9 hours ago, kalbir said:

Whiteface Tyrone would not happen today.

I think that was the closest Bill Bell ever came to writing an Idiot Plot, because how could anyone not see that he wasn't White?

12 hours ago, Khan said:

I think that was the closest Bill Bell ever came to writing an Idiot Plot, because how could anyone not see that he wasn't White?

Yeah the disguise wasn't very good.

Action/adventure was the 1980s trend that Y&R got wrong. The police corruption/mob angle didn't work for me.

Edited Monday at 11:28 PM2 days by kalbir

On 5/11/2026 at 6:35 AM, Khan said:

I think that was the closest Bill Bell ever came to writing an Idiot Plot, because how could anyone not see that he wasn't White?

I guess you could also throw in the "I slept with you because I thought you were my wife even though you aren't built like her/don't really look like her" stories (or the "I had sex with you when you were high on cold meds because I thought you wanted it").

RIP Donald Gibb, who was in two 2003 episodes as Worm.

https://deadline.com/2026/05/donald-gibb-dead-revenge-of-the-nerds-actor-1236900431/

SCHENECTADY GAZETTE TV SECTION 1973

Janice Lynde has never been a loser and she is now awaiting the verdict on her audition with a symphony orchestra as eagerly as are several million television viewers.

Janice portrays Leslie Brooks, an aspiring concert pianist in Screen Gems' "The Young And The Restless" daytime-serial for CBSTV 12-2:30. As Leslie, she recently auditioned for the position of concert pianist with the Mid-America Symphony Orchestra and it will be another four weeks before she and the viewers will know the resu!ts.

Although scripts are written well in advance, one of the keys is to let the characters develop their own situations and "never, never do we divulge the information to the actors," according to producer John Conboy. "That way the cast looks forward to each week's scripts as eagerly as does the audience at home watching the story unfold," explains Conboy.

"I can hardly wait to find out what happens," laughs the lovely Janice. "I hate to lose anything even if it's on the show." .Janice, who draws an unusual amount of fan mall, has had a thorough education in music and is one of the few concert pianists to turn actress and portray a concert pianist on television. She is one of the few actresses in the business who has to learn her lines and rehearse music at the same time each day

Janice started piano studies at the age of five in her home town of Lake Charles La., desiring some day to be a concert pianist. But when she was 15, Janice started studying voice, hoping to be a dramatic coloratura in grand opera. She returned to the piano for a while when she lost her voice following a tonsillectomy. She was so good that she often soloed with the symphony orchestras of Dallas, New Orleans, Houston and others. ''My voice finally returned," recalls Janice. "I was majoring in opera at the University of Indiana and had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music when a talent scout for Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians persuaded me to leave school. They made me an offer of soloist with the group which I couldn't turn down."

Janice admits that although she still studies she had become bored with opera and piano. "There was a lack of freedom and creativity in opera. It must be done exactly the way it had been done for 200 years. And piano was too one dimensional. I really wanted to be singing and dancing. And I've become a big 'belter,' singing the pop thing my way." After her stint with Waring and success as a background singer and dancer in New York, Janice struck out on her own. Her first major role was in the national stage company of "Butterflies Are Free" followed by the Broadway rock musical, "The Me Nobody Knows." And she played the lead role of Eve in the Broadway production of "Applause."