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Mansion of the Damned sounds much more dramatic than A View From the Bay. Did Jamie write the screenplay? Who was producing the movie? If it had occurred during the Carl Hutchins years I could imagine Carl wanting to produce the movie locally in order to humiliate Mac somehow. But also a little too Lesoleil, a crowd of foreign intruders who don't add up to much or have any lasting impact. I don't think I have ever been very clear on what scandals Jamie used in his book -- in the synopses on the AWHP I see that he dates the actress who plays "Yvonne" (his character based on Cecile). Was it all about Jamie/Sandy/Blaine/Cecile or did it get into the whole Mac/Rachel/Mitch/Janice affair?

If the will stipulates that the inheritance should be split among all of the children they don't need to be named. In some cases also I think the legitimate heirs simply decide to allocate something to the newly-discovered relative which they can do as they see fit. For example when Marley learned about Victoria she voluntarily offered to split her trust fund which had been set up by their grandfather.

I thought at first that Beverlee was kidding when she said she had only just met Jerry since the first moment was Bobbie asking Jerry not to have his arm around Beverlee to give production more flexibility in the editing. I find Beverlee so charismatic. And it was interesting to me to hear her discuss the change in Iris' personality, especially talking about reacting to the other actors who might be playing the villain's rôle. In the AW thread we have talked about Nicolas Coster complaining that Beverlee delivered her lines by rote as if she simply ignored her scene partner.

Since Carmen Duncan's Iris was so different from the Beverlee McKinsey Iris he had married, perhaps that softened his heart. Did Robert have any interaction with Russ or Olivia (the daughter, not the wife) in 1989? I was thinking after reading over the 1980 synopses that it would have been nice to make that connection and possibly even address the question of whether Olivia (the wife) had been able to have children after all.

Since the image of Robert that is stuck in my mind is of his anger and hatred for Iris in which he destroyed a portrait and a bust, I had a hard time thinking that he might be sentimental over his love for Iris. Looking back over the AWHP synopses it seems like Robert was used more effectively during a short return in 1980 to introduce his soon to be ex-wife Olivia and to make a bit of trouble for Clarice by asking to have contact with Cory. (Iris had already relocated to Texas.)

Not that I recall. I don't think it even came up whether Reginald or Donna had named the baby. I assume the Carsons named Victoria. Bob Marley probably has more global cultural resonance.

I take your point but you can't necessarily tell by when the baby was born when the mother was inspired by the name. She could have liked the name in 1985 and then named the baby somewhat nostalgically 10 or 15 years later. Or they could have liked the show later and just thought that Marley was more distinctive than Victoria regardless of how much they liked the characters.

I was reading the retcons thread and thinking about how frustrating it was to watch MJ change from a college-educated eldest child detective to a failed singer and secret ex-prostitute middle child without a degree who was demoted to uniformed officer, and it struck me that maybe it would have been less jarring to give the prostitution story to the character of Cheryl. I'm not saying that I necessarily think Kristen Marie would have been right for the role and that storyline, but that if they had cast for it they could have played out a similar storyline without ruining an existing good character.

I haven't watched Days in years (other than to show my mother a short bit of Doug when I heard he was around) but I looked it up to see how it played out. Short version: Abe takes a call from someone called Cass speaking for the Salem city council. Later he calls Cass back and his wife Paulina (played by Jackee Harry) takes the phone and addresses Cass as Mr Winthrop. There didn't seem to be any reason why they would need to see or speak to Cass Winthrop again.

Richard Culliton is writing for Days nowadays, isn't he? I can see him using the name as a throwaway as well as wanting to write for the character. Maybe the best joke would be a fakeout mention of Cass as a prelude to reintroducing Steve Schnetzer as Steve Olson.

I'm dipping in and out of Alan Rickman's diaries (Madly, Deeply) and was surprised to come across a brief entry mentioning being a guest of Beverly Penberthy in Rye just after Xmas 1995. There's not a lot of context in the book but based on the imdb I gather they met making the movie Judas Kiss. ETA: Actually I find they met earlier:

Well, he did die on As the World Turns, so maybe she didn't consider that minor detail important even though the discussion frames it in the context of who she would like Paulina to be with in the unlikely eventuality of a revival of AW.

I caught the tail end of The Unfaithful on TCM today and Eddie Muller mentioned that Ann Sheridan had appeared on Another World. I know she has been mentioned here but I don't think her name came up when we were considering the most famous actors who had been on the show. I will have to go back to the novelizations to see how much impact Katherine Corning (Missy's mother) had.

Robert Clary of Hogan's Heroes as well as Days of Our Lives and Y&R has died. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-clary-dead-hogans-heroes-1235263555/amp/

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Thanks. I was trying to figure out an explanation where Blaine's motives had been somewhat pure. This makes more sense. I went down the rabbit hole a bit hunting for Nancy as a child and watched some scenes from November with Tracy and Jason Dunlap. Olivia Delaney has come to Bay City and has decided to work at the hospital. Tracy has some out of town singing engagements planned so Jason has a new singer filling in, Lilly Grafton. She looked familiar but I couldn't find who played her.

Thanks! Jerry seems like a real straight arrow here. Very confused about what Blaine is up to and why as she was convincingly attempting to insist she had not been at the club she wasn't prepared with a better cover story than "I don't have a double." (In fact if you think about it if she wasn't there how would she know there wasn't a woman who looked like her?)

I remember Conroy from Search for Tomorrow but not really as Jerry. Did he leave the role before the whole schizophrenia storyline? Are there any clips of him as Jerry? I jumped around searching 1980 but mostly found only Mac and Rachel.

In the scene where Jamie meets Julie Anne, they establish that they were at high school together and that her brother Zack is a little older than Jamie. I feel like this is partly to remind us not to think of Jamie as too old.

Kathleen said her middle name was Theresa after her dead mother but when they started the Reginald storyline she became Mary. When Kathleen met up with Jake's mother to find out about Mary for a book she was writing the character was called Helen. Later Jake's parents were called Alice and Ray. Alicia Coppola has said that when she auditioned the character that became Lorna Devon was being called Mavis Lane.

Nancy had just graduated from high school with Marley and they were supposed to be 18 in 1985. I think Jane Cameron was closer to 25. Don Scardino was 37 (born in 1948!).

I know it's not always significant, but IRL Jim Poyner is about 14 years older than Chris Bruno. In fact Chris Bruno is a little bit younger than Jensen Buchanan. I think it gets murky by the era of Russell Todd, but maybe I am biased because Stephen Yates' Jamie seemed closer to 30 than 20 and then Laurence Lau seemed a hair younger and both Lisa and Vicky seemed younger than MJ or Cecile or Blaine. I should clarify that I wouldn't argue Jamie and Vicky were meant to be exact contemporaries, more that they were in a kind of vague flexible cohort of twentyish people. I'm not sure there was a teen set again until Matthew was aged up to Matt Crane. (Daniel Dale didn't have a set and Sandra Ferguson went right to Cory Publishing and Sam.) In some respects, possibly the blondness, Dr Jamie Lau felt more like a retread of Chris Chapin. Don Scardino was I think playing a bit younger than his age to date Nancy.

Sally had been married at least once, hadn't she? To one of the Hobsons maybe? It struck me in the Kyra Sedgwick clip that they were obviously trying to reform Sally starting with Dawn Benz who seemed much prissier than Jennifer Runyon. Also kind of wild to hear her say one moment that she is taking things slowly with Peter and the next moment that she is probably going to marry him. (Did Sally ever sleep with Peter?) When Catlin first came to Bay City he slept with Maisie while he was living at Smiley's and of course with Donna after he became her stableboy. He used to hint to Sally about his shameful past and it was only after some HW turnover that it became the sweet innocent monogamous tragedy of Brittany. Jamie and Dennis really had their ages messed up as well. Cecile popped in with the more matronly set but Jamie and Dennis dropped down to become contemporaries of Marley and Victoria.

This isn't a new clip but I saw the recent news that Kevin Bacon would be part of the MCU and it reminded me of Kyra Sedgwick as Julia. Here she has a scene with the minor Sally between Jennifer Runyon and Mary Page Keller.

Today I learned that Camille Paglia was a big fan of Beverlee McKinsey and used to take notes of dialogue on AW that amused her in the 1970s. Apparently she once met Elaine Kerr who had played socialite Loretta Simpson in 1975 and quoted a scene at her. From a Salon article in 2008, the section on AW is after a long discussion about contemporaneous politics: https://www.salon.com/2008/05/14/tarantella/