News Round-up: Cosgrove, Lavoisier, Mathison, Douglas

NEW YORK TIMES: Soap Opera Star Forsakes New York
“It is a tricky situation,” Cameron Mathison said. “We envisioned being in this place forever, but in order to keep my job on ALL MY CHILDREN, we have to pack it up and move across the country.”

In 2004, the Mathisons paid $1.225 million for the house, then 80 percent finished, and hired Mr. Rohlfing to install the custom finishes to complete the job. Now it is being offered by Norman Horowitz, a broker at Halstead Property, who also has the listing for the vacant shell next door ($895,000).

Lavoisier Finds A Lasting Role, And Love, On ONE LIFE TO LIVE
" I have done about 800 episodes, and had relationships with six or seven women, including a mother and daughter.. There are probably more differences than similarities. But Rex is a private investigator and I would like to do that in real life. And I think Rex is a golfer. We had a scene anyway where he was swinging a club and I am a huge golfer. And Rex dates Gigi on the show and I really am in a relationship with Farah Fath, who plays Gigi. Rex is going to propose to Gigi soon on the show."

Daniel Cosgrove to miss stability of GUIDING LIGHT
Cosgrove maintains the creative essence of GUIDING LIGHT always has been "the writing. When we changed up (the production method), we were kind of finding our way, so it took a little while. It was a lot of, 'Let's see how much fun we can have with the camera,' but we still had a story we had to tell. I think there will be big changes in the daytime landscape overall."

Having done daytime and prime time, Cosgrove is open again to all acting venues, including possible soap-opera work elsewhere. "One thing that is great about this is that once you do it, if things go well, you have opportunities to get into other shows."

The LIGHT fades
In 1937, FDR was inaugurated for the second time. The Hindenberg zeppelin went up in flames over New Jersey. The Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson. Amelia Earhart vanished. And THE GUIDING LIHGT soap opera debuted on radio before it moved to television 15 years later. There it has remained … until next Friday, when the comings and goings of Springfield, U.S.A., will fade to black.

ABC’s Misguided “Sweeps” Tries to Feed Off of GUIDING LIGHT's Death
Marlena De Lacroix writes: "I usually don’t read a lot of previews or spoilers. But what I’ve seen this week and what I’ve read for the rest of the month of September alarms me. The ABC soaps seem to think its sweeps month, staging stunts and attention-getting storylines that are de rigueur in crucial ratings-measuring months. September isn’t one of them. Dance marathons (ALL MY CHILDREN), a carnival that concludes with a bloody accident (GENERAL HOSPITAL), a Russian drug dealer holding citizens hostage (ONE LIFE TO LIVE) — these scream, 'Look at me, pay attention to me, love me-me-me!' Kind of like the stunts my little puppy Nigel stages at least three times a day!"

Jerry Douglas' Encino home for sale again, for $2,695,000
The two-story traditional house has five bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in 5,335 square feet.

Soap opera gets Latinos in tune with health care
ENCRUCIJADA: SIN SALUD NO HAY NADA, or CROSSROADS: WITHOUT HEALTH, THERE IS NOTHING, follows the lives of four health information workers and focuses on issues that affect every demographic, such as alcohol abuse and depression, and others that affect Latinos at disproportionally high rates, like diabetes and lack of insurance.