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Me too. I never heard it referred to as a gay island before. But, hey, I figured this was a chance to post a photo of Hairy Island Guy.

That would be Sean, the hot, hairy-chested guy who lived on the island where Reva ended up after Annie tried to kill her in 1998. William Bumiller played the role. It seemed like Sean was going to be a love interest for Reva. Once they got back to Springfield, Sean was placed in Dinah's orbit and was then written out.

I recollect these two soaps being discussed in Soap Opera Digest before Jon-Michael Reed's 1984 column. I believe the Stewart soap went by two titles: Grosse Pointe and Star Crossed. The Bauer soap was known as The Barons at one point and then The Billionaires at another time. At one time, both soaps were slated to be part of an expanded CBS lineup and were set to debut around September 1983, likely in the late morning/early afternoon.

It was during a period when Rachel had amnesia and from what I read and remember was a plot device to add conflict between Rachel and Mac.

Thanks for posting this! And how cool to see Maeve McGuire in the Dove commercial.

I think you're right. Irizarry re-joined GL in mid-July 1991, literally right around the time Farren Phelps became EP. Irizarry's casting was announced at the Emmy Awards ceremony in late June 1991. That said, FOJ Justin Deas predated FOJ Marcy Walker's casting: Justin arrived in January 1993 while Marcy joined around September/October, somewhat around the time Marj Dusay arrived.

This is first hand knowledge from someone who actually worked closely with cast members. A very reputable and honorable person. I have no reason to doubt him.

The stuff about Lisa Brown doesn't surprise me. About 8 years ago, a friend who worked behind the scenes at ATWT and GL described Lisa and Martha Byrne as being the "mean girls" on the World Turns set.

I have so few memories of the PFS period. It was so quick. I know that PFS took over as head writer of Ryan's Hope in late 1983. Was she also creating Scruples when she was head writing RH?

Definitely not. Kobe was still Executive Producer of Texas in November 1982. If I recall correctly, NBC announced the cancellations of Texas and The Doctors in early November 1982. The personnel change at GL that occurred in November was the replacement of Pat Falken Smith by L. Virginia Browne and Gene Palumbo.

I was under the impression Cullen was fired. Her departure was very abrupt. Amanda and Josh went into business with Ross: Los Tres Amigos, or LTA.

Yep. Perkel played the role when Lesley Ann was a minor character. It's possible Potter left and Kobe started work at the end of 1982, but her credit in the closing crawl didn't appear until around February 1983. There used to be GL episodes on YouTube from February 1983 where the credits showed the shift from Potter to Kobe.

Do you have any recollection of the original Lesley Ann? She was then played by Jacqueline Perkel, who is a colleague of mine at Rutgers University. As I recollect, Geraldine Court was dumped in February 1983 when Allen Potter was still at the helm. Jennifer Cooke's Morgan was used during the Kobe period with the Browne/Palumbo and Culliton/Culliton/Tomlin regimes. She was placed into Rick and Phillip's orbit, which was odd. Cooke was written out in May 1983 just around the time the Long/Culliton regime started. Kathleen Cullen was dropped as Amanda in August 1983.

Lynn Clark was amazing as Lily Light. The character had so much potential, yet was scrapped so quickly. I think she on for only four months. I tell you: the Dobsons were the 1980s version of Brad Bell, introducing characters, quickly losing interest in them, and then dropping them. There was so much potential with the Duvall/Bassett family in 1985, including the divine Grace Zabriskie as Theda. Yet they were all gone within a few months, with the exception of Mary and we all know what happened to her in the summer of 1986. The Dobsons' lack of commitment to any character who wasn't a Capwell drove me away from Santa Barbara and back to Guiding Light.

I checked in on the thread and he, indeed, forgot that Mary had portrayed Meta on Guiding Light. The way it was written, it was hard to tell if he forgot/didn't know she had been in Springfield, or was objecting to her inclusion on the list. He also mentioned that his first writing gig was Search for Tomorrow.

I'm confused by two things. First, why did Twitter hide one person's answer and mark it as "potentially sensitive content"? It featured shots of Charita Bauer, Don Stewart, Mart Hulswit, Jerry ver Dorn, Mary Stuart, Michael Zaslow, and Maureen Garrett. Second, what was up with Mulchaey's tweet questioning Mary Stuart's inclusion in the collage of photos? He also commented that it should be Peter Simon's Ed as opposed to Hulswit's Ed.

Who is his most missed character? I scanned the thread, but don't see his response.

Oh, man! Those Friday night get-togethers were so much fun! It was so entertaining listening to them talking about their soaps. It's what got me hooked on soaps. Only my Aunt Ida remains of that group and she's hitting 90 next month! I wish I had kept that book. It was some kind of almanac about TV in 1979. I remember the chapter on soaps had photos of the Ryans from Ryan's Hope with John Blazo pictured as Pat Ryan. It went into detail about what a flop the 90-minute experiment had been, but that NBC was seriously toying with expanding Days. There were some really great soap-related books back then. I remember one about writing for soap operas (I want to say that the author was BK Perlman). I came across one amazing book from the 1960s in Alexander Library at Rutgers University back around 1984-1985. It had a detailed story outline for Love of Life from around 1968 where Vanessa's sister Meg was slated to be reintroduced.

I tend to doubt that. The reactions today are similar to the reactions people had online well before streaming series were even a thing. Plus, the reactions today are very similar to the reactions I saw back in 1979-1980 in the soap magazines. Just from my own personal experience, my mom, my aunt, and their friends would get together every Friday night for coffee and Entemann's cakes, to gossip, and to talk about their soaps. They were unanimous about a few things: Rita Stapleton was a tramp, Roger Thorpe was scoundrel, and they all hated the 90-minute Another World because it was so slow. In fact, a number of them bailed on the show and moved over to One Life to Life. I wish I still had the book and don't recall the title, but I had a book that looked at television in 1979 and it addressed the 90-minute AW experiment and what a flop it was. Despite the experiment not being successful, at the time NBC was seriously toying with expanding Days of our Lives to 90 minutes as well.

Annie and Rick had been married. They divorced sometime in 1995 after Abby had been introduced. There was also another guy from her past, Jake, who never showed up in Springfield. At one point, there were rumors that Kin Shriner was slated to play the role of Jake.

Great idea! Damon was the one who did the Coster interview and he would be perfect. My husband and I went with Damon and Roger, the other WLS guy, to see drag queen Dina Martina back in 2010. They were both very charming and fun guys. World Turns had just ended and they told us All My Children and One Life to Live were likely to be cancelled soon. Damon left WLS sometime after that. He’s now a major PrEP and HIV prevention educator.

It doesn’t give the source of her 1987 interview, but here’s where I saw her talking about leaving SB: http://pierin26santabarbara.blogspot.com/2012/08/where-are-they-now-ava-lazar.html?m=1

In an interview, Lazar said she left because of the extreme pressure, schedule, and the way Santana was written.

Just announced: Mart Hulswit and Fran Myers are slated to be on The Locher Room on Thursday, May 13th at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST. How cool!!

Bruhner was around when Phil MacGregor was playing Rick. It was a weird period when Rick and Phillip started hanging around with Morgan. Long arrived in May just as Morgan left town and Michael O’Leary arrived as the new Rick. Was just watching the Thanksgiving 1983 episode and couldn’t stand O’Leary’s antics.