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Jordi Vilasuso (ex-Griffin, AMC; ex-Tony, GL) is engaged to be married to
Kaitlyn Riley, 25, who is expecting their first child.
Ron Raines (ex-Alan, GL) has been nominated for a Tony Award for his
performance in the Broadway revival of "Follies." The 66th Annual Tony
Awards will honor theater professions for distinguished achievement on
Broadway with a 3-hour ceremony to be broadcast live on Sunday, June 10, at
8 p.m. ET on CBS.
Soapclassics.com has released The Bauer Family collection, honoring GL's
favorite family with 10 classic episodes from 1977-2009. It features
memorable moments such as Bauer family barbecues and Papa Bauer's death,
among others. The collection costs $19.95, and a free online episode can be
viewed on
www.soapclassics.com.
Linda Cook Mann (ex-Egypt, Loving, ex-Ann/Lucy, ATWT; ex-Ellen, OLTL;
ex-Brenda, GL) passed away from breast cancer complications on April 12 in
New York City, surrounded by her loved ones.
The Phillip Spaulding Collection of 5 memorable episodes, including a rare
1977 one featuring 7-year-old Phillip, is available now on
www.soapclassics.com for $12.95.
In the 3/27/12 issue of Soap Opera Weekly, E.J.
Bonilla (ex-Rafe) is interviewed.
From Soap Opera Weekly 3/13/12 There is an interview with Tammy Blanchard
(ex-Drew), who is great in a new Lifetime movie "Of Two Minds."
Nick Santino (ex-Officer Anton, AMC; ex-Father Soto, GL) killed
himself with pills on his 47th birthday, hours after he was forced to
put his beloved pit-bull to sleep under pressure from his Manhattan
condo. His suicide note read, "Today I betrayed my best friend and put
down my best friend ... Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn’t
deserve this."
Rob Bogue (Mallet) and Mandy Bruno (Marina) had a son on Friday,
January 13, named Flynn Zachariah Bogue. They were married on March 26, 2011, in Mexico, making
her stepmother to her husband's two children, Zeb and Zoe, from his
previous marriage.
Soap Classics President Mark Yates is moving forward with DVD package for
"Guiding Light," which will include 20 classic episodes including Quint and
Nola's wedding, Roger Thorpe's death and other memorable moments spanning 30
years on the show. The DVD release is currently slated for mid-January. For
more information, visit
www.soapclassics.com,
where you can still purchase the ATWT box set, including a special
"Christmas In Oakdale" package.
SoapClassics has bought many P&G soaps and will be selling them online.
They are already selling some episodes of ATWT at soapclassics.com and
Amazon. They hope to sell some episodes in the future of Guiding Light,
Another World, Search for Tomorrow, Edge of Night, and Texas.
"Playing Reva Shayne was so much more than just a job and a paycheck. It
was the role of a lifetime." -Kim Zimmer, from
I'm Just Sayin'
The landscape of daytime television will dramatically change next year
when soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live go off the air,
cancelled after more than forty years on television. No one knows what the
demise of these shows will mean for television and for the affected actors
better than Guiding Light veteran and one of daytime's favorites, Kim
Zimmer. Her show was cancelled in 2009, ending one of television's
longest-running success stories and leaving Zimmer without a job.
This August, New American Library is excited to publish Zimmer's new book,
I'M JUST SAYIN'!: Three Deaths, Seven Husbands, and a Clone! My Life as a
Daytime Diva (New American Library Hardcover; August 2, 2011; $26.95;
ISBN: 978-0-451-23343-1).
Zimmer, a four-time Emmy Award-winning actress, is known around the world
for her twenty-seven year portrayal of Reva Shayne on the popular daytime
drama Guiding Light. While on the show, Zimmer played a vixen, a
manic-depressive, an Amish woman, a time traveler, a Civil War belle, a
talk show host, a cancer survivor, a loving mother, and a devoted wife.
But now in her new memoir, Zimmer shares the story of the woman behind
Reva-from her beginnings as a small-town Midwestern girl to landing one of
the greatest roles in the history of daytime television and becoming a
soap opera icon.
In I'M JUST SAYIN'!, Zimmer also talks about:
* Why soap operas are going off the air after decades of popularity
* Her struggles with alcohol and how it impacted her family and her career
* How she balanced being a busy working mother (her "greatest role") and a
full-time career woman * Her encounters with such celebrities as Kathleen
Turner, Alec Baldwin, and Oprah Winfrey * How she has managed to maintain
a successful marriage for thirty years * The difficulties of losing a job
later in life, especially in a field that is youth and beauty focused, and
how she continues to pursue her acting dreams
Blatantly honest and wildly entertaining, I'M JUST SAYIN'! takes readers
on an insightful journey through the parallel lives of Reva Shayne and Kim
Zimmer and chronicles the stories behind Guiding Light, the
longest-running drama in television and radio history (72 years!).
Matt Bomer (ex-Ben) on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (5/23/11)
Matt talks about what happens when you mess with New Yorkers and his hit
show 'White Collar.'
Link:
VIDEO
From Guiding_Light on Twitter:
R.I.P. Mary Ellen Peterson, 45, who died Feb. 25, in NY. She appeared on
Guiding Light as Police Det. Nell Cleary.
See obit here!
Benefiting the Desi Geestman Foundation, which provides financial and
emotional support to young cancer victims and their families, Steve Burton (GH's
Jason) & Derk Cheetwood (GH's Max) have co-created "Soap Dishes: The
Cookbook," featuring
35 of your
favorite daytime soap opera stars who have come together with their most
delicious recipes on over 200 pages with exclusive intimate interviews that
will take you through a behind the scenes look at the private lives of your
favorite actors with gorgeous color photos.
Larry Gates (H.B. Lewis), who died in 1996 from leukemia, and his wife,
Judy, who died in March 2009, have left the town of Cornwall, Connecticut,
where they took up residence in the 1950s, a bequested donation of $200,000.
A few months after Judy's death, the town learned of the gift, the largest
bequest in Cornwall’s history, but haven't yet decided how to use it.
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