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Actress Teri Keane has passed away. On All My Children, she played Rose Cudahy, the mother of Tom and Sean. Rose was also the mother-in-law (at various times) of Erica, Brooke, Barbara, Skye, and Olivia.
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I have just learned of the death of actress Teri Keane. She played Naomi Vernon on One Life to Live when I first began watching that show.
Naomi was the wife of Dr. Will Vernon (Farley Granger, Bernie McInerney, Anthony George) who was the mother of Brad Vernon and Samantha Vernon Garretson. She was aware that her marriage was failing and that she did not hold the interest of her husband. She was jealous of Jenny Wolck Siegel, R. N., who was the person with whom Dr. Vernon was falling in love. (Jenny eventually became Naomi's daughter-in-law.) Naomi planned a "suicide attempt" from which her son Brad would rescue her. However, that did not happen, and Naomi accidentally died.
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I have just learned of the death of actress Teri Keane. The first time that I ever saw her was when she was playing Meg Blaine on As the World Turns. Meg was the friend of Jeff's who encouraged him and probably was most responsible for his return to Oakdale and to Penny.
Can anyone remember the name of the town to where Jeff escaped and where Meg lived?
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I just learned of the death of actress Teri Keane. She was best known for having played Martha Spears Marceau on The Edge of Night, but she appeared on MANY soap operas.
She had been married to John Larkin (Mike Karr #1 on the same show), but, by the time that she was playing Martha, the couple had divorced.
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This is the first that I have heard of Robert Gentry's death, although I now read that he passed away in September. Is this death just being announced?
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Excuse me for forgetting this name, but what was the name of the actress who played the daughter of John Gabrielle on Loving? I also forgot the name of the character.
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Excuse me for forgetting this name, but what was the name of the actress who played the daughter of John Gabrielle on Loving? I also forgot the name of the character.
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Thank you, and I cannot remember much about Josh and his later becoming a priest.
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Tom and Erica owned the building. Tom's buisness was the Goal Post. Erica, against Tom's objections, opened Erica's Disco in the rear of the building.
I think that Nick still owned the Chateau, but Ellen remained as manager and Donna became the singer there.
Nick remained (offscreen) the owner until Adam Chandler purchased it.
Initially, Ross came to Pine Valley to supervise the change in ownership and to prepare the mansion for the remainder of the family.
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Glynn Turman (Lew Miles on Peyton Place) also wrote scripts for that show.
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F. Murray Abraham Would Make ‘The White Lotus’ All Over Again
The buzzy series is one of several featuring the actor, who at 83 is finding some of the most satisfying work of his career. “I still am thrilled by acting,” he said.
F. Murray Abraham has made a memorable impact in a wide range of recent TV series, including “The White Lotus,” “Mythic Quest” and “Moon Knight.”Credit...Sara Messinger for The New York Times
By Chris Vognar
Not long ago the venerable actor F. Murray Abraham wanted to get lunch at a favorite restaurant in Greenwich Village. Unfortunately the place was overrun by New York University students shooting a film. As the Oscar-winning star of “Amadeus,” “Angels in America” and dozens of other movies, plays and TV series stood on the outside looking in, one of the students turned to another and expressed his outrage: “Don’t you know who this is? This is the voice of Khonshu!”
Abraham laughed. He gets a kick out of telling the story and the fact that, to many youngsters, he’s best known as a mask-wearing, staff-wielding Egyptian god in the Marvel fantasy series “Moon Knight.” He gets a kick out of a lot of things. He loves that, at age 83, he’s still working regularly, including a plum, often hilarious role on the hit HBO series “The White Lotus” and a far different, darker turn in the Netflix horror anthology “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.” He also made his mark on two seasons of the Apple TV+ workplace comedy “Mythic Quest” as C.W. Longbottom, the head writer on a hit video game.
He punctuates sentences with superlatives — “Isn’t that fabulous?” — and he always sounds like he means it.
“I still am thrilled by acting,” he said in a recent video interview from his Manhattan home. “I still can’t wait for the next project. There’s more work to be done.”
For now, he’s more than happy to be a key part of one of television’s buzziest series. In “The White Lotus” he plays Bert Di Grasso, one of several deeply flawed tourists vacationing at a luxury resort in Sicily. With a glimmer in his eye and a gift for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time (much like Abraham’s “Mythic Quest” character), Bert is traveling with his son, Dominic (Michael Imperioli), and grandson, Albie (Adam DiMarco), hoping to find some distant relatives in the old country. Dominic is a serial philanderer, a trait he seems to have inherited from his dad.
Image Abraham and Michael Imperioli in “The White Lotus.” “He has this command of craft, yet also this incredible depth of soul and truth and honesty,” Imperioli said.Credit...HBO
In the second episode of the current season, as the three men and a new female friend named Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) soak up the ancient atmosphere of the Greek theater at Taormina, Bert is compelled to share the story of how, in Greek mythology, Hades raped Persephone nearby. As he keeps repeating the word “rape,” the other characters (and viewers) cringe, much to Bert’s obliviousness. The moment is both painfully awkward and brutally funny, and Abraham sells it for all it’s worth, gusto and wonder in his voice.
Welcoming You Back to ‘The White Lotus’
The second season of “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s incisive satire of privilege set in a luxury resort, is currently streaming on HBO.
- Dressing Gen Z: The costume designer for “The White Lotus” sees your mean tweets about how the younger characters dress. She told us how she created the chaotic and divisive looks.
- Michael Imperioli: The “Sopranos” star is enjoying a professional renaissance after years of procedurals and indies. In the new season of “The White Lotus,” he tries his hand at comedy.
- F. Murray Abraham: The buzzy series is one of several featuring the actor, who at 83 is finding some of the most satisfying work of his career.
The scene is an encapsulation of what inspired the “White Lotus” creator, Mike White, to cast Abraham in the role.
“Bert says a lot of questionable things and has kind of a problematic attitude toward sex and women and relationships,” White said in a telephone interview. “I just thought it’d be funny to have an actor who also has this kind of buoyancy and a ‘What me worry?’ type of attitude. There’s something very mischievous about Murray, and he could obviously play the villain. But he also has this likable, unsinkable quality to him.”
That unsinkable quality was an integral part of his otherwise macabre role in “The Autopsy,” one of eight episodes in “Cabinet of Curiosities,” which debuted in October. In it, he plays Dr. Carl Winters, a medical examiner called upon by an old friend (Glynn Turman) to conduct post-mortem procedures on some unusual patients. Dr. Winters carries his own burden into the operating theater: He has cancer, and only a few months left to live.
“It was not an easy performance,” he said. “I see an end. I mean, I’m 83. And when it becomes a reality like that, when you face that and then you try to take that feeling to a script like this, where a man is going to die in six months, that really begins to cloud everything you do.”
Image In “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” Abraham played a medical examiner asked to work on unusual patients. Credit...Ken Woroner/Netflix
Abraham was born in Pittsburgh and raised in El Paso; his father was a Syrian immigrant, and his mother was the daughter of Italian immigrants. As a teen he worked in his father’s auto garage and never thought about acting. Then he enrolled in what looked like the easiest high school class available: speech and drama. He fell under the spell of a teacher, Lucia Hutchins, who taught him that acting could be more than an easy A.
“She introduced me to Shakespeare,” he recalled. “She introduced me to Arthur Miller.” He remembers performing a monologue by Mitch, Stanley Kowalski’s buddy in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire.” It all went against his working class upbringing: “Acting in our family? Get out of here.” He studied for a year at Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso), then, under the influence of Jack Kerouac, hitchhiked to Los Angeles, where he began pursuing his career in earnest before relocating to New York and studying under Uta Hagen at the HB Studio.
Small parts in film followed. He was one of the cops who busted the Watergate burglars in “All the President’s Men” (1976) and an antagonist of Al Pacino’s in “Scarface” (1983). His big break, and the role that won him an Oscar, was Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s obsessed nemesis in “Amadeus” (1984). “I just understood the script instantly,” he said.
“Apparently it’s so clear that kids love that movie,” he added. “Isn’t that extraordinary? They like that, and they like Khonshu.”
But Abraham still considers himself a creature of the theater. He has been a regular in the plays of Terrence McNally, including “The Ritz” (made into a film, starring Abraham, in 1976). He played Roy Cohn in “Angels in America” on Broadway. He hated the man, but the role taught him a valuable lesson: Don’t worry about being liked. If you’re playing a bad guy, make him bad.
For Abraham, the theater is like a love affair that never ends.
“Eight times a week, you get to do it again and again,” he said. “If it’s bad, then that’s horrible. But when it’s good, there’s nothing like it. It’s like really good sex: Give me more.” He paused. “I sound like Bert.”
Imperioli, who also comes from a theater background but is best known for his roles in “The Sopranos” and “GoodFellas,” found a friend and kindred spirit in Abraham. On off days in Sicily, they would organize impromptu rehearsals with DiMarco and sometimes Richardson.
“We would just read the characters and talk about them,” Imperioli said in a video interview. “He has this command of craft, yet also this incredible depth of soul and truth and honesty. It’s a combination that I very rarely have seen, and I’ve never seen it come to fruition as it does in Murray.”
Abraham and Imperioli ended up getting Covid-19 at the same time, confining them to their hotel rooms. “I had such a bad sore throat I couldn’t even talk,” Imperioli said. “And I could hear Murray upstairs doing his vocal warm-ups every day. Singing. This is an 82-year-old guy with Covid.” Abraham has memorized more than 50 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, which, as Imperioli observed, he recites regularly to keep his memory sharp.
For Abraham, the “White Lotus” experience was among the best of his career, thanks largely to White’s writing. “It’s his sense of humanity,” he said. “He’s written real people. I think Bert is absolutely legit — you know he’s for real. I grew up with people like that.”
The whole sun-dappled Sicily thing wasn’t bad, either.
“I got to tell you, man, if there was some way to make it happen, I’d shoot this whole thing all over again,” he said. “The thing about some of these interviews, which I’ve done for many years, is that you try to make nice: You think of the good things that happened; you don’t want to talk about the crap. But this was all good.”
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Susan Sarandon casually revealed that she’s bisexual and fluid during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.etroit 7, MI
The actress revealed her sexuality when making a joke about her beloved dogs on the US chat show.
She said: "My little creatures all passed away. I can’t talk about it because I still get upset. It was about a year ago.
"I was feeling sad and… I said, ‘I can’t get another dog. I just can’t,’ you know? And [my son] said, ‘Well, then get cats.’
She then declared: “And I’m bi, so…”
Sarandon and actor ex Tim Robbins share two sons, John Henry and Miles Robbins (Getty Images)© Provided by Evening StandardProbing further, Fallon asked: “So you mean you like dogs and cats?”
To which the actress replied tongue-in-cheek: “I’m fluid, I’m very fluid where animals are concerned.”
This isn’t the first time Sarandon, who is believed to be single and shares sons John Henry and Miles Robbins with actor ex Tim Robbins, has spoken about her sexuality.
Speaking to Pride Source in 2017, she said: “My sexual orientation is up for grabs, I guess you could say. [It’s] open.”
She said on chat show The View two years earlier that someone’s gender, age or skin colour were not things she factored into attraction.
She said: “If there’s a person, I would leave open the age, the colour, the gender even. It increases your chances, doesn’t it?”
The star has been a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and is considered a gay icon.
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Susan Sarandon casually revealed that she’s bisexual and fluid during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.etroit 7, MI
The actress revealed her sexuality when making a joke about her beloved dogs on the US chat show.
She said: "My little creatures all passed away. I can’t talk about it because I still get upset. It was about a year ago.
"I was feeling sad and… I said, ‘I can’t get another dog. I just can’t,’ you know? And [my son] said, ‘Well, then get cats.’
She then declared: “And I’m bi, so…”
Sarandon and actor ex Tim Robbins share two sons, John Henry and Miles Robbins (Getty Images)© Provided by Evening StandardProbing further, Fallon asked: “So you mean you like dogs and cats?”
To which the actress replied tongue-in-cheek: “I’m fluid, I’m very fluid where animals are concerned.”
This isn’t the first time Sarandon, who is believed to be single and shares sons John Henry and Miles Robbins with actor ex Tim Robbins, has spoken about her sexuality.
Speaking to Pride Source in 2017, she said: “My sexual orientation is up for grabs, I guess you could say. [It’s] open.”
She said on chat show The View two years earlier that someone’s gender, age or skin colour were not things she factored into attraction.
She said: “If there’s a person, I would leave open the age, the colour, the gender even. It increases your chances, doesn’t it?”
The star has been a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and is considered a gay icon.
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I have wondered for years about Ed Bryce. He played Bill Bauer on The Guiding Light, but, in the early 1960s, he left the show.
(The role of Bill Bauer had been played originally by Lyle Sudrow.) It was in 1964 that Mr. Bryce left the role and was replaced by Eugene Smith. Then, in 1965, Mr. Bryce returned to the role and played him until Bill's death in 1983.
Mr. Bryce continued in daytime soap operas with roles on As the World Turns and Somerset. Both roles, though, were rather minor and were probably not contract roles. He later played Mr. Donovan #3 on Loving (a role which reunited him with Agnes Nixon).
Does anyone know why Mr. Bryce departed The Guiding Light in 1964 as Bill #2?
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Jeffrey Lynn also substituted as Mike Karr on The Edge of Night - probably after Lawrence Hugo did not return and prior to the hiring of Forrest Compton to play the role.
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There seems to be a lot of connections between writers Rick Edlestein and Margaret DePriest!
He was producing The Edge of Night when she was an actress on the show, playing Abby Cameron #1. She later became one of the writers of that show. (She then collaborated with the late Lou Schofield on the creation and writing of Where the Heart Is for CBS).
If I am not mistaken, she had a second soap opera role on NBC's The Doctors on which she played a social worker. Mr. Edlestein was writing the show, and she later became a writer of the show.
He became a writer on How to Survive a Marriage. Later, he departed that job, and she became the new headwriter.
Please correct me if any of that is incorrect!
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I think that Ed Evanko as Dr. Alex McLean was the worst character in Ryan's Hope's history who did not fit in with the show.
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I don't know of anytime in her career that Ms. Scott (or Miss Kringstad) ever got to use her singing ability. However, I am sure that she worked in many things with which I am not familiar!
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It is a strange coincidence that Mr. Milli was involved on the premieres of two soap operas in the 1960s in which his character was featured in storylines of interracial romance! On the first (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing), his character was written off (although Dr. Abbott returned a number of years later), and on the second show (One Life to Live), he was replaced in the role (by Nat Polen).
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Didn't Ms. Cooke produce a television special starring singer Amy Grant? I think that it was a Christmas special.
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I posted about Irene Cara's death on the Love of Live blog. Right before I did, I thought to myself that she may have been on Search for Tomorrow rather than Love of Life. I checked under IMDb and saw that she played Daisy on Love of Life. Her character on Search for Tomorrow may have not had a last name. I am thinking that she played a girl that sang in an orphanage party. This was just around the time that I was quitting Search for Tomorrow (for the first time), so I do not remember details.
Who did she play on Search for Tomorrow?
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Not liking someone (a performer) does not meant that the performer is a poor recast.
I was going to ask you before you replied, just which actress who had played Dr. Susan Burke Stewart before Marie Masters was recast in the role is it that you preferred in the role?
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I was shocked to see the name of Marie Masters as a bad recast as Susan Burke Stewart Baxter, R. N. on As the World Turns. I thought that she was one of the best actresses on the soap operas and that her portrayal as Susan was probably better than any of the other actresses who had played the role!
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How sorry I am to learn of the death of Irene Cara (Daisy Allen #1 on Love of Life)!
Irene Cara, the voice behind Oscar-winning original song "Flashdance ... What A Feeling" has died. She was 63.
News of her death was announced on her official Twitter account by her publicist, Judith A. Moose. Cara died in her Florida home of an unknown cause, the announcement said.
"It is with profound sadness that on behalf of her family I announce the death of Irene Cara," Moose wrote. "She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films."
Born in New York City, Cara possessed an early talent for music and performance as a finalist in the "Little Miss America" pageant when she was 3 years old. As a third grader she appeared on the "Ted Mack Amateur Hour" singing "Ola, Ola, Ola."
Before landing an Oscar and Grammy Award for her work on "Flashdance," Cara laid the foundation for her career in the Short Circus band on the 1970s children's show "The Electric Company." Her Broadway debut came at 9 in the original 1968 production of "Maggie Flynn" where she appeared alongside fellow actors Stephanie Mills and Giancarlo Esposito.
"Sparkle" was Cara's breakout movie role when she played the title character of the 1976 film. In 1980 she received her first award nominations for her voice and acting as Coco in 1980 movie "Fame," which led her to a Grammy nomination for best new artist and a nod for best pop vocal performance for the title song.
In a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Cara said her work in "Fame" marked her pivot from child actor to an independent adult.
"I left home ... I got an apartment near where we were filming. I wanted to be my own woman and all of this," she said. "I started hanging out in nightclubs, and I was sowing my oats.”
Three years later after "Fame," Cara got her next go at the awards cycle as the voice behind the hit from 1983's "Flashdance" starring Jennifer Beals. Cara won the Academy Award for "Flashdance ... What A Feeling" along with songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey for best original song. The song also won two Grammy awards.
Beals presented the Oscar to Cara at the 56th Academy Awards. The singer called it "the most precious honor" before thanking her parents, teachers and fellow musicians.
Cara's music career continued as she made appearances on NBC's "Hit Me Baby One More Time," formed her own all-woman band Hot Caramel and released a 24-track album in 2011: "Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel."
Many actors and singers remembered Cara on Twitter.
Yvette Nicole Brown wrote Saturday that Cara was "one of the first women I saw singing, dancing & acting in color not B&W who looked like me" adding that seeing her in "Fame" "changed my life."
On Instagram Questlove wrote: "Goodbye Irene Cara. I’m Sad About This."
NBC analyst Stephanie Ruhle wrote: " 'What A Feeling' & 'Fame' bring back memories of pure joy. I am so sad to learn about @Irene_Cara's passing."
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Loving/The City Discussion Thread
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Actress Teri Keane has passed away. She created the role of Rose Donovan on Loving. She was later replaced in the role by Dorothy Stinnette.