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I can't see Cass ending up with Cecile long after the fact, either. Whereas I definitely could have seen Kathleen with Cass. When they brought Kathleen back, I felt she was really 'good to go'. Yes, she was and yes, they 'bought' into it. For Nicole to be clear-headed and functioning would have been useful!

Who Shot Jake was a favorite storyline! tentpole would be good. Frankie was my favorite!

I loved Curlee.

Happy 2020 from Decatur, Georgia!

Not getting annoying. There was an unusual area that fit in TEXAS that was "Hitoha". It was a fascinating tale that went on & on that led to Beverlee McKensey & on her on. She had assistance. My brother remembers that my mother found it to be the funniest story ever!

Today: Heads! Tails!

Isn't it great that there's just been two iconic books on Whitney Houston in the past 6 months ... one by her mother Cissy Houston and one by her lover Robyn Crawford? If only those people had lived, maybe Whitney would have had long lives?!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cass (Stephen Schnetzer) and Lila (Lisa Peluso) where Cass's 'Curl' is shown prominently. AW fans adopted the 'Curl' & gave themselves nicknames of ownership of it. Then, when AW went off the air in June 1999, Cass was one of several castmembers who were moved over to ATWT. There the hairdressers wanted to cut off the 'Curl'! Horrors! He had to explain to them why not. I wonder what Stephen's upcoming movie "A Case Of Blue" will be like.

Cass grew by leaps & bounds & surpassed Frankie.

What is Vee quoting? They weren't "so-called" activists!

And the son of A. C. Weary, a Director.

"Julie Pinson auditioned for the part of Lily when Chris Goutman had it in his head to burn Martha Byrne." - Donna L. Bridges MARY STUART...If America's three contributions to world culture are musical comedy, jazz, and soap opera, … Eileen Davidson: As a lead actress who’d always been known as a dramatic actress, it was just such a hoot for me, and so freeing to just let go and have fun. I had a tape recorder and I would read the scene and turn it off when the character I was supposed to be talked. I ran lines that way. The major way that I knew it was working was because the crew was laughing, and I was laughing, we were cracking up all the time. They worked me to death. I was at the end of my contract, I was going to leave after the first year I played Susan. And they asked me to stay an additional year to finish off the storyline, so I did. James (Reilly; Headwriter) actually ended apologizing to me at the end of it. He knew he’d worked me sixteen-hour days, Saturdays, I was really exhausted. He apologized to me. He said he couldn’t help it, he felt inspired by me. He had no reason to apologize, it was a great, great, great thing for me! "Some people don't like killing any character on a soap, but I believe that the death can be as important as the life if it shakes up the town and spins great story for the characters left behind. This was one of those cases." - Jill Lorie Hurst, GL, Otalia, Gus's death "This is a big, bad blow to everybody in the soap business. It’s staggering having two shows canceled in such a short span of time." - Chris Goutman, ATWT (CBS killed GL & ATWT back to back. Before two years had been up, ABC had killed AMC & OLTL, also back to back. Network deaths.) Elana Levine is a professor with the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee who will publish a book in © 2020 HER STORIES: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History." "At NBC programmers admitted that they went to a 90-minute show 'because they couldn't come up with a better idea.'" from the Another World Home Page: Nearby Towns (Fictional) to Bay City: Somerset, Bedfordtown, Brookville, Ogden (100 miles away; Ogden Memorial), Centerville. In the Irna Phillips universe there were small cities clustered near each other. They were Oakdale, Illinois [ATWT], Flat Rock, Centerville, Somerset, [itself] Bedfordtown, Brookville, Ogden, Centerville, Bay City, Illinois, [AW], and Henderson [SFT]. So, we all of us have some semblance of an idea of how fine a writer Irna Phillips was. And, how prolific. And, how timely. And, how she could direct, focus & aim at her target. I've just finished through the Bill Bell book, and all throughout they mention Irna's unpublished memoir or unfinished autobiography. Whichever it is, it is with Irna's papers at one or more locales. I talked to someone today who has read it & deemed it far from being ready to do anything with. As far as she knows Irna's daughter has died, which would put it into the ownership of Irna's son. What a terrible shame that the remarkable writer that Irna was couldn't have knuckled down & finished a fantastic memoir. After all, she had so many tales to tell and so many people to tell them about. I wonder if she just was not ready to die yet--and death caught her unawares. Earlier this year Days of our Lives celebrated the 50th anniversary of Susan Seaforth Hayes being on the show! They had flashbacks of much younger Julie, in San Francisco, on the rotary phone to first much younger Tom & then, after, to much younger Alice with them inviting her to return to Salem for a visit over the holidays. (Their rotary phones were on mantles, of all places. Would you put one there?) Corday arranged for Bill Hayes to be able to - once again - sing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" to Julie. It was live! They did more flashbacks, where most of them were just Doug & Julie. He gave her one serious passionate kiss. Later that week she was a guest on a Soap Opera Digest podcast with Stephanie & Mara & she revealed that she had never seen those early flashbacks before. She seemed somewhat taken aback at what she looked like in them. But, she looked fine & more than that, she looked like she really did in the show at the time. I was a fan then & already had a big crush on Julie. It was *years* before my father & I realized that we *both* had crushes on Julie. Judi Evans Lucianos' son Austin died Friday.

"Insiders believe, and I agree with them that once the announcements were made for cancelling *both* shows there was no saving anyone." - Lynn Liccardo "What Lemay couldn't have known was that in creating "AW" Irna was once again replaying the ramifications of her sterility. When Janet Matthews needs a hysterectomy to remove a tumor, her fiance` "deserts her for a woman who can bear him children." But the character through whom Phillips may well have told the truth about her pregnancy was not Janet, but her niece, Pat." - Lynn Liccardo "… really it was just a figure of speech … It's like watching a train wreck. Unfortunately there actually *was a train wreck. Good-bye Reed, and Luke & Reed never even consummated. Homophobia: on GL with no kissing Otalia; on ATWT with Reed's death." - Lynn Liccardo "Julie Pinson auditioned for the part of Lily when Chris Goutman had it in his head to burn Martha Byrne." - Donna L. Bridges MARY STUART...If America's three contributions to world culture are musical comedy, jazz, and soap opera, … Eileen Davidson: As a lead actress who’d always been known as a dramatic actress, it was just such a hoot for me, and so freeing to just let go and have fun. I had a tape recorder and I would read the scene and turn it off when the character I was supposed to be talked. I ran lines that way. The major way that I knew it was working was because the crew was laughing, and I was laughing, we were cracking up all the time. They worked me to death. I was at the end of my contract, I was going to leave after the first year I played Susan. And they asked me to stay an additional year to finish off the storyline, so I did. James (Reilly; Headwriter) actually ended apologizing to me at the end of it. He knew he’d worked me sixteen-hour days, Saturdays, I was really exhausted. He apologized to me. He said he couldn’t help it, he felt inspired by me. He had no reason to apologize, it was a great, great, great thing for me! "Some people don't like killing any character on a soap, but I believe that the death can be as important as the life if it shakes up the town and spins great story for the characters left behind. This was one of those cases." - Jill Lorie Hurst, GL, Otalia, Gus's death "This is a big, bad blow to everybody in the soap business. It’s staggering having two shows canceled in such a short span of time." - Chris Goutman, ATWT (CBS killed GL & ATWT back to back. Before two years had been up, ABC had killed AMC & OLTL, also back to back. Network deaths.) Elana Levine is a professor with the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee who will publish a book in © 2020 HER STORIES: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History." "At NBC programmers admitted that they went to a 90-minute show 'because they couldn't come up with a better idea.'" from the Another World Home Page: Nearby Towns (Fictional) to Bay City: Somerset, Bedfordtown, Brookville, Ogden (100 miles away; Ogden Memorial), Centerville. In the Irna Phillips universe there were small cities clustered near each other. They were Oakdale, Illinois [ATWT], Flat Rock, Centerville, Somerset, [itself] Bedfordtown, Brookville, Ogden, Centerville, Bay City, Illinois, [AW], and Henderson [SFT]. So, we all of us have some semblance of an idea of how fine a writer Irna Phillips was. And, how prolific. And, how timely. And, how she could direct, focus & aim at her target. I've just finished through the Bill Bell book, and all throughout they mention Irna's unpublished memoir or unfinished autobiography. Whichever it is, it is with Irna's papers at one or more locales. I talked to someone today who has read it & deemed it far from being ready to do anything with. As far as she knows Irna's daughter has died, which would put it into the ownership of Irna's son. What a terrible shame that the remarkable writer that Irna was couldn't have knuckled down & finished a fantastic memoir. After all, she had so many tales to tell and so many people to tell them about. I wonder if she just was not ready to die yet--and death caught her unawares. Earlier this year Days of our Lives celebrated the 50th anniversary of Susan Seaforth Hayes being on the show! They had flashbacks of much younger Julie, in San Francisco, on the rotary phone to first much younger Tom & then, after, to much younger Alice with them inviting her to return to Salem for a visit over the holidays. (Their rotary phones were on mantles, of all places. Would you put one there?) Corday arranged for Bill Hayes to be able to - once again - sing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" to Julie. It was live! They did more flashbacks, where most of them were just Doug& Julie. He gave her one seriously passionate kiss. Later that week she was a guest on a Soap Opera Digest podcast with Stephanie & Mara& she revealed that she had never seen those early flashbacks before. She seemed somewhat taken aback at what she looked like in them. But, she looked fine & more than that, she looked like she really did in the show at the time. I was a fan then & already had a big crush on Julie. It was *years* before my father & I realized that we *both* had crushes on Julie.

Most of us who were fan activists felt that Goutman came very close to saving "Another World" We were part of the Another World Fan Brigade first, lead by Tom Freeman After that we were members of the Committee to Save Another World. MADD (PGP) and Susan D. Lee (NBC) took positioins where they were prepared to cancel "AW" Mickey was traveling to China. She came back to the USA & set AW up for cancellation - even before the deadlines that she had set up came along. Susan D. Lee set Frankie up for a competitive challenge. Ratings had gone up under Chris Goutman. Passanante had been a failure. The cast was told she would bring romance to the show but she did not. Michael Malone had been a failure. Lisa Peluso was a success, as was the show bible, Bourbon Street. AMEN! -

I posted the sermons not long ago; there are no prayers, just sermons.

What "GoodReads" has to say about Pete Lemay: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1760197.Eight_Years_in_Another_World

LOL! It's never a problem to repeat some writers! Marland & Lemay are two of them. PGP soaps had brilliance in those two! While I am at it, replying and all, I would love to read the soap you wrote.

ScottyBman, Doug Marland's 10 rules on how not to ruin a show are infamous & have been posted every where multiple times. Just letting you know, FYI. The only person I've ever seen dispute them was Pete Lemay, AW's Golden Author, who basically said that he doesn't like to go by a set of "rules". That's a paraphrase of Pete, not verbatim.

This is from a Wiki. https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Abigail_Williams_(As_the_World_Turns) Abigail Williams As the World Turns character Portrayed by Emmy Rossum (1997) Kristina Sisco (1999–2002, 2010) Duration1997, 1999–2002, 2010 Now, I know that I remember Kristina Sisco, but I don't think I remember Emmy Rossum and her solitary one year. Maybe that will tease your memory.

Emmy Rossum https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Abigail_Williams_(As_the_World_Turns)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOWl7T1D1w Emmy Rossum (Abigail Williams Snyder) Emmy Rossum

Here we go again, yeah, a nice simple question.

Does anyone know how many copies of Rev. Rutledge's book of sermons the show put out?

@kalbir , Hayden Lesley Panettiere (/ˌpænətiˈɛər/; born August 21, 1989)[3] is an American actress, model, and singer. She is known for playing cheerleader Claire Bennet on the NBC sci-fi series Heroes (2006–2010) and Juliette Barnes in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville (2012–2018). A native of New York, she first appeared in a commercial at the age of eleven months. Her full-time acting career began by playing Sarah Roberts on One Life to Live (1994–1997) and Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light (1996–2000), and then played Sheryl Yoast in the Disney feature film Remember the Titans at age ten. Other roles include her portrayal of the title character in the true crime drama Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, the original voice actress for Kairi in the Kingdom Hearts series, and Kirby Reed in the slasher film Scream 4. She received two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, for her work on Nashville in 2012 and 2013.[4] https://www.nickiswift.com/34565/hollywood-wont-cast-hayden-panettiere-anymore/sl/do-children-usually-pay-for-their-parents-divorce Although Panettiere is personally scandal-free — a rarity for someone who's been in Hollywood as long as she has — she has also struggled for years with the legacy left by her parents, whose eyebrow-raising behavior and contentious divorce rivaled the Lohan family's turmoil in terms of the shadow it cast on their talented daughter's career. In a town as gossipy as Los Angeles, that kind of baggage can drag down even the most determined star. Even if Panettiere's parental drama didn't cost her in terms of opportunity, it definitely cost her financially. When her parents' divorce settlement was finalized after eight years of turmoil, it included the shocking revelation that Panettiere had shelled out for her dad's legal fees, which he had to repay to the tune of $100,000. Read More: https://www.nickiswift.com/34565/hollywood-wont-cast-hayden-panettiere-anymore/sl/do-children-usually-pay-for-their-parents-divorce?utm_campaign=clip