News Round-up: Best, Otalia, Watts, McCarthy, Gee

B&B writer sweats about job he loves
While others toil at mundane jobs, Rex M. Best titillates as he works. He cozies up to the three Emmys in his Greensboro home and dreams up ways for the Newmans, Abbotts, and Forresters to fall or jump into or out of love or mayhem. The Stantonsburg native has been a scriptwriter for 2009 Emmy-winning daytime drama, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL for the past seven years, after 15 years with THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS.

"We don't get paid as much as they do in nighttime," Best says. "But I've had a great job I love for over 20 years. If I had the solution to bringing in new viewers, I'd tell you. I don't think anyone really knows at this point. In a way, I think [the crisis] has taken people by surprise. Networks have been in a never-ending quest to bring in new viewers, and they tried a lot of different things that I don't necessarily think were well thought out."

Axed Curly Watts campaigns for return to CORONATION STREET
"The best soap storylines are where the audience is in on it but the other characters aren't. Say Curly comes back to the Street after getting out of jail. The viewers will know this but the Corrie residents won't. There would be loads of stuff to find out as the story unravels."

HOLLYOAKS' Gerard McCarthy: the day I met Patrick Swayze
“My friend Kelly Price was playing one of the female leads in 'Guy And Dolls' in the West End when she found out that Patrick Swayze was playing opposite her.

“After one of the shows she brought me backstage to meet him and told him I was a massive fan. He said he was very flattered and we talked about his career and mine. I thought he was a lovely, humble man.”

Robbie Gee to guest in EASTENDERS
The 45-year-old takes on the role of Dexter, the boyfriend of Denise Fox's (Diane Parish) sister Kim.

Bay Area Reporter on Otalia
"TV almost never gets queers right, and gets lesbians right least of all. But the story of Olivia and Natalia has been pitch-perfect from the start. It will be hard to see this couple leave. But they leave the TV landscape very much in love, declaring their hearts to each other and their children."

10 notable 'GL' grads
10 notable GUIDING LIGHT alumni from the Lincoln Journal Star.

Altoona fans remember iconic CBS soap
The Altoona Mirror caught up with a few local fans of the show to gauge their feelings about the pending cancellation of GUIDING LIGHT.

GUIDING LIGHT hits off switch
"I'll probably sit here and cry. It will be a sad day," says Lorraine Dingledine, 90, of Mount Washington, who has been a fan since 1937, when she was a newlywed.

McMahon resigns from WWE; makes Senate plans official
Linda McMahon, a founder of Stamford-based World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., on Wednesday officially announced her plans to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.