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Angie Costello    (Jana Taylor)

daughter of Mike Costello

 

Angie got into a car accident and then became pregnant by 

Eddie Weeks

Eddie Weeks   #1   Craig Curtis

Eddie Weeks #2   Doug Lambert    1964-65

who had pinned

Dorothy Bradley   (Susan Seaforth)  to the anger of Eddie's folks, Al (Tom Brown) the hospital janitor

and ?Lenore Weeks?  (Lenore Kingston)

 

Angie had a baby, Eddie, that was adopted by 

Retired doctor Fred Fleming (Simon Scott)

and his wife, Janet  (Ruth Phillips)

Angie and Eddie kidnapped the child..... but the Flemings got custody in 1965.

[slick jones]

Douglas Lambert obituary   (Eddie Weeks #2)

American-born actor succumbs to AIDS

 

LONDON -- Douglas Lambert, an American-born actor who found fame in Britain, has died of AIDS at his London home, friends said Wednesday. He was 50.

Lambert succumbed Tuesday to the aquired immune deficiency syndrome, which was diagnosed a year ago when he went to his doctor complaining of a sore foot.

 

 

His condition had worsened dramatically in the past two weeks and his weight dwindled to less than 90 pounds.

'It is a blessing that his ordeal is finally over,' said singer Derek Damon, who nursed Lambert through the final stage of his illness at his north London home.

'Douglas was suffering terribly but he never gave up fighting.'

Lambert was born in New York and went to Hollywood where he had walk-on roles in the 1950s in television series such as 'Rawhide,''Wagon Train' and 'Dr. Kildare.'

He found fame late in his career in Britain, starring as a ruthless lawyer in 'Inside Story,' a television drama about newspapers.

Lambert was a homosexual, and last month the Daily Mirror newspaper published his diary of life as an AIDS victim.

For the past 20 years, the New York-born actor had based his career in London, his agent said. The funeral will take place in London on Saturday.

 

from imdb:

Took to the microphone at midnight on 6th December 1979, the opening night of London's gay nightclub Heaven, to intone: "In the beginning there was darkness, and God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God created Man and Man created Heaven.".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jana Taylor article, 1990

 

Children are big in photographer Jana Taylor’s life.

Her Venice studio is dominated by their 4-by-6-foot portraits, purposely hung high to accord them the proper respect from adults, who must look up rather than down at them.

Taylor’s vision of children has made her a nationally recognized photographer who commands thousands of dollars per session.

But it is her vision for children rather than of them that motivates her to gather a group of disadvantaged Venice children around a table each Friday afternoon to teach them about photography and much more.

The lesson is “seeing from the heart,” said Taylor in an interview. “It’s all about teaching the goodness and beauty of life.”

That would seem to be an uphill battle given the lives some of the children in her classes lead. One has a father in jail, and another reported that she was ordered by her mother to shoot a puppy for the family dinner.

Fifty children a week troop through her studio, where they find and express their inner vision through photography. The children learn to develop the photos, as well as take them. She recently started offering dance, acting and creative reading.

The program is part of Taylor’s American Child Foundation, which she formed in 1983 to further her quest to nurture the natural artist she sees in each child.

 

Though Nikon, Kodak and Polaroid donate equipment and the Coca-Cola Co. donates money, Taylor has spent more than $50,000 of her own money to finance the foundation. The program costs a minimum of $5,000 a month to operate.

Taylor’s next goal is to raise money for a center in Venice, the American Child Institute of Fine Arts, to serve many more children than she can now accommodate. It would partially support itself and raise scholarship money by selling greeting cards designed by children.

Taylor describes the children as natural artists, who possess an awe-inspiring bravery and “the absolute desire to be good and do good. . . . I’m telling them to rebel against the negative. They don’t have to accept that as reality.”

When Taylor started teaching photography to children at Para los Ninos child-care center near Skid Row several years ago, she asked the impoverished children to identify what was beautiful in their lives. Nothing, they replied. But under Taylor’s tutelage, they discovered that beauty can be found everywhere--in the light shining on a kitchen table or the bird outside the window.

Or in 10-year-old Carmen Herrera’s case, her own foot, captured against billowy clouds outside a car window. The photo brought the fifth-grader $35 when it was sold at a Venice art festival last summer, Carmen said proudly at a recent class.

At a recent class, Taylor gave Carmen and the others enlarged copies of their photographs for Christmas. The Westminster Elementary School fifth-grader painstakingly affixed her signature in the right-hand corner of the border, just like any other artist.

Carmen said she loved taking photos because “you get to express your feelings in the pictures.”

Her grandmother, Rose Herrera, said Carmen’s life has been brightened by the class. “It has opened her eyes to many things she had never looked at before.” Additionally, Carmen is more interested in her schoolwork and has overcome her shyness in speaking to adults, Herrera said.

Taylor said Carmen’s response to the class is common, as children who learn to see the beauty in their lives also learn to appreciate the beauty in themselves. “The kids think their lives are better. They blossom,” Taylor said. “It’s a terrible value judgment for (society) to say they have nothing because they have no money.”

Though Taylor admits to being a Pollyanna, she said she runs a tight class with professional standards. She tells the children that “photography changed my life” and that it can change theirs too.

Taylor, a former actress who was a regular on the soap opera “General Hospital” and a guest star on numerous television programs, retired from show business to raise her son, now 14. After a divorce, she was looking for a way to support herself and her son when she started taking photos.

A cinematographer friend provided her first lesson in technique: Make sure the needles inside the camera’s viewer line up. Yet, despite her initial lack of technical knowledge, her pictures were a hit. “People wanted my pictures because they were heartfelt,” she explained. A star-studded clientele followed.

As her career blossomed, Taylor was quizzed about her “technique.” A friend advised a standard reply: that she “was an intuitive photographer and did not discuss her technique.”

As she gathered her class around her recently, Taylor talked to the children about what makes a person great, gleaning answers ranging from truthfulness to loyalty. The class then watched a film in which the late photographer Ansel Adams discussed his work, echoing some of the lessons Taylor had been imparting.

“I’d take that picture,” exclaimed one student as Adams and the late artist Georgia O’Keeffe strolled across a desert landscape.

The high point of the class was when the children, who are 10 to 12 years old, saw their own proof sheets from earlier assignments. They excitedly passed around the magnifying loop to see each frame in black and white, giggling, moaning and proudly sharing their favorite shots with each other.

Taylor looked at the sheets, too, praising the work. It is a cardinal rule of her class that there is no criticism of the photos from her or the other students, though there is much feedback.

One of the students, Matthew Gomez, a sixth-grader, gave the class the ultimate compliment from someone in the video generation. “It makes me get up and not sit around the house watching TV.”

[amybrickwallace]

Thanks for passing along that article. Ms. Taylor passed in 2004. Her son is a rapper who goes by the stage name Evidence. Look him up; he has done some interesting interviews.

[slick jones]

Article about Indus Arthur  (Brooke Bentley Clinton 1970-73, Scotty's sister that was murdered)

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[Vee]

I always thought it was classy for GH to bring back Angie to see Steve and GH for the anniversary in 1993.

[titan1978]

That whole episode was great.  Seeing the BTS stuff, the new opening, and the mission statement and tonal reset back to the hospital being a major part of the show again.  I bet John Beradino was excited to get that script, it actually honors him and the history of the show.

[amybrickwallace]

Yes, the good old days when soap vets were actually homored!!!

[Franko]

Something else I love about the 30th anniversary episode ... the ending with Bette Midler's rendition of "In My Life," followed by Steve/John proudly walking through the soundstage. That clearly had to be a classy retort to the then-recent very ending to Santa Barbara, with Paul Rauch putting out his cigar on the soundstage.

[vetsoapfan]

The show even FINALLY addressed the vanishing of Jessie Brewer, who had simply  ceased to exist without explanation after Emily McLaughlin passed away. Hearing Steve acknowledge the character's death on screen, during the 30th anniversary telecast, brought quiet closure to a character who had once been a beloved and integral component of the series.

[amybrickwallace]

It's awful that Emily/Jessie didn't even get a tribute episode back then. My great-grandparents watched GH in the 1960s into the 70s, and loved Jessie in particular. 

It's my understanding that Emily McLaughlin had serious health problems in the last couple of decades of her life, which played no small part in Jessie fading from prominence. Still, how hard would it have been for GH to put together a tribute episode for her after all she did for the show in its early years?

[vetsoapfan]

Yes, McLaughlin's health concerns were no secret, and there had been times when she was unable to fulfil her contractual obligations to the show. By the early 1980s, Jessie had become a supporting player rather than a lead, thanks to the Youth Invasion  and emphasis on idiotic science fiction. The network terminated her contract when her personal issues persisted, and there were times when Jessie would go unseen for months. McLaughlin rebounded later on, and during Joseph Hardy's reign as producer, she would appear on average once a week. The network was respectful enough to keep her top-billed in the credits (after John Beradino) and paid her a generous per-episode salary on the days she did appear, but then she got sick again and Jessie simply disappeared, for good this time. The character had been so marginalized by this point, I did not expect much in the way of a tribute, but I did expect GH to at least have Steve, Audrey, Bobbie...ANYBODY who had known and cared for Jessie...to acknowledge her whereabouts/death on screen. No one did, and she remained unmentioned for an extended period until the 30th anniversary episode, when Steve Hardy told Angie about Jessie's passing. I say this very...carefully, but I think Emily McLaughlin deserved a memorial episode or tribute just as much as, say, John Reilly did, considering her huge and original importance to the show.

[amybrickwallace]

Exactly! I don't think it would have been too hard or too much to ask.

I've always been intrigued by her real life marriage to Jeffrey Hunter which ended so tragically just months after their wedding. She had some pretty heavy story on GH at the same time. Wow.

[FrenchFan]

I think Emily McLaughlin stopped being front burner after the Phil Brewer’s murder storyline in 1975. When I work on the Daytime Serial Newsletter, I noticed she was nearly never mentioned after that. Probably the beginning of her health issue. The show went on some big changes with the Webbers eating the show since beginning 1976. Only Steve / Audrey, the Taylors and Lesley were still a prominent feature of the show amongs lots of newbies.

[titan1978]

There should have been a service onscreen.  She actually had ties to a lot of the show still when she passed.  It wasn’t like they had to bring anyone back that the then current audience wouldn’t know (although that would be cool too, but I know how networks think).

[amybrickwallace]

Wasn't Audrey's sister Lucille still around at that point?