On 5/30/2022 at 9:43 AM, Broderick said:

Another "famous" case is Y&R's Donald Feinberg (a/k/a Don Diamont) who'd spent 20+ years using a non-Jewish stage name and living a non-Jewish identity.  Just as Diamont began embracing his heritage, the Y&R writer, Lynn Marie Latham, decided to retcon Brad Carlton into a Jewish guy named George Kaplan who'd been hiding out in plain sight marrying Gentile heiresses.  Now suddenly he was at odds with the Evil Art Thieves, and Victoria Newman was crafting faux reliquaries out of construction paper and glitter.  Nevermind, let's just forget that one, lol.    

I didn't know that DD was secretive about his Jewish heritage and embraced it later in his career -- although I'll admit back then, reading his interviews about the dreadful Reliquary storyline, it was the very first time I had seen him mention his Jewish background.

7 hours ago, Aback said:

the dreadful Reliquary storyline

I still don't know why they insisted using the word reliquary rather than ark, which is a much more common term in synagogues.  Maybe the writers were thinking of the torah crown, or maybe they thought ark would remind people of Indiana Jones, but it was obviously a choice made by a production staffed by people who had never been to Hebrew school.

DOOL's Alex Marshall writing a screenplay after the whole Stefano/slasher/concert chaos, in 1984. Quinn Redeker, the actor who played Alex, was actually an Oscar nominated screenwriter for co-writing The Deer Hunter.

On 5/31/2022 at 4:35 PM, Aback said:

I didn't know that DD was secretive about his Jewish heritage and embraced it later in his career -- although I'll admit back then, reading his interviews about the dreadful Reliquary storyline, it was the very first time I had seen him mention his Jewish background.

I don't think he was necessarily "secretive" about it; he just didn't readily discuss it until he was in his 40s and had a bunch of kids.   (Maybe it began to take on a greater significance for him at that point.)    

Hunter Tylo losing her Kid in real life and Taylor losing custoby of baby Jack and later Losing Phoebe always comes to mind