Here's another: "...the cast and drama metastasized...".

"Metastasize," as defined by Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is:

to spread or grow by or as if by metastasis.

Going further: "metastasis" is:

1. a: a change of position, state or form; b: the spread of a disease-producing agency (as cancer cells) from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body; also, the process by which such spreading occurs. 2. a secondary malignant tumor resulting from metastasis.

Now, you could argue this writer meant the first definition. However, when you use a word such as "metastasize," you cannot help but conjure images of cancer in the minds of your readership.

Again, I'm just saying.

Edited September 21, 201114 yr by Khan

husband, writer-director Ken Golden, have eliminated the old established "roles" in marriage and have carved out their own special plan for living. "I think I've finally gotten over all the nonsense about a good wife having to cook and clean and all that. Ken doesn't expect me to pick up his clothes. The last vestige of his male chauvinism is asking me to fix him a cup of coffee when he wakes up in the morning. We share the chores pretty much. If he does something around the house, I don't feel I have to act as if it's extraordinary. I used to feel that I had to say, 'Oh, you washed a dish - how wonderful!' Or, 'You can make the bed - how clever!'"

Karen admits the arrangement was not particularly to Ken's liking when it was originally conceived. "I think he's become more aware," she says. "As a man, he didn't feel he should do dishes or clean up, but now he realizes how irrational that sort of thinking was. But, actually, he wasn't playing a role as much as I was. It took me much longer to feel comfortable about his doing things around the house."

Ken's assistance in the kitchen is pretty much essential since Karen claims to be a "lousy" cook and is forever burning things. "Every time I get near the stove, something gets burned," she wails. "it's not always the food, either. I burn my hands a lot. So Ken will usually do the steaks and I'll do the vegetable and the salad.

"We usually do the laundry together. We make a couple of trips to the washing machine and we talk while the clothes are washing and drying. But if I'm tired and I ask him to do it, he doesn't mind. Because, after all, they're his clothes, too."

The most unusual impaspect of their modern marriage seems to be the fact that Karen is the primary wage-earner these days. This does not mean, however, that they have simply reversed husband and wife roles. Karen just feels that, since Ken was instrumental in helping her get started on an acting career, she should do what she can to help him accomplish his writing and directing goals.

"When we first got married, Ken was teaching at Brandeis University," she explains. "I knew I had to come to New York to further my acting career, but I felt guilty about leaving him. But he said 'Go!' He supported me while I was looking for work. So now that I'm working steadily, I want to give him a chance to do what he wants to do." Karen's faith in her husband's talent is certainly not misguided. He recently directed a play off-Broadway and he has completed a screenplay which he is now sending to agents. Karen adds, however, that even if Ken had a steady job - "even if was a millionaire" - she would still be working. As far as she is concerned, acting is a labor of love, and the fact that her husband can also benefit from it makes her work even more rewarding.

While Karen and Ken have mapped out an extremely mature marital arrangement. Karen confesses that they are like a couple of kids when it comes to just relaxing and having fun. "If the two of us were just left alone," she declares, "we'd never work. We'd just go to the movies and eat popcorn all the time."

A non-work day with Karen and Ken might go something like this:

"If we're not going to see people, we'll sleep late and start out about noon. Then we'll go to the movies. We love movies. We've been known to go to four or five in one day. Then we'll go someplace and eat junk like pizza and frankfurters. After that we'll go home and maybe he'll play the flute and I'll play guitar and we'll make up songs. Or we'll redecorate the apartment, move furniture around, reorganize things. We also play games a lot, like Monopoly and cards. We're like little kids. Ken's a real buddy, and I have a better time with him then with anyone else."

If friends come over, they might be treated to fun and games on the water bed in the Golden dining room. "It's a place to recline after you eat," Karen says. "When we have guests, we play on it. It has the effect of relaxing people. It's great to be on after a hard day. It's heated, so if you put a blanket over it, it's like being in a warm bath."

Karen believes she has more friends now that she has come to terms with herself as a person. "I'm more interested in people now," she says. "I feel I'm more of the world. I have more friends than I ever did before." Most of her friends are involved in the arts in one way or another, a fact that does not particularly please her. "Sometimes talking about the business gets boring. I find myself wanting to say, 'Hey, how's your mother?' The theater is like living in a giant monastery. It's hard to meet people who are not in it. I like to spend time with my parents, and they have friends who aren't in the business. It's nice to have a doctor's point of view now and then."

Speaking of her parents, Sondra and Jay Gorney, they probably have more reason to be happy about the "new" Karen than anyone. In a way, they've lost the daughter they used to know - but they've gained a friend.

"I always used to give interviews about how strict my mother was when I was growing up," Karen smiles. "But I feel my mother is a friend now, instead of a parent. We're really getting along much better."

No, Karen is not the girl she used to be. She's more confident, happier, sexier. Maybe that's because she's not a girl anymore at all - but a delightful, full grown woman!

- DEBBIE SHERWOOD

I was just saying in another thread that NY Magazine did a better job with the facts on that long-winded timeline (as far as I've seen) than People Magazine did with the facts in their tribute issue.

I was just saying in another thread that NY Magazine did a better job with the facts on that long-winded timeline (as far as I've seen) than People Magazine did with the facts in their tribute issue.

People Magazine said that Kendall killed Stuart.

You almost feel a fan did that timeline, with People you could tell the people behind it rarely watched and were asking around and maybe not really fact checking all that much. But like Soaps In Depth, really beautiful pictures!

November 1971 Afternoon TV.

Here's another: "...the cast and drama metastasized...".

"Metastasize," as defined by Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is:

Going further: "metastasis" is:

Now, you could argue this writer meant the first definition. However, when you use a word such as "metastasize," you cannot help but conjure images of cancer in the minds of your readership.

Again, I'm just saying.

I see it as a tad irreverent, but done with love.

Original Brooke! So was that from 1977 then?

I'd love to see that Mike Douglas episode.

1976

Carol Burnett had a brief cameo before she came on as Verla, right? I wonder how long it took her to fill her promise. It sounds liek the soap press was starting to come around to AMC--it was only a few years earlier that there was that review blasting it.

Edited September 21, 201114 yr by EricMontreal22

One of the old soap magazines from Judith's AW days had a wedding spread. Wisner has a certain handsome/offbeat look. I wonder how much that ended up playing into AMC casting. Probably not, but if you look at him, he looks a little like some of the men of the '70s (Nick, Mark).

Anyway, I'm going to post a few Soap Opera Magazine bits as they had fun little moments for each soap each week.

This is from a May 1992 issue.

Early October 1993 issue.

Also from this issue.

In honor of Stuart's happy return. I hope this hasn't been posted yet. It's just adorable and it has Jennifer Bassey to boot, along with a very game little boy playing AJ.