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Post by gemini730 on Mar 6, 2012 7:13:11 GMT -8
I`ve noticed Michael Levin`s wife Elizabeth named as a writer in the closing credits of the last few episodes of RH. How long did she write for the show? I know she was the headwriter for "The Doctors" for a period of time. Lorraine
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Post by safeandsound on Mar 6, 2012 11:11:03 GMT -8
I`ve noticed Michael Levin`s wife Elizabeth named as a writer in the closing credits of the last few episodes of RH. How long did she write for the show? IMDb has her only writing Ryan's Hope episodes for September and October of 1977. A long while back - - Rags had said she thought Michael and Elizabeth were now divorced - - had you heard if that was true?
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Post by safeandsound on Mar 6, 2012 11:18:11 GMT -8
A little about Elizabeth from the mid 1980's.
Writer turns her life into play May 1985
By her own description, soap opera writer come playwright Elizabeth Levin is outrageous. Her life sounds like a script from one of her soaps.
Married three times, she and her current husband (Michael Levin, star of Ryan's Hope) live in upscale Scarsdale, N.Y., with their three children. Trained as an actress, Levin had been writing soap operas for 6 years and was head writer for "The Doctors" until she walked out in a storm over her scripts.
Open to the point of being shocking to some people, Elizabeth talks about being an instrument of some mysterious force using her to put words on paper. She says she laughs and cries as she reads what she is writing.
It wouldn't take a lot of imagination to take the material from Levin's' life and turns it into a play. That's what Levin has done, writing "The Female Entertainer," which had it's world premiere in April at the Denver Center Theatre.
Levin says she had wanted, for some time, to write a play about a middle aged housewife who wanted to be a comedienne. That woman, Molly in her play, bears a striking similarity to Levin.
About two years ago a series of personal misfortunes struck Levin's life. She responded, in a sort of catharsis, by writing some of them into her play.
"The dog got run over by a Volkswagen. My tall blue-eyed son (a successful athlete) was discovered to have a bad heart. I developed cancer."
"Then my father, who was 78 years old and still driving his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, told me that if my mother got any worse, he would take her out in the woods and shoot her."
From that point, Levin said, she became obsessed with the play, weaving many of the events into the story. She finished the play in April 1984 and within a matter of days one of her parents died in manner similar to how the play describes a death.
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Post by gemini730 on Mar 6, 2012 12:07:58 GMT -8
Thank You for sharing the interview with Elizabeth Levin. Wow, a lot of traumatic events happening in Michael`s personal life with his family during the early 1980`s while he was playing Jack Fenelli on RH Lorraine
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Post by gemini730 on Mar 6, 2012 12:09:41 GMT -8
I don`t know if Michael and Elizabeth are still married. I hope they aren`t divorced. Lorraine
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Post by theghost on Jul 11, 2023 7:09:26 GMT -8
I don`t know if Michael and Elizabeth are still married. I hope they aren`t divorced. Lorraine
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Post by theghost on Jul 11, 2023 7:09:45 GMT -8
I don`t know if Michael and Elizabeth are still married. I hope they aren`t divorced. Lorraine
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Post by theghost on Jul 11, 2023 7:13:18 GMT -8
Michael and Elizabeth were married until dead them apart. Michael died in January 7th, 2023 and Elizabeth dies 6 months later on July 9, 2023. Both died of natural causes. They were both surrounded by their children and grand children.
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Post by safeandsound on Jul 11, 2023 12:15:00 GMT -8
Michael and Elizabeth were married until dead them apart. Michael died in January 7th, 2023 and Elizabeth dies 6 months later on July 9, 2023. Both died of natural causes. They were both surrounded by their children and grand children. I am so sorry to hear this. Thanks
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