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I think some of this has already been posted in another thread, by another poster, but I'm too tired to look properly... I was really surprised, when looking through a Daytime TV Stars on the end of RtPP, at how brutally honest Lynn Loring was about her experience. She basically said that it was one of the worst sets she'd ever been on, because they took so long to film and weren't professional, especially compared to Search. She said she had handed in her notice to quit before the cancellation was announced. She said she was offended by a scene of a married man being "naked" in bed with his mistress. She also admitted that the only reason she was hired was because of a desperate ratings-grabbing attempt, and that she thought it was stupid of the show to fire her predecessor (Julie Parrish), as she thought Parrish was wonderful. She also said she was disturbed by how people would come up to her and threaten her on the street, so perhaps she just wasn't used to playing a bad character.

That's part of when the last years (of the NBC run anyway) confused me. How much of it became about rape? Wasn't Luis also raped? And didn't Alistair rape Theresa again and again? Was this written as rape?

May 1956 TV Radio Mirror. This was one of their award issues. James Lipton was runner up for most popular daytime actor, radio and TV (radio was won by Sandy Becker, TV by Terry O'Sullivan).

James Kirkwood Jr. played Mickey Emerson, the central heroine's (Helen Emerson) son on Valiant Lady. His mother, Lila Lee, tried out for the role, but was turned down because they didn't think she looked old enough to be his mother!

April 1977 TV Day Stars

I thought Simone or her partner were raped.

Saw Kiko Ellsworth tonight on Femme Fatales, playing a homicide detective. It was a good-sized role. I guess soft core can apparently employ talented actors that daytime doesn't deem worthy.

More of the Old West 1888/1988 saga. I guess this still wasn't strike material, as the writers names are in the credits, but a lot of it seems like filler. But it's good filler - the scenes with Blaize and Michael Jeter in the mental hospital are wonderful. It's nice to see more of Melinda and dealing with her mental illness, although something about her just always seems poorly utilized. I also find the setup with Rob, John, Cassie, and Melinda to be a little bizarre. Did Rob and Melinda ever get together? If so that would complete the circle.

How many times was Jessica raped? I can't remember. I just remember that at some points later on it seemed like every younger female cast member had been raped a half-dozen times.

I have that somewhere, or used to. It's sad seeing that with Zaslow and Garrett. As awful as Rauch's era was for Holly I do wonder what his version of Roger/Holly would have been like.

If any of you were fans of Scott Bailey/Sandy, and you get Cinemax, then you may want to look for the "Femme Fatales" episode he was in a month or two ago. It's rerun a fair amount. It's not anything explicit but you can see more than you did of him on GL (and some use of a stethoscope that would probably shock Rick Bauer). The guy who played Manny on GH is also in it.

November 17, 1987 Digest.

Weird seeing Kay Campbell there. I didn't notice the resemblance between Donald May and John Larkin until now. I wonder if that was intentional in casting.

Grant sometimes reminds me of a vampire.

I think so, yes. I think Nancy had a crush on Jake.

That must have been one of the last photos Jacquie took in her first AW run (the one with Sally).

That's great. Anna is so pretty there.

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

I think Lemay consulted at ATWT and AW during the mid-90's. I remember him complaining about ATWT having 3 mega-millionaires with 3 private jets (Cal, Damian, Lucinda). I saw his point, but then, he really helped popularize that in P&G soaps (ATWT and GL had had "mogul" characters, but they were always outsiders, like Stanley Norris or that guy Jerry Lacy played on ATWT; Mac Cory was the first mega millionaire mogul who became the heart of a P&G soap). What did you think of Vince? I've seen little of him. Just mostly supporting stuff, and his girlfriend, the waitress, when John Randolph died and Marianne was at the diner. I'm not sure how Lemay would have worked out in the late 80's AW long term but his 1988 material was damn good.

Was she as flat as Grace/Faith as she was panned for being? I remember some people were confused as to why they had her play dual roles when the performances were exactly the same.

I think OLTL was always color, it's just the only copy available is black and white.

I would say it may have been because AW had never developed a popular younger generation the way GL did. Richard Bekins and Chris Rich were clearly popular, and Laura Malone too, but they didn't ever take off the way Beth/Rick/Mindy/Phillip/Lujack did, or, for an older group of characters, Alexandra and the Lewis family. That gave GL more cover with viewers, whereas AW just had, from about 79-83 or so, a never-ending sea of new families and characters, most of whom nobody cared about.

Our "liberal" media in action again. Mark Halperin, never known for having a very high opinion of Obama, decided to spew profanity about him on MSNBC. He has been suspended. Let's see how long it will take for him to become a martyr/hero/victim of those censor-happy bleeding heart PC-loving liberals. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58098.html

The inside article is just a basic recap about Maeve returning to Edge in 1976, but I decided to post the cover as I liked it.