Let's shatter some illusions. If someone still has one of those...

For example, Claire Labine, who is 70 (73, to be precise).

Possibly Lorraine Broderick, who is 59. James E. Reilly is 59, too (he'll be 60 in July).

Wendy Riche, who accumulated a lot of money and has absolutely no incentive to come back.

Every once in a while, a topic about who do you want to head-write a soap reappers and many of these names come to mind. I would just like some of the fant to be realistic about the chances of these people going back to daytime again.

Hopefully LML.

I'll take a shot at an actress in this thread. I'm sure many of you people know who I'm going to say, so I might as well say it. Cynthia Watros. And the reason why I say that is because there was one time I called the Guiding Light studios to see if I could get my selfish hands of the episode where Annie Dutton is at Cross Creek and she ends up taking H.B.'s medication pills and boozes it up. That performance right there was one of the clips that she submitted for the Emmy judges. And it was an amazing performance that left me so shocked that I couldn't speak it was so chilling.

So, I called the studios and told them that I was an Annie Dutton fan and all that I wanted was one little bitty favor. And that favor was quite simple and that was just to give me that tape. That's it. I don't think that I was asking for an arm and leg at all. But anyway, the woman that I spoke to asked for my phone number to see if she could do anything since I was an Annie Dutton fan and she was telling me that the staff still misses her a lot. And she thought it was hilarious that I threw Annie Dutton parties with my friends, but there was one thing that caught my attention when she was talking to me about Cynthia Watros.

She said that when it comes to alumnis from Guiding Light, they usually keep in touch with them with their current projects or their life in general. But no one has heard from Cynthia Watros ever since her Emmy win in 1998.

Edited March 29, 200817 yr by Noel

I doubt 80 year old Agnes Nixon will be assuming full-time head writing duties on AMC anytime soon, as well.

What about Christine L. Tudor? No daytime or primetime appearances since the demise of Loving.

Beverlee McKinsey.

Wisner Washam, who is 76.

Never say never; absolutely anyone can return. Actually, noones return would surprise me too much.

Nancy Curlee, from what I hear she was disgusted by the state of daytime when she left GL in 94. Goes to show how network/production company interference was a growing trend even a decade ago.

I agree with Agnes and Claire as well, they should enjoy their retirement, they've earned it.

I hope to the gods above that Latham, McTavish, and hopefully B&E and Higley soon retire in the near future....

Edited March 30, 200817 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

I'll take a shot at an actress in this thread. I'm sure many of you people know who I'm going to say, so I might as well say it. Cynthia Watros. And the reason why I say that is because there was one time I called the Guiding Light studios to see if I could get my selfish hands of the episode where Annie Dutton is at Cross Creek and she ends up taking H.B.'s medication pills and boozes it up. That performance right there was one of the clips that she submitted for the Emmy judges. And it was an amazing performance that left me so shocked that I couldn't speak it was so chilling.

So, I called the studios and told them that I was an Annie Dutton fan and all that I wanted was one little bitty favor. And that favor was quite simple and that was just to give me that tape. That's it. I don't think that I was asking for an arm and leg at all. But anyway, the woman that I spoke to asked for my phone number to see if she could do anything since I was an Annie Dutton fan and she was telling me that the staff still misses her a lot. And she thought it was hilarious that I threw Annie Dutton parties with my friends, but there was one thing that caught my attention when she was talking to me about Cynthia Watros.

She said that when it comes to alumnis from Guiding Light, they usually keep in touch with them with their current projects or their life in general. But no one has heard from Cynthia Watros ever since her Emmy win in 1998.

Cynthia Watros and Noel are love.

Nancy Curlee, from what I hear she was disgusted by the state of daytime when she left GL in 94. Goes to show how network/production company interference was a growing trend even a decade ago.

Y&R, has there ever been an interview with Curlee? Do you by any chance own a copy?

Y&R, has there ever been an interview with Curlee? Do you by any chance own a copy?

No, I don't have any personally, but I remember a few being posted a few years back on another board (the board no longer exists. Nancy was very adamant about not tricking the audience and consistenctly tricking them. She believed the soap viewers were smart people and expected better of her. I remember the interview she gave about Roger Thorpe's return (after he had "died" years before). You can tell just how much she respected GL's audience.

Here's a part that I saved of the interview, which is from the March 16, 1993 edition of SOD :

Roger went off a cliff around 1980," recalls GL head writer

Nancy Curlee, who was involved in the decision to bring the popular

character back after an eight-year absence. "We went back and watched

that episode, over and over, asking 'Did he make contact with the

rocks?' We were adamant that he had to get down there unscathed,

because WE NEVER WANT TO JERK THE AUDIENCE AROUND."

Another part:

Of course, when a character is really "dead dead" and the show

gets the actor back, that's when head writers REALLY have to earn

their money. "It was impossible to bring back Lujack," acknowledges

Nancy Curlee of the popular character played by Vincent Irizarry,

"because there were skeletal remains! So we thought the most plausible

thing would be a twin." GL created Nick McHenry, Lujack's identical

brother and Irizarry went back to work. "We love our audience for

going with us on that ride," praises Curlee, adding that Nick's

appearance "integrated perfectly with what was already happening

on the show. He fit right into a conflict." But Curlee admits, if

there's a way to leave the door open, that is the ideal way for a

popular character to exit.

Really, what I'm trying to say, P&G and perhaps CBS probably wanted her to dumb down her material, which she hated. She had way too much respect for the genre and its audience to go along with a corporate agenda. There's always the belief that if you water down your material, it will attract a bigger and younger audience, which is all wrong IMO.

Thanks so much! I'll try to dig something also!

Maybe Dan has something...

Anges Nixon.

Writers

Wisner Washam

Lorraine Broderick

Claire Labine

Charles Pratt Jr.

James Reilly

Agnes Nixon

Executive Producers

Wendy Riche

Felicia Minei Behr

Jacqueline Babbin

Paul Raunch (sp?)

Actors/Actresses

Vanessa Marcil

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Josh Duhamel

Shemar Moore

Vivica A. Fox

Julianne Moore

Tommy Lee Jones

Antonio Sabato Jr.

Ricky Maritn

Kelly Ripa

Eva LaRue