Has this interview ever been posted?

 

Bill Bell and Claire Labine Interview from 1997

https://www.serialscoop.com/2014/07/bill-bell-claire-labine-on-writing.html?m=1

Edited May 30, 20205 yr by Vizion

36 minutes ago, mikelyons said:

I've been in the Bell archives a number of times and have never seen the original bible. I guess I need to make a few phone calls... 😉 

 

If you're ever in his archives at UCLA, ask for Box 347.   That's the one where it's apt to be, if by chance they have it.  There should be really good stuff in that particular box.  

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

ugh...most of my 1991 videos are now getting blocked!   It's because of the intro music, I'm in the process of trying to trim out the openings so everyone can see the videos...I'm so sorry you guys! 

oh no! I'm so so sorry... why Youtube why??

57 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

ugh...most of my 1991 videos are now getting blocked!   It's because of the intro music, I'm in the process of trying to trim out the openings so everyone can see the videos...I'm so sorry you guys! 

WTF? After all these years? Damn that sucks. Maybe everything would be better suited on a One Drive. 
 

Oddly that does make sense as I’ve seen a lot of soaps posted without their intro included...unless you’re a cancelled P&G soap of course where one can just upload whatever they please. 

3 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

ugh...most of my 1991 videos are now getting blocked!   It's because of the intro music, I'm in the process of trying to trim out the openings so everyone can see the videos...I'm so sorry you guys! 

 

I was afraid this was going to happen - some of my privated B&B videos got nixed too. If all else fails you can always share them in the vault I've created!

5 hours ago, EricMontreal22 said:

So very strange!  Agnes' archives I went to had the As The Earth Turns bible, but she's listed as co-creator with Irna and Ted Corday, so that makes sense.  (it also had two radio "outlines" as they called them--one for Dr Joyce Jones, which was an Irna show Agnes did write for and was at a time that Agnes could have done the actual initial creation--and...  Ma Perkins.  Which...  Maybe she or someone involved in the archives had a copy in and just threw it in there?  Talk about random!)

Also--re Bell and Nixon.  Bell co-created Another World.  We know that Irna only wrote it briefly, the implication being her plan to go full out melodrama for it didn't suit her actual style.  And then the show floundered under Lipton (there may have been another writer before him) and then Agnes Nixon came on in... 1966 I think.  If Bell was co-creator, why didn't he go to that show?  Instead, in 1966 he went to Days of Our Lives, which he was not, as far as we know, a creator of...

From what I have gathered, Irna considered Bill her right hand man and they worked together on ATWT, OPW and AW.

Maybe the feeling was that at some point, Irna would 'gift' a show to Bill. Perhaps co-creating was a step towards that but AW wasn't a great experience.

So when Bill was approached to take on Days it was obviously tempting. Maybe the fact that the show was up and running but not really established was appealing and he was offered free reign.

Edited May 30, 20205 yr by Paul Raven

4 hours ago, yrfan1983 said:

oh no! I'm so so sorry... why Youtube why??

 

4 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

WTF? After all these years? Damn that sucks. Maybe everything would be better suited on a One Drive. 
 

Oddly that does make sense as I’ve seen a lot of soaps posted without their intro included...unless you’re a cancelled P&G soap of course where one can just upload whatever they please. 

 

2 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

I was afraid this was going to happen - some of my privated B&B videos got nixed too. If all else fails you can always share them in the vault I've created!

I've already trimmed the intro out in some of the videos and it seems to be working, but now it just makes it look awkward when there's a jump between the last first segment scene into the second segment after the intro. I'm still going to upload the new 1991 I got to YT, even if it gets blocked, but I'm thinking everything will be going into the fault.

on a more happy note, June 8, 1990 now on archive!  

https://archive.org/details/youngandtherestless19900608

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

on a more happy note, June 8, 1990 now on archive!  

https://archive.org/details/youngandtherestless19900608

One more goodie. Thanks for sharing

5 minutes ago, sheilaforever said:

One more goodie. Thanks for sharing

Your welcome!   the B&B from that date is there too! 

4 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

on a more happy note, June 8, 1990 now on archive!  

https://archive.org/details/youngandtherestless19900608

Thanks for that. I'm not sure if I watched this particular episode back in the day, but I do remember seeing Nathan confront Dru and Jack rescuing pre-soras Victoria from the pool so I am pretty sure I've seen the episode after this.

 

 I think this was Victoria's last major incident as a child before being shipped off to that magical Swiss boarding school and coming back as Heather Tom about six or seven months later lol.

6 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

on a more happy note, June 8, 1990 now on archive!  

https://archive.org/details/youngandtherestless19900608

 

This was wild, Nathan had been on the show for 6 years at that point and was meeting John and Ashley for the first time. BB was a master at keeping the cast in their little pocket universes.

12 minutes ago, Darn said:

This was wild, Nathan had been on the show for 6 years at that point and was meeting John and Ashley for the first time. BB was a master at keeping the cast in their little pocket universes.

 

I thought BE's Ashley was friends with Olivia from the start though. And she had never met Nathan? At least mentioning she knew him via Olivia would have made sense.

12 hours ago, Broderick said:

 

If you're ever in his archives at UCLA, ask for Box 347.   That's the one where it's apt to be, if by chance they have it.  There should be really good stuff in that particular box.  

 

LOL that sounds like the start of a soap opera storyline... “the mystery of Box 347”

8 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

From what I have gathered, Irna considered Bill her right hand man and they worked together on ATWT, OPW and AW.

Maybe the feeling was that at some point, Irna would 'gift' a show to Bill. Perhaps co-creating was a step towards that but AW wasn't a great experience.

So when Bill was approached to take on Days it was obviously tempting. Maybe the fact that the show was up and running but not really established was appealing and he was offered free reign.

Wasn't there an interview with Bill Bell where he said Ted Corday basically on his death bed asked him to save his show ? Corday died in 1966. Ken talked about the barbaric cancer treatments at the time where they would zap his father with radiation, pack him in ice and bring him back to the house, carry him up the stairs and put him into bed.