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At the finale, it was implied/almost revealed that Chanel was the daughter from an affair between Ruth Marshall and Peter Whitmore. thanks.

does anyone know off the top of their head if there were ever any interracial couples on generations?

yes — sabrina was born mid-december 1973; frannie, of course, on christmas day. so even if this were late spring — may, even early june — kim wouldn’t have been this far along.

scroll way down for a picture of michael park in ‘redwood,’ the new idina menzel that opens on broadway mid-februaty free link redwood

not since soaps began, but certainly since the success of dallas and dynasty began seeping into daytime in the early 1980s.

Actually, it’s more like, “if you’ve got money, you’ve still got problems — just like the rest of us.” i, too, prefer marland’s and nixon’s storytelling style to the over-the-top glitz and glam of the uber rich — white or black — behaving badly. but, i do hope the show does well. and, since i will watch tamara tunie in anything, i’ll be tuning in, as well.

as someone who grew up (and still pine for:) soaps before pre luke, laura, and dynasty, sharing your concern.

on a lighter (ok, shallow:) note, which is really all i can manage today…

many playwrights and screenwriters read their dialogue aloud, but irna’s method was unique. don’t remember where i read this, but she once said that like scheherazade, she required a live audience, which is why she dictated directly to her secretaries rather than use a dictaphone.

lipton wasn’t the only one who had issues with irna’s dialogue. don mclaughlin said the same thing same thing re both dialogue and plot. and irna didn’t actually ‘write’ dialogue. here’s how she describes her process: I know I am one of the few serial writers who dictates rather than types their scripts. But instead of being a detriment to me, dictating has been one of my strongest assets as a writer. When I dictate I, in fact, act out the entire episode. People who have watched me work have commented that when dictating I change my voice to fit each character, that I used certain gestures when speaking the lines intended for this character or that [one]. In fact, one observer called my work routine “a one-woman repertory company.” Secretaries have no problem knowing which character is speaking when I dictate.

just took a look up to 1961, the year before he left, didn’t see anything that even remotely mentioned an abortion. as far as his memory, people are being asked to recall events that took place decades earlier. so, of course, there will be some misremembering. when i hear one person’s version of any given situation an interview, i always try to find what others involved had to say. but, with this guy — much as he appears to distance from soaps. he also wants to exaggerate his role.

according to imdb, he was not involved with liamst in any capacity. and, also according to imdb as well as his book,’inside, inside,’ he began writing aw after irna left in 1965 — a year after the abortion story. granted he was 83 when the interview took place and may have misremembered some events. of course, given his proclivity for self-aggrandizement…

it’s not as though we didn’t know, but seeing it in print… words fail. free link ny times on biden’s enablers

look forward to hearing your thoughts after you watch the interview.

cbs sunday morning (19 january) includes a segment on ‘beyond the gates’ hosted by nancy giles. while i love the show, i’ve always resented, and, frankly, never understood, the short shrift they’ve given the p&g soaps over the years. they acknowledge the recent deaths of gh and days actors, yet ignore the passing of p&g actors who were on cbs for decades - kathryn hays, elizabeth hubbard, lisa brown, jerry ver dorn — i’m sure there are others i’ve missed.

re james lipton and soaps: interesting to watch his response in his interview for ‘television: an oral history.’ he explicitly downplays the importance of soaps in his career. at 41:43, he says, ‘you’re asking me too much about the soap operas…’ james lipton on soaps

the incoming baby in chief and his suckup free link speaker of the house orders capitol flag raised for inaugration

haven’t watched any of the daytime talk shows in ages, but i hit the mute button wherever that commercial where she screams ‘bingo’ comes on. same for that lume commercial that is on ALL THE TIME.

here’s irna on ‘to tell the truth’ in 1958: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgjdA3L19hA

really makes me wish i had photocopied his gl longterm. anyone close enough to madison to drop by?

i was working on a ‘world turns project in 1996, when i came across marland’s original gl longterm with his papers at the wisconsin historical society in madison (the atwt longterm is not — why i don’t know). stupidly, i did not make a copy. the only thing of note that i remember is that he originally intended for nola and kelly to be the end game — a story i would have to seen unfold.

True. But wasn't he at GL for a much shorter time than he was at ATWT? I think he was at ATWT for 8-years. Perhaps he had plans to mine GL's history, but did not have the opportunity. thoughts on marland’s long term from tom casiello. here’s the link: https://casiello.blogspot.com/2009/01/great-marlands-ghost-part-one.html “a treasure trove of long stories I've accumulated from different shows over the years. Some of them are long stories that made it to air... some of them didn't. Some of them were written by the head writers who were working for the show at the time, and others were "auditions" by people who hoped to one day hold the title. But there is one I value more than any of the rest, and that's Douglas Marland's proposed long story from 1985. I discovered it when I was cleaning out the filing cabinets from the CBS Studios on 57th Street before World Turns moved to Midwood, Brooklyn in 2000. My inner fan in a state of shock, literally salivating over the gold mine I had just discovered, I quickly made a photocopy of it and packed it away with the rest of the documents. I plowed through all one hundred and fifty seven pages that night, and then sealed it up in an envelope and put it away on my bookshelf, my mind spinning with everything I had read. And there it sat, until last week... when I rediscovered it.“

i believe this is what’s called a specious argument.

even through the height of oj, there were fans (myself included) who poured over weekly and digest. when i interviewed laurie caso in 1996, he told me that the plan was to bring all of the snyder kids back to the farm. i’ve talked with him a number of times over the years and always found him to be a straight shooter. were there budget issues? maybe. but according to caso, it was lisa brown who leaked to weekly and the fact that an actor knew about the fire and hit the panic button suggests (at least to me) that the show was serious.

cannot make this up… the guests on the first episode of ‘finding your roots’ are lea salonga and amanda seyfried. not only were both on ‘world turns, but lea was there in 2001 and 2003, amanda 1999-2001. so the two of them may have been n oakdale at the same time.