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Good for her!! What an awesome comeback.

I need to read her books one of these days.

What a great article about the show and its music. As a coda to the last sentence, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" is the most played song in the history of radio!! Cynthia Weil co-wrote another song, this time with Michael Masser and Tom Snow, that would serve as a love theme for a popular soap couple. In 1984, their "If Ever Your In My Arms Again" (sung by Peabo Bryson) became Kelly and Joe's song on the brand-new NBC soap Santa Barbara. The song was #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart the day SB debuted.

Starting with the last few episodes, the cameras have been upgraded and there is no cold open - there's a prologue and then the theme music with the voiceover comes in. It's been interesting to watch. Now that Mike has left town, it looks like John's house of cards is getting ready to fall. @TimWil, Angela Thornton as Lisa Kincaid is back and she's not taking it anymore!!

What was so great about MW's portrayal of Eden was that it was so layered. Eden wasn't quite as confident or self-assured as she made herself out to be...as a result of her upbringing and growing up without a mother, she was really a mess.

That's totally him.

I do think he did some exceptional work on SB (which I believe was his first soap gig) as Mark McCormack, the evil husband of Harley Kozak's Mary Duvall. He was right there when she was crushed by the giant "C" that fell from the Capwell Hotel sign.

Thank you for clarifying.

That's him for sure. I guess he was between stints on DAYS then.

That was awesome...kudos to whoever had the idea to put in the laugh track and post it!!!

Those are great photos. Yvette looks a lot like her dad, but has her mom's smile.

Did they ever have any kids together? I know that the Simon/Sherman union brought children from the previous marriages. I want to say they did, but maybe I'm thinking of how Colleen Zenk and Mark Pinter had a "yours, mine and ours" relationship. Was LOL John Aniston's first soap? I know he had auditioned for DAYS in 1970 when the Doug Williams role was being cast (and, of course, would go to Bill Hayes). I think he was the only one of Mary Stuart's leading men on SFT that was younger than she.

Sweet! I recorded it but haven't watched it yet. She did a great job on another SVU episode from several years ago, where she played Treat Williams' wife. He was a former football great crippled by concussions and accused of rape.

Apparently, the off-screen chemistry is still just as strong - Peter Simon and Courtney Sherman were married IRL in 1975, and are still together.

May she RIP.

I always enjoyed Anna Stuart as Donna Love (although the material she was given to work with in the show's last couple of years was nowhere near worthy of her talent), but seeing her as Toni on the reruns of The Doctors has been nothing short of amazing. She could play both a good girl and a bad girl with ease. Has she retired from acting now altogether?

I agree!!!

I've seen bits and pieces of his SFT work, and his attempt at a Southern accent just fell flat, poor guy. Victor on DAYS was and is a role that suits him so much better.

No offense to Kristen Meadows, but Tori was just a mess from start to finish. I'm kind of surprised the character lasted as long as she did.

^ That was great!! Thank you for sharing that commercial. In the reruns, we've just seen the last of Peter Burnell as Mike. Wow, those final episodes with him were so intense!!

Judy Collins also supposedly appeared in that storyline, but not as herself. I think she played a patient. Brooke Shields played a friend of Erich's named Elizabeth. Tony Randall did play himself. He had been signing autographs at "Madison Mall" when he had suffered some minor mishap that required him to get stitches. The nurse who tended him was Carolee, who introduced him to Steve. Then Tony gave Steve a long lecture about smoking.

I don't know, but the scenes of Mason going into rehab to stop drinking and Julia coming to terms with how her father's alcoholism had so deeply affected her were nothing short of amazing. NLG deserved the Emmy she won for that story.

It was. In late 1982, very close to the show's end, there was a storyline about Steve trying to stop smoking. Actors like Tony Randall and Brooke Shields made cameos in that plot. I don't know if the annual November "smoke out" was around in 1982, but the story was airing during that month, so it would make sense.

I wonder if he was even approached.

Last night, I was watching a L&O rerun (2009's "Crimebusters") that featured Victoria Wyndham's son, Christian Camargo. He played a defense attorney.