Members Faulkner Posted February 4, 2019 Members Share Posted February 4, 2019 (edited) Yeah, ABC News is reporting on it during their nightly newscast. The story really blew up on social media, and these outlets are in thrall to social these days. Was the last major untimely death of an active soap star Benjamin Hendrickson? I could be forgetting someone obvious. Nathaniel Marston had been long off OLTL when he passed. Edited February 5, 2019 by Faulkner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) I'm not sure about that. He might have felt comfortable in daytime. There is a trade off, if you are a contract player, in daytime you have a certain amount of guaranteed, steady work... although the work is harder for lower pay than prime time or movies. A lot of actors appreciate the security in a very unstable industry. Edited February 5, 2019 by alphanguy74 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Faulkner Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Vanessa Marcil reposted this from Michelle Stafford: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Shemar Moore responds: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Wow. He’s understandably devastated. Christel has posted: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Wow, that Shemar Moore video was...it really got to me. You can just tell that he's shed some tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) KSJ had a long, storied career in TV before Y&R. Things being as they are and were then and now I can't fault him for sticking with the guaranteed security at Y&R for decades after. But yes, he could've done so much long after. It's easy for us to say soaps never gave him enough credit or attention and IMO that's absolutely true, yet at the same time he came up on Y&R in a time when you had young black professionals breaking out across TV - in the same era as Boomerang, Living Single, etc. - and we see today just how much that image of Neil, or Neil and Dru, meant to a lot of people. Edited February 5, 2019 by Vee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Jeanne Cooper, but she had been ill and off Y&R for some time before she passed away. I tore up watching that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Thank you to everyone who has been posting the social media comments. I was at work, and it came up as a headline, but couldn't look about it until the day was done. Shemar's video was way too real and caused tears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ajsp35801 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Christel has broken my heart even further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 She was definitely a loss. I was trying to think of someone who was well below life expectancy-age and more of a huge shock. Like a Heath Ledger/Philip Seymour Hoffman/Robin Williams-type death. BH was the last one to come to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 Shemar Moore was right: we must give KSJ (and Victoria Rowell, and Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams) his rightful due as a trailblazer -- in soaps, in film and television, in the acting industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members ChitHappens Posted February 5, 2019 Members Share Posted February 5, 2019 In all honesty, I don't ever recall anyone from a soap being so universally loved and adored. I stopped reading the comments from other actors because I got so choked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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