Y&R: Old Articles

[asafi]

indeed mentioning Michael Tylo was tactless.. come an, it was during Brenda's tenure. I wish he would have asked her about Brenda - she was such a great Ashley recast (maybe even better then the original) 

[DramatistDreamer]

Love Eileen Davidson but don't think I can stomach another Locher Room episode. Glad that others are seeing what I see. Once upon a time, there used to be some trolls in the As The World Turns thread who would pounce if critical posts and they were especially exasperating on how they'd fawn over Locher and his livestream show.

How I wish someone could contact and convince Roger Newcomb of the We Love Soaps blog to start doing livestream podcast interviews with daytime soap stars, who deserve so much better. 

Some of us had asking for this for a solid year now, to no avail.

[BigMAnOnDeck]

Highly agreed

Wow I never knew that. 

He always praised Doug  Davison as a great actor and to this day pissed on how TPTB handled him.

[BigMAnOnDeck]

IMO I felt Traci got more stronger in the 90s but do admit the sniffing around Brad was deterimental

I so want to see Paul confronting Lauren. Doug's shock is amazing

WHEN WAS THAT??

[Soapsuds]

I saw this when it originally aired and commented on it. I have to say how gracious Eileen is to do all these interviews for her fans. I'm sure she's sick of the same question asked over and over again.

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[Soapsuds]

Here you go @clubkidjeff Merry Christmas!! Lauren and Shawn!!

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[FrenchBug82]

I mean, it is part of the job but one thing I noticed here that I appreciate is that she answers the question and is always friendly and gracious... but you know how many times she has done it because she keeps her answers short.

Other folks who do fewer interviews will launch into anecdotes and stories but here she is not far from just "yes/no" very often on the most common basic questions. She is good because it never comes off as terse or rude. She is a professional; she knows to keep the interview moving.
For instance, when they ask her which of her characters would go on Housewives. She just says "Obviously Kristen". A less clever interviewee might be tempted to explain why at length but she knows better. Answer with a smile and next question.

[Soapfan8]

What is the absolute best year of Y&R for you all?

[kalbir]

@Sasha66 I'd say 1984, as that was the year that Y&R became Y&R as we know it today.

[Broderick]

She's spoken about Brenda before.  If I remember right, she met Brenda at some type of "celebrity waiter" event, and recommended that Brenda audition for the role, as she'd already told Bill Bell that she was leaving in late 1988.   

Alan Locher is a babbling fool.  I'm sure somewhere out there, a WORSE interviewer exists, but I've never actually seen a poorer one before.  

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If the nitwit planned to ask about Eileen's co-stars (Michael Tylo, lol), why on earth didn't he ask about Don Diamont?  That's who Eileen was paired with for several years from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, was the character who raised Abby Carlton (mysteriously known now as Abby Newman-Abbott, which makes no sense at all), and was married to Ashley during the breast cancer storyline.  Also, he'd previously been Eileen's boyfriend in real life during the late 1980s.  Instead he asks about Michael Tylo (who she never met) and J Eddie Peck (who she worked with for about a week).  He's a complete ninny.   

[soapfan770]

For myself IMO it would have been 1993, a year that show was on firing all its cylinders in the writing department for just about every storyline. 

[DRW50]

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[ChickenNuggetz92]

Post-Bill Bell (and my personal favourite year) I would say 2001 was very good from start to finish for both Bell soaps storyline-wise and production-wise, with 1999 and 2000 not being too far behind (yes, even the sperm-caper story, total guilty pleasure of mine).

I was disappointed when they didn't show too many episodes from that year when last year's classics aired. It seems as though 2005 was a writer's room favourite year because a lot of things happened that forever changed the trajectory of some families during that year, also the last year Y&R was considered to be classic recipe by many.

Edited December 26, 2021 by ChickenNuggetz92

[Manny]

I know a lot of people don't love that period, but I started watching with 1999 episodes and I loved all of it. Some of my favorite soap opera periods, all the way until 2004/2005... 

[Soapsuds]

I'm still amazed at how he was able to get any kind of work with P&G.