He worked on Y&R since the late 70s/early 80s. He remained with Y&R after 1987 but played a pivotal role on B&B until he became co-headwriter of B&B for one year as part of his grooming for Y&R.

To answer your question: Jack Smith at least used to live in Hawaii - don't know if he still does. I think there are even pictures of him Hawaiian style/backdrop in one of the B&B or Y&R encyclopedias...

I sometimes (read: all the time) hate the 'secretiveness' of daytime. Why is it so hard to find out who are these people that write these fictional lives for us, how did they get involved in the business, why was John F. Smith chosen to be groomed for a possible HW duty... Questions that will remain unanswered. Forever, perhaps.

Tier 2 - ExcellentMichele Val Jean... Elizabeth Korte

REMEMBER THIS?

The search is over! Michele Val Jean has secured the top post as head writer of General Hospital. A longtime scribe with the show, Val Jean has held the position of associate head writer since 1996. Her promotion also recognizes Val Jean as daytime's first African-American head writer.

Val Jean, whose credits include Jake and the Fatman and Generations, joined the GH writing team in 1993 as an editor/script writer. Surviving several writing regimes, Val Jean made daytime history by penning Liz's rape and the revisitation of Luke's rape of Laura. She and the GH writing team received the 1998-99 Daytime Emmy for their efforts; Val Jean also received a Daytime Emmy for the 1994-95 season.

Elizabeth Korte has also been promoted to the headwriting team. "Michele and Elizabeth have a significant history with General Hospital," says executive producer Wendy Riche. "Their noteworthy story contributions, along with their innate understanding of the characters, make them a natural choice for this team." Val Jean and the new headwriting team's stories will begin to air in February 2001.

REMEMBER THIS?

The search is over! Michele Val Jean has secured the top post as head writer of General Hospital. A longtime scribe with the show, Val Jean has held the position of associate head writer since 1996. Her promotion also recognizes Val Jean as daytime's first African-American head writer.

Val Jean, whose credits include Jake and the Fatman and Generations, joined the GH writing team in 1993 as an editor/script writer. Surviving several writing regimes, Val Jean made daytime history by penning Liz's rape and the revisitation of Luke's rape of Laura. She and the GH writing team received the 1998-99 Daytime Emmy for their efforts; Val Jean also received a Daytime Emmy for the 1994-95 season.

Elizabeth Korte has also been promoted to the headwriting team. "Michele and Elizabeth have a significant history with General Hospital," says executive producer Wendy Riche. "Their noteworthy story contributions, along with their innate understanding of the characters, make them a natural choice for this team." Val Jean and the new headwriting team's stories will begin to air in February 2001.

Edit.

Yes, I remember it! (sigh).

Edit.

OK, didn't undertands this...

Yes, I remember it! (sigh).

Why was she romeved from that post? I don't remember...

OK, didn't undertands this...

Why was she romeved from that post? I don't remember...

JFP was hired, then JFP wanted Megan McTavish so Korte and MVJ were demoted. MVJ was so upset that she left the show. She then returned in 2002 when she knew Guza was coming back.

OK, didn't undertands this...

I edited my thought.

JFP was hired, then JFP wanted Megan McTavish so Korte and MVJ were demoted. MVJ was so upset that she left the show. She then returned in 2002 when she knew Guza was coming back.

That's when I knew the tide was turning, because it hadn't been announced that Guza was coming back yet. Megan was still writing. But when I heard the MVJ news, I knew something was up -- then shortly after that, it was announced that Guza and Pratt would be returning effective immediately in April 2002.

OLTL:

- Keith Greer first listed as director on September 19

DAYS:

- Anne M. Schoettle first listed as script writer on September 21

Not much happening in the last couple of weeks. Sad.

Does anyone know what did William J. Bell study and did he get a degree in sth.? I know he attended DePaul and Michigan.

Toups:

Sedwick back at GL...at least she directed on epi in Sept.

I think Fred Johnson is gone as scriptwriter at B&B; hasn't written in a while. Maybe fired when Jim Houghton hired.

Sara Bibel hasn't done a breakdown since Casiello arrived..Im wondering if she's gone.

Also, I know that Minardi-Slater is the script editor, which is why her name appears everyday, like on the ABC soaps (i.e. Beldner, Korte etc). The days it's just Slater and the scriptwriter, I believe the breakdown is written by either Alden or Smith. I think you should reflect that in the summaries. At least it's interesting to note which breakdowns are written by the HW. I doubt Latham is outlining the individual epis, so it has to be Alden or Smith.

Just my two cents

So has anyone posted any ideas as to make their show better?

I think Fred Johnson is gone as scriptwriter at B&B; hasn't written in a while. Maybe fired when Jim Houghton hired.

Sara Bibel hasn't done a breakdown since Casiello arrived..Im wondering if she's gone.

I'll wait another month just to make sure before I change their profiles.

Also, I know that Minardi-Slater is the script editor, which is why her name appears everyday, like on the ABC soaps (i.e. Beldner, Korte etc). The days it's just Slater and the scriptwriter, I believe the breakdown is written by either Alden or Smith. I think you should reflect that in the summaries. At least it's interesting to note which breakdowns are written by the HW. I doubt Latham is outlining the individual epis, so it has to be Alden or Smith.

NMS being script editor makes sense. I guess I'll go edit her name out of the episodes I credited her with BDW. Do you when when she became the script editor?

Also, I know that Minardi-Slater is the script editor, which is why her name appears everyday, like on the ABC soaps (i.e. Beldner, Korte etc). The days it's just Slater and the scriptwriter, I believe the breakdown is written by either Alden or Smith. I think you should reflect that in the summaries. At least it's interesting to note which breakdowns are written by the HW. I doubt Latham is outlining the individual epis, so it has to be Alden or Smith.

Are you the one who took a class on soap-writing that N. Minardi Slater run? I think there was a post here somewhere about that before all those threads and posts were deleted.

Yes, Toups. I think she's been the script editor since before Latham took over. I know her name briefly disappeared this summer, but that was just a fluke. She has been editing for a few years.

OLTL:

- Lisa Seidman first listed as script writer on September 27

LISA SEIDMAN

Lisa Seidman received her undergraduate degrees in English and French at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and flew to Los Angeles the day after defending her Masters thesis in English Literature at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After starving the requisite number of years, Lisa began work as a free-lance TV writer for shows as diverse as Whiz Kids, Cagney & Lacey and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Two years after writing Scarecrow, Lisa was hired as story editor on Falcon Crest. After a year on the show, she spent two years on Dallas as executive story consultant. Lisa has also written two, one-hour dramatic pilots and co-wrote the four-hour mini-series, Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In between staff positions, Lisa free-lanced for Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Charlie's Angels '88, Dangerous Curves, and Silk Stalkings. She also wrote two pilots and an episode for Murder, She Wrote.

Lisa Seidman is also a Writers' Guild Award-nominated television writer for Sunset Beach, Aaron Spelling's first daytime soap opera, for which she won a Shine award. She has also written for General Hospital, One Life to Live, Guiding Light and Days of Our Lives, and has spent the last two and a half years as headwriter of three successful primetime historical serials in Russia (one of them being Bednaya Nastya). A Killing in the Ratings, a mystery set behind the cameras, is her first novel, and she is in the process of completing a new novel, Sinners and Lovers, about Henry VIII and his wives as if they lived in the latter half of the twentieth century.