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Post by safeandsound on Sept 22, 2013 19:15:08 GMT -8
Justin Deas (Bucky)
January 1981
Speak Your Mind
“Well, I've had it with As the World Turns. None of the characters I used to like are on the show anymore, and when they bring back old characters, they completely miscast the role. For example, who is this new guy playing Tom? Tom was a nice, clean shaven man, but when he came back from a conservative country, he returned with long hair, a beard, and he laughs at inappropriate times. I was happy the character was coming back, but now I'm not.” K.T.
Another voice
“I just love As the World Turns with all it cast changes and am pleased that some of my favorites have returned like the character of Tom. I always thought he was a pretty stiff guy, but now he has a sense of humor and is adorable. Tom has a whole new personality!” R.D.
Reply: Well, we've always been fans of Justin Deas, who is playing Tom. We loved him as Bucky on Ryan's Hope. It's true, the character has changed from a rather uptight young man to a looser kind of guy.
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Post by safeandsound on Sept 24, 2013 19:28:36 GMT -8
Faith Catlin (Faith #1)
February 1981
For a year Faith Catlin created and developed the of role of Faith on Ryan’s Hope. “I was very grateful for the money,” she says, “but it was more like a modeling job than an acting job for me.”
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Post by safeandsound on Sept 24, 2013 19:29:50 GMT -8
Nancy Barrett ( Faith #2)
Two quotes from Nancy. March 1971
“Never be an actress if you can possibly be happy doing something else”
“My lack of height (5-2) is an enormous draw back because heroines always seem to be tall.”
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Post by safeandsound on Sept 24, 2013 19:32:16 GMT -8
Nancy Barrett ( Faith #2)
“My lack of height (5-2) is an enormous draw back because heroines always seem to be tall.”
Hmmm... were TV and film heroines usually tall women in the early 70's?
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Post by safeandsound on Oct 15, 2013 18:47:50 GMT -8
Nancy Barrett (Faith #2)
August 1972
Dark Shadows was Nancy Barrett's first soap opera, but after it she went on to appear briefly on Somerset, and then on The Doctors as a nurse named Kathleen Ryker. Kathleen had previously been played by an actress with very short hair, so to provided continuity, Nancy was asked to stuff her voluminous mane under a short curly wig. Before long, however, she was allowed to forgo the wig and allow her natural hair to spill down her back.
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Post by safeandsound on Oct 15, 2013 19:00:56 GMT -8
Karen Morris (Gowdy)
June 1978
Curls
Karen Morris, now Faith on Ryan's Hope, uses styles where shorter hair s blend into longer ones, For very curly hair, fresh and breezy look for the country club or out for dinner, Karen sets her hair wet on many curlers and combs it out gently. After a busy day before the camera, when Karen doesn’t have time to shampoo her hair, she pins her hair to one side, then rolls the top of her hair on a few hot curlers so the hair is soft and full. Several big flowers cover any short ends.
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Post by safeandsound on Nov 10, 2013 20:12:17 GMT -8
Michael Levin (Jack)
Excerpts from Playwrights for Tomorrow
Playwright's Preface - by Elizabeth Johnson
A play which says the temples have become bigger and more important than the people should be done in a beautiful temple - which the Guthrie Theatre is.
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In his introduction to the volume Mr. Ballet says the playwright in modern America works in vacuum. I have found it necessary to people my vacuum with actors even if they don’t want to come to “my party” in person, their talent attends my typewriter so my characters leave the attic of my brain and get on the stage. Thus I am able to work with the finest talent available in American theatre - among whom I include Evie McElroy and Michael Levin, the two actors I must borrow most often to inhibit my “fictions”.
When Miss McElroy is on stage you are sure that she has body odor, that she “meant to fix her hair before she came”, that she is right off the stool from Johnny's bar and you wonder “how the hell she got into the theatre”, but she could sit there on stage and do nothing but rummage thorough her purse and keep the audience hypnotized – they would somehow become thoroughly involved in the search through her purse. The quality I pumped into the creation of Mary, and knowing that such an actress like Miss McElroy exists made creating the character exciting and more real experience.
Mr. Levin is an alley cat on stage, violently male, who always seems a little angry that he has to be on stage at all but the sidewalk at present is too dull. He has a stage presence I have seen in few actors – you are unable to define him, or see his face, and there is always the anticipation of the unexpected. Most powerfully he is able to give a sense of love, of caring toward the other characters in the play – which in turn makes the audience care. There is sense of humanity about him and for this reason the Flowerman takes Mary's crying homely face in his hands and tells her that “she is beautiful.” The actor taught me this by his acting.
St. Paul, Minnesota July 1965
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Post by safeandsound on Nov 10, 2013 20:12:56 GMT -8
Two things--
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I got a kick out of reading that Michael -- who sometimes came across as having a hate/love/hate attitude about acting during his RH interviews - - was already exhibiting that attitude back in 1965. LOL!
2) I think this playwright Elizabeth Johnson -- who was talking about Michael in her play – was the Elizabeth that Michael eventually married (pretty soon after this I think). Elizabeth Levin's son from a previous marriage's last name was Johnson - - so at one time she too was an Elizabeth Johnson – and they (Michael and Elizabeth) met at the Guthrie Theater.
Michael Levin article from 1976
It was while Michael was at the Guthrie Theater he met his wife, Elizabeth. She was teaching at the University, and was also writing plays, one of which the Guthrie Theater produced
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Post by safeandsound on Nov 12, 2013 20:27:30 GMT -8
Daniel Hugh-Kelly (Frank #3) quote from a press junket the cast of Ponderosa did in 2001
Daniel Hugh Kelly [Ben]: As far as I'm concerned, it scared the hell out of me. I mean, I grew up - - I'm of the age - - I mean, this show was very important to me and my family. And we would sit down and watch it. I remember sitting there and seeing the color, the first time it was in color. I remember, there were kids in my class that had color TV sets, and I was very very jealous because they were always talking about these three guys riding up in Bonanza four guys and how beautiful it was in color. We are playing icons in many ways. And it's a challenge for all of us. At the same time, I would say this: I mean, I haven't felt this way since I did [HBO's] From the Earth to the Moon. The authenticity that they're bringing to the show is just overwhelming. We did the wardrobe fittings in L.A. And I can't tell you how excited I got when I saw the direction they were going. When you walk up on the set, we don't have a studio. We're on location every day. The set that's there that they built for this is just extraordinary. I mean, you walk through ankle-deep mud up the street. It's really quite extraordinary.
And the third thing that's very exciting for me, as Bonanza was one of the first shows to be shown in color in the United States, they're shooting this picture, the pilot of the show, with these high definition cameras. It's just producing an extraordinary picture. I have never seen anything like it. It's somewhat odd to see cables strewn across the set, you know, going to these cameras. And I understand that they're the same cameras that Lucas used in Star Wars. But the picture on them - - look, you know, it's high-definition television. It's very expensive, but I'm buying one just to watch this.
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Post by may2 on Dec 22, 2013 19:22:11 GMT -8
Fans of Kate Mulgrew will be happy to learn that their favorite actress is planning on writing a memoir. The as-yet-untitled book will feature Mulgrew recounting her struggle as an unmarried mother who gave her daughter up for adoption, and “the costs and rewards of a passionate life.” The memoir will be published by Little, Brown and company and is due out in May 2015. Mulgrew currently stars in the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. trek.fm/hyperchannel/2013/11/12/kate-mulgrew-to-pen-memoir.html
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 10:21:54 GMT -8
Nancy Addison (Jill)
May 1977
The also-ran nominees for the Daytime Emmy's concurred that losing is lousy. At the champagne celebration for “RH”, Nancy Addison (Jill Coleridge) confessed she spent the previous night with her shrink in order to “psyche myself for the big high or the big letdown.” Nancy conceded, however that she was grateful she lost to a “ real professional and immensely talented actress*.”
*Helen Gallagher won.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 10:22:52 GMT -8
Nancy Addison (Jill)
April 1981
Nancy Addison (Jill Beaulac on Ryan's Hope) was delighted when she recently filmed a brief bit for the upcoming film, “ Roll Over.” In her scene, Nancy plays opposite Kris Kristofferson, who stars with Jane Fonda in the flick.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 10:23:48 GMT -8
Helen Gallagher(Maeve)
October 1989
Q: My mother has a Broadway anthology book, it mentions an actress named Helen Gallagher. Is that the same Helen who played Maeve on “Ryan's Hope”?
A: Yes, as a lass, Helen Gallagher took Broadway by storm for her award-winning work in “High Button Shoes” which opened in 1947. Gallagher, who teaches in Manhattan, has won a Tony, Drama Desk, and Theater World awards. When friends wondered why she decided to take a long-term soap role, Gallagher explained, “It was simple. I was past the stage in my life I wanted to high-kick, but I always wanted to act. 'Ryan’s Hope' gave me that chance.” By the way, castmates of Helen Gallagher say she is wonderful, but nothing like salt-of-the-earth Maeve. “When need be, I use language Maeve has never heard, let alone said.”
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:38:07 GMT -8
Ron Hale (Roger)
March 1982
Ron Hale, better known as Dr. Roger Coleridge on the daytime serial “Ryan's Hope”, will serve as master of ceremonies for the Dutchess County Girl Scout Council's 70th anniversary celebration. Hale has lived in Dutchess County for the past 5 years. The television star is also part owner of the Jasmine restaurant in Wappingers Falls.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:38:19 GMT -8
Ilene Kristen (Delia #1)
November 1976
Ilene Kristen (Delia Ryan on Ryan's Hope) and her boyfriend Joey Ward continue to make beautiful music together, both romantically and literally. Joey, a member of the old television show “Juvenile Jury” as a youngster, produces and writes television jingles. Ilene voice is often heard singing his “praises” to candy, nylons, and cosmetics.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:38:32 GMT -8
September 1979
Lela Swift, former Dark Shadows director and now Ryan's Hope director, explains the difference between Dark Shadows and her current soap, “One was about what happens, while Ryan's Hope is about why things happen. 'RH' is based on reality, not melodrama. And the writing is astonishingly good.”
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:38:45 GMT -8
December 1976
Over at the Ryan's Hope studio, the cast threw a dancing and boozing jig after the filmimg of the New Year's Eve party sequence. Helen Gallagher (Maeve) performed a segment from her sensational nightclub act. Everyone wore Irish tweed hats, a gift from the show's creators-writers Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer. There were almost as many extras mingling as there were cast members.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:38:58 GMT -8
Nana Tucker/Visitor (Nancy #3)
October 1993
Q: I'd like to know if the actress who stars on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” really is named Nana Visitor or did she make it up?
A: A little of both. Nana came into the world as Nana Tucker. She wanted something a little more dramatic, so she dipped into her family's history and came up with Visitor, which is based on a great-great-great grandfather's name.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:39:20 GMT -8
Christine Ebersole (Lily #1)
November 1983
Pretty Christine Ebersole is preparing herself for a major new role on ABC's “ One Life to Live.” Christine, who gained attention for her time as a repertory player on “Saturday Night live”, will assume the part of Mattie* McDermott, first appearing in Llanview on December 9. Ebersole describes her character as a “funny, hard-luck lady” who will find herself in various romantic and precarious predicaments with Bo Buchanan (Robert Woods). The storyline is the beginning of new head writer Henry Sleasar's influence on the show since coming to the show after writing The Edge of Night.
*The character's name was Maxie.
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Post by safeandsound on Dec 29, 2013 13:39:36 GMT -8
Catherine Hicks (Faith #3)
May 1980
Hicks to Star in Monroe Biopic
If you're in New York and happen to notice a giant billboard featuring Marilyn Monroe, look again. That is not Marilyn, but Catherine Hicks, formerly Faith Coleridge on Ryan's Hope, who has been hired to portray the late sex goddess in an upcoming ABC telefilm.
The film, ”Marilyn”, is a three hour adapted from Norman Mailer's book of the same name. It is set to air next season.
Catherine, who left Ryan's Hope to co-star on Broadway with Jack Lemmon in the play, Tribute, is not only a stunning Marilyn but has reportedly done a great job recreating Marilyn's personality.
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