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fuses to discuss any of their plans at all. "What can I say about David?" she says smilingly. "He's a lovely, marvelous man...he's just...fabulous!" Denise met the star of The Bold Ones on a tennis court, and since that time has not stopped seeing him. While there have been other guys in her life before David, none of them have affected her quite like him. If Denise is no longer avoiding marriage, it is because she has come to realize "that you can love someone else without losing your identity at the same time." Denise has been active in the theater and TV worlds for a long time, but she insists that she is not career-oriented. "I don't know..." Denise says in earnest, "...I think that I'm just oriented to people and life. I'm adventuresome, and in the back of my mind, I have this craving to learn and do all kinds of different things. "As a matter of fact, I left acting for a while. I remember that I was doing Member of the Wedding with Ethel Waters and I just wasn't enjoying it. Now, there was a part I would think I would have adored doing, but I didn't. Then I went to Durango, Colorado to shoot Diamond Jim Brady...and...with all of the heat and hecticness of production, I just said to myself, "Why am I doing this?" And I couldn't give myself an answer so I decided to grow in other areas rather than just in performing. "I really wanted to be a diplomat. I speak Italian and French. At one time I wanted to learn Russian. Now I want to speak German. And yes, I would love to travel abroad. I was supposed to go one summer, but instead I found myself working on Days of Our Lives." Denise has been acting since the age of seven. "I was a painfully shy young child," she admits, "and very uninvolved with other children. My parents were concerned and decided to send me to dancing school as a way of socialization. So it probably all began then. Looking back on my childhood, I do believe that I had special parents...not what you might think of as show biz parents. They gave me everything...dancing lessons, we had a yacht. The only thing they expected of me was that I be a worthwhile human being. "My career began early. I did The Children's Hour back East. And one of the parts I really adored was in The Diary of Anne Frank. i think that I admire Anne Frank most. I'd like to be like her because she stood proud even in the face of tragedy. Despite her bittersweet life she still maintained that people are good. I believe that. In that sense she was very much an optimist and so am I. "I believe that there is nothing terrible that cannot be fixed. I also believe that things are...they just are...and a rose is a rose is a rose...and we should let them be and take from what is. Live every day the best you can for what is...that's all." If Denise comes off sounding like a cockeyed-optimist, well it's true. Everything in her life seems to be sunshine yellow, from the colors in her house to the very things she loves to do. "I love walking in the sunshine," she says smilingly, "and I love the color yellow. And I love water and fresh air, and decorating my apartment. "My apartment is done with all bright, lively colors...there are lots of yellows, of course. I love interior decorating. I think I caught that bug from my mother. It's a small apartment, but it's got high ceilings, French windows; it's comfortable, with graceful furniture and lots of charm. There are different styles used...Chinese, Italian, French, but basically it's cheery, and, in that sense, reflects me. One day I would like to live in a house though." One of the reasons Denise was glad to leave New York City was that she hated apartment living. "When I was a kid and lived back East I hated living in the city. As a matter of fact, we had a house on Long Island and the apartment, but I never considered the apartment as being home. I would get that closed in feeling in New York, and I could never keep up with the pace. "I remember when I first came out to the West Coast...it was on a vacation with my parents. It was all like a dream. I remember the ride into the city from the airport...there were all of these mountains and open spaces. Even the apartment buildings looked different...they were small and pretty. I knew then that this was my kind of city. "The funny part of the story is that my father also fell in love with the city and decided to sell his business in the East and move t o the West Coast. Just like that and then we moved. "Of course New York was exciting because you could have the opportunity of doing live theater, but I've done some here. I was in Under the Yum Yum Tree for a while. But then again, I hate long-term contracts so I would hate to be in a long run. I suppose it's because I would probably get bored of doing the same thing all of the time. And if I do a play, I prefer that it be a comedy. I think the most beautiful thing in the world is to make someone laugh. "I love working on Days of Our Lives. I'm not really like the character I play, but I like her. And the cast is just great. We do quite a bit of socializing together which is nice. Susan Seaforth and I have great fun on set. And I'm always clowning around with Edward Mallory and Bill Hayes. I really am happy to be doing the show. "Yes, I would like to make a film. I think that would be great fun. I made one film several years back called Crime in the Streets with John Cassavetes which I found to be very challenging." When you ask Denise to finally sum herself up, she thinks hard, but she wants to come up with an honest answer. "Well," she says, using her hands as a guide, "I suppose you might say Denise Alexander is me...an actress...but even more than that a young woman...and a basically happy person. I like to think of myself as creative and as one who is interested in learning. I would like to be the best me I can possibly be."

with the escapist fare he enjoyed in his youth. Currently, as Dr. Jim Fields, he plays the role of a psychiatrist on The Edge Of Night but as he says: "The story line deals more with my personal life than with my work." Originally, Alan auditioned for a very different type of role. Six months before he joined the serial on a regular basis, he read for the part of a hippie. The producer liked his reading but felt he didn't look the character. He lost that job but four months later, they called him in for one day's work as a jet-setter ("a high-class hippie") and were so impressed with his charisma on camera that they offered him the up-coming role of the psychiatrist. On July 23, 1969, Laurence Feinstein made his debut as Dr. Jim Fields. Did I say Laurence Feinstein? Yes, because that's the name Alan was using at the time. Born Alan Laurence Feinstein in New York on September 8, 1941, he decided some twenty years later that it was necessary to adopt a stage name to succeed as an actor. After all, didn't Bernard Schwarz achieve great fame as Tony Curtis, and Issur Danilovitch as Kirk Douglas? Following their example, Alan Feinstein took the alias of Yorke. And as Alan Yorke, he broke into television, played a number of seasons in stock, and appeared on Broadway. But the name began to eat away at him subconsciously. Was he denying his background, his heritage - was he masquerading as someone else? Alan Yorke became a hated stranger so he was killed off in January of 979 and Laurence Feinstein emerged - almost triumphantly. "Almost triumphantly" because a year later, Laurence decided he didn't like being called Larry and went back to his original first name, Alan. "Times have changed," he explains. "People don't seem to resent ethnic names anymore - and even if they did, I'd still use Alan Feinstein. It's me. It's my identity. After years of analysis, I've discovered I can be myself. I don't have to be Alan Yorke!" Still under analysis, Alan told me he finds it a natural part of his routine. "I just go to my analyst for an occasional check-up now. It's like going to have your teeth checked." He continued: "Not every psychological problem is of major proportions. The problem can be as simple as a cavity. But it must be treated. If you have a cavity, it won't get smaller. The same is true of a mental block. "I had a personality problem. I was very unhappy and pessimistic about the future I desired a more optimistic view. But I knew I'd never have it until I became a more productive person, and I didn't know how to set about becoming one. "My insecurity dates back to my early years. I have many unresolved feelings about my childhood." Understandably so, because Alan had a most unsettling childhood. He was the only child of Paul and Esther Feinstein who were divorced when he was eight. He was raised by his mother but his father had visitation rights. Though Alan was well-loved and he loved in return, the broken home left its mark. The isolated youngster underwent a series of mixed emotions and mixed loyalties. "I've always been friendly with both my father and my mother," said Alan, "also with my step-mother (my father remarried about ten years ago). I must say, my parents didn't quite understand my choice of a career - acting is not the most secure profession in the world and no one in my family had ever been in show business before (my father is a dress buyer for a chain of stores) but they went along with my decision to act. "I started to get involved with shows when I was a senior in high school. But I didn't do any acting in the two years I attended Bronx Community College. I was a liberal arts major and studied psychology and sociology. It was interesting but not interesting enough to keep me away from acting. After two years I quit college to get a job in the entertainment field. "I got a job in the field almost immediately - but it was not the kind of job I'd had in mind. i worked in the budgeting department for film publicity at Columbia Pictures for half a year. It was such a bore. I left to become a short-order cook in a bar. "I became expert at making sandwiches, hamburgers and French fries. I'm still a good cook. I make simple things - like sandwiches, hamburgers and French fries." He laughed. "Seriously, I am a pretty good cook. I stick to the basic dishes - you know, crown roast, sea food, coq au vin." He returned to reminisces of his pre-theatrical experience. "I didn't remain a short-order cook for long. iI filled in with other jobs - driving a truck, selling boys' clothing in Bloomingdale's. After more than a year of this, I earned my first buck as an actor - I was an extra on a segment of TV's Naked City." Extra work was all Alan could find for the next six months. But after that, things started to open up for him. He got small roles on the Jackie Gleason and Jonathan Winters shows and landed the lead in an Armstrong Circle theatre presentation. That was in 1963, the same year he first appeared in summer stock, touring with Mr. Roberts in the part of Mannion and as understudy for Hugh O'Brian in the title role. Since then, Alan has played leading roles in a number of shows in both summer and winter stock - Any Wednesday (with Vivian Blaine, Dyan Cannon and Robert Alda), Barefoot in the Park (with Lynn Bari) and Tarzan Doesn't Live Here Anymore (with Gardner McKay), to mention a few. In 1966, he made his Broadway debut in Edward Albee's Malcolm. It only ran five performances and his next Broadway show, Zelda, didn't last any longer. But he fared better with his first off-Broadway show, Shoot Anything With Hair That Moves. It had a three-week run early in 1969, and introduced Laurence Feinstein (that was the first time Alan used his real surname) to the theatrical world. Many daytime TV fans undoubtedly remember Alan from Love of Life. Hie created the role of Mickey Krakauer in 1965, and played it for two and a half years. "Now they say I was Tess' brother but she didn't come into the show until I'd been on it a couple of years so in the beginning, she was Mickey's sister." (Tess, played by Toni Bull Bua, the TV and real-life wife of Gene Bua, is one of soap operas' best-loved young ingenues.) Alan left Love of Life to go back to stage work. He played a season of winter stock in Mineola, N.Y., appearing with Barbara Bell Geddes and Arthur Hill in productions of Come Back Little Sheba and Light Up The Sky. A deal was pending for him to spend a year at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis but unfortunately, it fell through. That didn't slow him down for long however. He was soon back in shows and on TV. One of daytime drama's most attractive bachelors, Alan has somehow managed to elude marriage so far. It was only natural to ask him if, as a result of his parents' divorce, he was opposed to the institution on principle. "Not at all," he assured me. "It's not a question of wanting or not wanting to get married though. It's just something that will happen when the time is right. And I don't know when that will be. I'm going with only one girl now, but marriage isn't imminent." For the past six months, he's dated no one but Thiea Palmer whom he met over two years ago, when they stood on the same line at the unemployment insurance office. Though not in show business, tall slim Thiea, a secretary, is lovely enough to be Alan's leading lady on TV as well as off. She's a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and this past September, Alan accompanied her down South to meet her folks (perhaps that marriage is more imminent than he'll admit). While attending a football game there, the popular daytimer was mobbed by a score of teenaged autograph hunters. A veritable romantic idol - this Alan Feinstein. And why not? He's 6'2'' tall, carries 183 well-distributed pounds on an athletic frame, has curly brown hair, blue eyes and a bright smile that reveals an unexpected dimple lurking in his right cheek. Admittedly a frustrated cowboy, actor Alan almost got to be one - in 1967, he made a pilot film for a soap opera set on a ranch but the series never sold. No matter, he shrugs. He's looking to the future. His ambition is to work in all the media. But he's particularly anxious to make films, any kind of films, as long as they're Westerns. Here's one city slicker who feels more at home on the range!

I don't think Carla ever came back.

July 1971 TV Radio Show

July 1971 TV Radio Show

September 1976 Digest.

September 1976 Digest.

Newt is so compassionate to immigrants. Let's keep them together...until we can force them into child labor of course. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/69011.html

It would have been kind of fitting if Diane had tripped over those huge cases she kept that were full of Alan's documents.

That's true. While most of the family could be described as WASPY, Papa Bauer certainly wasn't.

Diane's apartment looks so cramped in the few scenes available but it looks good here. Jackie and Justin's place looks beautiful. Not too fond of Hope's place, all that brown.

7.15.80 Digest

March 1976 Digest.

Christopher Cass as Scott Eldridge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2QIXrqPcxQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Nothing is going to go through Congress, unless it's cuts and more cuts. That's why Obama doesn't matter. He's just there.

I'm not sure if there's more than one episode available of them! I guess there may be one more. Either way, I agree with you, I really enjoyed their scenes. Meg has a Joan Crawford vibe in that episode.

I've only seen a few episodes of Angie. I think Maeve did a good job, although there was one episode which baffled me where she started punching a baby mobile. I have to admit the story itself doesn't appeal to me. I always assume that someone may have loved Rachel and hated Alice, or vice/versa, so it's always nice to know how fans felt at the time. I really wish that I'd seen more of Jacquie and Victoria Wyndham together, I loved their work in the 1989 anniversary episodes. Michael doesn't seem like the greatest actor but he's easy on the eye. It's too bad the gay storyline he was supposed to be in was killed. That would have been very groundbreaking drama, and shaken up the Matthews family. Imagine Liz's reactions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5NHf9wcaQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHOUBYOm2vo

What did your mother think of Rachel? The scenes did move slowly. I think this worked more often than not - the stalling for Marianne not to leave the diner - but sometimes it cracked me up (the recap and the lost phone connection before Brian found out about how John died). It was a mistake to get rid of John, as far as I can tell. As much as I like Brian, you'd think he would have been a better choice if someone had to go. I'm not sure why anyone did. Apparently they just wanted a shock death since they were expanding to 90 minutes. That's bad planning. From what I've seen of the actor on Another Life, he was very talented. I like this Marianne. I wonder why she left. I wonder if they decided it made better story for Liz to be on her own and just meddle in Jim's life.