Ha no because *that book* came out in 1975, before she really delved into the gothic

Helga wasn't sinister? I thought she went nuts and went off a cliff or something.

Helga was pretty sinister (til the end). I remember watching when she jumped from the castle in Budapest and laughing because that bitch trapped La Kane in that tomb!

Oddly enough, I believe the creepy housekeeper Joanna also kidnapped Erica.

It always seemed strange to me that Joanna had been such a major part of the Chandlers lives for years before they arrived but was written out a year or two after they started on the show. I wonder why that was. A Digest best/worst 1984 issue had praise for her.

Nono I meant out of all three Myra turned out to not be the Mrs Danvers type. Helga certainly was--mixed with some Jane Eyre story points. I wish youtube had her falling off the roof in Budapest. Actually I don't think they have any Helga at all

It always seemed strange to me that Joanna had been such a major part of the Chandlers lives for years before they arrived but was written out a year or two after they started on the show. I wonder why that was. A Digest best/worst 1984 issue had praise for her.

She was written out though because she was so bad--wasn't it?

Helga wasn't sinister? I thought she went nuts and went off a cliff or something.

She was cynical from the get go. Dimitri just sorta kept her around cuz she was Angelique's mother--but then her having tended to Angelique secretly in the attic, wheeling her out during Dimi and Natalie's wedding, always trying to push them together, her connection to the Edmund revelation, then completely nuts in Budapest (I don't even remember how she ended up in Budapest, surely Dimi wouldn't have brought her for his trip with Erica...)

Nono I meant out of all three Myra turned out to not be the Mrs Danvers type. Helga certainly was--mixed with some Jane Eyre story points. I wish youtube had her falling off the roof in Budapest. Actually I don't think they have any Helga at all

Helga is on YouTube. Go to that user who uploaded all the Natalie & Janet stuff.

Ha this will prob take me hours to look for but thanks! I'll check.

Do Natalie fans prefer her before the rape story? To me she seems fascinating in the earlier stuff I've seen, but after the rape story it seems like she becomes more like someone that things happen to.

March 1976 TV Radio Mirror

in highly respected repertory companies after I graduated from Wellesley, but does anyone know that? There are a lot of people in this business who have no idea I ever set foot on a stage, and I find that very upsetting."

There is one big advantage to teaming up with another actor, and Stephanie is convinced it more than compensates for the problems such relationships can spawn. (And having been married to a businessman, she speaks from experience.) "There are a lot of pressures which make you do sort of strange, quirky things emotionally, and it's wonderful to have that understood so it's not taken personally, so that you're not constantly having to explain your emotional ups and downs," she pointed out. "For instance, another actor will instinctively know not to come back stage on opening night and tell you your costume is terrible. Somebody who has been there knows that is not the time. True, it's a small thing, but at such a highly emotional time, the effect can be devastatingly painful."

Judging by the way Stephanie blushed and giggled when I asked if she and Dan were considering marriage, I'd guess that happy day is in the near future. All Stephanie will say is, "Yes, we talk about it a lot...we'll let you know if we do it before this article comes out." She will, however, talk freely about her feelings regarding marriage in general. "It's a whole lot easier getting married after 30 I would think," says this 32-year old veteran of an early marriage. "Being older and definitely wiser than I was when I married, there are an awful lot of things that are important to me now that weren't then, and there are a lot of things that are not important to me now that were then. I suppose there are some lucky couples who are able to grow up together in the same direction, but more often than not, it doesn't work out that way. People seem to grow up and apart. If you wait until after 30, you know pretty well where you are and pretty well where the other person is. Sure, there's still the possibility of disaster along the way for any of a million reasons, but your chances are better if you're mature. Marriage takes so much more to make it work than most people realize...until they get married, and by then, often it's too late."

If it's true that two people with strong similarities have a stronger chance of making their marriage work (as is generally thought to be the case), Stephanie and Dan should spend a long and happy life together. "I really can't think of any strong dissimilarities," said a beaming Stephanie, "other than the way we handle social situations. To this day I can walk into a roomful of people I don't know and feel completely at ease, mainly because of my upbringing. I grew up in the diplomatic community of Cuba, so all that goes with any kind of socializing is second nature to me. Dan, on the other hand, grew up in a small Northern California town and had no experience with sophisticated, cosmopolitan social gatherings. Consequently, he's very uncomfortable in those situations. But other than that, we're amazingly alike."

If there is one key secret to thriving on so much togetherness, however, it would have to be what Stephanie refers to as "our ability to be alone together." She explains: "We can physically be in the same room with one another and be perfectly content not focusing on each other. Many people constantly need to feel they are the focus of their partners' attention when they are together, and that can be very annoying. That's when being together gets on people's nerves. Dan and I can sense when one or the other desires and emotional aloneness, and we respect that."

During the week Stephanie and Dan practice their band of togetherness in a cozy little apartment in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. But on weekends and vacations they escape the city and head for their 10 acre farm in upstate New York. On it sits a great big 130 year old house, purchased in a sorry state of disrepair, but currently well on its way to being a showplace, thanks to the efforts of its new owners. Stephanie and Dan have done their own plumbing, writing, masonry - you name the job, they've taught themselves how to do it! Here they grow fruits and vegetables for their own table, and they're in the beginning stages of what promise to be a highly profitable beefalo breeding operation. "You can't believe how satisfying Dan and I find the farm," Stephanie marvelled. "We didn't know the first thing about farming, or doing repairs. If someone had told us a few years ago we'd be doing these things, we'd have told him he was crazy. But we adore everything about our life up there."

And no wonder. How can two people so deeply in love possibly be bored spending time together in such an idyllic setting? Whether alone together, together together, or even when they have no choice but to be apart physically and emotionally, Stephanie Braxton and Dan Hamilton have discovered their love is a love many people imagine exists only in storybooks. The perfect storybook ending...perhaps "I do's" exchanged in a lovely upstate meadow...

By Linda Rosenbaum

FYI: They're divorced.

I thought they were still married. I guess that 50% rate hits soap relationships too. More like 75% with soaps...

They must have gotten divorced because they no longer worked on the same show...

Well at least it's a pretty photo.