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Those are beautiful stories. I'm glad you got to meet these legends. I have to admit Ann Williams' life has kind of haunted me ever since I read about it.

I guess they just thought Chuck and Tara were naming him after their beloved friend the fallen war hero. Wasn't it Erica who outed the truth about the paternity?

Like I thought, the Democrats won two seats, with the third close but not likely to change hands, although the Democratic Party chairman is questioning the results, mostly because this is the second recent election where one county has been the last to report and then suddenly reports a huge Republican vote tally. Shockingly, when I looked at Google News, the 'liberal' media spin was that these results were great for Republicans and justified their anti-union policies. Somehow, if the tables were turned and Republicans won two seats in a recall election, I doubt we'd get that spin.

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This is the Sam Hall interview.

You may already know this, but I read somewhere that Anne Jeffreys was only on Bright Promise for 2 months.

I know. That's one of the things I will most most about soaps - getting to see these actors grow and change as the years go by, knowing their roles inside and out.

That's a good point. I know Bill worked for Irna in these years but for some reason I thought he was more at GL.

Most of these seats are very Republican and the Republicans are always more motivated. Democrats tend to give up when they get bad news. I think they may win 2, but that will be spun as a crushing defeat for Democrats and probably make it less likely they'll win the last two next week.

About 6 or 7 recall elections are happening in Wisconsin tonight. A few Democratic senators are up, mostly Republican senators, one Republican being in a heavily Democratic district. Given that Republicans always have more turnout, they also have a lot of money, media power, and other special elections that were seriously contested (like the state supreme court race a few months ago) have favored Republicans, I would guess they will win most of the races tonight. I can see Democrats getting one seat.

In SOD the producers said Christopher Rich wasn't available, so they decided to come up with a reason Sandy wouldn't be at the funeral. I think they should have just recast the role, and then this could have laid the groundwork for Sandy returning and having more of a role in the company. That would have been good drama, especially since Jamie and Matt were never involved with Cory at that time. I believe that they had already planned the Paulina story before Douglass passed away, and they just had to speed it up due to his death.

What I still wonder about is how many in our government actually want our economy to be destroyed, either because they think this will bring about end times, or because they think this will help Republicans get elected in 2012. I also think that Obama's speech yesterday about how we will always be a AAA nation no matter what anyone says was kind of embarrassing. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands isn't Presidential, IMO.

Wasn't she in Roots as well?

Also from this issue.

("A darling," said several of Dabney's co-workers.) Dabney generously supplied the photo of Jean and their two lovely children, which accompanies this article, from their personal scrapbook. Kelly is now 8 years old and Randolph is now 3. When Dabney was (hopefully) pinned down to what he did like, since it seemed to us he had mentioned thousands of things that he didn't, it came as a relief that his lovely wife Jean and his two children are first on the list. He then chewed on that very wet, stubby cigar another moment before he admitted he also liked good music ("not rock, I don't understand it, good food, good booze, friends, and a vegetable garden he had just planted - "the first 'Victory Garden' since World War II." Since he lives in the beautiful Pacific Palisades, an elegant area on the shores of the lovely Pacific Ocean, we asked Dabney if he does much swimming. "No," he said with a straight stare. It seemed inconceivable that a strong attractive man like that would never take a dip in the biggest piece of water on this whole earth, especially since it's just a few steps from his home. "Well, sure, I go in the ocean once in a while, doesn't everybody? But that's so 'Hollywood,' he said. Our final question to Dabney Coleman: "Now that we know what you think of teachers, doctors, lawyers, writers, actors, politicians, etc., how do you rate yourself?" There was a fraction of a pause and he said, "Well, at least I'm not boring...I hope." He smiled, rose, and left for his rehearsal twenty minutes early. Darn it, we'd meant to ask him one more question, and that was whether or not he might possibly like good poetry. a poem came to mind, buy that enchanting Scotsman, Robert Burns, that has these lines: "O wad some Power The giftie gie us To see oursels As ithers see us."

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just darling for babies. I've loved a lot of names. But now that it is our baby, we just haven't found one good enough," she giggled, quite aware that just about every mother in the world has had such a problem, and that now it is her turn! Nevertheless, it is pretty sure that Pam and Michael will find a name in the next few weeks, and five will get you ten that if it is a boy, "Michael" will be in there someplace. Another predicament that seems to be working out just fine is the conflict with her part as Sandy Jones on "Bright Promise." Sandy, as we all know, had a hysterectomy. It is interesting to speculate just how far the writers on the show listened to Pam's impassioned plea about over-population as they wrote the plot we have today on "Bright Promise." At any rate, Pamela realized that soon there would be quite an on-screen discrepancy between the story line of a barren Sandy, and a very pregnant Pamela. "I went to Jerry Layton (the producer) right away, and he was very sweet about it. He said that the show would be as helpful as they could," about this amusing difficulty. Pam also couldn't quite understand how AFTER NOON TV found out about this delightful event so soon. "I only told my real husband Michael, then my screen husband Peter (Ratray) and then Jerry Layton, and then..." This gal, who has been an actress since the age of ten, doing "summer stock and winter stock in Pittsburgh" (her hometown) did not seem to realize one thing. Happy news gets out very quickly about a national favorite on a television series! Pamela tried hard to fill us in on her career, but she quickly got back to that baby. "I really didn't know what was wrong," said Pam, "while I was up on location with Michael." Michael Macready, her young dynamic producer-director husband, was filming his latest movie "The Folks At Red Wolf Inn" and Pam went along to be with her guy and "cooked two meals a day for thirty people." ("\You've got to be awfully in love with your husband to do that, we'd guess!) "But I got so nauseous," admitted Pam, who is a terrific cook, "that I looked it up in a book, and it said that food, and food smells often contributed to nausea in the early months of pregnancy." Pamela laughed delightedly as she continued, "and that was all I was going all day long!" Now that it's all out in the open, Pam and Michael have dutifully reported the news to all four grand-parents, Pam's brother and two sisters, and Michael's six brothers and sisters - a marvelous set of uncles and aunts and grandparents for my baby. In the meantime, with two months waiting left, Pam divides her time between baby showers and driving her directors crazy by hiding behind very large handbags and over-size chairs. "What Sandy can't do, I can," said an ecstatic Pamela Murphy as she hurried off to rehearsal with the biggest purse you could find in any department store. Well, after all! It's a woman's privilege to change her mind, isn't it? - Abby Edwards

January 1972 Afternoon TV.

That second script is great too. I wonder if we were ultimately supposed to side more with Miranda. Madge seems more like a secondary character. Miranda, Madge, Melvyn Masterson...very alliterative. I love that confrontation scene. It flows so well off the page.