Paul Raven

That is the question. The pool of known writers has dried up. I'm sure there are talented writers out there, but finding someone who wants to do it and would be acceptable to TPTB....

Let's visit Genoa City

In comparison, Olivia De Havilland in the reshot scene. A much dowdier look.

Joan's look in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte is on point.

Chad's jacket isn't a good fit.

That is her main topic of interest.

Fingers crossed. I am past the point of expecting any great turnaround, but at this stage any change has to be an improvement.

Hopefully, the wedding will be called off. Devon/Abby are a boring couple and even more so as a married duo. And Abby on to her 3rd marriage in less than 10 years. Awful writing for that character.

Yes I agree, many soap actors have no need for agents etc. It really is a case by case issue. Another aspect is when a popular actor decides to leave in the midst of a popular story, leaving the show in the lurch. But people tend to take the actors side (fair enough). But any talk of loyalty goes by the wayside. eg If Kelly Monaco had decided to leave at some point it would be fine, but if she's fired it's all terribly unfair in some people's minds. Or when Martha left ATWT the first time in the midst of being part of a front burner couple ,they had to recast and make adjustments. Often those recasts don't work out and the show suffers. I also wonder if Goutman took a pay cut as well. Just some points for consideration.

I'm fine with Joy coming on. But the show needs to bring in some Hortons. Steve,Sandy etc could have children/grandchildren who come to Salem. Days really messed up by ignoring the whole family beginning in the 80's.

WTH was Nikki wearing ? Some sort of sparkly jacket that just looked weird as a daytime outfit. EB in a chair seeming to read his lines off the table. Only 5 sets in an hour show. So bored with seeing CL and GCAC. At least the director was smart enough to use tight shots so that the lack of customers at CL was less apparent. So Nate tells Devon about his meeting with Amy, rather than actually showing it. There is some intrigue there but this is Josh so it will either lead nowhere or be something ridiculous like Amy is Nate's mother. Sean Dominic and Connor Floyd both eye candy. Bryton not so much. Who cares about Abby/Devon wedding and the surprise venue?

It's interesting re Brenda. As we have seen from her later actions Brenda seems to have some mental health issues. Back then, she was seen as troublesome but nowadays she would be able to speak openly and just firing her may not have been as easy. I read that Ed Scott is 80. Hopefully he is still firing on all cylinders and can get the show back into shape. I really hope this means Josh will be leaving soon.

We want a great opening, fantastic music, beautiful sets, involving storylines, fabulous costuming and compelling actors/characters. That's all.

Go Susan! Hopefully Ken Corday was behind this. I'm sure she's appreciative at this time. I guess that would make Susan the oldest performer to go on contract in the history of US soaps?

I don't know that many actors would have your principles. The alternative to a pay cut is unemployment = no $$$ And there is not a lot out there for ex soapers. They might land some guest spots in a cable show etc but no way is their income going to be commensurate. And like the rest of us they have bills to pay and other financial commitments. Big names have taken pay cuts over the years.

This has to be a positive. Ed knows the show inside and out and wouldn't come back unless there was an incentive. Y&R hasn't had a proper EP since Morina ( proper in one sense only) and I feel like Josh has the EP title in name only. The other line producers are running the show and that's why it looks the way it does.They're just worker bees getting the job done. Hopefully this is just the beginning for ES and he will take over as EP.

Definitely a soap vet. From Slick Jones Soap hoppers thread Young Doctor Malone : Ernie Cooper 1959 The Brighter Day : Rex Stern 1960-61 The Secret Storm : Johnny Ellis 1962-63 The Doctors : Davey the Beekeeper's Son allergic to bees "Beware the Bee" July 3, 1963 Search For Tomorrow : ????? 1963 Another World : Tom Baxter 1964 As The World Turns : 1965 The Nurses : Ken Alexander 1965-67 Love is a Many Splendored Thing : Paul Bradley 1967 All My Children : Linc Tyler 1971-72 The Edge of Night : Joel Gantry 1973-74 Dallas : Nathan Billings 1985 Dynasty : Dr. Maurice Boland 1985 The Colbys : Dr. Maurice Boland 1985 Falcon Crest : Ben Crawley 1987 Sisters : Jack 1992 Picket Fences : Moriarty 1993 Beverly Hills, 90210 :Chancellor Milton Arnold 1993-97 Picket Fences : David Robinson 1994 Party of Five : Eugene Bennett 1995-96 General Hospital : Victor Collins 1997-03 Port Charles : Victor Collins 1997-03 Nashville : Sam Boone 2014

Well now that Heather is gone, Paul is just another past character- an ex of Lauren and Christine. Kind of like Cole was until they bizarrely decided to resurrect his daughter. Paul doesn't need to be referenced again. Pity how it all turned out.

TV GUIDE SEPTEMBER 17, 1966 Every afternoon, these actresses captivate the audience—and delight themselves—with the most harrowing neuroses “I have a psychological problem,’ says Jacquie Courtney. “I love my boy friend. But if he comes near me, to kiss me or touch me or something, I freeze an - “I wanted to commit suicide,” says Gaye Huston. “My father married a woman he had defended in a murder trial. I got upset and jealous. I caused an automobile accident. My father is crippled and it was my fault... .” “I was schizophrenic,” says Carol Roux. “It took two years for me to get normal, then I fell in love. I was just going to get married when I discovered I was illegitimate. I went insane again... .” “I had an abortion,’ says Susan Trustman. “I was filled with guilt. I heard babies screaming. Then I found out I was sterile. I shot the man dead. I didn’t remember it. I was tried for murder... .” This torrent of neurotic confession comes from the lips of four young actresses—the younger generation of an NBC soap opera called Another World—whose assorted mental ailments are captivating the daytime audience these days. | In real life, of course, the young ladies are not teetering on the edge of insanity. What’s more, they are not a bit typical of “The Younger Generation.” They are representatives of a very specialized breed: up-and coming young actresses who are enjoying the fruits of early success. Despite personality differences— Carol is fragile and shy, Gaye calm and controlled, Jacquie wide-eyed and raucous, and Susan articulate and ironic—they have a _ remarkable amount in common. They all chose their careers early in childhood. “I decided to be an actress at about 9,” says Carol Roux, who is now 20. “But I didn’t tell anyone, I was afraid they’d laugh.” Born in Los Angeles, orphaned, and adopted by a publisher and his wife, Carol enrolled in high school drama classes. “I did ‘Anne Frank’ and I knew for sure,” she says. She persuaded her parents to let her audition for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, was accepted, and moved to the East Coast. “A week after I got out of school I got this job,” she says. Susan Trustman, 26, daughter of a New York high school teacher, reports: “As a little kid I was shy and retiring. My mother used to drag me to a little dramatic school to get over my shyness. Well, it never got me over my shyness, but it made me decide to be an actress.” She went to the New York School of Music and Art, then studied acting at Carnegie Tech, did summer stock and repertory work for several years, appeared briefly in a Broadway play and was hired by Another World. Jacquie Courtney, 19, daughter of a Westinghouse research engineer from East Orange, N.J., launched her career at age 4. “I took dancing lessons. My teacher put me. on a TV show. singing and dancing. I had Shirley” Temple curls. I sang ‘The Good Ship Lollipop.” That started me in show business.” By 9 she was doing commercials and at about 13 she appeared on The U.S. Steel Hour with Patty Duke. “That’s when I really got popular. I did an unbelievable amount of commercials between 13 and 16, and I appeared on Armstrong Circle Theatre, Route 66, Edge of Night, The Doctors and Our Five Daughters. Then came this show.” And Gaye Huston, 21, the Kentucky born child of a theatrical family (her father is a vice president of Video Pictures Inc., her mother is actress Marcella Martin, her brother is actor Martin Huston), started in show business at 6, when she appeared on Your Show of Shows with Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar. “It worked for me,” she says. “After that I did all sorts of live shows—Studio One, Armstrong, Kraft, Lux and several daytime serials.” She went to Northwestern University for two years but left school to return to work. She was signed up shortly thereafter for Another World. Without exception all four young ladies enjoy their work on this series—at least that part of it which allows them to portray assorted forms of human agony. In fact, their devotion to psychological abnormality amounts to a collective passion. ‘I love to play neurotics,” says Jacquie Courtney, her eyes glittering excitedly. “It’s really dramatic, these psychological things. During my big crisis with my boy friend I cried hysterically. I loved it. I just love neurosis.” So do Gaye Huston and Carol Roux. ‘I love playing this disagreeable character,” says Gaye. “I’ve never been a heavy before.” “It’s wonderful,” says Carol. “By the time I’get through playing my part, I’ve gotten rid of all my aggressions and frustrations.” And Susan Trustman speaks lyrically of the more lurid portions of her character’s life. “The most exciting time for me was the whole abortion period and the murder. I had these erying nightmares, this terrible guilt. And I loved the scene with the boy who wouldn’t marry me. I kept saying, ‘You love me, you love me’— and I heard the babies crying—and there was a gun—and I picked it up —I held out the gun—bang bang—I shot him—dead. That was great.” When they’re not putting in time on the neurotic front, all four girls pursue assorted interests. Jacquie goes bowling and dancing. The three others are interested in art. Men loom large in their horizon of interests. Gaye is married to actor Morgan Paull, who’s in “New Faces of 1966.” “I met him at an audition for a play. Neither of us got the part!” Carol Roux is being married to Avin Harum, a Norwegian dancer in the Harkness Ballet troupe. (“He was away on tour for four months. I thought I was going to die.”) Jacquie Courtney goes steady with a law student at the University of Pennsylvania. And Susan Trustman is looking. (“What I want is a man who isn’t boring. Not to be bored. that’s the thing; not to be bored.”) Tied with iron-clad contracts to the neurotic vicissitudes of Another World as far as additional daytime TV goes, they have not had any new acting opportunities. None has any specific plans, but each daydreams occasionally about the future. Jacquie Courtney’s daydream is by far the most explicit. Ever loyal to the soap opera ideal, she says, “I want a dramatic movie role. Something meaty something with a challenge—a neurotic.” And she laughs raucously. New actress on the scene Which brings to mind the latest development on Another World: A new actress was recently hired for the series. And to the fascinated astonishment of the four girls, it is Marcella Martin, Gaye Huston’s mother. Says Gaye, who seems torn betweer horror and tears, “I feel kind o funny. The part she’s playing is so unlike her. A tough-on-the-outside sweet-on-the-inside broad. I read one of the scripts. It just doesn’t sound like my mother. If she were somebody else’s mother, I wouldn’t react this way. But she’s my mother. And has been playing Carol Roux’s rival I don’t like it.” The other young ladies shake their heads sympathetically. It’s a real problem and they all fully understand Gaye’s feelings. Neurosis is the fashionable thing, all right, there aré no two ways about it. But when i comes to a girl’s mother . . . well, gee whiz. TV GUIDE SEPTEMBER 17, 196

Don't think we've ever seen Brooke Mills as Iris. Here with Sam Wade who was recast later on. Poor Brooke-got so far as doing publicity shots and then dumped for Leslie Charleson.

Here's a random lineup from 78. Bob Heitman (Bill Mendell) Millee Taggart( Janet Collins) and Leslie Ann Ray (Donna Davis)

Don't recall seeing this before

@DRW50 I don't recall a Love of Life SOD cover with her. Interesting that she never went back to acting. I recall she was offered Y&R after LOL was cancelled but declined. Seems perhaps acting really wasn't for her. She briefly changed her mane to Gittana I recall.

Mariah should have changed her name at some point to Mariah Collins. Budget must be tight when top number is 13 and most of the cast are under 10 appearances. Leading up to Devon/Abby wedding and she is on once. That marriage looks like Mariah/Tessa Mk 2. Conflict free zone.