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I must admit that I love bubble butts.

Wish granted. Never say that I am not generous with you!

Wow, what a view!

The article was incorrect. PFS was NOT a writer on DAYS from its 1965 debut. William J. Bell arrived in 1966, and he hired Smith after that.

Sooooooooo cute and hot! If only I were 22 again!

Very lickable, those abs. (Good grief, did I say that aloud?!?) Oh well, we're among friends here.

I think it was in a 1974 interview entitled "A Pleasant Little Kingdom," in Daily TV Serials, that Jacquie Courtney talked about having kinescopes made of important episodes featuring Alice. She did not specifically mention what ones she had kept, but that famous Rachel/Alice confrontation at the engagement party would seem to be a no-brainer. It was a captivating moment in the show's history (I remember being glued to my set while watching it air), and really revved the Alice/Steven/Rachel triangle into high gear. It's an episode *I* would keep.

Thank you. Even if fans never get to see copies of Courtney's vintage kinescopes, it would be nice to know that those rare episodes still exist safely with her her family members. Jennifer could probably make a lot of money by auctioning copies off on eBay, if she did not think the idea was too gauche. I'll bet Courtney would have gotten a kick out the the continued interest and affection fans have for her.

Jacquie Courtney was only 19 when that commercial aired, but already she had great poise and charisma. I'll bet her daughter will love seeing it, if she has not done so already. You know, many years ago, Courtney said in a magazine interview that she had had personal kinescopes made of many of her favorite scenes or episodes of AW. I'd be curious if they still exist somewhere. I'd hope the family would keep them. If you get a chance and do not think it is a pushy question, perhaps you could ask Jennifer about the existence of these kinescopes. No one else in the world would have them!

Wow, that Tammy commercial really is a great find!

Yes, that is Michael Storm.

Oh yes, Aniston was really...not good on LOL. Yes, it was a big scandal at the time, considering their new romance allegedly broke up their previous marriages.

We will never have another breakfast in the Bauer kitchen, or another Christmas in Bert's living room, alas.

I agree, it was great.

I watched both these series, and enjoyed KC quite a lot. SoMH, not as much. Unfortunately, they are not really the type of series that collectors used to preserve on videotape back in the day, and although I do have (I think) three eps of SoMH, the eps of both series on the internet are more or less non-existent.

Well, *I* thought a lot of his material was good, but of course Simon had the right to disagree. I agree with your point, however, that actors should not sh*t on their shows and continue to stay with them. If you hate a job so much, leave. In the 1970s, Janice Lynde of Y&R was very vocal in the press about what she thought of her character. There was one headline that read something like, "There are times when I just hated Leslie!" She called her character a "nerd" and a "nebbish," and said that the long, pained looks actors had just before their scenes faded away to commercials were because they were trying not to laugh. I remember thinking how rude it all was, and how disrespected Bill Bell must have felt. Lynde was an excellent actress, and played the character very well, but I was not surprised when she left the role after just a few years. (It was only decades later that she admitted the material Bell had given her had been much better than she realized at the time.)

This is pretty cool. I had never seen it before. Thanks.

By that point, she was already off AW and had nothing to lose, I suppose. We know how Rauch treated people on his shows, and JC had years of frustration to purge. Lemay did not seem amused by Courtney's going to the press. He made a snide comment about how she might have gotten someone else to write her stories for her, as if she couldn't handle it herself.

From what I recall (and that interview was 40 years ago...yikes!!!), Simon said that he was interested in Broadway, which meant he had to stay in NY. And he did admit that as much as he knocked the writing on soaps, primetime TV produced a lot of turkeys too.

Yes, I watched the show during the Scott/Kathy period, and the actors had great on-screen chemistry. When the writing was good, the characters were quite engaging. I have a special SFT-themed magazine which included interviews with all the cast members, and even back then Simon complained about the lousy writing on daytime TV and made it clear that the soap was just a job for him. Still, he showed a lot more "oomph" as Scott Phillips than he ever did as Ed Bauer. His version of Ed was always so internal, so morose, so listless (in my opinion), it was hard to care for the character. It was quite a comedown after Mart Hulswit's warm, affable, emotional Ed. Of course, everything is open to personal opinion. I found Simon great as Scotty and listless as Ed, but I know there are viewers who enjoyed his stint on TGL. I personally felt that SFT's last great period was under the pen of Ann Marcus, while other viewers feel that the show's last hurrah was a few years later, under the Corringtons. To each his own, I guess.

Same here. That can be great, when a long-running serialized program finally ends, and you can binge-watch all the episodes on Netflix.

Honestly, I found him to be rather stiff, and not terribly interesting.

Willis and Alice became closer after Steven died, and he admitted to her that she represented an unattainable fantasy for a formerly-poor farm boy like him: the golden girl who always ignored or made fun of him in high school. She protested that she was just like everyone else, but Willis could not get that idealized image of her out of his head. Even Lemay admitted in his autobiography that Alice never regained the popularity she had enjoyed with Courtney in the role. I don't think viewers warmed up completely to Susan Harney, but she was significantly better than some of the other recasts in the role. Yes, Willis and Angie Perrini became romantically involved, but he was such a screw up, that did not work out. The character of Willis was quite glib and abrasive until Leom Russom took over the role, then he softened somewhat and was more tolerable.

I would love that a lot, and I'll bet other posters would appreciate seeing more vintage material as well. Thanks! For me, because I DID watch soaps during their vintage years, seeing these older articles is like going through a long-forgotten family album. Great fun!