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This message was posted in the comments section of a Ryan's Hope YouTube episode. Looks like Nancy Addison's (Jill) husband has finally finished his book.

Referring to people by first and last name was certainly something Ryan's Hope characters did all the time. And Kate called Nancy Addison “Nanny” ... I wonder if that is what everyone called her.

Rosie O'Donnell hosted a conversation with Kate Mulgrew (Mary #1) promoting Kate's new book at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City last night.

Ed Evanko (Dr. Alex McLean on Ryan's Hope), now a retired Ukrainian Catholic priest, holds chant workshops.

I'm not sure if you had this one...Robert Finccoli's (Pat Ryan #3 on Ryan's Hope) credits, listed for an independent film he made called Molly's Girl, say he appeared on The Doctors. I don't have any idea who he was on that show. Under cast info -- he's the 5th actor down. http://www.mollysgirlthemovie.com/cast.html

James Sloyan (Mitch) was in the October 13, 1984 episode of The Love Boat James had another appearance February 8, 1986 (an Egyptian cruise). Grant Show (Rick) also appeared in that episode. They fought over Valerie Harper (she chose Grant) It was a two parter. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1r885j_the-love-boat-season-9-episode-14-full-part-1-of-2_shortfilms http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rn801_the-love-boat-season-9-episode-15-full-part-2-of-2_shortfilms

Flipping channels today and caught a glimpse of Leslie Easterbrooke (Devlin Kowalski) and Joan Fontaine (Paige Williams) on The Love Boat. The November 7, 1981 episode is on Daily Motion http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1pqxjw_the-love-boat-season-5-episode-6-full-s05e06_tv Leslie was also in a December 1983 episode.

Oh, how nice of them - I'll bet receiving your request made their day! That was a nice photo of Patrick (and the photos of Liz, too). I'm a little behind on my viewing of The Doctors and have not wanted to look at that thread until I catch up -- so thanks for the link where I could see the picture.

That's wonderful!

I'm not sure if this has already been posted.

I don't know if she did about her hair, it does seem quite possible she would have since she felt so strongly about how Siobahn should dress. The Memory Book webmaster used to post at the Soapnet forum and he said he was told that Sarah was “difficult” - whatever that means (and I doubt she was the only RH actor who was ever called that). He also said the show, cast, and crew didn't like how Sarah would speak negatively about the show (even going beyond her own character and storyline like when she complained in the press about the show dropping the Pat/Nancy interfaith relationship)

A 1979 newspaper article where Sarah Felder said she almost quit the show over Siobhan's wardrobe. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19791012&id=zQxUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tIwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6010,1893805&hl=en I wonder at what point they told her no more jeans for Siobhan because Siobhan did wear them that first year.

James Sloyan (Mitch) in a Maxwell House commercial from the 1970's. James can be seen beginning at approx. 2:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Zc0YQ_6bY

Sarah should have had a bigger career. It didn't sound like she had any serious career goals beyond RH at that point when the interview took place (at least none that she was willing to share with the writer and their readers). Did being fired from RH (and the backstage hassles) distinguish her fire? Hate to think that happened. Show biz is tough, though :-(

Yes, that was the "official" reason given. Apparently it was the head of daytime that encouraged them to use a great deal of popular music during that time. Besides the copyright music expenses, residuals could have also been part of it. Many years ago, Ilene Kristen told a poster at the old Soapnet forum she couldn't wait for 1982 episodes to begin on Soapnet so she'd start making some real money off them. Of course, Soapnet rebooted every time before it ever got to those episodes. And another poster, who was a huge Pater Haskell (Hollis) fan, had become friends with Peter and his wife. She had lunch with them and when she told him she was excited that his episodes would be coming up in a few months (this was back in 2007) - - he told her that the contracts beginning in 1982 (the year he joined the show) had residual payment clauses for the actors and he doubted Soapnet would ever air the 1982- 1989 episodes for that very reason.

DRW50 said Also in the movie, Lovespell, were Diana Van Der Vlis (Nell. Sherry), Kathryn Dowling ( years before she played Lily Darnell #2 on RH), and John Scanlon (JP, the original Ryan's Bar bartender when the series began) I knew the movie was made quite a few years before it's 1981 release date, but had no idea it was made back when Kate was still on RH. Someone had posted on the old Soapnet forum that in 1979 Claire Labine was very distracted by another project and the show seemed to suffer because of that so I thought that was the year she made the movie (and Kate's official website, Totally Kate lists filmed the movie as being filmed in 1979 ) but that had to be some other project Claire was working on because it doesn't fit with Kate's timeline of the film. There was another timeline issue for me. Kate said her mother came to visit her in Ireland to celebrate her 21st birthday while she was filming Lovespell ( Kate's birthday is April 29, 1955 ) Kate, later in the chapter, says how hard it was for her adjust back to New York after she returned home from filming. She said boyfriend David* suggested, soon after she got home, they should go away to a B&B for the weekend and that was when & where Kate said she became pregnant. Kate gave birth in early May of 1977 so that would be a late July conception date. So, she was filming Love Spell in Ireland from some time in April until some time in July of 1976 -- she certainly wasn't missing from the RH screen at all during those many months *Kate's boyfriend name in all the soap magazine back during RH had been given named Ben – in her book she says her boyfriend's name was David (with a completely different last name, too)

And that wasn't even a legal marriage. Jill and Frank went off by themselves and legally got married off camera in January of 1984. I wonder whose idea it was for the hospital bedside wedding and the off-camera ceremony (this one would have been written Pat Falken Smith ) because in 1983 both Nancy Addison and Claire Labine said Jill and Frank should have a big, big wedding.

I don’t recall anything about Dallas. She only talked briefly about Mrs. Colombo. At that first meting with Fred Silverman and others, Kate blurted out that Peter Falk was old enough to be her father (and her grandfather). They explained the concept to her. She politely declined... she wanted to do theater (she explained earlier in that chapter that being on Ryan's Hope had confirmed her suspicion that TV did not fulfill her creatively) Her manager had her talk to Fred again, There were what she called extravagant promises made (she does not go into any details of the those promises) and so she said it was an offer she couldn't refuse. The main thing she said was she worked 7 days a week and that left her weary and sleep deprived (that had her sneaking naps wherever, and whenever, she could) She called Mrs. Columbo TV series well intentioned but misguided.

You're welcome -- the copy I read was also from a library :-) The book is a good read, but it ends with her beginning a relationship with Tim Hagen. It wasn't until just recently that I realized Kate had divorced Tim.

I'm about a quarter of the way through Kate Mulgrew's new book. Some RH related items Up first, this cute tidbit -- Kate was devastated to learn that her Our Town (1975 play she appeared in) co-star, Richard Backus (later Barry Ryan on RH) was married with children because she thought that it would be his professional duty to fall in love with her the same way his character falls for her character. She talks about her fist meeting with Claire and about her screen test. Kate on Mary ...Mary Ryan in particular attracted a diverse and sweeping viewership. Women of every stripe tuned in to see what Mary would do next. They loved her because she was an independent spirit, unafraid to speak her mind, passionate, impetuous, and brave. Seldom lauded for her beauty, Mary had something else to offer, something women could grab hold of and understand. She had a powerful sense of self and this proved more magnetic and more relatable than any other single quality. Claire poured her heart and most of her own unique qualities into the character of Mary Ryan. Claire was Mary Ryan, and Mary Ryan was, in many ways, me (Kate). And mentions how her friendship with Claire has deepened over the years. Kate describes Nancy Addison as a dazzling beauty and as a salacious gossip (who fascinated Kate’s sister) Although Kate and Nancy were from two different world, she says she and Nancy were partners in crime. Kate tells Claire that she is pregnant and may have to quit the show. She also tells her that she is having the baby and then putting it up for adoption. They talk, and then, right there, is when Claire came up with the whole Mary & Jack storyline. Claire tells Kate that Mary will find herself pregnant, too. Jack won't want to be a father and they'll break-up. Claire continues on saying that Mary will have the baby (a girl, of course) and Claire even named the baby Ryan Fenelli during that first discussion upon learning Kate was pregnant! Kate says the ratings soared because of Mary's trials and how Mary handled them with courage. Kate returned to work 3 days after giving birth (!) to shoot one scene. She says that was the episode where Mary and baby Ryan came home from the hospital. Wasn't that around the time when the ABC camera operators were on strike? That would explain shooting episodes out of order because Kate's Mary had a number of episodes while Mary was still in the hospital after giving birth (Kate's Mary talked with Sister Mary Joel, talked to Jumbo, talked to Faith, talked to Tom, she reacted to Delia losing Little John in the park - and Kate no longer looked pregnant in those scenes) before she came home. At that point of time in the show, Kate says the ratings are sagging. Seems like the ratings soared, and then sagged, awfully fast.

Over 40 of John Blazo (Pat #2) songs have been put on YouTube. Don't know why they didn't have his Pat sing to his lady loves the way Pat #1 did. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfdlWxUtchwqoJz8GABmZZw/videos

For me – the timing of the trip was wrong. I never thought Mary to be the type of mother to miss her baby’s first Christmas. They could have left for Ireland on December 26th ---that way we would have also got some scenes of Mary, Jack, and Ryan as a real family before Kate left.

The official 4:29 minute trailer can be seen here

It premiered March 5th and is scheduled throughout the month.