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She looks like Inez in a way. Frons hates history so if she came back it would be as a psycho, but the only way I would have made sense of Bo caring about Inez would have been if she reminded him of Deililah. I think Marco posed as Mario for about a year.

Thanks for the detailed info.

Of all the GL stuff we can't see I think it's the early Norris days I want to see most.

That's great. I've never heard this story.

I forgot to say, pages ago I posted a not all that positive Daytime TV Stars review of Search at the time Edwards was probably producer. When was the picture page from? Was it when Search was still (barely) on CBS?

Thanks for finding out more info. I knew they recast when Ethel was ill, but didn't know what happened to her. It's strange that she was just never mentioned again - it made Lisa seem like she had no past.

Daniels is very unpopular with social conservatives. He tried to mollify that recently by banning funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana, but I still don't think they will accept him unless they have no choice. He made the mistake of suggesting that there should be a "truce" between social conservatives and those in the party who don't care about social issues. This led to broadsides by Huckabee and others about how unacceptable this idea was. I think that the awful "T-Paw," who has been hyped by the press for years and who blatantly panders to the religious right (he said his biggest regret as a state legislator was voting for a gay rights bill) and to other far right wings of the party (his backtracking on global warming, his refusal to call anything he did in Minnesota a "tax" even though it ended up costing people more than taxes probably would have). He's also not Daniels or Romney, which makes him appealing to many in the party. The Democrats are always so weak and lack a message. The Republicans have a message they stick to at election time, but then when they are governing, it's about abortion, it's about race-baiting, banning gay marriage, blocking repeal of DADT, gutting Medicare and Social Security, giving more money to the rich, etc. If the Republicans find anyone who is not a disaster then I think they will win. Even if Obama does win I think it will end up being like Clinton's last term (not the sex scandal, but being a hobbled pariah).

I think she pretended to be rich when she was actually from poverty. She also loved Marco, but he lied to her about his identity. I'm not sure what her story was after that. I do remember that after she left soaps, the New York Times erroneously printed an obit on her.

Is that Christine Jones as the Viki temp? Edwina looks more like a sickly Rhoda than whatever they were going for.

Kitty died of cancer or some mysterious soap disease a few months after she finally married Linc. Fans were very upset, and when Francesca James decided to return to the show, they created Kelly. Kelly was a singer, high-strung, being fed pills by her sleazy manager. Eventually she learned she was Kitty's twin, and after a lot of trauma, and the murder of her manager, she married Linc.

Sorry - I got a phone call and when I got back on here I forgot to finish the article! I will type the rest up.

Francesca James looks so stylish in those first shots. Was that from when Kelly and Linc were visiting Pine Valley, or were they still on the show?

There was something so special and beautiful about Ellen Bethea. A sense of peace and strength that you knew she had to have in order to get through life with such crazy and demanding parents. I hated Mari Morrow's Rachel. The writing for her was lazy and demeaning - oh well of course she has to be a mess who was ruined by her parents, and they have to wring their hands over her. Morrow was also a weak actress, at best. If you watch the mid-1995 gala ball clips that VickRobCal put up recently, she sticks out like a sore thumb compared to HBS, Purdee, Parros, and Bob Woods. What was done to Rachel basically epitomizes daytime's attitude towards black women.

John - and we discovered quite a lot about this charming, dynamic man. He speaks like a polished actor (which he was), and has an enormous knowledge not only of theater and television, but music and ballet as well. He has a bachelor's degree in English, and a master's in theater as a directing major. He taught for a year in a small girl's school (Christian College) in Columbia, Missouri, where he says, "I was the drama department." He came to New York in the summer of '63, and worked for four years with the local CBS station as a production assistant in the news and public affairs department. "I was with 'Camera Three' for some time, which you may have seen on Sunday mornings. I was also with 'Dial M for Music,' and 'The American Musical Theater,' though I think both these series are no longer running." Then Mr. Edwards chuckles as he adds, "'Camera Three' has been going forever, almost as long as 'Search.'" He then went to Channel 13, which is the New York NET outlet, as staff associate director. "Then I received a letter in May of '69," he recalls. "It was a letter from Bob Driscoll, who was then producing 'Search For Tomorrow,' asking me if i would be interested in the position of associate producer. Interestingly enough, he had tried to phone me in my apartment, which was then on the upper West Side. This was all before I was married. He was unable to get me on the telephone. I was never in, and as a matter of fact I was in New London, Connecticut, then directing a production of 'My Fair Lady' for the Pfizer Chemical Co., which is how I met my wife, because she was the choreographer. "Well, anyway, Mr. Driscoll sent me a letter and it was mailed from this building (57th St.) on a Monday. I received it thirty-five blocks north of here on Friday! So it's a wonder we ever did get together, but we finally did. I was interviewed, and met the people at the ad agency, and from Procter & Gamble, and became associate producer in May of '69.I took over officially as producer in the early part of '72, although I'd been producing on an interim basis since July '71." John told us that prior to coming to 'Search,' all his experience had been in the control room, so this was a big step into management. We asked him if he liked being a producer. "Yes.You're on top of things from the very beginning, from the concept of the storylines, right through the breakdowns in the scripts, and participate with the directors and the cast in the actual rehearsal process." John S. Edwards was born in Middlebury, Vermont, and studied at Dartmouth. He has a master's degree from the Yale Drama School. HE lives in a brownstone house that he bought almost two years ago in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, with his wife Lotte, and his step-daughter, Carla Witmer. What led him into acting and the TV field? "Well, I think the same thing directed me to the theater that directs everyone there - some inarticulate longing. Some would call it a disease and some would call it a calling, but I think you just head in that direction. When I first became an undergraduate, I took the English major, thinking I was going to be a lawyer. I'd done a lot of acting when I was in high school, and in a sense I tried to avoid going into show business. But I discovered that was what I wanted, and there was no sense in denying it any further. I really began acting when I was a junior in college, and started making preparations to go to Yale."

June 1974 Afternoon TV.

The people running Emmerdale now don't seem to care about its history. If they did then the Skillbecks would be back. I would also say that Matt's twins with Peggy weren't really dead.

No, that was Lee Hawkins. Thanks for the memory jog. I didn't realize it was that clear from the start. I still feel like Roscoe would have been better with a less malevolent character. It was tough to find men who worked with Brooke.

And this man is considered one of the greatest GOP intellectuals? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/05/14/us_gingrich_1/index.html

I was reading a mid-1993 soap magazine and they praised ATWT's for Duke's return, and said the show needed his good-natured obnoxious personality again, and he told John he had quit med school, etc. I don't remember any of this. How long was he around? Was he already split with Lien from this time?

The fun never ends in Emmerdale. The latest rumor going around is that I also read a rumor at DS that the show planned to give Nathan the story about stalking Katie and setting fire to the village, and that's why Lyndon quit. If so I like Lyndon even more now! What a trashy, sick story to give a character that you could have used for years and years.

That's very pretty. Always nice, and rare, to see any celebration of Loving.

Michael Storm also essentially said he hated the storyline. I wonder what that was about.

Do you think her being there instead of VR made any difference to the story or was Victoria not a major player in it?