A recent comment I saw about Carolyn Hinsey's epic 2008 firing from SOW had me thinking. In all the years in reading the soap press are there any particular offbeat or peculiar moments that still stick out to any of you to this day here in 2018? I certainly recall a strange few for starters: 

 

--In 1989, it was rumored the usually mild-mannered and generally admired longtime P&G veteran producer Joe Willmore, who was EP at GL was constantly losing his temperament and was very controlling; the cast and crew didn't shed any tears when Calhoun came in to replace and Willmore left P&G without fanfare. 

 

--A January 1992 issue of Soap Opera Update predicted that Brian, Ginger, Molly and Tanner on Days would be the real stars of the show with Molly & Tanner destined to become Days' IT/hottest supercouple of the year. In reality, all four characters caused the show to tank badly. 

 

--Circa summer 1996, Victoria Wyndham went to a Rhode Island ice shop and apparently was quite rude to the store owner and their mother. The alleged incident seemed to haunt Wyndham for several years on the net following it first surfacing. 

 

--In the summer of 1998, an OLTL fan mailed a bizarre letter to SOD's fan mail section stating they had enjoyed Maggie Andersson as Jessica for years and stated they did not like the new recast and wanted to know the name of the new Jessica actress. SOD had to awkwardly correct the OLTL fan stating that Andersson had just been a temporary recast and that Erin Torpey was the original actress. @SFK

 

--Ken Corday declaring war on SOW after they named the Gina story on Days the Worst Story of 1999; he boycotted giving any interviews with the rag for a good year. 

 

--Any of the strange interviews that JER and Brad Bell did with Michael Logan in the spring of 2004 regarding their plans for the respective shows Days and B&B. Let's just be thankful none of it came to pass. 

 

 

Edited September 13, 20187 yr by soapfan770

1 hour ago, amybrickwallace said:

Much like her AW character, Missy, Carol Roux grew up in foster homes. She married and divorced a professional dancer before becoming involved with drummer Rick Coonce of the Grass Roots. When she got the chance to head up the AW spinoff with Jordan Charney and Ann Wedgeworth, things did not go well:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20276400/lydia_hirsch_column/

 

The comments about her in the Somerset thread 5-6 years ago were very interesting. 

 

This is the movie that she may have been in. I think there was some arguing over whether it was her.

 

 

I wonder if she was/is bipolar. Just reading interviews with her, and reading how she caused trouble on the set of Somerset with "real and imagined illnesses" which no doubt held up production. I can imagine how well that went over with cast AND crew back in the live tape era. 

 

Supposedly, the only character she ever wanted to play was Missy, and that's why she turned WTHI down. I've never heard of that from anyone else - they want to play other characters!! I definitely think there were psychological issues going on, but this was 1970. Maybe her co-workers saw her as a temperamental diva, a flake, or both. Who knows?

The most tragic of stories involved the soap actor Don Briscoe... who was first on Days (I think as an illfated suitor of marie Horton).. and Dark Shadows (playing a handful of characters).  He was considered a pin up/ heart throb back in the late 60s.  He quit acting in 1970 after suffering a mental break down and being deemed by a medical professional as being unable to work due to his mental state.... and sadly died an almost recluse in 2004.   

3 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

The most tragic of stories involved the soap actor Don Briscoe... who was first on Days (I think as an illfated suitor of marie Horton).. and Dark Shadows (playing a handful of characters).  He was considered a pin up/ heart throb back in the late 60s.  He quit acting in 1970 after suffering a mental break down and being deemed by a medical professional as being unable to work due to his mental state.... and sadly died an almost recluse in 2004.   

A lot of people who knew him said he was also involved in the late 60's/early 70's drug scene, especially when he moved to L.A. 

19 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

The comments about her in the Somerset thread 5-6 years ago were very interesting. 

 

This is the movie that she may have been in. I think there was some arguing over whether it was her.

 

 

It looks like her when she turns into the Nun. According to the check date, this was done back in 1997. I remember back in the WOST days, they did an interview with her and she came across really nervous and eccentric. She also kept saying she didn't realize till now how sexy Joe Gallison was at the time. 

Is that interview still around somewhere?

I was going to say, there was a poster at WoST who was in touch with her, he shared a lot of their correspondence with us. That's what led to her eventually being interviewed on the site. WoST Brian probably still has it, but I don't believe any of the WoST interviews (Harding Lemay, et cetera) are still online.

Is the poster you are talking about named Dan? It was he who served as a go-between of sorts when I wanted to write her a letter and ask her to autograph a picture for me. From what he said, she was intensely private and didn't want to reveal her address. So, Dan told me to send the picture to his address and he in turn would mail it to her. Long story short, that's exactly what he did and she did sign my picture. I really appreciated his efforts and kindness as well as Carol signing my picture.

 

The story of Don Briscoe is indeed sad. Didn't he spend his post-show biz life in the care of his parents?

I think Chrishell Stause Hartley (Amanda Dillon Martin, AMC) told SOD that it wasn't her ex-fiance's fault that he thought monogamy was a tree. Great quote. Now she's married to Justin Hartley, another former daytimer gone on to major success in primetime, so she got the last laugh.

On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 11:10 AM, SoapDope said:

Robert Kelker Kelly/Lisa Rinna/Kristian Alfonso at Days. RKK always came across as sleazy, self centered, and vain. I picture him always checking himself out in the mirror. Did he ever wear a shirt or at least one that covered most of his body ? ....Heck Days backstage was always a mess along with Y&R, especially in the 90's.

 

Remember back in late 1996 (I believe he had just begun as Bobby Reno/Shane Roberts/Whoever on AW) when he and Miriam Parrish (who had recently left DAYS) did a joint interview for SOM? There was a centerfold of them cuddled side by side against an all-white background. She was completely topless and his arm was covering her, ahem, girls. 20+ years later, that image is still (unfortunately) burned into my brain. MY EYES!! 😨😨😨😨😨

I get squeamish every time I think about that relationship.  It's just too "To Catch a Predator" for my liking.

She was only 19 when they posed for that picture. Yeah, she was of age by then, but still. I'm surprised that relationship lasted as long as it did. I believe they share a child, but eventually (inevitably?) divorced, and she remarried not long after their split was final.

Days has had older actor/teenage actress meeting on the show and getting together in real life before. In the mid-1980s David Wallace and Lisa Trusel met on Days and they were married one week after Lisa turned 18. AFAIK they are still together some 30+ years later.

I once read  that when Tracey Bregman was on DOOL, Josh Taylor dated her for a bit....or almost did.

That Joshie was one horny s.o.b. back in the day.

It's kind of gross, because TEB was a teen at the time, and Taylor is like 20 years older then her, but in his words: "She was always so mature for her age".....