GL now joins some illustrious company in the cancelled soap thread.

Let's share memories and ask questions here.

On 8/16/2023 at 10:49 PM, soapfan770 said:

As @DRW50 mentioned FD worked fine as a support role. Obviously the best was FD with Melina’s Eleni. But once we got to Frank and Rozell’s Eleni…major snooze and the show just stopped writing for them.

Frank having an affair with Annie Dutton was intriguing but then It just collapsed and nothing further occurred outside of Frank dumping Eleni. 

He had an affair with Annie?? But it was FauxAnnie right?  FrankieD benefited from Melina's star power and Rozell's Eleni...dull as dishwater. 

 

On 8/18/2023 at 12:28 AM, Vee said:

Frank D. was very hot back in the day. By the time the 2000s or mid-2000s rolled around he was kind of dumpy and sad and was clearly kept around out of loyalty. The same could be said for Michael O'Leary, but amazingly MOL has had a bit of a glow-up recently (a la Michael E. Knight, who has grown out of what I termed his uber-depressed "Suicide Tad" years of the 2000s on AMC). He was a bit of a silver fox in, of all things, Halloween Ends, getting slaughtered by Michael Myers.

I actually liked Frank with KT's Mindy..but he had more zest to him...(I remember him being a pool boy or something for her and he was cooling off his chest with ice and turning Mindy on..) but he became a bit of stiff middle aged bore...and I never bought him as a police chief. He was a nice optimistic guy, not very smart, so he should have stayed the owner of Meals on Wheels and that was it.  And yes, Rick and Frank were nice support...no romances needed...though I wonder if KT came back if she could have lit a fire under both of them.

14 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

I actually liked Frank with KT's Mindy..but he had more zest to him...(I remember him being a pool boy or something for her and he was cooling off his chest with ice and turning Mindy on..) but he became a bit of stiff middle aged bore...and I never bought him as a police chief. He was a nice optimistic guy, not very smart, so he should have stayed the owner of Meals on Wheels and that was it.  And yes, Rick and Frank were nice support...no romances needed...though I wonder if KT came back if she could have lit a fire under both of them.

The few times Krista returned she did seem to make Rick a bit more fun again (without just Michael O'Leary mugging). 

Considering how definitive Kim Simms was for me as Mindy, I was impressed with how much Krista managed to still find the old character she had played 15-20 years earlier - she never felt forced or tryhard.

11 hours ago, j swift said:

These days, Kevin Bacon does ads for the International House of Pancakes on TikTok, so I don't know that he qualifies as an arbiter of good taste.

 

 

LOL!

3 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

He had an affair with Annie?? But it was FauxAnnie right?  FrankieD benefited from Melina's star power and Rozell's Eleni...dull as dishwater. 

Yeah it happened during Coleman’s time as Teri/Annie, and Frank didn’t know she was Annie when they had their make out session but later had to fess up during Annie’s trial (the one with Johnny Cochran as her lawyer) in front of all of Springfield. Eleni left town shortly afterward.

But yeah Rozell just didn’t work as Eleni at all and the show just stopped writing for Eleni altogether even she had been front burner during Melina’s time. 

Thank you @Paul Raven for the response. 

Matt Bomer who played Ian, Sarah's fiancé on AMC & Ben Reade on GL.

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Edited August 22, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges

On 8/19/2023 at 4:28 AM, Vee said:

Somehow I think Bacon's career is intact.

While I think he lost his fortune, he's probably OK.  People toss names around as the most successful people to ever come from Daytime, and I think he has to be one of the most successful.  Some had brief popularity, but almost none maintained it for a long career like Kevin did.  Possibly - honestly the only person I can think of really - that has maintained constant work almost no matter what the platform - Jane Krakowski (sp).  She may not be the most wealthy nor the most recognizable "big star" name, but as far as constant work, practically no one has worked as much as she has consistently all these years.   Now someone will name Kelly Ripa - I mean actors and actresses.  Not talk show hosts although that has its place.  

Edited August 22, 20232 yr by Fevuh

1 hour ago, Fevuh said:

While I think he lost his fortune, he's probably OK.  People toss names around as the most successful people to ever come from Daytime, and I think he has to be one of the most successful.  Some had brief popularity, but almost none maintained it for a long career like Kevin did.  Possibly - honestly the only person I can think of really - that has maintained constant work almost no matter what the platform - Jane Krakowski (sp).  She may not be the most wealthy nor the most recognizable "big star" name, but as far as constant work, practically no one has worked as much as she has consistently all these years.   Now someone will name Kelly Ripa - I mean actors and actresses.  Not talk show hosts although that has its place.  

He's from AW but I am told that Richard Bekins just never stopped working. I believe it is theatre. 

Love Krakowski!

A full Guiding Light episode, with commercials, at the start of this video. I'm not sure of the exact date but based on the promo about La Toya Jackson being in Playboy, I would guess sometime in early March or mid-March 1989. There is a promo for a Murder She Wrote repeat; there was a new episode at the end of February as well as the 12th of March, so it can't fit those time periods. This is also before some of the Vault episodes like March 23rd. 

@Vee @SFK Ellen Holly has a few good scenes in the early part of the episode, reprising her judge role. 

There are some nice scenes with Philip and Elizabeth Denehy's Blake too. Never thought I'd see Blake talking about the Long, Long Trailer.

Guiding Light Oprah Suspect Peggy Sue Got Married Juile Andrews And Carol Burnett Great Performance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

MZ and MG presenting at the SOD Awards in January 1990 (their segment starts at 38:38)

The 6th Annual Soap Opera Awards - Dixie Carter, Terry Lester : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is the earliest awards show I've seen them presenting together.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 1966 Feb 6 Page 127

Robert Gentry currently portrays Intern Ed Bauer on "The Guiding Light." The Ed Bauer part started in November with another actor filling In until Gentry finished a movie.

First I have heard of this. Does anyone know the actor who played Ed Nov 65-Feb 66?

I've been reading all of your posts since the beginning of this overall thread and I've learned so much. It's been fascinating!

 

Edited October 21, 20232 yr by GL Oldtimer

This may be another soap myth but supposedly CBS proposed to combine The Guiding Light and Search for Tomorrow into one show back when they were 15 minutes but Irna said no.  Seems like a bad idea.  Would Jo have moved and become neighbors to the Bauers?   What would it be called?   Search for the Light?    No matter what both shows would have lost their identities.

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 Posthmous 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. 

Good Morning! Today is Monday, September 18, 2023 & that makes it the 14 year Endiversary of Guiding Light which broadcast its last show on September 18, 2009, concluding a 57 year run on CBS that began on June 30, 1952. My God, do i ever miss GL! Honk if you miss GL! Well, that was supposed to be an emoji of a goose. 

So, last night I was talking to a close friend who worked at GL at the end & we were reminiscing & talking about how much we miss GL & also how much we miss the whole NY soap scene. We of course got on the subject of CBS & P&G & ATWT & GL & even NBC at AW. We both said how both Paul Rauch & Mickey, MADD Mary Alice Dwyer Dobbin, no matter how much there might be to say critical of them, one thing was clear which was that they were ferocious in their defense, and offense, of their shows! He also made me aware of a CBS Daytime VP named Richard Mensing who was a champion of GL ... until the time he was gone & at that point all of those champions of GL were gone. And the show was left with non-fans Barbara Bloom & Les Moonves at CBS. No one at P&G. And, strictly on their own, EW at GL & Goutman at ATWT with no one to either do battle for them or even stand up for them in moral support! It was a sorry state of affairs that things had devolved to. 

Anyway, here's to many great years at GL & legions of excellent fans! 

So, this CBS guy Richard Mensing who was a champion of GL was gone as of 2002. That's the same year that Paul Rauch left. And, MADD left in 2005. Conboy was unfortunately the EP 2002-2004 with his special friend Ellen Weston the HW who could not even be properly interviewed as a writer because she wasn't one, 2003-2004. Not for the first time I appreciate Ellen Wheeler, Jill Lorie Hurst, David Kreizman, Donna Swajeski, Chris Dunn & Lucky Gold for everything they did from 2004 to the bitter end. And, yes, I understand that they made mistakes. EVERYONE makes mistakes. It's called being human. Oh, and I appreciate Carolyn Culliton also as she was the co-HW to Weston, surely that was a thankless job!

Edited September 19, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges