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Was the actress who played Bambi any good?

Thanks for posting all these gems. I've always been fascinated by behind-the-scenes stories, even more so than storyline articles, but the soap press was SOOOOOOOOO much better then.

Thanks for posting this article!! I especially loved reading what the late, great Stanley Kamel had to say - his DAYS days were before my time, but I absolutely loved him as Dr. Kroger on Monk - he was perfect in that role.

NICE.

I think Gerry Waggett's Soap Opera Book of Lists mentions that the police were called when the EB/PB brawl ensued and that they were considering suing each other, but decided to drop the matter.

Jackie Zeman, Billy Warlock, Shell Danielson, Carly Schroeder, Peter Hansen, Susan Brown...even actors who worked with Kin on other soaps like Catherine Hickland (on Texas) and Martha Byrne (on ATWT) still rave about him. He just seems like such a down-to-earth, funny guy that you would like to go out and have a beer with. Not Hollywood at all.

Kin's always been one of the most beloved GH actors of all, by colleagues, fans and the soap press alike. I've never heard a bad word said about him.

Oh...my goodness. I remember that slogan well - "fill it to the rim with brim". As for the awful hair and makeup - it was the 80s!!!! That's the only way to make sense of it. LOL

I LOVE the JKG-written articles from back in the day. If you find more, keep them coming!!

Thanks for posting this! It seems that Mary put a lot of herself into the role of Jo. Both were kind, compassionate, involved in social causes, trying to make the world a better place. God rest her.

All I could find out about Maggie/Laura was that the storyline with them aired sometime in 1980. I'll try to find out more.

Bambi Brewster - sounds more like the name of a porn star and not a soap character! Did she really monopolize the show in those last few months on the air?

Thanks for sharing that article. I wonder if she still struggles with chronic pain today...it sounds like she was really put through the wringer.

Sure looks like her!

I'm surprised NOW wasn't picketing the OLTL studios and/or ordering fans to boycott.

Simply the best from some of the genre's best actresses.

Speaking of Mark Rydell, here is a funny anecdote I read in Paul Denis' book, Inside the Soaps (published circa 1985): "Don MacLaughlin (Chris Hughes on As the World Turns) recalls the time Jeff Baker (played by Mark Rydell) was missing in the story line...and everyone was trying to find him. MacLaughlin received a letter from a woman who revealed that she had just seen Jeff Baker leaving the 58th Street Library and was going to phone the police, but then reconsidered and was notifying MacLaughlin first." LOL

I remember the Taggert/Dara/Justus triangle. It was an intriguing premise - Taggert the cop vs. Justus, legal counsel to "Anger Boy", battling for the heart of the DA/singer. As I recall, Vanita Harbour (Dara) was pregnant in real life at the time and once she went on maternity leave, any momentum the triangle was starting to have just stalled. That was also around the same time Joseph C. Phillips was on his way out the door, and then the whole story was dropped. A couple of years later, Taggert was placed in another potential love triangle with AJ and Hannah, which didn't fare any better. No wonder Real Andrews eventually walked after years of loyal service to GH.

Then he hired Susan Flannery for B&B...

The Chi-Lites episode is probably my favorite of the season so far. God bless Marshall Thompson, still leading the group since its inception in the late 1950s, and still smiling despite the fact that after a 1997 concert at the World Trade Center (if that isn't chilling enough), the group was on its way home when the vehicle they were in flipped over on the interstate. One of the group members was ejected from the car but recovered from his injuries - but the other passenger ejected was mortally wounded. She was Marshall Thompson's wife. He is happily remarried now - but wow. Fellow founding member and the group's primary songwriter, the late Eugene Record, penned "Have You Seen Her?" about his dissolving marriage to his first wife. He wrote "Oh Girl" to the woman who would become his second wife (and remained so until he passed in 2005).

Next thing you know, some current NFL players will be using that episode as an excuse. "The Manning Defense", anyone?

Didn't he even sock Tea in the face in one episode? I'm still surprised OLTL got away with that one.

That's my feeling, too. Too bad she isn't on a soap now - I think she would be an asset to whoever would hire her. She could always go back to DAYS, GH or Y&R even as a brand-new character.

That's possible, because for years the only show I'd ever seen her on was DAYS (in the pre-YT era).

I recall reading in an SOD article from about a decade ago, Tuc Watkins said that he was delivering some serious monologue when, without watching where he was going, walked directly into a table. He said something along the lines of that's where the character clicked for him, and that David was a character "who thinks he's dark and mysterious but is really a buffoon".