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I love all the stuff you post. I also sometimes feel like I am mostly posting this to myself and it may be boring or not widely read but it helps knowing another fan of the classic soaps (and sadly, soaps we will probably never see) is here, and has something to say. I wish we could see this show. It sounds so different. I love that cover. I barely recognized Diana.

What a treat! I don't know very much about Mary Harris. How odd to have an actor named Paul Stuart on the same show as a character named Paul Stewart. I guess this is before Gary Sandy went on Secret Storm.

Joe's aged very well. He is still recognizable today compared to this photo. I wonder if Harper moved to soaps because of his love life issues - the magazines then used to talk about his many marriages (wasn't he married to Marlo Thomas at one time). This show seemed to attract a very high quality of actor, a lot of theater people and those who could have been busy in primetime. Did you know the boy who played Bobby Martin was on this show? I didn't. For some reason I thought Bobby was older. I guess Diana Walker was gone by this time.

I don't know all their stories but I do remember reading that fans had gotten sick of Althea having brain operations, to the point where the last story they did with Nick operating on her was cut short due to viewer complaints. Is that the producer holding the Emmy? He looks so much like James Pritchett.

Daniel Keyes (Ben Jessup) was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He had regarded acting as a hobby until he decided to pursue it as a career shortly after the end of World War II. His first professional job was in the road company of Mr. Roberts, followed by roles in New York productions of Bus Stop, Inherit the Wind, Only In America, Take Her, She's Mine (with Art Carney), I Never Sang For My Father, and Our Town, to name just a few. Off-Broadway, Dan has appeared in such plays as Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hogan's Goat, and Arms and the Man. He had a role in the hit movie I Never Sang For My Father and will be seen shortly as the Representative from New Hampshire in the movie version of 1776. Dan has done small roles on virtually every one of the daytime serials, including a brief stay on Dark Shadows as "the 108-year-old keeper of the crypt" and a running role on The Secret Storm. He's married and has four children. He's married and has four children. In his free time, Dan enjoys playing tennis. Alice Drummond (Loretta Jardin) calls Pawtucket, Rhode Island her home town and Pembroke College her alma mater. As a child she was very interested in acting, and after college she came to New York to begin her career. However, she gave up on acting for a time after becoming discouraged. She married and became a professor of English at Brown university. Eighteen years ago, Alice decided to give acting one more try, and has been a successful actress ever since. Some of her theatrical credits include roles in The Chinese and Dr. Fish (for which she won a Tony nomination), Malcom, The American Dream, The Sandbox, Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Carpenters (at the American Place Theatre) and Royal Gambit. Alice can be seen in the movie, Where's Poppa?, and has done such daytime serials as As the World Turns, Love is a Many Splendored Thing and Dark Shadows (when the show first went on the air, she played Dr. Hoffman's nurse). She and her husband, an organizer of conventions for societies of engineers, have been married twenty years, and have a cat named Dukesbury. Though an accomplished stage actress, Alice was frightened at first about doing a regular daytime serial before a camera but now admits that she loves doing Where the Heart Is and finds it to be excellent experience. Michael Bersell (Peter Jardin) is thirteen years old and has eleven years of professional acting experience to his credit. His first acting job was at the age of two when he was signed to be "The Citrus Kid." This was followed by jobs for both on-camera and voice-over commercials for television and radio. Mike appeared in the recent off-Broadway revival of Summertree, and can be seen in the movies Paper Lion and Eleven-Foot Giraffe. He was signed to portray the character of Bobby Martin when the serial All My Children began, but the part was written out shortly after the show's premiere. Mike enjoys playing baseball and bicycle-riding in his free time, and already has a steady girlfriend. He has three younger brothers and one younger sister, all of whom are actors appearing on commercials in movies and live theatre. William Post Jr. (Joe Prescott) first took an interest in acting and the theatre at age nine when his aunts and grandmother took him to see shows very frequently. Admitted to Yale University, William became an English major minoring in philosophy, but he seemed to spend most of his free time appearing in college theatrical productions. At Christmas time, he and the other members of the Drama Club toured cities where Yale alumni lived, and produced such plays as L'Aiglon and King Lear. Coming to New York from Yale, William joined the American Laboratory Theatre of Drama, and from there went on to appear in over twenty major Broadway productions (including Ah, Wilderness with George M. Cohan and Richard II with Maurice Evans). Some of his movie credits include Mr. and Mrs. North (opposite Gracie Allen), The Moon is Down, Horror on 92nd Street and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (a classic of the Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce). This accomplished actor also made his mark on the early radio serials, playing John in John's Other Wife, a regular on the Helen Hayes Lipton Tea Show and numerous other characters on the various live programs. William's also appeared on several television serials, such as Young Dr. Malone, Brighter Day, The Nurses and most recently, as Chandler Garrison on Love is a Many Splendored Thing. William has been married for twenty years, and his wife is now the Registrar of The Dwight School in Manhattan. William enjoys reading, travelling, sailing (on his friend's boat) and walking. He and his wife love living in New York, despite all its shortcomings. Bibi Osterwald (Stella) hails from New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Catholic University. Although she had been a child singer, her distinguished career began in 1945 with her Broadway debut in Sing Out, Sweet Land with Alfred Drake. Her Broadway credits, all too numerous to be mentioned here, include major roles in such successes as Three to Make Ready, Bus Stop, Look Homeward, Angel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and the leading role in Hello, Dolly (for such people as Ethel Merman). She's been seen in such movies as A Fine Madness, Tiger Makes Out (with Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson) and Parrish. Bibi has been a regular feature on television since the medium's early days. She was familiar as a guest star on Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Theatre, Omnibus, Front Row Center, The Imogene Coca Show and Naked City. Bibi is happily married to musician Justin Arndt and has one son, Christopher. She loves to cook and is currently learning how to tap dance. Joseph Mascolo (Ed Lucas) has recently been a resident member of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, where he has appeared in The Good Woman of Setzuan, Operation: Sidewinder, Camino Real and The Time of Your Life. He has also been featured in Richard Rodgers' revival of West Side Story at Lincoln Center, Dinner At Eight and Night Life. He has been seen off-Broadway in The Threepenny Opera, A View from the Bridge and To Clothe the Naked. As part of the company at the Ahminson Theatre in the Los Angeles Music Center, he was featured in Captain Brassbound's Conversion (with Greer Garson) and a rock version of Othello entitled Catch My Soul. He has toured with Wait Until Dark, and has also appeared at the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo and the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. Moviegoers may recall Joe from Diary of a Mad Housewife and will see him shortly in The Resolution of Mossie Wax, which will be shown on N.E.T. Also a talented musician, Joe has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra a and Paul Lavalle's Band of America. David Cryer (Hugh Jessup) was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of a Methodist minister. David lived in many parts of Ohio as a child, due to his father's travelling. at DePauw University, he began his college career in pre-med but shortly switched to history. He spent much of his spare time appearing in colege productions and beng a drummer and trombonist for a small musical group. David won a Fellowship to Yale Divinity School but trnaferred to Harvard Law. While studying for a legal profession he appeared in several stock productions and again transferred - this time to Boston University, where he earned his Master's degree in directing. david was the star of the short-lived Broadway production, Ari, and has also appeared on Broadway in 1776, Come Summer, 110 in the Shade, and Fade Out, Fade In. Off-Broadway he has been seen in Now is the Time, The Fantasticks and The Streets of New York. Some of his repertory work includes roles with the American Conesrvatory Theatre in Tartuffe, The Rose Tatoo and King Lear. David is married to actress/writer Grechen Cryer and has two children, Robin, age eight, and Jonathan, age five. by Barbara Silver

As the saying goes, home is where the heart is. And for the charactrson the serial, now in its second year on television, some happen to be the city of Northcross, U.S.A. Where the Heart Is evolves around the Hathaway family, lead by eldest brother Julian. Julian's two sisters, Kate and Allison, combine with the Jessup and Prescott families to create many exciting plots which viewers have been enjoying since the show's debut. Diana Van Der Vlis (Kate Hathaway Prescott) has been married for eleven years to book editor Roger Donald. Diana, a native of Canada, was on her way to England by boat to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts when she met Roger, also a passenger on the ship. Following her studies in England, Diana returned to Canada, where she did a great deal of theatre and television work. Coming to America, she made her Broadway debut in The Happiest Millionaire in the role of Walter Pidgeon's daughter. This was followed by an accomplished career in Shakespearean and Broadway roles. Diana's also done several stings on nighttime television shows. Today, she and Roger own a ranch in Claverack, a small town on the border of New York and Massachusetts, and Diana is sure that their home there is also occupied by a ghost The Donalds have two children, Adrienne and Matthew, and they enjoy travelling up to the ranch on weekends and during whatever free time they have. James Mitchell (Julian Hathaway) was born and raised in Sacramento, California, the son of English parents. He studied drama at Los Angeles City College, augmenting his studies by appearing as an actor/dancer in stock productions around the city. In New York, Jim was the leading male dancer in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, after which he was featured in such memorable shows as Billion Dollar Baby and The Deputy. The large movie studios in Hollywood, hearing about Jim's talents, were eager to sign him to contracts. First came Warner Bros., for which he appeared in several Western flicks. Then came a prolific association with MGM, which allowed him to appear in Devil's Doorway, Stars In My Crown, Colorado Territory, and perhaps the two films for which he is best remembered: The Bandwagon and Deep In My Heart (both with Cyd Charisse). Subsequently, Jim appeared in two Cyd Charissa TV specials and a segment of The Perry Como Show. He toured Europe and South America with The Ballet Theatre and starred in the Theatre's dance versions of Oklahoma and Paint Your Wagon. Seven years ago, Jim made his serial debut as a police officer on Edge of Night, but Where the Heart Is marks his first long-running television venture. Jim enjoys attending ballet and the opera and would like to do more directing in the future (he has previously directed shows in St. Louis and Hyannisport and has been the Visiting Director at Drake University in Iowa). Also an owner of a home in upstate New York, Jim looks forward to escaping from the city into the country whenever time allows. Gregory Abels (Michael Hathaway), born in Jersey City, attended Providence College and City College of New York. While attending school, Greg also held down various jobs as an office boy for a Wall Street firm, an assistant surveyor, a department store salesman and a truck driver. He began his acting career when he came across an ad in The New York Times by noted director and acting teacher Stella Adler for non-professionals interested in acting. Greg signed up for Miss Adler's school and spent two years developing the talent which until then, he himself had never recognized. Greg's first professional acting job was with Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park, where he did a great deal of Shakespearean work. He then went on to the McCarter Theatre in Princeton and the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival. At the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in 1966 Greg fell in love with another resident actor, Janet Kapral, and the two subsequently married on June 24, 1967. Janet and Greg then joined Stage West in West Springfield, Massachusetts and the Cleveland Playhouse. Today Janet and Greg own a Greenwich Village townhouse and would someday like to own a country home. Greg has a young sister who is an executive secretary and a younger brother who is a drummer with his own jazz group. Ron Harper (Steve Prescott), whose birthday is January 12th, was born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. As a young boy, he spent many summers at his grandfather's farm in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Ron's ambition while in high school was to be a lawyer, although he enjoyed appearing in all the school plays. An excellent student, Ron was offered, and accepted, a scholarship to Princeton University, and after two years there, he was offered a fellowship to Harvard Law School (which he turned down). Ron became very involved in dramatics at Princeton, and after graduation he came to New York to further his dramatic studies. After enlisting in the Navy, Ron was assigned to a TV station in Panama, where he was able to produce plays and act a great deal. When his service years were over, Ron returned to New York, where he understudied Paul Newman in Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway. Tempted to try his hand at acting in Hollywood, he became a familiar face on the television screen as a star of such series as 87th Precinct, Wendy and Me (with Connie Stevens), The Jean Arthur Show and Garrison's Guerrillas. Since the latter show, he has toured with Martha Raye in Goodbye, Charlie and made a movie entitled Savage Season in Mexico. Ron, still a bachelor, lives in Manhattan with his Yorkshire terrier, Homer, and enjoys driving to Pennsylvania on weekends and holidays to see his family and friends. Delphi Harrington (Chris Cameron), was born and raised inn Chicago, the daughter of Greek immigrants. As Delphi Nicopoulos, she attended Northwestern University as a drama major, and it was at Northwestern that she met a young English teacher, Norman Harrington. The two were wed on September 26,1960 at St. Andrews Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago. In 1962, Delphi became a resident member of the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and appeared in major roles in Merchant of Venice, Othello, All's Well That Ends Well, and Love's Labour Lost. Delphi has appeared off-Broadway in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and on Broadway in Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden. She's done nightclub work at the Plaza 9, appearing in Baker's Dozen and Struts and Frets, and has also made many television commercials. Today Delphi and husband Norman, now a professor of English at Brooklyn College, live in Manhattan with their five-year-old son Spencer. Louise Shaffer (Allison Hathaway Jessup) is the oldest of four children. She was raised in Connecticut, and once she decided she wanted to be an actress, her parents helped her in whatever ways they could. For two years Louise attended Connecticut College for Women and then transferred to Yale Drama School. In July of 1970, Louise was divorced from actor Toby Tompkins, and has since moved into an apartment with her poodle, Agnes. Eventually, Louise would like to do either a Broadway drama or musical. But right now she enjoys working on Where the Heart Is and learning more about acting. An excellent cook, Louise admits that she must watch her weight very carefully or else she can get carried away and become a compulsive eater.

From the December 1971 TV Dawn to Dusk.

Is that video still around?? Zimmerman had a massive heart attack, I think. He was still on GL. He had also written a book and was doing theater work - I think he was on the road with a play when he died. It was a big shock. Then Theo Getz died only about 6 months later.

I also enjoyed the scenes where Roger and Rae exposed Kim. I loved when Jill went after her and realized she was just like Rae. The problem with Kim was the awful "acting" stories they gave her, the pairing with Seneca, which was disturbing (if they wanted to focus on her daddy issues, I think they could have chosen a younger man - they could have kept Pat around instead of writing him out for two years), and they kept trying and trying to make her sympathetic, when Kelli Maroney was not a sympathetic actress. Every time Kim hurt Rae or anyone else, you got a boatload of reminders that Rae had "abandoned" her, that anything Kimberly did was excused because she was just a child, and blah blah blah. I remember when Kim ran off with the baby and Maeve sided with her and blasted Seneca. Maeve was always close to Seneca, even when he lied to her and her family about baby Edmund's paternity. It was just forced. The scenes where Kim began bonding with her baby were moving, but then we were back to more yelling over Arley's custody. I thought it was a misuse of Rae to focus so much on shaming her and having her obsess over Kimberly and the baby. I thought it was a waste that if they were going to do this they never brought Rae's mother in. I think Maroney was probably unlikely to stay around that long anyway - didn't she leave again in late 1982? Faith was another failure of ill-defined characterization. She wasn't sympathetic, IMO. KMG was a cold, plastic-smile type of actress, and her Faith was an ice cube. She also never, ever had to answer to anyone, for anything. I can't tell you how much I loathed the scenes where she staggered over to Ryan's and almost killed Little John while trying to treat him. Did anyone blame her for any of this? Only Delia. Which meant viewers were supposed to feel sorry for her. A little boy almost died and all the focus was on poor Faith. When she was stupid enough to fall for her sister's fiance, the focus was again on how she suffered. I had no idea why, as no one had hurt her. She'd hurt herself. And as good as the isolated scenes of her confronting Maeve were, most of the time she excused Frank. She told Jill, more than once, that she knew Jill had manipulated Frank and it wasn't Frank's fault. There was month after month of Faith verbally abusing Jill, intruding into Jill's personal life, all while playing victim, and the show even rewrote very important history to claim that Mrs. Coleridge had loved Jill and neglected Faith, when it had been just the opposite. No sympathetic character would say the vile things Faith said to Jill, yet over and over the show tried to sell Faith as a heroine. They threw various men at her, they had Roger hovering over her, they had humiliating stories for Delia over and over, and all it really ever amounted to was that same old frozen smile. This cropped up quite a few times in the early 80's. I thought EJ was a bit smug and silly, yet they had Delia there to behave like a brat, and that was supposed to be enough to make EJ likeable. Roger was a hypocritical ass, yet Delia was a brat, so that was supposed to make Roger likeable. Joe had destroyed the lives of about a half-dozen people, but they had Alexei and Orson come in and they were supposed to be worse. It's the type of writing that has done a lot of damage to soaps in recent years.

I wouldn't count "T-Paw" out. The media has hyped him for years on end. It's just his lack of charisma and desperate pandering that has worked against him so far.

March 1976 Afternoon TV - Ellen Barber was mentioned as temping for an ill Lynn Deerfield (Holly #1, GL).

How is Pawlenty mainstream? While we're having huge problems, he is spending his time...telling us that being gay may be a choice. I know a lot of people feel that way but I would hope few would spend their time running for President focusing on that.

Neither did I until recently. Too bad they didn't get her in a cameo role on AMC, serenading Erica or something. Erica recoils and tells Mike, "Who was that? Your mother?"

Richard Van Vleet auditioned for the role of David Thornton before being cast as Chuck Tyler. Opera star Rise Stevens auditioned for a role on A World Apart. She didn't get it, but they did cast her son, Nicholas Surovy.

Oh that's right. I got mixed up based on the character names.

I think she was on RH around the time of this article. I didn't notice her name until you mentioned it. I wonder why he didn't make the transition to the new show. He was very handsome (few can make those silky shirts not look like bowling attire). Who was he replaced with? Was it Rod Arrants?

Ryan's Hope 1984 promo.

Quick Loving promo. Is that Tony with Stacey? Perry Stephens was so gorgeous.

From my admittedly partisan viewpoint, it looks like Obama is more than happy to cave in and do deep cuts to Medicare and Social Security, but he still wants tax increases, and Republicans don't want tax increases. They want even more cuts to federal spending. Obama is now saying that by August 3 they will stop sending checks for social security, disability, or veterans. I have seen no evidence in recent years that Republicans in power care about veterans, and they hate social security and Medicare. Are they willing to just stand this out so they can have an excuse to gut these entitlements once and for all? I keep telling myself that both parties will not let this happen, but I'm less and less sure. They don't care about the struggles of ordinary people, or how this will devastate us.

I think Collinson probably wants this type of press attention. I think he sees it as another way to get ratings. There was no reason to go on TV about this. It isn't that huge of a crisis. As others have said, Louise Berridge, who was under attack for over a year, did not go on TV. He seems so eager to get hype that he is destroying any integrity or quality Corrie had. Why was Michelle Collins there? And didn't they previously say that she wanted to do the accent? Now she's saying she had no choice. I also don't believe that Sean is a popular character. A few years ago, possibly, but I think his stories, especially that story with Violet and the baby, destroyed most of his popularity. Cotton was horrifically bad (remember all the crying into a pillow?).

I'm glad they moved away from that yellow/red background. Poor Ed Zimmerman.

Thanks for all this. I wonder if Nick and Althea were just instantly popular.

That's a fascinating cover. I love that unique pose. Did anyone ever learn if the Diana Walker quoted in the NYT article about Celeste Holm is the Diana who was on soaps?

Have you ever seen the cover of Marla with all the dolls? I like that. Dan Hamilton looks about the same here as he did at the end of the decade. Did he become a director?

That's a nice cover. I didn't know if she'd ever made any soap magazine covers. I think they had one other, can't remember who though.