born in Boston and raised in Cleveland, she's a graduate of Brandeis University and has appeared in plays throughout the East. She has also done many TV commercials, and right now is adjusting to her New York apartment with its typically tiny kitchen. James Davidson (Dexter Key) was born in Wisconsin, raised in California, and has been in many night-time TV dramas, along with appearances on Search for Tomorrow. His new movie, The Long Ride Home, is being shown in Europe now. Originally from San Francisco, Harry Ford (Ken Lamont) graduated from University of California at Los Angeles, spent 3 1/2 years in Paris, singing and dancing on French TV, and doing a French radio talk show. His movie credits include Winning, Counterpoint, Tobruk, The Scorpio Letters, Von Ryan's Express, The Longest Day, and others. A direct and exuberant fellow, Barry believes in living "every day as if it were the only one!" Katherine Glass (Kim Jordan) is from New Haven, Conn. Her drama training at the Yale School of Drama and at Morley College Theatre School in London paid off - she's been in many plays. Katherine does everything herself in her New York apartment - wall-papering, cooking, sewing, cleaning. Diane Kagan (Anne Carter) spent her young years in Jano Beach, Florida, where her father is mayor. After graduating from Florida State University, where she majored in dance and drama, she went to New York to study the dance with Martha Graham. Then she switched to studying acting, toured Europe with a repertory company, returning to New York for stage appearances. She's single and lives in Manhattan. Jean-Pierre Stewart (Mike Carter) says he's carrying on "the dynasty of my actor father, David J. Stewart." Born in Florida, Jean-Pierre spent time in New York and Europe, and studied at Cornell University for two years. He holds a degree in international relations from the City College of New York. An avid student of politics, he also enjoys mountain climbing, music, antiques, carpentry, skiing. His skiing is so good that he qualifies as an instructor. ABC-TV has invested heavily in The Best of Everything and feels it has a good chance to become a winner. So far, it looks as if ABC-TV has made the right choice!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJJkHYvusIc&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0tNkgMnQdc&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh8LCnAXMJA&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0_L4lNF25w&feature=channel
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First and second episodes. Enjoy them while you can. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRQG69My40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpJ5wyR9PQ&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw8dt3Jc-mg&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWWuULeYUA&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Mx-UhP5yw&feature=channel
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Paul Raven posted the cover some time back.
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a most attractive brunette, playing the ingenue. "I'd met her briefly once before in New York, but now I sat back and really watched her. I wasn't especially keen about ingenues, but Frances had an enormously appealing freshness without being vapid. She already had developed her voice to the extent that it was a good voice. It's developed enormously since, but it was a very good voice then, and for the theatre, there is nothing in the world better than a good, useful voice. I think Frances' voice today is one of her greatest assets. She has also acquired a beautiful authority, poise, and an implication of understanding that gives depth and texture to every character she plays." They started dating, but decided to wait on marriage. When they played San Francisco, Phil met her family. "It was pretty scarey. Her father was a courtly sort of man, slightly formal, and very rich. Her mother is a wonderful woman and very kind; but I was under a magnifying glass and I knew it. They'd invited me to Thanksgiving dinner. What saved the day was her sisters' taking me for a tour of the Berkeley campus just over the hill. Then back to dinner and the magnifying glass. They didn't think much of the theater. They knew Franny and I were in love, and they were worried. I not only was young and had no money, I was an actor! "All along the way, of course, I was writing and phoning Frances. We'd squabble and make up and squabble again. She didn't really want to be pinned down and neither did I, but there it was on the horizon. I don't know how we decided to get married. But after rehearsal one afternoon, we drove to New York, to The Little Church Around the Corner and had a very conventional theatrical wedding. Franny's cousin was bridesmaid; a friend of mine was best man. We had a pleasant dinner at Peter's Back Yard in the Village. Coming back, we got lost and wound up in Round Croten Reservoir, but the next morning, there we were, back at rehearsal." Show business marriages were then just as hazardous statistically as they are now. "And I don't think it has anything to do with constantly being exposed to very attractive people in one's work," Phil says. "I think that's minor. What is major is the sheer uncertainty of the economics and geography of the business. You can be working half a world apart, you also can be working not at all." Before his marriage Phil had been doing shows back-to-back and felt reasonably secure, then bang! He was out of work! "Franny wasn't working much either. We lived hand to mouth and it did look as if we were getting slapped down for our pains. This was the tail end of the depression. I will say Franny did very well with what we had. She was very cheerful. She learned to cook and fast. She even managed to scrounge up enough to invite friends occasionally for simple meals." It wasn't until the following fall that something exciting happened - a production of The Rivals for the Theatre Guild, with Frances as Julia and Philip, Sir Lucias. On stage they never even met, but they were caught up in the wonderful thrill of a hit play! That was apparent in their twelve weeks on the road before opening in New York, and that opening night on Broadway was to become one of their fondest memories. Always on opening night, Phil sent her a flower, an orchid or a single gardenia or a camellia. That night it was a comellia which brought her luck - brought them all luck! The show ran four months in New York, then went on tour. It might have gone on forever, except for Pearl Harbor. But this was the first professional thing Frances and Phil did together and it was an auspicious beginning. "Pretty rocky, at first," Frances says, poking her pretty head in for a moment, as Phil and I sit chatting in their living room. "You're inclined to treat a husband or wife differently than you do a fellow performer. As a wife or a husband you're inclined to make things your business that aren't your business. You have to learn to be involved only on a professional level. Phil was better about this than I was. Women are inclined to meddle a little more. But I learned. We've been awfully lucky, you know, we've worked together a lot. By the second or third show, all was serene." "It is extraordinary," Phil says. "We have had the best of both worlds. We were both fundamentally in the theatre, and New York then, even more than now, was the holy of holies theatre-wise. It was something to live through. I think one of our great experiences was our marvelous tour with Maurice Evans in The Devil's Disciple. Franny played Judith Anderson. I played Fastor Anderson. We toured from coast to coast." They instinctively respected each others' ability always and were wise in the ways of criticism. "THe most important advice Phil ever gave me," Frances says, "was when we were first married. He said, 'Being an ingenue warps a woman's mind. No more ingenues.' So I lied about my age and tried playing older characters until one day I came home and said, 'Philip, I don't know what you're going to say about this but there's a part I've been offered and I'd love to do it but this is the ingenue to end all ingenues - Ophelia.' 'Oh well, Ophelia's different,' he said." "Her Ophelia was marvelous, the best I have ever seen!" he says. He gives her a beautiful look. Pride. Admiration. And something more, very personal that reminds you, "the best of two worlds." Thirty years of it. When she leaves us to go out and garden, he sums it up. "A marriage like ours has a great many pluses. There are lots of things we don't have to talk about. We understand each other. When it comes to professional things, a key word will do, just key words can pass for conversations. On the other hand, we are able to converse for hours at a time, which many husbands and wives don't do at all. We have many things that interest us. We both garden. Although she is the real authority. Years ago she went to UCLA and took a crash course in horticulture. And we have always been mutually interested in where we live. For about seventeen years we had a place in Buck County, built most of it ourselves. She did all the plastering and painting I did all the masonry. "I have known actresses who must be terribly difficult to live with," Phil says. "They are innately self-centered and that's been intensified, exaggerated by a great deal of pampering and attention. There are actors and actresses who keep right on acting when they come home, but it doesn't work that way in this family. Never has. Naturally there are times when you have a corner of your mind going on overtones of a character you're playing, but Frances is not the aggressive actress. She is extremely feminine, extremely strong-minded, she has a very strong character. "When she first signed on for Days of Our Lives I wasn't crazy about the idea. For her sake. I was afraid of her tying herself up. I thought she might get to hate it, but she is doing fine and she enjoys the show." There are those who think the whole institution of marriage is doomed, but Phil Bourneuf isn't one of them. "Marriage?" he says. "It is going on for an unforseeable future, isn't it?" And he should know. He married Frances Reid and here they are, they've had an enormous amount of fun and it doesn't seem possible - thirty years. by JANE ARDMORE
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October 1970 TV Picture Life
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rush-limbaugh-sponsor-exodus-sandra-fluke-station-loss-297057 Meanwhile, on Super Tuesday, Newt has won Georgia, as expected. Santorum won Tennessee and Oklahoma. Exit polls suggest Romney will win Ohio, which will be hyped by the media as a huge comeback, even though Santorum has made many stupid mistakes and Romney has bled money in Ohio for weeks - if anything Ohio should have been a romp, no contest. But hey, he's our hero, the comeback kid, from the real streets! Romney won Vermont, and Virginia. Virginia was a little embarrassing for him, as Paul got over 40%.
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Sorry to hear you're getting angry e-mail. I may not buy the DVD but I know a lot of people loved Carjack and it's a nice choice for them. Just as, if there's ever a DVD release that is more about the 70's to the mid-90's, I'd buy that, while many may pass it up.
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That's the first SPW I ever bought. I have it somewhere too.
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Thank you for keeping us informed. I know they were very popular and I hope it sells well.
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Lisa Murkoswki regrets her vote on the Blunt amendment, and talks about Rush's comments. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/murkowski-gop-has-spun-out-of-control-on-contraception.php?ref=fpa Meanwhile, another far right media kingpin is trying to start a pro-Rush conversation. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/conservative_media_watchdog_launches_i_stand_with.php?ref=fpblg
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Republicans have kept on doing it, so I'm not sure if it matters whether they were criticized. Republicans have also repeatedly called Michelle Obama a monkey, obese, and some type of threat to America. She was even attacked for wanting children to exercise. I haven't heard any of that being mentioned about Ann Romney.
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Just in time for the Super Tuesday Mitt is likely to sweep, Mrs. Romney tells us that deep down, she's actually poor. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/05/438264/ann-romney-wealthy/ Please bring us back to the days of Nancy Reagan when those in power happily flaunted money instead of very transparently testifying about being from the real streets.
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Great to see the Donna/Tyrone story keeps going! I like all the heart to hearts in this story.
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Great stuff. Glad to see Frankie's psychic powers again. AW isn't the same without psychic friends.
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There's drama in every scene. I'm liking the relationship between Reginald/Bridget. Gregory's meltdowns are frightening to read.
