Contessa Donatella

I loved Deas/Buzz. I could have done without Bradley Cole, David Andrew MacDonald, Frank DiCopoulis, but I would have kept Deas, Newman, "Billy", Cosgrove, Jonathan, ...

Kevin McClatchey was such a poor JFP hire. Jensen did seem dulled out. I just think Matt wanted Carl gone & missed Mac so much.

Oh, yes! Got Lila & baby Jasmine out of it. Robert Kelker-Kelly made me mad over his choice to be first Bobby Reno & then Shane Roberts when if he wanted to come back to the show, it should have been as Sam Fowler! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A sad day, when Matthew Cory left home.

"BobbaReno" was not a character that Another World needed!

I looked more closely at alinaadams.com & she has a twitter feed on there: Later that same year, I did the same for the newly canceled Guiding Light via an even more innovative format, Twitter, as one character, Mindy Lewis Bauer, continued sharing the lives and loves of her friends and neighbors with the show's fans. I believe that P&G gave her permission to do "AWToday" & now they have given her permission to do "Mindy's Twitter". Looking into a twitter feed for ATWT doesn't look too far away, if you ask me.

Understood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPwXEGbNGYk&t=797s The Lovely Ada Vol. 1 The Lovely Ada Vol. 2 The Lovely Ada Vol. 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkOuUW6TU8&feature=player_embedded A Cory Christmas Vol. 1 That's half-way through. The Snowflake Ball come up in the next one, A Cory Christmas, Vol. 2

It seems to me that the thing to do would be to go through Alina Adams. She lists "Online Soap Opera Continuations" among her items & has PGP's AW Today & enhanced e-books with topics that cover GL & SB & more. http://alinaadams.com/

Mac Cory & Toasts & Speeches http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/misc8.html ANOTHER WORLD: MAC'S SPEECHES Cory Thanksgiving Speech Givers. Pre-1989: Mac; 1989: Rachel; 1990: Paulina; 1991: Jake; 1992: not shown (only Rachel, Ada, Amanda, Cass, and Frankie in attendance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVqKMV7fpCg&t=18s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAHUJ-MM294 Attachments area Preview YouTube video Liz Matthews Returns; Mac's Thanksgiving Toast, 1987 Preview YouTube video Mac, Rachel, and the Corys, Christmas 1984 Preview YouTube video Mac's Christmas Toast, 1986 Preview YouTube video Mac Cory and Jamie Frame--The Love of a Father, 1981 Preview YouTube video Mac and Rachel 1981--Christmas Pictures

I just found out that Marley (Love Hudson) was created by Richard Culliton and Vicky (Love Hudson) was created by Gary Tomlin and Donna (Love Hudson) was created by Robert Soderberg & Dorothy Ann Purser together. For some reason I thought they shared the same creator or creation team. Not so. That's a fine bit of characterization writing, especially coming out of 4 different people.

When AW brought Jean Passanante on to HW or co-HW (with Laiman) at the end, Vicky Wyndham told me they had promised Passanante was to write romance & give them romance on the show. Well, no one ever saw any of the promised romance. Between the oddball story of Lumina, complete with the Lumina Ball, David Andrew MacDonald playing 2 characters where one of them was facially disfigured Jordan Stark, we got Cameron & Alley in a re-told version of "The Secret Garden" & that was about it. Backing up to Malone, we had fared no better.

AW is so lucky about uploads. FebWriter, absolutely all of Eddie Drueding, absolutely all of Chase4ever, veggiemeister, etc. Then, the uploads we made in Sept. 2018 of the AW Fan Bench in Central Park campaign. You can find all of them by my name " Donna L. Bridges ".

Yes, that is a great memory! You and me, too!

Thanks for the fire clip. And, I always forget Rhonda!

12 people who at one time or another chose not to submit themselves for consideration Beverlee McKinsey (Alexandra Spaulding, GL) (In 1991, she finally decided to submit & was not nominated.) Tony Geary (Luke Spencer, GH) Julia Barr (Brooke English, AMC) Lane Davies (Mason Capwell, SB) Deidre Hall (Marlena Evans, DOOL) Jay Hammer (Fletcher Reade, GL) Peter Simon (Dr. Ed Bauer, GL) Robert S. Woods (Bo Buchanan, OLTL) Clint Ritchie (Clint Buchanan, OLTL) Colleen Zink Pinter (Barbara Ryan, ATWT) Don Hastings (Bob Hughes, ATWT) Kathyrn Hays (Kim Hughes, ATWT)

In 1994 Justin Deas won for Outstanding Supporting Actor, while many people thought he should have been up for Lead. However, Deas had a philosophy that all actors on soaps are essentially supporting each other. As Buzz Cooper he had been GL's center. Plots that didn't involve his return from the dead managed to include him. And, then, add into that, his leading lady, Fiona Hutschison (Jenna Bradshaw) had been nominated for Lead. The next year Deas won for Lead.

from AWHP: Tallboys, January 1970 - March 18, 1985, destroyed (Manager: Grant Todd. Owner: Lily Mason) Top of the Tower, January 1967-March 1970 TOPS, December 1986-January 1995, remodeled in October 1988 (Former owner: Reginald Love. Former manager: Felicia Gallant. Manager: Franco)

OH! It was Tallboys they crashed into?!! Well, thanks, I have gotten that wrong for years! By the way, have you seen Linda's "Intimate Portrait" on Lifetime? She has both that & a show on Depression. She had a real time of it at one point. Her mother died. Her husband Frank died. And, then her publicist & companion Vivian Stern died. She had her 2 little dogs but she was seriously depressed for a time. She seems to be past it now. Thank goodness.

Linda Dano named the gorilla business as one of their crazy capers & a favorite storyline. She & Wally got stuck in the cage but then got out & got the gorilla into the back of a truck. Unfortunately then the brakes went out on the truck, they flew downhill, careening out of control, until they crashed into Felicia's high-rise, penthouse, posh restaurant T.O.P.S. Sheer insanity but people ask her about it to this day! (I have uploaded a video clip with this in it.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of David Hedison's daughters (RIP David) Alexandra is married to Jodie Foster, so Jodie just lost her father-in-law.

Bench Plaque Map to the Bench Location Trees of Manhattan across Duck Pond Committee to Save Another World meeting to dedicate bench

Carolyn J. Williams was well known by Victoria and frequently she would get invited after a show like "Couplets" to spend some time with Vicky & Charles. She died too young - from cancer. She was a very nice woman who went to several of Charles's shows in Minneapolis. She went to Kathy Morley Hackmeyer's wedding. They were good friends. Carolyn was very easy for Melissa & I to work with. All 3 of us worked very hard to accomplish this project. By doing all of that editing and dubbing, Carolyn had a massive task & she loved doing it. She had a plan in her head about just how she would go about putting the tapes together. And, I think she was right. She was so easy to work with on the project & she did such a great job. And, we all 3 loved the show just as much as the other. My speech on the history of the Bench. Fran Singer (RIP) Fran Singer's (RIP) speech about working for Doug Watson (Mac Cory) & doing all of his autographs, etc.

June 2001, outside in Central Park, on Friday instead of inside for Linda Dano Day, a Dedication to the Another World Fan Bench This was truly a labor of love. Thanks to me for being so intent on getting this done! Thanks to Melissa for finding the VHS tapes, which was a wild search through *so* many tapes! Thanks to Suzanne Lanoue for transferring the VHS tapes to DVD via her Magnavox VHS/DVD combo machine. Thanks to Melissa for ripping the files to computer. Thanks to me for uploading. Thanks to Eddie Drueding, Silas Kain, Sobe Daya, etc. for advice & support. Thanks to my brother David for a list of free or inexpensive ripping software that does a good job. Now, back to the beginning of .....The Another World Fan Bench in Central Park: Melissa Scardaville came up with the idea to do a permanent memorial to Another World. She connected with the Central Park Conservancy and found out that it would cost us $5,000 to get a bench. At Blondie's Sports Bar the first year we gathered June 2000 we auctioned off several items. I had an extra copy of the out-of-print hard-to-find Harding "Pete" Lemay book EIGHT YEARS IN ANOTHER WORLD. (1981) We auctioned it off for around a thousand dollars. We auctioned off one of Victoria's statues. We auctioned off one of the paintings from the Cory living room. We were still going to have to come up with more money. We decided to do tape auctions. We'd make videotapes and offer them to the fans. We came up with 4 tapes to do: (1) Mac & Rachel, (2) The Lovely Ada, (3) A Cory Christmas, and (4) Rachel & Carl. Any fan could pick the tape they wanted and send us $10 for it & we would send it to them. I handled all the Post Office and banking. Carolyn Williams (RIP) kept 3 VCRS set up & connected to each other all the time & she did all the dubbing & editing. By the second year we got together, in June 24, 2001, we had enough money and we had had a plaque made & put on the Bench & we had a dedication ceremony. Directions to the Another World Fan Bench in Central Park, NYC: Go to the the fountain on Cherry Hill. Take the middle path (the path due north) toward Bow Bridge. The bench is around the lake near a willow tree, down near the water that is Duck Pond, on the walkway. Across Duck Pond are many trees & Manhattan beyond them. If you reach Bow Bridge you have gone too far. You might recognize Bow Bridge because it has been in so many movies & TV shows. It's really quite famous. What is on the plaque on the Bench? Dedicated to the cast, crew, staff, Fans and creators of Another World Daytime Soap Opera 5/4/64 to 6/25/99 35 years in Bay City We were lucky about its location. That bench is where the cast & crew would meet to practice softball. Doug Watson loved playing softball! I have pictures of us gathered around the ANOTHER WORLD FAN BENCH IN CENTRAL PARK. I'm giving a speech about the history of our doing the bench. Silas Kain is sitting on one of the adjoining benches. Melissa Scardaville is standing at the rear of one bench. (We're spread around.) Now, as you might know, last year some fans were in New York City, in the rain (a downpour), and they had the Directions and the Map with them, and they got a cab driver to help them and they found the fan bench & took pictures there, etc. It was very exciting! And, you might know that Kathy Morley Hackmeyer, when she lived up there, used to come out *all* the time and enjoy it enough for the rest of us who were missing out on it. Lastly, you might know that Suzanne Marie Lanoue, who owns & runs the TV Megasite and who wrote one of our blogs, went out there one time when they were in "the city". We haven't been back since the dedication.

Lorelai was Lucky Gold's, right? I just did not care for it. And, I really like Beth C. I really do, but surely at times they needed to come up with something better for her to do! Do I recall correctly that ex-AW's "Ryan" Paul Michael Valley had a part in Lorelai? Maybe a bartender? Such a talented guy. Came out of Juillard. Wasted by being killed off by JFP at AW. I don't know if he still is or not but he used to be the Creative Director of Mockingbird Theatre in Middle Tennessee. PMV's girlfriend Christine Tucci (Amanda Cory #2) was also fired by JFP & on JFP's very first day at AW to boot. I can't remember who else but JFP did a mini-massacre on her first day! Really appalling.

🌑🌒🌓🌔 An embarrassment for the Daytime Emmys - 1986 Bill Bell was given the award for Best Writing for Writing for Y&R! The very next morning he got a call from them - the award going to GL instead!

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