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| Eileen Davidson winner at the Daytime Emmy awards |
04/30/2018 |
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The 45th Daytime Emmy
awards were given on Sunday. in the category outstanding lead actress,
this is Eileen Davidson (ex-Kelly Capwell) who won for her part of Ashley
Abbott in The Young and the Restless. The actress had already won an Emmy award in 2014 for her part of Kristen DiMera in Days of our Lives (see the News of 06/23/2014). Congratulations !
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| The nominations at the 45th Daytime Emmy awards |
03/25/2018 |
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The
nominations at the next Daytime Emmy awards have been announced last week. And
in the category outstanding lead actress are confronted two former stars of Santa
Barbara : Nancy Lee Grahn (ex-Julia Wainwright) for General Hospital
and Eileen Davidson (ex-Kelly Capwell) for The Young and the Restless.
The ceremony of the 45th Daytime Emmy awards will be held on Sunday, April 29 at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena. Good luck to the two nominated !
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| Miranda Wilson is back ! |
01/28/2018 |
 After
several years far from cameras, Miranda Wilson (ex-Sandra Mills) resumed her
actress's job. Since the
interview she had given us in 2013,
she came back living in Los Angeles and is doing movies after movies.She presented in particular on this January 27th at the Bayou Film Festival her most recent short film, An American Attorney In London. Four years before joining Santa Barbara in the role of psychic Sandra Mills, Miranda Wilson played Megan Hathaway DiMera on Days of our Lives. A memorable role for which she even won a Soap Opera Digest award in 1985. Today, Miranda would like to find back her villainess character of Days of our Lives. You can help her by voting for the return of her character of Megan Hathaway DiMera on this forum and by following and commenting her current events on her Facebook page. |
| Homage : John Conboy (19??-2018) |
01/21/2018 |
 Producer
John Conboy has just passed away. Arrived at the beginning of 1990 on Santa
Barbara, he had stayed during one and a half year as executive
producer, holding alone the reins of the show for one year before sharing
them with Bridget and Jerome Dobson, the original creators back at the
beginning of 1991.Under his direction, many new characters make their appearance (Stephen Slade, Derek Griffin, Amado Gonzalez, the Richards family...), without however succeeding in making their mark. The Capwell mansion is completely redesigned, the accompanying musics are replaced... But, good thing, he gets back the Lockridge clan almost completely : at first Augusta, then Laken, Lionel and finally Minx. Before Santa Barbara, John Conboy had already been executive producer at the launch of two other soaps, The Young and the Restless in 1973 then Capitol in 1982. After Santa Barbara, he works from 2002 till 2004 on Guiding Light, before disappearing from public life. Very discreet, we even ignore until his birth year... |
| Homage : Jack Bannon (1940-2017) |
10/27/2017 |
 In
1988, he had been terrifying Dr. Willoughby, at the origin of a manhunt
against Cruz in Santa Barbara. Jack Bannon died on October 25
at the age of 77.He had begun his career in 1964, before being known by the public for his role in the show Lou Grant, from 1977 till 1982. He had then shot in dozens of series and movies, of which Santa Barbara where he had returned in 1991 in the role of district attorney Nathaniel Marley. He leaves behind him his wife, Ellen Travolta, sister of John. |
| Homage : Warren Burton (1944-2017) |
10/22/2017 |
 We
have just learnt the death, on October 02, of Warren Burton, Major Phillip
Hamilton in Santa Barbara.The actor had made his debuts at the end of the 1970s in many daytime soap-operas, of which All my Children for which he had won a Daytime Emmy award in 1980, but also Another World and Guiding Light. In 1988, he had joined Santa Barbara in the role of Phillip Hamilton, Cain Garver's enemy. He had also played there a second character, Jack Russell, a tramp suspected for a while to be the video rapist. Afterward, he get specialized in dubbing, lending his voice to many video games. The actor was going to celebrate his 73 years. |
| Louise Sorel is back ! |
08/10/2017 |
 We
still do not know when nor for how long, but the news is worth being shared :
Louise Sorel (ex-Augusta Lockridge) is back in Days of our Lives !The actress is about to resume her cult role of Vivian Alamain, whom she played from 1992 till 2000 (see the News of November 1999), then from 2009 till 2011 (see the News of 06/03/2011). We are impatient to see her again ! |
| Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman do not leave each other any more |
07/20/2017 |
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As
in 2011 (see the
News
of 03/08/2011)
then in 2015 (see the
News
of 07/10/2015),
Kim Zimmer (ex-Jodie Walker) and Robert Newman (ex-Kirk Cranston n°2) find
themselves back at the theater. Eight years after the end of the soap Guiding
Light, where they played the super-couple Reva Shayne and Joshua Lewis,
both continue to re-form their duet the time of a play. Here they are this summer in a new production of The Lion in Winter, a play by James Goldman. To see from July 25 till August 06 at The Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan. Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman are also expected from September 06 to 30 at the Theater Workshop in Nantucket, Massachusetts, for the resumption of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?. When we tell you that they do not leave each other any more ! |
| Robin Wright in Cannes and on Netflix |
05/29/2017 |
 The
2017 edition
of Cannes international film festival ended yesterday on Sunday. Eight years
after being a member of the jury (see
the
News of 05/11/2009),
Robin Wright (ex-Kelly Capwell) was back on the Croisette to present her short
movie, The Dark of Night, we talked to you about below in the News
of 03/02.Showed on May 18, it conquered the public. Robin
Wright's current events this month, it is also the season 5 of the show House
of Cards, launched on-line as from tomorrow May 30 on Netflix. |
| Nicolas Coster winner at the Daytime Emmy awards |
05/01/2017 |
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The
44th Daytime Emmy awards were given on Sunday. Among the winners, Nicolas Coster
(ex-Lionel Lockridge) received the first Emmy award of his career for his role
of Mayor Jack Madison in the web-series The Bay. He was competing
in the category
supporting actor in a
digital drama. Nicolas Coster had already been nominated four times at the Daytime Emmy awards as outstanding actor, it was between 1986 and 1992 for... Santa Barbara. Let us remind that he had however won a Soap Opera digest award for his role of Lionel Lockridge in 1988. Congratulations to the big winner ! Fewer success on the other hand for both other former stars of Santa Barbara, Nancy Lee Grahn (ex-Julia Wainwright) and Vincent Irizarry (ex-Dr. Scott Clark), both left empty-handed. But it will be for another time !
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| Lane Davies on stage... in Czech republic ! |
05/01/2017 |
 Lane
Davies (ex-Mason Capwell) will direct and play Don Quixote in ten
representations of Man of Mancha at Divadlo Na Pradle in... Prague
!The play will be played in English, and subtitled in Czech. A show to be discovered from May 18th till June 17th, thus in Prague ! |
| A Martinez leaves Salem |
05/01/2017 |
 After
one and a half year of presence, A Martinez (ex-Cruz Castillo) leaves Days
of our Lives.His character of Eduardo Hernandez made his last appearance on screen on last April 10th. A had joined the shooting of the soap in May 2015 (see the News of 05/15/2015), for a first appearance on screen in next September (see the News of 09/21/2015). A however continues to play. He is soon going to begin the shootings of two movies, On Painted Wings and Second Sunrise. Without counting season 6 of the TV show Longmire, planned for next fall on Netflix. |
| Three nominated at the 44th Daytime Emmy awards |
03/26/2017 |
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The
nominations at the next Daytime Emmy awards have been announced. Among the happy
nominated, three former stars of Santa
Barbara : - Nancy Lee Grahn (ex-Julia Wainwright) in the category outstanding lead actress for General Hospital, - Vincent Irizarry (ex-Dr. Scott Clark) in the category outstanding lead actor for Days of our Lives, - and Nicolas Coster (ex-Lionel Lockridge) in the category supporting actor in a digital drama for The Bay. The ceremony of the 44th Daytime Emmy awards will be held on Sunday, April 30 in Pasadena. No television or online broadcast is announced at this day. Good luck to our nominated friends ! |
| Soap Opera Digest comes back in 1993 |
03/06/2017 |
 In its issue in date of
March 13, the American magazine Soap Opera Digest stops
over the year 1993 and so evokes for the last time Santa Barbara,
disappeared that year.In photo : one of the last scenes of the show, around Julia, Mason and Gracie. |
| Ally Walker shoots a pilot |
03/02/2017 |
 Ally
Walker (ex-Andrea Bedford) perhaps the heroin of a new series ?The actress shoots in any case the pilot of Ghosted, where she plays Captain Lafrey, head of the Underground Investigative Service, which investigates the paranormal phenomena occuring in Los Angeles. It is the American network Fox which commanded this pilot, to make of it one of its regular series of fall 2017. We wish to see the project succeeding, only for the pleasure to see Ally again on screens ! |
| Robin Wright goes behind the camera |
03/02/2017 |
 After
having
practised on seven episodes of her show House of Cards on Netflix,
Robin Wright (ex-Kelly Capwell) comes to direct her first movie !The Dark of Night is a medium-length film which tells the night filled with dangers which lives a young woman in 1930, having taken refuge in a diner because of a storm. The movie is currently being shot. This year of 2017 will also see Robin Wright in the theaters in two blockbusters : Wonder Woman, waited on June 02 in the United States, and Blade Runner 2049, waited on October 06. |
| Vincent Irizarry leaves Days of our Lives |
02/16/2017 |
 He
had joined the soap in January, 2016 (see the
News of 09/01/2015).
Vincent Irizarry leaves today Days
of our Lives
and his character of Deimos Kiriakis.Neither the production of the show, nor NBC or even Vincent commented this day on this departure. The ex-Dr. Scott Clark of Santa Barbara should however appear on-screen until this summer, because of the advance taken in the shootings. |
| Homage : Richard Hatch (1945-2017) |
02/08/2017 |
 For
two months, from January till March 1990, he was the first face of Stephen
Slade, one of the four avenger orphans of Santa Barbara,
before leaving his place to John O'Hurley.Richard Hatch, 71 years old, died on Tuesday, February 07th from pancreatic cancer. If he made a name for himself in the television industry, it is however for other roles : first of all Dan Robbins, the successor of Michael Douglas in the last season of The Streets of San Francisco, then especially Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica, a cult role which he never stopped honoring during his prolific career. Richard Hatch was still continuing to play for television and cinema. He leaves behind him a son and many science fiction fans in mourning. |
| Soap Opera Digest comes back in 1992 |
02/07/2017 |
 In its issue in date of
February 13, the American magazine Soap Opera Digest returns
over the year 1992 in the small world of daytime soaps-operas.Concerning Santa Barbara, it is obviously the departure of A Martinez and the announcement of the end of the show for January 1993 that remembered the magazine. |
| Soap Opera Digest comes back in 1991 |
01/09/2017 |
 In its issue in date of
January 16, the American magazine Soap Opera Digest falls on
what marked the small world of daytime soaps-operas in 1991.The changes in the cast, but also of executive producer, are what obviously most marked Santa Barbara that year, as picks out the article. |
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