I went into my 2nd depression--the first in April 1971 when DS was cancelled, and my 2nd last week, when I learned that OLTL was cancelled.  I only watched DS for almost 2 years (6/69-4/71), but I have watched OLTL since 6/92...so! I have been watching for nearly 19 years!!  Not an easy addiction to cure.  LOL.

I walked by the old DS studios several times many years ago when I was in NY, both the 10th St and 11th St sides.  I recognized the outside of the studios from pictures...and at those times (sometime between 1992 and 1995) there were no other shows taping there.  Still, I recognized the old DS studios, and it really WAS cool. 
Brian

I don't remember ever being frightened while watching DS back in the 60s/70s, when I was 12-13 years old.  Maybe because I had been introduced to the horror genre through the old Universal films airing on TV--which I loved, even back then--none of the DS characters/situations were scary to me.  These characters were my friends, after all.  The author is incorrect in that no soaps in that era ran an hour; in fact, some soaps in 1966 were still live, and ran only 15 minutes (and with commercials and such, at that.) Hour-long soaps didn't come about until the mid-70s.

Has anyone else who watches "One Life to Live" noticed that Brandon Buddy (Cole Thornhart) has Barnabas bangs over his forehead--at least in today's episode.  LOL

It's nice to hear that Mr. Crothers was so open about his sexual orientation more than 40 years ago, at a time "Before Stonewall" when many people were still in the closet.  What is most disturbing to me is that in 2010 many daytime actors are forced (by employers and/or agents--or by personal ambition) to romance/marry "beards," who are often women working on the very same show as the actor.  This is especially true, it seems, of the Disney/ABC daytime shows.  As far as I can tell, only one male actor who appears on both an ABC daytime show and a primetime show has refused to discuss his personal life--and has not linked himself with any women (as in girlfriend or marriage).  His silence on this subject speaks volumes, and is preferable to his denial of his personal orientation.

Brian

Actually, Mr. Frid has the right to control the "commercial exploitation" of his image, whether in video or photography, even if such media were acquired during a public event.  Newscast and b-roll used to promote the actual event are one thing; sales by private parties of those images and video are another thing altogether.  If Mr. Frid (and any of the other actors/writers/techs/etc. of the show) were negotiated with and properly compensated for such sales, then this sale of materials might be allowed.  Sorry, but I have to agree that sales of pictures and video of the conventions and such is inappropriate and, possibly, illegal-- unless sanctioned by the promotors and participants in the event.  (Why do I say this?  I'm a union rep for actors [though not those represented by AFTRA, which covered DS], and this is one area I constantly have to police.)

Brian

I thought the film was confusing, but I think a second viewing will be valuable.  As for KLS, her scenes are brief, but she has a nice scene in the the "deleted scenes" section, and her interview in the "making of" is fun.

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