DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

[victoria foxton]

Who is the dark haired lady with Chris Kositchek?

[teplin]

That's Brooke Hamilton version 2, played by Eileen Barnett. There's a good summation of her story here:

 

http://soapcentral.com/days/whoswho/brooke.php

[victoria foxton]

Thanks a lot teplin. From reading her bio she's seems like an interesting character. She was yet another character Days got rid of during their reboot in 1980. I was wondering was Days any good during their big reboot in 1980? 

[YRBB]

Those not-looking at the camera pictures are creepy at best!

 

And the reviews, as always, fantastic. How sad to realize how little DAYS would be like what is described, even just a few years down the line!

[vetsoapfan]

That would be a big, fat NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. It was quite painful to watch at that time.

[teplin]

"Is there any character in all of daytime television that is more remarkable than Julie Olson? [She’s] sort of super-woman whose weaknesses of character mix well with the strength of her sensuality, whose unwitting villainy never keeps us from sympathizing with her deep-down sincerity and need for love. She is the ultimate sexual pawn of fate. Susan Seaforth, the bombshell who plays her, has so much animal magnetism, so much female gutsiness, that in her scenes it’s hard to take one’s eyes off her for a second."

 

I had to quote this from the review Carl posted because I agree with every word. And to think DAYS threw the character (and the actress) down the toilet just a few years later, turning her into a grandmother in her early 30s and then sidelining her into dreary, cliched mother-daughter conflict with the newly aged Hope. DAYS has made more boneheaded mistakes than any soap in history -- the 1980 reboot was a big one -- but for me, the mishandling of Julie (and Susan Hayes) ranks #1. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 24, 2016 by teplin

[jam6242]

[NothinButAttitude]

 

[Titus Andronicus]

That purple shirt sure is something.

[Sindacco]

Interview with James E. Reilly from May 1997

 

http://www.serialscoop.com/2016/04/flashback-days-of-our-lives-head-writer.html

[Michael]

Thanks for posting that. I'd never read it, but it's interesting how even-keeled JER comes off there. As ridiculous as his show got, I really and truly believe that he knew EXACTLY what he was doing during that first Days run. It just had such an energy.

[Paul Raven]

Yes, thanks.A great read. JER didn't give many interviews so this is special.As Michael said that time at Days was special.

JER got the ratings to jump by setting up the Carly buried alive story and took it from there.

[Gray Bunny]

 

 

Thanks for posting! That was at the tail end of his spectacular first era. I still think he sabotaged it on his way out. I didn't realize he was at DAYS until November of '97. Nearly every storyline took a nosedive around September and even Michael Logan smelled sabotage, as he admitted in his Best & Worst of '97 column...

 

(Good Christ, the random soap opera things I remember, yet I barely remember what I ate yesterday). 

 

19 years later, and I still don't know what Eric's dark secret was. Unless they're referring to that rewrite for him. Does anyone else remember around early '98 when you saw someone stalking Eric around Salem Place, and based on the boots & jeans, you would think it was a woman. Then when they finally revealed the person, it was a guy from Colorado and there was a one-day storyline about some faux rape allegations or something. Whatever they initially planned for him was swept under the rug. That must've been Sally Sussman-Morina's decision. 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2016 by Gray Bunny

[cassadine1991]

Makes you wonder what Eric did in Colorado

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