12 minutes ago, SoapDope said:

The funny thing about that Marie Osmond article is the fact she has admitted in recent years to being an avid Y&R viewer since the 70's and even had several of the cast members on her talk show. 

 

 

LOL! So she's a soap addict who eventually faced facts and came out of the closet, just like so many vehemently anti-gay preachers and politicians who later get outed in gay bars.

 

12 minutes ago, SoapDope said:

Those various soap publications made sure to get many gratuitous beefcake shots of the soap actors. 

 

Some magazines were racier than others. And RBD became more provocative as time went on.

 

12 minutes ago, SoapDope said:

I never knew Janice Lynde was fired from Y&R. I always assumed she wanted out to do prime time etc...and to go back to New York.

 

She did want extensive time off to do other things, and the year before she left Y&R she had been absent for an extended period with "back issues," claiming her doctor had forbidden her to work. As pointed out in the press at the time, however, while she was supposedly unable to work on Y&R, she was photographed socializing all over town. I think William J. Bell finally decided enough was enough and did not renegotiate her contract. Unfortunately, her replacement never captured the essence of Leslie Brooks, and the character lost all her depth and color after Lynde left.

On 8/11/2019 at 7:33 AM, vetsoapfan said:

From Rona Barrett's Daytimes, April 1977 (debut issue)

 

Don Stewart (TGL) defends the soaps.

 

 

Pre-internet, comments from the public were just as weird as they are today on social media.

 

 

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, May 1977

 

Douglass Watson from AW.

 

 

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, June 1977

 

Tina Andrews on DAYS' interracial romance.

 

 

Harding Lemay, AW's head writer.

 

 

More Warped Fans write to Eileen Fulton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These Fulton columns are hilarious!!! I can't believe someone called her a pig!!! I love Fulton promoting her line of clothes from "J.C.Penny" and her bitchy responses...she might be closer to Lisa then we thought!! More Kitsch please!!!

 

 

On 8/14/2019 at 11:39 AM, Mitch said:

These Fulton columns are hilarious!!! I can't believe someone called her a pig!!! I love Fulton promoting her line of clothes from "J.C.Penny" and her bitchy responses...she might be closer to Lisa then we thought!! More Kitsch please!!!

 

 

 

More of everything is coming. I am trying to find a decent second-hand or free scanner, which will allow me to share better-looking material, free of dark spots and smudges.

23 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

More of everything is coming. I am trying to find a decent second-hand or free scanner, which will allow me to share better-looking material, free of dark spots and smudges.

 

You can download the Scannable app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evernote-scannable/id883338188  It is very easy to use and works with iPhones and iPads.  You simply take a picture of the document you want to scan and Email it to yourself.

1 hour ago, watson71 said:

 

You can download the Scannable app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evernote-scannable/id883338188  It is very easy to use and works with iPhones and iPads.  You simply take a picture of the document you want to scan and Email it to yourself.

 

Alas, I am old and decrepit, LOL, and have neither an iphone nor an iPad. I only have my trusty ol' laptop and an inexpensive (read: cheap) scanner I bought eons ago. If I were not on a very tight and fixed income, I would upgrade, but as it is, I have to make do.

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, April 1978

 

Our beloved Rachel Ames of GENERAL HOSPITAL!

 

 

Critic David Johnson complains about ANOTHER WORLD...again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, May 1978

 

Woohoo, Josh Taylor was a mega hunk back in the DAYS. 

 

 

Eileen Fulton's No Soap

 

 

Critic David Johnson: LOVE OF LIFE

 

 

 

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, June 1978

 

New syndicated soap: HIGH HOPES (it bombed)

 

 

Emily McLaughlin's health woes (what a gratuitously insensitive headline!)

 

 

 

Judith Light of ONE LIFE TO LIVE

 

 

I always wanted to see Judith Light share scenes with Joan Van Ark in a project. 

On 8/11/2019 at 7:33 AM, vetsoapfan said:

From Rona Barrett's Daytimes, April 1977 (debut issue)

 

Don Stewart (TGL) defends the soaps.

 

 

Pre-internet, comments from the public were just as weird as they are today on social media.

 

 

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, May 1977

 

Douglass Watson from AW.

 

 

From Rona Barrett's Daytimers, June 1977

 

Tina Andrews on DAYS' interracial romance.

 

 

Harding Lemay, AW's head writer.

 

 

More Warped Fans write to Eileen Fulton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go, Don, GO!😁  I miss Don Stewart...

 

And yes, those Fulton columns are absolutely hilarious.

 

THANK YOU for the Harding Lemay article. I really don't know how he was able to write two soaps simultaneously. It seemed from what he described in his book (and hinted in the article), he was likely suffering from major burnout.

6 hours ago, zanereed said:

 

Go, Don, GO!😁  I miss Don Stewart...

 

And yes, those Fulton columns are absolutely hilarious.

 

THANK YOU for the Harding Lemay article. I really don't know how he was able to write two soaps simultaneously. It seemed from what he described in his book (and hinted in the article), he was likely suffering from major burnout.

 

Lemay claimed that he enjoyed working on different projects at the same time, because it kept him "creatively fresh," but to be realistic, no one can write TWO soaps at the same time and still be expected to turn out quality material. It's hard enough writing a single soap and producing 250+ scripts a year.

38 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

Lemay claimed that he enjoyed working on different projects at the same time, because it kept him "creatively fresh," but to be realistic, no one can write TWO soaps at the same time and still be expected to turn out quality material. It's hard enough writing a single soap and producing 250+ scripts a year.

 

Bill Bell did it. Masterfully. Of course, he was the exception and not the rule. Did Agnes?

Edited September 4, 20196 yr by Bright Eyes

27 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

 

Bill Bell did it. Masterfully. Of course, he was the exception and not the rule. Did Agnes?

 

When Y&R premiered, Bell was still under contract to write DAYS, but fortunately for all concerned, he was shifted to Story Consultant status on that series, with Pat Falken Smith Smith taking over the reigns as head writer. Y&R and DAYS viewers were treated to excellent writing on both shows.

 

Many years later, when B&B debuted, Bell really had to handle two shows at once, but to be brutally frank, I never thought B&B was well written. It came across (to me) as a forced, pale imitation of its sister show, filled with mediocre writing and tepid characters. Without question, William J. Bell was a genius, but there's only so much any one individual can be expected to do.

 

Come to think of it, another master writer who juggled two shows at once was Henry Slesar, who penned The Edge of Night and Somerset at the same time in the early 1970s. I think of all the scribes who did double duty, Slesar actually handled it best.

Slesar also wrote EON and SFT for 6 months or so.

 

Irna Phillips wrote ATWT and AW amongst others.

 

Agnes wrote TGL and AW in 66/67.

 

But no one took on the challenge of writing 2 1 hr shows.

 

Did Lemay write all of L&F and then Tom King wrote FRFP? Or did Lemay bail on L&F durings its run?

Edited September 4, 20196 yr by Paul Raven

5 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Did Lemay write all of L&F and then Tom King wrote FRFP? Or did Lemay bail on L&F durings its run?

I'm pretty sure Lemay wrote L&F for the few months it was on the air. Then, he claimed that while it was on hiatus,  the execs. removed him as headwriter of the show "in a justifiable move to protect Another World." He stayed on as consultant though.