Who says animal lovers can't be fur lovers too?

I looked up that Crawdaddy restaurant to see if it was still in the city. I guess it's long gone. It was on 45th & Vanderbilt, right by Grand Central, live jazz. Must have been nice.

That was something Digest did for a number of years, having a random soap star go to a local restaurant. The last I remember was Frances Fisher. I do wonder how many of those are still around.

It's weird to see Nancy that way mostly because I can't see Jill ever allowing herself to enjoy such a display, although she did wear fur. (Deborah would have luxuriated in it though). It makes me laugh because Delia, Jill's arch-rival, had the story where she was obsessed with a fur coat and wore it all the time, even during the spring. I can imagine her reaction to this.

I never knew her father ran a fur store. I never knew Liz Hubbard's husband did either. She modeled "furs for pregnant women" in some old Daytime TV. I think Lucinda was one of the last soap characters to wear them, and from what ATWT said to SOD around the late 80/early 90s, they were real.

Yeah, I never knew that her dad ran a fur salon either, or about Liz's husband until you posted that article a while back. Furs for pregnant women?? Now that's hilarious. Talk about an extravagance. No offense to NAA's dad, but those aren't exactly "fine furs." Most of them are pieced/sections coats, heads, paws, sides, and whatnot, that's why a lot of them look like they'd been in a catfight.

AMC got word from the higher ups that there were to be no more furs on the show after some viewer complaints. Erica and Mona wear mink coats in the 20th anniversary special (Erica's is a bright red sheared mink jacket like the kind Sally Field wears in Soapdish, there was a trend for real furs to mimic fakes with the rise in animal rights activism) and I think that's about the last time I saw real coats on the show. GL (Vanessa, Amanda) and OLTL (Viki, Dorian, Alex, Blair) were the last soaps I remember seeing furs on a regular basis. I remember Lucinda in a mink too in the late '90s, but I think they may have been giving her faux by then, like you said, she'd worn several real ones in years prior.

Someone said JFP got rid of furs on OLTL. I'm not sure if they were real by then or not.

To me it doesn't seem quite right for Viki - old old money - and Dorian - pretender to old money - to not wear fur. I think both actresses suited it for some reason.

That's fascinating about the coats - the poor quality. I did think a few looked tacky and cheap, like they belonged in that Sean Connery movie, Zardoz, or Outland, or whatever.

I think I showed you that clip from ATWT 1986 with the fur fashion show. It was a bit surreal. I can never quite get my head around Kim wearing a fur, for some reason. It seems to wear her.

You learn such fascinating things in these magazines. I never knew that Liz Hubbard wanted to leave acting to become a news broadcaster. I'm glad she didn't - my formative years would have not been the same.

That's interesting, I never knew that either but I can see that. It's funny you should mention that though, I was reading something about the Today Show just a few days ago and I was surprised to learn that Estelle Parsons and Shirley Jones and maybe some other names I'm forgetting right now started out on morning news shows like that. They went on to successful acting careers, but it reminds you of what the actor's life is like, how when you're broke and wanting to work, you sometimes take jobs that aren't ideally what you'd want to be doing but they pay the bills and can lead you down a totally different career track.

Yeah, JFP yanked the furs which was around the time RS was having real-life moral issues with fur. She'd just bought a mink coat herself then saw that documentary "The Witness" and ended up donating her new mink. She's since reconsidered and bought vintage mink. I've seen pictures of ES and HBS wearing real fur in SOD/SOW. Christie Brothers provided OLTL's furs, it really did add an elegant visual dimension to the show during the early '90s. When Viki and Dorian wear fake furs these days it looks so cheap and clownish like they're playing make pretend dress-up rich people.

From the 1975 Afternoon TV Special.

From the November 1975 Daytime TV.

Birney on Love is a Many Splendored Thing. I was the second Paul Stewart on As the World Turns. I got to finish a character, Larry Kirby, on How to Survive a Marriage.

"As a replacement, you always come in on someone else's interpretation. You have to be as much like the other actor as possible. There is no way to change it. I am looking forward to developing the character of Frank Ryan from the start."

This is indeed a good year for Michael Hawkins. He has another big first. He is appearing in the Broadway hit Sherlock Holmes. He says, "I really enjoy it. I have played Watson several times.

"The greatest pleasure is working with John Woods, who is a fantastic Holmes. He is an exciting and dynamic man. He made it so exciting to be on stage. It is a great thrill to work with the cast of 23 and the star of the show.

"The serials and Broadway are two of the most lucrative places to be in New York, and I've got them both. An actor's dream!"

The only problem all of this success creates for Michael and his wife, Mary Jo, who is his agent and a producer, is that they do not have as much time as they would like to spend with their five year old son, Christian.

In fact, Mary Jo may quit her job to stay home with her son during these years while he is growing up. Michael took care of him for about three years and has a great relationship with Christian. "I stayed out of the theater for a while so I would be with him. But now I work all day and all night. I don't have the time to be with him."

Asking Michael how it felt to have his own wife as his theatrical agent, he answered, "She is the best in the world! She is sensational. The curious thing about her is that she is getting the parts for me. Everybody likes her, and she has a great reputation!

"She's going to be a producer, too. She's got a property...the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, with Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore. It is a Christmas thing and a beautiful story. Mary Jo wants to produce it as a musical.

"She is also the producer of a children's show that a friend of mine from Carnegie Tech wrote. It is playing at the Westchester Community Theater. It's going to be a TV show, Dr. Needle and the Infectious Laughter Epidemic. I directed it for my son's school, so I am in the company too."

Michael is a New Yorker, born in Manhasset, Long Island. Then his family moved out to the Midwest. He went to prep school in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Shaker Heights. "My early life is really so mundane. I usually tell people that I was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Burma!"

That's his fantasy. The truth is he attended Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and realized that the only thing he enjoyed was acting. So he wrote to Carnegie Tech, and they asked him to come for an audition. When he graduated, one of his teachers was directing at Stratford, Connecticut, so he went there. The rest is history.

The ironic thing is that the Hawkins family does not have a TV set in its house. "My wife originally decided to get rid of it because I was an addict! I could, and did, watch it all the time. I would watch anything...one thing after another. Also, my son was having a reading problem. He was so into Batman, Superman and Star Trek that he had no desire to read. We had two sets. He watched his shows and I watched mine. We hardly spoke to each other. We got hooked! I was getting nothing done.

"Now I feel like I've re-entered the world. I read the paper and know what's going on. I hope Mary Jo won't get it back, but she will probably want to watch Ryan's Hope."

His family will have to watch if they want to see him at all. His super success keeps him away from home and away from the TV set. And everyone is happy about it, because Michael feels so good!

by Anne Wehrer

From the September 2, 1980 Digest.

December 1976 Daytime TV.

Great picture of Ty McConnell.

Carl, do you know if the actors' dates, on the character profiles, over at Soap Central are reliable? I'm asking because when I was looking up Frank Latimore on Guiding Light it said that he began his recurring role over there on April 5, 1976. He was killed off RH on March 29th and I was surprised that only 7 days later made his Guiding Light debut. Talk was that he liked playing that warmer father role more than playing cold Ed Coleridge.

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I'm not sure. It's tough to know how accurate the dates are with something like that as this was before the daily synopses and people are just going on memory sometimes.

Do you know if he was fired or did he choose to leave RH? I think that killing Ed off was a mistake in the long-term. I also think it's odd that he felt Ed was cold, as, although they referenced his coldness a few times, generally onscreen he was warm and at the most, stern.

Soapnet aired the episodes last night where Ed died and it doesn't get any less cheesy or awkward, in terms of the stunt, but it has some beautiful performances. I think that and Nell's death were big turning points for the show.

Do you know if he was fired or did he choose to leave RH?

I don't know what prompted his leaving.

I think that and Nell's death were big turning points for the show.

I'm about a week behind in my viewing, but I think killing off two characters, within a month of each other, seems like a odd thing for a new show to do when they're still trying find a audience.

I think they planned to kill Nell off at this time all along but the killing of Ed did seem very random, and rushed, and had little followup, so I wonder what happened there.

I'd still love to see what the show would have been if they'd killed Frank off as they had initially planned.

I'd still love to see what the show would have been if they'd killed Frank off as they had initially planned.

With the plan to kill off Frank, who did Labine and Mayer have in mind to be their main hero? Seneca? If so, I wonder if John Gabriel's role was somehow truncated with the 11th hour decision to keep Frank.