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Loving Kraze! It is so funny. The scuttlebutt is that Dan & Chris couldn't think of anything to do with Chase & Brook Lynn, ... so they had him drop to one knee. Marriage proposal by default? Maybe they should make more of their decisions this way? I mean this seems pretty darn successful!! Nope. They've had it. And, it's all Valentin's fault. I have no opinion but most people seem to be quite taken with him.

Hello, nice to meet you. Welcome! I reckon they were successful co-parents by virtue of being a whole continent apart from each other. These days I suspect we should all be afraid of them both being in the little hamlet called Salem!!!!

Yep, that was for you. So pleased that you found it.

I know that at least one article said that they offered her recurring & she declined. (The same was said about or by Rena with the same result.) I did not read anything about "3 lines" etc. I wonder if recurring status means something different at B&B than it does at either DAYS or GH. Plenty of people work on a recurring basis & always have. There's no question, though, that going from contract to recurring is in fact a demotion. Very nice. Thank you.

Today I have taken my crazy life in hand. I was behind on 4 soaps, a total of 9 episodes. Meh. Now I've watched 4 episodes & have 5 remaining. Bah. I find myself wondering just exactly what was Ava's "mental health" diagnosis? I have no memory. Of course, I count it to the good that I did remember that Andrew is big brother to little Jeanie, now Theresa!

I imagine if she had "done something" that they would have pretty much gotten rid of her at that time, whenever it was. This was that her annual contract date came up & they told her they weren't picking her up for another year of her contract. See the difference?

Thanks for sharing this. I had not seen it.

Irna never received any honors at all of any kind, basically, and it stinks! This local commemoration is the first I've heard of anything except one thing. There is one book on Women Pioneers in TV where Irna has a chapter. (I have this book & I also typed out the whole chapter in text, so I could post it or PM it to people, or whatever. Obviously, on the long side for a post.) Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders by Cary O'Dell. McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers. Jefferson, NC © 1997. Irna Phillips pg. 181-193 In 1991 TV GUIDE published a special commemorative magazine celebrating its 2,000th issue. Included in its pages was a special section on television visionaries, "The Creators." Of the twenty names there (among whom were Pat Weaver, Norman Lear, David Sarnoff, William Paley, and Leonard Goldenson), only one belonged to a woman.(1) That woman was almost single-handedly responsible for creating one of the most enduring and most profitable television genres in history. As Dan Wakefield wrote in 1976, she "is to soap opera what Edison is to the light bulb and Fulton to the steamboat."(2) She founded the industry of the television soap opera and for forty years was its single greatest writer, producer, guardian angel, and guiding light. The name? Irna Phillips. Agnes, right place, right time, has honors that go on & on & on.

Jane, this is fabulous! Genoa City 351 for serious soap fans who may be Oakdalians!

Also I think part of it is cumulative. In 2023 Bradley has dumped & dumped on 3 actors, isn't it? Rena, Krista & Darin Wolf?

I am so very pleased to read more people who appreciate Cady's Jennifer Rose, as much as I do! My reasons for being against having Missy back are known & numerous & don't need restating. I've been furious with Ron over his treatment of Laura, Jenn & Jack, all 3, ever since he let Gwen Rice Chex kill Laura with absolute impunity.

Well, frankly, the way that some PTB treat their talent ought to be in the general knowledge about them. In a way speaking out is just making a deposit in the 411 in this case about Bradley Bell.

Oh, goodie! MORE! I love it.

Okay, it's hard to see Kristofferson this way.

Thanks so much! Thanks again!

Thanks! I considered that it might be Summer & Chance. And, thanks for the family tree! While I am being very newbie, who did Thom Bierdz play?

Y&R: Friday, 12-15-23, young man & young woman talking about a band? Who are they?

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Maloney, M., & Bell, L. P. (2012). The Young and Restless Life 0f William J. Bell. Sourcebooks, Inc. p. 41 On December 23, 1973, Irna Phillips died of natural causes at the age of 72, in her apartment in Chicago's Gold Coast area. She died in her sleep, in her bed, alone. It is thought that the last thing she worked on was her unfinished autobiography. Her obituary in the Chicago Tribune said she had requested a private burial service & that her family not issue a public notice of her death. Her desire to slip away quietly spoke to a great loneliness that she felt throughout her life. Speaking of her enviable career, Irna told Time magazine in 1940, "I'd give it all up if a man came along." Irna received posthumous Daytime Emmy Award nominations as co-creator of Days of Our Lives. But she did not live long enough to receive many accolades. She is commemorated on a signpost outside her North Astor Street residence. The memorial, founded by the Chicago Tribune foundation & the Chicago Cultural Center credits her as "the mother of soap opera." p. 40 Bill learned many things from Irna, including the importance of protecting his writers. ATWT cast member Don Hastings was privy to what went on in the writers' room, courtesy of his own brief writing stint with Irna. He recalls: "If someone from P&G or CBS didn't like a script and said, "Who wrote this?" Irna would say, "I write all the scripts! If you don't like it, it's my fault because I'm the one who said this is something that should be broadcast!" p. 42 Bill never failed to honor the contributions Irna had made to his career. Later saying, "None of us do anything of consequence alone. Like Agnes Nixon, I, too, had that legend of all legends, Irna Phillips, who invested a lot of herself in me."

Maloney, M., & Bell, L. P. (2012). The Young and Restless Life 0f William J. Bell. Sourcebooks, Inc. Excerpts from p.38 Irna & Bill co-created Another World. The show bible dated 8-26-63 is 24 pages long. "In a community not too far from Oakdale, a community near the university -- one that is certainly not what we usually think of as suburbia but not completely cosmopolitan either -- live two families," Irna & Bill wrote. "As far as Another World is concerned, we believe that in some way we all create 'another world' for ourselves. If we didn't, facing reality 24 hours a day would be too much. But as for another world for women, we feel that the viewer, who we hope will come to know all the people to whom you've been introduced will recognize in this story that a home and a family should be solidified & not attached." Creating AW also provided valuable lessons. "It was a whole new level of learning," Bill said of starting an original daytime series. Another World, which Rose Cooperman titled & which chronicled the lives of the Matthews family. Bill & Irna left AW & James Lipton came in but then he also left & Agnes Nixon came in. Her Alice/Steve/Rachel triangle put the show on the map. "Aggie did a fabulous job with that show," praised Bill. My favorite writers are in no order at all: Lemay, Labine, Curlee, Swajeski, Hurst, Mulcahey, the Dobsons, Marland, Val Jean, CCulliton, Falken Smith, Bell, Nixon & Phillips. 15. I like writers. So sue me.

Maloney, M., & Bell, L. P. (2012). The Young and Restless Life 0f William J. Bell. Sourcebooks, Inc. Excerpts from p.38 Irna & Bill co-created Another World. The show bible dated 8-26-63 is 24 pages long. "In a community not too far from Oakdale, a community near the university -- one that is certainly not what we usually think of as suburbia but not completely cosmopolitan either -- live two families," Irna & Bill wrote. "As far as Another World is concerned, we believe that in some way we all create 'another world' for ourselves. If we didn't, facing reality 24 hours a day would be too much. But as for another world for women, we feel that the viewer, who we hope will come to know all the people to whom you've been introduced will recognize in this story that a home and a family should be solidified & not attached." Creating AW also provided valuable lessons. "It was a whole new level of learning," Bill said of starting an original daytime series. Another World, which Rose Cooperman titled & which chronicled the lives of the Matthews family. Bill & Irna left AW & James Lipton came in but then he also left & Agnes Nixon came in. Her Alice/Steve/Rachel triangle put the show on the map. "Aggie did a fabulous job with that show," praised Bill. p. 40 Bill learned many things from Irna, including the importance of protecting his writers. ATWT cast member Don Hastings was privy to what went on in the writers' room, courtesy of his own brief writing stint with Irna. He recalls: "If someone from P&G or CBS didn't like a script and said, "Who wrote this?" Irna would say, "I write all the scripts! If you don't like it, it's my fault because I'm the one who said this is something that should be broadcast!" Did anyone know that Rose Cooperman named the show?

Thank you so much for sharing this. Talk about getting it right!!!

WOW, love data, no way around that. I will say that The Doctors are forever the only soap to be the first one to win Best Show. And, only Mary Fickett won against a field of males. And, as far as I know only P&G has had others to successfully mount a shut-out against them.

PASADENA, DONNA. Wait. 😉Yep, thanks, Pasadena! It & Pacific Palisades should both have been hits. Also Kindred, the Embraced. Nancy Lee Grahn also did a two arc bit on Babylon 5.

LOVED Pacific Palisades! Also ... same time period ... Dana Delaney. Pensacola? No. I'll think of it.