But Bell basically was only overseeing DAYS at that point, right--a contractual obligation? (Not to say his influence wasn't felt.)
I think Nixon would have never made such a comment in public. She had a lot of respect for Bell. If you've read All Her Children, there's an interview where her daughter tells Nixon that she thinks someone is stealing her storylines (it's obviously Bell at Y&R) and she says that they tell their stories very differently.
One thing I do love about the Bell soaps and the Nixon soaps, at least at their core, is that they seemed to take two different aspects of Irna Phillips (their shared mentor) and her approach to soap, and went with them. Which is simplistic, of course--Agnes Nixon's Guiding Light is very heavy on melodrama, etc but.
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