Paul Raven

I'm hoping at some point the money runs out for Leslie. It's ridiculous that she can fund clinics, spots centers and build her own mansion. We're talking multiple millions here. It would be in character that she blows it all and it would be a comeuppance that many viewers want, seeing that it seems she isn't going to be punished for her crimes any time soon. And it would be good to see her scheming, trying to get back to where she was, rather than smugly moving around town, throwing money about.

@Errol Thanks for your hard work and commitment. I'm sure I'll adapt to any changes as time goes by. Hope the board will thrive for may years to come!

The set situation is a major problem. Hopefully it is a priority for sally McDonald. The Shadow Room means more stories being told and talked about in public places.

Greenfield Recorder, Monday, August 12, 1985 Revived 'Dallas' ready to return for ninth season By JOE RHODES Dallas Times Herald DALLAS — It has been going on for eight summers now, long enough so that it is hardly even noticed anymore, long enough that it is expected to happen. As August begins, they are out there somewhere with their lights and their cameras, with their scripts and their makeup, making the city of Dallas famous with their lying and cheating and sneaking around. Talk to the cast members of 'Dallas', the producers and the crew, and they will tell you there has been a subtle change in the relationship between the city and the television show in these eight years, a shift from skepticism to tolerance, from tolerance to fascination, from fascination to an almost nonchalant acceptance. It is not that people do not still get excited when they see "Dallas" stars' here, it is just that they do not think of them as outsiders anymore. "I've always felt welcome here, from the very beginning," Victoria Principal was saying in her dressing room, waiting for the next scene involving her character, Pam Ewing. "So that wasn't a problem. "But there was a time, particularly after the 'Who Shot JR.' phenomenon when the enthusiasm generated a kind of hysteria that was frightening, where you couldn't go out in public without people really pressing in on you. "Once traffic actually stopped on a freeway because of it, when people found out I was in the car. They were banging on the windows saying, 'Hey, Pam, come out.' "But that doesn't happen anymore. People no longer become hysterical to the point of it being frightening! I think they have learned that we need to be treated with a certain amount of dignity, just like anyone else." "In a way I think people here are grateful to us," said Linda Gray, who plays Sue Ellen Ewing. "Because as the show's popularity has grown around the world, it's made them feel important. In a way, the show has made celebrities out of everyone who lives here." With practically the entire cast, from Larry Hagman on down, signing shiny new contracts, the show is guaranteed to run for at least two more years. Think about it: a decade's worth of Ewings and Barneses, of cliffhanger episodes and behindthe-scenes gossip. Ten years qualifies as s immortality in television land. Just as Southfork has become a landmark in Texas, "Dallas" has become one on the screen, the "Gunsmoke" of its time. "I don't think of it as 'Gunsmoke' as much as I think of it as 'I Love Lucy' or 'All In The Family,' shows that were the first of their kind," Principal said. "We were the first show of this kind. More than just being known for our longevity, I think 'Dallas' is a show that has changed the face of television. They filmed the 200th episode last week and it seemed as good a time as any to wander onto the "Dallas" set, to find out whether success breeds complacency, whether the show's going through any major changes, whether any extras have died from heat stroke lately. "Dallas" has survived the comings and goings of a lot of key actors — the death of Jim Davis, who played the patriarch Jock Ewing; the absence and return of Barbara Bel Geddes, preceded and then Donna Reed as Miss Ellie, departure of Patrick Duffy. But Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing, almost everyone agrees, is indispensable. "The show can go as long as Larry doesn't get bored," Howard Keel, who plays Clayton Farlow, said, putting it bluntly. "He is the man." A lot of things have changed since April 2, 1978, when that first episode aired. For one thing, the producers have gotten a lot smarter about Texas and the weather. Not only have they learned not to bring their stars out into the sun (Victoria Principal remembers being moments from fainting several times in the first few years) until it is absolutely necessary, but they have stopped putting things in the script such as the hurricane that swept through downtown Dallas in the original miniseries. "I think this is one of the most exciting years we've had," Principal said. "There's more rawness. I was beginning to think we were maybe getting too polished, but the show is getting grittier again. Philip Capice, the show's executive producer, says one of the benefits of success is the freedom to be left alone. Before "Dallas" was a hit, he said, the network was always sticking it's finger in. "In the beginning the network didn't want us to make it a continuing drama," Capice said. "They didn't think an audience would watch it every week and said we couldn't risk them being disoriented or lost if they missed a shot. So they said that every show's plot had to be self-contained. And they were. almost ludicrously so. What you had in that first season, Capice said, was a problem of the week, a crisis that would come out of nowhere and be solved before the hour ended. But it did not take king for the producers to realize that audience response was not coming so much to the contrived story lines as to the relationships between the characters, particularly J.R. and Sue Ellen. "So," Capice said, "we began to play more to that." Capice, and practically everyone else on the set, thinks it is the audience fascination with the characters that is responsible for the series' long-running success. He is quick to point out that it is the actors who are responsible for the characters coming to life, the actors who give them their personality. "Linda and Larry's roles were among the least well-defined when we started," Capice said, pointing out that Sue Ellen's character had no name and only four lines in the original mini-series. "Originally J.R. was pretty much the traditional villain and Pam and Bobby the hero and heroine. In fact, Pam was in many ways the central character, a sweet poor girl from the other side of the tracks who meets and marries this wealthy playboy and becomes the innocent in the den of vipers. Bobby was supposed to be kind of a ne'er-do-well in the beginning. "But the character can go as far as the actor wants to take it." That, clearly, was a reference to all the things Patrick Duffy has been saying about why he left the show. Duffy had been complaining for years that his character, Bobby Ewing, had terminal goody-goodness. Finally, Duffy said he had to quit because there was nothing he could do with the limits of Bobby's personality. So, for everyone's sake, they ran over Bobby with a car at the end of last season. No more Bobby. No more Patrick Duffy. Duffy does not get much sympathy from the returning cast members. The consensus here seems to be that if Bobby Ewing was boring, it was because Patrick Duffy made him that way. "There was a time when I felt my character had become too passive, passive to the point where I lost respect for her," Principal said. "So I went to the producers, and we They've always been willing to listen." Ken Kercheval says it would be just as easy to say that his character, J.R's primary adversary, Cliff Barnes, had nowhere to go, either. After all, everybody knows that Barnes will never win, that no matter how hard he tries, J.R. will always best him in the end. "Cliff Barnes has been defeated so many rimes for him to fry again this season to rise to the mission of toppling JR., you'd think they had him taken out and lobotomized," Kercheval said.

So Vanessa calls her dear friend over for advice and solace and then shuts her down the minute Dani raises perfectly valid points. Not expecting Joey to live in a place like that? It suits him perfectly-I think he used some of the same fabrics on his jackets. Ashley was OK for me on Day 1. Jury is out. Is there a reason that Isaiah is never at work? Another job choice we never see. Just have him be a bartender at Uptown or something.

Is Ashley contract? Or is this another character eg Kial who will appear sporadically and be offscreen quite often?

Saw this in a Lynda Hirsch summary from Feb 85 Learning her mother iII, Lisa heads for Florida. That's the first mention I've heard of Alma past 1977. I wonder if Alma was killed off, or even mentioned gain?

THE DAILY NEWS, Tarrytown, N.Y., Mon., December 1, 1975 Versatility is foremost for Canadian Actress BY CARMEL CAMISE MARCHIONNI Tudi Wiggins, whose career has altered between the stage, television and radio—with a few films tossed in—says she never intended to become an actress. A theater critic once called her a Deborah Kerr/ Margaret Leighton/Maggie Smith lady fitted into one designer styled suit. On stage or sipping a cup of hot coffee at the home of Dr. Rocco F. Troiano, Yonkers pediatrician, discussing the role of the volunteer worker with handicapped children, Canadian born actress Tudi Wiggins exudes an air of refined elegance. Call it class. She is regal in manner and speech and one suspects she can play royalty with little or no effort. Yet versatility is the name of the game on stage and before the television cameras. IN ONE season at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, she played an elderly matron, sophisticated Mediterranean villa dweller, witch , humble Buffalo housewife, a German maid and a kindly psychiatrist. She has enacted roles in all age categories, from 19 to 90, and is currently appearing in the CBS-TV daytime soap opera, "Love of Life." The role of "Meg" played by Miss Wiggins was originally held by Jean McBride. The character was written out of the script 18 years ago and returned to the show in December 1973. "Meg is very jet-set," says Miss Wiggins. "She causes all the trouble on the show, but rather than being an evil person, she is just self-centered. She tries to make things go her own way." Meg is the sister of the lead, "Van," played by Audrey Peters. "The people on the show are all marvelous," says Miss Wiggins. "They are all very human, down-to-earth. There is no time for temperament. "Everyone is there with the same pressures and tension and so you don't find some of the temperament that you might have on stage." TEMPERAMENT in the theater is publicized for publicity's sake, she feels "I think it is kind of fun for people to think actors are temperamental." Miss Wiggins lauds the talents of Larry Auerbach, who has directed "Love of Life" for the past 24 years. "I have been acting for 27 years and have found him to be among the finest I have ever met." Miss Wiggins, whose career has alternated between the stage, television and radio-with a few films tossed in-says she never intended to become an actress. It all began back in Canada when she was 12 years old and her brother, an aspiring artist, dragged her to the theater because he wanted to learn about set design. While he was there, the Ottawa Saturday Players cast him in a play and since they needed a young girl for another role he suggested they use his kid sister. "The manager kept after my mother until she finally consented," Miss Wiggins recalls. "And so I joined the company." She spent five years in the Ottawa Children's Theater before joining the Canadian Repertory Theater and then struck out on the North American tour of "Oh, What a Lovely War." Then, like so many Canadian performers who see brighter horizons in the south, she headed for New York. In 1968, she auditioned for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and was given the role of a nun in the production. She was understudy for the lead played by Zoe Caldwell and went on stage for Miss Caldwell at the Helen Hayes Theater six times. Miss Wiggins also appeared in the Broadway show, "There's One in Every Marriage." WHILE appearing in "There's One..." with Peter Donat and Roberta Maxwell, she was performing in the soaper, "The Guiding Light," on television. When "Guiding Light" was unceremoniously doused, she went to Chicago and the Goodman Theater where she played in Anna in Old Times," was the lead in a review. "Scenes from American Life," and enacted the role of Jennet' in "The Lady's Not For Burning". Miss Wiggins returned often to Canada for radio and television roles. She also appeared with Don Knotts in The Mind With a Dirty Man' and went on tour with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Secretary Bird ' Two years ago. little more than an hour after the curtain rang down on stage at Arlington Park in Chicago. Miss Wiggins was on a flight to New York to start "Love of Life." In Manhattan, she lives in a terrace apartment complete "with trees, rose bushes and cherry vine tomatoes." She also nurtures herbs which she uses for gourmet cooking- Right now I'm on a Japanese kick." I love to cook for people... I won't cook for myself, but love nothing better than having a couple of people up for dinner. At home with Miss Wiggins are a female miniature poodle named "Cookie' and a peach-faced parakeet she calls "Hallelujah Passover. " Two Easters ago. Miss Wiggins explains she heard a rush of wings and a parakeet flew into her apartment. "Since he arrived on Easter Sunday, his name is Hallelujah. I was singing at the Riverside Church at the time, and since he flew over all those apartments to get to my terrace, his last name is Passover. Two months ago. Hallelujah Passover was acting peculiarly. And in a few days. Hallelujah Passover laid live eggs. "He is a she " says Miss Wiggins "So the only man in the household has turned out to be a girl It is a shock to the whole household, you can be sure'

Agreed. And kept Cole around. Victoria's romantic prospects are few and far between, I can't see anything solid happening with Nate. It just seems a convenient match up.

I wonder why Nikki was not included in the crossover? Diane and Jack are on the outs on Y&R but together on BTG so Nikki's estrangement from Victor does not come into play. Maybe Melody wasn't interested?

Beaulah Land was a ratings success for NBC, especially as it was new product at the start of a strike affected season. But it was controversial and I don't think NBC ever repeated it, I wonder if it was shown again elswhere? It aired Tues/Wed/Thurs/ Oct 7-9 1980 "Peyton Plantation."' Or maybe Tara's Vulgar' or Auntie Betlum." Trouble in 'Beulah Land'By ALEX KENERS Frankly, my dears, it's hard to understand all the fuss that has attended "Beulah Land" over the last few months. "Beulah Land" (NBC Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights) is epic doo-dah, potboiler schlockpulp squeezed out of Lonnie Coleman's best-selling "Beulah Land" and "Look Away, Beulah Land." Still, NBC thought it best last spring to postpone the six hour authentic re-creation of soapy melodrama. That was after an ad hoc Black Committee against the airing of "Beulah Land" made it clear that it didn't like what it hadn't seen, but what it had received reports of. "We do not deny our role in slavery in all its demeaning forms," the committee said then. "We do deny being such gleeful participants without visible sign of coercion." Black politicians barraged the network with telegrams of protest while the miniseries was on location in Natchez, Miss. Last month the critical black groups saw the finished product, but that didn't pacify them either. Despite changes, members of the coalition, which represents the NAACP, Urban League and other black groups, have found the film to be "psychologically and politically dangerous." There are rumblings of a sponsor boycott. One black actor from the miniseries, James McEachin, who plays a faithful, old house slave, Ezra, has asked that his name not appear in the credits. "If this is the kind of garbage I'll be known for, then I hope I never work another day," McEachin has been quoted as saying. Of a scene that shows a slave woman suckling two children, one black, one white (it was not uncommon in the Old South), writer and coalition member Robert Pryce has said, "I would have liked to have seen how the man who slept with that slave woman felt about it, and how she fell about it. Did she do it willingly?If so, why? There is no black point of view in this movie. Indeed, Beulah Land — the Georgia plantation of the title — could be a theme farm for slavery, a demonstration plantation which blacks, if they are not exactly happy, shuffling Steppin Fetchit "darkies," are not only resigned to their lot, but often devoted to their firm but largely benign owners. Aside from Beulah Land's original villainous white overseer and his two mulatto sons (nastiness seems to be a genetic trait) and an occasional Cracker, the worst whites here are your Yankee soldiers) but that's bellum. NBC responded to the criticisms, and to the fact that no blacks had been consulted during the making of the movie, by soliciting the imprimatur of a highly respected black scholar, Yale Professor John Blassingame, editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers and an authority on the pre-Civil War period. Blassingame suggested changes to guarantee "historical accuracy" and advised NBC to trim one scene, which it did, to correct the impression that four slaves who are granted their freedom in the will of Beulah Land's first mistress (Hope Lange) don't want it, Of the series in general, Blassingame has said, "I think as entertainment, it works, but if I had to choose a film to show on slavery, this would not be the one. I think that what happens in 'Beulah Land' is plausible. But only as long as we're talking about a unique plantation, a unique set of masters. You could point to plantations that had some of the elements of Beulah Land,' none that had all of them " "Beulah Land" is certainly unique. It may not be "Son of Mandingo," but it seems as much concerned with garnering ratings as with establishing historical authenticity as it parades before us one steamy-sordid Harold Robbins-egg blue episode after another: assorted rapes — again it's the Yankees who are the most savage — adulteries and other sexual deceptions, quasi-incestuous and unwanted pregnancies, trauma upon trauma, shootings, suicide, an axe murder, arson, plantation burnings and pillaging, not to mention ail those deaths by natural causes And it's all more than a bit confusing as the three families of "Beulah Land" and its neighboring plantations and their retainers and slaves wed, reproduce and grow up and old, as their lives interwine in greed and passion, as they pop in and out of the epic sweep of "Beulah Land," often at the drop of a phrase like "I was really sorry to hear about the death of . ." The acting herein is well, Sysiphian, which is to say, a labor against all odds: against a script that, for example, calls for Floyd, the black freed man who replaces Roscoe as overseer, to return after years in the North — he left Beulah Land as a young man because he was falling in love with Sarah — remarkably unchanged by his experience. As for the movie's elaborately staged scenes, such as the evacuation of Atlanta, they are merely backdrops for the melodrama,By now it must be clear that "Beulah Land" is not an examination of slavery in the South, but a formula vision of plantation life, and to say that it trivializes slave suffering when it distorts nothing less than reality seems parochial

I don't think it was ever revealed in his lifetime, only when he died did Craig Curtis make the announcement. From Wikipedia In 2005, Holliman announced to a New York Post columnist that “his pal”, actor Anthony George, had died at age 84. Though he never spoke publicly about his sexuality, Holliman was confirmed to have had a male spouse at the time of his death in November 2024; his husband, Craig Curtis, spoke publicly to The Hollywood Reporter to confirm his death

Ah, the devious mind of Victor Newman, He has forgiven Matt Clark all his crimes, simply because he saved Nick's life and now has memory loss. Pity he isn't so forgiving of his own wife. Has Matt had any kind of medical exam. Or has Victor had GC's top neurosurgeon come to the ranch off camera? And what a plan. Matt will get close to Cane to uncover information that Victor will use to DESTROY Cane!!! Here's a tip for Phyllis-if she wants the respect of her children and the community, maybe stop acting like a total nutcase and set up her own business. She previously ran a successful hotel, which she threw away on a whim. I'm sure her dear friend Lauren could help her on that front. And what does Daniel do for money?

Feb 13 1962 No. 1 Fan Married Her Idol Start a fan club for an actor and you may wind up as his bride. That’s what happened to a pretty young lady named Ann Trinkhouse, a Pittsburgh girl and former airline stewardess. Ann, now known as Betsi Lee, was president of the International Fan Club for Craig Curtis, who has a lead role in the CBS-TV Monday through Friday daytime series, The Clear Horizon. As president of the club, Ann or Betsi (whichever you prefer) came into contact with Craig quite often. At first these were casual meetings as friends. ‘Then romance entered the picture and the climactic announcement came this month. Craig and his fan club pres were going to be married. The wedding took place at the Little Country Church of Hollywood. The only guests were cast members and the production crew of The Clear Horizon. Producer Manya Starr, who also does the major writing job on the daytime series, is writing Curtis out of the show for three weeks so he can have a proper honeymoon. ** Well that marriage was doomed. Craig Curtis ended up as partner to actor Earl Holliman who died at age 96 in Nov 2024.

Back to the GCAC wall support group. This show is so cheap.