News Round-up: GL Reflection, GREY'S, Cavenaugh

GUIDING LIGHT: My Favorite Years, and What You Can Learn From Yours
Marlena De Lacroix relects on the cancellation of GL and looks back on a wonderful time during the show's run: "I decided to pick one era –1980-82, the first years I watched — and examine it through the eyes of someone who’s watched thirty years of subsequent soap opera history."

Deep Soap: Lab Rats
Sara Bibel writes: "My current favorite and least favorite daytime plots both hinge on the results of medical tests. THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS' revelation that Jill is not Katherine’s daughter is old school, get out the popcorn and tell all your friends, soap opera. In contrast, ONE LIFE TO LIVE's 'Stacy uses her nephew’s cancer to improve her sex life' storyline has the potential to take down the whole show. It isn’t just sleazy. It commits one of the unforgivable soap sins: it’s illogical within its own fictional universe."

Two actresses to visit GREY's ANATOMY
EVERWOOD's Debra Mooney and GILMORE GIRLS' Liza Weil will guest star in the show's two-hour season finale on May 14.

J.J. Abrams recruits Leonard Nimoy to FRINGE
The STAR TREK star will play William Bell, Walter Bishop's former lab partner. Every time I hear this character mentioned I think of legendary soap writer William J. (Bill) Bell.

INTERVIEW: Former ATWT and OLTL actor Matt Cavenaugh
Broadway favorite and former soap actor Matt Cavenaugh, currently starring as the lovestruck Tony in the current acclaimed revival of "West Side Story" at the Palace Theater spoke with NEXT magazine for its current issue.

Cavenaugh addressed the issue of being "blessed with a great set of abs" to the weekly publication, even joking about his propensity for shirtless scenes in his recent stage turns, "Before I go in and audition, I say, ‘You know my track record,' and they say, ‘Don't worry, we'll work a way in to take off your shirt,'" he teases.