Contessa Donatella

@DeeVeeAbout JWS & his age, am I the only one who thought part of why he was cast was that Marland was attracted to the actor? Not saying that anyone was going to act on anything, just that people tend to like to surround themselves with people who are physically pleasing to them, ya know? You may be correct on intentional older man/younger woman I'm just putting this out there as a concept. Then again I was convinced that there was only one reason that Marty West was [cough] miscast as Shayne, so maybe I'm just being cynical & suspicious.

Me, too! But, it's sorta worse. People I like more than Reva: Harley, Cassie, Olivia, Beth, Vanessa, Alex, India, Blake, Doris. People I like less than Reva: Sonia Satra/Lucy Loved OG Eve, loved Isabella, loved Julie, Marlena, OG Laura, Carly, young Jennifer Rose AW is my forever favorite show. GL 2nd runner up, Santa Barbara 3rd. Never watched EON or RH or Love of Life, or Secret Storm or Where the Heart Is. And, no current soap has any interest for you? Reminds me if the actresses on the original L Word talking about how women could objectify women. I mean it should be self-evident that lesbians can and do. BTW, there I am shallotpeel.

And guys, don't forget the gay male audience. I remembered it differently. I thought his relative said the best thing would be the cutest boy liked her & only her, implied. Nothing about the guy being older. Interesting, huh? Totally true & very noticeable, also! Concert pianist or first chair violin. YES! We could form a Bridget fan club! Well, on the one hand, that confrontation between Mo & Lillian is brilliant. And, Ellen as a ghost won awards. But, that quote bothers me. A lot. And, you're correct, same story, 2 other shows!!! And, all 3 versions Hated!! And, I think it is quite telling that 3 different groups of fans (AW, OLTL & GL) would have this shared sort of universal GREAT HATRED of that tale told 3 times with 3 different sets of actors. And, she also had characters act against their own histories & their own integrity. Lillian was supposed to have been a great, real friend of Maureen's. Felicia same except Sharlene. In both cases to have sex with this man they were willing to be disloyal to a supposedly meaningful woman friend. Hello to that message!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVkYzqp9is/ 1991 Soap Opera Digest Awards Best Show DAYS OF OUR LIVES!!! This is the year I said was all bad and also all good. Plus the year I said Dee was robbed. The story of a woman who loved 2 different men ... truly remarkable writing, acting & directing. These posts were & should be separate. You have absolutely no idea of the price that I have paid & continue to pay & since that is so, your opinion on the subject is effectively nil.

In my deep dive, I found this other thing. It's from earlier. But, it's Millett. The notes say 1969 TV GUIDE This lady has a 17 room house, four children, six dogs, seven cats and a soap opera career, too - by Judith Jobin “Soap opera at its worst can be black-and-white—but most of the time the characters are as a real and the conflicts are ones the average person really deals with. I’m proud of it and I'm livid because the industry ignores it. There are no Emmys for soaps!' So says actress Millette Alexander—looking authentically angry—as she defends her membership in television’s much maligned soap-opera club. And it might smack of a case of sour suds if it came from a lesser talent. But by all accounts, Miss Alexander plays soaps with a degree of involvement and intensity usually reserved, in an image-conscious profession, for more prestigious theatrical endeavors. The case in point is her latest role, a young, attractive lady doctor. For the past six months Millette has been feeling her way around the psyche of Sara McIntyre, M.D., one of the central characters on CBS’s The Guiding Light. Says producer Peter Andrews:‘‘She’s quite an intelligent girl and she works very hard in preparation—much more than most. She always has a point of view—she has the whole edifice of her role constructed by the time she gets in.” On the surface, the action is uncomplicated: Millette puts in upwards of 40 hours a week alternately clucking over patients and getting into clinches with a handsome colleague. But under the clucking and clinching is“much more than the words say, insists Edge of Night actress Teri Keane, who remembers Millette’s nimble portrayal of a dual role on that series. “She's complex. There's nothing surfacey about her acting.” ”And a Guiding Light actor agrees, pointing admiringly to her ‘‘emotional quicksilver quality.” But at this point, an inevitable question leaps out: after 15 years of landing television, Broadway and summer-theater roles with ease and regularity, why isn’t Millette Alexander more famous, a little closer to stardom? “She could definitely have it if she tried,’ declares producer Andrews, confirming that her talent is widely acknowledged in the trade. Teri Keane agrees: ‘‘Absolutely. She's tops. But she doesn’t want it.” And Millette herself, recalling an early offer from 20th Century-Fox, confers a convincing air of distastefulness on the whole business: “They wanted me to sign a seven-year contract, move to California, become a starlet.I didn’t want to be locked in.” Her friend Ed Zimmermann explains: ‘‘l’d say she wants most to do good work.” Finally, Andrews points to her off-stage existence: ‘‘She thinks a lot about her home life.” By any standard, it’s a life worth thinking about. At 35, she’s married to rangy Jimmy Hammerstein. He is the son of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, is a respected director in his own right (most recently of a pair of off-Broadway Pinter plays), and was. undeniably a catch. They live in a 17-room Stanford White house in Nyack, N.Y., complete with a six-acre spread of rolling lawns, fruit-tree orchards, greenhouse, lavish swimming pool, and hilltop gazebo overlooking the Hudson River. Their four children are abundantly rosy-cheeked and well-fed. And they solved their servant problem by importing an entire family from Honduras—but the bargain included five more children and an 88-year-old grandmother, all of whom live-in. After that the law of diminishing returns takes over and things look a bit raffish at the edges. There’s a bright red four-wheel-drive jeep in the driveway, and unwary visitors are assaulted by a friendly tangle of six dogs and seven cats. A tour of the interior turns up stray dolls and hobby horses, jars of freshly made fruit preserves in the kitchen, a pair of well-used pianos, an alarming assortment of electronic instruments and an open Dickens volume in the bathroom. Not to mention sound effects—the indecorous clatter of nine children, plus sputtering balloon sounds and Indian yells. It all looks disarmingly like a television headache commercial featuring Millette as its miscast heroine. As keeper of the house and grounds, and Big Mama to that brood, she’s more like the earthy old lady who lived in a shoe than an other-worldly Cinderella. ‘‘I don’t even nose-count any more,” she laughs. “She looks like quite a socialite,” says Teri Keane, ‘‘but she can get down there in the garden and weed!” And that’s not just a figure of speech. In off hours, Millette weeds with gusto, dips deeply into art and music (she’s a highly skilled pianist, also plays violin), finds time for exquisite needlepoint projects and generally has a disconcerting affinity for over-achievement. “She's got a helluva lot of energy,”’ says one friend, and another adds, “It must be pretty exhausting.” Which raises a final question: How did an admittedly ‘“‘overly sensible’’ teenager from the Great Neck (Long Island) High School Orchestra find her way from first-chair violin to the center of such a helter-skelter life? “I finally got sensible about myself,” she explains happily. So, if I read you right, you don't care about the age of the person you might find interesting.. Me either. I think this idea that teens are only wanting to watch other teens is nonsense. And, about Mo, Maureen you call her like a good boy with manners, I totally agree. They to me really screwed up badly with that. But, sorry, I always loved Bridget. Melissa Hayden had my heart. Which Alan-M? Hearst or Evans? I'm all in for Hearst & that continues to this day.

Thank you. Very thoughtful & considered opinions. It's sorta misleading to say that Douglas Marland departed? But, then, again, maybe not.

Rosemary Prinz is a fascinating person. She's given numerous videotapes to special collectors, friends. One story they tell is that she had one tape that originally belonged to Agnes Nixon & it was in the bottom of her closet & she accidentally hit it with her foot & then she thought about who it had belonged to & right then & there she got it out of her closet & the next week it was in the hands of a friend/collector, who restored it & added it to their wares. Somehow, I can't imagine it, you seemed not to notice that I am people & so also am grieving. Not every post. Yes, indeed for the love of god, oh, what's the use. Go kick rocks.

Oh, I did not know she'd dubbed it so! I LOVE IT. Thanks!!! Really. Perfection. Yes, I see!!! Good for you. Hooray, today, for MLH, so hard to pronounce, no vowels & all! (Please I hope you know I am just teasing.) Now, if we can just get you to narrow it down: Blame, Fault, you get the idea. Was it Kobe/Long? ConWest? Rauch/Madd/Moonves? or does poor Ellen Wheeler stand alone? See, I made it multiple choice! (Even people like me who love her find fault.) Very interesting. I am more familiar with AW, so NBC not CBS, but still P&G and NBC did ALL of their show promotions. Different setup at CBS! Amazing, you've given Procter & Gamble a compliment. ... I think.

Ahyes, that awful new-ish soap disease that is far too popular, Death By Focus Group! If ONLY it had ended with the "what if" Curlee described at the Locher Room!!!!

Yeah, agreement? LOL!!! Haven't you heard? It is notable that they say (you know "they") soap fans can never agree on anything. But that makes me wonder aren't they in solidarity in their lack of agreement? And, I honestly do not know the answer to your nicely implied question however, in retrospect they phuqued up royally when they killed off Mo!!! Of course one thing we know there was an excellent writing team in place & they still managed to mess up that bad?!!! One last thing, agree about spoiling Frank & Eleni. (They were just asking for it.) Here, see what Nancy Curlee said, after: GL HW Nancy Curlee when asked if she had any story regrets, "Although Maureen's death was a lynchpin in a carefully conceived, well-executed story, Ellen Parker was so fine & so well loved, that her absence left a hole in the show that was later hard to fill." Those press kits can be very interesting and also sometimes they reveal things they don't intend to by accident. Yes, I remember people remarking on it, that Zas was really savvy & on top of things! If I can help you with your posting how-tos just say so.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVMoRfJvBO/ From the 1991 Soap Opera Digest Awards The Qs & the Corys https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVNHLDpLpm/ 1984 Soap Opera Digest Awards Honors Gloria Monty

One for fun & one for legacy https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVMoRfJvBO/ From the 1991 Soap Opera Digest Awards The Qs & the Corys https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVNHLDpLpm/ 1984 Soap Opera Digest Awards Honors Gloria Monty

Just for fun https://www.instagram.com/p/DMVMoRfJvBO/ From the 1991 Soap Opera Digest Awards The Qs & the Corys

Ran into this looking for something else & it looked interesting. https://marlenadelacroix.com/2009/09/290/ Apologies if everyone else has already seen it recently or something.

Franko, I'm sorry if you were not interested in writers for your question.

Courtney Sherman Simon 79 Lorraine Broderick 77

She wrote the rulebook & then she tore it up & made it up as she went along!!! And, she never missed even one beat. What I'm trying to say is she was True North when it came to young bright females on our shows! On her shoulders many have risen.

I understand. As we used to call them, the Chantilly soaps were an acquired taste, it had to do with a certain refinement. I don't mean to be a snob, I'm just saying, I'm quite sure you follow this.

You say that as if it were a bad thing. There is nothing about my grandmother that is a bad thing, no, it's all to the good!

This could not be said more accurately and also not more beautifully! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. We are diminished. Peace & Power! Heaven must have had a powerful need. May light perpetual shine upon her & may angels & heavenly hosts guide her to her new resting place & may she be met there by long unseen family & friends & beloved pets. And, may a feast be laid at a groaning table, only awaiting her presence. What a celebration of a well-lived life.

THANKS!!! Edit to Add: And y'all have fun! https://www.instagram.com/p/DMT2c7kJD9G/ 7th Annual Soap Opera Digest Awards 1991, NBC, Los Angeles The prestigious Editors Award Eileen Fulton ATWT's & ours, Lisa!! She only needs the one name!

Asheville is an interesting, beautiful place to live. Apparently she lives on the mountain outside town where one of the HUNGER GAMES was filmed. Remember the game board with lush trees, greenery, vines, and she was much beloved as their native daughter. She deserves all the accolades they can muster. My mother was in SC & she felt a kinship because EF was a preacher's daughter from NC. She adored her, so I do too. I meant it when I said I was still bitter at Goutman's treatment of her in the last years.

Thanks for the heads up. It's a typo. They're basically Biblical. Typos will always be with us. I imagine this one is because we have a Franco with a K here in the SON Community.

This also lists obit & arrangements but no picture. https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/nc/asheville/eileen-fulton-20054959