2 hour (!) Video Interview with Agnes Nixon online

[EricMontreal22]

Marlena De Lacroix mentioned this in the comments to her online article about ANgie and Jesse and I thought some people here who would find it interesting might miss it--I assume it's ok to post. Someone (I'm thinking the lady is Miss De Lacroix herself) did an intensive, immense interview with Agnes Nixon on her history of soap operas for the TV Archives - a really important document. And it's all online, although it's divided into shorter sections it still took me a while to get through it--lotsa fascinating stuff about how writing for soaps has changed, etc (I think this was done ten or so years back?)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=54...h&plindex=2

[JackPeyton]

this is amazing!

she wrote EVERYTHING down to the scripts on GL!

[JackPeyton]

here is all of the video clips - Click here For All Interview Clips

there is also a video interview with francis reid from Days here

AN is talking about the gays! yay!! god. i love this woman.

[EricMontreal22]

They're up on youtube now too (says added 8 horus ago) which my browser finds far easier to use

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user...rch_query=agnes

[EricMontreal22]

There are over 800 videos on youtube now from the Live Archive of TV--interviews like this. Incredible resource

[Cat]

It *is* an incredible resource. And when I have a couple hours spare, I am going to check out Marlena's intensive interview of Agnes Nixon.

However, I noticed the other day that WashesWhiter is no longer on YouTube and all his/her videos have been purged. I find this heartbreaking. This poster was an indispensible resource on his own. I had been checking out some of the Another World clips he had posted featuring Steve Frame, Alice and Rachel. The intensity, anger, depth of feeling and romance of this triangle was beyond description. No surprise -- Agnes Nixon herself wrote it.

[JackPeyton]

It is not Marlena doing this interview The first video clip has the interviewr introduce AN

[EricMontreal22]

On part 3 now--wow when she started OLTL she was still writing AW and the amount of control P&G had they wouldnt' even let her have a black character be ROOMATES with another woman who was white--a reason she loved the freedom at ABC.

[EricMontreal22]

Weren't those clips from when Harding Lemay wrote it (and they were AWESOME) or were some clips with RobiNS trasser as Rachel actually posted!! If so I can't believe I missed them!

I managed to save his post of a 1969 OLTL episode... I wonde rhwen he left--I saw him online just a bit back...

Jack, I thought it was Marlena (and the woman introducing herslef was the "true" marlena0 just cuz Marlena mentioned that *she* did the interview.

[JackPeyton]

humm. maybe it is her. idk. the woman says her name, and it isnt marlena, unless i am trippen from 3 stright days of work, sleep for 4 hours, disnelyland, repeat. lol.

it might be her. i hvw no idea at this point. lol.

[EricMontreal22]

I always Marlena was a pseudonym

Aww I miss Disneyland

[JackPeyton]

Disneyland is love. I go at least once a week, if not more. The joy having a pass. $400 well spent if i do say so myself. Only had it less than 60 days and i ahve been about 20 times.

[EricMontreal22]

They're not numbered well on Youtube. This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrNpztNBxgI part three is the start of her talking about working as a tv writer firs ton live primetime shows then Search for Tomorrow (a bad experience) and Guiding Light and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuwt88JOO9U goes from Guiding Light/Another World on

[EricMontreal22]

Ah see if I lived closer--I'v ebeen a Disneyland geek since I was 8--been reading E Ticket Magazine since I was 12 or so lol.

[JackPeyton]

LOL at E ticket, i didnt even know what it was until i read it on wiki.