INTERVIEW: GUIDING LIGHT Executive Producer Ellen Wheeler"Technology has changed and we had to adapt to that, and not to adapt to that was ridiculous to me."
INTERVIEW: GUIDING LIGHT's Kim Zimmer (Reva)
"I think the state of soaps across the board is in jeopardy. Look at Deidre Hall (Marlena, DAYS), Drake Hogestyn (John, DAYS), and Susan Lucci’s (Erica, AMC) pay cut. It’s a trickle down effect. But it upsets me that they (P&G) has money, and it’s there. I think the longer people agree to pay cuts and downsizing their soaps, the more they get a way with it."
Soap holiday traditions
Soap stars share their holiday plans and memories.
Murray Bartlett (Cyrus, GL): It’s about being with family. I usually spend the holidays with family. Because it’s the middle of the summer in December in Australia, I’ll spend the holidays with family on a beach or something. It’s beautiful where we go – there’s the beach and the ocean, there’s tropical rainforests. Back in 2000, I rang in the millennium on a sand dune with my best friends. That is my perfect kind of holiday.
James Reynolds (Abe, DAYS): Every Christmas when my son was young was special. A child’s excitement on Christmas goes deeper than just getting things. There’s a sense of magic and fantasy in anticipation of this special day.
Child Actors and Soap Stars
Some actors have tried using their real-life children to play their onscreen children. The results have not always been good. An ALL MY CHILDREN actress thought it would be great to use her 10-month-old son to play her same-age daughter on the show. "One day," recalls Judith Barcroft (ex-Ann Tyler), "there was a scene which called for the baby to eat an orange. The scene took 10 takes. A baby cannot eat 10 oranges in an hour and not pay for it later in the day. Just say when we got home it was a long night for both of us." With that Barcroft retired her son, Ian, from show business.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS star buys in Agave development
Jesse Plemons, who plays Landry Clark, has bought a house in the modern Agave development east of Interstate 35, according to Travis Central Appraisal District records.
Plemons, a 20-year-old Dallas native, can be seen walking his dogs around the neighborhood on weekends, according to various people who live in the area. But he has been busy lately, so Austin is just his home base.
Ellen Wheeler admits to 'sucky' stories and makes excuses. Since they write only 30-50 stories a year, she says some of them are gonna suck. Some of them Ellen?!! How about ALL of them! Just keep doing what your doing and get the same results. It seems all she's been successful at is being a media hog and trying to schmooze over a few bloggers with kindness.
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