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Guiding Light Cast Roundup 81

May 24, 2018

This is the eighty-first in an irregular feature where we will report updates on what cast members of Guiding Light are doing now. I’m playing catch up on some soap magazine news. So as a reminder you can buy back issues:
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/faq-back-issues-2014/

Bethany Joy Lenz (our dearly beloved Michelle Bauer Santos #4) guest starred on Grey’s Anatomy. The episode is called “1-800-799-7233.” It’s the winter premiere of the second half of the season (Season 14, Episode 9) and originally aired January 18, 2018. Her character’s name is Jenny. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7043736/

Morgan Englund (Dylan Lewis, Billy and Reva’s son who ended up with Bridget) is the subject of a where are they now feature in the July 3, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest. After GL, Englund wanted to go into music, but he was a single father so he decided he needed something more regular. Following in Dylan’s shoes he became a first responder and then part of the fire department. Then in 2017 he decided to try to get into music again. About his connections to the Guiding Light cast he says “I just talked to Melissa Hayden [Bridget Reardon Lewis] yesterday because she’s hopefully going to be involved in some way with the video. We connect every couple of years and want to do something together. And every time I see Kim [Zimmer, Reva Shayne Lewis], we’re right back to where we were before, so there’s a lot of love there. I loved working with her and Jordan [Clarke, Billy Lewis]. Maureen Garrett [Holly Reade] and I also exchanged messages recently….GL didn’t hire just any people; [they cast] mostly theater actors, like [the late] Michael Zaslow [Roger Thorpe]. They were amazing actors to work with. I feel very fortunate.”

In the May 14, 2018 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth Sharon Newman’s Crimson Lights gets a shout out because – unlike Company in the last couple of years – people actually pay for what they eat. Go Sharon!

Joseph Campanella (a criminal named Joe Turino) died May 16, 2018. Campanella was an incredibly busy actor appearing on many shows on daytime, primetime, film, and the stage over the decades until his retirement in 2009. Guiding Light was his second regular series role and we was on between 1959-1960. I have to idea who this character was. I’m glad we got the name, but if anyone has more details, please share.
https://www.cbs.soapsindepth.com/posts/days-of-our-lives-bold-and-the-beautiful-guiding-light-joseph-campanella-dead-160189

Joseph Campanella Dies: TV & Film Actor With 200 Credits Over Six Decades Was 92

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joseph-campanella-dead-character-actor-909457

Check out photo spreads of soap star houses in the May 27, 1997 issue of Soap Opera Weekly. Check out the homes of: Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless she also had a cameo as a friend of Vanessa’s at the last Vanilly wedding in the final days of the show), Grant Aleksander (Phillip Spaulding, Guiding Light), Judi Evans Luciano (Beth Raines, Guiding Light), and Robin Mattson (teenage Hope Bauer, Guiding Light). As a bonus there are two childhood photos of Ethan Erickson who played J Chamberlain on Guiding Light. His childhood nickname was Skip.

Recently John Wesley Shipp (Dr. Kelly Nelson, of Kelly and Morgan fame) was recently left out of a reunion photo for Dawson’s Creek where he played Dawson’s dad. He was interviewed for the Entertainment Weekly article for the 20th anniversary of the show’s debut, but neither of the parents were included in ET‘s reunion photo. Thanks for the tip VIP Auctions newsletter.

After Fiona Hutchison (Jenna Bradshaw Cooper) left the Guiding Light, one of her projects became teaching Understanding Daytime at New York’s School of Film and Television (SFT). Read all about it in the February 8, 2000 issue of Soap Opera Weekly. She talks about her return in December 1996 after 2 years and a baby. She feels she is better at her job and more appreciative. She neogiated a 3 year contract with a 52 week cycle instead of the normal 13. Read all about it in the May 27, 1997 issue of Soap Opera Weekly.

Emme Rylan (Lizzie Spaulding Lewis #6, part of the wonderful Bizzie pairing) has a quick interview about her General Hospital role in the January 22, 2018 issue of Soap Opera Digest. In a seperate roundup in the same issue about irrational fears Rylan confesses to an irrational fear that there are sharks in her swimming pool. Rylan had announced the birth of her daughter Dakota Rose Money on June 26, 2017. See a photo and read more in the July 24, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Kurt Knudson recurred as Len the ice cream store owner who gave Michelle an alibi. He first aired January 4, 2000. He previous had a recurring role as Judge Ari Waxman on Law and Order and as Judge Louis Brandels on ABC’s Annie. Read more about it in the January 11, 2000 issue of Soap Opera Weekly.

There is a profile about Scott Bryce (Craig Montgomery #1, both chronologically & in greatness, during falling in love with Sierra, etc.) in the July 25, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest. It includes a shout out to his father Ed Bryce who starred as Bill Bauer on Guiding Light. He passes on this advice from his dad. “Remember, even when you’re the star, you are just a brush stroke in someone else’s painting, so check your ego at the door.”

Melina Kanakaredes (Eleni Cooper #1) talks about her time on Guiding Light and on her new show The Resident in the February 26, 2018 issue of Soap Opera Digest. She says she is still close to Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding #3).

There is an indepth feature story on John Driscoll (Coop Cooper #4) in the November 13, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest. It talks about his transition from acting (last appearing as Chance Chancellor on The Young and the Restless) to a life in the Army. He currently is serving in the Virginia Army National Guard 29th Infantry Division in Kuwait. Driscoll said he is currently in touch with Robert Bogue (A.C. Mallet #2), Mandy Bruno (Marina Cooper #6), Lawrence Saint-Victor (Remy Boudreau), Jeff Branson (Shayne Lewis #7, the last one), Michelle Ray Smith (Ava Peralta), and Frank Dicopoulos (Frank Cooper).

Saint-Victor was featured as a Take Five in the July 24, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Among the stars on hand for the 2017 Jane Elissa Extravagenza benefitting Broadway Cares and The Jane Elissa Charitable Fund for Leukemia and Lymphona were Sonia Satra (Lucy Cooper Spaulding, part of terrific LAM pairing, victim of Marian Crane) and Sean McDermott (Hart Jessup #3 who came back to find Roger married to Dinah). Read more in the January 8, 2018 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Laura Bell Bundy (Marah Lewis #5, the one who started Marony) produced and directed a concert benefitting women’s rights, the ACLU, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and Planned Parenthood NY. Read more about it in the January 8, 2018 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

The October 30, 2017 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth features a tribute to New York City photographer Arthur L. Cohen who specialized in shooting soaps. He had to retire in 2014 when he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and passed away during summer 2017. Check out a roundup of photos from New York based soaps over the years. Find a bunch of Guiding Light and As the World Turns stars with their memories of the photographer.

Karla Mosley(Christina Boudreau) reports back on a recent publicity trip for The Bold and the Beautiful. The trip was to South Africa during October 2017. She got the chance to show off South African high fashion. B&B cast mates Jacob Young (Rick Forrester) and Heather Tom (Katie Logan) joined her on the trip. Read more and see photos in the January 8, 2018 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Mosley announced she is expecting her first child with boyfriend John Roger it’s due in August see the announcement in the May 7, 2018 issue in Soap Opera Digest. In the same issue in answer to a roundup Mosley says: “They call me ‘The Human Jukebox.’ because if someone says anything that reminds me of a song, I can’t help but sing it, and I don’t even realize I’m singing it sometimes.” Mosley also won one of the GLAAD awards for her portrayal of Maya Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful and showed of a baby bump she is pregnant by her boyfriend John Roberts. In a separate story she tells about going to see Nelson Mandela speak and that she was in a kids’ rock group called Sugar Beats. Read all about it in the May 14, 2018 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Maura West (Carly Tenney Snyder on As the World Turns, Ava Jerome on General Hospital) is interviewed about her General Hospital role in the July 3, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest. About ATWT she says she keeps connected with her former costars through social media, “We were SO close on that show. We are still a big family, we’re just sort of scattered to the wind. I communicate the most with Martha [Byrne, Lily Walsh Snyder], Michael [Park, Jack Snyder, part of CarJack], and Colleen [Zenk, Barbara Ryan].” She hadn’t yet seen Park in his hit Broadway show, Dear Evan Hansen.

Kassie DePaiva (Chelsea Reardon, Maureen and Nola’s little sister) is featured in a roundup where they feed actors quotes from past interviews and ask them to respond. Find it in the November 13, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest. DePaiva also was featured in a detailed round up about the stars on Mother’s Day. Read it in the May 14, 2018 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Back in the February 8, 2000 issue of Soap Opera Weekly featured Jean Carol (Nadine Cooper, Harley and Frank’s mom) talked about her latest movie Scream Queens: A Musical.

Laura Wright (Cassie Layne #1, Reva’s long lost sister) talked about her time on Guiding Light when her character stayed with Edmund when they were trying to get pregnant and impregnated Dinah Marler. “Brian Mertes, who was my director on Guiding Light, taught me that I can justify absolutely anything as an actor. He wouldn’t let the stay in the no and he taught me to just go for it. He’d say, “We have to do this. So why would your character do it? I’m not the actor who would say, “That doesn’t make sense to me,” or put in changes or complaints, ever, because I still justify anything you hand to me.” Read about it in the February 26, 2018 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

The 1997 Time Capsule round up article in the July 3, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest list these turn over in the TPTB at Guiding Light: “Paul Rauch took over as executive producer, succeeding Michael Laibson; Head Writers Michael Conforti, Victor Miller and Nancy Williams Watt were replaced by James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten; and the show celebrated major milestones; the 60th anniversary of its radio debut and the 45th anniversary of its move to TV.”

The 2003 Time Capsule round up article in the February 26, 2018 issue of Soap Opera Digest list these turn overs in the TPTB at Guiding Light: “John Conboy was named EP, and Millee Taggart resigned as head writer, succeeded by Ellen Weston and Donna Swajeski.”

A spooky story round up in the October 30, 2017 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth includes the end of the Cleva (Reva’s clone) story complete with photo. It also has photos of David Kimball (Killer carved in his forehead) from The Young and the Restless and from As the World Turns the James-Barbara-Gunnar time travel story and Shannon O’Hara return from the dead despite her shrunken head storylines.

In the July 24, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest has a close up photo of Vincent Irizarry (Lujack/Nick McHenry) in his disguise he wore for the end of his role on Deimos Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives. Read an article about his character’s death and an interview with him in the July 3, 2017 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

CBS Soaps in Depth online celebrated Kim Zimmer‘s (Reva Shayne Lewis) birthday in February. Check out the photos across her long career. http://www.cbs.soapsindepth.com/posts/guiding-light-kim-zimmer-birthday-124616/photos/kim-zimmer-gal-01-132496

Ellen Parker who played Maureen Reardon Bauer #2 announced she was in the independent film called Ties to Rachel that was then seeking a distributor in the May 27, 1997 issue of Soap Opera Weekly.

During the heighth of the Annie-Reva feud around when Annie faked Reva pushing her down the stairs, Suzanne Schwarzer (GL’s then costume designer) found a company called Annie Reva (in a total coincidence). She bought several of their pieces for the cast. Read more about it Soap Opera Weekly issue May 13, 1997. The article also spells out the complicated shooting of the actual fall. It mentions stunt woman Janet Paparazzo, director Bruce Barry, and stunt coordinator Peter Hock. It also looks as if Reva could actually be charged (it hasn’t happened, but hypothetically it could).

The May 27, 1997 issue of Soap Opera Weekly did a Where Are They Now? feature on Val Dufour. He left acting right after he left his role of attorney John Wyatt on Search for Tomorrow in 1980. He gave this great quote. “But the real challenge is the development of the characters and the day to day movability of it, because the writers change. I once told Mary Stuart (the last Meta Bauer on Guiding Light) that we should have been given an award for rewriting.”

UPDATED December 31, 2018: I caught 2 typos and fixed them.

Robansuefarm is the handle of one of Manny and Guiding Light‘s biggest fans following in her family’s footsteps of Guiding Light fandom since 1939. This blog is an effort to make it easy to find Guiding Light and especially Manny online. Check back here for her blog, find fanfic previews and fake WSPR newscasts on her YouTube, find podcasts that look back to old shows and audios of her fanfics on Blog Talk Radio, and finally follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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Guiding Light Cast Roundup 78

April 5, 2017

This is the seventy-eighth in an irregular feature where we will report updates on what cast members of Guiding Light are doing now. I’m playing catch up on some soap magazine news. So as a reminder you can buy back issues:
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/faq-back-issues-2014/

See a photo of Bethany Joie Lenz (Michelle Bauer Santos #4, part of Stenz Manny) attending the second annual Baby Ball in the Jan. 23, 2017 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Lenz was also tapped as a recast for the role of computer specialist on the sci fi series Colony.
http://tvline.com/2016/08/31/colony-season-2-morgan-recast-bethany-joy-lenz-replaces-thora-birch/

So damn good to see @BethanyJoyLenz on my TV screen again! #Colony pic.twitter.com/ye7I3c7k29

— Jenny (@JennyFitch) February 10, 2017

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The first real life Bauer BBQ was part of the Daytime Stars and Strikes fundraiser in late April 2016. Photos of the stars there are in the October 17, 2017 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Michael O’Leary (Rick Bauer #3, the one we know and love) was host. Other stars pictured were Yvonna Kopcaz-Wright (Mel Boudreau Bauer Foley), Beth Chamberlain (Beth Raines Spaulding), Jerry verDorn (Ross Marler), Elizabeth Keifter (Blake Thorpe Marler #5), and Jennifer Roszell (Eleni Cooper #2). This year’s will be in October. Hope to see you then!

Jane Elliot (Carrie Todd, Ross’ amazing wife) is leaving General Hospital.
http://daytimeconfidential.com/2017/03/08/jane-elliot-is-leaving-general-hospital

Jean Rouverol (Guiding Light writer) has passed away at age 100. Rouverol received Daytime Emmy nominations for her GL work in 1976 and 1978. She also wrote a book on writing for daytime among other titles and had a solid movie actress career in the old studio system before being blacklisted with her husband in the 1950s. Thank you to @itsonlythesoaps for the heads up and the link.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jean-rouverol-dead-blacklisted-screenwriter-was-100-988772

Karla Mosley (Christina Boudreau) and Lawrence Saint-Victor (Remy Boudreau, one of the last great couples on the show with Christina) talk about their officially sanctioned The Bold and Beautiful webseries in the August 26, 2013 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Mosley talks about singing the National Athemen for the baseball game which was incorporated into a storyline on The Bold and the Beautiful. See more in the September 19, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Allison Janney (Ginger, one of Jenna’s comic relief maids while she owned the Spaulding Mansion) and Tammy Blanchard (Drew Jacobs) both attended a screening of Netflix’s new film Tullulah. See a photo in the September 19, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding #3) was the subject of a feature in the Jan. 23, 2017 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. He’s let his hair go grey and he’s appearing on The Vampire Diaries.

Read more about the CBS Daytime #1 for 30 Years at the Paley Center exhibit in the December 12, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Guiding Light stars who attended the party included Laura Wright (Cassie Layne #1), Grant Aleksander (Phillip Spaulding #2, the Phillip we know and love), Beth Chamberlain (Beth Raines Spaulding), and Robert Newman (Josh Lewis).

@MarieSoapFan @jeaniekelley5 @friutypie1 @makechgs4me_Deb @Robansuefarm Happy way back Wed. pic.twitter.com/ovWEjdh9Sm

— Lori Mendoza (@hughrocks11) January 4, 2017 Share a screen capture of Christopher Bernau (Alan Spaulding #1)

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Read another obituary of former Guiding Light headwriter Claire Labine in the December 12, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. It includes a quote from Michael O’Leary (Rick Bauer #5, the adult one we know and love) “Claire was a real lady with old-school class. She had a great sense of humor, and was a fantastic writer who loved and upheld the history of GL.” Many online Manny fans didn’t like the turn she took with Manny during her time in 2000.

Jordi Vilasuso (Tony Santos #1 of Marony fame) was photographed with his family for Christmas in the December 26, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Tammy Blanchard (Drew Jacobs Blue) played Florinda in Into the Woods. Read about it in the August 26. 2013 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

The late Ruby Dee (Martha Frazier, register nurse, friend of Bert Bauer, wife of hospital administrator Jim Frazier) was featured in a recap of her career.
http://shadowandact.com/2017/02/20/reflections-on-the-film-career-of-legendary-actor-and-activist-ruby-dee-2
Read more about her character:
http://soapcentral.com/gl/whoswho/martha.php

We reported Anthony Addabbo (Jim LeMay – Daisy’s adoptive dad, Beth’s husband who died in a house fire caused by a Christmas tree, James Spaulding was named for)’s death in the last of these posts. A memoriam with quotes from costars was published in the November 14, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Nia Long (Kat Speakes, friend of Bridget’s, paired with David Grant, playing a Romeo/Juliette romance against Hampton Speakes, Billy’s best friend from football days) is starring in a remake of Beaches.
http://soapcentral.com/gl/news/2017/0109-nia_long_beaches.php

Lawrence Saint-Victor (Remy Bourdreau) was pictured in the November 14, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest with his TV mother Kim Brockington (Felicia Bourdreau, Remy and Mel’s mother, #2). He was talking about them recently having met up for lunch. Saint-Victor was also the subject of a feature in the August 26, 2013 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Gina Tognoni (Dinah Marler #4) is featured in the December 26, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Marsha Clark (the wonderful Hillary Bauer, Katie’s best friend, and Ed and Mike’s half-sister) recently appeared on Days of Our Lives as Judge Karen Fitzpatrick at Hope’s late 2016 trial. Clark has appeared on the some as the judge on a recurring basis since 2003. See more including a photo in the December 19, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Rebecca Staab (Jessie Matthews, of Jessie and Simon fame) plays Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady on Days of our Lives)’s character’s mother on Hallmark’s The Irresistible Blueberry Farm. It includes a photo in the September 19, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

See family photos of Emme Rylan (Lizzie Spaulding Lewis #6, part of the wonderful Bizzie pairing) and Laura Wright (Cassie Layne Winslow) are pictured with their children in the November 14, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

There is a photo of Ed and Rita’s wedding with family from the November 7, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Terrell Tilford (David Grant #3, brother to Gilly, son of hospital administrator Charles, friend to Bridget, coupled with Vicky Spaulding his real life wife Victoria Platt) is cast on Supergirl. He’ll play “shape-shifting White Martian named Armek.”
http://soapcentral.com/yr/news/2017/0123-terrell_tilford_supergirl.php

The Bold and the Beautiful licensed and used footage of Karla Mosley (Christina Boudreau, part of the great Christina and Remy pairing) “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a Dodgers game in a story in the October 17, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Mosley is the subject of a feature article in the Jan. 23, 2017 issue in CBS Soaps in Depth. She gave health hints. http://cbs.soapsindepth.com/posts/b-b-the-bold-and-the-beautiful-karla-mosley-secrets-family-health-122615

Crystal Hunt (Lizzie Spaulding Lewis #5 brought in Roxie the dog and romanced Coop) took part in the ABC Talk of the Town Gala. See a photo and a few details in the December 19, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

In the December 19, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest, they sum up the year 1990 including: Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis) left the show. Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding #3) and Mark Derwin (A.C. Mallet #1) were cast. The show won Daytime Emmys for Writing and Zimmer as Outstanding Lead Actress.

Matt Boomer (Ben Reade #3, who paired with Marina Cooper) was pictured presented at the American Music Awards. See the photo and more details in the December 19, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aitoro) was photographed with his partner Gretta Monahan attending the screening of All We Had! in New York. See it in the Jan. 23, 2017 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

There is a memoriam to Patricia Barry (Miss Sally Gleason, Kyle and Billy’s birth mother) in the November 7, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Robert Newman (Josh Lewis, part of Jeva) was featured in a photo spread on “10 of Daytime’s Handsomest Actors Ever” in the October 17, 2016 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

A roundup of couples who were cast opposite each other on mulitple soaps includes couples with at least one Guiding Light actor Ted King and Laura Wright (Cassie Layne #1), Beth Ehlers (Harley Davidson Cooper), Karla Mosley (Christina Moore Boudreau) and Lawrence Saint-Victor (Remy Boudreau, part of one of the last great couples formed on Guiding Light), and Jeff Branson (Shayne Lewis #7, the last one) and Elizabeth Hendrickson. Find it in the November 7, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Spotting Barbara Crampton (Mindy Lewis #3, the one that was way too old) in the 2015 SYFY movie We Are Still Here made a viewer write into the Soap Opera Digest. Their update: “Yes, Barbara Crampton was on Days, but she played Trista Evans Bradford, Marlena’s cousin who married Eugene. Trista was murdered by the Salem Slasher in 1983. In the past few years, Crampton has appeared in a host of horror films, including Day of Reckoning, Beyond the Gates, Sun Choke, Tales of Halloween, and Blood Brothers. Her soap past includes portraying Y&R’s Leanna Love, Guiding Light‘s Mindy Spaulding, and B&B’s Maggie Forrester.” Find it and the question in the November 7, 2016 issue.

Laura Wright (Cassie Layne #1, Reva’s long lost sister) is featured in a one-page interview in the October 17, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

Ricky Paull Goldin (Gus Aitoro) appeared with his partner Gretta Monahan and their son Kai at the film Moana. See the photo in the December 19, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

See a photo of current day Jeva – Robert Newman (Josh Lewis) and Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis) with Zimmer‘s real life son Jake Weary (who briefly appeared as Luke Snyder on As the World Turns) in the November 14, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

See a photo of current day Lujack and Beth – Vincent Irizarry (Lujack Spaulding) and Judi Evans (Beth Raines) in the November 14, 2016 issue of Soap Opera Digest.

The August 26, 2013 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth flashes back to Cassie Layne and Josh Lewis splitting up (thank God).

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Final Brent Lawrence Terror Part 3 Jan 29 Feb 2 1996

January 1, 2017

Picking up from the last post Brent Lawrence still has Lucy. That’s the major storyline to me in this next section, but it’s interrupted for some more early Dart and kicking up the biggest story ever for the Grant family up a notch. Matt is still threatening Amanda about coming clean about the her escort service. Nola is still having problems with J and Bridget is trying to decide if she should go after Hart or not. Also, sort of tying in with the rescue attempts, but not really, Alan warns Annie that he thinks Jeva are starting to get back together and Buzz is making a move on Reva. Comment blocks below include clip description, quotes, and my comments.

Monday, January 29, 1996

The cop tailing A-M reports to Frank (via radio which they know Brent has been checking????) and they are ready to follow A-M when he leaves thinking he’ll lead them to Brent. Amanda jumps in front of A-M’s car telling him she won’t let him risk his life. A-M is her brother and she loves him. Buzz is also listening to the police band radio while working in the dinner. Buzz and Reva had started the beginning of a friendship (which always turns to sex with Reva) when she was still in Amish Reva/Rebecca mode. They’d met up a few times in Springfield, but Reva had never told him of her connection to either Alan or Josh which hurt Buzz and made him feel like a fool.

It’s hard to tell if Brent is buying Lucy coming around to like him or not. He wants to have sex with Lucy, but she tells him that she’d be fine if only they’d go someplace else. Brent starts to freak out, but then comes around. He starts to walk Lucy through the night of rape, making Lucy walk them through that night from his POV. Amanda begs A-M to tell police what Brent said and A-M begs Amanda to let him go.

Amanda: “You’re my brother, I just found you again, you can’t die.”

…

A-M: “If I die trying to save her, then I die. I can’t let her down. Please try and understand Amanda, I can’t.”

A-M spots his police trail and realizes Frank is going to have him followed. He asks Amanda to help him get away.

Alan is trying to get Annie to help him keep Reva and Josh apart. Annie at first claims her marriage is solid, but then listens to Alan. Annie says she has nothing to hide (um, the retcon makes this totally untrue, although the drug addiction she had even then doesn’t help).

Frank’s partner suffers a fit of self-doubt giving a recap of recent action. Meanwhile Amanda disguised as A-M drives off. A-M runs down the stairs that shows Level 5 is the first one under street level. Brent continues his rewrite of their rape night.

Lucy takes over reminding Brent of how great they had been together before that night. It seems like Lucy has him reeled in, but then the alarm goes off and Brent calls A-M telling him next to call him from the phone booth on the docks near where they found Nadine. Buzz is full of self-blame from how he has let everyone down repeatedly. Most recently by staying with Reva instead of showing up at Frank’s police academy graduation. Reva tells him to knock off complaining and do something. Alan continues to push Annie to help him. Rick is still interested in Annie and she turns to him afraid her alcoholism will come out.

Annie is frantic to Rick that by revealing her alcoholism Reva will take Marah and Shayne from Josh. Rick talks her down. A-M makes the deadline to pick up the phone on the docks.

Brent reacts to Lucy having interrupted his A-M. Lucy says she’s upset because Brent lied to her, not because of A-M. Lucy continues to try to convince Brent to leave town without seeing A-M. Brent doesn’t bite and tells A-M to come to the lighthouse which A-M believes is finally the meet. Frank catches Amanda and tells her she just killed A-M.

Rick says he will help Annie, but never lie for her again. She freaks out and storms out the door. Buzz tells Reva she made a mistake being with Alan, that she should be with him instead. Frank gets out of Amanda what she knows which isn’t much. Alan shows up and Amanda catches Alan up. A-M shows up at the lighthouse and Brent comes out and smiles.

Tues., Jan. 30, 1996

Annie returns home to the Land of Wishes, Hopes, and Dreams. She’s freaked and tells Josh she has to move out. Buzz tells Reva that she should be with him instead because he could love her better than either Alan or Josh despite the fact that minutes ago he was saying how he failed everyone he ever loved. Alan is furious when Amanda catches him up and attacks her. Brent delightedly welcomes A-M to the lighthouse.

Brent makes fun of A-M. Brent: “Do you know how stupid a name that is, Alan-Michael?” (I kind of wish that A-M had explained the story behind his name at that point just to throw Brent off.) Brent reminds A-M that he shot him in the stomach after making him beg for Lucy’s life and to see her. Brent: “It feels like you swallowed fire.” Brent says pushing the gun into A-M’s stomach. Annie tells Josh about what Alan said and she says she has to move out. Marah overhears and is further upset. Reva asks Buzz what he’s talking about that they are just friends with some sexual attraction. Reva runs down Alan’s good points. I wish she’d remember this later on. Buzz insists if she really loved Alan, she’d have said so. Buzz tells her to call Alan and say she is going to date Buzz and goes in for a kiss.

Meanwhile Alexandra has Matt over telling him she wants to build a second home office that would be for Alan – I guess she’s taken over the one she’s standing in -and a solarium off the kitchen for cook to grow herbs. Matt calls her on just wanting more information on Amanda. Brent runs a portable metal detector over A-M and discovers he has a gun. Brent brings A-M up to the second floor of the lighthouse where Lucy is and they finally see each other again. I haven’t counted soap days, but in real life it’s been a month. See I think I would have wound this up quicker than this and pushed Reva and Josh to the second part of the month, but I’m not a writer. 🙂

A-M says hello and Brent taunts him. Lucy says she never wanted to see A-M again. Alan has pressed the right psychological button and Amanda is back to being a good little girl again. Sadly she’s fragile. Alan hires a new computer expert and puts him on finding Brent even though Spaulding’s normal computer people have failed. Alan calls the diner and Buzz tries to put him off, but Reva takes the phone and he catches her up and asks Reva to come. When he realizes it’s about Lucy and A-M, Buzz insists on coming along. And leaves the diner unlocked and unmanned. Seriously it’s no wonder why they were always on the verge of losing the business.

Marah comes down singing the song that drives the guy nuts in George Orwell’s 1984. This is NOT a good sign. Marah says Shayne was asking if they’d ever have to go live with Mama. They tell her no. Marah is clearly pretending the questions came from Shayne when they are from her and she is upset on whether she’ll have to go live with Reva or away from Josh or not. Then Marah continues to sing the crazy bell song — seriously it freaks me out every since I heard a radio production of 1984. Amanda is also freaked out. Alex tells Amanda that Matt has told her all about it. Matt jumps into the breech and continues the cover story. Lucy freaks out on Brent pretending she doesn’t care about A-M. Lucy jumps into attack mode and Brent thinks she’s his mother and backs away into the fetal position, but still holding on to the gun.

Alan’s computer man, constantly typing, is working on tracking him down. Buzz says he thinks Brent doesn’t just want money, but wants to break everyone. Buzz thinks that Brent wouldn’t leave until he breaks A-M. Buzz, Alan, and Reva profile Brent. The computer guy gets a lead. A-M is afraid what Lucy is doing as they communicate with their eyes. Then Brent pops back up. Brent says he’s going to count to 30 and then shoot A-M. If Lucy tries to stop him, he’ll know she’s lying. Lucy tries to argue that he shouldn’t kill A-M just because it would be stupid. It doesn’t work. He puts Lucy’s hands under his on the gun and points it at A-M.

Amanda and Matt talk. Amanda tells Matt that she’s always afraid she won’t be part of the Spaulding family anymore. Amanda tells Matt they have a deal. She’ll stay away from Ross and he’ll keep his mouth shut about their connection in California. (If you don’t know for reasons they’re never really clear about, Amanda was running a prostitution ring and Matt was working for her.) As Brent reaches 30 in his count for Lucy to shoot the expert finds the number, Alan chats to Brent. Meanwhile A-M comes up behind Brent with a ceramic knife. Bravo! Bravo! There’s some his grandfather Mike’s smarts! ♥

Wed., January 31, 1996

We pickup a different storyline today as Hart comes in and finds Dinah sitting alone in the farmhouse in the dark. He lights a kerosene lamp. Dinah expects Hart to tear into her. Alan is luring Brent in on the chat when A-M comes behind Brent (For some reason with a horror movie knife raise instead of a quick next to jugular move), but at the last minute Brent turns and fires at A-M.

A-M is shot and in pain, but not dead. Lucy continues with her plan to convince Brent she wants him. Holly, Fletcher, Ross, and Blake are having a nice reception at Reva Bend. They are concerned about Dinah. Holly abruptly changes the conversation when Fletcher brings up that Roger had said he still loved Holly. Hart tells Dinah that he just wanted to help Dinah – which I don’t think is really true, but for the sake of future story I’ll believe it.

Roger is eating with his lawyer Leo Flynn at the diner. The diner is totally jumping now, Elaine is in charge, and I have NO idea what time of day is this supposed to be other than they’re not eating a normal breakfast. Leo sends up a line saying this first thing Roger…Ross will ask for is a financial accounting and as Roger has stolen all of Dinah’s money that isn’t good. Roger is sure he can talk Dinah back, but she heard the sincerity in Roger’s voice when he said he loved Holly. Alan and Buzz are blustering at each other when Brent returns to the chat with the news he shot A-M.

Hart tries to cheer up Dinah pointing out all the other people that Roger fooled and that Hart himself had been the biggest fool. Hart retells her his story and how his grandfather raised him on Yates. Hart: “The woods of Arcady are dead. And over is their antique joy.” Ross turns down seconds on the appetizer that Blake made and Ross and Fletcher both threw their appetizers into the fireplace when Blake wasn’t looking. I guess Blake isn’t that good a cook. Holly is concerned with Meg’s future. Blake tells Holly about her baby concerns. Blake’s outfit is really cute, but I just can’t stand how Holly keeps talking about how great Fletcher is and how she can trust him. The only woman he never abandoned was Maeve and that was just because she died before he got the chance. Fletcher broke my heart when he broke Claire’s and never did a thing to make it up. Alan and Reva think Brent has brain washed Lucy, but Buzz recognizes she’s conning him to buy time. Alan negotiates with Brent and when it starts to go wrong Buzz panics.

Frank is at the diner, but he can’t eat. Eleni has made sandwiches for the other cops. Eleni tells Frank she was wrong to be opposed to Frank becoming a cop that he was meant to be one to help save Lucy. Brent leaves and A-M begs Lucy to quit playing this. Lucy tells him it’s her plan and it’s meant to buy time so they can survive. Dinah says she loved Roger. Hart to Dinah: “Roger isn’t worth your tears.”

Roger shows up at Ross and Blake’s carriage house looking for Dinah. Meanwhile at the Jessup Farm, Hart kisses Dinah. Buzz is upset. Both Buzz and Alan agree that the money is bait to lure him out into the open. Alan intends to kill Brent. A-M tells Lucy that the reason Brent is reacting to her strangely because he’s feeding her into the role his mother played in his life.

Thurs., Feb. 1, 1996

The Grants are having a family dinner and Griffin Williams shows up because Charles invited him. Hart and Dinah were still making out, but he breaks away. Roger tells everyone at the Bloss Carriage House to stay out of his life.

Hart kisses Dinah and we’re not sure at this point whether he’s playing Dinah or not. I don’t think Hart is entirely clear either. Griffith is showing off with stories of his work in the Civil Rights campaign and generally being kind of obnoxious.

Vivian does NOT want Griffith to stay in town. Nola sets up Jay to get his car locked up so he can’t take it. It’s pretty Nola-esque caper with Nola, Marcus, and Bridget. Roger hits a little close to Folly and Bloss and then declares that Dinah’s love for him will make their efforts to break them up useless. Meanwhile Hart declares he loves Dinah.

Nola and Bridget work on going through Bridget’s closet to see if she can deal with her closet and her life. Bridget: It’s “a big pile of maybe, a bigger pile of no, and not many yeses.” Now explain this to me. Why would anyone ever want Hart? I mean how does this guy get people to constantly have 2 women fighting over him. Dinah denies Hart could love her. Charles offers Griffin a fellowship to teach a political science for a semester at Springfield University. Jay and Marcus hang out. Did chariots have driver license requirements? Interesting Question. Roger shows up to beg Marcus to forgive him to save his marriage.

Holly wonders if Roger isn’t a little bit right about why they went after Roger. Roger makes a case that Marcus should forgive him. Dinah and Hart continue to talk about his relevation that he told her he loved her.

Bridget confesses to Nola that she wants Hart, but she’s afraid. Nola is very supportive. Bridget about Hart: “He walks into a room and I start to feel goofy… and then I see him with Peter and I think why not? Why not try to be a family.” Gillian tells her dad that her mom has been way out of line (which is kind of teenager like of her, sure Vivian didn’t act like Griffin staying would be Christmas morning, but she was perfectly polite). [Spoiler alert the woman Griffin hurt was her and she’s upset because Gilly is Griffin’s daughter and she doesn’t want anyone to know.] I don’t know why anyone would pick that African name over hearing him say Vivian. I might change my name to Vivian to hear him say that too me, he just rolls it through you. Dinah and Hart discuss what’s going on and then that bed is all too close.

Vivian asks Griffin to leave for her sake. Bloss have a heart to heart about their fertility issues. Dart starts to have sex for the first time.

Friday, February 2, 1996

Dinah wakes up in Hart’s bed the morning after. We Finally get back to the kidnapping. Alan has collected $10 million and is working with Buzz to offer it to Brent.

Lucy continues to play a part to survive and protect everyone. Alan insisted that Lucy be included before Buzz could object she wasn’t included. That’s why you never give up on Alan. Just when you give up on him he does something stand up like this.

Dinah and Hart are still in bed when Roger shows up. I wish Roger’s fear was that he’d lose Dinah, but it’s that he’d get caught stealing her money. Alan and Buzz work together which is always great.

Lucy works on picking a lock. Griffin comes in and joins Vivian and Gilly at their breakfast table. Vivian admits to Gilly that she and Marcus had an affair years ago. Dinah doesn’t regret sleeping with Hart, but isn’t sure what she wants to do from here.

Griffin comes to Marcus and tells him he wants to improve their relationship. Marcus having taken a backseat to everything else his entire life has no interest. Frank comes in and finds Reva. Frank tries to get the truth out of Reva. Frank: “Why doesn’t anyone ever tell me the truth?” Alan picks up the phone and Brent is there. He tells Alan he’s on A-M’s yacht. Buzz and Alan do a verbal dead drop.

Vivian tells Gilly about what happened between her and Griffin. Marcus explains that he doesn’t hate Griffin he just doesn’t know him and he wasn’t there when he needed him. Alan and Buzz work together and Buzz tackles Brent. Dinah tells Marcus about Hart and how good the sex was.

Marcus was OK with Dinah being with anyone other than Roger until he learns that she’s moving on with Hart. Hart sadly was using her – mostly – to get back at Roger. Brent tells Alan and Buzz they have to let him go. Alan-Michael and Lucy discover a bomb.

Tags:Alan Spaulding, Alan-Michael Spaulding, Amanda Spaulding, Blake Thorpe Marler, Brent Lawrence, Buzz Cooper, Charles Grant, Dart, David Grant, Dinah Marler, Eleni Cooper, Fletcher Reade, Frank Cooper, Gilly Grant, GL, Griffin Williams, Guiding Light, Hart Jessup, Holly Norris Bauer Thorpe Lindsey Reade, J. Chamberlain, LAM, Lucy Cooper, Marcus Williams, Matt Reardon, Nola Reardon Chamberlain, Reva Shayne Lewis, Roger Thorpe, Ross Marler, Vivian Grant
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Eve Guthrie and Ed Bauer’s Engagement Party

September 30, 2015

Michelle toasting Ed and Eve

This episode aired – October 24, 1994.

Several stories going on today and most of them aren’t part of the party umbrella. Matt is accused of some crimes and can’t tell where he was because he and Vanessa were having a secret affair.

Michelle gives a toast. Sadly those good feelings she’s talking about won’t arrive until 1999.

“So I want to make a toast to Ed and Eve, my dad and to all those good feelings our family is going to have.”

Someone spiked Ed’s drink. As a recovering alcoholic this was a terrible thing. Alan made an entrance to announce his return to Springfield. Dr. Bauer seems a bit formal for the brother of his ex-father-in-law whose been his neighbor for a good 20 years. This does bring up something I don’t get. They always kept all this alcohol around Ed where it would be easy to slip or make a mistake. While do they do that?

Commercial break after opening credits contains an ad for the Roger Thorpe videotape. This and Reva’s counterpart were the only authorized sales of Guiding Light footage until the Soap Classics releases. Watch it here:
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/roger-thorpe-the-scandal-years

Wow! I would have said if Ed had a problem with Alan it would have traced back to his destruction of Hope rather than that stupid affair that Alan had with Rita while she was involved with Ed – they weren’t all that into each other anyway. Even

For some reason soap hopping soap star Marcy Walker failed to click as Tangie (maybe it was the stupid name?). This was their latest hail Mary pass they are in the early stages of an Alan-Michael-Tangie-Alan triangle. It’s really too bad because Alan-Michael truly believed in Alan and was truly working towards a positive relationship and Alan pulls this.

Really for as smart as they normally play Matt, if he said he’d been to the movies, he should have picked one currently playing at a local movie theater. I think Matt is waiting for Vanessa to step up, but she doesn’t. Gentlemanly Matt doesn’t out her.

Time to get sick over Ed and Eve while he pretends she’s his only true love who has “changed me so completely. You’ve changed me and I can’t ever go back to what I was. I am a complete mess without you.”

The back of Blake’s dress reminds me of a peace sign without the circle. Oh, Eleni you haven’t been to very many parties at the Country Club if you think that this party breakup is anything but typical. No party ever goes well there.

12:00 in another great chance to see Ross-Ed as best friends rather than just hear that they are. “a couple of swallows” wouldn’t an alcoholic know after it hit his tongue? I am proud of Ed to want to go to an AA meeting. I think this might be his biggest hero moment ever. Really don’t understand Ed’s extreme reaction to Alan’s very existence. It wasn’t like this when Alan left.

I think Matt’s story is stupid. He was being stupid if he didn’t know that someone “influential in that town” was married. Plus, his father’s sister was had a brother-in-law (Mike Bauer) who is one of the top lawyers in the country. Wouldn’t asking for help make much sense? Plus, why not cop to being with a woman without naming who. Once that much came out he might as well. So Matt saved Marina’s life too? Maybe she was injured in some of these “life savings” that could be what’s wrong with her later.

“I haven’t had a chance to tell Eve about the drink yet.” – Yes, Ed you were only completely alone talking about what had just happening in a semi-private hallway.

This is so typical Blake. “You know I can’t believe that Eve treats him for a gun shot wound and in matter of days he manages to drag his sorry but out of bed and come over here and crash MY party.”

Ross: “Last thing I need is for you to turn into Paul Revere and go through the town of Springfield warning all the good folks.”

Actually I do agree Alan didn’t meant to “hurt” Blake he meant to stop Phillip from marrying her at all costs.

Fletch does have some good lines “while the caviar is hitting the fan.”

I’m really sorry Alan showed up at Ed’s party. It was truly typical Alan, but it hurt Ed and I don’t think A-M would have stood by like that. While A-M wanted to support his father, he wouldn’t have hurt his Uncle Ed like that.

Tags:Alan-Michael Spaulding, Alexandra Spaudling, bauer family, Blake Marler, Bridget Reardon, Dylan Lewis, Ed Bauer, Eleni Cooper, Eve Guthrie, GL, Guiding Light, Matt Reardon, Michelle Bauer, Roger Thorpe, Ross Marler, Tangie Hill, Vanessa Chamberlain Lewis
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Guiding Light Cast Round Up 70

January 22, 2015

This is the seventieth in an irregular feature where we will report updates on what cast members of Guiding Light are doing now. I’m playing catch up on some soap magazine news. So as a reminder you can buy back issues:
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/faq-back-issues-2014/

The 10 year flashback with photo in the January 27, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth is Eden August being torn between Tony Santos and Bill Lewis.

A round up of characters with drug issues included Casey on Loving played by Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny Santos). Or as I like to call it, that time when they proved by experiment that even the handsomest man in the world can be made to look horrible with a bad enough hairdo. See a photo in the June 30, 2014 issue of Soap Opera Digest. Stewart‘s photo also appears in a round up of possible additions to The Young and the Restless in the January 27, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Bethany Joy Lenz (Michelle Bauer Santos #4, the one who started Manny) had this recent photo shared by a fan:
https://twitter.com/JoyLenzFan1/status/545692631737843714/photo/1
Lenz is also starring as Christine in The Christmas Secret, a Hallmark movie that has been playing throughout the season.
http://www.hallmarkmoviesandmysteries.com/the-christmas-secret
http://instagram.com/p/wUZsbcPEeF/
On December 6th 2014 Lenz tweeted: “@BethanyJoyLenz Um, you guys just hit 500,000 followers on my instagram!! Thank you! This is how I’m celebrating! Xoxo http://instagram.com/p/wRysoqvERT/ ”
Lenz also is photographed at the People‘s Ones to Watch event see the photo in the December 29, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Found a tagged photo of Nancy St. Albans (Michelle Bauer Santos #5) on the Six Week Conservatory. Take a look:
http://tschreiber.org/the-studio/acting-conservatory-programs-nyc/6-wk-conservatory/

Rebecca Budig (Michelle Bauer #3, part of the Messe pairing) was a featured interview in the June 30, 2014 issue of Soap Opera Digest. @RebeccaBudig tweeted ” Congratulations to my old friend @NickLachey on his new hometown hangout. @LacheysBar #Cincy #good beer #goodtimes “https://twitter.com/RebeccaBudig/status/546514566814109697/photo/1 Budig and her current husband Michael Benson had a daughter Charlotte Jo on September 8, 2014.
https://twitter.com/RebeccaBudig/status/550397953668435969/photo/1

Karla Mosley (Christina Boudreau) is interviewed about her current character’s (Maya on The Bold and the Beautiful) turn to the dark side. Read it in the December 15, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Denise Pence (Katie Parker, Floyd’s sister and Hillary Bauer’s best friend) recently share a classic photo from a fan. ” @DenisePence tweeted Dec 6, 2014 One of my fans came across this photo — can anyone name all those in the photo? That was a classic t-shirt, too… http://fb.me/2Rwvy9pcX ”

Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding #3) is returning to his General Hospital role of Ric Lansing.
https://twitter.com/rickhearst/status/545799261443862528/photo/1 Hearst (Alan-Michael Spaulding #3) appeared in a photo with his lookalike son in the Jan. 27, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. Hearst shared this photo with his General Hospital on screen daughter. (I like to pretend she’s A-M and Lucy’s.)
https://twitter.com/haley_pullos/status/551572538153631745/photo/1

Jordi Vilasuso (Tony Santos #1) was featured in the All Star Scrapbook (some of your favorite actors, favorite photos from the past) for the January 27, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth. It’s a photo of him fishing bare chested in his swimming suit.

Hayden Panettiere (Lizzie Spaulding #2, the little girl who survived cancer and killed Beth’s abusive boyfriend) is currently starring in Nashville. She and her fiance Wladimir Klitschko are expecting a baby. Read more and see a photo in December 15, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Lauren C. Mayhew (Marah Lewis #4 – her recast scuttled the somewhat interesting crush on inappropriately aged Jesse Blue. Her most memorable storyline she partnered with Brittany Snow‘s Susan right before the Nursery Rhyme Stalker mass kidnapping) tweeted on Dec. 2, 2014: “@LCMayhew · ITS TIME!! #TheArrow & #TheFlash collide 2nite! Catch all the awesome on @thestreamtv! http://youtu.be/c5MYVt8cMBw #BTS on @moviepilotnews 😉 ”
Lauren Mayhew @LCMayhew Mayhew recently tweeted: “Joy to the world! #MayhewXmas wearing some of my new presents! #necklace #flannel #stretchypants… http://instagram.com/p/xDMSCZwE6T/ “

Laura Bell Bundy (Marah Lewis #5) attended a party in honor of St. Jude on December 13, 2014.
https://twitter.com/LauraBellBundy/status/543974481417342977/photo/1

Lindsey Mckeon (Marah Lewis #6 – the Marah who did the most with Marony) married Brant on January 13, 2014. (Date from article below.)
http://www.tulleandchantilly.com/blog/lindsey-mckeon-and-brants-outdoor-vineyard-wedding
Here are the happy couple celebrating New Year’s 2015.
https://twitter.com/MyLindseyMckeon/status/550503555711660032/photo/1

Melina Kanakaredes (Eleni Cooper #1) attended last year’s National Women’s History Museum ceremony that honored Rita Moreno. See photo in Jan. 27, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

John Wesley Shipp (Kelly Nelson, part of my beloved Kelly and Morgan) is doing more cons, mostly because of his former role as The Flash and his current role as The Flash’s father. See fans lined up to get his signature and gun at the head of the line.
https://twitter.com/ericmullins1975/status/541645825991266304/photo/1

Your ears don’t deceive you, that is Hunt Block (Ben Warren, Ross Marler’s illegitimate brother) doing the voice overs for CVS Health.
http://adwhois.com/tag/hunt-block-cvs-commercial

Ron Raines (Alan Spaulding #3) recently tweeted “@RonRaines Yes.I was in WANDERLUST.The movie is bascially over by the time I’m seen in sunglasses as Pierre. ; ))) Taped in DC while doing FOLLIES.”
http://www.wanderlust-movie.com/Wanderlust/home.html

Martha Byrne‘s (Lily Walsh, As the World Turns) new webseries Weight the Series had a priemere party. See the photos in the December 15, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth and the Nov. 10, 2014 issue of Soap Opera Digest. Attendees from Guiding Light Grant Aleksander (Phillip Spaulding #2, the one we knew most of the time), Larkin Malloy (Kyle Sampson, Billy Lewis’s half-brother), Michael O’Leary (Rick Bauer #5), Liz Keifer (Blake Thorpe Marler #5 – the main Bloss one), and Lisa Brown (Nola Reardon Chamberlain). Many ATWT favorites are also pictured.

Frank Grillo (the last Hart Jesup) is in Indonesia filming a movie.
https://twitter.com/FrankGrillo/status/546491881064914944/photo/1

Kassie DePaiva (Chelsea Reardon, Maureen and Nola’s little sister) talks about the cast she already knew through her previous soap connections as Eve Donovan on Days of Our Lives.

Paul Wesley (Max Nickerson #2) released a video about his 2014.
https://www.zoe.com/v/25WvQiLzgwa_Fke_sVuGXgA

The late Beverlee McKinsey (Alexandra Spaulding #1) interview with Michael Logan from 1992.
http://iriswheeler.tripod.com/tvguide19920811.html

Evelyn Dahab died in an apartment fire in New York City on Dec. 10, 2014. Many headlines lead with the fact she was a Guiding Light actress, but the bio on her Amazon author pages merely refers to her experience as an “actress with a walk-on role on the CBS soap opera The Guiding Light.”
News article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2868999/Former-Guiding-Light-actress-novelist-involved-bitter-dispute-landlord-dies-fire-consumes-Manhattan-apartment.html
Author Page:
http://www.amazon.com/Evelyn-C.-Dahab/e/B005C4DUZQ

Kim Brockington (Felicia Boudreau, Remy and Mel’s mother) was pictured with her mom on the opening night of her role in Kansas City Swing in the Jan. 27, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

“Dave Rupel (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, The Real Housewives of Orange County, Jersey Belle) wrote scripts for Guiding Light and General Hospital.”
http://daytimeconfidential.com/2014/12/03/andy-cohen-absolutely-right-real-housewives-replacing-modern-soap-opera

Jeff Branson (Shayne Lewis #7, the last one) appeared on the episode of The Mentalist which first aired December 21, 2014. He talked about his role in the movie MoniKa (2012) in the June 18, 2012 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1964777/

Victoria Platt (Vicky Spaulding, Alan and Alex’s half-sister Victoria Spaulding’s daughter, from Brandon’s island marriage after he had died on screen once) and Terrell Tilford (David Grant #3, brother to Gilly, son of hospital administrator Charles, friend to Bridget, coupled with Vicky Spaulding) had a baby girl, Marley, on August 24, 2014. Check it out in the December 15, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth.

Guiding Light entries in the Death round up in the December 15, 2014 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth include James Reborn (Bradley Raines, Beth’s abusive step-father) and Ruby Dee (Martha Frazier, part of the groundbreaking first African-American core family).

Tags:Alan Spaulding, Alan-Michael Spaulding, Alexandra Spaulding, Ben Warren, Bethany Joy Lenz, Beverlee McKinsey, Bill Lewis, Blake Thorpe Marler, Chelsea Reardon, Christina Bourdreau, Danny Santos, Dave Rupel, Denise Pence, Eden August, Eleni Cooper, Evelyn Dahab, Felicia Boudreau, Frank Grillo, Grant Aleksander, Hart Jesup, Hayden Panettiere, Hunt Block, Jeff Branson, John Wesley Shipp, Jordi Vilasuso, Karla Mosley, Kassie DePaiva, Katie Parker, Kelly Nelson, Kim Brockington, Kyle Sampson, Larkin Malloy, Laura Bell Bundy, Lauren C. Mayhew, Lauren Mayhew, Lily Walsh, Lindsey Mckeon, Lisa Brown, Liz Keifer, Lizzie Spaulding Lewis, Marah Lewis, Martha Byrne, Max Nickerson, Melina Kanakaredes, Michael O'Leary, Michelle Bauer Santos, Nancy St. Albans, Nola Reardon Chamberlain, Paul Anthony Stewart, Paul Wesley, Phillip Spaulding, Rebecca Budig, Rick Bauer, Rick Hearst, Ron Raines, Shayne Lewis, Terrell Tilford, Tony Santos, Vicky Spaulding, Victoria Platt
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New Year’s 1995-1996 Masquerade Ball

January 3, 2015

It’s an incredible New Year’s in Springfield where almost everyone his headed to a masquerade ball at the Lakeland Country Club and the Marian Crane story is coming to a head with Nick McHenry’s fiancee Susan Bates in a coma, but knowing Marian is to blame and meant to attack Lucy. The Reva returned to town from the dead storyline reaches a crescendo. Blake and Amanda’s fight over Ross hits high gear. Plus this includes one of the most defining moments of Rebecca Budig’s Michelle.

These dates aren’t given on the YouTube channel and finding day to day reports back then is problematic, so these are dates given on several assumptions. There is currently no easily available source to double check them. The dates given are coming from the known date of the distinctive clip episode which is known to have originally aired on Christmas day 1995. From there I’ve followed the episode breaks to divide episodes (these sometimes include clear opening or closing credits and are other times based on knowledge of how soap episodes are structured. It also based on what the included ads say about what days episodes would air and a 1995-1996 calendar. The numbers the parts don’t match the clip titles that they were loaded with but are their order in this post. For each link below description and comments on that particular piece are made, followed by the actual link.

Rick and Abby at NYE Ball 1995

Tuesday, December 26, 1995

Roger is excited his stock is going well and so is Dinah until she discovers a suspiciously fat credit card bill. Lillian and Annie are discussing the Masquerade Ball. Josh goes to Ross Marler for legal help protecting the kids and Reva goes to see Vanessa in case she’ll listen to her side of the story and help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3wvVG8w9r0 (Part 1)

Annie and Rick talk about if Annie’s and Josh’s marriage will take place. Reva uses Vanessa’s past with Dinah to make her point. Vanessa is bested by facts, but stubbornly sticks to Josh’s side. Sadly I think Marah did need help and she never got it. Ross tries to talk sense to Josh (which almost always an impossible task).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSwlRSyknsY (Part 2)

Matt comes back to give a not too receptive Bridget some big brotherly advice about Hart. Hart stops by the Fifth Street Diner. Buzz: “Well, Son of a …..Thorpe is back.” Blake met Hart at the diner, gives him a hard time for not keeping in touch and catches him up on her life. Roger makes sure Dinah can’t read the details of the credit card bill. Vanessa argues that Reva needs to give her children space. Vanessa tells Reva they found out that she was alive via Alex’s tape of her dancing in the diner with Buzz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbMNUnANFu4 (Part 3)

Ross urges Josh to get an annulment as fast as possible. Blake and Hart continue their talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqIKzD3H6U8 (Part 4)

Bridget continues her argument with Matt while Bridget sets up Company for the day which she is currently running. Bridget: “Dylan…(voice break) Dylan was different.” Hart stops by and wants to be friends again with Bridget. Annie gave Rick a friendly hug which Abby spies and is heart broken over. Rick does a comedy dance number in the hospital. Lillian and Annie are clowning around trying to make Abby excited about the masquerade ball, Abby the girl who freaked out over masks a couple of months ago at Halloween. Rick asks Abby to go with him to the ball. Buzz: “As I live and gag, it must be unwanted customer day.” Reva charges into the diner to give Buzz what for for exposing her. Ironically Buzz indignantly asks Reva how she could leave town when she has kids here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrjhbNxQ69U (Part 5)

Apparently it’s drop a pop culture reference day. Blake was waiting for Ross to get back from court in his office. They are trying to get pregnant, but no luck yet. Blake shares her hopes that she and Hart will grow closer now they agree about Roger. Ross makes a Father Knows Best joke Bud and Kitten. Talk turns to Josh and Reva. Buzz and Reva make up and Buzz makes a Lazarus joke. Hart asks Bridget to the ball and says he will get the costumes. Dinah and Roger spy on Bridget and Hart and disagree if Hart is trying to get in a relationship with his son, Peter, or into Bridget’s bed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB–6_9OjGI (Part 6)

Dinah actually does give Bridget a good piece of advice, but since their rivalry is already started Bridget won’t listen. Dinah: “Now what would I want with a two timer like Hart who’d come onto you after kissing me.” Good advice Dinah, wish you’d followed it yourself. Hart always does have to have two women on a string normally one is closer at a time, but the other one he keeps interested. Roger overhears Dinah bragging about Hart’s recent come ons to her. Matt came home and urged Vanessa to skip her fitting for her costume (that night?). Josh stops by the hospital to reassure Annie and drops the bomb that they need to get an annulment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0_kNwDlQyk (Part 7)

Michelle and Bill at the Ball 1995

Wednesday, December 27, 1995

Roger overhears Dinah talk about Hart’s recent bad behavior. Frank Cooper is a beat cop sitting at the diner with his partner Nell Cleary and Detective Levy. Frank wants to have a confidential police conversation in the diner. He and Nell have been trying to solve Det. Patrick Cutter’s murder, they feel they have evidence that points them to Marian Crane, instead of former prime suspect Marcus Williams. Lucy and A-M are telling Marian the news about Susan’s reaction which might mean she’s recovering from the attack. Lucy still thinks of Marian as a friend. A-M is thinking Marian attacked Susan (which she did).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNNlGz7MXY (Part 8)

CBS soaps Guiding Light and As the World Turns won’t be on air for New Years ad. Brent psychotically hears his mother’s voice telling him how worthless he is when he hears Susan is waking up. Lucy checks on Marian after she runs out of the office. Frank continues to push the case. Cutter had written Mar before he died. They think it was Marcus Williams, but what if it was Marian Crane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n2_yaw94w (Part 9)

Roger suggests Hart’s behavior was because he was still trying to get to Roger (which he was despite his attraction to Dinah). Dinah accuses Roger of all people of wearing rose colored glasses. Nice transition from crashing glassware to crashing glassware. Det. Cutter HAD been “dating” Marian because he suspected her of murder and it was part of his investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnAs3tODRfQ (Part 10)

Bridget’s speech references Nola’s speech from years ago shortly before she decided to land Kelly. Nola should really commiserate. Marian called to find out Susan’s condition and they tell her. Now you know why they passed HIPA. Frank and Nell shows up and try to trap Marian into spilling about Cutter’s death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzQMhw8unc (Part 11)

Nell compliments Marian on always looking so perfect (which she does). Marian is rattled. Lucy and A-M are talking to Nick who is frustrated the doctors know so little about Susan’s condition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsQtG0cF84c (Part 12)

Hart and Roger confront each other over the state of their relationship and what they’ve done. A-M and Nick try to convince Lucy that Marian was the one who has attacked her and Susan. Buzz is looking at Christmas cards and Eleni points out Nadine hasn’t contacted them. Buzz: “I’m in my blue period. I hope to get out of this into my impressionistic period where I can let everything out.” Brent argues with his mother’s disembodied voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP3V7PTUo8c (Part 13)

Nola and Bridget are talking. Nola tries to cheer Bridget up, but seems to say everything wrong until he finally talks her around. Nola is right it was her attitude and personality was what attracted Quint. Nola has gotten Bridget an appointment for a makeover at Salon de Artiste. Roger still wants Hart to come around and for them to connect with Peter. Hart isn’t having any. Nadine’s canvas wrapped body floats up to the surface of the lake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgArVR-asw (Part 14)

Thursday, December 28, 1995

Frank and Nell are staking out Marian. The ball begins at the Lakeland Country Club. Alan-Michael is dressed as Zorro and Lucy is his senorita. I understand the red sash matches Lucy’s accent color, but as Zorro wore black to disappear into the night, it really doesn’t fit the outfit. Lucy and A-M continue to discuss their strong and opposite views about Marian. Alexandra arrives and says Alan isn’t welcome at the ball, but Reva is at home getting ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSWZURsInA (Part 15)

Alan calls Reva out that she wants to go to the ball because of Josh. Alexandra seems to be Queen Elizabeth. Josh and Annie are a nondescript antebellum southern belle and her beau. Lucy worries if Marian IS guilty that it can be put down to her poor judgment of people. Marian really has an unbelievably beautiful apartment. Look at that stylized arch into the alcove and that amazing windowseat. How much is she paying for that? Marian realizes Frank and Nell are staking out her place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwFG_hYRNOI (Part 16)

We find Rick and Michelle in the Bauer Living Room which is still decorated for Christmas. Rick is teasing Michelle and makes a Beverly Hillbillies joke. Rick: “Are you going as Ellie Mae Clampett?” Michelle doesn’t like the colonial miss (maybe Betsy Ross?) outfit Ed picked out for her. Ed is right though the Betsy Ross dress IS Michelle. Rachel Miner’s Michelle and Joie Lenz’s Michelle would totally wear that and love it. It’s only Rebecca Budig’s Michelle that’s so uncomfortable with herself that she would object. Michelle gets an idea for Abby. Reva insists she just wants to dance at the party when Josh’s restraining order arrives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIj7kBI7mqg (Part 17)

Josh’s restraining order temporarily breaks Reva’s spirit. Alan urges her to run away with him. Annie agrees to annulling Josh and Annie’s marriage. Oh, Josh and Annie are supposed to be Katherine and Healthcliff from Wuthering Heights. Those are TERRIBLE costumes to be that, but it’s fitting because they were crazy and dysfunctional, too. A-M convinces Lucy that she needs some distance in her relationship with Marian. Marian thinks she’s outsmarted Frank, which admittedly isn’t that hard. Frank is probably the best community service-beat cop that the world has ever seen, he’s even pretty good while he’s chief of detectives, but he’s awful when it comes to actually solving a crime. Heck, he should bring even THIS version of Michelle along and she could do better than he could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpJkXww9Elo (Part 18)

Michelle decides to help Abby win Rick. Reva decides she needs to fight Josh for the kids rather than run with Alan. Reva declares she’s going to stand up for who she is at the ball. Frank returns to the docks to see if there is something they missed as his mother’s floated to the surface body lurks nearby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DdAUqtm8p0 (Part 19)

Ed is George Washington and Rick a generic colonial guy – I’m going with Paul Revere (both costumes WAY better than Josh and Annie’s by the way) when Abby and Michelle come down the stairs. Rick makes a going bald joke to Ed which goes over about as well as you’d expect. Rick’s wig is great though. I could get used to him in that look. This Michelle of course wears a pathetic bid for attention that didn’t really even look good in the original let alone a sad copy. I only feel sorry for the subsequent Michelles that they know photos of Michelle in THIS exist out there. She’s supposed to be Madonna. Rick supports her feelings in front of Ed, but what about how she’ll feel when she makes a spectacle of herself at the ball? I’m guessing she’s glad that Reva, Brent Lawrence, and Amanda and Blake all cause diversions. We get an extended Lady in Red version of Reva getting ready, but we don’t see her all dressed up yet. Alan can wear a suit like nobody’s business, but he doesn’t wear a tux all that well. Buzz is Napoleon (with apparently one too many of his brandies) and almost falls down the stairs in front of Eleni’s Josephine. A disguised Brent leaves under police scrutiny while they watch a dummy in the window.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvsW8aS53hA (Part 20)

Lillian appears to be a nondescript medieval woman. Matt is a southern gentleman (turns out it’s supposed to be Rhett Butler) and Bill is a Civil War Confederate solider. Reva and Alan come in and both Josh and Annie swallow their gum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br7_3iDnA80 (Part 21)

Friday, December 29, 1995

Nick is at Susan’s bedside. Holly and Fletcher arrive to visit Susan. Frank unknowingly discovers Nadine’s corpse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMqIR5TeXs (Part 22)

Alan and Reva and even Josh and Annie continue to make spectacles of themselves. I think Blake is dressed as Mae West and Ross is just in a tux. Nope I’m wrong they are Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (still think that is a FAR better Mae West costume than it is a Ginger Rogers). A-M is concerned that Reva is there. Roger and Dinah come dressed as Julius Cesar and Cleopatra. Hart and Bridget show dressed up in 1920s flapper style, my guess maybe as Daisy and the Great Gatsby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKf7q-XQNVg (Part 23)

Vanessa, continuing her Gone with the Wind theme, is wearing Scarlet’s green curtain dress (which is by far the best and most identifiable costume we see all night,bar Gilly’s show girl which is also well done and clear) which makes Matt Rhett Butler. Matt tries again to talk sense to Bridget. Fletcher tries to talk Nick into coming back to the Journal. Nick tries to explain the concept of sticking with someone you love to Fletcher to whom it seems a foreign language. A-M asks Reva follow up questions about the strange man she saw in the lab. She agrees to work with a police sketch artist and says she can probably sketch him herself. Reva agrees to follow up tomorrow. Reva follows Josh and Annie to the Country Club terrace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It77ce-Qd-U (Part 24)

I really loved Matt and Dinah, I’m sorry they never went there. I think they were much more a partnership than Matt and Vanessa ever were. Reva, Josh, and Annie have a confrontation. If only Josh would have said, “Annie, I love you, but Reva is the love of my life. I may be furious with her, but that where my fate lies.” I think Annie would have been OK. But NO, he had to string her along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dDXknc5nQ (Part 25)

Reva flashes back to her telling Alan of her determination to go to the ball. Josh follows her into the for some reason empty bar. Alan and Rick both reach out to Annie, one a beginning, one nearing the end of their relationship. Brent flashes back to killing Nadine, in case anyone forgot. Frank pushes to get an ID on the body he found. Levy: “That is what history is FOR Frank. You learn from it.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrlog0-t3N4 (Part 26)

Beautiful close up of Lucy’s engagement ring. Lucy is approached by a disguised Brent. Back in the ballroom Holly and Roger talk. I’m going to say having watched that Fletcher is supposed to be Henry 8th and Holly one of his wives whose head he chopped off, which is rather appropriate. Marah is so upset by Reva’s visit that Josh took her to a therapist. Annie is taking Rick’s opinion as her not being good enough, when Rick really want her marriage to fail so he could swoop in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAAfxiYu_N8 (Part 27)

The body from the lake also has “Auburn Mist” wig hair on it. Reva finally tells Josh what happened from her point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nY7QhMdfbE (Part 28)

Wednesday, January 3, 1996

Frank is furious a third matching hair sample isn’t enough to get a search warrant on Marian. Lucy tells A-M she plans on confronting Marian. Annie: “I trust Josh completely.” – while Jeva kiss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9OmEWmn5aw (Part 29)

Reva tries to convince Josh to reunite. He’s being a jerk. Someone wearing less than Michelle! It’s a Vegas showgirl. I don’t think that looks like Gilly, but she’s wearing a similar costume, so it could be. Annie tells Rick how secure her relationship with Josh is. Amanda arrives dressed as a belly dancer and Blake is irked as she dances over to Ross. Frank and his boss discuss the case in loud voices and Marcus’s dad Griffin Williams (who is a jerk, but right about this one) wants his son released immediately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snW9vZhmtK8 (Part 30)

Griffin’s being right status doesn’t last long as he sees it as a media opportunity and seems to suggest Marcus’s arrest was racially motivated when that wasn’t the case at all. Frank doesn’t make a strong argument, but he’s right if they tip Marian (and she wasn’t psycho) she might take off and the truth might never come to light so Marcus would always live under a shadow of suspicion. And just how did “We” beat them? Frank is coming close to truly solving a case in his whole life doing all sort of grunt work to do it and Griffin only accidentally overheard part of a conversation. Josh bursts back into the ballroom with enough force that everyone turns to look at him and many notice he’s removed part of his costume. He strides over to Annie and asks her to dance trying and failing to act like he isn’t upset. Back in the still empty bar, Alan details all the things that her relationship with Josh has driven Reva to and declares if she still goes after Josh that she and Alan are done. Reva gives him a look and sweeps out of the bar. Reva storms over and pulls Josh and Annie apart. Reva: “NO MAN…and that includes you Joshua Lewis…walks away from me, after kissing me like THAT!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaEVOsIy0w (Part 31)

Reva and Josh have screaming match in the middle of the dance floor. Reva: “I can read you like a book. See Bud… See Bud run away from what he’s really feeling; To Berkley, To South America, Into Telephone Poles, Or into the Arms of a Desperate Nurse.” Josh hits her in the housekeeper’s daughter sore spot and like always Reva reacts. Buzz comforts Reva. A-M urges Lucy not to talk to Marian alone. Nick tries to get Susan to remember what happened during the attack. Finally she remembers it was Marian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U232coiWS5Y (Part 32)

Nick calls Frank and tells him Susan remembers Marian attacking her. Marcus and Griffin have an argument. I think Griffin is totally wrong though. His efforts didn’t lead Frank to do more. I still don’t know why Marah is so upset over her mother being alive. Reva (about Roger): “Better watch this one, Dinah. He makes me look respectable.” I wish Roger had danced with Reva. Or Fletcher or Ross, but most Roger he understands being the pariah. Reva is doing the Angelina Jolie leg pushed out through slit move years before Angelina did it. Reva and Buzz are definitely not Manny quality on the dance floor. Most people are horrified at Reva’s grandstanding, but Rick is grinning and Amanda is openly laughing. I bet Phillip would be out there dancing with her again if he was in town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktro8qBuYQU (Part 33)

Josh admits that he’s starting to understand Reva’s behavior. Josh is not really wrong what he says about their relationship, but honestly I think he’s emphasizing the negative. Alex calls for a change partners dance (which is really called a Circle 2 Step) and everyone piles out onto the floor. It’s really hard to tell because they don’t give her any close shots, but that’s Lillian in her white Medieval costume dancing with Brent. Who is Michelle dancing with? Roger to Vanessa: “It’s New Year’s Eve, Scarlett, not the Ides of March.” Susan gives details of attack to Frank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYhhnzHVeCQ (Part 34)

Annie and Josh discuss Josh kissing Reva. Reva returns to the house Alan gave her and finds that Alan is holding to his statement that they were through if she ran after Josh. Back at the country club partners change again and Brent is dancing with Lucy. Honestly this kind of dance is a brilliant way to mix characters. Soaps ought to do this more often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN032MpPHrQ (Part 35)

Thursday, January 4, 1996

Susan warns them that Marian was really after Lucy. Vanessa tells Roger off about his attempts to get closer to Peter. Josh admits Reva’s kiss made him feel something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w36KcpMIwo (Part 36)

Alan insists that he’s leaving and Reva begs him to stay. Josh and Annie talk about him and Reva. Josh: “She was kissing me and all I could think about was getting back to you was being with you where it’s safe and where I’m happy and getting away from that place that was so painful and so hard.” If Annie stayed with Josh after hearing that, she kind of deserved being hurt, but not being driven crazy. Susan reaffirms that Marian meant to kill Lucy. Frank calls for a warrant for Marian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3aWX6-hpC8 (Part 37)

(Sound not clear at beginning fixed halfway through) Lucy is trying to figure out who is dancing with her, still Brent. Poor Gilly has a pretty great costume, but so far not a single line. Hart jumps in to defend Dinah to Roger. Amanda: “So Ross, have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet?” Ross: “Of course I have, can’t break them if you don’t make them.” Amanda and Ross had a relationship before she left town years ago (when she was a different actress). Now she’s decided she wants Ross back, despite his marriage to Blake, Ross thinks she’s just being friend until she makes a pass even he couldn’t miss. That hasn’t happened yet. Vanessa talks Blake down from clobbering Amanda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATvIK2wdtA (Part 38)

Josh (having magically regained his costume’s coat) goes after Annie when she flees to the porch. Reva tells Alan all about Josh pushing all her inferiority buttons (which he always does and why I don’t particularly like them together and it reminds me Josh Lewis is a Jerk). Hart to Dinah: “You sure didn’t inherit the Chamberlain manners, did you?” Hart and Dinah have it out about his interference between her and Roger. Michelle and Bill are in the background today. Gilly finally gets some lines when after Alan-Michael stumped Lucy and she tried to see if anyone else knew. Lucy: “Trivia for you – what was Zorro’s horse’s name?” Gilly and her date all shout out various cowboy names. Answer: It’s Tornado. (Totally adore Guy Williams and Disney’s Zorro is an amazing show. I wonder if it means A-M was a Disney Zorro fan, too. Seriously watch the episodes if you can.) Marian starts to confess on the phone to draw A-M out of the ballroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBv-u9PQ2Y (Part 39)

Frank and Nell are back in the car watching Marian’s house. A-M rushes off leaving Lucy with her father. Buzz knows the name of the horse. Josh pulls Annie back in, using her as a shield from Reva, just as Reva said. Alan points out he and Reva had this relationship before where he supports her and then she runs back to Josh. Alan is not willing to repeat that. Reva strips for Alan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdUhXQUJWm0 (Part 40)

Josh makes love to Annie “like never before” and Annie doesn’t get that it’s because of Reva. Annie is wearing gorgeous underpinnings though. Reva is seducing Alan. Susan and Nick are ringing in the New Year. Finally having warrant in hand the cops discover Marian’s mannequin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olxf1NhD_WQ (Part 41)

Ladies Room scene with Blake and Holly. Blake and Amanda have confrontation, always good stuff in those ladies room scenes. Oh Amanda, the place to lock people in there is the broom closet, ask Vanessa and Reva, someone is going to come in and need the facilities. Wow have we seen the room with the stalls and sink before? A-M showed up at Marian’s apartment. A-M realizes Marian set him up to get Lucy alone. A disguised Brent gets Lucy outside as the only two people wanting to see the New Year’s fireworks. And doing better than every other soap character ever, one kiss and Lucy knows this guy isn’t A-M.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM03WgfRJxg (Part 42)

Friday, January 5, 1996

Amanda had locked Blake into the bathroom stalls part of the ladies room and Blake is struggling to get out while Amanda makes a friendly move on Ross. For some reason they have a substitute Brent Lawrence today. Brent subdues Lucy on the Country Club patio. Dinah takes a New Year’s feast to her best friend Marcus Williams in jail. Blake comes charging out to be waylaid by Matt. but we don’t get to see what must have been a terribly interesting conversation between them. Marcus: Don’t you usually get your last meal before electrocution?” Dinah: “Actually I think it’s lethal injection in this state.” Lucy has been drug off. Nick is waiting for Susan’s answer to his proposal. Nick to Susan: “I do love you and I want to be your husband. It’s as simple and as complicated as that.” Michelle and Bill grab champagne for a toast, but Vanessa spots their underage attempt and cuts them off at the pass. Blake confronts Amanda. A-M realizes Marian has Lucy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRel_fCv35g (Part 43)

Blake and Amanda’s confrontation turns into a food fight to cheers and egging on from the crowd. Matt who has spent most of the night grabbing wayward females does it again with Amanda. Marcus and Dinah laugh over their late supper. It’s great that Dinah came and visited him every day he was in jail. Marcus and Dinah had such a great friendship. It’s truly why I wish Marcus had never left town, that was an important relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXjdO7VpLUk (Part 44)

Roger crashes Dinah and Marcus’s party. Roger offers to take Dinah to New York City for a two week vacation to make their fight up as a proper honeymoon. Marcus sarcastically encourages Dinah to go to New York City, but she realizes she needs to stand by Marcus until he’s out of jail. Hart and Bridget leave. Amanda confesses to Ross that she locked Blake in, coloring it in her favor. Vanessa gives Blake good advice. Great cut away interfaces where they pick up phrases and repeat it between the two conversations. Alex vainly tries to carry on as if nothing had happened. Alex asks Fletcher to edit down the piece on the party making it seem less drama filled than it was, but he refuses. They realize that it was Marian dressed up in the Cyrano (big nose) costume they saw leave Marian’s building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJrgTg7txc (Part 45)

Marcus stirs up Dinah against Roger. Gilly and Griffin have a friendly conversation. This is part of the buildup where Vivian finally reveals she herself had an affair with Griffin and he could be Gilly’s father. Rick had protected Marian’s cross dressing as doctor-patient privilege, but he tells now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm1Q12MXUVY (Part 46)

Dinah says good night to Hart. Hart showed up to talk to Dinah who is leaving half her stuff she set up for Marcus behind. Matt says it’s time to go home. Brent takes Lucy to the lighthouse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LLUM6I2TVY (Part 47)

Monday, January 8, 1996

Dinah starts to remove her costume to signal we’re leaving New Year’s Eve behind. Hart tries to tell Dinah he sees a lot in her. Vivian confronts Griffin about whether he expects to seduce Gilly. The police discover footprints, most likely Marian’s, leading to service parking lot. Alan and Jeva are in afterglow, but they aren’t exactly glowing. A-M arrives pounding on Reva’s door. Brent is a substitute again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzs9FfofTVM (Part 48)

A-M barges in needing to talk to Reva. Alan tries to kick him out, but Reva intervenes and A-M says Lucy was kidnapped. Frank recaps what’s happened with Lucy tonight. Nice that the background noise includes radio calls about the kidnapping. Dinah: “The point is NOBODY tells me what to do.” Hart talks Dinah into going somewhere quieter with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUr0IsuZoAs (Part 49)

The local news people descend in costume on the investigation. Frank convinces them to keep the story quiet until they find Lucy. Griffin denies that he did anything wrong with Vivian. Vivian remembers their days protesting together. A-M came to Reva to get a sketch of the man who scared Reva in the lab when he was changing Lucy’s test results and who he thinks has her now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4FcLgcrlQ (Part 50)

Cleary suggests avenues of investigation. Buzz still can’t believe Marian was living in disguise so long. Buzz: “This person, this Marian Crane lived around us for.. what? months? She ate with us, told us her problems, I even felt sorry for her.” Buzz finds out that Marian was always a suspect before she grabbed Lucy and reacts badly. Dinah and Hart end up at the 5th Street Diner to talk. Eleni is working the diner (after all this, they didn’t just close it?). An apparent hooker comes in for coffee and Eleni wants her to move along so Marina won’t see her. Hart interferes to buy her a coffee. Gilly interrupts Vivian and Griffin, she hears part of the conversation and Vivian covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hml99PrCboc (Part 51)

Hart’s actions and comments gets Dinah’s ire raised and she tells him about how she was raised in circus. Buzz tears into Nell wanting to know what she thought she was doing. Brent starts to record a gloating message. Does Reva show artistic talent anywhere else (besides her photography)? Because that’s a pretty impressive drawing that shows Alan-Michael and Alan that it’s a supposedly dead Brent Lawrence behind it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypnux2H5MVs (Part 52)

Technically the day hasn’t dawned on New Year’s Day yet, but as costumes are removed we get more back into a regular day and seem to forget it’s still the small hours of the morning. So I thought this was the best place to stop this post, but since I have the dates figured out to this point, I’ll pick the story back up when I get a chance and continue to match the days with the episodes.

UPDATE 2015: Justin Deas explains why they switched Brents about halfway through this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrh7RNfO8q8

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Bauer BBQ 1994

July 3, 2013

I really find it odd that these highlights are all I can find online for the 1994 BBQ because it’s one that everyone talks about a lot. There is a lot more to Roger’s throwing his own BBQ that we don’t see here. All and all Springfield was in a pretty good place in 1994 and in fact many people consider the early to mid-1990s to be a golden era of writing on the soap.

One thing that most people still lament is that Maureen was killed off (infamously after a focus group said she wouldn’t be missed). Also, Ed has moved on with Eve, which personally sickens me, but at least one person left very positive comments about on the highlight clip. In fact Ed is even claiming he was NEVER happy at a Bauer BBQ before (I guess all that clowning and grinning at Maureen was just a good show) and leaving the kids unattended (you won’t believe who ends up having to play doctor) to sneak off and have garage sex during the party. Ed does briefly talk with Josh about missing Maureen and Josh commiserates as Reva is also dead at the time.

There is some nice late Ben-Michelle-Bill stuff as they move into teenage years. This is some of the last good Ben stuff we get as Bill tries to kill any chance Ben might have had with Michelle. The possibility of boy-girl interaction has made this devoted trio awkward with each other. I’m so glad I realized the parallel between Billy-Reva and Bill-Michelle it makes so much of this clearer on a rewatch.

This is the highlight of the Rolly story. Although Roger and Holly were always fairly dysfunctional once Roger came back from the dead they really were only themselves when they were alone in a room talking to each other, even if they were currently dating or married to other people. At this highpoint they are most honest with each other and about their feelings that doesn’t mean either is going to be push over for the other and them sparring as equals and being devious to get what they want without the acidic revenge that colors so much of their actions at other times is really something to see. Rolly are mostly together at this point. Roger moved in after Billy shot him while he was trying to figure out who did without getting killed in the process. Currently Roger owns half of WSPR and Nick McHenry has the other half and they share an office. Gilly is working at the station and is nearing the highpoint of her career. Nick is up to something and Roger hopes to use whatever it is to get a position back at Spaulding just because he likes to win and prove he’s better than everybody else, particularly Alan Spaulding. Ironically the Japanese connection that they are working on ultimately turns out to be Alan himself, showing up in the person of Ron Raines for the first time and making his own run at Spaulding. Bloss are in a pretty happy place as shown by Ross’ willingness to spend time with Roger to make Blake happy.

Sadly LAM aren’t as in as good of shape. Alan-Michael had broken up with Lucy because he didn’t think they’d go anywhere and is currently embroiled with a triangle with Eleni and Frank and is determined to win Eleni back even if it means passing on an offer to head up Spaudling which he had be angling for ever since his divorce from Blake. Some of the best A-M stuff here are his interactions with cousin Michelle (before the writers forgot how close they were) and some important Ed conversations. Lucy, at her most appealing here, wants A-M away from Eleni both to make her half-brother Frank happy and to win A-M permanently for herself. During this BBQ she wins an ally in Alexandra.

Enjoy a truly highpoint in Springfield history. Below are the links and my comments about each one.

(Part 1)

My Comments:
That’s a great conversation between Josh and Ed. Josh mourning Reva and Ed mourning Maureen. That is a real nice bit of childhood friendship between Bill-Michelle-Ben. Of course Michelle-Bill aren’t meant to be together romantically anymore than Billy and Reva were, but like Billy and Reva they were a touchstone relationship of their lives. This is also a great bit of young Ben, such a shame the character assassination they pulled on him later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LbbhsfsN5g (Part 2)

My Comments:
I really think A-M belonged with Harley (there was a reason they married each other’s siblings – close without the baggage), but Lucy and A-M were pretty darn special too. Mainly due to Lucy. How could you not want what Lucy wanted?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xCYj9xKD0 (Part 3)

My Comments:
This is some more high quality cousin interaction between A-M and Michelle. It’s so sad they never played their familial connection as adults, especially because A-M was so close to Nadine 2:25 Alex says the Spaulding Mansion is a row of hedges away from the Bauer House. Of course Gilly-A-M was interesting too. I’m sorry they backed off and pretended they didn’t even know each other later. I really hate Ed and Eve messing around like this at an event that was always so much about Maureen. This is the kind of thing that makes Mike easily my favorite Bauer brother. They were playing horse shoes, a big Bauer BBQ event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool99sP-740 (Part 4)

My Comments:
I really appreciate the Ed-A-M uncle-nephew talk. I enjoyed Gilly as powerbroker. Roger’s alternative BBQ was really quite a clever move. I wish they showed more of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkw4XxMd_oU (Part 5)

My Comments:
I don’t know, I don’t see Alex letting Lucy sit on leather with a wet swimsuit without putting down a blanket or anything. That is true A-M’s life ambition was the Spaulding Presidency.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPzB2lWka_E (Part 6)

My Comments:
Oh, A-M, you’re being too blind and like normal most of Ed’s advice stinks. A-M go talk to your Grandad Mike. Get some GOOD advice. “This romantic obsession of his is ruining a lot of lives.” Alex is playing Lucy to get what she wants, but they could have been friends. I like Roger and Holly scheming together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7LOSTpII0 (Part 7)

My Comments:
I love Rolly parrying as equals. No, Ed,no one is looking at Eve and thinking good things, except for some crazy reason you. Eve about Nick: “He was never serious about me anyway.” (Thank goodness for a little clarity.) Vivian looks really great. I love Alex’s set ups, they are always so well done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCp4c0OksIk (Part 8)

My Comments:
I love this take charge Holly too bad they destroyed all this in a handful of years. Roger’s literally tragic flaw was he never could decide whether he wanted Holly and Happiness or Spaulding and Power so he zig zagged back and forth leaving destruction and chaos in his wake. 😦

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjx4wgFyJpM (Part 9) – Holly and Roger discuss their relationship

My Comments:
I think this is as honest as Rolly ever get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uF2MOexXYg (Part 10) – More Rolly honesty

My Comments:
More Rolly honesty. Holly: “I’ll have to be more selective about what I don’t like. You do know I’m happier when I’m cheering you on, than when I’m scolding you, right?” “A rodeo in Manitoba” I think that might have to be a new catchphrase. Rolly as dysfunctional as anything, but honestly only themselves like this when they are together.

Tags:Alan-Michael Spaulding, Alexandra Spaulding, Bauer BBQ, Ben Reade, Bill Lewis, Blake Thorpe Spaudling Marler, Bloss, Ed Bauer, Eleni Cooper, Eve Guthrie, Frank Cooper, GL, Guiding Light, Holly Norris Bauer Thorpe Lindsey, Josh Lewis, Lucy Cooper, Michelle Bauer, Nick McHenry, Roger Thorpe, Rolly, Ross Marler
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Christmas 1992 Update

December 29, 2012

The first piece I found of Christmas 1992 was labeled the first Bloss Christmas and it was, but I think it will mostly be remembered for other things. This is the year that Bridget is in the attic, that Eleni is pregnant with Marina, Harlet beats the odds and Lillian writes a fatal thank you letter.

Maureen about Michelle 09:46 “Beautiful, brilliant, sensitive athletic, is probably what I would have said, but cute is right up there.”

Bridget Reardon (the red head- Matt Reardon of Mattesa fame’s sister and Maureen and Nola’s niece, Matt and Bridget’s dad was their older brother) was currently carrying Peter Reardon Lewis Jessup who was reporting coming back to town to attend Springfield University as a freshman in the final month of the show. Bridget had been trying to steal Hart Jessup from Mallet’s little sister Julie. She got a drunk Hart to bed her in a haystack, but it backfired. Julie found out and dumped him, but Hart left town, not knowing that Bridget was pregnant. The only one who knows she is pregnant who is Nadine who offered to buy the baby if Bridget agrees to help Nadine pass it off as her own. Nadine had only got Billy Lewis to marry her by enabling his alcohol addiction and Billy would have dumped her to beg Vanessa to take him back by now if he hadn’t thought Nadine was pregnant with his baby which she was faking. The part where Bridget starts to sing in a mocking manner and slowly grows more serious as she sings is probably the most famous part of this storyline and the second most famous Bridget moment right after her hairdryer setting off the Great Springfield Blackout of 1992 earlier this year.

Nadine says Billy’s favorite book is Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey. It’s pretty anti-Mormon, but other than that is a fantastic book half western adventure/half romance. I think Riders of the Purple Sage and Lost Pueblo are Zane Grey’s two best books and I recommend both of them.

Do to some strange circumstances Alan-Michael Spaulding had married new immigrant, and Frank Cooper’s supposed to be arranged bride Eleni. A-M seemed to really care about Eleni, but in typical Spaulding fashion he sought to hold onto her as a possession while her feelings for Frank grew. Frank and Eleni had made love, but thinking she was still on birth control pills at the time (really A-M had swapped them out for candy) Eleni was sure the baby (Marina) was A-M’s and she refused to take away the child’s right to be raised by her father just because Eleni’s heart now was with Frank. This has caused her to currently have very strained relations with both men. Because of a horrifically bad plot twist A-M would later date the girl who he once thought was his daughter.

With tear filled eyes we look at Maureen’s last Christmas. Before the yuletide roles around again, Maureen will discover her husband has once again strayed. This time with a woman she thought of as friend and had often invited over to her home because she didn’t want her to feel alone. Maureen never dreamed that Lillian would try to help herself to Maureen’s husband in return for Maureen’s generosity.

I really don’t know what Lillian was thinking with that thank you note. If she means the sentiments in letter, writing the letter and leaving it in Maureen’s house almost guarantees what she says she hopes will happen in the letter won’t. If she really thinks maybe Maureen will find it and give her a chance at Ed, it totally backfires. Maureen dies and Ed still doesn’t turn to her even in Maureen’s absence. Ed will instead turn to Eve with whom he was only friends with at this point.

Those of you who are regular readers will know that I think Harley and Alan-Michael belonged together. The only one who ever made me doubt that was A.C. Mallet. Mallet and Harley were also partners in a true sense and I liked them together with a chemistry that even survived a recast on his side. This is a vital scene because he was trying to push her away, as he describes to the priest, because he doesn’t want to take away her dream of having children because he knows how important that is to her.

The brunette at Lewis’s house is Mallet’s sister Julie who I mentioned above in the story with Hart. Julie is there because she was dating Dylan at time. See them connect for the first time while trapped in an elevator during the 1992 Blackout.
https://glmanny.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/springfield-blackout-of-1992

Some of the clips below are from the full episode above, but I didn’t want to lose them so left them in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtmejHHq_Bc (Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Ma7L06nkE (Part 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vvtjoYfSBE (Part 3) Bridget sings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgSFaF7MBk (Part 4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIoCN1nMbgk (Part 5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdKFn-kjJKQ (Part 6) – H.B. reads Xmas story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89YrOtWyW3Q Bloss

Tags:A.C. Mallet, Alan-Michael Spaulding, Ben Reade, Bill Lewis, Billy Lewis, Blake Thorpe Marler, Bloss, Bridget Reardon, Christmas, Dylan Lewis, Eleni Cooper, Eleni Spaulding, Eve Guthrie, Fletcher Reade, GL, Guiding Light, H.B. Lewis, Harley Davidson Cooper, Lillian Raines, Little Billy Lewis, Marina Cooper, Michelle Bauer, Nadine Cooper Lewis, Nick McHenry, Ross Marler
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Christmas 1994

December 21, 2012

This appears to be the entire Christmas episode, but edited into short chunks. It’s a year where H.B. Lewis is reading the Christmas story, after his grandkids take off with the pop-up book, H.B. instead reads an adult story “A Springfield Christmas.” This is an early example of a stand alone ish episode for Christmas without, sadly Santa Nick. I really felt his loss.

David Grant is participating in a fake INS marriage. This was my favorite version of David Grant who had a lot of interesting relationships/friendships and would always go far out of his way to help somebody (I know Manny fans, the David Grant Manny got stuck dealing with was nothing like that). I believe David actually fell for his wife, but they didn’t end up together long term and I don’t think they got into any trouble over the fake marriage. They are a little amazed at his mother Vivian helping out because normally she is way to snooty to help anyone out, let alone let herself be seen in a ticky tacky apartment like that, so she is genuinely making an effort to go out of her way to help David, who she normally spends her time telling that he isn’t good enough and has let them down or pushing him into doing something he doesn’t want to do because Vivian thinks it will look good.

Roger and Holly had gotten back together and while they are, let’s face it, dysfunctional and a little twisted, they also were the strongest and most comfortable in their own skins when they were together. Normally Roger’s latest scheme has blown up in his face and broken them up, but in this case it was actually Alex’s fault. She set up Holly to think that Roger and Alex had slept together. As you can see Roger is literally desperate to get Holly back.

Mindy and Nick are a current couple, but his working at Spaulding as Alex wants has caused major rifts in their relationship. The poor recast (let’s face it Barbara Crampton would have been better cast as Mindy’s mother than Mindy and while she was a talented actress, spunk and bubbles backed up by steel – in other words Mindy – was not her forte) doesn’t derail them, but I think takes a major knock in the couple’s popularity which had been high before the recast. Nick is currently working on them getting back together.

Recast Eleni is still trying to do the strong Greek accent done so effortlessly by her predecessor in the role and while we can appreciate her wanting Marina to have an appreciation of her Greek ancestry (although not those braid loops), seems to have lost all her good sense and acceptance and almost seems to be missing not having the Spaulding money that let her jet off to Greece whenever she wanted.

2:10 into Part 4 is one of my all time favorite Guiding Light scenes. Lucy who was raised by Buzz alone, but has come to terms with now being part of a larger family reaches out to Buzz when he’s at his lowest and pulls him back into the fold. They discuss his raising her alone in a very sweet scene, explaining the importance of Chinese takeout for Christmas and then Lucy kids a kidder, by lying about what his fortune cookie said, although why it was so easy for her to fool him is explained in the real fortune she leaves laying on the table. Nadine and Buzz were a true tragedy in that I really believe Buzz was the love of Nadine’s life, but while Buzz cared for Nadine in a high school sweetheart never forgot kind of way, Nadine was not the love of Buzz’s. Nadine could never stop hoping and in her selfish life truly cared for Buzz more than she did anybody else.

Dylan had been blinded and is now together with Bridget. Right from the beginning they had a special connection, but for years they both pretended it was just friendship, they are truly together now and it’s great seeing what a strong couple with love based on friendship, honesty (a rarity for Bridget relationships), and complete acceptance of each other.

Mattesa had started as a nameless romance while Vanessa was on vacation, but when she returned to town, Matt Reardon decided to come and stop by his sister Bridget’s. They eventually picked up the affair, but for awhile kept it secret, mostly because Vanessa was embarrassed he was so much younger than her. At this point it’s still secret.

H.B. is reading Christmas story, special standalone story episode.

I think this is actually the previous episode, but I wanted to include it just in case. It’s earlier than the rest of the episode. Annie stops by the Bauers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2TXoWTOOQ (Part A)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknq_H09Wfs (Part B)

Rick Bauer calls home and talks to Michelle on the phone.

H.B. is reading “A Springfield Christmas”

David Grant is having a fake INS marriage.

Roger Breaks into Bauer Christmas to get Holly back.

(Part 1)

Cops exchange gifts. Det. Cutter is Jewish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ua_X2V9kw (Part 2)

Nick and Mindy try to make up.

Eleni if you wanted your daughter raised with Greek memories, you shouldn’t have married an American.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1ucYnZKgs (Part 3)

2:10 I love this Buzz-Lucy conversation.

Dylan is blind. Nice bit of Bridget and Dylan as a couple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lt6xi0Egg4 (Part 4)

Holly thinks that Roger slept with Alex because she set him up.

Tangie starts floating story to story.

Josh is suspicious of Vanessa-Matt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSaz34PQl_0 (Part 5)

Roger compares notes with Blake and figures out what Alex is up to.

Hamp tries to firmly establish the Kwanza celebration in Springfield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpGDjuARhaw (Part 6)

Round up with H.B.

2:10 Jenna calls to announce Coop’s birth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFOItHzjyio (Part 7)

This is just the beginning and end portion, but it looks sharper to me so I wanted to include it. Jenna’s call is included.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIo_FykPB1o (Part 8)

Tags:Alexandra Spaulding, Bridget Reardon, Buzz Cooper, David Grant, Dylan Lewis, Eleni Cooper, Gilly Grant, GL, Guiding Light, H.B. Lewis, Holly Norris Bauer Thorpe Reade, Jenna Cooper, Lucy Cooper, Matt Reardon, Mattessa, Mindy Lewis, Nadine Cooper, Nick McHenry, Roger Thorpe, Vanessa Chamberlain Lewis, Vivian Grant
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Thanksgiving 1998

November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving at Millennium 1998 – Nov 24-30, 1998

This format is a little different because I originally did it as part of the episode guide. I’ve replaced the highlights with links to full episodes that I didn’t have it the first time I published it. I’ve also increased the elsewhere in Springfield part explaining the other storylines. My comments at the bottom are Manny related.

Tues., Nov. 24, 1998 – Millennium is closed for a private Thanksgiving party Michelle is hosting. Michelle unsuccessfully tries to lead an increasingly more inquisitive Danny away from suspecting them as his brother’s killers. When he pushes her buttons, Michelle tells Danny the truth about how much Mick was despised and, as the conversation escalates, Jesse walks in, misreads the situation, and threatens Danny. After Danny storms off, Michelle is convinced that he suspects the truth about their involvement in Mick’s death.

Elsewhere in Springfield, we’re on the Pharley honeymoon after they are married in New York. Dart are really doing some cute stuff, Dinah has arranged for Hart and Bridget’s son (Vanessa’s former adopted son) to come in for the weekend. Cassie chooses to leave town and goes to stay in Chicago to get some distance between her and Hart. Vanessa and Hart continue to have conflict. Vanessa thinks Beth is the Nursery Rhyme Stalker mostly because she sees her as a rival and wants to be rid of her. She probably believes it though. When Teri DeMarco shows up at Mattessa’s house she remind Dinah of Annie Dutton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc4h0d4ALBw (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1vK7dh9tFo (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF9ph8osDY8 (Part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqiKH_kprlc (Part 4)

Wed., Nov. 25, 1998 – Michelle panics when Danny realizes that she seems to know something about what happened to his brother. She tells him that no one liked his brother because he sold drugs out of the club. Jesse then threatens Danny and warns him not to hurt Michelle. Thanksgiving is nearly ruined when Lizzie Spaulding and Marina Cooper go missing. Jenna is convinced her evil ex, Jeffery Morgan, has the girls and Michelle tells the police she thinks Danny may have taken them. Det. Frank Cooper (Marina’s father) is convinced and has him picked up and returned to Millennium. Danny laughs at the idea that he would do that and when India von Halkein suggests he’d want a ransom payment knowing the Spauldings are rich, Danny tells her that the Santos family has its own money. Danny offers to join the search and he finds the girls hiding and afraid to come back in an upper room. When Lizzie falls through the grate they were spying through, Danny saves her life. Everyone apologizes to Danny and he’s asked to stay for dinner, but when Michelle runs off, Danny follows her out of the club. Alan Spaulding gives a Thanksgiving toast.

Elsewhere in Springfield, some beautiful shots of the Spaulding Dining Room. Vicki falls right in to the Spaulding habit of calling their cook “Cook” not by name. Apparently the position is held by a male right now. Vicki and Alex’s relationship creates sparks. The Lewis family (Jeva branch anyway) has gathered at Cross Creek. Part of the problem between Cassie and Jeva was that Terri had Josh come onto Cassie and then deny it while under the influence of the mind control drug. Dinah has figured out Teri is really Annie Dutton. India and Alex being in town at the same time always means fireworks, India blames Alex for taking her family’s name and money and causing India’s father’s death. Holly is the Nursery Rhyme Stalker and is falling apart. Jenna is horrified because she thinks her ex-husband Jeffery Morgan might have taken the boys. He’d sent her a threatening letter. This is a good illustration of what Lizzie-Marina’s friendship was like. Sadly it was dropped once they SORAS-ed Marina. Part of Annie’s plan to get Reva was to leave her a coin in her will saying it would take all love from Reva’s life. She keeps bringing it back and leaving it where Reva will find it. We start to get a truer picture of just how awful Ben’s childhood was which led to him being permanently scarred before the surgeon fixed them while he was in college. Josh gives a great tribute to Cross Creek in part 4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZIhb9aDfRQ (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqEvckEunb4 (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nVT_uIMMmM (Part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtaYruQ6a8o (Part 4)

Mon., Nov. 30, 1998 – Danny tried to sit next to Michelle at Thanksgiving Dinner, but overwrought Michelle leaves her own party. Danny follows and finds Michelle on the beach where Mick was killed and tries to talk to her in hopes to find out more about his brother’s death. He tells her that Mick told him they flirted a lot and Jesse’s reaction to him when he hadn’t even done anything today showed Jesse could be violent. Danny: “Does he love you enough to kill for you?” Michelle starts to crack under this implication and says Jesse didn’t even know what Mick did to her, but Jesse arrives and blows up before she can say more. Michelle covers to Jesse that she asked Danny to go for a walk with her. While Danny doesn’t defend himself from Jesse pushing him around he smiles, “I learned a lot.”

Elsewhere in Springfield, Blake feels empathy and understanding for Ben as she begins to understand how awful his life was growing up. Dinah impressively figured out almost immediately that Terri was really Annie Dutton, but far from impressed Annie has pulled a gun on her. Ross and India are moving along with what was a cute if temporary romance. India and Ross had both tried to rent this apartment. India actually had it first, but her current financial embarrassment is part of the reason she’s giving it up. Selena Davis who was in California trying to track down the child that was taken from her and adopted out. She didn’t have any luck (mainly because the child is Drew which she hasn’t figured out yet) and now is back in town. She’s becoming more friendly with Drew even pre-daughter discovery and gives absolutely no sign that she knows the Santos family well (at least Miguel in the Biblical sense as is revealed later).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmABOcS0c5w (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui5C6BIQbL4 (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqw28EcDHiI (Part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VFBIa3sV7U (Part 4)

My Comments:

The diner scene. Danny is really upset that no one bothered to come to Mick’s funeral from Millennium. I don’t think he’d really settled in his own mind yet that the foursome had anything to do with Mick’s death. He was just stirring things up to see what happened and what he could find out. He kind of hoped that maybe they had been at least friendly with Mick and would be there. I think he already especially hoped Michelle would be there and if she doesn’t feel guilty for not going now, I think it will be an ongoing regret in her life that she wasn’t there for him that day when she could have been. Danny feels they’re not being there is further rejection by Springfield elite, like Mick didn’t count. Michelle’s reaction is also, I think, genuine when she asks why Danny thinks she didn’t care about Mick’s death. Where Drew would think it was because he knew something, Michelle is upset that he thinks a death wouldn’t bother her.

I imagine Thanksgiving was kind of bleak at Casa Santos this year (and next actually). Abuela wasn’t leaving her room. Ray wasn’t back in town yet. Pilar was still at boarding school in Europe. So Thanksgiving would be Carmen fussing at Danny that he hadn’t found Mick’s killer yet, while Dietz looked on. Sounds festive.

Michelle’s plan to tell Danny about “Mr. Shady Character” was about the stupidest one since Phillip came up with the great Don Minyard scheme. Of course it doesn’t work.

A lot of times I’m explaining who somebody is or a particular plot line, I often reference this Thanksgiving 1998 sequence, so watch closely. I’m sure I’ll mention it again. Alan Spauldings is there with Nettie and 2 other Spaulding servants. Ross Marler is there with his boys and India. Ben Warren and Blake Marler are dating. Vanessa and Matt are having issues and Matt is growing closer to Beth who looks on at them kissing jealously. Although Jenna and Michelle are close, right now they are so wrapped up in their own storylines that they have totally different takes on this event. Jenna assumes the kids were taken by her ex-husband Jefferey Morgan (who she was lying to about his having fathered her youngest son Rocky). She had just recently gotten word that Morgan was being released from jail and that’s why she blanches at Drew’s crack about some men not being held by prison. Michelle is so sure it’s Danny, but they don’t have any idea what he’s capable of – yet. Holly is in the midst of the Nursery Stalker story and that’s why she makes the dig about not finding the kids. The woman who makes a crack about the Spaulding money is India Van Holkein who at present was broke and dating Ross, while trying to get some more of what was really her family’s money out of her ex-stepmother Alex.

Irony runs deep in this episode. I think Danny’s thoughts about the kids earlier were all about how much they liked Michelle and how great she was while Michelle was thinking he was capable of hurting them. Then I think Michelle noticed, even though she didn’t react, to how well the girls instantly responded to Danny. Danny saves Lizzie’s life in this episode even though its seldom mentioned again when it should have been, like when Danny asks Phillip for his help with a project or when Lizzie is getting married and she thinks back on how she almost didn’t make it because of the cancer, but she wouldn’t even had a chance to get sick with cancer if Danny hadn’t already saved her. Then Frank is awful to Danny when in just a little over a year, Danny will look at Frank as one of his best (not related by blood or marriage) friends who is almost always one of his first calls when there is trouble. Finally, Marina grows up in just a few years to cause all sorts of problems, not just with Danny, but let’s say there’s a GOOD reason why most Manny fans HATE her.

Beach scene – Danny’s remark about returning to the scene of the crime was so much truer than he knew. He lays out his theory of the crime, which while wrong is SOOO much closer to the truth than the SFPD ever got. This is the first time Michelle references how Danny looks at her and how it makes her feel. “Stop looking at me like you can look right through me.” She later characterizes this that he could look right into her soul. She craves it later, but early on she freaks out about the depth of their instinctive connection, after all Danny was a mobster, a threat, someone no Bauer should be seen with in public (that’s not really true if you look at their family history, but it’s the general public perception) and that NONE of that really mattered when she was with him freaked her out even more. If Mick had lived, he wouldn’t have taken Manny getting together well at all, even without the assault.

The most famous line in this scene is when Danny asks Michelle “Would Jesse kill for you?” Michelle can’t say yes to that, but the feeling is already there in Danny’s voice that Danny would and he eventually does. At the time though the slip, “Jesse didn’t even know what Mick did to me” was more important. Danny’s guesses about what Mick did were so far off given the look of fear on her face that I wonder what would have happened if she’d admitted it to him right then. Danny laughs at Jesse because he thinks Jesse’s every action is providing him with more proof. Then Michelle lies to Jesse. I think that was important to because somewhere in the back of his mind I think Danny thought, oh ho she lied to him to protect me, maybe there is hope there yet.

Tags:Alan Spaulding, Alex Spaulding, Annie Dutton, Ben Warren, Beth Spaulding, Bill Lewis, Blake Thorpe Marler, Buzz Cooper, Danny Santos, David Grant, Dinah Marler Jessup, Drew Jacobs, Eleni Cooper, Frank Cooper, GL, Guiding Light, India von Halkein, Jason Marler, Jenna Bradshaw Cooper, Jesse Blue, Josh Lewis, Kevin Marler, Lizzie Spaulding, Manny, Marah Lewis, Marina Cooper, Matt Reardon, Meta Bauer, Michelle Bauer, Reva Shayne Lewis, Shayne Lewis, Terri DeMarco, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving 1998, Vanessa Chamberlain Lewis Reardon, Vicky Spaulding, Vivian Grant
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Eve Guthrie and Ed Bauer’s Engagement Party

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New Year’s 1995-1996 Masquerade Ball

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