Friday, September 18, 2009

News Round-up: Damon, Sloan, Hurst, Soapside, Malone

INTERVIEW: ATWT's Stuart Damon (Ralph)
"My best memory was having a chance to see the house I grew up in — which was literally 10 minutes from the studio. And it looks exactly the same. That was my best memory — taking a ride down there and seeing it. It was fabulous. It was very special. I had all these fabulous ghostlike memories coming back, just going down the street...how, as a kid, I used to play slap ball and punchball out on the streets. So it was really special. It took me so many years to get rid of my New York accent, but lo and behold, it came in handy [for this role]."

Soapside: Advocate's Guide to Daytime
The best and worst of Otalia -- GUIDING LIGHT ends and Chappell speaks. ATWT’s Herring on Lucy Coe and Nuke; replacing Y&R's Shemar Moore; and the BITCHES speak.

"It is here and we are all watching this last week of shows," Crystal Chappell said. "It’s hard and gut-wrenching. It’s really great, and really sad. I am proud of all the people that worked so hard on it. And as sad as it is, I am enjoying seeing those faces up there, and I know how it ends and it’s nice."

Will soaps go dark like GUIDING LIGHT?
Paley Center curator Ron Simon: "I don't think radio knew there was going to be an audience in the afternoon. It was Irna Phillips that envisioned a new format."

Jill Lorie Hurst on the ending of GUIDING LIGHT
Head writer Jill Lorie Hurst says the writing staff's major goal was to wrap up the show's immense history in a way that gave closure, but not too much. "We knew right away that we couldn't — and shouldn't — wrap everything up too tightly. We didn't want to tie it with a bow and not leave any room for the audience to wonder. But [the audience] was our top priority. We wanted them to be as satisfied as possible. We had some reunions, some new couples — we tried to have a little something for everyone."

Tina Sloan Says Goodbye to GUIDING LIGHT
"These marriages were just lovely," she continues. "We're all having these happily-ever-after, Cinderella endings, which is a real treat for everybody, including the actors. We're all going off happy to be happy, and I would hate to go off not happy."

Mystery of faith underlies Michael Malone's writings
"People are shocked when they hear I am a churchgoer and a person of faith," Malone, 65, said in a telephone interview. "They express disbelief the same way a classmate at Harvard did in graduate school when he realized I was smart and a liberal: ‘But you're from the South!'"

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