I aim to please!

I love that interview! She's so honest and upfront, doesn't !@#$%^&*] foot around. And the best part was, after all those years of service, as she was about to leave she was asked "...what are you gonna do now?" And she said (and I can just imagine this too), "Go home to feed my dog." That is like the classic ending to a movie or something.

I'll share one and seems appropriate considering it's March and a year later, but allegedly by the time Brett Claywell got fired from OLTL, him and Farah Fath didn't get along too well. The two supposedly got into an argument on what ended up being his final day of taping.

If only Bev were still around, she'd have no problem with soap hours these days!

I Love BM Showing GL Like That

The Zaslow thing was disgusting. I would have stopped watching GUIDING LIGHT immediately after that. That man worked his arce off for that show, and even if he was sick...they could have used it storywise and it would have been memorable. Zaslow seemed like a guy who liked to work, who went the extra mile and he would have done so despite things.

On the side, didn't the show in the mid-80's write for the character of Bert Bauer after Charita Bauer had her real life medical situation regarding diabetes?

I am really disgusted by the lack of brains network execs have nowadays...do we really need three CSIs to compete with the cutting edge of HBO?

Erik

The Zaslow thing was hard all around. No one knew for months what was going on with him so they could not plan a storyline out. Zaslow himself was a hard worker but he had a prickly ego (of which is illness I am sure effected him) who insisted on going on despite, (from what I heard) being asked to take time off to figure out what was what going on. In this instance I dont think it was Rauch (who may be a bastard but is not a total villian) but P & G and MADD who figured they would be able to cut a high paying (if not THE highest paid) cast member at time when the budget needed to be slashed. MADD"S comments were inexcusable though.

Imagine watching Roger deal with this as he manipulates family and enemies to set the stage for after his death...(a perfect to bring in a Sebastian character.) However, it would also be hard, from a long time viewer (I grew up watching Roger) to see him suffer.

The Charita Bauer thing was different....she had an amputation but she could still act and speak clearly and be Bert. If she had had a stroke who knows what they would have done.

Listen, as someone who had watched MZ on GL and OLTL, it was tough to see him in the condition that he was in when he returned to the latter show as ALS-stricken, wheelchair-bound David Renaldi. But 1) I had to applaud JFP for once for allowing him to return (although, part of me thinks she was motivated more by publicity, as well as a need to regain some good karma after allowing both Beverlee McKinsey's departure and Maureen Bauer's death to happen under her watch at GL); and 2) right to the end, even if he no longer had the spark that made his performances the stuff of soap legend, he still exuded nothing short of dignity and inner strength in the face of such adversity.

C'mon Grey Bunny, I just KNOW you have some hot gossip on the feuds at Y&R. Spill!

Edited May 10, 201411 yr by Gray Bunny

Jeanne Cooper: Love, love, love! Had a half-hour conversation with her about the industry one day at the end of the work day. Here it is almost 5 o'clock, she's totally able to head on home, and she sits with me in her dressing room and we talk about daytime, her son Corbin, the industry, lack of respect from primetime, etc. Great, great lady!!

That was actually nice of you to focus on the good stuff.

I have heard lots of lovely things about Jeanne Cooper from my friend that worked on the show... that she's a real pro, and a lovely person, and she enjoys people. Very gracious.

Erik

I'll share one and seems appropriate considering it's March and a year later, but allegedly by the time Brett Claywell got fired from OLTL, him and Farah Fath didn't get along too well. The two supposedly got into an argument on what ended up being his final day of taping.

Farah & JPL hated Crystal Hunt too.

Oh, did we forget to mention the Dobsons/New World?

I would just like to point out that none of the following actors were mentioned in GB's post:

Peter Bergman

Eric Braeden

Sharon Case

Victoria Rowell

Melody Thomas Scott

David Lago

Tracey Bregman

Just sayin!

Oh, did we forget to mention the Dobsons/New World?

And Labine/Ryan's Hope/ABC.

That interview makes me love Beverlee McKinsey. It's so frank and... not bullshit!

I would just like to point out that none of the following actors were mentioned in GB's post:

Peter Bergman
Eric Braeden
Sharon Case
Victoria Rowell
Melody Thomas Scott
David Lago
Tracey Bregman

Just sayin!

Oh crap, I totally forgot about Peter Bergman! Very, very nice. Totally forgot. Sorry. We talked about that infamous Daytime Emmy year when they mistakenly thought Susan Lucci's name was called when it was really Susan Flannery.

Tracey Bregman, I barely saw. David Lago wasn't on the show, but visited.

Edited May 10, 201411 yr by Gray Bunny

I think JackPeyton met David Lago in passing or something like that, he told us about it. I remember he said DL is very eccentric, but in a good way