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People.com has the 1980 interview she and several other soap actors were involved in. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20076738,00.html The cover: http://www.people.com/people/archive/issue/0,,7566800616,00.html

The same is true for a Randall Edwards interview in a July 1980 Soap Opera Magazine. I will just post the photos. http://ryansbaronline.tripod.com/edwardssom80.html

Sarah Felder interview from March 1979 Daytime TV. Ryan's Bar Online already posted the interview quite a few years back, but not the photos. I will just post the photos. http://ryansbaronline.tripod.com/felderdtvm79.html

Thanks for sharing that with us, John. Haven't seen much of this anywhere or read much about it but saw it in this August 30, 1983 Digest (and then after looking on here, Paul Raven posted something about it many pages ago). A 'making of' The Hamptons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1m3DSTvlnM

March 1977 Afternoon TV.

May 25, 1982 Digest.

Thank you so much for finding that, Paul Raven. I'm sorry I didn't reply yesterday, there was so much going on. Those stories don't sound that offensive to me, but then they don't really involve the characters who left (who was Lois Smith's character again?). This is the May 11, 1982 recap.

Julianna McCarthy said that she auditioned to be Jennifer Brooks, as she and her agent thought she was too young and attractive to be Liz Foster. She said thank goodness they had her take her makeup off. Then she was cast as Liz.

The Partridge Family had some very good songs - like The Monkees, whoever was running the scene had very good songwriters.

Thanks for finding that. I wonder what ideas Goldstone had? What other stuff had he written for?

Thanks. Had you heard of this before? What were the stories that they were upset by? Is the one with Court the story about her keeping Carolee in the asylum (or was she not keeping her in there and someone else was).

I was looking through a February 1978 Daytimers, and she mentioned that Geraldine Court and Wayne Tippett, who had been written out of the show, refused to return anyway while the current writers were there, because they were offended by the storylines. They also said Lois Smith was happy to go because she was offended by her story, or the portrayal of mental illness. Do any of you know anything about this? Who was the writer at the time?

That's a great story.

Some of that yes. I will scan it when I have time so you can make sure. There was also an Italian diary from the guy who played Jeff, from when they went over there.

I'll look over the next few days and if I have any I'll post them (or someone else with Y&R stuff will too, I'm sure - I don't mean to act like no one else has it).

Vintage clip with the one and only Jacqueline Pirie, Tina Dingle, also with the woman who played good girl Jessica McCallister. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEYnLn91V8

Emmerdale's Moira on Eastenders, as one of Max's many pieces of ass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY_adHWKz0s

I'm not sure if I have that. If I do I'll scan what you mentioned.

It's a shame, because they gave Jesse Ventura a cameo. I remember how much fun Aretha was in the Blues Brothers. This could have been great.

I was reading a Digest from late 1989 about celebrities appearing on soaps. They mentioned that Aretha Franklin had wanted to be on Y&R. Bill Bell wanted her to play a mother in a 1986 story about runaway teens, but she said she wanted to be in a story with Nikki and Victor and have fun. Bell then says that you can see why it didn't happen. I think she would have been a lot of fun in a story with Victor and Nikki. I'm sorry he didn't go for it

I think he was dead before the show started.

The woman who played Irma also played Nellie Dingle on Emmerdale. She left Corrie in 1968, then returned in 1970, which led to the stupid decision to kill off David and son. Then she left again around 1972, as she was ill or something. This caused them to abandon a story where she had an affair with Elsie's husband Alan. Instead that story was given to Janet, who became the show's big bitch in the early 70s and later went on to a loveless, violent marriage with Ken. She had the infamous exit where she asked him for another chance after her boyfriend dumped her. When Ken said no, he let her sleep in his bed while he slept downstairs. She took too many sleeping pills and overdosed. He found her in there the next morning, dead. The actress who played Janet said she always went around being nice to everyone because she was so loathed by the public. There's so much you could do with Irma, and the woman who played her was in a feature late last year, posing with the other Corrie barmaids. She still looked good.