Members heatherwebber Posted May 28, 2008 Members Share Posted May 28, 2008 Oh, I think it was Jozie Emmerich between Jackie Smith & MADD, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted May 28, 2008 Members Share Posted May 28, 2008 Harding was never happy with his team. He always complained how he had to rewrite the whole script and at one point started writing three scripts a week himself and gave the other two to the other staff writers. I believe he was the one who basically founded the P&G workshop for soap opera writers and one of the first people to attend this was - you guessed it - Douglas Marland. Doug was good friends with Pete and often visited Pete's house on Fire Island. The quality was consistent because Harding is a perfectionist () who tidied up when mess came along (and it came along often). He was also very industrious working for hours, usually starting at 4 AM. Here's a list of SW changes during Harding's tenure of AW: Harding "Pete" Lemay, August 1971 - May 1979 In 1971, with Robert Cenedella, Kathy Callaway, Theodore Apstein, and Robert Newman In 1972, with Kathy Callaway, Theodore Apstein, Robert Newman, Robert Cenedella, and Stan Silverman In 1973, with Theodore Apstein, Robert Newman, Rodney Anderson, Tom King, Jan Merlin In 1974, with Rodney Anderson, Tom King, Charles Kozloff, Jan Merlin, Douglas Marland, Mel Brez, Ethel Brez, Bibi Wein In 1975, with Tom King, Jan Merlin, Bibi Wein In 1976, with Tom King (Monday), Peter Swet (Tuesday), Jan Merlin (Wednesday), Barry Berg (Thursday), Arthur Giron (Friday), Kathy Callaway, Douglas Marland, Kevin McDonnell. Swet, Berg, and Giron were also playwrights (Note: Lemay's last script was Friday, May 11, 1979) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted May 28, 2008 Members Share Posted May 28, 2008 ^Douglass Marland also had 4 writers on his team at GL (Harding LeMay being one of them), and the show had already expanded to an hour. However, we all know Douglass wrote so much of that show himself as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted May 28, 2008 Members Share Posted May 28, 2008 Is it Douglass or Douglas? Sorry, but I get real anal about names. It's not Debbie or Debi, it's Debbi Morgan. It's not Zack or Zak, but Zach Slater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted May 28, 2008 Members Share Posted May 28, 2008 It's Douglas, typo on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted May 29, 2008 Members Share Posted May 29, 2008 Oh, okay. Names just take on a different appeal to me depending on how a person spells theirs. Like Jennifer is a nice name... but I met a girl named Genipher and I was like *GAG!* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AddictedToSoaps Posted May 29, 2008 Members Share Posted May 29, 2008 Genipher? Ick. Some people get too crazy when they try to spell a common name differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted May 31, 2008 Members Share Posted May 31, 2008 Anyone know if there is an email address to email Kate Hall at AMC? The woman is a truly great writer and deserves some praise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted June 1, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted June 1, 2008 Latest Updates: Y&R - Michael Montgomery OUT - Brett Staneart OUT - Lisa Seidman IN (on trial for breakdowns) Note - these happned before Sheffer's hiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 GOOD! But there's more that need to go and hopefully that happens soon. WTF? She better not last long, and she's been mostly a primetime writer. They're making Latham-like moves and she's not even there! Oh and thanks for the scoops, Toupsy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted June 1, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted June 1, 2008 I was surprised to hear they brought on Lisa. I thought they would be cutting staff writers, not trying to add more. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I hope when Hogan gets there he advises Maria that a smaller staff is the way to go. The last thing I want is more writers on an already extremely choppy and incoherent show. Seriously, this is making me hate Maria and Josh even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 Well' Hogan isn't known for small teams either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 That's true, watch Y&R top out at like 25 staff writers soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I'm confused about the Lisa Seidman hiring. And she fired one wrong person: Michael Montgomery. The guy was promoted from Story Coordinator/Writers’ Assistant position and I think she should've kept him a little longer. Why isn't she firing friends of Latham? Thank you, Toups! Was this everything you had for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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