Texas!

[Contessa Donatella]

I'm still up to my ears in this petition to get NATAS to award Beverlee McKinsey a Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Emmy. They have awarded Posthumous ones so there is a precedent for it. Plus an author is working on a bio as we speak so there's a sense of a lot going on. I'm asking everyone to sign it & I'm asking many people to post supporting & to share it. In my YouTube channel is her "City Lights" interview and 3 video clips from early TEXAS & those are in the petition as well as one of the classic Alexandra episodes from GL. We now have 412 signatures & we've had 14 people donate & I'm thanking Kim Wells AW group on FB, Greg Meng, Thaoo Penghliss, Kin Shriner, Kimberly Simms, Kim Zimmer, Jill Lorie Hurst, Nancy Williams Watt, Judi Evans, Mark Derwin & Alan Locher. The text is a nice read even if I say so myself. https://chng.it/JBsh8Y9tkk Thank you for your time & for your consideration. 

[danfling]

I am sorry that no known clips of her as Julie on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing are known to exist.

[Contessa Donatella]

YES! ... If only! Her husband was on LIAMST, too, wasn't he? 

[danfling]

Yes, although Berkley Harris may have appeared on the show before his actual marriage to Ms. McKenzie.

He then appeared on How to Survive a Marriage.

I looked him up, and I had not realized that he played Dr. Joe Werner on The Guiding Light.    Maybe it was a as a traditional temporary replacement, or maybe he played some scenes after the death of Ed Zimmerman and before Anthony Call began in the role.

I wonder how Berkley Harris would have been had he been coast as Mayor Brian Bancroft on Another World.

[SFK]

@danfling @Donna L. Bridges There is in fact at least one episode of Miss Beverlee in LIAMST that has been shared online. I, and many others, watched it on WoST some years ago. She was vacuuming and telling her son Billy to eat his peas, before getting a visit from her ex-husband (?) played by Albert Stratton. It's been a long time, anyone please feel free to straighten out the details.

[Contessa Donatella]

Scott had one & I posted it in the inert LIAMST discussion thread. Her real life husband is in it also. 

Not for the first time I wish that WOST had been archived!!! It is strictly from an interview some WOSTer did at an awards ceremony with Pete Lemay that we learned that it was Fred Silverman who had that cockamamie idea! You know to take AW to a 90 minute show. 2006 I believe, audio only, up on YT. 

Petition status: 469 signatures & 16 promoters https://chng.it/9s22wzb7rF

[SFK]

@Donna L. Bridges Brian, WoST's creator, telephone interviewed Lemay for the site. I'm assuming this is the interview you mention. It's a good interview, I only wish Lemay had been interviewed even more extensively for the Television Archive.

[Contessa Donatella]

Yes, that's it. I think it is quite good. I think I've read every interview he ever gave. Plus, a friend talked to him near the end of his life. He spent an afternoon & on into evening & they walked from Pete's apartment to a restaurant & had supper. Pete signed a book for him & they got their picture taken together & they just talked & talked. The big takeaway was that Pete was bitter about one thing & that is that P&G screwed him over so badly about the proposed Michael Randolph gay storyline & how P&G did it. What they did is typical corporate dirty tricks. He was dragging his feet on signing a new contract. He wanted to do this story. They greenlit it. The show cast - with great care & attention. The actor had been fully informed about the story, etc. & all was in readiness. We know what the first scene would have been & then what the second scene would have been & so forth. So, Pete signed that contract. And, as soon as he did, they withdrew the greenlight for the story. Imagine if AW had done a gay storyline in the late 70s! Imagine that corporations treat creative types like that. 

Hey, I know some TEXAS! true trivia! Patrick Mulcahey told me that the whole writing team for TEXAS was hired & assembled & on contract & they had no writing for them yet. So, they put them to work writing on AW! But, somehow they slipped through the cracks & they don't have writing credits for the work & they can't get anyone to fix it so it's a bit of frustration. Although he went on at some length about how wrong both his IMDb page & wikipedia page are!! He said he tried to work with them to fix them but it was impossible. 

I recently corrected one item on Beverlee's IMDb page & I can imagine how hard various entries would be. One pass they said it didn't make sense to them. Next pass I said much more & they said I exceeded the number of words. Third pass I got through! In between I talked to one of them in email & I frankly think that is what made the difference! 

[Efulton]

Does anyone know if Lurlene's husband Joel Walker was related to original characters (and Reena's cousins) Samantha and Bart Walker?

[Xanthe]

I don't know, but for what it's worth I scanned the synopses available on the AWHP and I see that at one point Joel mentioned that his father died one year ago. I was also trying to understand who Mavis was supposed to be since there is a part where Lurlene has to pretend to be more upper class than she is to impress Mavis. Is Mavis a relation of Joel's? 

[Efulton]

Thank you!  I do not remember what Mavis' connection was.  It looks like I need to start watching again.  I left off at episode 50 a few years ago.

[robbwolff]

Mavis was Lurlene's aunt.

[Contessa Donatella]

The Beverlee petition is up to 1, 081 signatures! If you have any time at all see her most candid and best interview, the Canadian, "City Lights".
If you haven't signed yet, sign! https://chng.it/9s22wzb7rF
 

 

 

 

 

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Beverlee McKinsey, the "City Lights" Interview

Beverlee McKinsey's son, Scott McKinsey, Director at "Days of our Lives", says this is her most candid &

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[Contessa Donatella]

We now have 1300 signatures on our petition to get a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy awarded posthumously to the divine Beverlee McKinsey. Our goal has been 1500 signatures. Do you think we can make it? Have you signed yet? If not, can you sign today? Do you know anyone who might want to know about this? If so, can you get this link to them? https://chng.it/9s22wzb7rF

3 clips from the beginning of TEXAS 

https://www.facebook.com/shallotpeel/videos/1295662611100958?idorvanity=3144711669180711

https://www.facebook.com/shallotpeel/videos/7561220567250725?idorvanity=3144711669180711

https://www.facebook.com/shallotpeel/videos/937017858053154?idorvanity=3144711669180711

Beverlee McKinsey "City Lights" Interview

https://www.facebook.com/scottmckinsey/videos/10224621908925295

 

Edited January 27, 2024 by Donna L. Bridges