Contessa Donatella

My BFF used to watch the one with Lisa Rinna & Eileen Davidson in it & I listened from the other room.

Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Linda was honored inside at Blondie's the day after the Another World Fan Bench Dedication outside in Central Park at the bench, by the last wave of AW Fan Activists, the Committee to Save Another World

Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Kale Browne (Michael Hudson) Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Silas Kain & Tina F. Gray Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Linda & Silas Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Silas, Sue, Nora, Linda, The Proclamation From CT Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Mark Pinter (Grant #2) Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Ricky Paull Goldin (Dean Frame) Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Silas & Gail Brown (Clarice) Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Anna Stuart (Donna Love Hudson) Linda Dano Day, June 2001, Kale & Anna (Donna & Michael)

I have always thought that Maureen Garrett was the best screamer in all of daytime!

This week NBC's shows come back to begin their new seasons. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, CHICAGO MED, CHICAGO FIRE, and CHICAGO P.D. Thursday night, the next night, Mariska Hargitay's umpteenth season of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT.

But, he also played a bizarre character on AW. They used him for weird stuff. David Andrew Macdonald on AW https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=Awr9NVfFhIpdAR8AjMU0nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBncGdyMzQ0BHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEdnRpZAM-;_ylc=X1MDMTM1MTE5NTcwMARfcgMyBGFjdG4DY2xrBGNzcmNwdmlkAzk0YmJQakV3TGpLYW40dmtYTDladFFNZE1qQXdNUUFBQUFEZ2FfRlEEZnIDeWhzLWFkay1hZGtfc2JudARmcjIDc2EtZ3AEZ3ByaWQDajZhQjNCSjdTRjJUR1dpbjdQbzFWQQRuX3JzbHQDMjAEbl9zdWdnAzEEb3JpZ2luA3ZpZGVvLnNlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDNDUEcXVlcnkDRGF2aWQlMjBBbmRyZXclMjBNYWNkb25hbGQlMjBMdW1pbmElMjBvbiUyMEFXBHRfc3RtcAMxNTY5MzU5MDkw?p=David+Andrew+Macdonald+Lumina+on+AW&ei=UTF-8&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av%2Cm%3Asa&fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk#id=10&vid=754df24b3266c565d5b68e7f398a641c&action=view

I hope no one minds that I'm about to change the subject. Do you remember when DOOL did this story where John & this woman were jewel thieves? In RATSm at the time we decided that she reminded us of Emma Peel of the Avengers. (Diana Rigg) So, we gave ourselves nicknames, dubbing ourselves, "peels". That's how I became "shallotpeel", one who was adopted by "garlic peel". There are still "peels" running around. And, I just flat out never gave up my moniker. I liked how different it was. Thought you'd enjoy the anecdote. We can get so much out of our stories.

On Facebook's "On This Day" today, harking back to Sept. 24, 2011, I made a post: Of the AW, GL, ATWT & AMC finales, all bias aside, I gotta say ATWT's was the best. Today, Sept. 24, 2019, I have to conclude that back then I had lost my flipping mind. ATWT's Finale was a huge disappointment to me. AW's & GL's were my favorites. And, I don't EVEN remember AMC's. Oy vey y'all, what was I thinking?!

Kreizman Elana Levine, academic, Mar. 2020 publishing book at Duke University Press, Her Stories Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History F.M. Behr Gary Tomlin, began as an actor on SFT & worked all the way through all of daytime industry James Lipton MADD & Rauch

Actress: Kathy Phillips/SFT, Dinah Buckley/GL, Dr. Lynn Michaels/ATWT & I'm not sure if she played a role on AW or not. Writer: AMC, AW, ATWT, GH, GL, SB, SFT

Courtney Simon

We had an AW fan event right after the show was over at Blondie's Sports Bar in "the city". Some of the actors were invited, there & present. We wanted to watch the last 2 shows on the huge screens there. But, Linda Dano hadn't reached a point where she could see it yet. So, we skipped that & visited instead. Early on, all of a sudden there was this amazing whisper campaign, "Look, it's Clarice!" repeated over & over. And, it was. She had seen a blurb in her local CT paper announcing the event & had come & joined us. None of us had seen her in years!

Oh, yes, we are into Conboy now. And, said boy toy, Marty West, sold videos of himself as a wrestler out of his car! Plus, he had such a baby face & was so pudgy. Remember when he was putting the moves on someone & his standard issue gray sweatpants dropped almost to his knees? I shudder just to think of ConWest & Marty Boy, both! How tacky!

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=youtube+donna+l.+bridges+the+lovely+ada+vol.+3#id=1&vid=95408258ca7e6944c9c4ad8b2eb2de3c&action=click Last night I watched one of our AW Fan Videos from the Fan Bench in Central Park campaign, The Lovely Ada, Vol. 3. It hadn't been long since Mac's death & both Ada & Rachel were still very much thinking & talking about it & about him. Rachel had seen a man on an elevator & mistaken him for Mac, which had shaken her. Ada kept going shopping & buying Mac cardigan sweaters with buttons that she considered tacky. Ada tried to talk Rachel into getting rid of some of Mac's stuff but she's not ready for it yet. Then, Amanda & Rachel come in from the car the next day --- and Ada has died. Rachel just thought she was asleep. She squeezed Rachel's hand and she told her, "You're my best friend." Well, Rachel had not known that even though she knew that Ada was her best friend. People come in with food & best wishes, prepared for the memorial only to find that the airport has made a real mess of things. Ada's ashes are in Peoria, Illinios!

Oh, sorry, I repeated some of what you'd already said. I remembered that Carolyn's handler was Sam but forgot about her mate being Richard. That video (to the fans) was divine. Wonder whose idea that was. A stroke of genius. And, Rachel moving through the pictures in the Cory living room, too. Mac's toast! I know so many people who were touched by Grant & Cindy in Tanquir but it left me cold. Plus, that line. What was it? "All's well that ends." Thank you, Rachel. I'll share just one line from the Back Issue of that tape day, "Executive Producer Christopher Goutman escorted a visibly pale and shaking Wyndham, the show's longest-running performer, to the set." Imagine. Besides the set dressing & props, etc. there were about 100 fans with their noses pressed against the windows & just as many floral bouquets from fans.

Wheeler had wanted Peter Simon back for some time and they did everything they could do to get him. They wanted PS's Ed Bauer back for the whole time that Sebastian was on. Simon felt he had been burned or mistreated both by Rauch first & then by Conboy & he was never one to suffer fools lightly. Courtney even tried to help out. So, Holly & Ed was definitely on Wheeler's wishlist. They even let that mess with their timing. I have a Martha CD & I love it!

I met Larry Lau at a fan event when he was back as Jamie & he had been through some kind or level of rehab & he was dressed all in black - black tight jeans & black tight tshirt & black sneakers - and he had lost considerable weight & so he looked fantastic. Great sparkle to his eyes & very shiny blonde hair. He had a girlfriend with him & they were back in the courtesy room having a bit to eat & drink & I visited with them while I saw to it that they found what they needed before they went out & he signed autographs for a long while. He was very personable & very approachable. You couldn't help but like him! Then, of course, not that it really relates but I never liked Russell Todd. But, I did enjoy Richard Bekins. I'm old enough to have liked him. It was in one of those fan event courtesy rooms when I discovered that Anna Stuart could have easily been a counselor instead of an actor!

Now, I don't know that he could've talked Bev into coming even if they had said yes. She was more introverted after her transplant. I don't know what her health was like. She just wanted to putter in her garden & play with her grandchild. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a good chance that she was somewhat self-concious about her health and maybe her looks, then.

Happy Birthday Sara Bibel!

Last week a group of us got to watch 2 YT clips of Felicia & Wally, in a truck, flying downhill, on the loose, thinking they were going to hit her top-floor penthouse posh restaurant T.O.P.S. Eyes were wild, feather boas were flying & I mean, let me tell you they were screaming! It was thanks to one of my nearest & dearest friends, Chase4ever. Oh, yeah, one of the oldest, too! And the icing on the cake is that included in the bundle was a copy of Wallingford's Memorial Service. Rewind to the beginning on the first clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2piqg5CyVk&list=PL4VcbQ8kMdHI2rQKUB4owOFg_9whbHqbT&index=317&t=2066s&fbclid=IwAR0PKcVTN6tsyaa02tMn21D7HprWWA2fZJF8xc3QOAUVrvAo7GZ3tMB8RwA Play the second one as is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7TQqBgamY&list=PL4VcbQ8kMdHI2rQKUB4owOFg_9whbHqbT&index=84&t=5s

I was one of a great many AW fans near the end of the show who could not stand what Michael Malone did to the show! He didn't grasp most of the characters. For just one example, he seemed to think that Jake McKinnon was a kind of "gentleman caller." In reality Jake had a chip on his shoulder, always had, always would. Malone just wiped that off. Whoosh! Gone! He had Jake & Vicky go back to their roots & get their childhood swing set & move it to a park nearby & go swing on it nearly every day. Okay? Like wha-at?! Robert Kelker-Kelly was brought on as a character named Bobby Reno, who had been in a terrible accident & had to have corneal transplants. The eyes he got were Ryan's. Ryan had been Vicky's lover. They even met in heaven! Malone had written a bible that was planned for supper time broadcast M-F, approximately 7 p.m. It was set in New Orleans. Robert Kelker-Kelly's character became Shane Roberts, (Yes, they changed his name!) from East Louisiana, without any corneal issues any more. And, he was romantically entangled with Lisa Peluso's character, Lila. Lila was terrified of storms. But, at the same time Lila was also connected to Matt Cory & to Cass Winthrop. Lila got pregnant & had a baby, Jasmine. By this time, this 6 months of story telling was completely convoluted. I can't remember if they fired him or let him write the show out to the two-day finale complete with wedding in the park (Cass & Lila) and a gorilla capturing Cass. The gorilla's name was Carolyn, after Carolyn Culliton, and her handler's name was Sam, after Samuel D. Ratcliffe, a prior AW brilliant humorous writer, RIP.

Carlivato Dunn When Rauch was still at PGP, they had a Development Program in place to prepare for the next to come. They had 2 people who were full-time shadows of Chris Goutman, learning how to do his job, EP, rather than the jobs they were doing, DIR. Those 2 people were Ellen Wheeler and Scott McKinsey. McKinsey has continued to be a Director & is very well spoken of. For a while he was at Y&R, then GH. Now he is at DOOL.

Virginia Dwyer, AW's Mary Matthews, tells a hilarious but true anecdote about herself. This happened after she'd played the part for several years. She was poking around in her clothes closet. When suddenly she was completely in shock! Every item in there was Mary's ultraconservative look --- not hers! Not even one item was hers. She scooped them all up in her arms & threw them out. She had forgotten who she was! She had become Mary Matthews!

Well, August 2004 might be early for that. Seems like they began to impose budget cuts in 2005.