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3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Pat Bruder.

Noted. Thank you @DRW50

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When I was a young kid, 25% of the girls in my homeroom class were named "Lisa".  No exaggeration.  I think it's difficult for people born after 1975 to understand the impact Eileen Fulton, the character she played, and that TV program had on the landscape of small town America in the 1960s & early 1970s.  

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13 minutes ago, Broderick said:

When I was a young kid, 25% of the girls in my homeroom class were named "Lisa".  No exaggeration.  I think it's difficult for people born after 1975 to understand the impact Eileen Fulton, the character she played, and that TV program had on the landscape of small town America in the 1960s & early 1970s.  

I'm a 1980s kid/1990s teen and I went to school with plenty of Lisas.

I recognize As the World Turns place in US daytime television history, but to a lot of soap fans of my generation it had a reputation of being a grandma show. 

 

3 minutes ago, kalbir said:

I'm a 1980s kid/1990s teen and I went to school with plenty of Lisas.

I recognize As the World Turns place in US daytime television history, but to a lot of soap fans of my generation it had a reputation of being a grandma show. 

 

You say that as if it were a bad thing. There is nothing about my grandmother that is a  bad thing, no, it's all to the good!

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1 minute ago, kalbir said:

I recognize As the World Turns place in US daytime television history, but to a lot of soap fans of my generation it had a reputation of being a grandma show.

Yeah, even to we Gen X'ers. Maybe that rep/thought process isn't fair, but it existed. (My own grandmother loved the CBS soaps, so that rep was probably based on some truth.)

As a whole, growing up (I was a teen in the 'mid 80s until I hit 20 in '92, for reference!), the CBS soaps were considered old-fashioned. I know when I hit high school/college, as ratings-challenged as they were, the NBC soaps seemed popular in my age group, especially Days. But General Hospital on ABC was popular, too. (Although I started on All My Children as a kid, since my late mom watched that from day one.)

All that being said, Eileen Fulton was the prototype of Erica Kane, the big "name" of As The World Turns and earned her respect. May she rest in peace. Living to 91 is certainly a victory, signalling a life well lived.

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8 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

You say that as if it were a bad thing. There is nothing about my grandmother that is a  bad thing, no, it's all to the good!

My school years (elementary through college) overlapped w/ supercouple Days and Reilly Days. That's what the soap fans among my classmates were mostly watching, not the CBS line up that their grandmothers watched. 

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4 minutes ago, kalbir said:

My school years (elementary through college) overlapped w/ supercouple Days and Reilly Days. That's what the soap fans among my classmates were mostly watching, not the CBS line up that their grandmothers watched. 

I understand. As we used to call them, the Chantilly soaps were an acquired taste, it had to do with a certain refinement. I don't mean to be a snob, I'm just saying, I'm quite sure you follow this. 

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People are grieving. Please stop your horseshit of commenting on every post. For the love of [!@#$%^&*] god.

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12 hours ago, kalbir said:

Of the long-time (as in 30+ years) As the World Turns cast members that are past age 80, I believe Don Hastings, Larry Bryggman, and Marie Masters are the last ones left of that generation. If I'm missing any please add.

How about Rosemary Prinz?

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Just now, Limenade said:

How about Rosemary Prinz?

Did her run total 30+ years?

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I was thinking more of the original cast members, so I stand corrected 🙂

Prinz did leave the show early on but did come back for sporadic appearances and all the same, she's 94 and I wish her good health.

Rosemary Prinz is a fascinating person. She's given numerous videotapes to special collectors, friends. One story they tell is that she had one tape that originally belonged to Agnes Nixon & it was in the bottom of her closet & she accidentally hit it with her foot & then she thought about who it had belonged to & right then & there she got it out of her closet & the next week it was in the hands of a friend/collector, who restored it & added it to their wares. 

 

11 hours ago, SheenaSoaper said:

People are grieving. Please stop your horseshit of commenting on every post. For the love of [!@#$%^&*] god.

Somehow, I can't imagine it, you seemed not to notice that I am people & so also am grieving. Not every post. Yes, indeed for the love of god, oh, what's the use. Go kick rocks. 

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Does anyone remember exactly when Lisa became wealthy?  I know Whit McCall and Eduardo Grimaldi had been a multi-millionaires, but I believe Lisa was already wealthy before she met either of them.  Am I correct about that?  When I was a kid in the 1960s, I remember thinking Lisa had been working-class, then became more or less middle-class when she married Bob. So she must have inherited wealth from one of her husbands, but I can't remember any who were wealthily before Whit McCall.  

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33 minutes ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Does anyone remember exactly when Lisa became wealthy?  I know Whit McCall and Eduardo Grimaldi had been a multi-millionaires, but I believe Lisa was already wealthy before she met either of them.  Am I correct about that?  When I was a kid in the 1960s, I remember thinking Lisa had been working-class, then became more or less middle-class when she married Bob. So she must have inherited wealth from one of her husbands, but I can't remember any who were wealthily before Whit McCall.  

Eileen mentions here that she asked for Lisa to be wealthy when they asked her to return in 1966. I assume it was the divorce settlement from John Eldridge.

 

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38 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Eileen mentions here that she asked for Lisa to be wealthy when they asked her to return in 1966. I assume it was the divorce settlement from John Eldridge.

 

Thank you for the information.  John Eldridge makes sense.  I had forgotten about him.  

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